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Hello and welcome to a special Dividendin Cafe Thanksgiving edition.

I know most of you probably do prefer me going into the normal subjects

that we cover in Dividendon Cafe. I assume if you didn't want that, you wouldn't listen to Dividend

Cafe. And so things like monetary policy and market valuations and macroeconomic affairs

will pick that back up next week.

As always.

But yes, this is that rare dividend cafe where I'm out of the market and out of the economy

and into gratitude and into that season of Thanksgiving that we celebrate here this week.

And so it is my favorite holiday. I love Thanksgiving.

And I do have a lot to be thankful for. And so rather than go through all my personal reflections,

as it pertains specifically to the Bonson Group and our enterprise that's dedicated to serving our clients.

I want to just make a couple comments here and appreciate you, bearing with me.

You know, we have a wonderful team at the Bonson Group.

It's grown a lot.

And the size of the team and the particular services that we can now hire people for is all byproduct of that decision

about seven years ago now. It was actually Thanksgiving weekend of 2014 that I was really, really deep into

the planning of our departure from Morgan Stanley.

And at the time, we were a team of nine people, including myself.

And in fact, most of those nine did not know at the time that this was in the works.

It became more of a team planning effort shortly after that new year.

But seven years now, basically, of independence, of just a whole different apparatus of how we can serve clients,

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