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It's been quite a while, months, many would say.

How is everyone? I'm back. Hopefully for good.

Hopefully I won't have to take a break that long again, but I wanted to talk a bit.

Obviously, it's a podcast, but I wanted to, to real talk.

This is real talk time because I haven't been able to record for quite a while.

I've been in a bad, bad place and I don't just mean midtown, but that too.

I've been in a dark place and I'm not going to go into full detail now.

Most of the kids are not fully out of it. I don't want to jinx anything.

But maybe when I am out, I can really delve into the depths of it.

But long story short, and this is not much of a story, but I just had, you know,

the worst, depressive episode of my 22 years of life, which is a long time.

I mean, people don't tell you that about life.

22, oh God. Anyway, I took a break, sort of unintentionally, just because I was not able to function.

Apparently, you know, I don't need to get into it.

A whole nine couldn't sleep.

Wasn't having fun, wasn't having a blast, which is criminal.

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