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uh, Well, hello porch friends, how are we doing? It is awesome be here. My. I get to hang out here at Watermark and drop it on the porch every now and then.

It is awesome to be with you and all our friends that are dropping in online and they're hanging out in some other places.

We are glad you're here.

I know that we just finished this fantasy series

about relationships, right?

So what I'm going to do is tie in a little bit

to that series.

We talked about the fantasy guy, the fantasy girl, the

fantasy relationship, all that different stuff. I'm going to talk to you about something that I think

will drive you into this weekend, which is one of my favorite weekends of the year,

just with a real heart of gratitude.

I love this weekend because there's just a lot you have to do, right, to get ready for it other than maybe find some folks to hang out with and

find some food to take in.

There's no shopping, no hustling, no getting around, but there is honestly something about holiday seasons that kind of can make it hard for some of us because we're like man I just I just want to share my life and especially my holidays this time when family gets together some of you may not feel like you've got

family that are close and you certainly you know in our porch community at this stage of life

often don't have somebody that's kind of slid a ring on our fingers said you I'm choosing you

That fantasy idea. I can remember wasn't that long ago for me. I I I can remember there were only really a couple times a year, maybe four times a year,

that were hard for me to be single.

One of them was spring, right?

When the azaleas were blooming,

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