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basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day hi everybody I'm Kathy and I am

recovering one day at a time in the worldwide Alonan family groups hi I am really so happy to be here.

Connie, well, Connie and I have just had so much fun.

We just got back here like a 10 after 5.

I know I've been to South Dakota before, but I know I've never been here because I would never have forgotten this.

I mean, it's incredible how beautiful this area is. And if you live here, how could you ever

feel sorry for yourselves? I mean, come on. It's gorgeous. It's like living by the,

that's what I think about people to live by an ocean.

How can anything really ever go wrong when you live by an ocean or when you live in a place like this?

This is just gorgeous.

So thank you for the invitation to come.

And thank you for everybody.

I heard Butch say it last night, and it's so true. You know, in Ohio,

we're having this state convention, an Alamon's state convention. And we heard from Columbus

that they may have to skip it in 2015 because nobody from the Cincinnati area, which is us,

was willing to chair it so they'd have to skip it.

Well, I got wind of that, and I thought, that is ridiculous.

I mean, that's ridiculous.

How hard can it be to put on, you know, a state convention. So I called...

So I called this friend of mine who, by her own admission,

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