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we took like a seven month break from

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work it's just really embarrassing like

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excruciatingly embarrassing can I ask is

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your dad still with us no no he passed

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away in 2012. so you're literally taking

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a trip down memory lane we are indeed

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but I've actually managed to convince my

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family to let us get married there are

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you uh live every day to its fullest

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potential kind of person yeah why not we

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look like strangers at the start and now

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we all just like we got we got along so

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well starting out in a big tech company

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is kind of the dream that you would have

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foreign

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it's probably

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uh when we went traveling around the

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world we each went on the trans

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Mongolian Railway so we're remembering a

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game that we played at Christmas with my

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family which was really good fun so it's

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called accentuate

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a table and including

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um Stu's mum who is like what 81 yeah so

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you pick a card and it has a whole heap

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of accents on it right

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Scottish Russian polish Surfer Dude

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things like that and then you pick up a

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movie quote and you've got to read the

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movie quote in the uh accent that you've

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picked up and hilarity ensued I went

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with my dad over to Spain and there was

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a waterfall there and basically they

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turned it on that day particularly when

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me and my dad were there so we we got to

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actually uh jump off the rocks from the

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top down to the bottom and it was it was

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fantastic kept going up up and down up

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and down and up and down you know all

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day long coming back to Brighton's day

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after a long time away with my mother

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yes we used to live here in the 1970s so

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we but this was all a very run down area

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of Brighton oh really it's a reminiscing

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of what Brighton used to look like 40

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years ago probably when I was um a kid

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my parents used to send me to India for

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the Summers almost the rest of my family

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lived there and my grandmother's got

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like a farm an orchard in South India

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the Earth is like this really red color

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and it's like got all the tropical

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fruits through goes loads of like

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bananas and guavas and like limes and

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there's um like peacocks that are just

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there they'll come and eat all her

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vegetables so they'll be like chasing

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them away but to me they were always

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like really beautiful to be there trying

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to like encourage peacocks to come onto

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our Orchard and she's spending all this

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time trying to chase them away well

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being with my family so I've been with

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Abby being with my husband being with my

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dog family yeah yeah yeah and just and

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enjoying people enjoying today being you

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know being grateful that we've got a

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lovely day and we can walk along here

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and appreciate

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as being you know out in the open air

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really I think recently like we're at

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University together in Winchester not

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here but like we had a big Christmas

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meal with our flatmates and that was

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really fun that was just before

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Christmas just before you like finished

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for yeah to go back home so that's fine

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and that's like festive it was in a pubs

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like we didn't cook it okay okay yes we

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went out and got it um at the park

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um so I did ancient internship in my

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dream company and then just when I

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finished I was immediately offered a

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full-time job after uni and part-time

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job during my last year so that was

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probably the happiest ever

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congratulations that recently yes I was

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in well a few months ago yes

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back to the episode so we traveled from

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the UK to China all over land so we

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didn't fly at any point so it's really

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so batteries and trains and buses and

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the trans Mongolian Railway and one of

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the highlights was Mongolia so we stayed

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with a Mongolian family out in their gur

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in the uh the step in Mongolia and it

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was yeah it could go be in the Gobi yeah

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Pergo was ago I mean we were all

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absolutely crying with laughter and so

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then will this game be making a

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reappearance next year definitely it'll

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be making a reappearance throughout the

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year as many as many times as possible

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and why was it so happy did you have a

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good relationship with your dad no not

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really but it was the second part of my

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life you know and I got to know him a

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bit better and

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I just kind of become mates or something

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yeah yeah yeah

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so uh yeah we had a lot of catching up

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to do it's one of the only men well I've

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got loads of memories but one of the

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biggest memories I've got yeah and that

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kind of uh don't leave you with a good

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lasting impression of your your dad yeah

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yeah yeah it did what is it about

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Brighton that you know it brings you

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happiness happiness then

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it is it is memories it's it's it is of

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you know simpler times when you were

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young and carefree and that didn't have

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responsibilities it's actually when I

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was a kid I really wanted to get married

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there and um it's not really a thing

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that you can do in India because you

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have them in like you have to have your

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wedding in like a contained space but

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I've actually managed to convince my

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family to let us get married there

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really this summer so um yeah and I get

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to take all my friends there and show it

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to them so you're saying now is the

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happiest moment in your life kind of I

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think you appreciate things more as you

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get older yeah I think there's different

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times when you're younger obviously

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different you know but how do you mean

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that you appreciate things more as you

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get older well I just think you

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appreciate the things that matter more

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this obviously isn't your end game but

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it's just like starting you on like a

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ladder I mean it's starting on like a

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huge like high up you know like 10 steps

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above everyone else so it's kind of very

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lucky and I'm very grateful for it every

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day and makes me happy every time I

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think about it so are you like out

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celebrating recently no actually this is

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the first yeah we didn't have time which

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is why now it's gonna be I think on the

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weekend maybe we will celebrate finally

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like kind of yeah it's time now and have

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you started the job yeah I am still

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working there part-time now but the full

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time starts in summer so yeah it's just

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it just keeps going you know thanks for

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watching this week's episode let us know

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in the comments below moments that made

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you happy in your life or memories that

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you'd like to reminisce about with

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family friends or loved ones and as

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always we'll see you next week

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