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culture, and what to read next. I am and remain Frank. And I am and remain Rhonda.

We shall persist. We shall persist. So it's, I guess it's the new year.

I know.

I feel like, I don't know, it's such a good thing.

I feel like this new year, probably more people are excited about the changing of the year

than probably any other year in history.

Everybody's just like, please,

2021 come. Exactly. And it's, it, you just made me realize when you were saying that, like how,

and how very humid it is, we cling to sort of, you could say arbitrary markers, like a calendar year ending, just to sort of give us something that seems concrete to hope for.

Yeah.

Because of course I was gonna be like,

do you have any resolutions, darling?

I mean, like, you know, what one says at the new year,

because it's sort of like an opportunity to start,

in quotes, over.

I'm just glad that the solstice has passed the longest day of the year, I mean the shortest day of the year.

Yeah.

And now it'll start, the days will get longer and longer and longer.

So I'm glad we've

past that mark because getting dark at 4.30 does not work for me. Not, yeah, it's like 6 o'clock.

I want to go to bed last night. I know. I go to bed now. It's 6.30. Seasonal. I know I mean

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