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Well, hello and welcome to the Dividendon Cafe.

I am excited to do another edition.

We've been trying to do about one of these per quarter where I just go through

and answer questions that have come in. Every one of them is real. Everyone has come from an actual

person. Often a client, sometimes not a client, just a regular reader, subscriber, but always good

questions. In particular this week, I think there's some really thoughtful questions we want to

answer. So I'm going to just go through these one at a time. It covers multiple different

subjects and we should be able to scratch a lot of inches here. And of course, you know,

if the answers to any of these questions, generate follow-up questions. So be it, fire away.

We're going to a holiday weekend. What else do I have to do?

I want to thank everyone who wished me well on the trip this week. The trip ended up not totally

really happening. We never did make out of the country with flights canceled around the big hurricane down

in Bermuda. Our thoughts and prayers are very sincerely with those.

There's another hurricane that's hitting Florida right now. And then there's Hurricane Franklin

that took out our trip. And so I don't really care much about our vacations when you're

dealing with other people that have more real life consequences. But we got a little bit of time

this week.

And I'm grateful to Brian.

I mentioned yesterday in the DC Today that he filled in

capably for a couple of days with DC today.

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