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The 41st if I am not mistaken.

Is that correct?

You are not mistaken.

I am not mistaken.

Well, that's good.

That's an excellent way to start.

So let me say a friend of ours approached me recently and gently said words to the

effect of even if we manage to save the republic, if it comes to the cost of your sanity, it

wasn't worth it.

And I must say on the one hand, I understand this meaning and I appreciate what is being

said to me that somehow the current event situation and our political predicament is driving

me a bit crazy.

On the other hand, I would say my sanity would be a very small price to pay to save the

republic.

And in any case, I would like to split the difference and recognize that saving the

republic is very important, but that it is probably incumbent on me to figure out how

not to go insane in the process.

I think that's fair.

One of the things that we've been doing in service of that is spending some time on

the water.

When kayaking, we've just begun to try stand-up paddle boarding and we were hoping to spend

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