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Today, learn how to talk about the things you don't want to do but have to do to build better connection in English.

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Hello, Michelle. How's it going today? Everything is good, Lindsay. How are you? I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good. Michelle,

what do you consider to be a necessary evil in your life? I would for sure say the laundry.

We kind of touched on this recently in a business English episode. But yeah, it's the first

thing that pops in my head. It's a necessary evil. I have to do it if I want my family to wear

clothes. Which is a good thing in modern society. Yes. It's important. I think it's really, it's necessary, right? But it just doesn't, it just, it's important. I think, you know, it's really, it's necessary, right?

Yes, yes. But it just doesn't, it just, it never stops. What about you, Lindsay? What's a necessary

evil in your life? I can't remember what I said when we talked about this before, but anything

around like maintaining at home, the house, cleaning up, you know, like grocery shopping, I would say, is a necessary

evil, right? Because I wish someone could just do it for me, but that's just not where I'm at in life.

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