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From: QEChat Log kit, anine, sam <noreply@qechat.earthsys.gov>
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To: anine (Amelia Nine) <anine@expeditionsupport.gov>
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To: sam (Sameen Lee) <sameen.lee@recoveryinstitute.org>
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To: kit (Chris Maldonado) <cmaldonado@voortrekker.com>
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Delivered-To: Sameen Lee <sameen.lee@recoveryinstitute.org>
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Date: 19 Sep 2421 14:37:48 +0000
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Date-Local: 05 Apr 2419 18:01:48 +0000
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf8"
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Subject: Chat Log kit, anine, sam
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[14:02]
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kit: hello?
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[14:03]
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anine: kit hi!
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sam: is that you?
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kit: yes it's really me!
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anine: i thought you couldnt chat from there!
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[14:04]
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kit: not in flight! it tied up the qec too much
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kit: but when i heard you got hurt i talked to director soloviev
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and he said it was ok since we aren't using the qec much any more
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anyway
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kit: are you ok? what happened?
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[14:05]
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anine: i'm ok!
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kit: sam said you got hurt bad
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anine: bruises mostly
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anine: also i lost part of my left leg
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kit: oh my god what
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anine: below the knee. it's okay! i'm okay
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[14:06]
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kit: how can you say that? your leg oh no
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anine: Kit. Take a breath.
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anine: I'm really okay. I promise.
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kit: but
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kit: i really like your legs!
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[14:07]
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anine: hahahahaha kit i love you so much
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sam: so kit, this jen you've spoken so well of, is that jennifer
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story?
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kit: yeah, why?
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sam: well, i'm not there to swat you for what you just said, so...
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[14:08]
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kit: haha i bet she would! i mean, i don't exactly have a butt any
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more, but she'd find a way
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kit: god i miss you both so much
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sam: i miss you too, ma petite!
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anine: me too!
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kit: wish i was there with you
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[14:09]
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kit: curled up with you both on that awful couch
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sam: us too
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anine: we're on titan right now though! no awful couches in sight
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kit: oh wow, titan? what's it like?
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anine: well, the hospital is nice
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anine: they're taking good care of me, and the amenities are
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wonderful
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[14:10]
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sam: ah. i'm an amenity
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anine: my favorite amenity!
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anine: other than that i haven't seen much
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kit: not up and around yet?
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anine: well, as much as i can be with only the one foot
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anine: that complicates things a little!
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[14:11]
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kit: it would, wouldn't it.
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kit: i'm sorry
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anine: don't be.
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anine: i mean this is weird and i hate it and i'm not really okay
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with it yet sure but
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anine: if i can make light of it anyway, why shouldn't you?
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anine: besides, i want to laugh now, i have to get evaluated for a
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prosthetic in a little while
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anine: and that wont be fun
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[14:12]
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kit: ooh, nerve mapping, i bet it won't be
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anine: we really should come out there to ross
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anine: i mean, on the one hand, we get to see you again
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anine: on the other, i hear legs aren't always a problem there
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anine: i wanted to ask...what's that like?
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sam: we're both wondering!
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anine: i mean if it's ok to ask
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[14:13]
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kit: no, it's okay! uh
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[14:14]
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kit: i mean at first i felt like i *should* feel like something's
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wrong i guess? i mean ive always had legs, and then i suddenly
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didn't, and you'd think that would really upset me, right?
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kit: or like
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kit: amelia, so, your leg...
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kit: does it feel like it's still there sometimes?
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[14:15]
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anine: oh god all the time! that's the weirdest part like my brain
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still hasn't got used to it either and keeps imagining it's still
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there and it *itches*
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kit: yeah, i've read that, phantom limb syndrome
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anine: yeah, that's what they called it
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kit: and that seems like it should happen here too, right? i mean
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i've got tentacles now where i used to have legs, shouldn't i feel
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like my legs are still there somehow?
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[14:16]
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kit: i never did though, not even when i woke up
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kit: i mean i was surprised, but it didn't feel *wrong*, i didn't
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feel like i was missing parts, or like my tentacles weren't part
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of me somehow
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kit: which honestly was among the weirder parts of that day, i kept
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thinking i should be horrified and i kept just...not being
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kit: and i mean
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[14:17]
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kit: a lot of that had to do with how i feel about the other
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changes, i mean i don't even know how to start explaining how
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wonderful that was to wake up to!
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anine: sweetie you don't have to!
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sam: i won't say we understand, ma petite, we can't know what it's
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like. but we are both so happy for you!
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anine: yes we are!
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[14:18]
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kit: aw yo utwo
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kit: i dont knwo
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[14:19]
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kit: i don't know what i ever did to deserve either of you
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kit: to deserve you both? that's a lifetime's worth of good luck
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for this girl
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anine: you hush. luck has nothing to do with it.
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sam: you should give yourself the credit you're due, ma petite.
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[14:20]
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kit: you know, you're right
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sam: we are!
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anine: but when did you ever admit that?
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sam: you have changed!
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kit: yeah i have! i wish the QEC could send pictures
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kit: i mean i look *good* now
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kit: tentacles and all!
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[14:21]
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kit: which is nice since we still haven't really figured out how to
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make clothes work for ourselves yet
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kit: shirts are ok and i guess skirts or something but we mostly
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just don't bother and no one seems to care
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anine: hahahaha i wish i could see you! we both do!
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kit: well, if you can get places in the third expedition...
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[14:22]
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kit: how are things back home? some of the rumors going around are
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a little scary
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sam: it's not good.
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anine: i came back from ganymede on a lunar ship, and an earth ship
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tried to stop us partway to luna. the captain didn't stop so they
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shot at us
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kit: what
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kit: that's how you got hurt?
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anine: yeah
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kit: oh no
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[14:23]
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sam: yeah. no one's done any more shooting yet, but it's just a
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matter of time
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sam: earthgov probably hasn't made up their mind on what to do yet,
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that's always such a mess, and anyway they're worrying about mars
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right now too
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sam: and we don't *want* a war, we're not trying to make this any
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worse than it is already
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sam: but we're almost certainly about to have one whether we want
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it or not
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[14:24]
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kit: oh god
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kit: but at least you're on titan, we heard about the alliance but
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it's so far out, i mean
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sam: that's the thinking right now, yeah, it'd be very hard for
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earth to hit here, especially with their fleet split
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kit: god i wish you were here SO BAD
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kit: we're still putting everything back together but at least it's
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safe here
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[14:25]
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anine: us too, sweetie. us too.
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kit: what's happening on mars?
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sam: no one's really sure but it sounds like the talks broke down,
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earth's saying it was sabotage, the belt's calling it a labor
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uprising, no one really knows what to think
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kit: maybe it'll keep earth so busy they can't make any more
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problems
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anine: we can hope...
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[14:27]
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anine: well, it's just about time for my torture session.
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kit: oh no, that makes it sound even worse
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anine: i'm kidding! it won't be that bad
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sam: it had better not be. i'm going to be sitting right next to
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the tech the whole time, one yell and he's going to have a very
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bad afternoon
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anine: i'll be fine! use your words
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[14:28]
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sam: i will!
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sam: "neckhold" is a word
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anine: aaaaaaa what am i ever going to do with you
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kit: kiss her!
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kit: and then kiss her again for me
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anine: yes'm
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[14:29]
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anine: done
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kit: that took a while!
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kit: good.
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kit: good luck with the nerve mapping, lia! and to both of you, and
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stay safe, please
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kit: don't go making me worry than i'm already going to
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sam: we wont. promise!
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anine: oops, there's the nurse
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kit: ok! more news later when i can! love you both!
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anine: love you too!
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sam: nous t'aimons beaucoup, ma petite!
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[anine: Quit: i'll yell if i feel like it]
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[sam: Quit: and i'll strangle a medtech if i feel like it!]
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[kit: Quit: well now i'm not worried at *all*]
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