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of this special. He worked so hard on it, and so did I.

Please go to Netflix and watch Lucky. We would love the support. So enjoy. So I don't know which is

worse. Right. To be honest with you, I don't either. Sometimes ripping the Band-Aid off is the best,

and sometimes peeling it off slowly is the best. So your story is what?

So Susan and I, we know, we've, what? We, oh my goodness. That's okay. We've known each other.

I mean, we've known each other sort of in sort of very casual circumstances because

our kids were in the same school, the same middle school. When we moved to L.A. from New York,

you were already enrolled in the school. So we met each other. And then at the beginning, at the,

well, originally I'm a Texan, but yes. And so remember when the pandemic first started in my yoga studio closed, and I put a little message on Facebook asking if there was a yoga teacher who'd be willing to come teach yoga in Woodbridge Park.

And Susan answered.

Amazing. So from that moment forward, we've seen. And Susan answered. Amazing.

So from that moment forward, we've seen each other two times a week doing yoga since that

time, which was 2020, March 2020, maybe?

I don't even remember.

Yes, so we're going into our six years.

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