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Breakaway.

So thanks for having me.

So here's a deal.

I married my wife nine years ago, which means I started dating my wife 10 years ago,

which means I started trying to work it with my wife 11 years ago.

And believe it or not, this is really hard for me to believe, it will be hard for you to believe,

but there was actually a time when my wife, Catherine, was just not that into this. Yeah, I know. I don't get it either. But I will never forget this time before we had started dating where I was on the phone with

Catherine and somehow I got her to agree to watch a movie with me and it caught me so off

guard that I immediately got up and went and started changing my clothes because I didn't want to just look fine.

I wanted to look like fist biting fine.

You know what I mean?

Like, that's what I was going for.

Some of you are like, that's not possible for you.

I thought it was.

All right.

So that's what I was going for.

And as I am kind of getting ready I'll just be honest

like my mind began to go down the romantic road with Catherine and I just began usually it's the

women who do that they they think that the first date is a lot more than just trying to figure out

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