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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to
Homeopathy at Home with Melissa.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hey Melissa, hey Brie
, I'm super excited to be here
tonight with you and Alicia.
Alicia is going to tell us acool story, but first Fan mail.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
We should get a
little like jingle for fan mail
we should.
Yeah, that'd be fun right, yeah,so we have a couple today.
One just really sweetcompliment, so just some nice
encouragement I want to read,and then a question Um, so we
have a couple today.
One just really sweetcompliment, so just some nice
encouragement I want to read,and then a question.
So I'm going to.
I'll read both of those for us.
Um, the first one is fromGreensburg, pennsylvania.
This was wonderfulencouragement and I appreciate
(00:38):
how you tied in together with mywandering walk with the Lord.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
So that was from one
of your, our encouragement
series.
Oh okay, so it doesn't tell mewhich podcast they're commenting
on, but I'm I mean, I'm surethat one's right, yeah, yeah, so
that's a really great series.
That series is on YouTube.
I have a playlist calledencouragement series.
So if you go to my YouTubechannel you see my playlist.
(01:05):
You can see all of the onesthat we've already done and the
ones that will come in thefuture.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, that's great.
Thank you from Greensburg.
Okay, here is the question fromColorado.
Hi, melissa, I was wondering ifyou have any remedies or ideas
that would help or cure eyefloaters that seem to have come
on and worsened with stress andage.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
thank you for your
time eye floaters are becoming
so common, aren't they?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
wow, even younger
people, though.
I feel like it has been common,maybe as with age, but I have
met some people recently whothey're in their twenties and
their thirties with floaters.
Do you know?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I didn't even know
what I floaters were until Paul.
So Paul's had them for like 20years.
My husband, who's younger thanlike he's in his forties and
he's had them for a long time.
So, um, yeah, well, so eyefloaters.
I would start with the banner g, protocol and um.
(02:12):
This is on page 130 in theoriginal banner g protocol book,
which is 200 C mixed withArnica 3 C four times per day.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I mean, who is going
to do that?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
You have to.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
You have to, it has
to be four, you're going to do
it.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
If you're going to do
it, you better do it right.
And so it tells a little bit.
So what they call it in thebook is vitreous hemorrhage.
And then there's a littleparagraph under the title
vitreous hemorrhage and it's eyefloaters.
And then there is a second line.
But I would start with thefirst line and do it right.
Do the right potency Hamamelis200C mixed with.
(03:02):
So take it at the same time asArnica 3C and take it four times
a day.
So that means every three hoursduring your 12 hour awake time.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Right, okay, now I
have an additional question,
maybe that goes along with this.
Um, if it's worse with stress,would you consider something
like ignatia or a support tomaybe like why are they so
stressed or is there anxietyinvolved?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
absolutely,
absolutely, yeah, we want to.
We always want to address themental emotional picture.
Yeah, and there's always amental emotional.
So people will come to me withphysical things and and they're
like, yep, that's.
It'm like, well, we'll seeabout that Cause when I start
going somewhere.
Yeah, there's, everybody hasmental emotional needs that they
(03:52):
can, you know, just use helpwith.
So, um, absolutely, if it, youknow, I did notice that she said
worse with stress, you know,over the years.
So, yep, awesome, all right,well, let's jump into this
episode.
And so I'm going to introduceAlicia, who is one of my clients
(04:13):
and we did a follow up a coupleof weeks ago and I was super
excited and encouraged about herprogress and journey with acne
rosacea because, bree, we knowhow hard acne and acne rosacea
is to help people with.
So Alicia probably rememberswhen she told me you know how
(04:34):
very much better I have my notesin front of me how very much
better she was, I was like, well, you have to come and encourage
people, right?
Because that encouragement isgoing to, I hope, help people
stick with it longer.
Now, it didn't take Alicia avery long time, but I want this
(04:55):
to encourage you if you'redealing with anything.
Skin.
Hang in there, Hang in there,hang in there.
So, alicia, I would love foryou to just to introduce
yourself.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Tell us about you bus
and it'll be one year this next
month, so I think we're stillfairly new to it, but, um, it's
(05:36):
been.
It's been really a cooladventure and um, yeah, I mean
my husband is really blessed towork from home, um it stuff, and
so we are, we're able to totravel and it's been great.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
That is the coolest
thing ever.
Ever.
I've told my husband I don'tknow how many times I would
absolutely do that.
But like I need to be in aluxury RV just because I'm not,
that is my husband.
I'm not.
I'm not too woodsy like youknow what I?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I grew up camping.
I love it, but for like longterm, especially when you have
lots of kids, I would not say weare.
We're not roughing it at all.
We very much.
That's why we chose the, theconvert school bus, because we
shopped around for RVs and tofind, you know, an RV perfect
for our situation was either wayout of budget or just it's
justs.
And to find, you know, an RVperfect for our situation was
(06:25):
either way out of budget or justit's just really hard to find.
You know, six bunk beds likecomfortably sized, and um, we
were able to do all of that umwith this.
And something is is I don'tknow simple to to maybe other
people, but important to me wasjust even using wool for
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insulation instead of fiberglassand more toxic materials.
We were able to choose all ofthat, so we definitely went all
out.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Did you convert it
yourself?
Did you do all the work, youand your husband, wow.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Well, my husband did
for the first several years the
first like three years, and thenthe last, the very last push,
we unexpectedly got pregnantwith our sixth child, and so we,
we actually it's amazing how itall worked out.
I think it was God's timing forsure.
But this other family they have, they have lots of kids and
they've been doing the schoolbus thing for many years, way
(07:25):
before we have, and they'vealready converted to school
buses and they happen to be inArizona.
At the time when we were andjust available and we messaged,
my husband had a dream of likeconnecting with this family and
he did.
He messaged them and said, hey,you know, I just have this
crazy idea.
Would you guys be interested inhelping us finish our bus?
(07:45):
And and they did.
And so, yeah, we had them dothat and it just worked out so
beautifully, it really did.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
So is this indefinite
?
Like, are you just going to bedoing this for a while or do you
have a timeline?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
no-transcript and
still being able to expose our
children to adventures andtraveling.
So, uh yeah, our timeline Idon't know.
A few, a few more years, we'rejust, we're, we're, we're making
the best of our situation anduh, till we get fully debt free,
(08:43):
which will be a couple moreyears, I think fun.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I we could do a whole
podcast on this, so we really
could.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah, um, that's not
what we're doing today, but you
might be back, alicia, even justto talk to me, sure okay, um,
alicia, so we started workingtogether in August of 24 and um,
we followed up in December of24 and at that point there was
(09:12):
no change in acne rosacea, but Istuck with the same remedies.
Do you remember that?
And like, how did that make youfeel?
Do you remember?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I was very prepped
for it, honestly, because I had
listened to your podcasts,especially ones about acne, so I
was emotionally prepped forthat.
But yes, I do remember that.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Love it.
I mean, you know, brie, becauseyou know why I'm asking that
question.
I think a lot of people wouldbe disappointed, like well,
that's not working, so we haveto do something different.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I think that
terminology I hear a lot and we
have talked about this actuallyseveral times, but that this is
not working or it stoppedworking.
Or you know they want to makechanges early, or they do, and
then come back and say, well, itstopped working, so we stopped.
(10:02):
And because of what?
And truly I think it's justignorance and what that looks
like.
And we have the benefit ofseeing lots of people when I
mean, you know, before this Ijust saw what I was going
through.
So what encouragement would Ihave?
I'm just blindly trusting, likeplease tell me what to do and
(10:22):
hope it's right.
But yeah, yeah, that would Iknow why you're asking that.
So, alicia, that's awesome thatyou were on board and prepped
for it.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I knew it.
Do you want to share your justyour rosacea story or history to
help people understand orencourage?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
well, growing up, I,
I struggled with acne severely
on my face not so much rosacea,but the acne and it was on my
chest, it was on my back, um,and then in eighth grade, uh, we
, I, I was just desperate.
My, my mom didn't really knowwhat to do and so, um, we tried.
We went to the doctors, thepediatrician, and they
(11:05):
recommended accutane at the timeit was very new and just got
done, you know, being tested andso that's what I did.
I did that for about a year.
Um, that was not a pleasantexperience, by the way, at all.
That was a very intenseexperience to go through at that
young age, but I will say itdid get rid of the acne, and I'm
(11:26):
very specifically saying getrid of, because it didn't cure
anything.
So that was my journey.
And then I got married andafter my third baby, I had my
first three kids in three years,one right after the other.
And after my third baby wasborn in 2014, I experienced we
(11:52):
had some kind of a lot of thingsjust kind of happened all at
once in our marriage and just inlife.
You know, two students who justgraduated college and newly
married, lots of student debt,all those things and I would say
for me it was.
It was a traumatic experiencefor me and I feel like my body
(12:13):
just kind of, literally it brokeout.
It just, it, just it just wasat its end and I and I had um,
it just all of a sudden it waslike I just had this rash on my
face.
It just got red.
It was like my skin was angry,it it just is hot.
It was itchy, flaky, very, very, very red.
(12:35):
I mean, I would always getcomments, you know, of people
saying, oh, are you okay, likeyou look really flush or really
red, or you know, or you're, isit really hot outside?
Or just you know, just commentslike that, cause I knew it was
very obvious, um, and so I wentfor um, well, almost 10 years
(12:55):
before I finally decided to toaddress the acne itself, um, I
will say that I have been using.
I was exposed to homeopathyshortly after my third baby was
born, about 10 years ago.
Um, I started working with anaturopath, um, for my
depression.
I was going through depression,um, after having my third baby,
(13:15):
and I knew I wanted to do it.
Naturally, I'd never heard ofhomeopathy and I just she just
so happened to be a classicalhomeopath, and so she introduced
me in homeopathy and it.
At first I was not skeptical,just just not sure.
I just didn't know how, howpowerful it could be.
I didn't I wanted at the time Iwas experimenting with and just
(13:39):
learning about herbs and justnatural remedies myself.
My oldest son was experiencingreally bad eczema and so we took
him to see her too and rightaway she got him on some you
know remedies.
I was on remedies and I didn'tsee any differences with myself
at the time.
Um, for, like my hormones andmenstrual cycle and things like
(14:02):
that, I didn't see much of adifference.
But for my son, uh, who waslike a few years old at the time
, I did see I saw homeopathywork right away and that was
just a huge blessing.
I'm really blessed because Iknow what you guys are talking
about.
A lot of people say, oh, itdidn't work, and I understand
now why.
And it's been many years, likeover a decade, since I've used
(14:23):
suppressive drugs, so, and I'veonly used homeopathy as far as I
knew how to use it, and so Ifeel like my body was prepped to
.
I was ready to start workingwith Melissa, like I was ready
and I knew.
I knew that homeopathy was theanswer.
It was the only thing that wasgoing to truly uproot.
I knew I could do naturalcreams and things to soothe my
(14:44):
skin and help heal the skin, buttruly from the inside out.
I knew that homeopathy was itand so I was ready for that.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Love it.
Do you have any anything Brie?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
you want to just
comment on.
Well, I mean, that is reallyencouraging in general.
Some of the things you saidthat we say, I think, all the
time is um, the more you useremedies, you are setting
yourself up for long-term health, and so that is a real thing.
Where you are, your body isused to using, to responding to
(15:19):
remedies and, honestly, to justlike getting better when you're
doing that.
You're, I do think and Melissais a great example, because
you're so far into it that Ilook ahead all the time and I'm
like man, I can't wait till I'm,my kids are grown and I'm'm
gonna take a remedy once andit's gonna be great.
I see a big change though, justin the years we've used it, like
(15:42):
you said, alicia, so that's areally good point that you made.
I am surprised too, that yousaw a naturopath who was a
classical homeopath.
I don't know that I've everheard that and that is not.
I mean, usually they havelimited homeopathy knowledge, so
(16:05):
to see them combine, I wouldlove to pick her brain,
especially doing eczema.
I want to like what did you do?
What other things did you dowith your son?
Well, which we can always talkabout that later, but if she's
still practicing, I would becurious about connecting with
her.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
She is still
practicing.
Um I so uh, when I firststarted working with her, by the
way, did she freeze for you,brie?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
yeah, okay, you're
frozen, alicia, that's okay.
Oh, oh, there you go.
We heard you say, by the way,I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Uh, we, I went on
google.
We were in arizona.
I went on google and typed innatural doctor, arizona and I
got this list and I just lookedat the list and I literally just
said a prayer and said help mepick one.
And she was the first one Ipicked.
She was the first one I reachedout to and she responded and
(17:01):
it's just, I all believe it wasall not coincidence and
definitely God's hand and um, Ilove working with her.
I still I introduced her to mymom and my mom still works with
her to this day.
Um, incredible um story therewith my mom.
Um, because she has been onsteroids and antibiotics every
(17:22):
year.
She has COPD and after workingwith um, her name is Dr Rice.
Uh, we're working with her formany years.
She's finally off of um havingto do all those drugs and she's
using homeopathy and it's it'shealing her after all these
years of struggling.
It's been incredible and so,yeah, I'm still in connection
with her.
(17:42):
We're actually going back toArizona um shortly here and um,
I'm going to be reconnectingwith her and for other family
members and other things.
And um, I love, I love to, asI've learned homeopathy, I've
been able to help my mom.
And then my mom goes andreports back to her and she's
just very like, um, impressedthat you know that.
(18:06):
She's like well, that's areally good runway, that's
working really well.
I'm really, you know, impressed, so I I love picking her brain
too.
I, that's working really well.
I'm really, you know, impressed, so I love picking her brain
too.
I love being able to learn fromher too.
It's been such a huge blessing.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Love it.
You know I also love Bree thatyou pulled out the point that
she's been using homeopathy for10 years.
I think 10 years, right.
So maybe you know that's whyshe had we just started in
August.
You had had some homeopathictreatment in the past for that,
and you've been using homeopathyfor other things like acute
(18:38):
things and stuff, so maybethat's why it was a faster
progression.
So for those of you that arelistening or watching and you've
just started using homeopathy,um, don't be discouraged, it
just it yeah I mean it mighttake a little bit longer than
you know, than what we saw.
What is that?
Eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, one,two.
So like six months, eight, nine, I didn't even count it One,
(19:03):
two.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
It's like six months.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah, Six or seven
months, so that is.
You know, that is kind of fastand we don't usually see it that
fast, but maybe because you'vebeen using homeopathy.
Um yeah, Okay.
So I wanted to know, um, Alicia, what did it it?
Um, I had a question, Bree, doyou have a question?
(19:31):
While I'm trying to, I shouldhave written it down.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Well, I mean I could.
It may be off topic, but whathave you been using topically on
your skin this whole time andwhat do you use?
Did you make changes in there?
Do you wear makeup?
What kind of soap?
You know all the things peopleask and are trying to navigate
with skin.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I'm so glad you asked
that, because I was very
intentional all these years tonot even wear makeup.
I only put very natural thingsI make myself at home, like an
oil with olive oil, jojoba, andI just only put things like that
.
I make a tallow cream that Iput on my face, um, very basic,
(20:15):
that's it, and I only wear.
The only makeup I wear is justa little bit of eye makeup, um,
for special occasions.
But I I deep down, I wanted toheal my skin first before I
decided I wanted makeup.
Um, I never wanted to putmakeup on to try and hide it,
because I just felt like thatwould only exasperate and maybe
make it worse.
I didn't want to mess aroundwith it, um, and I just truly
(20:39):
wanted my skin to look healthyand glowing naturally.
I didn't.
I don't like that feeling ofcovering something up.
I just I just wanted it to benatural.
So, yeah, simple.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
How did you work
through some of the um, the
self-conscious part of it?
And maybe you weren't.
I know some people naturallyare just this is what I look
like and it's fine.
And then we, which is great.
And then there are some peoplewho really struggle with that,
with looking whether it's howthey look or just the fact that
people will comment on it,whether it's how they look or
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just the fact that people willcomment on it.
So what would you, whatencouragement would you give?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
maybe, or I don't
know even if you're empathizing
with what other people aredealing with.
Well, I will be very honest andsay that is something I do
struggle with very, very much,and so that has not been an easy
journey for me.
(21:37):
We don't really do familyphotos.
I don't like this is very, verymuch out of my comfort zone.
Being on camera right now Um,my husband would definitely
attest to that.
I don't, I don't like peopletaking pictures of me or
anything like that.
And so it has been a struggle,but my encouragement is just to
and so it has been a struggle,but my encouragement is just to
is to know that there there'salways, there's always hope, and
I I don't I don't know what Idid to deserve it, but I just
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always knew that homeopathywould be the answer, and I was
just waiting for it when itwould be the right time, the
right season for me to be ableto do this, and it finally was.
And so I just I hung on to thatfor me to be able to do this,
and it finally was.
And so I, just I hung on tothat and, um, I guess I just I
just kept.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I was just patient.
I guess that's it.
Yeah, love it.
Yeah, my thank you for that.
Um and um.
I think that is encouragingbecause you know we want to.
It's easy for me to sit overhere and tell people encouraging
because you know we want to.
It's easy for me to sit overhere and tell people try not to
put anything, you know, on yourface and and um.
But you know, if we reallythink long-term health instead
of short-term gratification I'malways talking about that Then
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there's a reward to that.
There's a reward to the thinklong-term, don't think right now
, because nobody walks away froman encounter with you and and
thinks about oh, I mean how, youknow, nobody thinks about it
more than we do ourselves, right?
So we're the ones that thatcontinue to think about it,
knowing nobody else is.
They're not even rememberingany of that, especially when you
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um, you just have such anamazing spirit and personality,
like you do, alicia, it's justthat shines through more than
you know any.
Look the way you look.
So I remembered my question,the process that you went
through just with me.
Do you remember if it was likeup and down or back and forth,
(23:31):
or was it just straight, gotgood?
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Well, with the
rosacea, specifically the
redness and the itchiness, theskin part, that was very
straightforward.
It was very slow effort and, asyou can see, it's still.
There's still redness.
I still have a way to go, butvery much improvement to the
point where, like my own, familyand and friends were starting
(23:56):
to comment and say, wow, you'relike, you just look so good, you
look so healthy and, and youknow, your face is looking less
red, especially for the ones whoknew that I was, you know,
conscious of it and working onit.
They were specific to say it.
But, yeah, the redness I wouldsay was very linear.
The acne itself is still, um,very much like what you say
sometimes with homeopathy it'slike two steps back, one step
(24:18):
forward.
Um, so that's still.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
That still is
progressing for sure, Um yeah,
thank you for that, brie, canyou do you have anything else,
bree, can you do you?
Speaker 1 (24:33):
have anything else.
Well, I, I guess I would liketo know too, with your hormones
now, are you guys doing hormonestuff too?
Okay, so, both together, um,because I I think that can also
make a difference.
There's always a gut element tothings to skin, but I do think
in women there's a big hormoneelement.
(24:54):
So that's.
I was curious about that.
And then you even have thehistory of the suppression,
which may take some time, butit's also been a long time and
you've used a lot of remedies.
So I mean six, I know for you,you were ready for that.
But there are a lot of peoplewho when I tell them this is
(25:16):
really great improvement andit's quicker, like this, they're
shocked because to them itstill feels long.
They're like this is six monthsof my life that I'm still not
even all the way better either.
So I actually like that we'redoing this interview now where
you're it's not like you're onthe complete other side of this
(25:37):
yet, but to celebrate a huge Imean a huge, um improvement,
huge movement forward, I thinkis really good for people in the
middle of it Like this is stillworth celebrating and
recognizing.
Like keep going, you can do it.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Absolutely.
That's why, yeah, I was soexcited and encouraged at the
last follow-up when she told methat there can I share some of
the stuff that you said.
Is that sure?
Okay, she said.
She said there's up and down.
There are days when redness isnot as red and it used to get
fiery red, used to burn and itchand does not burn or itch
(26:18):
anymore.
No longer peeling.
I know that feels and looksbetter.
Itchy and hot is gone, used tobe the whole face, but no longer
dry.
It's smooth.
That's wonderful.
Acne on back, chest, neck andscalp is also much better.
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It used to be a bunch of redbumps, but now it's random and
then um, so we're also looking.
So skin in general, we're alsoworking on um hands that are
worse in the winter and thatcomes and goes, and so as we
work on the gut and hormonehealth, you know we're looking
for those things to get to getbetter also.
But also remember everyone thatyou, with homeopathy, you heal
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from the top down.
So you know face and thingsthat are clear before, maybe
before hands get better.
But do you have anything else,bree?
Do you have anything else forAlicia?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah, I did have
other questions.
I think one other one Did youvery often will tell people you
might see improvement in otherthings that we were not
necessarily even focusing onbefore you see improvement in
the symptoms, especially skin.
Did you see any of that like?
Were there any other changesthat you were surprised by or
(27:42):
that you didn't expect beforeyou saw the skin change?
Speaker 3 (27:47):
um, I'm trying to you
know what they're?
No, nothing, nothing thatsurprises me, and and I've I if
I, probably, if I look at mynotes, I might see something
there, but nothing, nothingreally surprised me.
Like I said, I'm very familiarwith homeopathy um, yeah, I
(28:08):
guess, but I will say that I dohave some things I'm still
working on that.
I have much hope for that.
I'm still like I knowhomeopathy is going to be
answered and I'm just lookingforward to when those do get
resolved For sure.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
That's awesome.
Thank you so much, yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Alicia, is there
anything else, any other
encouragement that you want toshare with people?
Because that really is thepoint.
This is not.
You know, we're not doing thisto toot our horn and say look at
us and come work with usbecause we're so wonderful, but
really it is.
You know.
We want you to be encouragedthat homeopathy does correct
issues on a deep level and itcan be slow.
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So do you have anything elseyou want to say to people?
Speaker 3 (28:51):
I don't want to put
you on the spot, but just in
case you do, I will say I feellike sometimes I'm a missionary
for God first, but second ishomeopathy.
I really feel like that and I'mvery passionate about it and I
love to encourage other peopleabout it.
And I think the thing I like toto focus on is not so much fear
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of the alternative, it's hopefor um to not lose your vision,
to just get that vision back andknow where true healing comes
from.
Because when you have that,that understanding and
appreciation for that, then youcan better grasp um what the
process is.
The process is and why you'redoing, why you're doing what
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you're doing.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Love it.
That's part of I teach thatoften also know your why, write
down your why, and so then whenyou get discouraged, you go back
and look at your why.
I love it.
Yeah, Love it.
All right.
Thank you so much for beinghere and we will see you guys
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next time.
Thanks for being here.