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Well, the summer after my eighth grade year, I was in the Indianapolis airport waiting to fly home after being at the Indianapolis 500 car race. And as I was in the airport, I stumbled upon a magazine that someone had left behind.

And I made the decision to take that magazine and hide it in my stuff and keep it in secret and take it home with me.

And that decision right there, the summer after my eighth grade year, began what I would call a seven-year addiction to pornography.

This past Friday, I was just walking on A&M's campus

and I was just kind of walking and praying as no one was around

because it was spring break.

And I'm a nostalgic person, so I'd walk past buildings

and think about where I was kind of during my college career.

And I walked past Dun Hall because that's where I lived. I walked past

Dun Hall and I was just flooded with these great memories. So in 1999, the year that most of you

were either being born or learning how to walk, I was moving into Dun Hall my freshman year at A&M.

And that was an incredible year for me because I moved into Dunhall with my best friend from high school.

And on moving day, we looked through the bathroom to our sweetmates room and we met our sweetmates.

And they became our closest friends for all of college.

And we lived together all four years.

Freshman year was an incredible year,

but as I stood next to Dunhall on Friday,

and as I took a picture and kind of sent it to my friends

and included some inside jokes in the text thread,

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