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Build yourself up build others up!
In this uplifting episode of 'Sewing After Dark,' host Shari shares her journey of positivity during challenging times, including her efforts to make and donate face masks to neighbors. She ...
Build yourself up build others up!
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Hey I'm back! This is sewing after dark. My name is Shari and I'll be your host.
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So I ended up delivering those face masks to my neighbors downstairs and the ones
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across the way. They absolutely love them. And then what I've been doing as well is
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I've been like when I have a pickup order at the store or whatever. I bring a bag
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of masks and I say thank you and I just give them the bag so that them and their
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employees can use them. I kind of want to go get there's this place in town that
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has the best smoothies. It's called Rauri Planish. So I kind of want to go there
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and do a curbside pickup and give them some masks. But anyway that's what we left
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off last time was me sewing masks for my neighbors. So yeah, I made a bunch more
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after that and I donated them and it was a good time. Right now I'm just cutting
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more elastic. I thought that with it being the end of May that Pennsylvania would be open.
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But it's not governor wolf still has everything closed down and like Utah and Texas are open.
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Anyway, I don't know what to say about the whole situation. I just keep trying to find the positive.
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So like all the this isn't going to sound positive at first. So all the parks around here are closed.
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Like even some of the gates are shut and I guess police have stopped parents from letting their
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children play on the playplaces at the park and everything. So any who I try to go once a
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mushroom hunting with my friend Jess. She's just a friend that I met when I had first moved here
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and she is super awesome. Her and her husband and her family. So we went hiking slash mushroom
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hunting last time and we didn't find any mushrooms. We are with her sister. Her husband,
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her sister's kids and her kids. My husband and my kids didn't want to go with me. So I went by myself
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which I'm not complaining. It was a really good break. But anyway they have a double
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stroller and all the kids would pile in on this hike and we would take turns pushing.
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And I was like oh yeah I can totally help let me push you know because her sister was
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like entired and she was like are you sure Shari are you sure? Oh yeah totally I got this.
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So she's like all right and she gives me the stroller and I start pushing and she's like oh yeah
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we're going to go up this hill. It's like this huge mountain. Anyway I totally made it though.
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They had a she helped a little bit at the end and so did um Jess's husband but it was great.
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It was really funny. The only mushrooms that we found were really extremely old and we don't
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know what kind they were anything because they were pitch black and they had fallen from the top
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of a tree but they were humongous and they ended up finding a salamander. So we took a picture of
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this salamander um and yeah it was just a good time. So I kind of right now I am okay so I'm
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cutting elastic for masks but it happens to be the same exact length that I need for my cloth
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just going to cut the whole entire roll here um because for every cloth diaper you use
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four elastics of the same length and on face mask you use two elastics of the same length.
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So it's kind of convenient that they ended up being the same. The medium face mask and the
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large face mask use the same length of elastic in the pattern that I use. So that's kind of cool.
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So anyway that's what you're hearing is this little snippet sound. Do you guys follow
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who is it? Well it's not really a who but there's this page on Twitter um called the secret
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it based off of the secret on Netflix. If you haven't watched that you totally should. It's really
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awesome. But anyway I follow them on Twitter and they kind of bring me my like daily dose of
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happiness and bringing positivity into my life. I know there's all kinds of apps out there too
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that you can download and get your daily positive quotes and I know lots of people do like bible
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verses or scripture verses. Anyway um sound off below and tell me what you do to keep positive
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in this COVID era. Um yeah my sister so all my family lives in Utah I'm in Pennsylvania but my
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sister actually got an appointment to do her hair and I'm really happy for her because she's a
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single mom and she never gets to really do anything for herself. So I'm I'm really happy for her
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I'm also just a tad jealous because I haven't been able to go get my hair done because everything's
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been closed down. I don't know if anyone's out there that can relate. I feel kind of guilty even
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saying that I'm a little jealous of her because you know she had like she has to go out at everything
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alone so I hope that doesn't come off as ignorant or anything. I do love her I think she's really
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a strong person and um smart and you know she's really capable of anything that she ever tries.
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It's incredible really um yeah I really like um trying to think of ways that I can help other people
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in the family have a better day and I like to really help my nieces and nephews have a better day
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so sometimes I'll just like make them something or if I see something in the store that's I mean not
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like super extensive or anything you know just like a little toy or whatever I'll grab it
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or I'll make them their favorite dessert that they know they like um
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like right now my sister-in-law um her daughter my niece is battling cancer for a second time
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um and she doesn't eat sugar or dairy or anything like that so she never gets
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desserts really so um for her birthday I made her a vegan
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um um dessert and she ended up loving it so I kind of want to bring it over there
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like once a month or something just to help brighten her day um her sons my nephews are helping me
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cut out my cloth diaper pattern a trace it and cut it out and then I pay them for helping me
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um and they do such a great job like the last time that I went they have it all packed away
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so that I could individually count them really fast and then they had it tied up like a cute little
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parcel I was high key impressed honestly so if you have nieces and nephews and you know
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you're bored at home and you remember when you were a kid and you didn't have any money to spend
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if you have a little extra cash and they can help you with something simple
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that makes them feel super independent and I don't know like important to you and stuff you know
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totally um let them help you it's good to feel needed um trying to like think I'm not trying
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to brag or anything I hope I'm not coming up as bragging I'm just trying to shoot out ideas
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of things that can help us stay positive and give us hope at this time um
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you know lots of people missed out on their graduation and weddings and
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dances and work people have lost a lot you know that's a hard time so I'm just trying to find
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things that can be a little bit uplifting um like I I know I don't want to ignore the fact that
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life's hard and especially harder right now but I'm just trying to keep a positive podcast
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it's kind of like my favorite thing um to run something that focuses solely on positivity
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um like my twitter account is dedicated to positivity and my
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tick-tock account is dedicated to positivity so I just love going on there and I look up the
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hashtag positivity positivity gang you know like there's Gary V out there Vaynerchuk he does
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positivity Stephanie I mean he does hardcore like uh yard self-lifting and all kinds of stuff and
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now he's like a billionaire I don't know his whole story but he's definitely a motivational person
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and um I think he might have even been the one that started positivity gang that's where I was
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getting at but anyway so I just really have enjoyed tick-tock uh I got on there because my little
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sister was telling me about visco girls and I had no idea what she was talking about so I
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downloaded it anyway I can't remember if I talked about that last time but I downloaded it and I
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was like immediately addicted and it's so funny I don't really watch the people dancing like that's
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cool and all but that's not who I really follow or anything one of my very favorite people that I
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follow is Laura Lee Watts okay you have to check her out because she is hilarious like she tells
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stories about when she was a teenager and you're just dying laughing and you just you've relate
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so much and you just cannot even believe the things that she says it's so funny and she also
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destroys her face um doing funny challenges and stuff it's so funny I don't know she's hilarious
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I also love um the battles she won it's the underscore battles underscore
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she underscore one anyway it's this mom with five kids um and her sister ended up um being
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pregnant and she and her husband were gonna adopt her sister's baby so they got they were there
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for the birth they brought that baby home um her and her husband decided that they were getting a
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divorce and they were gonna keep that baby though like that baby was theirs well then the dad of
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that baby came out of nowhere and was like whoa this is my baby like I want to be involved and um
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I guess he didn't know about this baby or something like that I could be having the facts
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messed up but anyway um they ended up giving that baby back to him you know his daughter back to him
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um and it was like soul crushing to watch but this lady just like this woman she came out
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swinging like she hit the ground running okay and now she has this romance going on with this man
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named scuba steve on tiktok it's the funniest name but anyway the battle she won in scuba steve
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are like hot and heavy and I love watching their duets and uh the battle she won
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her name's Rachel and she's like a motivational speaker and she's incredible so I love following her
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um there's so many people oh joy there's this lady named joy and she makes up these dances
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and they she is so bright like her smile could seriously combat the sun like she is so like she
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totally fits her name anyway so she makes up these dances and people do at her and do her dances and
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like a few of them have gone viral she's incredible and I also follow this lady shona burns her daughter
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actually was kidnapped for almost 400 days and they ended up she ended up finding her daughter
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like the police could not find her daughter and this mama went rogue basically and found her daughter
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in sane anyway she talks about how god got her through and her faith and stuff and she is just
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hilarious like you totally have to watch her and she I don't know if she means to be hilarious but
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I love her and she makes me laugh so that's a win in my book and um she gives like everyday tips
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and um how she got past her grief and all the healing that she's done in her life because she had
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like a really rough life I mean you wouldn't believe some of the stuff that she's been through
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sorry I'm sipping my herbal tea here um so yeah she's super incredible
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so just anything positivity I love to follow because that up lifts me and makes me feel good
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and I just kind of want to why don't kind of want to I absolutely want to share
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that positivity with others and brighten their day and make them laugh make them feel good about
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themselves you know because everyone has that inner dialogue that sometimes just isn't as nice as
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needs to be and should be like think of where you were a few years ago and think about where you are now
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you are incredible no matter who you are you are incredible look how far you have come you can do
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hard things you are capable of doing anything that you want to do a job your dream job go get it
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you can you can have what you want you can have your cake and eat it too you know if
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you have a goal that you've been working towards you can get it you're you can do hard things
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you're capable you want a certain body you know like you want to I don't know like do a physique
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competition or just be fit in general you can do that you can do hard things
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you absolutely can do anything that you want to do you want to have your own side hustle your
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own side business you can do that you're capable you are smart you know think about all the open
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doors that you have to yourself right now you know be kind to yourself love yourself you should
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because you're incredible and you deserve that love you deserve that happiness
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like give yourself that happiness give yourself that love open yourself up to
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accept all the good like you deserve it you know compliment yourself love yourself
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you're an incredible person whoever is hearing this you obviously needed to know that
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you're capable of anything you want to do or you want to be you've got this
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get out there and fight for it you know have that zest for life
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me personally I bought this little well actually my husband bought me this little you know 88
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dollar sewing machine from Walmart a couple years ago for Christmas and it's paid itself off multiple
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times and I've been able to buy good gifts for my son for Christmas that was one of my goals one year
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I bought him like this little motorized truck um that was one of my goals you know and I
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set that money aside and did that um it's just nice to be able to like bring groceries home or
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like I bought him this little toy kitchen for his birthday I mean I didn't just say it was from
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mommy I you know it's from me and his dad obviously like his dad works really hard to pay
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for everything and I don't want to take away from that at all it just feels really good to just have
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a little extra on the side that I was responsible for makes me feel important and needed and
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you know awesome makes me feel good and I should feel good just like you should feel good
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do what makes you feel good seriously do it and at first it might seem hard
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but it really isn't like once you get doing what you love
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there's no better feeling
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so anyway get out there do what you love love yourself
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enjoy your evening and thank you so much for coming to
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so
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way after dark
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my positivity podcast I appreciate you and I'll see you next time bye