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Hello and welcome to the Thanksgiving edition of the Dividend Cafe. My name is David Bonson. I think most of you, if you're listening to this or watching, likely you know who I am,

but just by way of background, not only am I the managing partner of the business,

and I do write and record the Dividing Cafe every week, normally coming out, of course, on Fridays.

But today I get to be the person to express

Thanksgiving, the gratitude that we have at the Bonson Group for so many different things.

And I want to really kind of personalize it to the things in particular that I'm grateful

for. And while we normally use the Dividing Cafe

to provide some form of current macroeconomic commentary or investment perspective each year during

Thanksgiving week, largely because we recognize it is a holiday weekend and you're going to be busy with your own

families and turkeys, but also we're going to be busy with our own families and turkeys on

Friday. So we want to send out before the Thanksgiving weekend commences reflections on this very special holiday. It is my favorite holiday.

My kids are far too old for me to care about Halloween anymore. I do love Christmas and

of course we always enjoy that holiday, but there has been something not only throughout my adult life, but even when I was

younger, that always had a special place in my heart for Thanksgiving. And so rather than get

overly personal about it here in the Diven Cafe, I just think it's appropriate to use the time to share with some of you

that are connected to the Bonson Group that, if nothing else, read our frequent amount of

commentary and perspective and point of view. But especially for those of you who are clients

that, you know, may appreciate the kind of inside baseball, a little under the hood look at what

enables the company to go and for us to do what we do on behalf of our clients.

So I just want to share a few of these Thanksgiving reflections with you now.

You know, the very thing you're watching by video right now or listening on podcast, you know,

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