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best price. How are you ladies doing today? 10 out of 10. Yeah, absolutely. 11 out of 10 even. Gee,

one up or much? Yeah. I'm sorry, M Amanda. The scale is out of 10.

So in 11, actually, you wrap back around and you're a one out of 10.

Oh, no.

Now I'm very sad to 90.

But actually, on a scale of 1 to 10, one being the best.

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