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And so unfortunately through the course of that three day weekend, we don't get to stop doing the news.

We have to keep talking about it. And so we will keep talking about it. The we being me and you, I guess.

I'm solo. So please stay. Don't leave me

alone and hit the like button if you can. It makes me feel better algorithmically. But anyway,

I had my three days off. It's taking care of the baby mostly and watching what was going on in

the news and just being more and more horrified. It seems like everywhere you look, you see

something that you don't want

to see, whether it's the news or I got this new like mirror for the bathroom and it has two sides.

So it's like a normal mirror. And then you could flip it over and it's like 10 times zoomed in.

And I did that. And then I told

myself, I'm never going to use that side again because that was a horrifying experience. Yeah,

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