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she's mine?

I fucking made her.

I'm going to be in this photo because she is me.

Absolutely not.

So yeah, if someone, like if your family wanted a photo with Lucy, I'd be like, no, you

can have a photo then with just John.

I'm taking my daughter.

And welcome back to Give It to Me Straight. I'm Alex. And I'm John. I'm your gracious, and we are your

gracious, gracious, gracious host. I almost forgot how the intro went i was like what's

what do we say next we got sleep last night but i'm i'm i feel like i just got hit by bus yeah i'm so

tired i'm feeling pretty good good for you i'm so happy for you if we started this like an hour earlier

i would have been even more ready to go but you know i'll take what i can i I just have like 18,000 things on my brain that I'm like, I just can't be in the moment. Zero. That's so nice. I would love to have zero things on my brain. My God. What you have to do is just block it out, you know? Just like not think about anything. Yeah. low stress it was was it last night or the

night before that it was like 4 a.m or 3 a.m. I woke up to feed lucy and you go what time does

everything open and I'm like what John and you're like what time do? What time does everything open? And I knew that you were really trying to say, like, what time did Lucy eat last? Yeah, because I snapped out of it at some point. It was like, what was I saying? That's so funny. I was like, what were you doing about? One of those titties, one of those tities open. It's probably what I was saying. What are they open for bays? When do they close? They're closed. Happy Thanksgiving. Yes. Thanksgiving is coming up. I like Thanksgiving. I was going to say, is it like one of your favorite holidays or like where to, oh no, you said what, Fourth of July is your favorite holiday? Sure. It's not like, I don't have favorite holidays. Every day is the same to me. It's fine. Like Thanksgiving is cool. I like, you know, eating and hanging out with people. I think since meeting you because you always worked on the holidays being an occupational therapist, like holidays on the day, I don't want to say lost its meaning but it just felt less again the

day doesn't matter to me as long as just another day do something and spend time of people's that's

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