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{D Well, } Patricia, I was just about to get on my tread mill, /{C and then } I remembered that I didn't make a call last night, /{C and } I thought I'd make one tonight. /
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{D Well, } I have an exercise bicycle in my bedroom, but it usually's holding clothes
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That's what I did with mine,
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for a long time, put it on the handlebars so I can hang them up. /
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Right
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{C And } sometimes she just flops them all over the seat. /
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{D Well, } that's not why I got it, /right
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I like it. /
[1071]
You don't get, - /is it less boring than the bicycle or not. /
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No, /it's just as boring. /
[1071]
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I read a book while I'm doing it. /
[1071]
Oh. /
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{C But } I was doing that on the exercise bike. /
[1071]
{D Well, } I do that too. /
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I feel like I'm getting a little better of a workout, and I'm losing more weight on this --
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Really. /
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-- than on the other. /
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Are you? /
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{C And } my legs, {D you know, } - /how, - /okay, /I'm going to turn forty this summer, /I was getting all dimpled up
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Yeah. /
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{C And } those are going away. /
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Really. /
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{C So } that's real good. /
[1071]
Uh-huh. /
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We got it at a little bit of an incline. /
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Are they kind of expensive. /
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this is five hundred. /
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Uh-huh. /
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I know they get cheaper. /
[1071]
They do? /
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Uh-huh. /
[1071]
Probably the more you pay, though, the better the machine you have. /
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{D Well, } I hope so. /
[1071]
{D Well, } you can believe that anyway, right. /
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Yeah. /I didn't buy it really. /My husband bought it because [ we, + we'd ] never get out and go walking or anything, /{C and } we go to the lake /{C and } we ski and swim in the summer /{C but } --
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# During the year. # /
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# -- besides that, - /uh-huh. # /
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Yeah, /{D well, } in bad weather, {D you know, } {D well } you'd have to do something inside. /
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Yeah. /
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Do you work at T I? /
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Uh-huh. /I think, your voice sounds familiar. /
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Really. /
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Where do you wo-, /
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I live in Arlington. /
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I wonder if we talked before. /
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Where do you live? /
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I'm in Garland. /
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No, {F uh, } /{D well, } -/
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You sound like this girl that I talked to about books, and we got into movies one night. /
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{F Oh, } really. /
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Uh-huh. /
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{F Uh, } no, /this is the first time I've done it. /{F Uh, } my husband was just running out the door, /he's working at night tonight. /{C So } I decided to do it
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I haven't talked before. /{F Uh, } what subjects have you talked about? /
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Let's see, /education.
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Oh
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that one was. /
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It's more interesting than the treadmill and the bicycle. /Right? /
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The most boring one was about what meal would you cook for a sit down dinner. /
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{F Oh, } my goodness
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[1071]
(( )) really have a lot of variety. /
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Yeah, /they do. /I talked to this old woman that was a retired administrator in Ohio one night about education. /
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{F Oh, } /
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{C And } she was, -/
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A school administrator. /
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Uh-huh, /
[1071]
{D Well } [ that could, +
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Retired, {C but. } -/
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That would ] have been interesting. /
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Yeah, /{C and then } [ one night I talked to these two guys, + {E no, } one night I talked to one guy ] /{C and then } a couple of weeks later I talked to the guy's roommate, in Virginia, about different things. /
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Really, /{D well } that's neat. /
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Uh-huh. /One was about painting. /When was the last time you painted something? /Did you feel like you did a good job? /Did you feel, {F uh, } rewarded while you were doing it. /
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{F Hm. } /
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Uh-huh. /
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How long is this going to go on, do you know? /
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I don't know. /
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I don't either
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It's interesting, though. /I never heard of such a project before. /
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Huh-uh. /{D Well, } how'd you find out about it? /
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Pardon me? /
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How did you find out about it? /
[1071]
{F Oh, } I don't know. /I guess my husband got a letter at the office, /[ I, + I ] presume, /{C and } they must have been asking. /Does your husband work with T I. /
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Uh-huh. /
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{F Oh } really. /
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Uh-huh. /I have a friend that had a roommate --
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Uh-huh. /
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-- that worked at T I /{C and } she saw it on the computer screen ---- and they made copies of it. /
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{F Oh, } {C so } they wanted [ any, + anybody, ] /don't have to work at T I. /
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Uh-huh. /
[1071]
{D Well, } that's interesting. /
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Uh-huh. /
[1071]
I had no idea that was just for the employees, /{C and } I couldn't understand, /I kept getting these calls, /I thought it was an advertisement and they just were also called T I, {D you know, } /there is Texas Industries and different things. /
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Uh-huh. /
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I kept hanging up on them for days, until my husband told me what it was
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Oh
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I didn't know. /
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{D Well, } if you work for T I you're supposed to get a prize, is what I heard, /{C and } if you don't work for them you're supposed to get cash. /
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{F Ooh. } /
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{C But } then on the letter it says cash or prize. /
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Oh. /{D Well } the prizes are pretty nice. /He brought a booklet home /{C and } depending on how many calls, I think three was the minimum. - /{C But } it went up to, I don't know, nine or ten. /
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I don't know, /gobs. /This is going on my fourth week to do it. /
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{F Oh, } my. /{C And } some of the prizes are pretty nice. /
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{D Well, } like what, /tell me. /
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{F Oh, } I wish I had that booklet here. /{F Oh, } I think I do, /it's right here. /I'll look at the end because those would be the best ones, okay? /
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Yeah. /
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{F Um, } {D well, } they have some watches that look really nice. /There's one that's got some diamonds on it. /
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For how many calls? /Does it say? /
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(( )) I haven't quite figured that out. /I thought it was eight or nine, /{C but } seems like too nice a prize for [ nine, + just nine ] calls, isn't it? /
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Uh-huh. /
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Says when we have enough calls from you,
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you will receive in the mail a numbered certificate for your calls [ and + and ] explanation how to redeem,
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for gifts. /Are you listening to him? /
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No, /I'm trying not to. /He's telling me to start the grill. /
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Oh
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It says three for a B gift, five for a C gift, et cetera. /{C And } this only goes up to F. /{C So } I thought that was somewhere around nine. /{C But } anyway, it's got these beautiful watches on it. /Let me see what else /it has a, {F uh, } clock radio that also plays [ c-, + {F uh, } {D you know, } tapes. ] /Then it's got, {F oh } some binoculars, and some pretty brass lamps. /Got [ some, + ] {F oh, } a food processor. /
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{C So } it's not all stuff that T I makes. /
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{F Oh } no, /I don't, - /I haven't seen anything in here that T I makes. The Mister Coffee, the double Mister Coffee, {D you know, } the two. /{F Oh, } and there's a phone in here that's hilarious. /It has a button you can push, /if you get a call you don't like then it makes machine gun noise
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{C And then } there's an attache case, and cordless telephone, /{C and then } there's a card table, doesn't have any chairs, just a card table. {F Oh, } some more jewelry, suitcases, /{C and } have you seen those [ univ-, + anniversary ] lamps where the little balls go around. /
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You mean the clocks. /
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Yeah, /clocks. /
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Yeah. /
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I can, - /I'm going crazy, /my daughter's playing the piano /{C and } I can't think. /
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{F Oh, } god. /
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It's got one of those, - /{C and } {F um, } {D well, } it's got a lot, {E I mean, } pages and pages. /It's got wheelbarrows.
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Did they mail that to you, or he brought it to you? /
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He brought it home. /
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{F Huh. } /
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I believe it came in [ his, + {F uh, } his ] mail. /Here's a camera and a dustbuster and some tools, [ someone, + ] a lot of tools, a man might like {D you know. } /
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Yeah, /{C so } you're bound to find something you want. /
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{F Oh } yeah, /you're bound to. /All kinds of phones and clocks /{C and, } {F uh, } here's more jewelry /{C and } {F oh, } there's even pictures and little porcelain things to put on a coffee table. /{F Oh, } here's some brass animals, brass candlesticks, /they're pretty. /{C So } I'm sure you'd find something. /
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Yeah. /
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{C And, } {F uh. } -/
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{D Well, } {D you know, } -/
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Silver plated bowls and stuff. There's a lot of stuff, it's a big booklet. /
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{D Well, } do you know you have [ a ten limit, + a ten minute ] time limit. /
[1071]
{F Oh, } no. /
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{D Well } that's okay, /{C and then } they come on [ and tell you, + and they tell you ] got five seconds to say good-bye. /
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We'll keep talking if we want to come up with something else. /
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Yeah. /
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Let's see, {F oh, } /I tried exercise classes, /{C and } I never would go. /We fin, - /we joined, ex. -/
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(( )) I went to Metropolitan a couple of years ago, /{C so } I sit and study, /I sit in class, /{C and } I have really ballooned up since then, /{C and, } {C so, } he's says I ought to join one of those that makes you go, /{C but } (( )) , -/
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They don't either, /{D Well } the first one I joined, they went out of business /{C and } they transferred it to another one that was really far away. /
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That's a very common experience. /
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{C And } we were going to do it, /there was four of us together. /{D Well, } then forget that, /it wasn't near me. /
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No. /
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{C And then } the second time I was going to do it at Richland College, /{C and } we, - /I just get with another friend, /{C and } we'd end up just smoking cigarettes and riding around like we couldn't find the place
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That's funny
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{C So } my husband's just discouraged me on those things. /
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Right, /{D well, } [ if you, + if you ] can make yourself do the tread mill, {E I mean, } gosh, that's a good workout. /
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{F Oh } yeah, /my husband said he's never joined a course, right. /{C And } I got one of those Jane Fonda workout tapes that I dubbed from a friend. /
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Uh-huh. /
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That didn't last long (( )) /I had a baby, I think
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How many children do you have? /
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Two. /
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Yeah, /I do, too. /Two, - /a girl, one's in college, - /{C so } I don't [ have a, + have a ] baby anymore
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{F Oh, } Lord, /you're lucky. /{D Well, } I've got a step-daughter, /she's in college. /
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{F Oh, } {D well. } /
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{C So } there's where the money goes. /
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(( )) tell me about it, /tell me,
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Where's you ki-, -/
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(( )) putting two of us through, isn't he lucky. /
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Two. /
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{D Well, } me, I'm going, and my daughter Janet in Austin. /
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{F Uh. } /
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Yeah, /right. /{C So, } I'll probably have to sell the prize I get
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Where you going to school? /
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U T A right here. /
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{C And } what are you doing? /
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{D Well, } I'm, {F um, } going to be certified as an English teacher (( )) teach English as a second language. /
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I just got my certification. /
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You're kidding. /
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Huh-uh. /
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{F Oh, } that's (( )) , -/
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The test is a booger.The test, the exit test. /
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Hard. -/
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It's hard. /
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{F Oh, } no. /
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It is so hard. /Uh-huh. /
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how are the other ones. /I haven't taken any of the exit tests. /
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{D See } I didn't have to take any other exit test because I've been teaching for quite a while. /
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{F Oh, } yeah, /before they started (( )) , -/
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{C But } I've heard they're terrible. /
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Really. /
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Bilingual is just horrendous. /I've had friends fail that twice. /
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Really. /I didn't know any of this. /None of my friends have failed the English or the education ones
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Good. /
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I really ought to take those quickly while I still remember some. /
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Uh-huh. /Yeah, /right after you get out. /
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I know.
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Boring - /{C and } they really don't help you a whole lot. /{D Now } {D see, } I went to E T /{C and } I took one course through T W U /
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Oh (( )) . /