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Hi, real lifers. Hope you're all doing well. As many of you know, this past week was Yom Kippur,

which is the holiest day of the year for Jewish people. And it's called the Day of Atonement.

And that's because you atone for your sins and you think about all the times where you miss the

mark where you had been wrong and fallen short

over the last year. And the idea is at the end of that day, you get a clean slate moving into

the new year. And I'm going to bring this back to Bravo. You don't just automatically get that clean slate. You have to

work towards it. And the work includes repenting, repentance, you know, atoning for your sins,

actually making amends with people, with your loved ones, of times that, you know, things that you've

done wrong towards them. It includes

prayer. And it also includes good deeds or acts of justice. And with those three things,

you can then achieve full atonement and move forward with a clean slate. And I think we saw some of

that on the Real Housewives of Potomac with Karen and Giselle talking

through, you know, in many different ways, their issues with one another and agreeing to move forward.

And then we've got the issue of the Real Housewives of New York, where Bravo executives decided, you know what, we're just

going to end on a high note and we're going to move forward and focus on rebuilding the franchise

and we're going to cancel the reunion. But, you know, as with Yom Kippur, you don't get to that

clean slate to that rebuilding until you've done the

repentance part, until you've actually addressed the ways in which things didn't go so great.

And I feel like, I don't know, I can't get over the fact that Bravo is putting its head in the sand

and saying, you know what, we give up. We can't handle

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