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Good morning and welcome to semester 2022.

We hope that you are able to have a wonderful holiday

and that you are ready for another semester here at BYU.

A few years ago, a woman was waiting at an airport for her long flight.

Since her flight was delayed, she had several hours on her hands. So she went to an

airport shop and bought a book and a bag of cookies. She took a seat next to a man and started to read the book. While she was engrossed in her book, she happened to see the man sitting beside her boldly grab a cookie from the cookie bag and begin to eat it. The woman was

shocked at this brazen act but she chose to ignore the incident to avoid a scene.

However, to ward off any additional misbehavior,

she grabbed one of the cookies from the bag

and began munching it on it as she went back to her book.

Much to her horror, she noticed that the man took two more cookies from the bag

and began to eat them. In response, she grabbed another cookie and

dramatically put it into her mouth. The man then took another cookie and put it into his mouth.

She responded in kind, as did he. Every time she took a cookie from the bag, he took one.

When the last cookie was left, the man nervously took that cookie and broke it in half. He offered the other half to the lady and smiled.

Irritated and definitely not smiling,

the lady snatched the other half of the cookie from him, popped it

into her mouth, and thought, this guy has some nerve after eating half of my

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