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uh certainly uh

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yeah fond memories from my childhood

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and the family always getting together

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at thanksgiving but when i went away to

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college at 17 it suddenly became a lot

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more

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meaningful as i then you know finished

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college and joined the marine corps and

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i wasn't home that much for

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thanksgivings you know deployed

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somewhere around the world or somewhere

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with the marine corps

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coming home and seeing all the family

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and things that made it extra special

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but for me now with a

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seven-year-old and eleven-year-old

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the memories that i have that i

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appreciate the most

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are

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you know hearing them that thanksgiving

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day when they say their prayers and say

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hey god here's here's what i'm thankful

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for this year and just the innocence of

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what they say about that year is just

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very very special

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my

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fond memories of thanksgiving certainly

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in childhood involve some delicious

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pumpkin pie that my mom made

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and taking the time out with my extended

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family to

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think about and share those all those

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things that we're very grateful for

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and then with my children i have very

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fond memories of doing the same thing

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with them and also since we've lived in

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houston for a while which is a very

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different climate than minnesota

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our thanksgiving in houston have

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involved sitting outside with neighbors

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and sharing

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the nice weather this this time of year

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with our neighbors and having a large

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communal dinner with the people that

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live next door outside

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so uh

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fond memories of thanksgiving of course

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is uh you know hanging out with the

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family and just

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you know eating as much as we can but it

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really it's the whole process of

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preparing the food naps are good we

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enjoy that part of it too but in my

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house we always had thanksgiving late

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which i think most people have their

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thanksgiving at maybe noon so then you

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can eat

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take a nap and then eat again but my dad

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liked to have it late in the day so you

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ate and then you were done you know you

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had the dessert and it was time to go to

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bed so

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seeing these other traditions kind of

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nice so you can get that little nap in

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and uh of course i'm italian and we

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don't have thanksgiving so

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it's not that we don't say thanks but we

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don't have the the celebration of

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thanksgiving i was exposed the first

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time to thanksgiving when i went to

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college in the united states in new york

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and my university of course closed there

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for the thanksgiving period but they

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would organize a thanksgiving dinner for

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all the foreign students because they

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felt they're missing out some things and

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i was kind of like the first time i was

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kind of like

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you know you have to have the turkey you

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have to have all the all the stuff

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inside you have to have the yams and all

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these kind of things and i learned then

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about all the tradition about food but

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also about getting together and of

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course my family was not there they were

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in italy

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but we as foreign students we create our

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own family and it was really really

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interesting and i think

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i appreciate it started appreciated the

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significance of this uh festivity of

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this celebration and since then i've

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been doing it even though it's not one

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so i think

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being up on the space station is a

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pretty cool place to span

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thanksgiving i mean it makes for a great

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story would you have your last

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thanksgiving well up in space and being

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with you guys is going to be uh pretty

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cool i think we have a lot to be

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thankful for the opportunity to be here

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we have great families that support us

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being up here so i think that part of

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thanksgiving is not going to change and

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if you look at i think a lot of us in

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the training and like randy said earlier

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a lot of us because of the military

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background being an astronaut we've been

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away from home quite a bit so

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um i remember lots of thanksgiving in

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star city which is you know everybody

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getting together and having the big

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thanksgiving feast in russia which is

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pretty neat but doing it up here i think

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i agree i think uh being any place where

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you're surrounded by friends really

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makes thanksgiving special and we

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certainly have that going on up here

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um it's also for me it's really

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important to remember

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the other groups of people like in the

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military that are deployed away from

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home for thanksgiving in much

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uh in places where

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everybody surrounding them aren't

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necessarily looking out for their safety

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all the time certainly the people that

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uh are serving with them in the military

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are looking out for their safety but

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they can be some dangerous environments

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so we certainly want to make sure that

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we think about them and pray for them

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but we look being up here

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away from my family

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we will uh

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try to connect that day certainly with

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phone calls and we'll share what we're

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doing and they'll share

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share what they're doing and we'll be

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able to try to make it still a joint

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holiday with our families that way

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we're not home but we're not that far

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away from home and you know in my

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travels in the past year i've been

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really far away and i could not talk to

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them we are fortunate here we can still

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talk to them we can still see them and

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i'm pretty sure we will celebrate this

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thanksgiving festivity

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far away but close and on top of that

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you know this is really a family so i

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could not have asked for a better place

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or a better people to celebrate this

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certainly our space family makes it

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special um to be up here and uh you know

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i echo everything that everybody said

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the fact that

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you know we'll appreciate

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the next thanksgiving with our families

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that much more having missed this one

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and uh our hearts and prayers go out to

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those that are

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serving our country not at home for this

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thanksgiving and that they are able to

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make it special where they are just like

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we're going to

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we don't have anything remarkably

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special for thanksgiving but we've saved

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up a few things

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got some mashed potatoes are always good

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for thanksgiving

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joe's i think got some

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some turkey uh paulo's

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cornbread dressing

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and uh and sabo's got the candied yams

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and so these are all things that uh

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remind us a little bit of home and kind

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of traditional i

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i think a lot of us yeah cran apple

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dessert we've got that available joe's

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got some apple cider you guys

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that's your drinking water we'll have

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and certainly uh the thought of a

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home-cooked meal is something that

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really appeals to me because my wife is

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a phenomenal cook like my mother was

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and like joe mentioned the process of

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the day of thanksgiving and preparing

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everything is something that

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i look forward to the next time

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well we will organize a dinner with all

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the all the other people right uh we'll

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celebrate this uh festivity on board

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while we'll talk to our family and

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everything like this but i'm pretty sure

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in the evening we will uh we'll have

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dinner together pull out all these

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things

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and celebrate right

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and certainly you know we our russian

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colleagues have us down for russian

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holidays and we learn their traditions

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and uh customs and so certainly we'll be

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welcoming them and be thankful for their

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presence here and their contribution

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here on the on the iss