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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Being civically engaged for more equitable schools as Madison considers new attendance boundaries.

Building for the Future
MMSD has launched Building for the Future," a comprehensive two-year review of school attendance boundaries.
This initiative is designed to proactively address the city's rapid growth (projected +100,000 residents by 2050), balance enrollment across schools and ensure equitable access to programming. The process is being led in consultation with MGT, a national firm specializing enrollment studies.
THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES:
1. Utilization: Balancing building capacity to avoid over-crowding or under-enrollment
2.
Demographics:
Promoting diverse student bodies and equitable access.
Population Shifts:
Madison is growing. but student density is shifting. Some schools are overcrowded while others are underutilized.
ilization: lancing building pacity to avoid ercrowding or der-enrollment.
3.
Transportation & Neighborhoods:
Prioritizing walkability, minimizing bus times and maintaining neighborhood school cohesion.
MADISON

WHY NOW? The Strategic Need:
New
Developments:
Major housing growth (e.g. Acacia Ridge, Sprecher
Road) requires new attendance zones to prevent future overcrowding.
Efficiency & Equity:
The review aims to optimize resource use and ensure student demographics reflect the district's diversity. avoiding the isolation of specific student groups.
4.
Stability:
Minimizing the impact on students, avoiding frequent boundary changes.
5.
Programming:
Ensuring boundaries align with special programs (e.g. DLI, STEAM) and Special Education needs.

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Get yourself a friend with a raspberry bush. 😍

A bowl of very small raspberries that were clearly not bought at a store

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Alternately they also have these in the pews and had announcements for volunteers to protect Haitian and Hispanic neighbors.

Por favor, deje esta tarjeta en la banca.
Please leave this card in the pew.
Si los agentes de inmigración entran durante la liturgia, por favor:
1. Póngase de pie y mantenga
Silencio.
2. Deje que los ujieres y el sacerdote se encarguen de la situación.
3. Grabe en video las acciones de los agentes con su teléfono.
4. Ore.
If immigration agents enter during the liturgy, please:
1. Stand and remain quiet.
2. Let the ushers and the presider
handle the situation.
3. Use your phone to record the
agents' actions.
4. Pray.
July 2025

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In Evanston for the folk festival and went to Mass this morning. Gosh I love America when I see things like this.

Yard sign for Oktoberfiesta Block Party. German and Mexican food, beer, and raffle. 1012 Lake St

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Check out this one from last year!

The Elaborate Map Quilt
Madeline Norton
Madison, WI
Quilted by
Madeline Norton

Broadcloth quilt, using the 2017 official Madison map for inspiration. City streets are one tone lighter than suburban streets. Water ways and parks (city and suburban) are in blue and green, respectively. The lakes are 1980s bathymetric maps from the Department of Natural Resources. The bricks (laid in common bond with stringer course) and the decorative concrete blocks are in scale with their real-world counterparts.
Pattern/design source
Original Design
Hand Quilted Bed Size - Appliquéd, Mixed or Other Type
THE GREAT WISCONSIN QUILT SHOW

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So many good ones, check out the link to the challenge to see the professional gallery

Piasta, Dawn
Dauphin, MB, Canada
Beneath the Surface

A quilt with a very busy underwater scene

Adams, Cindy
Port Aransas, TX
Dinner Time for the Angler Fish
A quilt with a very detailed angler fish

Styner, Jackie
Levittown, PA
Brittle Star's Night
Out
A quilt featuring an intricate brittle star underwater

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The rest are from the Cherrywood “Abyss” challenge. People purchase a “kit” of fabrics and have to make a quilt based on the theme. The variety from the exact same fabrics truly astounds me! More on the challenge here: cherrywoodfabrics.com/pages/the-ab...

A quilt featuring an underwater scene of jellyfish
Bauer, Julie Smack
Ogden, UT

McLaughlin, Jeanne Oh Crab!!
Veneta, Oregon
A quilt featuring the suckers of an octopus with a crab in the foreground

Morris, Cassie Nefarious Nelly
Springfield, MO
A quilt featuring an angry looking fish in a watery scene

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’m a sucker for science or map quilts. Cc: @latlong.shop

A quilt with geologic maps as well as cutaways of the earths crust and a hand holding a rock

Acasta Gneiss
Top made by
Leah Evans
Madison, WI
Quilted by
Leah Evans

Created after three years of conversations with University of Wisconsin geologists about Acasta Gneiss (a 4-billion-year-old rock). This quilt explores geologic time and scale as well as the microscopic breakdown of the rock itself. The quilt is made of mostly repurposed fabric and a combination of hand and machine techniques.
Pattern/design source
Village, Miss Rosie's Quilt Co
Wall Quilts, Machine Quilted - Mixed or Other Type
-THE GREAT WISCONSIN•
QUILT SHOW

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Two temperature quilts. I saw another but didn’t get a picture

A colorful quilt with cool colors to represent cold temperatures and warm colors to represent warm temperatures

Wisconsin Weather 2025
Top made by
Karla Nitz Janesville, Wi
Quilted by
Loose Threads

Wisconsin weather is getting warmer. To track this, I monitored daily high temperatures with cool as navy blue or purple and hot days as yellows and oranges.
Months are separated by circles. Next will be a piece from 50 years ago.
Pattern/design source
Original Design
Wall Quilts, Machine Guilted - Pieced
QUILT SHOW

A series of quilted houses in cool or warm colors. There is a red ribbon on the quilt

65 Trips Around the Sun
Top made by
Sharyl Schlieckau
Loganville, WI

Quilted by
Sharyl Schlieckau
This is my 2025 Temperature Quilt in Loganville, Wisconsin. It also celebrates my 65th birthday. Each house square represents a high/low temperature each day and each house in one month of the year.
The temperature key is included on the back of the quilt. 2025 was a colorful year! Extensive embellished machine quilting with metallic thread and InTense Pencil painting on the trees.
Pattern/design source
Fat Quarter Shop
Wall Quilts, Machine Quilted - Pieced
THE GREAT WISCONSIN.
QUILT SHOW

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Checked out the Wisconsin Quilt Show today. Some really beautiful quilts! 🤩 A thread… 🧵

A quilt meant to look like the view looking up from below a tree

Sacred Threads
Traveling Exhibit 2025
Patricia Aresen
Minneapolis, Minnesota
The trees of autumn look as if they are standing in one grand ovation to their creator
- listen and you can even hear their applause!
"All of the trees of the fields will clap their hands!"
(Isaiah 55:12) says it perfectly.
Category: Joy
Clapping Trees - An Autumn Mandala
Audio Tour (703) 520-6404 3001#
Sacred Threads Sponsors
eQuilter.com Nine Patch Fabrics Artistic Artifacts

Bubbles of Color
Top made by
Debbie Huber
Waukesha, WI
Quilted by
Judy Purdy

What started as a Rainbow Scrap Challenge to make Curved Log Cabin blocks in a variety of colors became a creative journey to design the top from a plethora of blocks. Each step was a new challenge to make it into a cohesive quilt.
Pattern/design source
Original Design
Machine Quilted Bed Size - Pieced
-THE GREAT WISCONSIN.
QUILT SHOW

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Found our third #miniWI today! Joins our flamingo and Wisconsin State Capitol building. Learn more here: kenfager.com/miniwi/

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I enjoyed all the original art on the walls but my favorite was this human body diagram because I will always be a biology nerd.

A large building in the style of a German fairy tale cottage

A sculpture of a goose standing on a chair reading a book to three small pig sculptures

A complicated flow chart called “Bags of Stuff Inside You” which shows the inputs and outputs of liquids and air that travel through your body

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We did the Storybook campus and Wizarding campus.

A field of metal red poppies with a metal lion. A yellow brick road and emerald building are visible

A large building in the style of a manor house

A stairwell with climbing octopus tentacles

A stairwell with a whimsical candy factory sculpture on the wall

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Finally got to Epic for the campus tour. Kids loved it, but it was still a bit weird wandering around people’s offices.

A courtyard designed to look like Diagon Alley from Harry Potter

A stairwell with a large time turner suspended in the middle

The ceiling of an octagonal room painted to look like a barn with owls

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Got up early and took a hike with my coworkers. 🤩

A person standing on a rock formation with blue skies above

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Saw this little fella (fellas?) too. Really beautiful views of the Mississippi River from the bluffs.

A high view of a river across a wooded area

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Wyalusing State Park is really nice! Beautiful weather today.

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is called a ballet line. Super impressive!

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Some videos. They got 2nd at Nationals and 1st in Wisconsin!

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Biking to the FREE waterski show in Madison is so easy!

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

These birds are so cool! Siberian cranes at the International Crane Foundation.

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy a cargo bike and that’s basically the same thing. 🤩 Happy 6th birthday to my Urban Arrow! Hit this milestone last night.

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Lake Mendota is nice to swim in too.

A sandy beach with Lake Mendota in front and blue skies overhead

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

They had a lot of early circus wagons from the 1800s and early 1900s which were super cool too.

An ornately carved gold and red circus wagon

An ornately carved circus wagon with carved flowers in many colors

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Yesterday we went to Circus World in Baraboo and they had a really interesting exhibit on Catholic chaplains to circuses! Also talked about religious sisters who lived and worked with the circus.

How Can
We Help You?
Throughout the 20th century, the Catholic Church had special commissions to address the care of itinerant populations. Fr. David Hennessey first received a part-time circus ministry position in 1972, but a few years later he was appointed to serve Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (RBBB) on a full-time basis. Fr. David spoke five languages and embraced all faiths, opening his trailer to anyone in need.
Left. Fr. Jack Toner with former animal trainer Dave Hoover on Clyde Beatty-Cale Gros. Crous in 1904. Courtesy James Cole.
Right: Fr. Frank Cancro of mass with the Zertin Famiy Circus in Courtesy Courtesy FrFrank Cancro.
Fr. Jack Toner took over as RBBB's chaplain in 1983, carrying out traditional duties such as leading mass.
teaching catechism.
and performing baptisms, weddings.
and
confirmations. He also visited the sick and injured and was available for counseling. Fr.
Jerry Hogan was appointed national circus chaplain in 1993, retaining his North Andover.
MA congregation while visiting the shows regularly. He was a beloved part of the circus family during his almost 30 years in the role, and like those who came before led an ecumenical ministry.
Circus
Ministrus
during the international Meeting of the Circus and Traveling Show Apostolate in 1993. Courtesy Rev. David Tetraut.
Right: (L-R) Fr. Dick Notter, Fr. Frank Cancro, and Fr. Jerry Hogan of the last circus mass during the final RBBB Red Unit show in
The national circus chaplain operates under the Secretariat of Cultural Diversity of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The organization also serves migrant and refugee populations, along with traveling workers associated with carnivals and car racing circuits. Fr. Francis Cancro currently fills the role, along with a small group of other individuals who provide a ministry of presence for dozens of circuses around the country.

Theee religious stoles and an altar. The stoles are very colorful and have clowns and elephant feet on them.

Lives
Shared
The Little Sisters of Jesus formed in Algeria in 1939 to serve people whose nomadic lives made it difficult to have regular church contact. The Little Sisters first traveled with Switzerland's Circus Pilatus in the 1950s and later worked with a dozen other European shows. In 1978, srs. Priscilla and Jo moved to the U.S. and began working in concessions and wardrobe at Circus Vargas. They were with the show until 1985, living in a small trailer with a chapel in their van. Over the next 20 years the Little Sisters traveled with four additional circuses. They shared everyday life with circus employees, breaking down barriers and helping to demonstrate unity among different types of people

Left. The Litte Sisters with Citus Vargas in 1978 Courtesy Little Sitters of Jesus
Above: Lie Sintere Jo and Monike worked the t-shit stand whale with Carson & Bames
Circus in the late 1990s and eary 20001. Courtesy Little Sisters of Jeus
Sisters Dorothy Fabritze and Bernard Overkamp of the Missionary Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus joined Roberts Bros. Circus in 2000. They lived in a trailer with the bedroom reconfigured as an altar and received special permission from the Vatican to carry and serve Communion. The sisters held circus jobs because they felt it important to do the same type of work as the people they lived among. They also taught religious classes and offered counseling. The pair joined Ringling Bros. and Bamum & Bailey Circus (RBBB) in 2004. Although Sr. Dorothy and Sr. Mary Seibert continued to travel with circuses from 2012-2018, they no longer worked for the shows and instead focused on empowering circus people to be lay leaders in their community.
roughout the years Se Dorothy (ef phets) sold tickees, tought school and English classes, and operated the show curtains while So Bemard (mitute photo) worked as a cook and seamstess Courtesy Masionary Sinters of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Whew. Now that the World Cup is over I can get back to some light reading… 😂

Cover of “DEBT
THE FIRST
5,000 YEARS”
DAVID GRAEBER.

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Nice enough for a Radicals game. It was fun, and I biked there. Yay!

A soccer field with men playing ultimate frisbee. The sky is blue in the background

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Wore a mask while biking but this is what the sky looks like at the Arboretum.

Screenshot from EPA air quality app showing AQI of 285 in Madison WI

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Had a beautiful day hiking and swimming at Governor Dodge State Park. There is nothing like a lake swim! 😎

View of a lake with a person on a paddleboard

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Husband would be all over this:

French Meadow Bakery & Cafe
Shakshuka Lamb
Meatballs
Seasoned lamb and pork meatballs stuffed with whipped garlic herb goat cheese and flash-fried. Served atop shakshuka - a blend of tomatoes, chili peppers, onions and spices - garnished with...
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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

No video from yesterday but this is one of the last times I did it before. I tried this trick again (a whip) and didn’t catch it but did a different trick and caught that, which felt good!

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Gotta love the grammar nerds who correct the bike path signs!

A sign that reads “Path etiquette: Ride Slow When Crowded”. Blue sharpie has added a “ly” to the word “slow”

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The Brass Knuckles are up next!

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Rain didn’t stop the Middleton Jazz Band!

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Summer solstice in Madison means one of my favorite days of the year! Make Music Madison has hundreds of free events of people making music! 🎶 It’s always a blast walking or biking around from stage to stage (164 venues, which can be someone’s front porch!). makemusicmadison.org

A map of the Madison area filled with red points indicating venue locations.

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Terrace evenings on Mendota never disappoints. Great to see @tonyjordan.bsky.social too!

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Great job @jerryschippa.bsky.social at the East Side bike infrastructure tour. I learned a ton and went to parts of Madison I had never been to before! Nice to end with a rainbow cone. 🍦

A man in a safety vest standing next to an open electrical box at an intersection.

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

My kid walks in. Kid: “what are leeches?” Me: [racking my brain]…uh, what context are you asking about leeches? Kid: I saw them upstairs Me: 😂 You mean lychees! (Whew!)

A clear plastic box that has lychees in it and says “Seald Sweet Lychees”

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

My kids have the sweetest friends. One friend made a tube top for my oldest, and a different friend made this stuffie for my middle child! So cute!

A stuffed capybara made from brown corduroy

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

In stories of hope: I went to the EAA Air Museum yesterday and they had the plane used to teach whooping cranes how to migrate! They were hunted nearly to extinction so there weren’t adults to teach babies to migrate. They did it for 15 years until the population established. 🥹

A single person plane with a dummy wearing a white suit so that the birds would not imprint on humans

2004 Cosmos Phase Il
Weight-Shift Trike
"Operation Migration"
Isolation Rearing: Operation Migration's whooping crane recovery project is based on "isolation rearing." Costumes, designed to disguise the human form were used in conjunction with hand held puppets of adult crane heads, and recordings of crane calls were used so that the cranes would not become familiar with the human voice. A helmet with mesh fabric covering the face and neck and a dark plastic visor, along with sleeve cuffs or gloves covered the handler's hands when working with the cranes. Handlers made every effort to wear the same footwear. The crane chicks and juveniles were raised so that they do not recognize humans as friends. The locations of holding pens and training facilities were in areas remote from human intrusion.
Between 2001 and 2015, "Operation Migration" used aircraft like this one to lead captive-raised Whooping cranes (Grus americana) on their first migration, part of an international effort to save the species from extinction by establishing a new migratory flock of Whooping cranes in North America. The Cosmos aircraft displayed here served from 2004 until 2014 leading 147 newly-fledged Whooping cranes on their first migration from Wisconsin to Florida. In total it flew 12,655 migration miles plus an uncounted number of training flights to encourage the birds to follow and to build their flight endurance.
The project was designed to teach safe routes and appropriate wintering grounds to a species that normally learns that behavior from its parents. After fifteen years of leading cranes south, there are now over 100 of these endangered birds in the eastern flyway, the first in more than a century. The migration flights ended on a successful note after 2015.
The project now reintroduces captive-raised Whooping crane chicks directly into this new flock each fall. It is hoped
the chicks will associate with the adult birds and follow them south on migration.
In terms of media coverage…

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Going through many many boxwood my Dad’s old papers and found this from 1988! Amazing.

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Your moment of calm for the day. Lake Michigan on Saturday. It seems like an ocean here, and often surprises people who are not from the Midwest. It’s really big! It has waves. Enjoy.

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Super cool raptor talk at the Schlitz Audobon Center. Sadly 3 out of 4 of the birds they showed were hit by cars. 🚗 (Not wind turbines!) Disabling injuries meant they couldn’t be released.

A red shouldered hawk sitting on a person’s hand covered in a leather glove

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Mary Pustejovsky @mpusto.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

lol, from my most recent vacation. I swear there are ones of my kids. 😂

Diego Rivera’s mural “The Capitalist Dinner”. A baby is crying and a man in a suit has a full plate.

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