By Dad, how do I?
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How to start a campfire, roast marshmallows & make s’mores.
Kindling – scraps of wood, you can chop some pieces off of your log if needed with a hatchet.
Newspaper – something light (cardboard works if you have to, but
Dry wood – start with dry wood, once the fire is hot, you can add wood that is a little wetter.
Air circulation is crucial – don’t smother it.
S’more (give me some more, yes please)
Graham crackers, marshmallows, milk chocolate.
Be sure to put out the fire completely when you are done.
Even if it looks out, embers can still be burning underneath.
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hey kids so today and I’ll show you how
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to light a campfire in case you that’s
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something you’ve never done before the
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main thing you want to do is kind of
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make sure there’s lots of air
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circulating with it you don’t want to
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smother it so there’s just a little bit
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you want to play with when you’re first
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getting it started so before we do that
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I have a dad joke for you whether the
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Millennials say after he started the
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campfire that’s so lit so anyway let’s
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get started okay so the way the way that
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I do this is I normally take a decent
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sized log something kind of light right
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cardboard might work but I would like
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that and then have some kin
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the important part of this do is having
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dry wood you want to make sure you have
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dry wood to get started okay I have my
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fancy later
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to get it going you just want to make
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sure that you got good airflow that’s
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kind of the main thing it’s having good
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airflow you smother it it’s not gonna
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work
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okay I think this the skin wins fairly
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dry so it’s good to have that going good
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okay
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okay as long as that what’s dry it’ll
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work good like that and again you want
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to just keep the air flowing and then
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once that starts heating up it’ll go
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down there and they’ll be nice embers
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and then it’s easy to can it’s easy to
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keep it going after that once this big
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lug
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gets going then it’s gonna be a real
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easy to keep it going too
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[Music]
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yeah I’m kind of keeping the air flowing
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you want to make sure that okay when you
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start seeing too much smoke that means
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that the air is not flowing real well
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okay and then once these bigger logs
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start to heat up and burn then they’ll
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fall down there and then they’ll you
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know this kindling going last for so
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long once this starts going then and
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you’re you’re golden and you can just
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let it go all night and you can even
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start putting wood on there that’s not
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too nice not just dry okay all right so
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that’s about it and then you don’t
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necessarily want to roast the
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marshmallows just yet you want to do
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that you want to wait till everything’s
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kind of hot and it’s an ember
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right there’s Amber’s down there rather
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than rather than the flames because if
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you if you roast them into flames then
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they’ll catch on fire and that’s when
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yeah yeah your s’mores won’t come out
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near as good okay
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so I’ll let this burn for a little while
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and then I’ll come back and we’ll roast
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some marshmallows and make some s’mores
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okay so now that we have it kind of
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going pretty well I’ve added another log
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here in the middle and then you want to
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kind of have a little bit of a gap here
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right it’s right along there to kind of
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encourage the air to flow you don’t want
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them too close but you don’t want to go
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away and then the air just kind of comes
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up on each side of them and then you’re
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good and we can put another log across
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here and then just kind of keep it going
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so as you go we’ll add another log
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especially if you’re just gonna hang out
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at the campfire all night and you want
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to keep it going
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you just just put this across this way
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now okay and then it’ll start burning up
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alongside that okay so that’s all there
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is to it I’m gonna let this go for a
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little while and get the embers going
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and then that’s how we really want to
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roast the marshmallows because again if
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you stick it in the flame it’s gonna
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catch on fire I mean I guess some people
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like that but I don’t I like to make my
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it’s kind of a challenge to see how good
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you can make that marshmallow and they
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get nice and brown golden brown instead
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of left heaven light on fire but if
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you’re in a hurry you can just stick it
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in there and have it light on fire if
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you want to so anyway we’ll come back
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once we start roasting marshmallows
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okay so we’re preparing our s’mores now
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the fire’s not quite ready but if you
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could I’d just show you this in case
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you’ve never done this before so you
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just need some graham crackers alright
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break those in half you get those
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already ready
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and the way we usually do it is we just
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stick the marshmallow on they stick
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right stick a couple in there again one
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is usually fine
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okay but we usually kind of do this with
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some teamwork so we have a few people
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using the roast in the marshmallows and
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then you have somebody just setting this
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up and all they do is they just put it
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here and then once the marshmallow is
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roasted you put it on there and then
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they grab the other graham crackers stop
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it on the top and wholesome goodness
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okay so we’re getting real close and
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then we’ll get to get the tasty s’mores
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okay the fires ruining pretty good right
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about now
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like I said you if you put your
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marshmallow in here in this flame it’s
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gonna light on fire pretty easy so we
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don’t necessarily want to do that but
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let’s go ahead and be careful with these
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too if you’ve never done this before if
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you light them on fire and then you pull
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it out and it goes slinging off these
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things can be a hot projectile so be
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careful you know I usually try to get
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kind of somewhere close to the embers
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rather than in the flame this might be a
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little bit early still but somewhere
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like right down in here
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oh that’s not bad though
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but you want the marshmallow to get soft
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if you if you just let it light on fire
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and pull it out it’ll still be cold on
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the inside that you kind of want the
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whole thing to be mushy because it works
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better for this more okay you can see
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it’s getting pretty nice and brown
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that’s kind of what you like that Brown
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look they’re not the burnt one but the
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brown and they just kind of rotate it
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around keeping it out of the flame again
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kind of right down in the little pocket
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right there where it’s nice and hot okay
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looking good we’re getting close
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okay I think that’s about good so okay
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so then we just want to go ahead and put
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a graham-cracker there and we want to
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put a hunk of chocolate there and then
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we want to have our other graham cracker
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and then we just put it right on top and
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then we put it here push it carefully
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your pants it’s kind of twist the stick
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as you pull it out okay there we go
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awesome goodness okay so you see this
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spot right here this is where you want
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to be you get over in the flame that’s
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going to start on a fire and it’s hot
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there down there so you can be right in
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here right by those Amber’s right I just
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kind of move it around keep it from
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catching on fire
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it’s easy to get impatient though
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because you’re ready for your smorc
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right but if you just kind of keep it in
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those hot hot air you can see it start
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to smoke okay
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see how it’s nice and brown ooh that’s
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looking good starting to smoke whoa see
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that’s what we want it just like that
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it’s starting to puff up a little bit to
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see that’s what you want that’s about as
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good as it gets all right so yeah you
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get up here in this plum in these flames
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they’re gonna it’ll light it on fire
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you’re gonna stay in those embers right
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in there all right so hopefully that
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gives you the confidence to build a fire
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dry wood make sure the air is
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circulating good too and so right with
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kindling and good circulation of air and
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just kind of take your time don’t
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smother it smother it like a lot of
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things it’s not good to some other
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things right so it needs air to breathe
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so anyway hope that gives you the
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confidence to try for yourself and you
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got this I’m proud of you and god bless
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you
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