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Surviving On Just $1 In New York - Day 3
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Mar 27, 2025
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So man, I'm gonna head out soon
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Get on with day three. No way. Look at this beautiful weather, eh? Very very encouraging
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I do as I want, I do as I like, I know what's this and no fear nobody
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I mean it's unfortunate that I'm here in the winter when it's raining, you know
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and also doing a challenge which is just like extra white like why are you doing
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that to yourself but check out this view though my first thing in order today is Raising Cane's we signed up to their club card on
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day one and finally we get our free box combo meal I came to collect my free
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combo box yes I came to get my free combo box yes I've been waiting for this for the past two
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days yes sorry so fries toast coleslaw caneslaw cane sauce and coleslaw chicken
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It comes with four tenders. Oh, tenders. All right. My time was four tenders, four pieces, fries, toast, coleslaw
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What, like toast bread? It's like a toast with garlic butter on it. Yeah
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Oh, yeah. And a drink as well. And a drink. All for free? Wow, you're spoiling us
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Oh, thank you. You're welcome. Enjoy the great things. Thank you. Okay. And then in the back of your receipt, there's a survey
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My name is Desire. Desire. Desire. Desire. You fill it out, you're able to win free canes for a year
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Okay, well done. Thank you so much. I know you're going to go over there and pick me up
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Alright. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Thank you. Alright, we're back out on the streets
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This weather is just amazing. It's lush. It's exactly what you want
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Right now, I'm going to try And head to another hostel. And drop this bag off
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The hostel I've been staying at the past two nights. I've like. I've burnt the bridge
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I've cremated it. The ashes are in the wind. Like. Done. No way am I going back there
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All the staff know me. They've seen me sleep on the sofa for the past two days
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So no way. So. I need to like just find another two hostels
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To stay at. And it's probably best for me to go early. And drop my bag off
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so at night it doesn't look sketch you know so you want to drop it during the
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window that everyone else is dropping their bag so I'm just at the hostel I just finished annihilating Chris at a game of
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cool and i told you guys i've been following this instagram page called new york for free
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and they've just posted um an event which is ice skating in the park which also comes with free food
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and free drink or voucher so we're gonna head over there unfortunately i don't have skates so
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i'm not sure what's gonna happen but hey it's it's an opportunity to explore so let's get it i don't
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I don't know if I'm just childish, but these things freak me the out
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Is it just me? Lord of Jesus. It can't be just me. I'm scared even just getting close to it
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What's up? Don't come alive. I come alive in the night time
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Tight squeeze. Just on a train to the ice skating rink. It's very packed
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all right so we're just going to the park and there's a Christmas market we're
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gonna go through the Christmas market in this raid I wonder why am I out in this
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raid why look look it's raining are these for like trials do I just like scoop it
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into my mouth oh I was joking but I guess this is a good idea
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Hey, you have to do it. I have to do it. All right, come on, Dad
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I might have a date later. A little bit. Okay, go. Okay
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Is it sweet chili? No. It's hot sauce. Bro, you're kidding me, man
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Why did I do this? Why did I go in Really You tried Yeah You know Thai hot sauce Do you like Thai hot sauce Oh you eating it with rice Yes
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You see rice? No, no. Rice is a lot better. Yeah, I put this one in there. Rice. Yeah
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Oh. Oh, no. Mmm. Mmm. It's very hot
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It feels like a challenge. Why am I challenging myself? Thank you so much
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Can I grab some more chips? Yeah, sure. Thank you. Thanks, man
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Have a good one. How's it going? I'm good, thanks. Your swirls of chocolate look very delicious
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My what? Your swirls of chocolate. Oh, I don't know. Oh, right, right, right. What did you do for a minute
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I did for you, yeah. Alright. Come on, look. I would love to
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No true and allow, just let it melt Oh yeah, okay You don't have a drink do you
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Do you have to pay for that? Yeah I have one dollar
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Oh dear Better look next time Okay, no worries, thank you Alright so we're just walking to the ice rink
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And I think I've just seen a scene from Limitless Where they were chasing the chick
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she had to like run and like run across this bit I think it might be this bit it
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looks like it it might be it might not be but it's like so surreal seeing a
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scene from a movie so I wasn't sure whether it was the park well of course
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it is because after she ran away she got to an ice rink and then she was like
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running around the ice rink so that's the ice rink that we're going to right now have i signed my waiver for my life what we were
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oh right i've just signed my life away to acknowledge that i'm going to be skating in
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the rain and if anything happens it's on me i chose to come here i signed it i've been told i
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gotta come to the box office get me a ticket all right that's my best american accent what do you
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What do you think of it? Not bad? Nice. I can fit in
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Not bad. You can definitely try. Can you tell it's mixed with British or Nigerian
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Go one more time. I'll sort of come to the box office because I gotta get me a ticket
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Does it sound like the applicants are trying? The box office sounds like you're trying but getting me a ticket was pretty good
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I gotta get me a ticket man. Alright I'm gonna stop. Can I put it on my left
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I'm very superstitious. It has to be with like the safety crystals
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All right amazing there we go. I guess we're going skating The tent outside. I can get
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Yeah, free hot chocolate and snacks. Oh amazing. Thank you so much All right, okay, okay, thank you
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Okay, so we have a dilemma. Everything is free except the lockers, which is $7. Now
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we obviously don't have $7, so we're going to put our shoes up here at our own risk
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Now, the shoe isn't a problem. The camera is a problem. Where to put the camera? Because
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I really don't want to take it out there. Can you see me? Why are you a little bit dark
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You're a little bit dark. I'm gonna run around and just go back
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But you're good now. Alright so we're finished skating and we've got a ticket for free beverage and a snack
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We're just gonna go through and over here looks to be some goodies. Hello
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We have three gloves from Disney on Broadway. The Aladdin ones, they're in purple
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There are these bags here. Or the Lion King ones in black are over on the other side
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And then if you want, there are suit stakes you can enter to win tickets. You can scan the QR code
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Yeah. All right, I'll grab one of these. Thank you so much
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Thank you. Hello. Hi, how are you? I'm good, thanks. Oh, more goodies
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Would you like, I was going to say laser tag. Would you like a luggage tag
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I would indeed yes. So what color would you like? Green please
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By James. Go ahead spin it. Oh so I win anything I get on here
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Yep. Whatever you land on you'll get. How many times can I spin? One. One
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Yep. Alright. Big bucks, no annies. 1,000 pounds please. That not one of the options Sunglasses though Amazing Or this Santa Thank you so much Oh yeah Oh thank you Do you want a picture with Santa Yes please
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How's it going? I'm good, thanks. The treats look very delicious indeed
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How many of these are we allowed to have? One? Are you sure? I can't just like..
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Okay, so so one of this and then one of this got some free treats
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All righty that was fun we got freebies in our bag. We've got a hat. We've got gloves. We've got chocolates
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Right now. I need to find some warmth. I need to look for a coffee shop
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Charge up my phone charge up my batteries figure out Where next
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Alright, so I'm just in prayer. I've been looking through the New York for free page, and I found two new things
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One, it's an event where you bring a coat or jacket, and you get something in return
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So you either get a free chicken sandwich, or a coffee, or a free burger, or a free smoothie
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You bring a jacket, you get food in return. Where to get a jacket is a problem
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I can't give this one away, not for a chicken sandwich. but you can understand the initiative it obviously goes to charity because it's winter a lot of people
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need winter jackets so what i'll do is back in london we have websites like free in london where
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people offer like free clothes free shoes free like gum tree like things like that so i'm gonna
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go on here and see if i can find a new york equivalent of that website see if i can grab
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some free jackets take it to get donated and then get food in return if that makes sense that's the
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first thing another thing i found is another event where you go and you get like treats so you get
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cupcakes and and like random treats but i'm more interested in the chicken sandwich
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as you can imagine all right so i just found a website offering free clothing
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It's about 30 minutes away so we're going to head over there see if we can get something
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and then go and exchange it for a sandwich. hell
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that just led me to a criminal justice system I'm here to see if I can grab any
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I'll put it in here How many jackets have you had today
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Not a lot though, five Yeah, and it's a whole walk The games are free. Oh
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Okay amazing. All right, so free games. Which one can I get with this jacket? Yeah that one. This one? Yeah the Nashville
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too. Actually yeah it's this one in the picture. Okay I'll go for that one. I've never seen
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this concept before. A restaurant that has an arcade in it. It even has the Mario like
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at the top of the Pyrox. So we're gonna find a nice comfy seat
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all right we've just had dinner now we're gonna try and figure out where to sleep tonight all
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right as if we haven't had enough freebies today it just so happened to be national cookie day
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and apparently insomnia cookies are offering a free cookie if you show them
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the app now me being from the UK I can download US apps and I tried because I could have got a ton of more freebies I download this and get that download that and I been trying for the past like few days and I not been able to but let see if I can get a free cookie
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How's it going? Good how are you? I'm good thanks I heard it was national cookie day today
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It is would you like a free cookie? I would. Sure. What free cookie do you want? Is any of the classics
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They're in the first category up top Chocolates chunk please. Okay, no problem. It's up to you. Just one has eggs and one has no eggs. Yeah
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They're both unhealthy. Enjoy. Thank you so much. Thank you. Appreciate it. Have a good one
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After this I need to go and find our hostels to stay tonight. Cream would have been nice with this
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But I can't complain. Beggars can't refuse it. too much sweetness I'm eating too much sugar since I've been here I've been
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eating a lot of sugar I don't usually you know you guys are making me eat too
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much sugar come on there's too much it's too much alright so I've just walked into a thrift shop we're gonna walk around and speak to
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the owners and see Wagwan. I'm looking for like any old unused or like unsellable, is that a word
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Uh-huh, sure. Unsellable, unused old jackets. I wonder because everything that's on the floor
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has been essentially imagined on like okay fair enough how about things below the floor
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oh you mean like in storage yeah that's a really good question
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I don't have access to that no come on so right now it's almost 9 o'clock
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and I'm already knackered so right now I'm gonna head back to the hostel and
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try and be inconspicuous hello
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are you finding are you finding foods are these cookies oh what the
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no way you wanna take something I mean I would love to
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so a lady was just going through the bin and the whole thing was just packed full of sandwiches
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and cookies and like just food i'm like hell all right so i've been in another hostel
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this is the basement this sounds a bit like touch and go because the other day i came they
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were really really strict today i've just like managed to go through and now i'm downstairs
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if i can hide somewhere then hopefully i can make it through the night if not then i'm sure
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they're gonna kick me out hopefully they don't. Here we've got a foosball table
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your table tennis table as well and some board games and one that looks like
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either gambling, lottery or roulette. I'll see if someone wants to play me and
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And then what looks like a cinema room but it's not actually a cinema room and then the kitchen is back there
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It's currently 2.20am. Most people are... Most people are gone to bed
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So everyone is finally gone. But there seems to be another person that's also squatted
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Did they come and check this room? I don't think so. What
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Have you stayed here before? I only, like, stayed here until, like, 4 a.m
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And they don't come downstairs? No, usually not. Yeah, it seems like the coast is clear
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Initially, I was thinking to, like, set myself up under there. At least I know I get, like, a good night's sleep the whole night
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But since then, I'm going to come downstairs and disturb
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