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This is Raisins to Be cheerful with Ed Millivand and Jeff Lloyd.

Hello, Dom Kester, can you hear me? Hello, I've missed you.

It's good to hear your voice. Well, I've missed you.

Well, you've had quite the time of it. Yeah, I know. Well, these floods have been absolutely terrible.

And how are people doing? Well, I think it's going to be slow and painful and

difficult process of recovery. And lots of people have gone through a really traumatic experience.

Some of them for the second time, whether it's for the first time or the second time,

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