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The Bert Show. So we got to get Jen on the phone here. She's about to hook up a friend with one of her exes, and she's not going to tell her that this used to be the ex.

All right.

It's shady or not.

Hey, Jen, good morning.

Hi, good morning.

Do I have that right?

Yeah.

So my friend Rachel and I have been friends for about a year now, and she just seems to have the worst luck dating. Like, I don't know what it is, but she can't seem to attract good men. And I have a friend that I dated for about six months.

And this was like two years ago.

Like it's long done and over.

But I just think they would be amazing together.

Like really like I just think they're so compatible.

And he and I didn't break up for like any sort of like weird reasons like he didn't like cheat on me

it was like it was just like we we weren't meant to be together so I think they would I just think

they would hit it off but I don't know if I tell her that before I introduced them or after.

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