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She’s sorry if she seems out of it, she just got back, she was gone. Gone to New York, her son passed away, it was his birthday and she and her daughter went, see here are the photos, this is his gravestone, it was his birthday, she went to New York. They went, here’s her daughter, see, and her other two sons and the little one in the right-hand corner, that’s her son who passed. It was his birthday and they went. She went and now she’s back, scanning disinfectant wipes, bug spray, and a bottle of generic pain relief.

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