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the earth about their little affairs, serene in the assurance of their

dominion over this more thinning fragment of solar dripwood which by chance or design man

has inherited out of the dark mystery of time and space. Oh, So, But yeah just started out just like you did in your email because you painted a nice kind of

backstory and why a couple of things were important to set it up but but yeah take it

away Todd thanks so much.

All right great yeah thank you so yeah for a little bit of a backstory I grew up in southwestern West Virginia. Well I myself I grew up in Huntington but my grandparents live about an hour south of there, and I spent a lot of my time out at their place. They have about 130 acres. I'm not going to mention exactly where because they still live there. So it's a very, very rural area. Like to this day, there's still no cell phone reception out there.

It's hard to get electrics to your house, you know, there's there's no city water or stuff like that. It's very very out there. So yeah, I spent a lot of my time growing up just tracing around the woods as I got older I got into hunting I spent a lot of time hunting and fishing

hiking camping you name it you know I loved being out in the woods and going to my grandparents is just my favorite thing.

I spent a lot of summers out there. I just, you know, I spent a lot of time in those woods and so there's specific piece of property I really got to know really, really well and then a lot of the surrounding area as well.

Over time I became quite familiar with the woods, the local flora, fauna, you know, any sort of animal you're going to encounter in southwestern West Virginia.

I've came across it at some point.

And then later, as I got older, my parents split

and my dad, he ended up getting a place a little ways away from Huntington.

It was in the country and I would spend a lot of time with him at his place and that's when I ended up getting this dog who plays quite a part in the story I feel like he kind of validates the whole thing for me.

So anyway, I got this dog at my dad's house.

He was at least half pit bull, the other half, we don't know what.

You know, but he was a great dog, really fantastic, really intelligent, but also just completely unafraid of anything, you know, he was just completely not scared to the point actually to where we ended up having to keep him on a cable run most of the time just because of his natural curiosity and then that

complete confidence that he had. He was about two years old and we had a black bear come through the yard and it was just kind of moseying along, you know, not in any hurry at all.

And the dog, his name is Zach,

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