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sent you. Hey everybody, this is Heidi St. John. Thanks for tuning in today. You guys,

I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving today is Friday, the 26th of November. And today

I'm going to give you guys a little bit of a personal update about my life and talk

to you about some of your questions. Stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged.

So I hope you guys had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We have we had a more mellow Thanksgiving

this year because we decided some months ago probably, oh my goodness, almost six months

ago, that would be great for us to have an alternate form of heat in our house because

really we have electricity and a very small propane fireplace and we thought, you know what,

in the event of an emergency, it really would be good to have an alternate form of heat

and we had a bunch of trees we live out in the forest, a bunch of felled trees over the

years. So we literally have firewood everywhere and we thought, you know what, it'd be good

to get a fireplace. So we plan on having a fireplace installed in our house. Well then the

shortages hit and long story short, my house has been torn up now for some time. So where

I would normally have, you know, wonderful space for tables and company and all those

things, we really had limited space this year and we decided, you know, it's probably

a good idea given the pace that we've been keeping and just how weary a lot of us are

right now in my family. It just would be good to just do a small family gathering. So

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