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Did you remember it or memorize it?

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Hello there, Michelle. How's it going today? Good, Lindsay. How are you? Feeling good, feeling good. Michelle, are you good at remembering all of the birthdays in your family? It sounds like you have a pretty big family. Um, on, on my family isn't that big, but Dan's family family is big and so then when you add them all

together it is a big family um as far as birthday goes the birthdays go I'm pretty good

but there is there's a week in October where it's like everybody's birthday in the family

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