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Once I kind of put that out there. I've now heard from many many scores of people that yep, that's what it feels like and I think if you know what it's going to

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so it's like a storm that is hitting you you know you lose someone someone that you know dies you

are going to get put into a storm and what's scary about it is it's it's an emotional storm and you have no control of it so you're going to break down start crying you're going to remember bad things good things you're not going to be in control of your emotions which is very difficult for adults because we're used to having some level of control over our emotions so for a period of time you're going to get hit with waves of emotion that you have no control, and they're going to knock you off your feet,

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