Roddy White talks fashion, friends and fun with Jhoanna Alba

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hi my name is joanna alba i am a fashion
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designer based out of los
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angeles california i’m here in atlanta
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georgia today with style south
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and today we will be interviewing hall
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of famer
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roddy white with the atlanta falcons we
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will be talking about
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fashion friendship and fun hope you
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enjoy it
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so i’m here today with roddy white we
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are in atlanta georgia for style south
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and we’re going to talk about
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fashion friendship and fun so do you
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remember
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the first time you met me yes it was in
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the atlanta falcons cafeteria
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is that right um kind of
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yes but you ignored me like you didn’t
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give me the time of day
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you just i did not i did not i did not
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know why they were there
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first of all we were in the cafeteria
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and usually
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they would come in like right like right
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right after meetings
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you know what i’m saying and we’d be
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coming into the cafeteria to grab food
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to like
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run back and go to me so basically we
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had about
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five to seven minutes you know in
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between that time to grab food and
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everything
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and they’re like hey can you come down
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and talk to me no i can’t talk to you
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i gotta get to the beach or i’m gonna
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get fun
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and they’ll be like okay we’ll be here
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when you get back and i was like okay
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okay okay
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and then i just remember me coming back
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through there and just kind of walking
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right past joe and just
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not giving her any bit of attention but
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i still didn’t
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understand why they were there so so we
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had our fabrics laid out and i was
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already making clothes for a handful of
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your teammates so
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matt shot i think was there tears not
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this right yes
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um almond crockett yeah yeah it was bad
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there john
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john was there too yes so those are
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already my clients so we had a bit of
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credibility already but you were
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running for me it was your rookie year
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yes i know you were probably scared
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yes i was terrified you know of the
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clothing industry
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i didn’t know what was going on but when
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i got introduced to joe
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matter of fact babs was the one that
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actually i actually seen him in the suit
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and i was like you know who make her
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stuff
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he was like oh the people that’s in the
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cafeteria and i was like oh okay
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so i actually ended up getting in touch
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with joe and then that’s kind of how our
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relationship build always started off
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from there
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and um it’s been a spectacular
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um what 14 years oh my gosh
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14 years 14 years yeah yeah yeah
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your entire career with the falcons my
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whole entire career
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and my after after career so
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you know i still can call her one thing
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i love about jill i can call her anytime
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and get stuff done in a matter of two
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days
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like when he calls i’m like um what do
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you mean
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yeah she’s like what do you need all
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right i need this suit in two days
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okay i got you but i don’t i just give
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her like a
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idea of what i wanted to look like and
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she kind of just puts it together i mean
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it’s always been a collaborative effort
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from the both of us
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yeah she it’s been times where i’ve
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looked at the fabric
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and i was like no i don’t like it and
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she was like you’re gonna like it
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i’m just going to send it to you and
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when you get it you’re going to like it
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and you can pull off almost anything
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though yeah
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but it’s been times where i didn’t think
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it was going to be good and then when it
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got here
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it was amazing yeah and then uh
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like all your teammates are like
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especially i turned everybody on to jill
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especially harry yes uh harry tried to
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copy like six of my suits
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which uh it’s inappropriate and joe
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we have a rule on the team you can’t
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copy suits like once somebody gets a
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suit
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like it’s a it’s a one and done like you
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can’t go behind the person
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and and replicate the same suit but
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harry just don’t even
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understand like anything and he was also
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his rookie year too because you bought
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him suits
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yes i had to buy him a suit because the
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man used to wear like shorts underneath
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his suits
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yes i’ve never ever seen him didn’t do
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that
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but the pants were so big and the jacket
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was so big and i was like yo
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you got to get yourself together cause
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you partnered my group
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and my group we we fashionably fine you
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know
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because i’m trusting you as a group all
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of us got together
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and i bought harry’s suit brought a
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couple other guys to suit so
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we can look good on the road you know
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the presentation
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of going on an airplane you know because
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we always take pictures and
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it’s always media and stuff like that
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around so we gotta look good we gotta
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look business-like and
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i mean our guys we are fashionable we
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pull off just about anything
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that’s a fun team yeah yeah it was a fun
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team
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um for my 11 years that i was there
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and um joe came through for me again
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um for my uh retirement ceremony she she
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she makes me have a really nice suit and
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then
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i had to alter the suit the your hall of
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fame jacket that they sent you because
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it didn’t fit the way
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yeah yeah yeah yeah so during my hall of
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fame
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you know my ringer on the thing for the
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falcons they sent me a jack i was like
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there’s like we got a jacket we just
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need your measurements so i called joe i
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was like joe
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i need my measurements for the jacket
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and i was like but i know they ain’t
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gonna do it right
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so i’m just gonna tell them send the
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jacket to you so you can fix it
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so it can come back to me look at the
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way i want it all right
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and um you know they sent it over there
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and she was like yeah this thing is
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terrible
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oh my gosh it was like no like no it
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wasn’t
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terrible it was just four sizes too big
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yeah like i had to
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re like cut everything up and and make
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it all over again but it looked amazing
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it looked amazing after it was done then
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she brought it to me it was
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it was all but the pre-suit
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out oh the pre-suit outfit yeah she
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won’t have to yeah you know the pre-suit
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yeah the pre-season alpha was amazing
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she
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she actually did two of them and um she
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wanted me to
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kind of figure out which way i wanted to
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go you know what direction so
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well we wanted to incorporate the
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falcons color
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you know we wanted to um really
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it was more of like thinking you know
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the organization
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and we wanted to honor them with the
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colors and it turned out
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yeah the color scheme was amazing it was
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black some black
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some uh grayish blackish pantses and
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then it had like
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the full falcon stripe coming up the leg
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you know with the jacket it was
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you know red black and um white so she
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implemented a jacket to it it was
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it was it was nice of course i got you
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know a couple of my guys that
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that’s still on the team was like oh
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okay i see
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you know i see you i see so yeah
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you know it’s been a true blessing now
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working with you all these years like
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you’ve always been so
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um just just supportive
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oh yeah absolutely i’ve supported jove
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because
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you cheated on me one time we’re not
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going to talk about that
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first of all she did not take that’s
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okay because i cleaned out your closet
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and you got rid of everything that i
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didn’t like absolutely
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she’s the only person right there come
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in there and throw away all my suits
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right
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and you gotta look at them you gotta
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understand i got a pile of suits right
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and these suits ain’t cheap so i made
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all this money
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this has got to go this has got to go
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this has got to go so she throwing these
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shoes and i’m looking over there like
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no you can’t throw it away run away we
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donated it
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all right yeah we don’t went to a great
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cause i’m sure yeah
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then i would come in your closet once a
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month and organize it she would
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she would which was amazing because one
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thing
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i didn’t do from joe is get pictures of
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any suit
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that that when she sent it to me it was
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together now after i put it on i don’t
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know what shirt to google whatever
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where the ghost or whatever so i’ll be
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like joe listen
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i don’t know what golden wood so you got
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to come over here and kind of get me
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right so she would come down
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each and every year and um maybe once
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twice a month
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and just order all my suits for the
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season and then
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not only that she would organize my car
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even bought me some hangers
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i did she did well i’m so ocd
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like it actually like oh those wired
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hangers oh i got a bunch of them in
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there i have a bunch of midnight
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she got my closet right but you know
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most of the time when i take my stuff to
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the cleaners i don’t ever take them off
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the hangars
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so i just put them in there
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joe lays out the red carpet for me when
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i come to l.a you know
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she takes very very good care of me you
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want to talk about denzel
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yeah yeah that’s that was the only time
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i was fanboy i
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i couldn’t even get myself together you
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know like you were
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i know but it’s just crazy like you know
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like
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i’ve met like a bunch of celebrities
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you know especially in the entertainment
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world you walk by people and things like
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that and
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it’s like only two people i’ve met
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michael jordan and dizzy washington
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where i was like
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just he you were speechless yeah i
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couldn’t really say
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that i mean i was just like like like he
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wanted
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and i was sitting next to you i was like
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joe denzel right there
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she was like yeah he had every game you
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know she making it like it’s not a big
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deal you know
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i’m like no no no like i gotta go say
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hey
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oh i got you i got you so she uh i
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walked down yep she walked down she goes
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in there
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talks to denzel and then it was like
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waved me over and i was like
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oh she did it she did it i’m like
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i didn’t even know what to say you know
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so that he didn’t get a good five
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seconds to like
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actually yeah yeah yeah it was it was
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kind of weird
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it was the first time i felt like like
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like nervous about meeting anybody
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me personally i see joe’s family i mean
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through our relationship
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i’ve sat down with joe and over dinner
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and
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you know in times of my life where i
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needed to talk to her
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she’s giving me you know a lot of great
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advice on what directions to head in and
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um
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help me out in my relationship life
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relationships
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relationships lives you know just just
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kept me humble and kept me
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you know going on and always believed in
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me and always was like you know what you
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figured out
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you know you always you know i’ve always
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got your back no matter what and
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it’s been a blessing just to have her on
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the team because it’s hard to find
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people not only in
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to have a personal relationship with but
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can dress you as good as she does
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you know put you in front of the camera
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and make you look
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spectacular every time oh
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no it’s time for you to cry because that
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was really good
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i always cry i’m really trying to keep
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it together
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that was definitely my family and it
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just happened like so organically
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it was never always about clothes you
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know
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it’s i’m not the type of person who’s
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like hey you have new outfits when you
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want to look at it it’s more like how
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are you how’s the family how’s your mom
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yeah absolutely close was like secondary
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yeah it was
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actually our relationship got so good it
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was like we never actually
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actually have conversations about you
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know clothes until i
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actually would text her and be like hey
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what you got for me
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tomorrow she was like i already got the
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patterns ready ready for the season i
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know you were gonna call me late
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and i was like oh okay i’m just making
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sure you got everything
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because i could be a last minute guy
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you’re last minute all the time
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not 95 percent of the time i got to know
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if you can be able to get it done
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and she’s answered the bill you know
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every time you know you know
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well i just it’s been an honor to watch
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you your entire career it’s always been
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fun watching you guys
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you know on on sundays and all your
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posts and pictures and
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but hall of fame was really amazing just
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to be part of that
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and be around your family and your kids
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and and watch the whole ceremony
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like that was a true honor so i’m
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thankful for that oh yeah absolutely
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um you know it was a couple we had a we
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had a really nice party and
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i invited all my real friends too so
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so of course joe was on the list and
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just to sit around and
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you know talk to each other and just
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have an amazing time an amazing night
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you know and um i was the best dressed
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person in there
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by far because you know she made me look
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spectacular again that night so um
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i mean i can’t be more grateful for a
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person you know not only as
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somebody that’s helped me throughout the
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process of actually becoming a man
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because
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prior to me wearing suits for joe i used
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to wear walkers
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oh gosh i threw all those away
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but you were easy to get because i still
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my
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my like memory of trying to get you as a
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client you were on the golf
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on the golf little cart yeah and you’re
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driving away
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and i’m like running after you and my
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heels and you’re just like pretending
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like you didn’t see
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oh no you’re on your phone pretend
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you’re talking to somebody on the phone
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and i
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know you probably weren’t but i was like
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trying to run after you and you’re like
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bye so ronnie i want
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to thank you for allowing us into your
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home and
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i just from the bottom of my heart
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appreciate you and you know how much i
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love you and i can’t wait to see where
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your next career is going and
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and all that and just know that i’m
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always here for you oh thank you
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and i appreciate everything that you’ve
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done for me not only
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in the industry of you know making me
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suits and things like that but just
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being a great friend to me to me my
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family and
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always looking out for me no matter what
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the situation was and
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always coming through you know i just
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remember the time i called joe
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and told her i needed a suit for one of
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my friends weddings
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you know and um that was like a
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three-day thing
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and she made it happen and it came out
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spectacular and
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he was just amazed he was like man i
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ain’t no you could get stuff done like
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that
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i said with joe anything is possible
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it’s true
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but we’ll just leave it
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