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welcome everyone Adam the woo here
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coming to you from underneath the sign
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cane Island
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shops not Michael Kane and not sugar
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cane but rest assured there's plenty of
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cane in the form of Island shops to go
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around it's my second channel daily blog
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channel it's the daily woo on a Friday
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happy Friday TGF thank goodness it's
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Friday oh my gosh only 6 days is it 6
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days until Christmas until the wonderful
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morning I can't even talk I cannot even
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formulate the words out of the
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excitement of the holiday season that is
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upon us and it's 6 days is it 6 days
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today's the 19th 25th 25 - 19 is 6 less
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than a week from now the Joy of my
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childhood style heart your children in
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real life or yourself who has a
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childlike desire and joy and love of
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Santa Claus coming down the chimney
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eating your cookies leaving presents
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under the Christmas tree that all
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happens within a week that is absolutely
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fantastic I am out actually doing
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Christmas shopping
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and I've
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always wanted to check this out and
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actually vicariously bring this location
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to your attention the cane Island shops
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you can actually see right here where
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the bottom part of the sign has fallen
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down we're on Highway
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192 Highway 192 is right here St Cloud
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Florida is that way about 15 minutes 10
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miles or so Disney World Is Right on the
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horizon over there
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a lot of fantastic roadside wacky things
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down Highway 192 I've done a lot of
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videos from Highway 192 because this is
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a Mecca of goodness currently a Mecca of
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goodness but also a Mecca of goodness a
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circle of goodness if you will a former
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roadside attractions abandoned wacky
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places including right over there is the
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wizard look at him he's holding a
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scepter across the road that place is
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not abandoned it's actually a gift shop
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a fantastic gift shop that you can get
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Disney paraphernalia Universal Studios
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SeaWorld all kind of other Central
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Florida esque type Goods down the gift
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shops up and down 192 there's lots of
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gift shops and a lot of things that
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business owners created thinking that
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would be very popular and
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very profitable for their wallets but a
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lot of those business owners aot a lot
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of those entrepreneurs perers preneurs
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entra manur and PS entra
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maners that's a guy who has a dung load
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a crapload if you will of cash an entra
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manure I think I just made up a new word
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an entra manure a lot of those people
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were wrong in their assessment of what
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would be popular in Central Florida
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especially on Highway 1 92 near the
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theme parks and one of those places that
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I'm going to show you right now is a
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completely
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abandoned
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decaying urban area of the past in the
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form of
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shun this shopping center right here the
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cane Island shops there is not one
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single business one
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Iota you know what that means I only
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have one iota there's not one iota of
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business I don't think I'm using that
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terminology correct but there is not one
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business in this string of about 30
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storefronts here at the cane Island
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shops that I have ever actually seen
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being used being rented out being leased
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being owned and this has been here for
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over a decade I'm going to say probably
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about 10 to 15 years this has actually
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been here sitting here col collecting
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dust from the heavens normally dust only
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Falls inside but this has been here so
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long let's just take it upon ourselves
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to say that this shopping center is
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collecting lots and lots of dust I'm
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actually around the CMI St Cloud area
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today finishing up my Christmas shopping
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to give gifts to the people in my life
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family my aunt and uncle will be coming
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down here on Monday or Tuesday spending
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the holiday week I will be leaving on a
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road trip a couple days after Christmas
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I will announce the specifics of that
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coming up soon so I'm around finishing
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up my Christmas shoppings that I can add
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my presents that I'm giving to people on
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top of Santa's presents that he's
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bringing hopefully for me I've been I've
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been a good boy Santa so hopefully you
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bring me something very awesome
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underneath the little Christmas tree at
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my parents house cuz that's where I will
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be on Christmas morning awaiting to see
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what you have brought me so I'm going to
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add my presents for my loved ones and
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then Santa's presents for the loved ones
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we're going to have so much joy on
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Christmas day so I'm trying to fulfill
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and complete that era of my
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responsibilities and my joy and
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excitement to give to others on
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Christmas Day I'm finishing up my
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Christmas shopping today but I wanted to
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stop by and show you this we just have
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like a moment of quietness now I'm
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rambling quite a bit
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take you inside
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here and show you well actually I'm not
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going to get inside but I'll take you up
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onto the
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porch we'll walk around and check out
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this wonderful thing moment of quietness
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starts right now
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pretty crazy to think that someone was
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at one time was actually sitting here at
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a picnic table why would there be a
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picnic table here when this place has
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actually never been open you can see
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this gentleman walking by out on on his
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morning walk there are hotels there are
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Resorts there are time shares on the
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back side of this building and of course
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up and down the highway right here in
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CMI
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Florida they actually have some sort of
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riding here
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15.20 time 48.6 I'm guessing that's the
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dimensions of the building
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inside it's crazy cuz this place has
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been here sitting it's not really
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rotting away I did say it was rotting
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away but it's really not it's actually
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in pretty good shape the fact that no
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one has actually existed here for so
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long it's actually still in pretty good
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shape what leads me to this question why
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on Earth does a place like this sit
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completely empty something of this
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magnetude in a prime real estate area
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you can see there's plenty of traffic
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thousands and thousands and thousands if
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not tens of thousands of thousands of
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cars that drive by here every single day
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in fact they actually have a no
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trespassing sign here if you were to go
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past this glass you would technically be
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trespassing but you see there are people
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walking around there's the gentleman
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walking around people pull in here all
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the time A lot of times when I drive by
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here I'll see people just hanging out up
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here hanging out on the curbs people
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parking their bikes that are riding up
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and down 192 pull in here just to get
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away from the Rigo of
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all the funing goodness of
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192 I don't really even know what that
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even means which also leads me to
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another interesting point I said this
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has actually never been occupied but it
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actually looks
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like this particular segment at one time
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that almost feels like wet paint it's
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not wet but it feels kind of stick like
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it was actually at one
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point more recently than a decade ago
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actually has been painted and if you
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look inside
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here looks like there was some sort of a
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juice bar or a restaurant you can see
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the
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signage you can see the signage right up
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there the menu if you will
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so I guess this one was actually rented
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out someone took it upon themselves to
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open a business here it obviously did
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not have enough clientele enough people
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stopping by to buy stuff from the menu
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to keep this place open but at least
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someone try look at
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this there was actually a second
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restaurant restaurant there and a
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restaurant here two different ones look
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at
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this so I was incorrect when I said that
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no one has ever been in here I am in
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Florida usually about 2 to 3 months a
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year the rest of time I'm traveling
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around so sometime in those 9 months
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that I was not in Florida the last year
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or so someone opened up a restaurant and
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a little diner and then it closed down
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since the last time I was here didn't
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realize that someone has actually tried
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to
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rejuvenate this shopping center but as
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you can see now there's no juvenation
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going on the juvenation has has been
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halted and stopped for now do you think
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at any point that this place might be
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thriving
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again what is the secret what is the
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answer in your opinion on how to
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rejuvenate and start back up Kickstart
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something like this Kickstart local
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economy in a tourist a heavily touristy
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area that only focuses on certain areas
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of the specific area it's very
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interesting because there's so many
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people in Central Florida so many people
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near the theme
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parks why are certain areas like this
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empty declining in fact almost a zombie
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ghost town why does something like this
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exist I know I do a lot of videos on
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abandoned locations a lot of
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former parts and momentos from my past
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and your
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past why do all those other things exist
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but specifically
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why do something like a shopping center
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like this sit here empty and
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abandoned an abandoned restaurant right
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over
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here it's pretty interesting I'm very
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fascinated with history in the past but
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not all history is documented not all
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history you can read in the history
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books or read online a lot of history
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like this is history that a lot of
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people don't even think think about they
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don't even comprehend that there is a
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backstory a personal history a personal
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ontouch in someone's life someone had a
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dream a vision to create
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this not only to make an accomplishment
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in their life but to hopefully survive
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as a business or a money making
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opportunity some people's Vision succeed
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and some people's Vision fail history is
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good for some history is good for bad
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but no matter what history always exists
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no matter what you look at this slab of
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concrete has some sort of a history
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someone created that someone worked on
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that someone got paid to put down that
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Concrete in the form of that curb these
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trees have a history all this has a
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history just like CMI Florida Highway
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192 has a history I have a history with
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you and you have a history with me we
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are developing memories and his trees
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together not only on this channel the
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daily woo but also on my main channel
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the Adam the woo Channel and I'm very
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excited that you guys join me almost
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every day if not every day to create
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history and memories with me I'm
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rambling a lot today but look at this
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I wonder if anyone's ever called that
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number 888 580
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ASAP ASAP which means as soon as
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possible now see I'm recording on my
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phone if I wasn't recording on my phone
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I would call that number and say there's
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a guy walking around talking about
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history incoherently
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rambling about weird things but I can't
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do that because because let's face it
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it's very difficult to make a phone call
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and film a vlog at the same time in fact
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I actually turned my phone on airplane
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mode I slide it over to airplane mode
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that way nobody can text me or call me
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while I'm filming these Vlogs cuz I
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don't want them to interrupt our time
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together you and I vicariously speaking
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communicating I'm talking you're
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listening hopefully you're talking to
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the screen talking to me and I'm
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listening what's that huh huh that's a
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good that's a very valid point I'm going
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to let you guys go I have to complete
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some Christmas shopping very excited 6
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days until
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Christmas oh by the way yesterday I was
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on radio program in Orlando the monsters
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in the morning I talked about it in the
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Vlog yesterday took a nice little nap
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yesterday afternoon as well which I
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mentioned in the Vlog if you want to
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listen to my appearance on monsters in
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the morning which is actually
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one of the highest rated radio stations
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in Florida the monsters of the morning I
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think it's the number one morning radio
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show in Florida very popular show and if
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you actually listened to that and heard
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about me through that then welcome to my
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channel if you want to hear that
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interview if you're not familiar with
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them or not familiar with that interview
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I've actually posted the link over on my
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Facebook page I went over to SoundCloud
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and I uploaded the entire interview it's
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about 18 minutes of me on the mon moners
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in the morning you can find that link
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over on Facebook or just type in Adam
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the woo SoundCloud and you can see some
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of the other radio interviews I've done
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as well as the monsters in the morning
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and I also posted the link from when I
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did the podcast the other night from
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real ghost stories.com I have posted
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that link on my Facebook as well or you
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can just on YouTube Type in Adam the woo
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real ghost stories and it should pop up
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on there a lot of podcast content a lot
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of radio interviews doing a plethora of
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things before next week's relaxing
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wonderful Christmas week with family my
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aunt and uncle are coming down Mom and
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Dad doing the whole Christmas thing and
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then I will be announcing in a couple
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days where I'm going to be going my
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travels to other parts of the US 2015 is
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going to be an intense year for me as
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far as traveling I have a lot plannned a
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lot lot of abandoned places to film but
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more than that a lot of movie locations
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if you're a fan of my movie location
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videos a lot of 80s stuff I'm going to
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be stepping it up not one notch not two
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notches but I'm going to step it up
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about two and a half notches next year
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on the movie locations I'm going to do
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an insane amount of movie location
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comparison shots for my Adam the woo
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Channel as well as aand of stuff theme
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parks wacky roadside attractions and
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maybe some other new fangle goodness to
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mix in not only for these Vlogs the
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daily woo but as well as Adam the
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woo all right that's about it I'm going
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to let you guys go thanks for joining me
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today on this 18-minute segment here at
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this awesome Place cane Island
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shops I know I mentioned this before but
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do you guys do you guys like the shorter
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Vlogs or the longer Vlogs how long is
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your attention span when it comes to me
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rambling about stuff 2 minutes 3 minutes
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4 minutes 5 minutes or 18 and 1 12
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minutes which is where we are at
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now I'm curious but I'll see you guys
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later hope you guys are having a great
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day let me remind you of this I love you
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guys I love that you're in my world I
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love that you watch these videos whether
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it's five people whether it's 500 people
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whether it's 5,000 people it does not
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matter no matter what the number is I
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sincerely appreciate the fact that you
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guys take time out of your day take time
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out of your life to join into my life
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this means a lot to me I know I ramble a
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lot I get a little goofy at times
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sometimes I try to tone it down
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sometimes I get overly excited when
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you're speaking to the masses whatever
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the mass number might be it's a very
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awkward thing sometimes to portray your
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true inner feelings and your true inner
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thoughts but just know that I really
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appreciate everything that you guys do
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for me I know a lot of people say we
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appreciate what you do Adam but I
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appreciate you as much as you appreciate
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me so never ever forget that I'll see
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you guys tomorrow goodbye