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It's Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning, and I still remember that time back in November

2009, when I was in the break room here, and I laid my eyes on that first chocolate

muffin. Oh my god, you have a date? Oh yeah. Jose was right there next to me.

Skinny as a whip. Yeah. Brooke could still make out faces and shapes without her glasses on her.

Life was different. We were young, and I was in love with that muffin.

The good old days of the week always. The love is still there, Jeffrey.

Well, I remember I told myself, you know what, I'm going to come back and eat that muffin

after lunch, and when I did, it was gone. Oh, oh no, missed my chance with that muffin.

You remember the date that you first saw the muffin, but not when you ate it.

I never got to eat it. Never got the chance. If there was an option for me to do a closure call

with that chocolate muffin, I would do it. So this is the regret you live with. It is.

It's a hard thing to wake up every day. I'm sure one of the board ops ain't it or something,

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