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Yeah, that's real.

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It's so funny because I forgot
all about most of that stuff.

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I mean like, I remembered
the stuff that mattered.

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Like I remember meeting you, and
I remember seeing you actually

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in line at that like taco spot.

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And you had a mean
tattoo, and I'd

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been thinking about
getting a tattoo.

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And I was like, I should
say something to dude.

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And I was like, I'm
not about to start

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talking to strange white men
in taco joints about tattoos.

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And so it blew my
mind when like,

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literally, this was
right before lunch,

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because we met first at lunch.

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And it blew my mind when just
like, a short time later,

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you walked in and sat down.

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I was like, man, I think I
just saw-- let me see your arm.

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And that's cool because--

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It was that tattoo, right there.

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Yeah, and since then,
I got a huge joint

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on my back, that took
like 26 hours to get.

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And I got one on my arm that
took another nine hours.

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And so yeah, I mean, I
think it's a pleasure.

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But one of the things
you highlighted

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is that the commitment to
this work and a commitment

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to each other has very
little to do, I think,

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with being thanked.

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We make the decisions
that we make

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in a moment to encourage
each other, and it was easy.

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I mean, you were a good
writer before you went in,

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and you were a good
writer while you went in,

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and they were supposed
to accept you.

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But the trick of it
all is a lot of times,

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we don't know that
MacDowell exists.

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So I'm glad that you applied,
I'm glad that you got in.

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And I had very little
to do with it for real,

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besides pushing you to apply.

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So that's great.