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Do you remember too, Rebecca? Like, I made a comment to you, like, after we saw the bug,

where like our energy just collectively, like, did.

100%. I can feel it now.

I know that devastate.

It was devastation.

And it was what I felt.

Like the visual experience of the food that was still on the table because you had said in

your story that it was after dinner.

We had just finished eating our meal.

Yeah, but it was actually during the meal.

Oh.

And the physical like look of the food changed.

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