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already politically charged. Well, wait until

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the end of the day. We start here. Florida

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prepares for a near total ban on

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abortion while Arizona considers stepping beyond the

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1800s. There's one

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person responsible for this

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nightmare and he's acknowledging and he

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brags about it, Donald Trump. On

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a monumental day, how residents and

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presidential candidates are reacting. Marjorie

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Taylor Greene wanted to get the House speaker

1:00

fired. She failed. She

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is a legislative arsonist and

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she is holding the gas tank. Why

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Democrats made the decision to swoop in

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historic shift at the federal level and

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could be changing. From

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ABC News, this is Start Here. I'm

1:26

Brad Milkey. We

1:34

told you that former President Donald Trump might

1:36

be on the wrong side of the law

1:38

in his hush money trial. That regardless of

1:40

what the jury finds, he could be found

1:42

in contempt of court for violating a gag

1:44

order by making misleading posts about his case.

1:47

Yesterday, a judge made good on that promise.

1:50

He ordered Trump pay a $9,000 fine and

1:53

threatened potential jail time if Trump doesn't abide

1:56

by the rules of the courtroom. And yet,

1:58

these might not be the case. be

2:00

the public comments that most impact

2:02

Trump's election chances. Now when

2:05

Trump is under fire from all sides on

2:07

abortion rights, foreign president now said the issue

2:09

should be for the states to decide. Abortion

2:11

is clearly on the ballot this year. In

2:13

some states, the right to an abortion is

2:15

literally on the ballot. And in recent interviews,

2:18

Trump has been unclear about whether

2:20

any state abortion law would go

2:22

too far in his eyes. The states

2:24

will determine by vote or legislation or

2:26

perhaps both, and whatever

2:29

they decide must be the law of

2:31

the land, in this case, the

2:33

law of the state. Well today in Florida, all

2:35

of this politicking is about to be put to

2:37

the test because a ban on

2:39

virtually all abortions in Florida is about to

2:42

go into effect. This is demanding answers of

2:44

both the former and current presidents, of course.

2:46

So let's bring in ABC's chief White House

2:48

correspondent Mary Bruce. She is at the West

2:51

Wing right now. Mary, first off, Florida,

2:53

what is about to happen there today? Well,

2:55

starting today, that six-week ban on abortions

2:57

goes into effect in this critical state,

3:00

with exceptions, of course, for rape, incest,

3:02

and the life of the mother. But

3:04

it has made Florida such a critical

3:07

testing ground, both politically and for abortion

3:09

rights in this country. And Brad, it

3:11

really goes beyond just Florida because, of

3:14

course, the state has really become a

3:16

major access point for abortions across the

3:18

southeast. So this has an impact not

3:21

just on women in Florida, but thousands

3:23

of women who have been traveling to

3:25

the state to also receive abortions and

3:27

abortion care. Well, and both campaigns really hitting

3:30

the trail in different parts of the country today. I

3:32

mean, what are they saying about this? Look,

3:34

Florida is now one of 13 states where abortion

3:36

could be on the ballot this November.

3:39

Both races know just how critical this

3:41

issue is going to be, especially in

3:43

these key battleground states. And the Biden-Harris

3:45

campaign is certainly aware that every time

3:47

abortion has been on the ballot since

3:49

Roe was overturned, even in red states,

3:51

abortion rights have won. I do

3:53

think that having abortion on the ballot is

3:56

a huge incentive to young voters. And

3:59

I think we've seen... in the past that when young

4:01

voters do get passion and do get brought up,

4:03

they do have the ability to sway elections. It

4:06

is part of the reason why Kamala Harris is

4:08

going to be down in Florida today, hammering

4:11

home their message on this and directly

4:13

taking the fight to Donald Trump. We've

4:15

seen in recent weeks both Kamala Harris

4:18

is really leading the charge on this

4:20

for their campaign, but also President Biden

4:22

really arguing that Donald Trump is to

4:24

blame for all of these restrictions and

4:26

bans that are now taking effect across

4:28

the country. Let's be real clear, there's

4:31

one person responsible for

4:33

this nightmare and he's acknowledged

4:35

and he brags about it, Donald Trump. They

4:38

say he owns this because he appointed

4:40

three of the Supreme Court justices who

4:43

overturned Roe versus Wade, a point that

4:45

Donald Trump still brags about. I was

4:47

proudly the person responsible for the

4:49

ending of something that all

4:52

legal scholars both sides wanted

4:54

and in fact demanded be

4:56

ended Roe v. Wade.

4:59

And we have heard Donald Trump repeatedly

5:01

say, look, this is an issue that's up

5:03

to the states and he has said recently

5:05

that he thinks they are handling it brilliantly,

5:07

but he's now going even further. In an

5:09

interview with Time magazine that came out yesterday,

5:11

Donald Trump says he won't stand in the

5:14

way if states want to monitor pregnant women

5:16

to make sure they comply with abortion bans

5:18

and he says he won't step in to

5:20

prevent states from prosecuting women who violate those

5:22

bans by ending their pregnancies. Wait, I

5:24

just want to be clear about what we're talking

5:26

here. This is like a hypothetical law in which

5:28

you would have pregnant women be monitored so that

5:30

the state government could go back and be like,

5:32

you had the baby, you didn't have an abortion

5:34

or they have to prove to us that you

5:36

had a miscarriage if that's what was happening. Is

5:38

that what we're talking about? Donald Trump

5:40

was asked directly if he thinks states should

5:43

monitor women's pregnancies so they can know if

5:45

they've gotten an abortion after the ban and

5:47

Trump told Time and I quote, I think

5:49

they might do that. Again, he said you'll

5:51

have to speak to the individual states. Okay,

5:53

so there's the Florida ban taking effect today. That's

5:55

not the only state where things are happening, by

5:57

the way. Arizona lawmakers in the state.

6:00

Senate are expected to perhaps pass a repeal

6:02

of that 1864 law that suddenly

6:04

became state law in the absence of Roe v. Wade,

6:07

how are political leaders thinking about this?

6:09

Because these are swing states when you

6:11

got these huge upheavals in an election

6:13

year. Well, while we now have more

6:15

than 20 states that have enacted new laws

6:18

and restrictions and bans since the overturning of

6:20

Roe versus Wade, you have also now seen

6:22

how this issue can motivate voters. You

6:26

know, we have a 60 percent threshold here in

6:28

Florida to get an amendment passed. I think we

6:30

are going to easily clear that because of the

6:32

youth turnout, but I think we're going to see

6:34

a lot of Republican crossover because I think they're

6:36

tired of their own party with this issue. And

6:39

that is something that especially the Biden-Harris campaign

6:41

is banking on, right? They are hoping that

6:43

if they can really continue to make this

6:45

issue a central focus in this campaign, that

6:47

it will drive voters to the polls in

6:49

November in a way that they feel will

6:51

benefit Democrats going forward. I

6:53

am concerned about women's

6:55

reproductive rights. I don't see how you

6:57

can be pro-life and not be concerned about

6:59

what's happening to women. And you continue to

7:01

see Donald Trump also well aware while he

7:03

is bragging and boasting of the steps that

7:05

he took to overturn Roe. He is also

7:07

trying to distance himself in some ways by saying,

7:10

look, this is up to the states trying to

7:12

distance himself from any kind of national

7:14

ban. That's an argument that the

7:16

Biden-Harris team clearly disagrees with. As

7:18

President Biden tweeted out yesterday, quote,

7:20

Donald Trump doesn't trust women, saying

7:22

I do. All right. Mary

7:25

Bruce there at the White House will continue to see how

7:27

these appearances go today. Thank you so much. Thanks,

7:29

Ben. So

7:34

you remember how House Speaker Mike Johnson has

7:36

been on thin ice in his own party

7:38

recently. I have to do my job. We

7:41

have to do what we believe to be

7:43

the right thing. Specifically, there are lots of

7:45

Republicans uncomfortable with the amount of foreign aid

7:47

he's been doling out and using Democratic support

7:50

to push through his proposals. Mike

7:52

Johnson is a lame duck. Are you ever

7:54

going to bring out a couple Republicans,

7:56

including Marjorie Taylor Greene, have suggested holding

7:58

a vote to take. the gavel out

8:01

of his hands. Well, yesterday, in a

8:03

fascinating piece of political theater, Green

8:05

started to push ahead with this plan

8:07

while lawmakers came to Johnson's defense, saying

8:09

they won't let it happen. The unusual

8:11

thing here is, those lawmakers that made

8:13

the difference were Democrats. Let's go to

8:15

ABC senior congressional correspondent Rachel Scott. She's

8:17

at the Capitol right now. Rachel, it's

8:19

been this kind of like will she

8:21

or won't she vibe right now? What

8:23

was the plan from Congresswoman Green here?

8:25

Yeah, Brad, and honestly, we've been asking

8:28

ourselves that question for 40 days. She

8:30

has been dangling out this threat in

8:32

front of Speaker Johnson's face now for

8:35

weeks. And look, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene

8:37

is very upset at Speaker Johnson. He

8:39

did this bull in here on the

8:41

House floor, foreign war package that does

8:44

nothing for America. She's mad that he

8:46

worked with Democrats to fund the government.

8:48

She's upset that he worked with Democrats

8:51

to pass much needed aid to Israel,

8:53

Ukraine and Taiwan. Mike Johnson is literally

8:55

betraying the American people in order to

8:57

keep his grip of power on the

9:00

speakership. She called all of this a

9:02

betrayal. And so she says that Johnson

9:04

should step down, that he should resign,

9:06

and that if he doesn't, she's going

9:08

to force a vote to oust him.

9:10

And remember, any single lawmaker could

9:13

force a vote to try to remove

9:15

the Speaker of the House. Johnson does

9:17

have this razor thin majority. He can

9:19

only afford to lose two Republicans. If

9:22

all the Democrats are united against him,

9:24

three Republicans say they want him gone.

9:26

And so yesterday, Brad, the House comes

9:29

back into session. There

9:34

is this thought, is she going to finally

9:36

bring this forward? You have a lot of

9:39

Republicans that just say, do it already. And

9:42

then that put all eyes on Democrats. And

9:44

many were asking, what are Democrats going to

9:46

do? And are they going to try and

9:48

save Speaker Johnson's job? She

9:51

is a legislative archivist and she

9:53

is holding the gas tank. Democrats

9:56

came out and they said that they

9:58

would save the Republicans. Speaker

10:00

of the House. This is a striking

10:02

move. Typically you have Democrats support a

10:04

Democratic Speaker of

10:07

the House. You have Republicans support a Republican Speaker

10:09

of the House. But all of a

10:11

sudden you had Democrats banding together

10:13

with the majority of Republicans saying that

10:15

they do not want to send the

10:17

House into chaos again. Let's turn

10:19

the page. Let's focus on the issues

10:21

that the American people care about. There's

10:24

an FAA bill that was dropped. There's

10:26

important work that we still have ahead.

10:28

Look Brad, we all remember those weeks

10:30

where we did not have a Speaker of

10:32

the House or the House was paralyzed. They

10:34

couldn't move forward on any legislation. No one

10:37

wants to see that happen except for these far

10:40

right fringe members of the Republican Conference. And so

10:42

you have a number of Democrats that came forward

10:44

and said that they want to turn the page.

10:46

It's possible that this could happen again. With

10:49

respect to this motion

10:51

that she could bring up, we

10:54

want to turn the page and we want to move on. And they

10:56

do not want to let, in their words,

10:58

these fringe Republicans like Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene

11:01

dictate the schedule. But wait,

11:03

I'm so confused Rachel because I'm just

11:06

thinking like from a Democratic lawmakers point

11:08

of view, wouldn't you love to just

11:10

pull out the popcorn and watch the

11:12

Republican party eat itself alive on the

11:15

House floor? Like what is the upside

11:17

to keeping and legitimizing this Republican Speaker?

11:19

Yeah and that's exactly what they did when

11:21

Speaker McCarthy was ousted. You remember Democrats had

11:23

that popcorn, they were sitting in the chamber,

11:25

they were watching that chaos unfold and they

11:27

said to Republicans look, you created this, you

11:30

fix it. Well this time is

11:32

a little different here because Speaker

11:34

Johnson really pulled off something that

11:36

a lot of Democrats didn't think that he

11:38

could really do and that

11:40

was get that much needed aid

11:42

to Ukraine passed. Johnson knew that

11:45

the majority of Republicans did not

11:47

support that in his Republican Conference.

11:49

And Brad, look, in a lot of ways I've talked

11:51

to sources within the Democratic party and they say trust

11:54

the devil you know and by that it means Trust

11:56

the Speaker that at least you know. And so if

11:59

he's showing that, he's. Going to reach across the

12:01

aisle that is willing to move forward in a

12:03

bipartisan way on these key issues. Or they might

12:05

as well work with him because they have no

12:07

idea who they're going to get next. So

12:09

where does that leave? Speaker John Cena Worry about lead

12:11

Marjorie Taylor Green like see it. Like you said, she's

12:14

been kind of dangling Mrs like everyone is that like

12:16

her. We knew the parties that a lot of power

12:18

is. This Is there no power? They are now. As

12:20

yeah Well, there really isn't quite a

12:23

lot, and a lot of Republicans even

12:25

are just flat out frustrated. With her

12:27

fingers much if any support from

12:29

ocean vacate the south symbolism as

12:31

all right but idol models for

12:33

this I think there needs to

12:35

be a higher standard for any

12:37

such vacate of the chair. We

12:39

ask republicans one by one whether or not

12:42

they support Greens efforts and the majority of

12:44

them told us that they don't Would he

12:46

make of all this. Look. It's

12:48

a sideshow, and it's not actually

12:51

accomplishing anything. So many even told us

12:53

that they were frustrated by this. They called it

12:55

all aside so. She would be democrats

12:57

to remove my johnson, so it's offensive

13:00

nonsense frankly what she's talking about and

13:02

we. Are six months out from an election

13:04

and a lot of Republicans appear say this is

13:06

not the type of message that they want to

13:08

be sending to voters. That's the Republican party has

13:11

all this infighting and they can't come together. they

13:13

can't To the speaker the can't settle on anything.

13:16

Of going to do my job and continue to

13:18

keep my head down is a very serious time

13:20

for the country. the we're not playing games years

13:23

world is on fire as. For Johnson look, He

13:25

says he did not cut a deal with democrats

13:27

to keep his. Job the Speaker The House

13:29

There's a whole body. I'm I'm a

13:31

conservative Republican, A lifelong conservative republican. That's

13:33

what my philosophy is that on my

13:35

record is and will continue to govern

13:38

on on those principles and. He's calling

13:40

this all a distraction. He is not

13:42

going to step down to resign and

13:44

really he's standing by his actions. He

13:46

says that he did the right thing.

13:48

He has a job to do a

13:50

right now that's on keeping a functioning

13:52

Congress. gigs usually think journalists and you're nothing

13:54

gets done i mean so things have been happening

13:56

in congress and the also wonder if maybe washington

13:58

in disarray that kind of had line also then

14:00

boomerangs back and reflects on the president and people's

14:02

minds as they go to the polls. Rachel Scott

14:04

there at the Capitol thank you so much. Thanks

14:06

Brad. Next

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up on start here last dance for

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we do stories about marijuana being legal

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in such and such a state, you

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gotta remember it is still federally illegal.

16:33

It is a Schedule 1 narcotic according

16:35

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16:37

reason you're not hearing stories about the

16:39

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16:41

and people openly smoking weed in public

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16:46

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classify it as something further down the

16:52

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16:54

learned that's exactly what the Department of

16:56

Justice plans on doing. Let's go to

16:58

ABC's Justin Gomez who covers the Biden

17:01

administration. Justin, what are you hearing? So

17:03

Brad sources are telling us over here

17:05

that the DEA is recommending classifying marijuana

17:07

as a less dangerous drug, moving it

17:09

from a Schedule 1 classification alongside other

17:11

drugs, very dangerous drugs like heroin and

17:14

LSD to a less severe Schedule 3

17:16

drug which puts it alongside

17:19

ketamine, anabolic steroids, and testosterone.

17:21

Now those Schedule 1 drugs are considered to have a

17:23

high risk of abuse with no recognized medical use

17:26

in the US, while the Schedule 5

17:28

drugs at the lower end of the

17:30

scale have a lower potential

17:32

for abuse. And this is all stemming

17:34

from a directive that President Biden gave

17:36

in October 2022. He asked the Health

17:38

and Human Services Secretary and the Attorney

17:40

General to begin reviewing how marijuana is

17:42

scheduled under federal law. At that

17:44

time he said it made no sense for marijuana to

17:47

be on the same level as something like heroin.

17:49

Wait, okay, so there's 1 through 5? So this

17:51

would land it right in the middle then, like Schedule

17:53

3. What would that mean? Like what's the actual

17:55

impact of that if that happens? So Brad, it'll

17:57

actually be a historic shift at the federal level

18:00

agency's biggest policy change in over 50 years.

18:02

Now we know that 38 states have legalized

18:04

medical marijuana and 24 states

18:06

have legalized its recreational use but federal policy

18:08

has been behind in this area. Cannabis

18:10

is a multi-billion dollar industry and easing these

18:13

federal regulations could reduce the tax burden

18:15

for a majority of those businesses. It would

18:17

also still be regulated by the DEA

18:19

and dispensaries would have to register with the

18:21

agency just like a regular pharmacy but it

18:24

could also make it easier to conduct

18:26

clinical studies on marijuana which has been difficult

18:28

to do as a Schedule 1 drug.

18:30

It's interesting what you said about the dispensaries

18:32

because you're right like for the last several

18:34

years they basically had to act like these

18:36

dispensaries don't exist because federally they're completely illegal

18:38

and but they don't want to prosecute them

18:40

so they just had to be like I

18:42

hope the states regulate them now you can

18:44

imagine the federal government being even like more

18:46

involved. What happens next for

18:49

this potential policy then because the DEA hasn't

18:51

signed off yet? Not yet this is still

18:53

far from a done deal and even if

18:55

approved it's important to know that it does

18:57

not legalize marijuana outright it would still be

18:59

a class three substance so stick with

19:01

me for a little bit here. Once the Department

19:03

of Justice sends their recommendation to the White House's

19:05

Office of Management and Budget they will

19:08

open it up to a public comment period. Once

19:10

that is complete it will then be

19:13

sent back to DOJ which will run

19:15

its own process and review those comments.

19:17

There will also be hearings by an

19:20

administrative law judge. Now it's a lengthy

19:22

process. Don't expect implementation of this rule

19:24

to happen anytime soon if

19:26

the rule does become finalized. So okay so

19:29

that's helpful guidance and like expectation setting. I'm

19:31

also just wondering Justin like are there any

19:33

reasons not to do this either from a

19:35

public health perspective or a law

19:37

enforcement perspective like this has been in place so

19:40

many years. I'm just trying to figure out why

19:42

it hasn't changed. Is that just inertia or are

19:44

there real reasons to not go ahead with this?

19:46

So from a medical standpoint Brad physicians don't think

19:49

marijuana belongs in the same list as the more

19:51

dangerous drugs like heroin but

19:53

continue to have concerns about its widespread

19:55

use. Some critics also say

19:57

that they still see this as a gateway drug. But

20:00

it's a move that would widely be welcomed

20:02

by the administration. The president has already pardoned

20:04

thousands of people convicted of simple marijuana possession

20:07

at the federal level. And of course, we're

20:09

in an election year. Politics

20:11

is at the top of mind going towards November. And

20:13

it fulfills one of the president's 2020 campaign

20:16

promises ahead of the election. From

20:18

a political view, it could give him a

20:20

boost with those younger voters that he needs

20:22

to secure that win in November. Right, because

20:24

the White House is supposed to be theoretically

20:26

separate from the DOJ. And yet, you know

20:28

the president who's seen support from younger voters

20:30

dwindling even just in recent weeks would

20:32

love to have kind of a win among those voters. All

20:34

right, Justin Gomez, they're at the White House. Thank you so

20:37

much. Thank you, Brad. Okay,

20:39

one more quick break. When we come back,

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one last thing. What do

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you do when your kid tells you

21:24

there's a monster in their closet? Do

21:26

you assure them? Maybe sit with them

21:28

while they fall asleep? Well, perhaps you

21:30

should be investigating. This week, Chris and

21:32

Ashley Klass from Charlotte, North Carolina told

21:34

Good Morning America how lately their three-year-old

21:36

daughter has been really enjoying the movie

21:39

Monsters, Inc. Hey, that looks like Randall.

21:42

Randall's your monster. She would say,

21:45

Mama, Dad, Dad, there's monsters in my room,

21:47

you know, like almost shaking in fear. They

21:50

tried to talk her down, but the

21:52

complaints didn't subside. By the time winter

21:54

turned in the spring, they started to

21:56

notice something was going on in their

21:58

century-old farmhouse. noticed a couple

22:00

bees when we were outside playing with the kids

22:02

when it started to get better weather here in

22:05

Charlotte. Eventually they called in a pest

22:07

control company, enter professional beekeeper Curtis Collins.

22:09

A beehive creates a lot of heat

22:11

so it shows up on a thermal

22:13

camera really well. He goes into the

22:15

house with a heat seeking camera and

22:18

doesn't find anything until he tries the

22:20

bedrooms. And

22:22

sure enough we went into the toddler's

22:25

room and very quickly got a heat

22:27

signature on the wall. But when he

22:30

says he found a beehive, that doesn't

22:32

quite do it justice. This honeycomb stretched

22:34

the entire height of the

22:36

room, floor to ceiling. The

22:39

wall itself had become a

22:41

monstrous, vibrating beehive. Based

22:43

on the weight of bees that

22:46

I removed, I

22:48

would say I've probably removed somewhere between

22:50

50 and 60 thousand bees. As

22:53

of this week, these honeybees are still being

22:55

removed from their house. The daughter is sleeping

22:57

in a different room and Ashley says it's

22:59

proof that your kid is never too young

23:02

to be taken seriously and that if you

23:04

hear a monster, honey, say something before it

23:06

becomes an even stickier situation. Alright,

23:10

that'll do it for us today. By the way, our

23:13

own Rachel Scott, who you heard earlier, she really really

23:15

wanted to wish our listeners a happy in sync day.

23:18

If you know you know, it's gonna be

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May. I guess it already is. Worn all

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