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Okay, that was it.

What was the story I told on here, unfortunately.

Okay, well then there it is.

Have you heard that story actually, Karen?

Is it worth telling again, Bracken, to set us up? I'll give you cliff notes, just so that

you understand when the question arrives. I was home for Christmas one year, and I went out

and did a tempo run, and in the middle of it, just like the contractions started

getting closer and closer. And I wasn't going to make it home. So I ran down these railroad

tracks where there's a little ravine and like held onto a route at the bottom and leaned back

and just evacuated in such a horrific manner. And right as it was finishing up, I heard a noise. And I look over in like five or six feet to the left of me as a homeless man sleeping. I had just defecated all over his front lawn slash living room slash bedroom. And then he started to get up because he was it was at night. It was pitch black.

And there's, and there's no lights for this railroad track. So he can't really see what's going on.

And I can't tell if he's going to like charge me and I have compression shorts around my ankles and I'm hanging off a tree root just caught in the most vulnerable position ever. And I wanted to stick around and apologize for what I'd just done.

But there's no, there's no words for that situation.

They don't make a hallmark card for that.

I'm dying.

So I like stumble ran away with like six inches of travel of my legs inside of my

compression shorts, got around the corner

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