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enough to listen.

Why are you looking at me like that?

Because today's August 14th.

Yes.

And tomorrow's August 15th, one of my very

favorite days of the whole year. Oh, I know what we're going to do tomorrow. We're going to

definitely be in the saltwater. It's Saltwater Day. Tell everybody what that is. I'm not really sure

all of the religious connections to Saltwater Day, but when I was a little girl, my grandma and grandpa would

bring all of us down to the ocean and we had to put our feet in the salt water. It was just a

blessing. It's a saltwater day. I think it was a blessing for fishermen back in Italy long, long,

long ago. Which is where Katie's family is from. So today also is a special day

because Susie and I are alone on the island. Colos in Colombia with his family. Yes, for two

weeks. We're just having like this best time kind of on our own schedule. Colo usually has coffee

with us in the morning. We figure out the day. We do a lot of planning, but we're doing, we're like on

vacation. We don't have to work. But you know, I think we've told them that many times how much we

obviously love Colo. Love him, but we're on vacation.

But think about those of you who have children and their older children and you love them so much,

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