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BCM August 2022

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The BC Messenger

Welcome to the premier issue of The BC Messenger! We are excited to offer you this faith-building, thought-provoking, empowering content, with very practical implications for your life today.

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Hello and welcome to the very first issue of the BC Messenger, the biblical chronologist

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dot org messenger newsletter.

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Real science, real Bible, real history and real world.

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This is the August 2022, again, first edition.

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And my name is Steve Hall.

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I'm here with my wife, Jennifer Hall.

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We are the editors of this newsletter.

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Yes, great to be here.

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Very excited about this brand new publication going out.

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Very good.

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And we're going to jump right into it.

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Welcome.

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We're glad you're here for the premiere issue of the BC Messenger.

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We are excited to offer you this faith building thought provoking empowering content with

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very practical implications for your life today.

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BC stands for the biblical chronologist, Dr. Gerald Arzma's research newsletter and

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website.

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Now normally the following description that I'm going to read will be in the fine print,

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but we thought that it was fitting to go ahead and state it right here at the beginning

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of this inaugural, can we call that inaugural issue?

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The BC Messenger is a monthly publication which communicates the work of the biblical

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chronologist, the BC, to lay audiences.

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Each month includes a collage of topics focused on and relating to the research work of Dr.

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Gerald Arzma along with a little peek behind the scenes.

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Our goal is to assist busy individuals by keeping them informed about the BC research

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and discoveries which will impact their lives.

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This publication serves to summarize and highlight key points of this groundbreaking data rich

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work in simple layman's terms.

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Many of our readers are familiar with the anti-aging side of Dr. Arzma's research and

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we're thrilled about that since the vitamin discoveries have life saving implications.

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But one thing that we have noticed over the past months is that the anti-aging research

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by itself lacks context.

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Our aim with this new publication is to keep you informed about the aging research while

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bringing in the larger picture of Dr. Arzma's fascinating work.

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And the larger picture encompasses decades of work in biblical historicity showing that

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the earliest biblical accounts truly did happen in the real world.

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Here we find an empowering message of truth which our culture desperately needs.

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Justice is turned back, Isaiah 59 says, and righteousness stands far away for truth as

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stumbled in the public squares and uprightness cannot enter.

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Dr. Arzma's chronology work brings some clarity to the murky waters of Christian apologetics.

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Those waters should be rushing into the public square like a flood but instead seem to be

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dried up to a mere trickle in our modern world.

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So it's time for that to change.

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The BC messenger in this newsletter you will find real science, real Bible, and real history

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all firmly anchored in the real world.

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So thanks for joining us.

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This is sure to be an interesting ride.

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In every issue we will have a monthly roundup and Jennifer I will turn it over to you to

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help us begin to go through this.

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All right, every month we're going to have a collage of various content that you can

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explore.

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We hope you'll find it encouraging and beneficial.

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The links for the various content will be available at the same place where you found

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the sound file to listen to today's podcast.

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So the featured book this month, this is the first of our monthly roundup for this month.

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The featured book to get a foundational grasp of Dr. Arzma's work.

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You should start by reading this book.

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It has a long title but it's actually not a very lengthy book.

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It's called A New Approach to the Chronology of Biblical History from Abraham to Samuel.

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It can be downloaded for free and you can also purchase a physical copy if you desire

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that.

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Although few of us are experts in the vital field of biblical chronology, this book is

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a fairly easy read and provides new insights on many levels.

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And here's a short snippet from The Preface by Dr. Arzma.

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My claim is that we have gotten the thread a bit snarled in the piece of the fabric

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we call biblical history.

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With the result that the overall garment of history is wrinkled and distorted to our

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perception.

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I have aspired in this little book to show how to untangle the thread.

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There are many places today where you can go and find the Bible discredited, find the

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biblical accounts to be mocked and taken as myth and legend.

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And there's a reason for that with the early ancient history and that's what this book

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is about and how we can go about untangling the thread as Dr. Arzma says.

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Our next piece of content this month in the roundup is something that I believe Steve

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should share.

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Yes, we're very excited about the new public speaking arm of the BC which is called Truth

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in Time.

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Our family, the Steve and Jennifer Hall family, would love to come and present Truth in Time

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sessions for your church.

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Our homeschool group, your Bible study or special meetings of any sort.

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We also include in our Truth in Time sessions our music ministry.

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Our family has been singing for a very long time and have done some recordings along the

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way here and there.

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So we include that as well if a ministry or school wants us to include that.

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Of course the Truth in Time sessions have to do with Dr. Gerald Arzma's chronology work

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and fascinating stuff.

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You can also go to Truthintime.org if you want to see more information about that and

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an introduction video as well.

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Yes, in the links for this month there is an introduction to Truth in Time video.

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And as you were talking there, I did think a Christian school would be an ideal place

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for our family to come and present music.

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The children play different instruments and we like to sing about God's workings and

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history and His workings in our lives today and then for Steve to present a session on

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Mount Sinai or the Exodus or so many various topics that will build the faith of these

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young students.

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Very good.

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All right.

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Our next link for this month is a new resource, a brand new resource.

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It's a digital only resource right now.

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It is the simplified and condensed version of the pioneering book, Aging, Cause and Cure

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by Dr. Arzma.

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Maybe you're curious about the content of Aging, Cause and Cure, but you don't really

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have time to read 326 pages of technical information.

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There are many graphs and charts and mathematical sections to that book necessarily for the

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theory to be able to be presented the way it is, but we have a brand new resource just

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for you to be able to digest this content in a fairly quick and easy to understand manner.

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Again, the simplified and condensed version, only 86 pages and with short chapters and

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it's currently available as a free download and it will introduce you to paradigm shifting

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ideas about aging and give you a lot to think about.

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All right.

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And then we've included in this issue a testimonial.

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The most recent testimonial is from 60 year old Jean.

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Of course, these testimonials are testimonials about the anti-aging vitamins.

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Jean, 60 years old began supplementing Dr. Arzma's anti-aging vitamins in April of 2022.

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And here's what Jean says.

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The vitamins are transforming my life.

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I am coming up on three months and I am confident that I have seen changes in my life and body.

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Probably the most significant is my attitude and frame of mind at this point, but the changes

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are notable.

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I'm curious if you have had anyone report hair growth after starting the vitamins.

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I have male pattern baldness and I swear I have hair returning on my high forehead.

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Well, that's great news to me personally.

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Jean, I have male pattern baldness as well.

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I cannot give the same testimony.

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I have not seen hair regrowing on my own head.

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I keep hoping for that every morning when I look in the mirror.

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But that's great and this is a great testimony.

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Yeah, I appreciate Jean sharing that with us and we do have in our links the full list

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of testimonials that we have available, which are of course anecdotal experiences from people,

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but they are worth something and they're worth a consideration.

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And I did have somebody on Facebook recently who read Jean's testimonial about the hair

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regrowth and this elderly lady said that she and her husband were just talking about

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the hair regrowth this morning.

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She said on her comment.

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They also have been supplementing the anti-aging vitamins for some time and she said briefly

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on her comment, mine is getting more curly.

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So that was interesting and I hadn't heard that from them before.

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Well we do have a good growing amount of testimonials.

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Again, as Jennifer mentioned, you can see the full list at thebiblicalchronologist.org

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and they are exciting to read and very encouraging.

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So now we have a special section that we are excited to include in every month.

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It is called Helen's View and who is Helen?

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Well she is my mom and she is the wife of Dr. Gerald Ardzma and so she has a unique viewpoint

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on the work going on here and she has been faithful in supporting him for decades now

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and the work that God has called him to do.

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And so we are very pleased to include these personal notes from her every month.

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She is going to bring a unique behind the scenes viewpoint that we are sure our readers

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and listeners will enjoy.

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Helen's View.

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Gerald and I are selling our mini-farm on the west side of Loda and moving to the Ardzma

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Research and Publishing Campus which is the old Loda grade school.

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This is on the east side of Loda.

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We are a town of 440 people.

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Even though it is a short distance move it is a big move after living on our farm for

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over 27 years.

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Gerald and his crew have been working on our new home which will be inside part of the

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Ard Campus building.

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Part of Gerald's crew has been our grandson Joshua Hall.

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Joshua is the son of our daughter Jennifer who is married to Steve Hall.

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Being between going to college Joshua has been working for ARC for the last three years.

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He will be starting his master's degree program this next year at Bob Jones University specializing

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in communications.

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Joshua has been a great blessing and encouragement to Gerald and me and we are very proud of him

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and grateful to God for him.

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Alright well that wraps it up today for our August 2022 BC messenger.

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We hope you enjoyed it.

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If we can help you in any way let us know.

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Our email is customer.care at biblicalchronologist.org.

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I'm Steve Hall and my wife Jennifer Hall.

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Thanks for listening.

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Thanks for listening.

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We will see you in September.