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My name is Frank. And this is Rhonda. That is Ronda,

isn't it? I'm good. I'm good. You know, I'm hanging in there. It gets a little harder to stay indoors when the weather gets so nice, but I'm my best what about you frank do you ever get out

at all i haven't really because i i feel like i need a really good excuse to to to kind of expose myself

i guess is one of but um because i'm in such a i don't live like around a lot of, you know, so there isn't a lot of space where I can really distance.

So I haven't gotten out that much. Are you able to do that?

I do go out at least once a day, at least briefly.

Nice.

So, yeah. I'm not running miles to a park or anything.

I noticed the street's getting more and more crowded, actually.

Yeah.

At least down in the village.

But, you know, I don't know.

It's just a day-by-day thing. I think we're actually, you know,

nothing's set in stone, but New York is gearing up for some version of reopening in the summer,

maybe. I don't know. Yeah, it sounds like little by little. I slowly see things like I'm starting to see construction,

starting up again in certain areas.

And, yeah, like you said, I'm seeing more things opening up a little bit.

So slowly, slowly, slowly.

This is not going to last forever.

So that's the positive way to think about it at some point.

Exactly.

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