I'm your host, Annie F. Downs. I'm really happy to be here with you today. Happy Monday.

We've got a great show for you. The music you hear in the background is our new theme

song for that sounds fun. I hope you love it as much as I do. We are singing it around

in the office all the time before we jump into today's show. I want to share a little bit

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and I just cannot tell you how much she's helped me through. Do you ever just feel like

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