My eyes are starting to adjust to the dark, but I know you're out there. (Laughter.) But I want to thank you all for taking the time to be here today.

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Sometimes it was dark humor, even gallows humor in the face of impending disaster, but the laughter was always close to the surface, ready to explode at any moment.

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