Shadowing Practice: The Two Biggest Lies in HISTORY - Learn English Speaking with Video
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There are two massive lies that are destroying people's psychology like acid without them even knowing it.
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And when you hear these, your brain is going to connect a thousand dots to maybe some weird feelings that you've had throughout your life.
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Your doctors and teachers, the media, social media, marketing, your friends, and even your coaches lied to you.
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But the sad part is they probably didn't know that they were doing it because they were lied to as well.
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This first lie I'm showing you here is already in almost every aspect of your life.
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And it's so hidden that there's not even a name for it.
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And I'd like to introduce you to this new concept that I'm officially naming cause blindness.
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So let me define what this is in real terms.
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Cause blindness occurs when a group or a person focuses heavily on some symptoms while they just ignore the cause completely.
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In the pursuit of a goal, people will tend to desire the symptoms of the achievement instead of the cause of those symptoms.
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So let me give you an example.
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Cause blindness is easy to see in people who desire wealth.
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These people might focus on the symptoms of wealth, like a Lamborghini or a giant house or even some expensive yacht.
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The cause of that wealth is almost out of focus entirely.
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The cause would be things like 30,000 hours of work
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and sleepless nights invested in personal growth and pitfalls and failures that lead to the discovery of a person's wealth.
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These deep personal sacrifices that were made and diligent, tireless hours spent obsessing and researching maybe a particular field.
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Another glaringly obvious example is just take a look at how
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many sales techniques are out there versus how many courses are out there actually teaching you how to make quality products.
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Yeah, pretty awful.
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So let's say someone wants to be more confident, for example.
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They might focus on the behaviors of competent people.
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They'll spend tons of hours studying speech patterns and movements and behaviors and all of these little things that confident people do.
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Then eventually someone will write a book about all these details, this full-blown reference volume of all of the symptoms of confidence.
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The belief is that if somebody could just get the symptoms all lined up in place,
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they're going to feel confident and then they're going to achieve their goals.
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This is kind of like someone telling you that taking duct tape
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and taping an orange to a bunch of random trees will make them all orange trees.
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Not really a good plan.
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Those oranges are symptoms of being an orange tree.
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So those behaviors of confident people are symptoms of a cause.
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They've spent their lives differently than other people.
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Their internal belief systems are radically different from people without confidence.
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They aren't moving their body or speaking a certain way because they read a list of how to do it, their behavior is a result of causes,
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not forcing a whole bunch of symptoms.
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So to sum this part up, their behavior is a product, a byproduct of confidence, not the other way around.
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The problems that a society as a whole faces are a byproduct of some cause.
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And these root causes are never discussed.
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So whether it's a deliberate effort to ignore the real sources of the issues,
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or maybe people in government grew up with the same belief systems that we developed just to focus on symptoms, we might never know.
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But almost every problem we are facing as a nation
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or any society are likely a result of a lifetime indoctrination into focusing on symptoms and ignoring causes.
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If you're sitting down to write out your personal goals, focus on the causes that will make your goal a byproduct, a symptom.
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So instead of setting goals this year, think in terms of byproducts.
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So what are the byproducts I want to happen in my life?
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And once you've got a list of byproducts that you'd like to have, determine the causes that you need to make them all happen automatically.
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When you see social issues or the news or politicians are getting you to focus on a new issue or a threat, remember that they're pointing to symptoms,
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and they probably don't want you looking too closely at what those symptoms are actually a byproduct of.
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So let's talk about the second enormous lie that you have been injected with.
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The public, which includes you, has been trained to either confuse or ignore the difference between pleasure and happiness.
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Our culture is wired to seek out pleasure while thinking that we're seeking out happiness.
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So we desire happiness, but we're seeking out pleasure on accident.
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were bombarded from such a young age, just like the people who taught us were by marketing
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and ads and television and media telling us that there's no difference between pleasure and happiness.
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And this blurring of lines was a deliberate and calculated effort to sell products and create a consumer culture.
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There was even a comedian, Daniel Tosh, and I saw this just a few months ago,
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who spoke about this exact issue without knowing that he had also been manipulated.
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Check this out.
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Don't you love that one?
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Money doesn't buy happiness.
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Do you live in America?
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Because it buys a wave runner.
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You ever seen a sad person on a wave runner? Have you?
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So let's really dissect the difference between pleasure and happiness here.
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Pleasure is a momentary surge in dopamine that goes away.
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We then continue to seek more of it.
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So pleasure is experienced through one of the five senses, social media, drugs, a warm blanket on a cold day, a cocktail on a beach,
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buying a new car or a new purse.
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These are experiences that cause pleasure.
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Happiness does not depend on the five senses.
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It's an internal state of enjoyment and calm.
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Stuff that you experience might create an environment that could lead to happiness, but happiness does not depend on those things.
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Happiness is an attitude and a habit.
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Pleasure is a momentary surge.
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Another masterful explanation of this was from Dr. Jordan Peterson.
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And he shows us how hardwired a lot of us are to confuse these two things.
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And he did this on a Joe Rogan podcast.
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Check this one out.
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I talked to one of the people that I was working with who had a vision for retirement.
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I said, well, what's your vision for retirement?
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Well, I see myself in the beach, you know, some tropical country drinking margaritas, and I thought, first, that's not a plan.
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That's a travel poster.
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It's like, okay, let's walk through this.
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All right, so you go down to this tropical country, and you go sit on the beach, and you have a margarita.
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It's like, okay, well, how many margaritas?
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Like ten?
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Okay, so you're gonna do that, we're gonna do that for six months?
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You'll be dead.
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Yeah, well, you'll be this like pathetic, sunburned, like, fat.
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Yeah, unhappy, hungover, You're psorotic.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It's like that's your vision.
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So how long can you have a margarita on a beach?
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Like maybe you can do that once every six months for like 10 minutes, something like that.
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It's not a vision.
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So for a moment, just consider how experts deal with solving critical issues like addiction or eating disorders, diet problems, exercise routines.
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Why do they all fail so frequently?
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It has to do with a chemical in your brain.
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It's a neurotransmitter called dopamine.
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And dopamine is a chemical messenger and it even acts as a hormone sometimes.
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It does a ton of stuff in your body, but it's heavily involved in drive, motivation, and pleasure.
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So the experts fail to recognize this critical role of dopamine and what it does for our lives.
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instead of remapping the brain's dopamine circuits, they tend towards asking patients to follow a new routine or to adopt some new habits.
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And their habits, like eating bad food or smoking, are rooted in dopamine.
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There's a learned dopamine pattern in place that must change before anything else can occur.
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This is non-negotiable.
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Okay, so let me tell you why this has the potential to ruin your life or completely change it.
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This part of the brain right here is called the reticular activating system or the reticular formation.
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So when you're shopping online for a brand new car, you're browsing around the internet, you're looking at hundreds and hundreds of photos of this car,
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you're really dissecting all the little details about it.
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Your brain thinks the car is really important.
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Then you buy the new car.
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Then you start driving this new car and you're seeing it all over the place.
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You did not use language or anything to tell your brain that that was important.
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It saw that you thought it was important so it started searching the world for it.
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It's not like a whole bunch of people went out and bought the same car as you.
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As cool as you are, that's not how that worked.
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So you pay a lot of attention to something.
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Your RAS figures out this particular activating system, how to get more of it and how to find more of it.
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So the RAS, the RAS, needs to be retrained, but the experts are focusing on the wrong part of the brain to change human behavior.
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So diet routines fail all the time and they fail
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so frequently because they completely ignore the methods to change them in real life.
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So first the brain's reticular formation, this RAS that we just talked about a second ago, prioritizes different behavior than the new diet.
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It's prioritizing the stuff that the person used to do.
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If we do things all the time, the brain memorizes patterns, which we call habits sometimes.
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So you have a competition between an idea and a habit.
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An idea lives in the top part of the brain, a habit is a little further down.
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Sometimes people call this the mammalian brain or reptilian brain.
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These parts do not deal with the same things that we do up here as humans.
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These lower parts of the brains deal in emotions, impulses, and reactions.
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So this part of our brain can't speak English at all.
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It has no capability for language.
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So we can't rewire it using English.
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This is doomed to fail from the moment that it begins.
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We have to use the FATE model to control
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and rewire the lower parts of our brain and to change any behavioral pattern that we want.
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If you're not familiar with the FATE model, I did an entire video on this
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that you can check out in description down below
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but essentially it's an acronym for what the lower parts of our brain are hardwired to respond automatically to
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and these are focus authority tribe and emotion fate
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here's what all this actually means the lower you go in
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the brain the more likely you are to change behavior
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so this is the hierarchy of influence from top to bottom
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this shows exactly what is the least important down to the
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most important thing to change the automatic response behavior of human beings.
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Doctors, coaches, and lawyers persuading a jury tend to focus on this least important part here
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which is the top of the pyramid.
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Essentially they all make the same mistake that amateurs do and here's the mistake that they make.
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Trying to use psychology to change physiology.
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Your habits are physiology.
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Don't think in terms of psychology.
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Your habits are physiological changes in the brain's networks.
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So changing behavior might begin with modifying some thoughts and desires and ideas,
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but it's not going to produce anything real in the long run.
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So change your habits with the lower parts of the brain.
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You can do this.
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Think in terms of physiology and repetition and you'll do great.
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And if you haven't learned what the ridiculously powerful fate model is, you can click the link down in the description to check it out now.
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You can also download the free Chase Hughes app with the link right down below here
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and immediately access a ton of training and join social networks
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that are full of people who actually lift you up without ever seeing ads or being tracked across websites.
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So thank you for spending time with me here today and making this investment in yourself with these skills.
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You can message me anytime inside the app as well.
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Make today a great memory.
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Love you.
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