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seltzer squad.com and hit the merch button to find all of our merch. Hi, Jessica. Hi, Kate. How are you?

I'm all better. I know. You sound and look a lot better.

I feel like a new person.

Well, no, I kind of feel like a shittier version of myself, but I'm all healed.

So that's good, I guess.

How long did the COVID end up lasting?

It lasted like a full week.

And then I hit like, I don't think we started

testing negative for like a week and a half. And then it was like, Jesus. And yeah, so I'm just like

happy to be like able to leave my house. Yeah. That's a really long time. sick. I just, I'm just glad I'm not sick.

I think that's the main takeaway of it is happy to be back. I'm happy to have you back.

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