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I am Mary Catherine.

And I am Carol Markowitz.

How are you, Mary Catherine?

I'm doing pretty good.

I have a funny story from our weird job sort of milieu.

Yeah.

At my kids' school, they're having a fundraising gala for like an anniversary of the school's founding.

And the woman who is running it is very organized, very together.

And I run into her at church and school.

And I inevitably run into

her when I'm a hot mess. Like I'm just disorganized. I'm late. I have maybe three children, maybe four

children. We don't know. And she's always like, you can tell she's always sort of scratching her head

about me. Like, what's this lady's deal? She messaged me yesterday and said, I've been asking around about who should emce the gala.

And the only name I got was yours. And she's like, and I don't understand.

And she said, tell me more about yourself. She said, I didn't know you had public speaking skills.

And I was like, yeah, I'm not joking when it's maybe the only thing I do well.

So she has to be mystified like this woman. She's like, I was quite sure she had a learning

disability, but she seems to have a real people job. So there you go. Yeah. Yep. I like it.

You show that that organized lady that you can do stuff too. Yep. I like it. You show that,

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