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Ashley. Hey, Fitz. Are you there? Yeah. Oh, you're there. How are you doing? It's

funny not to do this face to face, but we are still in pandemic mode. Are you

hanging in there? Yeah, I feel very unsettled. Both on a personal level and a

collective level. There's just a lot going on. And the way I see it, a lot of

these things don't have this like fast solution. So it means that unsettled

feeling might just be here for a while. And maybe that's okay. How about you?

So there's been a lot going on in my life on a personal level as well as you

know some of you know and thank you for the well wishes, but you know two

weeks ago Becca got in a freak accident riding bikes with tap and

broken neck and sustained a bunch of injuries to her face. And for a moment

it really seemed like we were going to have you know not an injury on our hands

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