mr. Baker my beard yo what’s up you guys
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welcome back to my channel my name is
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Sam and I’m female-to-male transgender
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for years on testosterone in three years
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post-op post-op top surgery today I’m
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going to be talking about the best parts
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of being a moon did a video a couple
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weeks ago about the worst parts of being
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a man my least favorite parts and people
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seem to really like it so I was like
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well what better then to contrast it
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with the direct opposite like that video
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though I’m just gonna be doing the
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light-hearted version obviously you
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there are way more intense deeper more
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complicated bigger issues to be focusing
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on of like the best parts of being a man
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where a lot of it boils down to
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privilege I want you guys to know that
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half of these things that I’m gonna list
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off are just from now having privilege
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and I recognize that and I can’t wait
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til we’re at a point where it’s just we
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have equality and men won’t only have
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this privilege and these positive things
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happen to them okay let’s get into it
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now
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first thing is being shirtless being
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shirtless freaking rocks I love it
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I go to sleep shirtless I go and run
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shirtless I walk around my house
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shirtless go to be shirtless
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surprisingly anything and anytime I can
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take off my shirt it will be off I’m
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gonna like a little beach boy so I just
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think it’s like the most freeing feeling
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I’ve run really hot because of
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testosterone spikes your body
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temperature up so it’s just like a nice
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feeling to just be shirtless and free
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and it’s especially after being a female
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and wanting that for so long very
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specifically I will take off my shirt at
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any point in time and be happy the next
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thing is facial hair again this is
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another thing of like I wanted it so bad
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when I was young and I would like take
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selfies on snapchat this is before
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Instagram and draw on a beard and then
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send it to someone and be like oh my
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gosh look and then do that again again
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for hours I would like the way it looked
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I knew I’d feel more myself and
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I have it on my face now from
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testosterone good ol pal testosterone
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and I like the way it looks I don’t know
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it’s just great I like I like beards
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okay next thing is no line at the
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bathrooms okay I know I just said that
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bathrooms were the worst like it was in
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my worst parts of being a guy video but
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if no one’s in a stall you can just go
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up and then leave like think of concerts
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the girls lines wrap around and they
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take forever
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I remember them I’ve been there I don’t
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wish that on anyone I don’t miss them so
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it’s pretty sweet that you can just like
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walk in go to the bathroom and walk out
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I do love that aspect of the guys
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bathrooms everything else you can go
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away it’s gross the next thing I love is
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being called mr. Baker mr. Baker I don’t
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know what it is but being called mr.
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Baker because that’s my actual last name
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so it’s it’s just like my fun to
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entertain your name but for some reason
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like it never gets old you know I’ve
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gotten used to hearing him pronouns and
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my name and that’s awesome I love that
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but for some reason I never get used to
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hearing mr. Baker it’s just another way
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of just constantly like affirming that
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you are a guy now and it’s just
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internally just exciting and then also I
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heard my dad being called mr. Baker my
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entire childhood in my entire life
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so to now be able to be the next mr.
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Baker because I don’t have any brothers
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there’s something like cool about having
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that little connection between me and my
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dad cuz I love my dad and respect the
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crap out of him it just makes me smile
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every time I’m like woo
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tell me more the next thing that I think
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is hilarious and makes me giggle all the
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time is how much dudes say dude bro
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brother
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it’s like constant it’s in casual
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conversation DMS text doesn’t matter
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comments it doesn’t matter where it is
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it’s hilarious guys will be like so bro
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yeah I saw you do that the other day
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dude you are you rock man or how to see
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your brother and you’re like every other
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word is some sort of like cute little
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endearment it gets overwhelming at some
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points I’m like okay we can take a chill
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pill oh I’m like saying like dude bro
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sup dawg but I think if there’s
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something so like sweet about it it’s
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like it’s like a weird dude thing of
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showing affection so that’s one of my
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favorite things because it makes me
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giggle and it’s also just adorable
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another thing that is definitely like
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more of a silver lining on a very
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unfortunate situation but that would be
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because I was born a female I don’t have
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the proper equipment downstairs that’s
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the unfortunate situation but the silver
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lining on that is I really don’t have to
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worry about getting people pregnant I
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don’t have that stress I don’t even have
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that thought in my head and the person
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I’m with also doesn’t have that stress
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or worry what does suck now is like if I
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wanted to get someone pregnant I can’t
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but that’s for like the future and I’ll
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figure that out that’s a more
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unfortunate situation the next thing is
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people assuming I’m strong I know this
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is something where like people shouldn’t
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just assume I’m strong because I’m a boy
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like there’s plenty of my girlfriend’s
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that are just as strong if not stronger
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than me
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however I do love that people assume
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that I’m strong because I go to the gym
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a lot and I work out hard and I work out
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a lot so that I’m fit healthy and strong
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so the fact that that assumption is
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placed on me and people that ask me for
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help I’m like why yes I can
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it’s just like something to express and
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support like something I’ve worked
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really hard in achieving is my strength
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I don’t like the assumption you know
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that girls aren’t strong but I do love
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the assumption that I am strong because
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I work hard for it and I love that the
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next thing is being a gentleman
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it is horrifically surprising how many
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people are not gentlemen
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and again this boils down to like just a
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kind consider a human being type of
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thing but now that I’m a guy there’s
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like this expectation of oh you’re gonna
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be a gentleman
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and I love that because I like opening
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up doors for people or holding the door
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as they’re walking through or you know
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helping someone up and walking down
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stairs or giving up my seat so that they
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can sit down I don’t know I guess that
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just boils down to me as a human I just
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like to make people’s day a little bit
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brighter if I can but I also like being
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called a gentleman because there’s
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something like elegant that goes with
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that and I enjoy fulfilling that
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expectation because it’s something I
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genuinely want to do as a best part of
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being a guy aspect being called a
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gentleman and being a gentleman is
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awesome I love it all right so that’s it
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that’s the best parts of being a man in
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my opinion from what I’ve experienced
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I’m being on testosterone for four years
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of course once again there’s a lot of it
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comes from privilege that we need to
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keep working on so that is a privilege
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amongst all humans and everyone and
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everything but with that being said I
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hope you guys enjoyed this video I hope
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you could relate to some of it you have
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any other favorite parts of you being a
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man now or something you look forward to
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in your transition comment um down below
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I’d love to read them and see what you
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guys have to say I’ll be back next week
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with another video I hope you guys are
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enjoying your holiday season and having
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a fun time shopping and celebrating
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whatever you celebrate I love you guys
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thanks so much for watching
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adios love you guys bye
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