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all right welcome back to interviews
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with friends and enemies I'm Angela
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Byrne castanola you're host
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you may remember that we did eight
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interviews pre-pandemic and now we are
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back again for season two our first
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interview with Larry falsetto so welcome
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Mari thank you it's great to be here
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it's wonderful to have you so I have
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been wanting to interview you probably
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for about nine months because I came in
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to see you for shamanic
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Reiki at your studio inner Alchemy here
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in West Seattle
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and
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um I usually try to get a feel for
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people and I could have an interest in
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like what makes someone sick in terms of
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kind of deeper Universal questions
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so all right we're gonna dig it
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okay we're gonna pretend like we're on a
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very superficial date
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so tell me Mari
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um have you grown up in West Seattle
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have you been in Seattle do you have
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kids you married what's up
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oh okay let's see so I am born and
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raised in Seattle but I grew up over by
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Lake Washington
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um and I went to school in Seattle went
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to UW
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um I actually was in the coffee industry
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from a really young age like I was 16
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when I first started making coffee at
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Nordstrom and then I ended up outside in
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the carts and then I ended up at
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monorail espresso and coffee was a huge
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part of my world in the beginning
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um and
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um funny enough coffee paid for my
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college and everything about my college
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was I wanted to get to Europe
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and what happened was my coffee
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experience actually got me to Europe so
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I lived in Paris for two years I studied
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at the sorbonne and then I lived in
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London and helped start a coffee company
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there so I was out of Seattle for about
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10 years and then I
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um
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was an Africa volunteering and before I
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had left I met somebody and we ended up
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getting married in Africa and I came
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home
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um with my daughter and I have a son so
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my daughter's 23 now my son is 18. and
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it's been an amazing journey to be a
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mother
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um and so yeah I think that kind of
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brings my life up to date okay good I
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live in West Seattle I returned in 2000
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and uh West Seattle became my home okay
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so so 23 years in West Seattle right
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three years in West Seattle yeah okay
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and your kids both are West Seattle
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lights in a sense and this even though
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this industry interview series isn't
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about West Seattle right I have found
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myself also in West Seattle which
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um which during the pandemic for those
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of you who don't know what became an
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island even though it's not an island
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now uh our Bridge went out pandemic here
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so we were all sort of like almost like
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a little country as much as an island so
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those of us who had businesses had to
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find ways to
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um to modify our businesses right to say
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the least yeah everything changed
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exactly yeah so when did you since I saw
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you first shamanic Reiki
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um when did you first get involved in
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something other than coffee
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so The Healing Arts I guess we could
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call it
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um
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you know it really happened for me when
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I was actually preparing to do a masters
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of clinical Health psychology and
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nutrition at Master University and what
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happened was my marriage fell apart yeah
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and then my life fell apart and in that
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process I couldn't start grad school so
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I got a different job and I was working
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in marketing and really just kind of
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moving through
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you know your life coming Unwound really
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and it was it sent me into a really deep
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deep Journey yeah and I've always been
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very spiritual
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um but this was like everything was
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falling away and I had to find a way
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yeah so my life
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um I've belonged to the centers for
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Spiritual Living for many years and
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um I started doing some traveling with
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the centers for Spiritual Living and
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then I became a licensed prayer
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practitioner
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and it was like that Journey it had me
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go Inward and that was the beginning of
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the shift in my life
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Into The Healing Arts yeah it began with
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prayer
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and then from there it led to shamana
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gray key I was certified in shimonic
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Reiki and chronic healing and all of
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that was really to help myself move
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through this unforeseeable event like I
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never thought I'd be divorced I never
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thought my kids would have a divorced
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family right um and then it unwinds
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everything and so what I found was the
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the doorway to Milan healing became the
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call from me to bring a community
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together of healers and so um that's
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really where inner Alchemy began okay
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yeah that
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um I I am sure that anyone watching who
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has been through an event just
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doesn't say like divorce
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um and um and finding inner healing for
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ourselves
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um during a process like that is
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important and you it seems
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chose to share that
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as well you know I I realized
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very early on that the reason I'm here
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the reason my soul is here is for love
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and connection yeah yeah that's that's
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why I'm here and so yeah it was it was
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this recognition
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um of something deeper yeah and
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spiritual Soulful energetic and I
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thought wow you know this is a really
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significant part of being a spiritual
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being as a human being and
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um the community that I had grown at
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that point was so vast
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and everybody all the healers all the
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practitioners were trying to do it on
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their own yeah and that's really hard to
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do when you do something like energy
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work or mediumship or neuro-linguistic
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programming and it's hard to do that
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alone and so I was I just kept having
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this vision
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that really just wouldn't let me go and
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it was about a place where healers could
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work together to support each other and
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evolve together because you can't do any
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type of Healing Arts and not
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continuously be shedding old
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conditioning old beliefs I mean it's
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it's not an easy path now because you're
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it's like you're saying okay I'll
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continuously change and transform and
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let go you know and there's a lot to
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that so you know bringing a community
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together and then being a community that
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our community could come to and explore
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different modalities and experiences
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that help in everyday life from the
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simplest transition to the most profound
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like death you know yes yes beginning to
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the end yeah and the Tran and all the
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transition right because we're very
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fluid we don't stay the same and if we
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try to stay the same it gets easy oh it
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it gets a little uh explosive shall we
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say yeah one way or another one way or
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another yeah it's like a doors right
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you're gonna get tapped or are you going
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to get wet yeah like could I open the
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door or is the door just give a slam
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away yeah
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um well okay so the um
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so the name of the interview series
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interviews with friends and enemies
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um interesting in that it's a little bit
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more of an exploration in slow food
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right slow interviewing not really a
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rapid fire even though there's a part
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that I like to do that's fun where I ask
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questions and you answer them quickly
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with one word and it's just because it
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mixes things up but we're gonna we're
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gonna save that part for for the end
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because we did our little superficial
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date at the beginning so you know that's
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a little Snappy yeah
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so so if um if you could imagine what
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might make
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what might make someone consider you a
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friend
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oh what might make someone concern me a
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friend well I think there's two
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qualities that I have that maybe I've
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always had and one is that I listen
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um with a lot of Honor like I I listen
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in a way that people
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feel safe enough to open up but they
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also equally know that I don't take that
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information anywhere
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the next question is what might make
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someone consider you an enemy
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such an intense word
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