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Hey Alicia Keys. Hi my sister. I'm like your sister but also old enough to be your mother. So sister I was talking to a reporter yesterday and I was talking about you and I said I feel like Maya I feel that I am in many ways like you as Maya was to me because I have such adoration and respect for you.

And just deep love for you and feeling that allows me to know how Maya actually felt about me so I feel that way about you.

That's crazy. That's the hell start right there. That's a healthy start but also I said I am your mother sister friend. I feel like your mother sister friend.

Yeah me too. I think it's you know there's a beautiful embodiment of so many type of relationships that I think that we have.

And it's fair because you don't really have those type of relationships with many people. I find I don't so I really appreciate those different levels.

Yeah. Yeah. A connection. Yeah and I've only felt that with one other with you and I feel that with Ava Durine who I feel like wow this mother sister connection.

And it's so interesting because in all the years that I had Maya as a mentor friend mother sister friend I couldn't really grasp it you know I couldn't really grasp it so I get to grasp it through people like yourself and people like Ava.

That's amazing thank you. Good to see you. Good to see you. Good to see you. Good to be seeing you and I'm glad to be together with you and in this moment I think I'm happy Sunday.

Happy Sunday. Happy Super Soul Sunday. Happy Super Soul Sunday. So how's your family doing? How are you all doing all clustered?

My family is good you know we're good we're healthy and we're we're feeling well my youngest Genesis is the home body anyway so it took me so much to get him out the house anyways he couldn't be happier.

And the older the older ones are definitely you know missing their friends and just asking like what's going on and how long you think it's going to be going on but I think that we're doing some good things I like to try to have some type of routine that's happening for them so they can look forward to it but we're doing well and we are you know we're keeping us very tight.

So what are you all doing are you playing games and how many kids are in the house I know Genesis and Egypt are there but are the other big kids there too.

Genesis Egypt Genesis Egypt and KJ in the house so that's 13 9 and 5.

Wow are you playing games are you getting out for little walks what are you doing? We're doing good walks we're doing like bike rides and you know kind of scooter rides or stuff like that and I'll run behind them and we're doing monopoly.

Oh man it's the endless games of the endless nights of monopoly. I'm getting beat real bad I don't know why I can't seem to win monopoly is making me a little frustrated but we're getting there we're doing books we're reading every day you know that for a certain amount of time that's good but working out we're doing setups even Genesis is trying to get a six-fat poppin into that.

Do you feel more connected or are you getting a little stir crazy.

What I'm what I'm finding is that I know I don't feel like I have any time personally I know that sounds so weird because we're all talking about how we're not doing as much as how we normally do and that kind of thing but I'm finding that obviously with the kids home and then with us all together I don't have the space that maybe I was able to carve out before I look.

Yeah the personal space that's a little bit.

You know what I know what Alicia I think this lockdown is especially hard on mothers moms shout out to all the moms out there because I've said my whole career that it's the toughest and most important of all the jobs on the planet and now moms have to be the teacher

that to be the principal they're the cafeteria lady they're the gym teacher and the school nurse all at the same time I heard that Egypt said you're a mean teacher is that true.

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