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Congratulations. Let's talk about how this all happened because you guys are here today at Co-Create with Gary,

which is one of the best things about the center of the team world.

We're going to talk about how you can see the characters and help you draw your own.

So with that, Gary, let's first talk about the importance of characters and storytelling

and how it's about making people feel.

Thank you for being here.

It's really nice to see all of you.

I'll be saying a lot of real relationships here.

I named it V friends because I knew that if it was what I thought it was,

I think for a lot of you, this journey started with your awareness of me and trying to figure out this thing.

But when I look at this specific crowd at this exact second,

and I see a lot of people I know, the relationship building that has happened among you all is profound.

And just to remind everybody, it's 18 months.

So I always said to the team early on, like Vcon 3 is going to be like summer camp.

People are going to be running and hugging and being like, and it's happened.

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