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Hello, everyone.

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Welcome to EnglishPod.

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Today I'm here with Erika.

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Hi, Marco.

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And I'm Marco.

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And we're bringing you a great elementary lesson about a situation at an office.

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That's true.

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Today we're going to learn some phrases for asking for time off.

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Right.

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Asking for time off.

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Or asking for leave.

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Asking for leave.

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Right.

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Right.

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So we're going to give you some great phrases and vocabulary for when you want to ask for

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leave.

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So let's just listen to our dialogue today.

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We're at an office where Liv wants some time off.

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Mr. McKenna, do you have a second?

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I need to talk to you about something.

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Sure.

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Liv, what can I do for you?

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Well, I was just wondering.

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You see, I know I've used up all my vacation days this year, but my sister's getting married

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and the wedding is overseas and, well...

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You want to take some time off.

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Is that right?

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Well, sir, I was just hoping I might be able to take some unpaid leave this year.

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What dates are you planning on taking off?

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I'll need at least two months' notice so that I can plan for your absence.

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I was thinking of taking off from September 1st until the 30th.

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Would you be okay with that?

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Well, I guess so.

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Well, it sounds like the boss wasn't too happy about Liv's request.

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Well, she wanted to take off for 30 days, so...

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I guess that is a long time.

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That is a long time.

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I wish I could do that.

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Yeah.

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Okay, we have some great words for you today, so let's start with our language takeaway.

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Language takeaway.

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Four words on our language takeaway today.

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Erika, why don't you tell us the first one?

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The first word is vacation days.

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Vacation days.

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Vacation days.

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So what are vacation days?

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Basically, it's the number of personal leave days.

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So the number of days that you can take to go on vacation.

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How many vacation days do you have?

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Yeah, I think I have not so many.

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I only have 10 vacation days.

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10 vacation...

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Well, in some countries, 10 vacation days is normal.

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In another, I guess it's 10, 15, even 20, I've heard.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Well...

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Vacation days.

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We can't take too many vacation days or else we won't make any more podcasts.

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Why don't we look at our second word?

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Overseas.

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Overseas.

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Overseas.

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When you travel overseas, you travel over the ocean.

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Over the ocean to another country.

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Exactly.

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Okay, overseas.

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Okay, and our third word for language takeaway, unpaid leave.

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Unpaid leave.

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Unpaid leave.

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So this is time off without pay.

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Without pay.

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Simple.

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Right.

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Unpaid leave.

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And our last word, notice.

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Notice.

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Notice.

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Notice.

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So we have some great examples on how we use notice and from these examples, I'm sure

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you'll be able to understand exactly what they mean.

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Example one.

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If you want to quit your job, make sure you give enough notice.

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You'll need to tell us four weeks in advance.

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Example two.

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You didn't give me enough notice about this project.

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I didn't have enough time to finish it.

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So when you give someone notice, you give them information in advance.

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In advance, right.

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So if I want to take time off, I need to give my boss notice, advance information.

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Right, 15 day notice or a 20 day notice, etc.

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Great, so that's our language takeaway for today.

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Now we are ready to listen to our dialogue a second time and this time it's going to

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be really slow.

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Mr. McKenna, do you have a second?

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I need to talk to you about something.

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Sure, Liv, what can I do for you?

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Well, I was just wondering, you see, I know I've used up all my vacation days this year,

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but my sister is getting married and the wedding is overseas and well...

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You want to take some time off, is that right?

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Well, sir, I was just hoping that I might be able to take some unpaid leave this year.

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What dates are you planning on taking off?

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I'll need at least two months notice so that I can plan for your absence.

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I was thinking of taking off from September 1st until the 30th, would you be okay with

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that?

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I guess so.

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A lot of non-native English speakers sometimes feel quite nervous about asking their boss

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for time off, hey?

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Yeah, I guess it's a kind of a difficult subject.

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Yeah, but today we're going to teach you some great phrases that you can use next time you

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need to ask for some time off.

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Great, so why don't we take a look at putting it together?

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Putting it together.

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Okay, so on putting it together today, we're going to talk about some great phrases that

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you can use when approaching your boss.

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Yes, we heard Liv say this.

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Do you have a second?

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Do you have a second?

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This is a nice way to make sure your boss isn't busy when you want to ask him something.

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Right, right, right, but we could also say this in two different ways.

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Let's listen.

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Do you have a minute?

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I want to ask you something.

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Do you have a sec?

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I need to talk to you.

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A great way to approach your boss.

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Yeah, I love this phrase, do you have a sec?

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Yeah, do you have a sec?

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It's really natural.

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Okay, so you've asked your boss for leave and you want to make sure that he agrees with

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you.

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Yes, and this is how Liv did it.

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Would you be okay with that?

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Would you be okay with that?

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This is a great pattern, and we've got two other examples of how you can use it.

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Example one.

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Are you alright with that?

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Example two.

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Will you be okay with this?

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Example three.

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I'm fine with that.

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Okay, great examples, great patterns, really useful language.

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Yes.

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Okay, so now let's listen to our dialogue a third time.

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Mr. McKenna, do you have a second?

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I need to talk to you about something.

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Sure, Liv, what can I do for you?

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Well, I was just wondering, you see, I know I've used up all my vacation days this year,

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but my sister's getting married and the wedding is over season, well...

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You want to take some time off, is that right?

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Well, sir, I was just hoping I might be able to take some unpaid leave this year.

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What dates are you planning on taking off?

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I'll need at least two months' notice so that I can plan for your absence.

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I was thinking of taking off from September 1st until the 30th.

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Would you be okay with that?

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Well, I guess so.

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I really noticed how Liv in this dialogue used a lot of really polite language, hey?

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Yeah, I guess when you're talking to your boss, you really have to be respectful and

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you have to use really polite language.

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What sort of things did she do to make herself seem more polite?

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Well, she said a couple of interesting phrases, for example, well, I was just wondering.

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Yeah, I was just wondering.

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Right, it's like, well, she's kind of setting up to ask for a favor or something.

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And she also used another phrase that I thought was interesting.

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Yeah, she also said, I was just hoping that.

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Yes.

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Right, I was just hoping that maybe I could take some time off.

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Yeah, again, that sort of doesn't sound too strong, so it seems a bit more polite.

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Yeah, because if she said, well, I want to take some time off, that's too strong.

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Yeah, so I was just hoping.

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And then, well, the boss says, okay, well, when do you want to leave?

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And she says, well, I was thinking of, right?

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I was thinking of.

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Yeah.

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Again, if she would have said, I want to.

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Yes.

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Too strong, right?

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Yeah.

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In English, sometimes we are careful to not be too direct when we're asking for something,

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right?

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Right, yeah.

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Because if you're too direct, you sound a little bit impolite.

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Yeah, you sound rude.

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Yeah.

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Okay, so great tips and great things to take into consideration the next time you're talking

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into your boss.

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All right, guys, we're out of time, but thanks for listening and be sure to check out our

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website EnglishPod.com.

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Right, where you can leave all your questions and comments and we'll be there to answer

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them.

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But I guess until then, it's goodbye.

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Bye.