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KSA's ETV this is Houston and please

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call station for a voice check station

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we hear you loud and clear welcome

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aboard the International Space Station

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thanks it's a pleasure

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I cannot hear Scott and in the end the

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don't hear them yeah we hear you loud

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and clear

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welcome aboard the International Space

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Station there we go okay guys ready

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well we're pleased to be joined by three

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of the astronauts aboard the

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International Space Station captain

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Scott Kelly in the middle of his third

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flight he launched aboard Soyuz in

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October and Katherine Coleman colonel

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third flight launched aboard Soyuz in

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December along with paolo nespoli

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italian his face his third trip and guys

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thank you so much for being with it well

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you're welcome and it's great to be

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talking with you today

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Scott you're a veteran of this stuff and

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I know Paulo you and Catherine launched

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in December how's it going so far and

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how was the ride aboard a Soyuz well

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I've been here since October and for me

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it's it's going great it's really been a

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wonderful experience so far and the

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Soyuz is a incredible machine it's you

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know the ride to orbit is a little bit

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different than the space shuttle

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especially in the space shuttle

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certainly gets your attention in first

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stage with the solid rocket motors but

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you know the ride on the Soyuz after the

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first stages is quite impressive and so

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for Kathryn and Paulo you both went up

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in December how was it Kathryn how was

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the ride and be honest with me when you

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hear Soyuz do you feel like all I drew

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the short straw I'll tell you that any

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ride to space is a great ride to space

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but I actually loved being in the Soyuz

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it was sort of nice to be part of a you

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know in a way a smaller crew and you're

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in your small capsule orbiting the Earth

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for about two days before you dock with

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the space station and

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I just loved being up there and just

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watching the earth go by and having a

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little quiet time to really you know

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taking the fact that you're in space do

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you ever get used to the weightlessness

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guys I mean it's got to be the most

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bizarre feeling and and to know you're

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going to be doing this for six months

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it's not it's not an you know you've got

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to get used to it and it's got to be

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terribly unnerving I put a lot of points

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well actually I would say that you get

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used to zero-g pretty quickly and it's a

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kind of exhilarating at the beginning

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because tanks don't behave in the same

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way you start losing stuff and you look

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on the ground they are everywhere else

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you try to move around and you cannot

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walk so once in a while I push myself

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from the end of the laboratory all the

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way to the other hand see if I can get

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there without ripping off things from

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the wall touching into anything and then

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not always it happens by the way but it

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gets it gets very interesting I mean

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it's like at least for me it's like

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being a kid and risk

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rediscovering all these things and

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having fun and and after a while you

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actually realize that there are a lot of

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advantages now you can take big weights

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big things and carry them around like if

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they would weight nothing you need to be

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careful of course but it's very nice and

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I would think everybody will love it

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does it become a sense of normalcy that

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you're weightless you know yeah it

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becomes somewhat transparent but every

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once in a while something will happen

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that will remind you that this is not a

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normal environment for people to be

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living in and you know you have to

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consider certain things like you

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mentioned sleeping you know it's

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interesting when my first two flights it

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was very very difficult for me to sleep

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on the space shuttle but here after a

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while you get used to it and I actually

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now you know sleep better here than I do

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on earth and although it is somewhat odd

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to sleep while floating and I look

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forward to a bed again

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I do get better sleep here

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then then I do at home kidding well no

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let me ask Catherine if I can because

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the women watching this and this is

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going to sound terribly trite and stupid

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but they're going to look at your hair

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and say how do you have a good hair day

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in space Scott says like this and he's

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patting his head you know I think every

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day in space if your hair isn't really

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short it's probably a bad hair day and

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you think you would get in the way but

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actually it just kind of comes with you

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although I do actually tie it up when

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they're the three of us are trying to be

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in one space like we just finished doing

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some robotics in practice for when the

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Japanese supply ship arrives here later

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on this month well ok Scott if you want

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to handle this the view we just saw a

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picture of it before we brought you guys

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up it does it ever get old I mean after

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a while does it start to glaze over and

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if you see it I mean you're circling

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every 90 minutes you start to get used

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to it or is it just unbelievably

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you know it's somewhat like the the

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microgravity environment where there are

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certain times that you kind of take it

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but then something you'll see something

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or you know think of something or when

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you're looking out the window you know

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just have this moment that makes you

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really appreciate how beautiful planet

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Earth is how you know we're incredibly

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lucky we are to have it as our home such

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an incredibly looking place so so to be

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honest with you at certain times you do

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kind of you know there have been days

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where I haven't even been able to look

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out the window well up here because I've

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been so busy they're rare but it's it

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has happened but and there's certain

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and you just can't believe how how

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beautiful earth is and how fortunate and

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privileged we feel to be able to look at

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it from this vantage point something

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roughly the size of a five bedroom house

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so it's actually become pretty large as

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you've built on it and

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it onto it since 1998 for you guys is it

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kind of like Survivor are there

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conflicts and are there

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a little over almost three weeks I think

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tomorrow and so far so good as all I

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having battles I probably wouldn't admit

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it on this television station Scott I

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you've got a daughter

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you missed Christmas with them how tough

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is it being away from family you know I

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have a ten year old and he looked at me

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when we talked about the launch date and

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he said are you sure you can't wait

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until after Christmas to lunch mom but

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then I think you know we were so new up

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family was pretty excited and to see me

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up here and we actually got to have a

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family conference a video conference

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which we do once a week but we got to

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have one on Christmas and our my whole

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big family was there so it was really

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pretty neat final thing guys this has

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been the most expensive venture for a

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single object ever built a hundred

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billion dollars is it worth it for for

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the world to invest this kind of money

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in this kind of project you know I

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personally think it is I think you know

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countries and past civilizations that

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have continued to explore have you know

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continued to succeed and you know I

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and as an international community on

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board the you know the people that

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participate in the countries that

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participate in the International Space

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Station to continue to develop our

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technology and you know the next

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frontier is outer space and and you know

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I think it's important for us I think

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you know not only for eventually going

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to Mars and and other destinations in

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the solar system but I think it's

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important to bring you know the

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technologies and the things we discover

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here back to people on planet Earth

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captain Kelly Colonel Mike Coleman and

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Helen is fully thank you so much for

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spending some time with us and good luck

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up there and believe it or not we do

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think about you even though you may

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think that we all forget about you but

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we do from time to time and that's the

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luckiest thanks for spending some time

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with it good to see you well we we

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really appreciate that thank you

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in the station this is Houston ACR that

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concludes the event Thank You UK s AZ TV