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Tomorrow is the beginning of Pride Month, a time where we honor and celebrate the queer community. Pride Month this year, especially, will be a momentous occasion, as we continue to make the necessary steps to recover after the pandemic. To say last year was rough is the understatement of all eternity, so this year will be a moment where many queer folks have a chance to breathe anew, if you will, depending on what their circumstances have been over the past year and some change.

We talk a lot about found family in this community, so there’s a high chance that some queer folks lost direct access to that family when COVID hit. Pride festivals shut down along with numerous other events, and while online communication has been available (and CRUCIAL) during this time, the ability for in-person celebrations is gonna make a lot of people rightfully emotional.

Assuming you’re comfortable enough to gather in person, but even if you’re not, there is a bit more hope this year than there was last year and more of an acceptance of online alternatives since that’s what we’ve had to do up to this point.

I don’t think it fully hit me how devastating last year was until we started to make our way out of it. This is because, at some point, I’d gotten used to rolling with the punches.

Last March, my wife and I were in the middle of a road trip on the way to attend two back-to-back conventions: Naka-Kon and Planet Comicon Kansas City. Both of the shows are close to each other, so we planned to stay in the area for an entire week since we’re about 8 hours away from the events. After crossing the halfway point I got a message from a friend who was also planning on attending both shows.

Planet Comicon was postponed.

Shortly after, Naka-Kon was postponed.

This led to the domino effect of every single event we had planned being postponed due to COVID. I scrambled to see if I could get a refund on our hotel room (I succeeded, thankfully), and after that came the ongoing process of deciding if we wanted to get a refund for the artist alley tables we had or roll them over to 2021 – which, in several cases, is now 2022.

Selling our work at conventions used to be our primary source of income, and in just a couple of days, it was gone.

This is already a significant thing to be stressed about, but something else occurred to me somewhere between “this is how my story ends” and “no seriously this is how my story ends.”

All of those events that got canceled were all spaces where I felt like I could be my most authentic self.

I don’t just mean the obvious Lady Gaga thumping Pride parades (which are delightful and I have an agenda to pet everyone’s rainbow tutu-wearing dog), I mean the events that weren’t labeled as queer but made space for the community within them.

I’ve always felt at home at geek-centered conventions. Those were always the spaces where I’d find my people. This wasn’t just because we all bonded over the same anime or had the same headcanon about a ship, it was because many of the people I’d run into were queer. Anime conventions – and events similar to them – were where I’d see pronoun buttons in artist alley or attendees using LGBTQ+ flags as capes. It’s where I first felt comfortable walking around and holding my wife’s hand. Back when I was worried about people outside of this space knowing my sexual orientation, conventions were the perfect weekend getaway. When I’d get dropped off for the weekend it wasn’t like they knew that Anime Central had a booth that sold rainbow-themed merch, they just looked at it as a nerd event and went about their business.

Like. I couldn’t tell my dad to drop me off at Pride but I could tell him to drop me off at Anime Central.

Of course, now that I’m older, I don’t hide the fact that I’m gonna go to an anime convention and attend as many LGBTQ+ panels as possible (or host one my damn self), but I imagine with everything shutting down last year that there was a LOT of queer youth that lost that. As someone who has heard countless stories from queer youth who’d attend my panels, I know how important it is to be in a space surrounded by people who support, and celebrate, who you are. A lot of that was taken away last year. Even with the rise of online events a lot of queer youth didn’t get the chance to exist as themselves because shut down meant stuck in this unsupportive space because all of the alternatives are gone.

That’s not just the large gatherings, that’s the weekend get-togethers with friends, the trips to the bookstore that has the LGBTQ+ recommendation section (which, by the way, oh my GOODNESS there are SO MANY nerds in the manga section at bookstores these days because WE CAN GO OUTSIDE NOW), and just a lot of things that might not have occurred to us until they were gone.

I personally don’t have a desire to attend large gatherings yet, but knowing that I can at least meet up with queer friends and supportive family who I haven’t seen in over a year makes me feel a lot better about this year’s Pride Month.

Also, can I just add, that being a Black queer woman last summer was HARD as hell? This cluster of support I’ve built up over the years was a space I desperately needed last summer when dealing with COVID, the murder of George Floyd, and the temporary signs of solidarity that popped up in an attempt to gain traffic over trending hashtags. Having to navigate through spaces to see if they truly wanted to be there for me or use me to boost themselves is something I hope no one else has to experience. To top it off, all of my usual go-to places for the support I KNEW I could count on were unreachable. Yes, I will always and forever be grateful to DMs and Zoom, but that in-person comfort was missing, and that hurt.

A lot.

And frankly, knowing that we could still be the target of such violence in the middle of a global pandemic was a level of cruelty I couldn’t comprehend. Not being able to be around others who would understand made it worse.

So if I or any other LGBTQ+ folks (especially marginalized folks within the community) seem a bit more emotional this June, it’s because, for the first time in over a year, it feels like we might actually be able to have the support we’ve been aching for all this time. I, for one, have many weekend plans with loved ones I haven’t seen in far too long.

Happy Pride.

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Well, at just two episodes, this season of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills could already blow the previous few out of the water. All signs point to season 11 being a banger. Mere months ago we were crossing our fingers in hopes of Kyle Richards’ sister, Kathy Hilton, joining the RHOBH cast. For once, the Bravo gods have smiled down and given us this gift.

Kathy has officially joined the RHOBH ladies for season 11! At long last! Kathy has been joined by another rookie, Crystal Kung Minkoff. Together, these two are spicing up our lives by shifting cast dynamics and boosting the quirk of these otherwise stuffy and guarded women. Who needs a glassware or panty storyline? Give us all the childhood dental work and personal box fan goodness. Another thing both rookies bring to the table? Financial prowess.

Kathy, as I think we all know, is married to successful businessman, Richard Hilton. Richard boasts a net worth over 300-million. These two live in a fabulous, massive, and pricey, Bel Air home. Sounds nice. But managing the estate has become complicated due to a recent lawsuit the Hiltons fine themselves in. Radar Online is reporting that a former housekeeper at the Hilton Homestead previously sued the couple for allegedly failing to pay her overtime, failure to provide proper meal breaks, and unfair business practices. Yikes.

The lawsuit was filed back in 2019. The ex-employee claims she was hired to be the couples’ live-in housekeeper. Her lawsuit stated that the  “Defendants failed to provide Plaintiff with a second meal period or any rest periods as required by law; Defendants willfully failed to pay Plaintiff all wages due after Plaintiff’s separation from Defendants’ employment; and, Defendants knowingly and intentionally failed to provide Plaintiff with accurate wage statements.” Ouch.

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The former employee is seeking an excess of $25,000. A drop in the bucket for the Hiltons, really. Rather than paying the amount, however, Rick and Kathy had another idea. The couple has not only denied all allegations about failure to pay or provide breaks, they are actually counter-suing.

Kathy is reportedly ready to take the stand if needed. She is claiming her former employee stole from the Hilton home. Her argument is that, not only is the housekeeper owed nothing, but if she was, it should be offset by the “Plaintiff’s theft of items from the Defendants’ home.” The plot thickens.

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Kathy’s lawyer provided the following; “Defendants are informed and believe, and based thereon allege, that Defendants are entitled to a complete and/or partial offset against each and every cause of action alleged in the Complaint in an amount to be established at trial, based in part or in whole on Plaintiff’s theft of items from Defendants’ home.”

The Los Angeles Superior Court judge has set the trail for November 2, 2021.

TELL US – WHAT ARE YOUR FEELINGS ON KATHY HILTON SO FAR? DO YOU THINK SHE WOULD MIS-TREAT HER EMPLOYEES THE WAY IT IS BEING ALLEGED? 

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Other than Carmilla, my favorite character from Netflix’s Castlevania was Isaac, voiced by Adetokumboh M’Cormack. Since his introduction in season two, the character has surpassed my expectations for what a Black, Muslim, male character is allowed to do in such a big fantasy series.

**Spoilers for all of Castlevania.**

When we first meet Isaac in Castlevania, he is a Forgemaster and general in Dracula’s war council to end humanity. While Dracula tells the others that he simply wants to cull humanity, it is only Isaac who he trusts enough to tell that the plan is all-out elimination of the human race—a prospect Isaac doesn’t oppose due to his dramatic experiences.

Isaac was abused by his former master and throughout his lifetime became embittered by all he had experienced. He ended up meeting Dracula when he saved Isaac from magicians who wanted to kill him and sell his body parts. That kindness cemented loyalty in Isaac towards Dracula that made him an invaluable part of Dracula’s team.

I was concerned about Isaac at the beginning. His loyalty to Dracula and his self-harming were things that interested me, but I was concerned that he was going to be another Black man in fantasy who was only there to help a white man, or vampire, in his journey. That all changed when, during the attack on Dracula’s castle, the vampire saved Isaac.

“No such thing as love in this world” is something Isaac says in season two, and yet his being saved by Dracula was an act of love between them.

Isaac was sent to the desert where he was harassed by bandits who he subsequently killed and turned into Night Creators. Thus began his journey for revenge against Carmilla and Hector for betraying Dracula.

During season three, Isaac spends the majority of the season traveling back to Europe, and along the journey, he meets three people who help emotionally change him during the journey.

First, a collector (Navid Negahban), who offers him a mirror with magical properties. Rather than ask for payment, the man gives him the mirror as a gift: “I have a feeling you haven’t received many gifts in your life, and it pleases me to improve that balance. Also, I fully expect to go to hell one day, and that would be a situation where I would be glad to be owed a favor by a Forgemaster.”

Isaac later meets a Captain (Lance Reddick), who offers him access to his ship and safe travel to Genoa, because the Captain is bored and sees Isaac as interesting. The two men speak on their journey, and Isaac reveals he’s Sufi, and that he wants to take up Dracula’s cause and kill all the people in the world.

The Captain, rather than judging Isaac, asks him: Why would he live out Dracula’s story when he can tell his own? He also points out that while people suck in general, they are also capable of kindness, and that by eliminating humanity, he’ll also destroy what makes it beautiful. He encourages Isaac to lead and educate people to make them better: “If you don’t have your own story, you become part of someone else’s.”

What I loved about these two moments is that both the Collector and the Captain are men of color—men of color that show kindness to Isaac and help him on his own journey to self-identity.

Once he reaches Europe, Isaac meets a former Foremaster, named Miranda (Barbara Steele), living in a mountain pass. She tells Isaac that a powerful magician was living in a city beyond in the mountains and that he mentally enslaved an entire town. She was unable to stop the action, but prompts Isaac into freeing them and using them as the remainder of his Night Creature army. As Isaac leaves to do just that, she tells him, “There are worse things in the world than vampires in Styria, Isaac. There are worse things … than betrayal.”

Army complete and finding an even larger mirror that will allow him to transport to Styria quickly, Isaac goes and meets up with Hector, who has been abused and manipulated since they last met. Hector expects that Isaac is there for revenge and to kill Hector, but he isn’t.

He is there for Carmilla. Not for Dracula, but because Isaac wants to build a world, and Carmilla and her ambitions can’t be part of it. Carmilla takes her own life when she realizes he could defeat her, leaving Isaac triumphant.

Hector and Isaac talk, and Isaac explains that “revenge is for children” and that Hector was not at fault for what happened. He was manipulated and therefore not responsible. What matters is what they can do now for themselves and for their future.

Then Isaac delivers this banger of a monologue:

“I have recently begun to consider the future… which has been a novelty for me, because I never really thought I had one. This is how they get us, Hector. They convince us that there is no future. There’s only an eternal now… and the best we can do is survive until dawn and then do it all again. That’s no way to live. And I’ve discovered, to some surprise… that I am interested in living. I am interested in building a way to live. And I think I will start here. I have come to wonder that perhaps Dracula did not run things well. Even before his wife died. He lived in one long night, and never the future. I think perhaps he earned his rest… and that we should not disturb it. I will instead build something new on all these old bones. Something where people can live for a future. I’m going to live. “

Castlevania has characters of all races and ethnicities on the show, and there isn’t much done to explain their existence. We hear different accents, see different skin tones, and have an exceptional cast of diverse voice actors. Isaac was the biggest surprise for me in Castlevania because he got to go through this amazing character story, with trauma, with a huge bloody trail behind him, but it never stopped focusing on his humanity. It never belittled him, and it allowed him to be his own man.

I am so thrilled by the character of Isaac, and I love that the last scene of him is of him smiling, feeling optimistic about living and having a future.

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Gizelle Bryant and Karen Huger’s forever feud has run deep since the first season of the Real Housewives of Potomac. Karen thinks Gizzy is “tacky as hell” and can’t resist a moment to dog her FORMER relationship with Pastor Jamal Bryant who lives in the phone. Gizelle has tried to expose the Grand Dame for renting her house, being silent about her money problems with Ray Huger and everything else. Both ladies could write the textbook for how to master the art of Real Housewives-level one-liners and disses.

Gizelle has always had her green-eyed bandit Robyn Dixon by her side, while La Dame tends to fight her battles alone. But it looks like Season 6 will bring Karen a new bestie — Mia Thornton. Karen’s gushed about her new friend joining the show, and the trailer shows fans that she gets into a food fight with Candiace Dillard Bassett, which is already iconic. CandeeGal thought she was in the clear now that Monique Samuels is gone, but obviously, she’s going to find some trouble with the new girl running the streets of Potomac.

Gizelle and Robyn appeared on the Breakfast Club to talk about last year’s “toxic” season, the Porsha Williams engagement news and the next season of RHOP. And, of course, they were asked their always shady opinions about Mia’s first season. “She started out kind of rocky when she came and she was introduced to the group,” Gizzy said. “But I actually love Mia.”

She added that she’s a “great addition to the group” and is “actually rich,” unlike Karen. These two OGs just cannot stop talking about each other which just shows they’re not putting on for the cameras.

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Gizelle also gave some insight on Mia’s wealth, saying that her husband is a franchise owner of several McDonald’s. “So that’ where a lot of her busy savvy comes from,” she added. The hosts of the radio show asked how Mia was brought on the show, and the bandits explained that she came on as Karen’s friend, but now she’s cool with everyone.

“Now you know why she had a little bit of a rocky start with me,” Gizzy continued. “Because Karen’s in her ear like, ‘That one, right there, you don’t need to be friends with her.'”

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So shady but I honestly could see Karen putting down Gizelle to get the new girl on her side. And honestly, I’m living for the drama already.

TELL US – DO YOU BELIEVE GIZELLE AND MIA ARE ACTUALLY GOOD FRIENDS? WHAT ARE YOU MOST EXCITED TO SEE NEXT SEASON OF RHOP? 

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Luis Ruelas is looking to make an honest woman out of Teresa Giudice.*

(Okay, granted, Giudice pleased guilty in 2016 to bankruptcy fraud and then spent many months in jail for, literally and legally, not being honest. So Ruelas has quite the challenge ahead of him.)

Following many weeks of speculation, the burgeoning Bravo star has now turned these rumors into a reality.

Ruelas has confirmed that he plans to propose to Giudice.

A TMZ cameraman approached The Real Housewives of New Jersey cast member late last week, asking her and her serious boyfriend whether they plan on getting married.

Yes, absolutely, Ruelas replied.

On three separate occasions during his brief exchange with TMZ, Luis said he hopes to one day settle down with Teresa.

Back in March, the polarizing Real Housewives of New Jersey star laid out $3 million on a new mansion in the Garden State.

She and Ruelas will reportedly be living in the giant house together, only fueling chatter around the Internet that Luis will soon put a ring on it.

The couple only just started dating this past fall, but the feeling appear to be quite strong on both sides.

“After all she’s been through, prison and her divorce from Joe, she feels like she’s finally bounced back and gotten her life back,” an insider previously told In Touch.

“She says meeting Luis was a gift from God and she feels like the luckiest girl in the world."

Giudice has been candid about Ruelas oon Instagram as well.

"I want to keep swinging a life time with you!!!" she wrote as a caption to the following snapshot just three days ago, after having referred to Ruelas about a week before as "Mi Amor."

That translates into My Love.

Says it all, doesn't it?

Last Saturday night, meanwhile, Teresa posted sweet videos of Luis and her children making pizza.

While some critics out there have accused Ruelas of being a total horndog who has already cheated on Giudice or will someday for cerrtain, Giudice seems unbothered by such criticism.

Her relationship is providing her with new storyline fodder during a time when her role on Bravo, according to various outlets, had been growing stale.

Teresa was even worried for a bit that she might get fired.

“She’s being watched by the network and [needs] a story to stir the pot," Page Six claimed a few months ago, adding:

[She’s] too expensive and they can filter through different women.

"She’s desperately trying to stay relevant."

Giudice has been a prominent member of the cast since the show first aired in 2009.

After over two decades of marriage, she and Joe Giudice finalized their divorce in September.

They share four daughters and Joe lives in Italy after getting deported from the United States for his role in committing a felony while NOT being a citizen of this amazing country.

It was a long time coming, but Paul Raci finally received his dues when Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal was unveiled at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Having grown up as the hearing child of deaf parents, and having battled drug addiction and worked with recovering addicts himself, it’s fitting that the 73-year-old actor’s belated breakthrough came in a film about a hard-living rocker who finds solace in the D/deaf community after suddenly losing his hearing. Even more so when you learn that Raci plays in a Black Sabbath tribute band in his spare time.

As both the lead singer of Hands of Doom ASL Rock and a member of the Deaf West Theatre in Los Angeles, Raci is used to performing in American Sign Language on stage. However, opportunities to do the same on screen have been hard to come by over the course of his 40-year acting career, such has been the historic lack of D/deaf representation in terms of authentic casting and storytelling.

Not that you’ll hear Raci complaining. He describes the experience of the past year, during which time he’s been recognised by dozens of American awards bodies including the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as ‘bittersweet’ due to how often he’s been overlooked. But as we discovered when we caught up with Raci to mark Sound of Metal’s home entertainment release in the UK, he’s happy just being in command of his own life.

LWLies: You’ve been acting for more than 40 years, but I understand that music is your first love?

Raci: As a boy in high school I was really into the Beatles; that was where my love for music started. But it was actually before that, when I was about seven years old, that my love of music and film came together. In 1956 Elvis Presley made a movie called Love Me Tender, and my mother and I went to see it. My mother is deaf, and at that time there were no captioning or anything for movies. But she wanted to go and see it. So we’re sitting in the theatre together, and I quickly realised that I had to interpret the whole movie for my mom. That was my first experience of acting, but I didn’t know I was an actor. Then years later I discovered that acting is a craft that you can actually study. I thought that was amazing.

At what point did you start to pursue acting as a career?

When I got back from Vietnam. Before Vietnam, I was playing, you know, pop tunes; after Vietnam I discovered heavy metal, and that whole attitude and lifestyle. But at the time I connected rock and roll with drugs – I thought to play rock and roll meant you had to take drugs. I was a very immature young man. The lifestyle was literally killing me, so that’s when I started focusing on acting. And then I found out that actors do drugs! It was a very steep learning curve. But here I am.

I did a thing called the GI Bill where they paid for me to go into college. And that’s where I discovered the acting department. Up until that point, I really only thought of acting as just a bunch of pretty people on the screen. But no, it’s a craft. We were studying Stanislavski, which is basically method acting, and I’ve still retained a lot of that – I still make notes in my scripts the way I learned at college.

How do you feel about Sound of Metal being hailed as your breakthrough, given that it’s come so late in your acting career?

Well, it’s very sweet, leaning toward bitter. I mean, I’ve been doing this for years and years and years. But you know, when you decide to become an actor, you take the good and the bad with it. For most of my career, I’ve just enjoyed being in the moment – whatever job I’ve had at the time has been good enough for me. I love working with other actors and directors and meeting different people in the business. But to have this happen at this age, it’s strange. I’ve worked in 99-seat theatres, I’ve done one line in a movie, one line in TV show, so to have this kind of recognition now, it is bittersweet.

But maybe if I had had it 20 or 30 years ago, I wouldn’t have been able to handle it. You know, I had a daughter to raise, I had drug issues I had to get through, addiction problems. So the way I look at it, honestly, is I think this has added 20 years to my life. I feel like I’ve got a lot of stuff to do now. I’ve got a lot of exciting projects coming up. My phone is ringing off the hook. So am I complaining? No. Am I bitter? Maybe a little. But I’m too busy to care.

Has this experience renewed your love for the craft of acting?

It’s renewed my faith in life. Has it renewed my love of acting? I’d have to say no, because I’ve always loved it so much. I could take any role in any production and just be so excited about it. Nothing could ever diminish that.

This role feels tailor-made for you, but in years gone by it might have gone to an actor with a bigger profile. Do you feel like you’ve been overlooked in the past?

I have been overlooked many, many times. In Hollywood specifically, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone up for a role and been told, ‘We’re going to go with a name.’ There are many actors out here like myself that get overlooked every day. It’s just the name of the game. You’ve got to keep your head down and keep moving. But if you’re D/deaf, you’re blind, or D/deaf and blind, your chances are even more slim. I think that this movie has afforded maybe a little opportunity for those people to break through that.

What do you think needs to happen now in terms of the industry committing to more equal opportunities?

I don’t know about in general, but I can tell you in this case all it took was one man with the balls to do it. Darius Marder. He researched his movie for about 14 years, and many times in that journey people told him, ‘You must have a name to get the money’. He said, ‘No, I want to make this film my way’. Sometimes it’s as simple as one man having the hutzpah to say no. And he didn’t just say no, he insisted. He was told not to cast me, for example, but he knew that he needed authenticity to tell this story right.

At what point did you become involved in the project?

I was brought in very late, almost the last minute. When I first got the call, I read the script, and I thought it was just beautiful. Then I find out it’s a low budget movie. I turned the part down. Not because the pay was low, but because they were filming in Boston and I live in Los Angeles – I work here mainly as a sign language interpreter in the court system – so it made no sense. I have a mortgage, you know, I can’t be away from my main source of income for too long. So we went back and forth, they bumped up the money a little bit. The thing that finally convinced me was, Darius got on the phone and talked with me like a human being, like a brother. I’m kind of a Buddhist, he’s a Buddhist, we believe the same kind of spiritual philosophy. If you really want to know the truth, that’s how I really fell in love with the project.

Joe is sort of a mentor figure to Reuben. Has there ever been someone in your life who has fulfilled that role for you?

There have been many. My very first mentor was my first acting teacher. When I got out of Vietnam, I met this gay man who was a professor, and he helped me fall in love with acting. He helped me realise that acting was a noble profession. So that’s one. And then of course, having addiction problems, I fell in love with certain guys that would show me the way out of that. I myself worked as an interpreter for D/deaf addicts, and I remember one woman in an addiction programme who taught me what it was to be satisfied with who you are and to love yourself. So yeah, there have been several mentor figures in my life, and each has played a different role.

To me, actors have a garden that they bring with them. And my garden is so rich. I can pull from it all the things I’ve learned, you know, from certain mentors, certain experiences, people that I’ve mentored that still call me for support. I have a garden that’s deep and rich, and I’m very grateful and blessed to be able to bring that with me on stage or on a film set. The more you experience, the richer your garden becomes. That’s the way I look at it.

Let’s talk about your music. Are you performing at the moment?

It’s been hard since everything’s been shut down, but we’re starting to book clubs now. So we’ve been rehearsing, and you know, we’re tight as ever right now. I can’t wait to get up on that stage and play music for people again soon. You would love it. I have a headset on; I’m singing Sabbath’s lyrics and I’m doing American Sign Language at the same time. At our shows there’ll be 30 or 40 D/deaf people mixed in with the regular headbangers, so you have people singing ad jumping around and other people singing back at me. It brings a great awareness to hearing people to see D/deaf people enjoying the music like that. And believe me, D/deaf people love Black Sabbath.

Do you play a full repertoire or just the early stuff?

We do the first eight albums, all Ozzy stuff, three or four songs from each of them. I’m a Dio fan, too, but we don’t do any Dio. I have to be a bit more sensible nowadays though, because after doing two hours of Sabbath songs I’m exhausted. I’m 73, you know. But I take care of myself.

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