You must, of course, be very happy to see us?

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This must be very hard for you.

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At the very least, if you must be the bearer of bad news, you can follow with a strong statement of confidence in your audience and their ability to conquer the challenges before them.

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Ion must be pretty confident that you won't be needing to get back there very often.

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You said that you and your wife are about the same age, so your fields of reference must be very similar.

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