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Grammy and Me with Tyrah Majors
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May 19, 2020
Calling all parents! Grab your kids and join us LIVE! with host Caren Glasser and this weeks special guest... best-selling children's author Tyrah Majors on Once Upon A Storytime! 👩👧👦📚 Tyrah is reading her book Grammy and Me. Grammy and Me illustrates the wholehearted day in the life of a young girl and her great grandmother. What surprises lie in store for this child on an ordinary day with her Grammy? Check out more shows and free activity downloads here: http://www.onceuponastorytime.live Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/carenglasser Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/carenglasserlive Follow us on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/carenglasser Pick up a copy of Tyrah's book here: https://bit.ly/2Jg182X Visit The Kids Corner: http://www.TheKidsKorner.store 👈 #onceuponastorytime #grammyandme #tyrahmajors #childrensstorires #childrensliteracy #childrensbooks #storytime #childrensauthor #storyteller #literacyadvocate
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hello everyone Karen Glasser here and
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welcome to once upon a storytime I am so
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glad that you joined us we have a great
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story for you today so let's just jump
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in and have some fun and we'd love to
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hear from you so whether you're here
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live or on replay just comment below and
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just let us know that you're here and
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say hi so today we are welcoming
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children's author Tyra majors and she's
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going to be reading from her book grimmy
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and me we're very proud to have the
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Women's National Book Association Los
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Angeles sponsoring today's show so a
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little bit about Tyra Tyra was born in
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San Diego California
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she is a news reporter a talk show host
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and children's book author after the
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passing of her great grandmother in 2014
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she wrote her first children's book
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Grammy and me to capture and celebrate
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the beautiful memories of their summers
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spent together
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Tyra currently reports for the CBS
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affiliate in Bakersfield so without
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further ado I would like to welcome my
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friend
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Tyra to the show here she comes hello
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everybody thank you so much for having
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me today that was a fabulous
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introduction kid oh well hello everyone
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thank you for joining I hope you all are
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safe and well at home during this time
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and I hope you all are meeting your
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favorite books I'm gonna shine I am sure
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they are and I know what they're really
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excited to hear this book I know I am so
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before we start I want everyone does
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snuggle up with the person they came
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with it might be your grandma your
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grandpa your mom or dad maybe it's your
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brother or sister and aunt or uncle
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whoever it is get next to them because
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it's time for story time are you ready
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Tyra I'm ready here we go
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alright Grammy and me written and
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illustrated by Tyra majors
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mommy drops me off at Grandma's house
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before she goes to work I get to spend
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the whole day with her when I see granny
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she gives me a great big hug and kiss
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how's my sweet bang she always asking
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her soft voice the house smells like
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pancakes my favorite food in the whole
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wide world
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Grammy makes me mini pancakes they are
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small like five little golden Suns and
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taste so yummy
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who likes pancakes here I do that's my
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favorite food who likes waffles pancakes
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or waffles I like pancakes better but
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they're both so yummy
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after I eat Graeme puts on her fancy
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clothes she curls her hair and wears
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great big sunglasses she tells me we're
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going to the big store when we get to
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the big store Graeme lets me pick out
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anything I want I get dresses skirts and
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shoes but out of all the things I get I
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like the white coat with the green
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stripes the best granny tells me I'm
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going to look so stylish
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after we shop at the big store Graeme
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takes me to a restaurant the lady who
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brings our food tells granny she looks
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so young granny says I'm a great grandma
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she smiles and tells me I'm a lucky
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little girl when we get home I want to
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bake cookies Graeme lets me mix the
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butter flour sugar and chocolate chips
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in a bowl while she seems little Church
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songs raise your hand if you know how to
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make cookies me raise your hand if you
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like chocolate chip cookies I did the
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oven goes ding ding I want to take the
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cookies out of the oven but Grammy stops
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me she says no too hot I'll get them at
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the end of the day we watched the news
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on the couch until mommy comes to get me
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I told my Grammy I love you and she says
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I love you more my beautiful and special
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girl I'm sad to leave Grammy because I
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know our special day is over but I am
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happy to see my mommy when she walks
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through the door I run to her and twirl
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around and my new white coat I also
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bring her a plate of chocolate chip
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cookies look mommy I make them all by
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myself and they taste so good
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I give Grammy a hug goodbye and a kiss
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on the cheek goodbye Grammy I say she
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says goodbye precious see you tomorrow
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p80
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Andy be ends but I want to ask you guys
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some questions about the book before we
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go the first question is who dropped her
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off at Grandma's house before she went
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to work anyone know what the answer is
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you can yell it out right now that's
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right it was her mom now who can tell me
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what Grammy and me bought at the big
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store I like shopping numbers lots of
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things you can buy at a shopping mall
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she got dresses skirts shoes pants and
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of course her favorite the white coat
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with the green stripes good job that's
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right
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the last question who can tell me what
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Grammy and me baked after they went
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shopping cookies that's right and what
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kind of cookies chocolate chip well
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that's the but I hope you guys all loved
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it and I hope you all just tuned in with
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your favorite person to spend time with
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I love that story I have fond memories
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of my Grammy as well so that brings back
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a lot of memories and by the way I like
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waffles better than pan you like waffles
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better everyone everyone has their
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choice of a breakfast item they do they
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do and I want to bring up the book right
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now so that they can see it's a first of
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all the illustrations are gorgeous and
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this is what the book looks like and I
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should head right on over to once upon a
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story time dot live because the book is
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sitting there now you guys all know that
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every week we also have you know a
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special download for all of our friends
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and I want to show you what the download
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looks because when you go over to Once
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Upon a story time dot lied and you're
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gonna go see Tyra show over there you're
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gonna go ahead and click the
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it's absolutely free and you've got this
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great download let's talk about family I
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love this I love this and if you want to
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send it in to us we will share some of
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them as well this is so awesome
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all right yeah yeah and I'll make sure
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that we share it with you as well and
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you come back and visit us as well now
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for those of you who are watching right
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now whether it's live or in replay
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you're probably saying gosh I need to
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get to know Tyra so you can go visit her
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on her website at Tyra majors dot-com
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you can visit her on Facebook if that's
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where you play and just type in Grammy
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and me and if you're on Twitter or
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Instagram or YouTube you can find Tyra
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there as well with at Tyra majors I want
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to thank again the Women's National Book
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Association Los Angeles for sponsoring
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the show today and I just want to make
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sure that I have some announcements for
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the next shows as you guys may or may
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not know we're starting yoga time once
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upon a yoga time how cool is that
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Tyra it's going to be fun and that
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starts tomorrow same bat-time same
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bat-channel at 10:30 a.m. Pacific time
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1:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday we
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invite Tim Meyers and he was going to be
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reading his book yeah bye and the egg
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pirates I have no idea what that's about
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but it sounds yummy
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it sounds yummy and then on Friday we're
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back to once upon a yoga time on
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Wednesday we have Heather kamila doing
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our yoga time on Friday we have Rachel
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Rush doing the yoga time so we have so
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many fun things to do this week I hope
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that you come back and visit us every
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single day for the rest of the week
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Tyra thanks for joining us today so much
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everyone be there and read and read
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absolutely and for everyone out there
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have an awesome day
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