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Get it. The Birch Show.

Let us bask in the gossip of strangers.

Ooh.

My favorite thing to do.

Right?

So I want to know what you overheard while eavesdropping.

Don't know where you might have been, standing in light at the home goods.

Doing a lot of that lately.

Sitting at a bar, sitting at a restaurant table.

What did you over here and spill the tea with us?

All right.

1-855-Berchow, 855-237-8-4-6.

Because we were the ones giving the tea to the guy sitting next to us at the bar to the point where he actually interjected.

And probably because we were drunk and loud and obnoxious and I do not blame him in the least bit.

So this was from my girl's trip.

There's the three of us sitting at the end of the bar, and he's there at that corner turned.

And I don't know why I've never noticed this about my childhood best friend.

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