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I'm Scotty Beam, media content creator music enthusiasts and a wing

kind of sore and I'm Sylvia Obel culture writer host producer and lover of

Beyonce and my girl Sylvia just got writer, host, producer, and lover, uh, D'Ose.

And my girl, Sylvia, just got back from Hawaii,

honey, with all the Duane Johnson's and all the fine men's is there.

How was it? Oh my goodness,

goodness Hawaii was so necessary. Like I have not I have not taken a vacation trip

since February 2019 and before that only one other time in my 20s I went to

Montego Bay Jamaica besides that I've been working my ass off and just not

enjoying the fruits of my labor at all.

So when the world shut down on me,

I was like, the second I'm able and safely able to do that.

In this case, it was getting the vaccine and whatever else.

I am not taking recreational travel for granted again.

I am like going to invest in experiences as much as material things and not be like, oh no, I got to hold it for this or for that or for this like life is too

short

Take the trip book the flight you will make the money back.

You know I mean like this is what I'm telling myself.

So I was so glad I did it and that you know for me I was baby stepping into Hawaii

where it wasn't like out of America because your girls passport expired in the

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