You have to do that, and you have to pick up yourself when somebody knocks you down -- because you will get knocked down.

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Should I ask your grandfather to come down and pick you up when everything is safe again?

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You see, when you pick up the east side of the country and shake things down to California, what shakes loose are the kind of people who aren't very tethered to begin with.

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