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Oh dang. Happy Monday.
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Happy Monday guys. Welcome back to Meo Daily.
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And I'm Jenny and this is our corner.
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they're, they're away.
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We're also away. We're not technically we're not here right now
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so we're actually elsewhere.
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We're, I'm coming back from Coachella right now.
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I'm actually on the Bolas flight as we speak.
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Bolati's brother. No free promo,
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I guess we're here for now.
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Exactly. But in some good news,
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we chatted with the cleaning queen herself,
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Vanessa Amaro, and she put us on some good tips.
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you're gonna definitely wanna jot some of these down.
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Please enjoy the cleaning hacks and check it out.
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So we are here with the cleaning Reina.
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You've seen her on TikTok,
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IG, and now she's even working with Clorox.
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So please welcome Vanessa Amaro.
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Hi, thank you for having me.
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We're so excited to talk to you.
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they love to keep things.
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I personally, it's hard for me to get rid of stuff
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like to declutter. Like my mom always tells me me kind
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of like chine cuarto.
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It's very much a part of our culture.
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Like we don't wanna get rid of things like we yeah we're
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like, oh, I might keep this for later,
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and we're very sentimental about our things.
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How do you decide like What to clean and what to throw
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like you said, we are,
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I like to say we're natural hoarders because it's painful
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to get rid of something,
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but one thing that really helped me was thinking about who the
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things that I'm, I was getting rid of were gonna benefit
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whether I was donating to a women's shelter,
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was I donating to my friends and family in Mexico?
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Was I even selling some things to make some cash for myself
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because, hey, a little cash,
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never hurt anyone. That's one of the things that really helped
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me at the beginning because I wasn't necessarily sold on the idea
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of getting rid of my possessions,
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you know, especially like you said,
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like sometimes you don't come from much and then when you get
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a little bit you're like,
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oh, but what if I need it?
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What if I go hungry?
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What I need to keep this back up.
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but that's one of the things that really helped me at the
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beginning, you know,
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that mentality of like,
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who is this going to and maybe they need it more than
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I do. I like that a lot.
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I feel like that'll get me to like get rid of more
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things but I also have another question for you.
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Why do you think Latinos take so much pride in like cleaning
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and like respecting our space?
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It was taught to us that we needed to be clean and
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you know it's like if you don't clean,
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you, you don't do this.
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We don't buy you that,
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you know, so it was like taught from the very like
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early stages in our lives that like cleanliness was just part of
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our lives and. I don't really know why it started,
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but I just don't like my grandma would put me on the
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floor with the bucket and was like,
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you know what, your responsibility is your socks,
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and she would give me a bar of saute,
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you know, and we just go for it and,
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and I just remember it being just a part of our culture
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and I don't know why it started,
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but I gotta say I'm kind of thankful for it,
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although it can get a little toxic.
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I, I can't lie because growing up sometimes parents tend to
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use cleaning as a punishment.
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and so that can create a toxic relationship once you
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grow up when it comes to cleaning because you're like,
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oh, I don't wanna clean because you naturally associated with cleaning
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I have to clean because it's a punishment,
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which is not, you know,
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it's just a natural part of life that we all have to
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do unless you're very,
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very lucky and you have like.
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20 people that work for you and you don't have to lift
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a finger, but most of us are just gonna have to
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It's like kind of like the I guess it's relatable to
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going to the gym and yeah,
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how do you make cleaning fun like what what's a hack that
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you have that it's like comoque megans first of all,
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you don't have your cleaning supplies organized in a little cart because
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That way you just roll the cord and you don't even
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think that everything is in there your dusters,
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your cleaning products, your micro flower towels,
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your sponges. But before that you need to get in the
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to clean and how you get in the mood with music a
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body in motion stays in motion.
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So if you just naturally get up to get a glass.
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Of water and you start moving,
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you know, and get to cleaning because once you get in
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the couch with your book or watching TV you're never gonna get
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up so you need to get yourself in the move and I
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say maybe have a reward system,
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you know, for some of us we are food you know
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we are food motivated so hey,
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maybe after I clean,
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I'll have a piece of chocolate or I'll get to
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order from, you know,
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whatever you like to eat.
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Maybe you don't have to cook that day.
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Whatever you're motivated for maybe you've been eyeing those pairs of shoes
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so let's get that clean spring cleaning going,
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Doesn't matter what it is,
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but you, we're all motivated for something,
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you know. I wanted to ask what's a hack to get
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the first thing I would say is don't use cleaning as a
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punishment. Instead, use it as a reward for things like
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I said before, like.
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You want a reward after you clean clean your kids want a
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reward after they clean.
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Maybe they get a bag of chips,
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maybe they get to go to the movies,
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or maybe they get however much time of your undivided attention to
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play with them with Legos or outside or maybe you'll take them
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to the pool and if you don't wanna do like a reward
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system all the time,
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have a Grown up conversation with them sit them down and be
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like hey you know you're part of a family and as a
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family we need to take care of a few things and this
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is our home we need to protect our home we need to
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be thankful that we have a roof on top of our heads
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so the way we show things that we have a home
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is by keeping it clean so that it can last for many
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many years and so me.
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As your mom or me as your dad I'm gonna go clean
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the dishes. Would you please help me with vacuuming or will
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you please help me picking up your toys?
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I think kids are a lot smarter than we give
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them credit for and sometimes when you really sit down with them
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a very mature conversation instead of just being like,
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hey, come here and you need to pick up your.
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I'm gonna give you to that kind of be like that's what
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what is that they go into attack mode because you just went
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into like crazy mode.
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So try and have those,
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those tips in mind for the next time.
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I love me too because,
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now I'm gonna talk about my baby.
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she like she's only one,
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but she already we like she likes to wipe the table because
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we clean a little table.
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She gets mad because we don't let her clean it.
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And like the, the wife,
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she's like, she cleans her face all the little toys.
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No, yeah, we have like little toys.
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So like I think like one thing that I always hear parents
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say is like include your kids in these things.
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Like don't like, oh here,
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go over there like why do this?
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Like no, include them somehow some way so they're used to
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it and they're like oh you know it doesn't matter if they
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didn't do a perfect job,
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doesn't matter if like they forgot a few swipes or whatever,
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but if you're correcting them all the time or you're like,
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Instead they're gonna be like they're gonna think my job is not
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good enough so why even do it so let the kids do
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it the way they're gonna do it and then maybe after they
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go to bed maybe you'll do it the right way,
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you know, but let the kids be involved exactly and then
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one final final question what's your goal to Saturday morning cleaning song
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Oh, you really put me in a in a tough spot
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but I gotta say the song.
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That gets me up and moving.
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Like if I am feeling extra lazy,
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extra sleepy, I'm like I need to get up.
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I put danzacududo. Oh,
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it's just like danza and I'm like,
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yeah, it's just yeah it just gets into the mood,
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you know. I grab my Clorox toilet one.
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I use it as a microphone and then clean.
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And it's just we all have a great old time.
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oh God, there she goes again.
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I'm poor little dogs,
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but I don't care because we have a spotless house,
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so that's all that matters.
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Awesome. Well, Vanessa,
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thank you so much for your time and for this conversation.
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Again, we got a lot of good,
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tips and hacks from you,
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but where can people find you online?
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Plug your socials. Vanessa.
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And then Marrow or it's but it's supposed to say Vanessamaro,
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but it's only 18 and then 91 because 91 baby over here
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and then you can find me on Instagram as Vanessa_Amato.
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Perfect. Thank you so much for your time again and we'll
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thank you, thank you guys.
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I had such a fun time.
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