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slash Rome. So it's a joy to be here. This is my first time in Seattle.

Previously, I'd only ever been in the state of Washington for like brief snatches of time

because my parents met and married in Portland, Oregon. And so we would come and visit

maybe like every two or three years from the East Coast because my grandparents lived here

and aunt and uncles lived here.

And so we'd bop across the river to Vancouver. But that was, yeah, it was my only experience.

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