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Yes. Do you remember this? Do you remember this June, the olden days? It's been years,

it seems like years ago. I missed you. But I know, I would never say that out loud,

obviously, but deep down. The last time we spoke, you're topsy turvy, because I was up

in the northeast battling the snowstorms of Hankson. It's a long time ago. Long time ago,

you had the Covid, now I've had the Covid, but I had the snowstorm, I had the sciatic

agony, I had the toothache. I was in the last time I spoke to you in a ragged old

state. I was in such, and the toothache became, the pain from the toothache became something

that I didn't know how to deal with. I was thrashing in my bed. It was bizarre. Anyway,

so I was really, really bad. Anyway, when we were doing the podcast together, you had

the Covid. I had the, I had my, indeed, I do. I did such a relief to get it, having

got it out of the way to be perfectly honest. And then, of course, like two girls with

sharing a flat and having their periods together, you got it too. Did you, did you start a

period as well? That would have been very funny, if we both started periods at the same time

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