S1E0 Start Here: Welcome to Live Good. Walk Good.

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No gods, no guilt.

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Just the work of being human.

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That's the heart of Live Good.

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Walk Good.

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If you've ever felt the ground shifting

underneath your beliefs, or if you've

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quietly thought, maybe I can be

good, just because I choose to be.

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If you've ever wondered what it

means to live well without religion,

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especially here in the Caribbean, where

faith is woven into so much of our

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everyday life, then pull up a chair.

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This is your space.

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I'm Bianca, your host.

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A lifelong question asker, a humanist

and someone who has been on her own

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journey of unlearning, reframing,

and figuring out what it really means

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to be good without the promise of

heaven and without the fear of hell.

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Rooted in a Caribbean lens, but speaking

to a global conversation, we explore

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meaning, morality, and the messy

beautiful business of being human.

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No divine permission slip required.

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Let's start with why

this podcast even exists.

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If I'm being honest, for a long

time I didn't think too deeply about

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why I believed what I believed.

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Like so many of us in the Caribbean,

I grew up in a space where religion

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wasn't just something you did on Sunday.

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It was in the songs we sang in

devotions at school, the opening

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prayers before meetings, the phrases

that you'd hear every single day.

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And I don't say that with judgment.

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It's part of our cultural

DNA, and I loved it.

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I loved the sense of community,

the shared moments, the music.

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Even some of the rituals.

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But at the same time, I struggled

with the idea that goodness

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had to be tied to belief, that

morality needed a divine referee.

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And somewhere along the way I started to

ask myself, do I actually believe this?

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Or is this just the water I've

been swimming in my whole life?

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The seed for this podcast really started

years ago sitting in church, feeling

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both connected and disconnected, and

that's when the questions started.

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The answers that I found didn't end

up leading me back to those pews.

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They led me to humanism.

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They led me to this idea that I

can live a good life with kindness,

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compassion, integrity, but without

tying any of those things to a

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divine reward or a divine punishment.

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But when I went looking for

conversations about this in a Caribbean

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context, I found almost nothing.

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I could find lots of YouTube

debates between atheists and

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pastors from the UK or the US.

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I could find self-help podcasts

telling me how to manifest abundance.

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I could find online groups that

leaned heavily skeptic and felt

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more like they just wanted to bash

religion, and those who believed.

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What I couldn't find was a space that

felt like home, where we could talk

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about meaning, morality, and community

in a way that's rooted in our stories,

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our rhythms, our sense of belonging.

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I realized there was a gap in our

conversations here in the Caribbean

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because if you leave the church or if

you never belonged in the first place,

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where do you go to talk about values,

about purpose, about living a meaningful

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life without that religious framework?

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I wanted to create that space,

not to attack faith, but

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to explore life beyond it.

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That's really the gap that

I want this podcast to fill.

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It's not an anti-religion podcast.

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There are no shouting matches here.

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I'm not here to tear down anybody's faith.

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It's definitely not a self-help quick

fix podcast filled with fluff either.

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I'm not looking to give anybody 10

steps to fix your life by Friday.

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It is a place for honest, thoughtful,

sometimes messy human conversations

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about what it means to live good

and walk good on your own terms.

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Where your belief or the absence

of it is just one part of the

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story, not the whole story.

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A space where we can talk about

living well, caring for each other

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and finding purpose without needing

a stamp of approval from the heavens.

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So who is this podcast really for?

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If you're listening to this, maybe

you're in that quiet in-between place.

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Maybe you've started to realize

that the faith you grew up

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with doesn't quite fit anymore.

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Like a shirt that shrank in the

wash, you can still put it on, but

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it's tight in all the wrong places.

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Or maybe you've never been religious,

but you've always felt the side

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eye, that unspoken assumption that

without God in your life, you must be

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lost, selfish, or somehow less than.

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You're here because you want to live with

purpose, to love people well, to do right

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in the world, to stand for something.

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But you don't need divine

surveillance to keep you in line.

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You're tired of being told that your

only options are to be devote or to be

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directionless, and you want the third way.

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The way that says morality, compassion,

and joy are human responsibilities,

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not heavenly assignments.

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This is for the person who maybe

has stepped away from organized

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religion but still wants to live

with intention and integrity.

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It's for the person who's craving ritual,

meaning and connection, but doesn't

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want to have to say a creed to belong.

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It's for the person who's tired of the

idea that without God, you're lost.

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And maybe you also want to hear from

somebody who knows the Caribbean

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experience, the way faith is baked

into the food, the greetings, the

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national holidays, but also sees

the beauty and belonging that we

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can have outside of that framework.

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If you've ever thought, I want to

live well, I just don't need church to

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tell me how, this podcast is for you.

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So here's what you can expect

from Live Good, Walk Good.

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The theme of this first season

is the beginning -why we seek.

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We're starting where all good journeys

start, with the deep down hunger that

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makes us ask questions in the first place.

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What are we looking for

when we look for meaning?

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Why do we reach for ritual?

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What makes us want to be good.

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And how do we decide what that even means?

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We'll look at how we start building

an ethical life without religion.

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We'll talk about letting go of

inherited beliefs, finding your moral

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compass, craving ritual, and building

belonging outside belief systems.

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And because this is all rooted in a

Caribbean context, we'll be drawing

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from our culture, our history, our

values, and seeing how much of what

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we already live is humanist at heart.

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You'll get a mix of things as we

explore these topics, but each week

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you will get honest conversation.

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Some weeks it'll just be me

sharing stories, exploring ideas,

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pulling threads from history,

philosophy, and lived experience.

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Other weeks I will bring in guests.

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People who are doing the work

of living well without leaning

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on religious scaffolding.

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Sometimes, they'll be

thinkers and writers.

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Sometimes, they might just be

your neighbor down the street who

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quietly does extraordinary good.

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You'll also get small humanist

practices to try that you can actually

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take into your own life that week.

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Not a to-do list, not homework, just

an invitation to live some of these

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ideas and not just think about them.

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And at the end of each episode,

you'll also get a short reflection

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prompt to help you go deeper in

your own thinking about the topics.

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And even though this is a Caribbean

rooted space where the accents, the

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idioms, the cultural touchstones will feel

familiar, the conversations are really

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for anyone, anywhere, because this work

of being human doesn't have borders.

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But who is guiding you

through all of this?

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I'm Bianca.

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I wear a lot of hat s, innovation

strategist, writer, community builder.

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But underneath all of it, I

am a lifelong question asker.

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I've spent a lot of my career

working at the intersection of

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ideas and impact, helping people and

organizations imagine better futures,

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and then actually creating them.

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I've worked on projects around purpose,

creativity, ethical technology, often

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dealing with big questions about

how we live and work and how we care

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for each other in a changing world.

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I am building my career now in spaces

where ethics, purpose, and impact matter,

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and I've spent my personal life asking

those questions about how to live well.

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But if we're going to spend this time

together, you should know I'm not here

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as an expert with all the answers.

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I am here as someone

walking this path with you.

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I've had my own personal journey of

stepping away from inherited beliefs.

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Of realizing that I could let go of the

framework I was given without losing

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the values that mattered most to me.

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In fact, I could make those values

even stronger because they were

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mine by choice, not by default.

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So why do I care about this work?

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Because I know what it feels like to be

the person quietly questioning in a place

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where everybody assumes you believe.

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I know what it feels like to wonder, if

I'm not religious, where do I belong?

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And I believe that we need more spaces,

especially in the Caribbean, where

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people can explore those questions

without fear, without shame, and

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without losing the parts of our

culture that make us who we are.

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That's why I'm here, to have the

conversations I wish I'd had when I

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first started asking these big questions.

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To make it easier for you to

explore your own path and remind you

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that you're not walking it alone.

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I believe we can create a life

philosophy that's grounded in care,

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community, and courage, but without

myth, without guilt, and without fear.

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If this sounds, that kind of

conversation you've been craving,

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now's the time to subscribe or follow

wherever you get your podcasts.

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That way you won't miss a single episode.

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And here's a small challenge.

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Share this with one friend who you

know would love these conversations.

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Doesn't have to be 10 or 20,

although that would be amazing.

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But start with just one person.

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That's how conversations open.

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That's how movements grow.

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Our first full episode

is going to drop soon.

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And it's called "What if I'm just good?

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And that's enough.

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We'll explore what happens when you

strip away these divine rules and still

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choose kindness, justice, and compassion,

simply because they're worth choosing.

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Because maybe goodness

doesn't need permission.

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Maybe it just needs you.

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Until then, Live Good.

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Walk Good.