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The Bert Show.

So Abby was very honest with us a couple of weeks ago

when she sat around the holidays when she's hanging out with the family.

Bless her little heart, had herself a little bit of a breakdown.

And she's reframing it.

It was a white wine-fueled breakdown where I was sitting at dinner with my entire family.

We had been to a winery.

I had a couple of glasses,

but a respectable amount of glasses,

not an alcoholic amount of glasses,

just enough to endure family small talk

for four to five hours.

And I was sitting in between two couples.

I was sitting between my cousin who just got married

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