This is an All-Eirs-English podcast episode 507.

Is it common in English? Why there's no easy answer.

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Hey Michelle, how's it going today?

How you feeling?

Hey Lindsay, I'm doing pretty well, pretty well,

getting back on schedule, but everything's good. I know because you just

came back from India a couple weeks ago and then you had a weekend in Burlington. It's so funny that we were both in Burlington

Vermont on the same weekend?

I know, we didn't have a chance to have coffee.

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