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hi

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james from england

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stranger tractors

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this book is slightly

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different than what i would normally

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read

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some people might say it's much

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different than what you probably read so

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what are we going to talk about today

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we're going to talk about comparatives

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but not comparative um that you're used

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to doing which is

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more than or er yeah you know when you

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say this is more than i thought it would

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be comparing it to two things or with er

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this is bigger or this is smaller right

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let's say when you add the er to small

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words and then the more than you know

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for other things so what are we doing

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i'd like to talk about the degrees of

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comparatives because not everything is

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more than

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or bigger than because you don't really

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have an idea of what the difference is

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so why don't we look at

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things to modify so we're going to do

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comparatives but we're going to look at

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degrees of comparatives how we can use a

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couple of words to give more of an idea

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of

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how big and how small ready let's go

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so let's start off with the big one

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because big is positive let's go there

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now if you have something is big and you

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say

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this is he is bigger than or this is

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more expensive than

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then i'm going to say well well how much

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now if i use the word a lot

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then i know it's by a lot by comparison

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so over here this means a lot it means

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another one like much

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he is a lot bigger than his brother so

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if his brother is

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this tall

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then he would be that tall that's

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a lot bigger okay

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another one we can look at is

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far

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now far as you know from distance

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when you say far it's a long way away so

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this one's easy to remember

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because all you have to think of is far

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is long far is

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a lot more or much more so we have it

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here so i'll put by far so we can put

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it's a lot

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or it's

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much

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to a greater disagree so greater

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difference okay now how do we use it up

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here

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when i said a lot

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you put a lot then the comparative so

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sorry

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make it easier to see

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a lot

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right

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i am

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you know what

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i think it's the drugs slowed me down my

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brain's slow too

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ah

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a lot

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right and then we put the comparative

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bigger

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i am a lot bigger than i used to be this

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belly is fat

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christmas time eating food

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okay so i am a lot bigger a lot than the

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comparative okay you don't say bigger a

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lot it doesn't make any sense in english

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so it's easy if you want to say there's

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a big difference you put

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a lot before the comparative

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and then someone knows there's much of a

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difference a big difference now how

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about

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far

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okay well far as i said also means a lot

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because it's a big distance and when we

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look here a lot or much we can say

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in this case

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far more

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and then we put

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the adjective

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he is far more happy and we're happier

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he's far happier we're going far more

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here and down here we put the

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comparative by far he is larger by far

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so in this case how we have comparative

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it's very similar right so

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he

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is and then we'd say

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happier there's your comparative

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similar right let's say almost reverse

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here beginning

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here and

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you get the picture you can see it

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all right so the order here is

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comparative then by the far well up here

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we have a lot then the comparative

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cool all right now this one you'll

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notice we have adjectives that we add to

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it a little different so let's look over

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here

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we said bigger okay we've done bigger

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we've done a lot how do we do

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smaller smaller how do we do smaller

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well what we're going to do by going

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smaller is we're going to use a little

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and slightly

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okay so what do they mean

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what do they mean yeah

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let's get over here

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okay

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well we're going to take a little okay

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we got this here

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get out of your way so you can see so a

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little

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now little means literally little

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difference so we're going to say a

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little and then we put the comparative

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at the end so you would say

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the wine

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little oops once again i want to show

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you so i'm going to use a different

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color okay the wine is

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and then

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little now i'm almost out of room so i'm

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going to just go underneath okay a

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see that we have a little and then we

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have more expensive so we actually use

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our degree at the beginning and then we

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our comparative okay now let's work with

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slightly

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that sentence so that word is slightly

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watch carefully

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slightly means a little right we said

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slightly means a little

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you need an l

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so it was slightly

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wrong okay okay so now you know slightly

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means a little why don't we look at the

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sentence all right so slightly what's a

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good example

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well this isn't exactly right because

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there's a really there's a lot

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of difference here right he's a lot

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bigger than this one but let's just

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pretend for a second that slide the

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snake

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or silver snake as for sylvester is just

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a little smaller we might say

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and we'll use the word now

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okay so we look at it we've used four

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different things to change not just to

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say something is bigger something is

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smaller but to give degrees of how much

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bigger

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how much smaller cool huh just a couple

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of words and you can improve your

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english greatly so a quick review

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when we say a lot we mean there is much

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of a difference right a lot when we say

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far there are two things for far

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remember this we have

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far more which means greater than and

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then by far and if you just remember

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that far means a big distance

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easy to remember right now let's go over

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here when we want to talk about small

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we say a little which is obvious a

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little means if you speak spanish or

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poco right

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hungarian

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very cute um anything else no no other

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languages but just a little but we put

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it before the comparative a little

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happier a little bigger

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small and slightly

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also the same thing and don't make my

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mistake

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make sure you put an l y to show it's an

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adverb right slightly smaller right

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slightly smaller so

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thank you very much for coming you have

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been

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at what www.ing

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as in english vid

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as in video dot com

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studying comparatives and i don't think

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you'll find anything a lot better than

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us

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i think by far you should be happy with

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the work you've learned in fact you

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might feel a little more confident with

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your english

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and slightly more attractive to the

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ladies

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yeah i'm going now sorry

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ingrid www.com

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bye

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you