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Now in my life, I'll go to places in the world and just really want to buy something there. A little piece of land, some property,

something to...

Because I just fall in love so easily, so quickly with

places like happened in Estonia, it happened everywhere, happened in Florida.

Literally every place you go to.

I really get excited. But when I was younger, I used to see animals and really want to buy them.

And usually it was my parents who had to talk me out of it or tell me I couldn't.

And then when I was an adult and I had autonomy, sort of, I still had that itch. I still do

sometimes to have a little pet, a fun little pet. And I remember one such occasion, I was doing a play

up in upstate Massachusetts, like the northwest corner of Massachusetts. And

Bred Larsen, the actress, was doing a play there as well in the Summer Stock Theatre.

And we, along with my castmate, we saw Daro and his wife, we took a little trip, we took a little

drive into Vermont. And we found this... I think it was in Bennington, Vermont. It was a strange little...

It was like a video game store. They sold old Nintendo's and stuff. So all of that stuff

intrigued me. But they also had a, it's just very randomly, a hedgehog for sale, a little hedgehog.

It was adorable. We were playing with... I have all these great pictures of... I'm so glad I have

those. I should send him to Oasis wife, because he's passed away. And the funny picture

of Bred, holding it, she's just so excited. She was like, you know, like a kid. And I almost bought

it. It was like a couple hundred dollars. The guy was... I was... We got into the phase of like,

how do you take care of this? He was, he was instructing... Wow. Take care of it. And I don't know what

it was. It was some adult instincts. I knew enough that I would travel too much to not pull the

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