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Okay, so we have an update on Carlee Russell.

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The Russell Hustle.

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The Russell Hustle.

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I'm very excited because this is crazy.

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This is real crazy.

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I mean, I'm pleased with what just occurred.

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Agreed.

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I think that this, but in my opinion, I think that, okay, so let me just back up.

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So they had just had a press conference at one o'clock today.

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It's Friday and Friday, July 28th.

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And they are saying that she, that district attorney or I'm sorry, the Hoover Police Department

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got a warrant for her arrest today.

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And then Carly turned herself in with her attorney, which was probably all planned so

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that she could get out right when she got in.

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She probably didn't even go in.

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Just like put her on handcuffs.

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Processed her and yeah.

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So she got arrested and it was only a $2,000 bond for the two charges.

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So it was false reporting to law enforcement authorities, which is a Class A misdemeanor

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$1,000 bond.

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Falsely reporting an incident Class A misdemeanor for a $1,000 bond.

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And both charges, you can get up to a year in jail and $6,000 in like fees, I guess, or

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fines.

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Did you look up the misdemeanors?

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It's what you just said, basically.

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But the one year in prison and it just says it's the most extreme offense below a felony.

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Oh, okay.

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So that's good.

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That's interesting.

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Like why would it only if it's the most extreme, why is it only a thousand dollars bond for

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this?

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And I wonder if it's well, is Class A different than is Class A higher than okay, that's the

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highest one.

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Yeah, it's the highest one.

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Class B is prison up to six months and up to a $3,000 fine.

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Class C is up to three months and $500 in fines and a violation.

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I don't know if it's a violation misdemeanor or whatever is up to 30 days and $200 in fines.

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Interesting.

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Okay.

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I mean, I just feel like $2,000 bond.

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I mean, it is a lot of money for somebody that doesn't have any money.

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And maybe this isn't like that.

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Yeah, that bond doesn't mean that's what you pay though.

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Typically you have to pay only a percentage of whatever the bond is.

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Right.

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Exactly.

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Well, yeah, we're talking.

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I'm not, I can't math good, but what are we talking?

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200 bucks?

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Yeah, not a lot.

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That's if you get a bondsman or whatever.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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If you don't have the cash to put up.

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Right.

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But I mean, yeah.

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So really that's nothing.

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And no, I would have liked to see her sit in jail for a little bit longer.

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Well, I mean, it's up to one year for both those charges.

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If she's convicted, she's convicted, but like, I don't know.

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It just seems like, I mean, I feel like this is not well, I know, but based on what, um,

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and you know, you haven't really covered this yet, but based on what the police chief was

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saying, you know, about getting the government and more involved in the representatives for

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the state of Alabama to make some changes to these laws that are in place, maybe they

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will in, if you will, you know, quote unquote, throw the book at her and convict her and

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sentence her to jail.

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She may not quite serve one or two years, but you know, it's something it's better than

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a slap on the wrist for all the nonsense that she caused.

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Yeah.

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I mean, it's, it's a lot.

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Um, I feel like, so for instance, okay.

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So when I think about this, it's like, this was a big deal in my opinion, this falsifying

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of whatever and lying, you know, falsely reporting an incident and false reporting to law enforcement.

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Um, though you, there are different levels of that.

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I feel like, like you could just say, Hey, you know, you fake something, but this is

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like way bigger.

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This is a bigger fake than some other fakes could be.

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Absolutely.

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So that's where I'm like, and I believe that you, because the timeframe, the 49 hours,

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that is what it wasn't like a couple of hours to like, you know, scare some people or whatever

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her goal was with that.

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It was 49 hours, manhunt money, all of that lied.

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Yeah.

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Afterwards.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I mean, she tried to ride, ride the lie for as long as she could.

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And then she figured out I'm this angle fly.

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Yeah.

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No, she was like, I mean, I probably, I like, I tried to put myself in her shoes.

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I would never have done that.

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I mean, never say never, but like, I'm pretty sure I would never have done that.

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I'd have been like bored for 49 hours without real food and a phone.

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Yeah.

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She, all she has is cheese.

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I mean, that sounds delicious, but like a whole box for two days, I would have eaten

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in one sitting if I was bored.

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I mean, talk about rationing.

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Why would she leave the cheese?

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She's not rational, but she knew how to ration her cheese.

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Yeah, right.

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Exactly.

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Apparently.

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Oh my God.

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Yeah.

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I just like that.

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Like even like she have just like lied and said, my boyfriend hurt me or something like

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that, you know, called the police domestic violence.

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And I was being dramatic.

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Yeah.

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Yes.

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Okay.

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And like she was like, she was like, you know, like, you know, like pretending that

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there's a baby on the side of the road.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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I mean it was scary for the community, you know, not just her family because she was missing,

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but like, is there some random kidnapper that if you, you know, blow a tire and you're stuck

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on the interstate that you're going to get snatched?

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Right.

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That's scary.

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Yeah.

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Very scary.

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So it sounded like the chief of police, the chief of the Hoover police department kind

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of wants to talk to the legislature or whoever and try to see what they can do to make this

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not as like, make it not as like low of a charge, I guess, or make it more of a charge

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because this is a bigger deal than, you know, $6,000.

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Absolutely.

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I mean, it was a waste of tons of resources.

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I'm sure there was overtime paid for police officers and I mean, there were some officers

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that were suspended without pay because things were being leaked and you know, none of that

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needed to happen.

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She affected their jobs.

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And you know, it's some, you know, a lot of times when you get convicted of something

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and they, there's like two charges and you get convicted of both, you can, you can spend

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that time in jail at the same time.

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It's consecutive.

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So it's like they could do, and she could get two years like total, or she could just

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get one consecutive for both of the terms.

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Right.

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And you know, maybe they will make it, make it two years if she gets convicted of it.

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I mean, she will, she's already, she's got to plead guilty at some point, but maybe they'll

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enter into like a plea, like a deal.

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I would be very surprised if she didn't take a plea deal, if she tried to take this to

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court and you know, claim some, which I do think that she needs some mental help, but

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if you know, she just tries to claim that, you know, she was, you know, just a little

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crazy at the moment or whatever, that's not okay.

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Because if you had a breakdown and you came back, you would have just said, I'm sorry,

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I had a breakdown.

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I need some help, whatever.

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She tried to ride the lie.

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And that's where I lose sympathy for the mental illness situation.

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I don't know.

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I think that I still think that if you have that mental illness, like, and I think I try

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to put my, like, I was trying to say earlier that if I were to put myself in her shoes

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and I had lied like that and I knew that I would probably be like telling all the lies

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to make it sound right.

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I mean, when I was younger, maybe.

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I mean, I definitely think that that is probably safe to say and you know, we're not in that

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situation.

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So, you know, it's hard to tell, you know, exactly what your reaction and or, you know,

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the path you would choose if you were in those shoes.

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Yeah.

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Well, I don't know.

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This is crazy to me.

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I don't really have much more to say.

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Do you?

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No, I don't either.

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No, I think it's justified at maybe not justice enough, but we'll see how it plays out.

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Yeah.

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And if she goes to court, you better believe that we'll be watching it and we will be reporting

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back.

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Oh, yes.

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All right.

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Well, that's your update.

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We're moving into a true crime podcast.

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Alabama criminals.

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Yeah.

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I don't know.

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All right.

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Oh, man.

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Thank you.

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Have a good weekend, y'all.

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Bye.

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A, B, C, D, E, F, G.

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I have to go.

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I don't know why it's so good.