(#306): The One Where She Goes Skydiving

Sorry, Mom...
::high fives Dad::

I went SKYDIVING!

As excited as I was to go (and celebrate my girl Sarah's birthday!!), I'm even more excited to share this CRAZY experience with you all, from start to finish.

I had so many questions when I went, and had no idea what to expect.  Every search I did online gave me a new answer, and none of them were accurate. SO - I created this podcast to help eliminate some of that ambiguity out there!

From what to wear while skydiving to how you get harnessed up, to what it feels like falling at terminal velocity, I've got you covered!

BONUS! Did you know...

The intense sensations elicited by skydiving cause the brain to secrete a dynamic chemical combination of adrenaline, dopamine, and serotonin unlike any other experience?

You might know skydiving as a "daredevil" sport (or maybe you do it on the regular) but these chemicals are commonly associated with extreme sports and actually provide several longer-term benefits to our health. Technically, skydiving is GOOD for us!

Transcript

01:33 Coach Shaun: Here's the podcast that nobody asked for, but everybody wants: I went skydiving. Oh my gosh, if you can't tell the excitement that I have for this by my voice right now and how fast I am talking, I don't know that I can ever express to you what this moment meant for me.  Jumping out of a plane: coolest experience in my life, almost hands down. Probably top five for sure. Definitely top five, maybe top three. It was so freaking awesome. And I cannot wait to tell you all about it because as with most things, and you already know, if you listen to the podcast, this whole human experience that we're all living through, it's only as good as it is if we can learn from everyone around us for all of the good, all of the bad, all of the things. So I went through an awesome experience, I wanted to share that with you guys in case you're ever thinking about doing it, or maybe you were like, “No, I don't want to”, and at the end of the podcast, you will be like, “Yeah, I absolutely do.” Hopefully, I can convince you because it was definitely the sickest experience from start to finish, hands down, from start to finish.

I will start out by saying, I am only one person and I only went to one location, and this was 100% me, no one's paying me to do this podcast, I'm just sharing my experience with you guys and  everyone's experience is going to be different. Some people might click or not click with their instructors and people may love it or hate it, every facility is going to have different rules around how they do it from state to state, etc, etc. So I went in North Carolina, which has different rules than Georgia and Florida and all these other places.  This is just my experience, and so I wanted to share it with you guys, and in case you guys had any questions and you didn't know how to ask them.  I tried to ask questions on YouTube and Google and I got nowhere. So I wish somebody would make this podcast, so that's why I'm doing it. And I just wanted to take a second in to wish a very Happy Birthday to my girl Sarah, for whom the birth and celebration of life of (She’s still alive means she’s not dead). That makes you sounded the celebration of her birth and the awesome years that she has lived so far, and all of the prosperous years she will live in the future, happy birthday, we got to do this for your birthday, and that is such a dope experience to have.

You don't really need to have an excuse to go and skydive, you can do it any day that you want to, but it's so much cooler when you have a group of people and a reason to do it, and you guys are going out and you're just doing your thing. So Sarah, happy freaking birthday. I know it's belated, but whenever you listen to this, I freaking love you, girl, you are hands-down one of the coolest people I think I've ever met my whole life, your light shines so bright, not just for you, but for everybody around you and bringing that light to other people and watching you interact with them is just absolutely amazing, thank you for letting me be a part of your story and your a human experience, and thank you so much for including me in skydiving, even though you didn't know it was happening and it was a surprise. But anyway, Happy birthday, I love you.

4:24 Coach Shaun: Alright, moving on, guys, skydiving, I don't know if you guys have questions, but I will try to answer everything in order of the story.  So I won’t to talk about how far you are falling, or how fast you fall, or any of those things until we get to the skydiving part. So I will tell you, I had one preconceived notion about this experience, and that was that I was going to get to wear a flight suit.  Now, I watch all these tandem guys get all dressed up and they're all in flight suits with their helmets on... I had none of the above. I was so jazzed to take a picture in a flight suit, so ready to fly out of an airplane, I'm so ready. And I did not get that. That is not a thing that happened. So this wasn't on the website for the place that we went to, so I will tell you straight up, you need to wear athletic clothing that's going to stay on at high speeds.  You probably are sayin, “Duh, Shaun.”  But I didn't think about that. I wasn’t like, “Oh, my body is going to go pretty fast in the air up there, I should probably wear something that can last.” No, didn't even think about it. Nothing that happened, it's not like my clothes flew off or anything, you're very tightly strapped into the person behind you, but I'm just saying make sure it's comfortable.

So I wore just tennis shoes, and then athletic gear (my LiveUnbreakable tank top of course), because that's just as much on brand as skydiving is for me now, apparently. So, I told my parents I was skydiving after, because I knew that they would be so worried and so concerned.  This is not something that you should follow, maybe communicate with your family in whatever way you want to do.  My parents would flip if I told them before I went, so I told them after in-person, and they weren't even surprised.  They said, “Oh yeah, that seems like it's a thing that you would do. I can't believe you haven't done it sooner.”  Like everyone else in my life said they were like, I can't believe you haven't done it before now, because obviously you're going to love it. My mom just said, “Oh, are you going to do this again, sweetie?” And I said, “Yes, mom.” And she said, “Okay, tell me after, so I know you're still alive.”

Thanks Mom, Dad was asking cool questions.  All of this stuff I'm going to tell you about when we jump out of the plane, that's what dad was concerned with, so just so we know what page we're on. Alright, so I'm wearing my tennis shoes, wearing athletic gear, I have my LiveUnbreakable tank top on and I am ready to go. Okay, and I think we're going to get there. I'm going to take a course, I'm going to know everything there is about parachutes and jumping and planes and all the things. Okay, so first of all, maybe my expectations were really high, or maybe in my brain, which I was like, if we think about all of these other things, we won't be so scared to fall out of a perfectly working airplane and somehow make it to the ground safely. So either way, I was concerned about something. So, get dressed again in the car, speed over to this location, super jazzed.  Now, they told us when we signed up as a group that we should expect to be there between three to five hours, and again, no, nothing about skydiving. I said, “Wow, how are we going to be sky diving for?”

07:37 Coach Shaun: Yeah, it's not three hours guys, it’s not even hours. It's a really quick experience, it's a very quick life-changing experience, if you will.  We get there and we signed our waivers already, we give them all of our money, and then we just sit there and we're watching people skydive now, so we're just hanging out there and we can see the landing strip.  We can see the planes taking off, and you hear this kind of noise coming in, you're wondering, “What is that?” Oh, it's skydivers. Literally, their parachutes coming in and then landing.  Now, I don't know this either, but there were participants of a course to learn how to skydive so low, so they were not tandem, they had no one with them, they were packing their own parachutes, jumping out of the plane and trying to make it to the ground safely on their own.  So I didn't know that at this point, but I just saw a ton of people falling out the sky all by themselves, and I was like, “Wow, I really hope I don't have to do that, because I don't know what I'm doing.”

So we watched him land, some of them tumble, some of them land on their feet, just very James Bond-esque and some people land on their butt.  Whatever. Okay, so that's pretty cool. I was like, “this is a good experience.” Now, I'm not scared, I'm watching some people who clearly don't know what they're doing. And they still survive, so that's going to be good news for me. Right, so we're hanging out and then they call us into their office, and so Sarah, her boyfriend, David and I, all go into the office and we're sitting there and they have us watch this video.  This video is probably the oldest VHS known to man.  I think it was the first one ever made, old, old, old, and the person who was on it, who was speaking to us from the VHS was the creator or inventor of The Tandem parachute. He said, “Hey guys, I'm so happy I get to bring skydiving to the lay person. It's not something that everybody ever got to do before this, I invented tandem so that you could have this experience, how dope is that.”  We all said, “Yeah, super excited.” And in front of us on our laps, we are currently signing away our life where if you've ever been to a race of any kind, you sign the death waiver, that says, “Do you know that this could kill you?” And you're like, “Yeah”. “Okay, do you have any underlying medical conditions that you haven't told us about that you might die in the air?” I'm thinking, “No, not that I know of.”

So we're filling out that paper work and watching this video, and I thought at some point he's going to tell us how the parachute worked or what to expect. No, he just says, “Hey man, there's no such thing as a perfect plane. Your plane could malfunction. I just want you to know.” I was like, “Okay”.  “And there's no such thing as a perfectly packed parachute, there's no such thing as a perfect parachute instructor, there’s no such thing as a perfect tandem instructor, there's no such thing as a perfect harness.”  He just goes down the list of if you were worried about it, and even if you weren't, he's like, “Hey man, there’s no such thing as a perfect world, so I just want you to know it's no one's fault if something doesn't work, but you could die today.”  And we're thinking, “Okay, that's really cool. Great, thank you. Thanks so much for that. I'm going to go.” But at this point, you've already paid your money, so you've either spent $200 to sit in an air field and watch people's guy dive, or you spend $200 to have the most expensive plane ride of your life because for the time that you're in the air, very expensive.

Also fun fact, I was under the impression that you could not safely land in the airplane, I thought once you were in it, the only way out was for you to jump out of the plane, you could not land in the plane.  I don't know where I got that from. Movies, friends, I don't know, I don't know. But that was what I assumed would happen once you were up there was no, you could not come back down in the plane.  That is incorrect.  You just have to very clearly communicate with your skydiving instructor, your tandem instructor behind you that you do not want to jump out of the plane, and then they will land with you, so again, just a really expensive plane trip. Why would you do that? Right. You're here. We're committing, right. Okay, so we watch this video, we learn those things and how we're chatting with each other and we're watching other people.  Now at this point, we do see some tandem skydivers. So at the beginning, when we first walked out, there were a couple of young girls who were sitting there, there were a couple of couples that were sitting, hanging out casual date day going skydiving, and then there were a bunch of military bros because they were the ones who were learning how to do the solo diving.  I say military bros, because they had military tattoos, some of them had pieces of their uniform, like their backpack or their helmets or whatever it is, and some of them were wearing literal shirts that had veteran or combat or whatever.

12:29 Coach Shaun: So I'm not just categorizing, they were military bros.  And they were doing the course where you jump solo out of the plane, you figure out how to land safely and not die. Cool, so now we're just watching some of them, and somewhere in my brain, I remember that when I visited Demi Bagby last year and I went up in the Redwall helicopter, she fed me right before we went on to the helicopter.  She was like the next thing that we're going to do you have to eat beforehand, and I was like, uh-oh, because I always assumed if you're on a roller coaster or something, you don't want anything in your stomach because if you have something in your stomach, the chances of it coming up are high, but that is incorrect. If you are digesting, it settles your stomach and you can't digest and also throw up at the same time, so it's good to have something in your system. So when we get there, we watch the video and we're like, “Alright, it's going to be like an hour or two before we get to even get on our plane to go up there.”

They're like, come back in an hour and a half, and we are going to meet your tandem instructor. You'll get harnessed up, we'll get in the plane and whatever, so they have two planes that are rotating back and forth, because they have two pilots, so one goes up, drops the people off, comes back down, the next plane can then go up, it gives them a chance to rest, whatever, right? So then we're watching the planes take off, watching the people land and we're eating something, this is great. And now I'm kind of settled and I'm watching like Sarah this whole time is like chiller than vanilla, she is just calm, cool and collected and ready to jump out of a plane. I'm asking, "You're not nervous at all?” And she replies, “No, I'm just really excited. This is going to be fun and stuff.”  Yeah, and stuff…

So we’re sitting there, we're talking and chatting, and then all of a sudden an hour and a half goes by and we are headed over to meet our tandem instructors, very excited.  We are sitting on a couch, watching time tick down to when we're supposed to be in our plane and we have to meet in a hanger and then we meet our pilot, and get in our plane, whatever. So Sarah meets her dive instructor and he's super funny, really approachable, he's like, "I'm basically on autopilot, now, you're the eighth person I’m taking out of a plane today, just listen up and we're going to have a really good time.”  So he gets her all harnessed up, put her harness on whatever.  The other important piece of the video we watched at the beginning was that they tell you that it's okay if your tandem instructor touches you in inappropriate places because your harness is in inappropriate places, which is true. Your harness, you step into it, and then it kind of is like you pull it on a backpack or a jacket, I guess, and you put your arms through it, so then it clasps over your shoulders, over your chest, over your stomach, over your waist, on your legs, so there's a lot of touching going on there, so just mentally prepare for that part too, but you wouldn't want it to be loose, believe me, and you want it to be very tight.

15:16 Coach Shaun: And they make sure that it is.  That's not something you have to worry about. So she meets her dive instructor, get harnessed up, ready to go. David meets his guy, harnessed up ready to go. They're both like, “Alright, well, we're going to go to the hanger.” I was like, “Oh, okay, see you there.” And I can see that I'm supposed to be on the same plane as them obviously, that's why we did this, we all get to go together.  So I meet, my guy, like three minutes before we take off, exactly what I didn't want. I wanted to bond with him and wanted to do everything about his life story, I wanted to be best friends, so it was in his best interest, obviously for me to not die during this experience.  Anyway, in my head, it was a bigger deal than it was to meet him so quickly, but I meet him, his name was Jesse. He was super dope, really love him. He asked me where I was from, I told him Boston, we bonded over him having a band in Braintree of all places, and he is actually one of the military instructors at the course that all of those military bros were taking so he was very well-versed in teaching people who knew nothing to teach them all of the things. 

So he was very, very informative, it was really educational talking to him, found out a lot about him and his competitive career as a skydiver and what skydive competitions even look like.  Then he asked me if I was a very nervous, I was like, No, I'm just really jazzed.  So he puts my harness on, we get all set, walk through another hanger to pick up our parachute, talk to some other people, and I'm trying to play a cool now, because all of my friends are cool, calm, and collected and Jesse seems like a nice person. And then one of the other divers or the other tandem instructors walked by and said, “Hey Jesse, they let you take somebody else out after what happened to your last student?”  I'm like, “What?”  And then obviously they're joking, but I did a stutter step, I was like, “Woah, excuse me.” I like this guy, and all of a sudden I don't trust him at all anymore. I'm like, no Jesse is great, you're going to have a good time. And I'm like, I bet you say that to everybody, so anyways, we're waiting in the hanger, we get our plane, we meet our pilot.  Now, these planes, not a luxury vehicle, very small.

This plane sat, I think total 15, and there were 12 of us who are going up, so that works out, and there are just two benches that you basically straddle one bench and then on the other side, the plane is the other bench.  You’re basically touching knees and you are sitting in the lap of your tandem instructor, in his lap, just directly, we're all squished in like sardines, we're going up.  Now, I found out recently how long this whole experience would take it.  They told me it would be about 20 minutes, whole trip up: in the sky, in the airplane, and then coming down.  Now, I don't know what I was expecting for the plane ride, but this was not it. So picture a very small plane, very, very small, and the back kind of corner of it was like a garage door, so that you could pull it up. Okay, cool. There's also no pressure in this plane because it's not a luxury vehicle.  We’re going up and then they're coming back down, so we go up to 13,500 feet, which is a lot of feet, and it takes a while to get there, it took us about 13 to 15 minutes to reach that height, and as we're going, like you kinda see how far away you are when you're climbing.  Then all of a sudden everything just looks really small and it's not getting smaller, but you know, you're still climbing.

18:47 Coach Shaun: That was that feeling. And in addition, they had that garage door open to the back of the plane to fall out of for almost the whole trip, so I'm thinking, “Are we supposed to do that? Aren’t we supposed to be in an enclosed container?”  No, no, no. That garage door was open. We were feeling that breeze, it was nice, it was a 95 degree day. Almost no clouds but enough clouds. It was cool because David got to fall through clouds, tell you about that in a second. So through the clouds, we're watching things get smaller, then all of a sudden they’re not on getting any smaller.  We're like, Okay, we're probably here. And then the pilot says you're good to go, he turns on a little green light, and then the first five divers were so low, and I just thought they were just going to jump out one at a time, okay. But what I was ill-prepared for was all five of them are jumping out at one time, and also how fast they left.  So I don't know what I was thinking, but I was like, Maybe I'll get to see them for a second, so you're like, “Oh, have a good..."

And then they're just gone.  They go so fast, I was like, Okay, alright, now I'm freaking out. So we're like, I love looking out the window. I was talking to Jessie and I was talking to all the other tandem instructors who were in there, and they were all awesome. Trying to take our minds off of it. I'm sweating, I'm wet and it's cold, because now we're at 13,500 feet, so it's not freezing, but it's colder.  I'm still profusely sweating, very nervous. So Jesse tightens all my straps, reaches across and tightens the chest strap, got the legs. And whatever, and he's like, Are you ready to go? And I was like, I think so. He's like are you nervous yet?  And I was like, I am absolutely.  Before I could even get the words out of my mouth that I was scared, we were out of the plane.  I don't remember, I cannot think of the seconds leading up to walking out of the plane. I got up off my bench, scooted forward, and then he was like, Alright, let's go, and then we were out of the plane out. We were just out of it.

So here's some fun facts for you, you didn't ask for them, but I'm going to tell you.  It takes about 10-12 seconds for you to reach maximum free fall or terminal velocity.  So you're going to free fall for 60 seconds total, but you only feel like you're accelerating because you are only accelerating for 10-12 of those seconds.  So if you're in a car and you're going 80, you don't really feel like you're going 80 unless the windows are open or something, you're just going. And then if you go to 100, it's like, alright, well, you just accelerated to 100.  Because you're not accelerating when you hit 100, it's just kind of like you're coasting along, so it's kinda what it's like.  Within 10-12 seconds of jumping (falling gracefully) out of that airplane, you hit terminal velocity.  Which is different depending on how much you weigh, that terminal velocity for the average human is about 120-150 mph.  Now I'm also a strap to a gentleman, so we're falling pretty freaking fast. So 60 seconds of free fall, and it just felt... We had these little clear goggles on and they released that first white parachute, so that you fall stomach first. 

So they tell you when you're in the plane (I think Sarah got it when we were on the ground), but they tell you when you first get out, you're going to push your chin back because if you don't, the wind is going to do it for you.  So you push your chin back, you arch your back, and you put your hands behind you just like every photo you have ever seen of anyone skydiving, that's what you're doing.  So that's the first 60 seconds, and when you get out, it pushes your head back and you're just kinda looking around at everything, and it is gorgeous, but you don't feel like you're falling even though the wind is going to your hair and past your ears and all this stuff.  Because you're not accelerating, you've already reached your velocity, so you're just there and experiencing it, and then Jesse counts down for me in front of my face 3,2,1, and then he waves at me goodbye. And I had a brief moment of like, What do you mean goodbye? What's happening? And then he pulled the chute, so then the big chute comes up and you kinda get jerked back a little bit, but you went from falling stomach and chest first, so now you're kind of sitting upright.

23:03 Coach Shaun: So you get to actually see things. So then you take off your goggles, you get to hang out, talk to your instructor, look around, and he's like guiding the parachutes.  So we are taking lefts, we’re taking rights, we're going in circles, we are doing all sorts of stuff, and it was so cool.  That’s a perspective that you don't get anywhere else. You can't get that view any way else. It's so awesome. So after you’re done falling like that, he brakes a little bit, so that's when I felt the most I was actually falling was when he pulled “the brakes” to help us fall graceful to the ground instead of just going in circles and taking the sharp left and right he would let a little bit of air out of the parachute and then we would fall.  So that felt like falling because there was an acceleration period, so we were just up there talking about everything looking left and right is looking at the views of North Carolina and it was absolutely freaking gorgeous.  Amazing experience, 12/10 recommend, and I don't know why, it made me feel good that I knew my instructor's name and he had told me about his competitions and stuff, and it was just like a cool conversation to have it like 13,500 feet.

So you fall down and thinking about all of the people I'm immediately going to tell when I land, I'm looking for my friends, because I thought when we were falling, the sky is only so big around where we were.  I was like, I'll definitely see them.  No, I did not see anybody at all in the sky, when we landed, I got to see Sarah come down and gave her a big freaking hug as she did.  I guess I forgot to tell you about when you land, so when you land, you gotta pick up your knees and they do the landing for you, and then you take a couple of steps forward.  Jesse had this narrowed down to a science, so he said, Alright, pick up your knees and then take two steps with me, and we took two steps and we were fine, then he unhooked his harness from my harness and I was good to go, I could walk around, and then I went and gave Sarah a hug and then David came down. 

He got to fall through a cloud, and he said his tandem instructor told him to watch for it.  Because as soon as you come out of it, because you think about clouds or condensation, it's literal rain, as you're coming out of it you see a rainbow, so cool.  David was telling us all about the rainbow that he saw when he came out of the cloud, so that was awesome. So perfect experience. Awesome, awesome time. Loved literally every single thing about it.  There's two downsides, so for me, that night, I had one dream about that very first step out of the plane, because my heart skipped a beat, I was wearing my whoop. And so my whoop is a recovery tracker, if you guys ever want to try it out, let me know, I have a discount code for y'all, you get one month for free, but anyway, so I was wearing my whoop, because I wanted to know what my heart rate looked like.  It didn't get over 130, that was it. I thought I was going to spike and be super high, but was it was actually higher in the airplane on the way up, then it was when I was diving, that's how you know, this was made for me.

26:17 Coach Shaun: Or maybe I was made for this, I guess. So that was pretty cool, but I only had that one dream, and it was exactly what happened, I was strapped to Jesse, we were jumping out of  the plane and I woke up when my heart kind of had that jump when we first got out of the plane, when I was like, we’re doing this.  I was probably in that first one or two seconds of free fall, and then the second was, and maybe you guys have heard about this from other things too, but if you ever experience something where you dump your adrenaline and your serotonin and your dopamine, all your feel good hormones and all of your feel good chemicals in your system, you have to replenish that.  Your body has to replenish that in some way so the entire ride home, the three of us were talking about it. It was super awesome. I came home, I called everybody that I know, and I told them that I did it. It was super dope. But what I felt was about two days after, I wouldn't say depressed, I was just a little bit more anxious looking back then I think I would have been otherwise, because your body is still trying to catch up to all of those chemicals and hormones and so you kind of have like there's a little bit of lull after.  If you're one of the people that go skydiving and it does not phase you, that probably is no longer the case for you maybe it never was the case for you.

But you do, if you dump your adrenaline, you are bound to have that sort of recovery phase, at some point, some people it's that day, the day after, or two days after. And so I had delayed onset anxiety and depression because I had dumped my adrenaline and all my feel-good hormones at that moment. So Tuesday was a little hard for me, we went skydiving on Sunday, Tuesday was a little bit rough, but it's nothing that I would stop me from going again, it was noticeable to me after.  So hindsight, 20-20, I was like, Oh yeah, I kinda did have that little recovery phase, but otherwise it was really it was awesome. That was the coolest experience, hands-down.  1) because I was with the illest of ill people, super, everyone that I was with. And not just David and Sarah, I do love you guys, but also just being there with all of the instructors, being there with the pilots, being able to talk to them about stuff, being able to talk to the videographer, about the stuff, being able to talk to the solo jumpers and just experience their experiences too, and get a little piece of their journey to know if I was going to continue on this, what it would look like for me, it's 25 jumps with this particular company, if I wanted to go solo and you take the course, which maybe maybe in my future, I'm not going to say no to it, I definitely want to get a couple more tandem under my belt before I make any rash decisions on that.

You heard it from me first. Maybe I have one of 25 down, and by the end of the year, I'll have four of 25 down. So we're really making some progress. So yeah, if you have any other questions on it, I would love to tell you about it.  I am terrified of heights, and running over bridges is scary to me, so you can only imagine 13,500 feet was no small feat for me, and it was so exhilarating for me to be able to squash that fear and at the same time have such an amazingly positive experience that can help me frame and get perspective for so many other pieces of my life.  To me, that's what this was, it was definitely a life-changing experience for me, but not like, Oh my gosh, life-changing, but it helped me create a perspective and create this now almost like life lens that I can see things through that makes them a little bit more exciting or a little bit less traumatizing, or a little bit more of this or less of that. Whatever it is, and I'm still figuring it out. This was a very recent experience, and I can't wait to do it again and see what happens the second time and the third time, and if I still get that kind of delayed reaction or if there's other things that I need to be considering too.

30:22 Coach Shaun: So guys, I am so thankful for everyone who tunes into this all the time, you guys know that but thank you, especially for listening to this one, because I hope that you caught a little bit of my excitement, a little bit of my fear, and if you were teetering on the edge of sky diving or of doing something scary or of taking a leap.  I really want to push you guys to do that because for me, like I said, I was going to go skydiving in college, and then I was not woken up in time, my alarm did not go off, I did not get on the bus, I did not go, and I always kind of thought about that and I was like, Oh man, I should have gone at that point, but I have lived 12 years since then and could have gone at any point in those 12 years and had not gotten there. So again, thank you to Sarah and David for thinking about me for this experience, but it really did take an excuse, I needed an excuse, and Sarah's birthday was the perfect excuse for me to do it, but I want to urge you that you don't need an excuse.  The excuse is that you don't want to be where you are anymore, or the excuse is that you need perspective, or are the excuse is that you need something to give you jolt back into your life or any number of other things, and you don't even need an excuse, but if you want it.  You'll find one. And it'll happen. Alright, thanks guys, I will talk to you later.

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