Ep 8: I Took Everything… Then Nothing: What 3 Moves Abroad Taught Me

You’re ready to move abroad. Your bags are packed, your passport is in hand, and you’re dreaming about your new life overseas. But what if your relocation plans get complicated by something most people don’t prepare for: everything you own and whether it should actually come with you?

In this episode of The Bougie Expat Podcast, Sable breaks down one of the most overlooked realities of international relocation: deciding what to ship, what to sell, what to donate, and what to leave behind when moving abroad.

While most relocation conversations focus on visas, housing, and savings, few people talk about the emotional and practical reality of moving an entire household across borders. Sable shares her personal experience shipping full containers, pallets, and pod shipments across multiple countries, and explains why the “just buy everything when you get there” advice is not always realistic.

She also walks through how to evaluate your belongings with clarity, how to avoid paying for unnecessary shipping costs, and how to prepare for customs, duties, and unexpected port delays. From furniture and appliances to sentimental items and personal care essentials, she explains what is worth shipping and what is better left behind.

This episode is for Black women over 40 who are planning an international move, downsizing for relocation, or creating a strategy for moving abroad with intention, ease, and financial wisdom.

In This Episode

• Why shipping your belongings can simplify or complicate your relocation
• How to decide what to keep, sell, donate, or leave behind
• The emotional challenge of letting go of sentimental items
• Why photos and cloud storage can replace physical memories
• How to evaluate furniture quality and suitability for your new country
• What appliances and household items are worth shipping
• Why personal care items and toiletries matter in your first 90 days abroad
• The real cost of shipping including weight, customs, and handling fees
• Different shipping methods including containers, pallets, and pods
• Why container shipping comes with risks like damage or loss
• How customs, duties, and port processes actually work
• Why timing and holiday schedules matter when shipping internationally
• How corruption and unexpected fees can affect your shipment
• Practical packing strategies to protect your belongings during transit

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Transcript

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The fact that a truck lands at my house, unloads, and voila, my house is all together in one one like minute, like just one swell swoop. Oh, I love it. Absolutely love it. Now I know everybody's like, no, don't ship your things. No. You should um, you can just buy everything when you get there. They have everything. You don't need to do that. Now, everyone heard that one time when I moved, or maybe twice, right? That, oh, you shouldn't bring your things, everything is gonna be fine. And I know even when I went back to the United States, yes, I did ship things from Nigeria back to the United States. People are like, why would you do that? Like, why would you take your Nigerian furniture to the US? I mean, come on. The US is abundant of furniture. Well, when you came to my house, you will know why. When you saw my beautiful African carved tables, you will know why. So I'm gonna talk to you today about what you should bring, what you should share, what you should leave behind, because this is such a very hot topic and a very personal topic. She's done waiting. She's done shrinking, and she's done building empires in rooms that were never designed for her. This is the Bougie Expat, the podcast for black women over 40 who are ready to reinvent their lives, rebuild their income, and relocate with intention. If you're done settling in corporate, tired of environments that no longer feel aligned, or quietly planning your next move, you are in the right place. Hosted by Sable, live from Panama City, Panama. Seven countries, four continents, one move she made in five months flat, income strategies, exit plans, a life designed to actually fit you without starting over broke. Let's get into it. Okay, a lot of people are not gonna like what I'm gonna say in this video, and sorry, not sorry. Because shipping my things, girl, oh yeah, I have no regrets. And I have not just done it once, and I have not just done it to one country, I have done it multiple times. Oh yes, I have because shipping my things is like I I don't even have words for it. The fact that a truck lands at my house, unloads, and voila, my house is all together in one one like minute, like just one swoop. Oh, I love it. Absolutely love it. Now I know everybody's like, no, don't ship your things. No, you should um, you can just buy everything when you get there. They have everything, you don't need to do that. Now, I've only heard that one time when I moved, or maybe twice, right? That, oh, you shouldn't bring your things, everything is gonna be fine. And I know even when I went back to the United States, yes, I did ship things from Nigeria back to the United States. People are like, why would you do that? Like, why would you take your Nigerian furniture to the U.S.? I mean, come on. The U.S. is abundant of furniture. Well, when you came to my house, you will know why. When you saw my beautiful African carved tables, you will know why. So I'm gonna talk to you today about what you should bring, what you should share, what you should leave behind, because this is such a very hot topic and a very personal topic. And each time, I'm telling you, I have no regrets. I have shipped a 40-foot container. That is correct. I took my four-bedroom house and put it into a container. Every blessed thing that was in that house, from couches to dining room sets to beds, to chairs, to dishes, to wedding dishes, to um sheets and towels, to uh perm for our hair, to pancake mix. I mean, like everything we put inside that container. Now, this is like 20-something years ago, and I know they're getting a little more stickler with that. And we also put two cars in that container as well. And so that 40-foot container took us from the US to Nigeria. No, I did not regret that at all. And when I shipped a palette to Panama, what I shipped was things that I felt was very important to me to get my life started immediately. And so when I did that, I shipped. So what did I ship? I know that's what you want to know. What did I ship? I noticed outside of the United States, most beds, most furniture is not as soft. Like mattresses, now you know. We can get a mattress, we can get ourselves a what? We can get ourselves a soft mattress on one side, firm on the next side. We can get firm mattress, we can get a mattress to elevate. You know, we have all kinds of things going on for us. You may not see that in the country where you're going. So I knew bed and how I'm gonna sleep is too important. So, yes, I bought a bed, my bed with me. But also, not only just mattress, I also recognize in a lot of countries their furniture is a lot lower. I don't know, maybe in the United States we're all just tall. I know I'm tall. If you guys didn't know that, I am I am tall, for some people say I'm 5'9. So I don't want to be dropping rolling into a bed. No, I want to be able to just slide into my bed. So I bought bed. And the furniture is like that too, as well. The furniture is very low. So you want to think about that. And so I put that in there. I put all my soft furnishings, like all my soft furnishings, uh stuff in there, and I also put all my furniture for my office because I did not want to start looking. I had already bought a beautiful standing desk that I absolutely love. I was really nervous about shipping it, but I did, and I'm so happy I did. Now, do they have standing desk here? Yes, they do. But do they have the one that I have? No, they don't. Was that important to me? Yes, it was. So let's talk about what you should ship and what you should not ship. Now, when you think about shipping, I don't know how your house is. Is it already cluttered and full with a lot of stuff? Do you have a lot of Nicki-nakkies everywhere? Is every you still have your children's, you know, first coloring inside there? Do you still have the top of your wedding cake still in your freezer? I don't know if you're that kind of person that has all those kind of things. I was never that kind of person. I always cut a like purge twice in a year. So I didn't have a lot of stuff. I'm not necessarily a minimalist, which I love to call myself a minimalist, but I heard that I'm not. But if you are a minimalist, this is gonna be easy for you. If you are a person that has your house stuffed every step of the way, you got plants and statues and nikki-nakkies, it's gonna be hard. So walk your house. And this is what how you're gonna decide what to keep and what to go. If you pick up something and you're like, oh my gosh, I remember this. It's a memory. You can take a photo of that, you can do a video of that, and you can put that in a cloud and have that same memory and get that same feeling. You may not need to actually bring it with you. Like, I know people our age love to collect funeral programs. I think you might want to let that go. Let that go. You don't probably have to take all your funeral programs with you. So that's something you might want to let go. And I know we used to put little flowers in our Bibles from funeral programs or from different things. You might want to let that go as well. Take a little photo, load it up to the cloud, and you have a memory. So, some sentimental things you want to think about. Do can I capture it another way that I can still have it without actually bringing it? Because that's what I hear a lot. You know, all I still have all my children's little photo things, and I tell them to come and get it. If they don't come and get it, it's gonna be out. Because yeah, we have all those things. I still got the yard sign for when they graduated middle school, high school, college. I don't need those things. And if they need them, they should come and get them. And maybe that's what you should sell in your children too. Any little soft little children's memories, ask your children, do you want this? Because I'm gonna get rid of it if I don't. If they don't want it, why are you holding on to it? I'm just saying. All right. So then you need to speak about this. We have to also let go of this. Oh my gosh, if I get rid of this, then I'm not a good whatever, right? My mom gave this to me, she's deceased. My uncle gave this to me on my first whatever. So you might want to just kind of take a photo or do a video or bless somebody with it who would really like it. Or give it to one of your children who may couldn't find use of it. So that's something you want to think about. Then think about if the furniture you have. Now, some of us have really nice furniture. Some of us, you know, our furniture is not necessarily really nice, which means they may not even be able to withstand that shipping and all that stuff. And I'll talk a little bit about the end, about the different ways of shipping and what I kind of feel is the safest and the most secure way, and where you can find some damages and risk. So think about the quality of your furniture. Now, that couch you have, that living room setting, is it something that you absolutely love? Or was that something that you got because it was on sale? Or is it already falling apart and you've put it together, buy all kinds of whatever taint, glue, staples, then that might be something you don't want to bring, right? Or you have furniture and it's really kind of dated. It's like your wedding furniture that you guys first got or something, or it's still college furniture. I don't know, whatever it is. If it's not furniture, then you're like, oh my gosh, I absolutely love this furniture, then you might not want to get it. Also, you got to think about a lot of your houses are probably really big. I moved out of a 5,000 square field house. I don't think my apartment here is, I don't know, maybe it's a thousand square feet. But that means that's a lot of stuff I had to get rid of and decide what to do with it. And you may be the same way. And we do a lot of nicki-nakies. You probably got shelves and bookshelves and and all kinds of um, I don't know, stuff hanging. And do you have that space in your new place? So that's kind of what you want to think about. You want to think about you don't necessarily need all that cheap furniture. You might not have a place to put all those special stuff furnishings that you have, vases, and all the different artwork that you have all over the place. So you have enough walls for that. So that's another thing that you want to think about. Then you have um all kinds of things on your um living room table, your coffee table. Are you gonna have a coffee table that size? Maybe you had a big armoire somewhere. Are you gonna have that again? So think about what your new place is gonna look like and where are you gonna put all those things? Where are you gonna put it? Are you moving to another house or you move into an apartment now? Because maybe you have a small patio, and before you had a wraparound uh deck. So those are things you want to think about. Then appliances. And I know, I know we got every appliances. I mean, we have appliance, we got our Vitamix, we got our uh, what we got? Air fryers, we got microwaves, we got our cured coffee machines, we got our tea machines, we have all kinds of all kinds of stuff. Food processes, we got little special blenders. Do you need all that stuff still? I would say this. When the last time you use it, pick a date, an arbitrary date. It could be anything I haven't used in the last six months, I'm not gonna take with me because that means I'm not using it. Or anything I haven't used in the last one year. Even think about all those special dishes that we have. You know, we have our china and then we have our everyday place. We got napkins, our cloth napkins and cloth holders, we got uh charges that our plates sit on because we have this big old dining room table. Are you gonna need all of that in your next life? I don't know. Think about that. Do you even have space for that in your next life? We have all kinds of ice buckets, we had all kind a lot of people had bars set up in their houses, and that's a whole nother stuff. Wine glasses and conair cups and martini glass. Do you need all those in your next life? I don't know. I just want you to think about it. You think about that. Then also anything of an appliance that you can easily replace, right? So appliances take up space because they're usually big and bulky. And depending on how you're shipping, they're also weight. And so you want to think about the fact that this thing could be heavy and not just replacement costs of they sell it for uh $200, but I bought it for $100. The fact that how much is that gonna cost you when you're shipping in terms of weight? So just consider that, right? And so look around when you're doing your scouting trips and see what appliances they have. See if you recognize the name brands, see if you're comfortable with the name brands that they have there. Because a lot of times they will have different name brands. Doesn't mean that those things are not of quality, it's just names that you're not familiar with. And so ask yourself, you know, do I need to bring this particular coffee machine or my air fryer because they sell air fryers? Yes, I did bring my Vitamix, I did bring my Bartesium, but I bought my air fryer here. And I love the air fryer that I got here. It was garment. I love it, love it, love it. It was affordable. And so that was something I didn't bring. And also, remember, I've been gone back and forth. So I'd put a lot of stuff in my suitcase on each trip and kind of bring things. So these aren't necessarily all things I sent for abroad on my on my first like shipping. I shipped a lot of stuff and then I go back and forth for various reasons, and then I'd bring things with me. So the other thing I want you to think about, how do you know if it's worth bringing? How do you know what's worth bringing, right? So I gave you an idea of cheap stuff, things that you can replace, but all your important document, all of your important documents, you need to bring them. You need to make copies, you need to upload them, and you need to bring them. Because you never know when someone's gonna ask you for something, a marriage certificate, a divorce certificate, a birth certificate, right? You don't know. So just bring all those military discharge papers. Bring all those things with you and also put them in a cloud. And if you want, if you're a person that still has some relationship with your bank and you want to keep it in a safe deposit box in your bank at home, you can do that as well. Or I would also say as you're bringing them here, put them in a strong box. If you're a person who loves to have a safe in their home, I think safes are something that's gonna be too heavy to put on a shipping. I would get a safe when I got to that country. If you're a person that loves to have a safe in your home, and then put them in your safe when you get here. So you want to bring all your those kinds of documents. You want to bring any kind of like um medical equipment that you know that you're gonna need. Do not, I would say, do not take for granted the fact that your medical equipment is going to be available. I don't care what the level of medical care is in that country, I don't care how wonderful it is, you want to bring your medical equipment with you and a backup because anything could happen. Like anything could happen in terms of they don't, they're out of supply or they don't have the exact one that you're accustomed to. We had a client who came on the trip who was on a CPAC machine. She couldn't even find distilled water. So it changed how she had to use that. So these kind of things you really want to think about. Don't fool around with your medical thing, like, oh, they have great medical care. I don't have to bring in. Bring all your things. And then another thing you want to think about is like some of your personal items. I tell you all the time: bring your edge control, bring your shampoo, bring your cosmetics. I saw a store the other day and I was like, oh wow, an altar. And I looked at it again and I was like, wait a minute, that don't say altar. That's a different name. It was set up, it looked just like it. I don't know what main brands they had in there. So bring your cosmetics, bring all your hair things, bring all your toiletries, at least to start, right? At least to get started. And then as you're here, you can start looking around and testing out new brands. But sometimes it's really hard with all the things you got to do in your first 90 days since you get here, that you don't want to be looking for your toothpaste or looking for your hair products or looking for your toiletries. Those things you want to have all taken care of. So I would say any suppressive items, bring all your spices with you, your favorite spices, not the ones that you use just once in a while. Now, if you're a person who loves cooking and you know how it is when you're cooking, you're especially cooking all these different recipes, you probably got 1,000 spices in your cabinet and a half of them you probably only use. I'm gonna say 75% of them you probably only use once or twice because you're probably using your season all, your Larry seasonal, or whatever it is that you use all the time. You're probably using that most of the time. So bring that. Absolutely bring that. And the rest of them, get rid of them because you're probably not gonna use them again. And you're gonna have to probably learn how to cook things differently anyway, because they're not gonna have all the same ingredients that you're accustomed to. So don't worry about bringing all your spices. Go ahead and leave that or let leave that behind. So you want to think, let's say, what other personal items I would say that you want to bring. Um, yes, bring your electric, you know, I said your toiletries. So bring all your uh personal care items, I would say. Your favorite flat iron, your favorite blow dryer, your um electric toothbrush, your floss machine. Why do I say that? Because usually those things are sound personal to us. They're so personal in yeah, you probably could buy them again. But again, is that what you want to be doing with your first 90 days? Running around looking for a water pig, right? That's not what you really want to do. How are you gonna floss? You want to be able to have all those things ready hand. And now let's talk about shipping. What should you ship? How should you ship? So now that you've decided what I'm gonna keep, what I'm gonna give away. And let me just say this. Everyone keeps saying, don't just give everything away, just sell everything. I don't know about you, but if you have been anywhere around what's happening in the United States, who are you gonna sell those things to? Now, I am Queen of Facebook Marketplace. I sell so many things on Queen's First uh Facebook Marketplace, at least I used to. I have sold cars, I have sold soft furnishings, I have sold doors, um, I have sold all kinds of stuff, glass sliding doors. I mean, I've sold all kinds of things. But I am here to tell you those markets have dried up. So if that's what you're depending on, the fact that you're gonna be selling things on secondhand, on offer up or um Facebook marketplace, I know there's places that you can take that will take your furniture as well. That market is dried up. Now, is it totally dead? Absolutely. There's no markets that are totally dead. I'm just saying it has slowed down drastically. So that is what you want to do. If you're in that stage right now of purging, go ahead and start putting those things immediately online and know that it's not gonna happen. Um, you're not gonna get rid of it right away. I had a mini refrigerator. A mini refrigerator was always something I would sell really quick. Because if it's not an office that wants it, it's a college student that wants it. I was not able to sell my mini frigerator. I was able to sell my wine cooler, but not my mini frigerator. So it's sitting in a garage because I have to figure out how to get rid of it. So I just want to tell you, that secondhand market is slowed down. And then how are you gonna get those things to Goodwill? How are you gonna get those things to wherever you're gonna donate? But I do want to give you an extra place. Most people don't really talk about if you're talking about donating, especially household things. Um, the Habitat for Humanity has a house. Um, they have it's called ReStore. And you can donate a lot of household goods there. They love household goods, they take a lot of household goods there. They don't take pillows, I don't think they take mattresses. Um, but you if you have furniture, they'll be happy to really take it. Of course, the Diabetes Association is another place, the Heart Association. If you have a car that you want to get rid of, I um actually gave away a car, they came and got it. It was the, I mean, the most streamlined process ever. They came, got that car, it was dead because it had been sitting in the garage forever. They got it going, put it on a flatbed, and it was out of my hair. Now, I'm gonna tell you, you're not gonna get any real money for that car. It's a donation. I gave the car away. And even right off on your taxes, it's so minimal. But I got rid of the car. I didn't have to worry about it. I didn't have to figure it out. So that was one of the things I did get rid of really, really easy was my car. I had an extra car just hanging around. So let's talk about shipping. Shipping. There's several ways to share. I talked to you about a 40-foot container, right? A 40-foot container, if you have a household, you're shipping your entire household, you can get a 40-foot container. Now, when you get a 40-foot container, you that container belongs to you. And so you want to try to fill it as much as possible. If you do not fill it with your stump, then like you can get a 20-foot. It's not that you really have a 20-foot, it's that basically they're going to give you the, you're going to share your container with someone else. And then the cost of duty and customs and everything, they now do that across everything that's in the container. Your stuff's in the other person's stuff as well. And so that is one way you can send your stuff in a container. When you send your things in a container, what happens is this is where they come to your house and they can pick it up and then they take it over to their particular office and they load the actual container. That's one way. Or you can take your stuff over there. So it all depends on the company that you're working with. What I've seen lately is companies now will be going to come to your house, break down your beds and everything, and then take your things away. Now, the benefit of that is you've now just packed up your whole house and off it goes to your new destination. But look how many people are touching your stuff. So if you're one of those people that have really a lot of precious things in there, consider this. They're going to take your stuff from your house, they're going to take it to their office, they're going to now take it off that truck, they're going to put it in a container. And when it gets to the port, they're going to take it out from the port, they're going to bring it to your place, and then they're going to put it in the house. So that's a lot of people touching things. And I'm always very concerned when I have too many different hands that are touching things. Also, that's how things start to go missing because you know you're counting your 100 and something different boxes. You don't know when it got lost. I had shipped this way twice, and one of the times I did lose a significant piece of furniture. Nobody could tell me where I lost it. I didn't know if I lost where I lost it. Was it that they didn't load it in the origin, or did they, when it got to the destination, someone took it there? Or was it the person who bought it directly to my house? I don't know. So that's kind of why I'm not a major, major fan of shipping on a 40-foot container or a 20-foot container. And if you do, find a way to think about how you are going to minimize the opportunities for theft. I think about like my boxes. I do not put living room TV. I don't mark them like that. I have like little codes, so nobody really knows what's in those boxes. So they're not really feeling tempted. The other way you can sip is a palette. So think about when you've gone to supermarkets, you've kind of seen like all the stuff come in. It is sitting like on this like wooden thing that's kind of crisscrossed. That's a palette. So on that palette, you can also ship your things that way. You can put, they'll come to your place, they'll take all the stuff. Again, they'll they'll get to their office and then they'll load that palette up. And they will load it up as much as they can. They will load it high, they will load it wide as much to the rim of the palette. So that's another way you can ship your things, especially if you're not shipping like your whole household, and you really have downsized a lot, and you just have a few things that you're really excited about. And then there's also, it's like a pod, it's a UH box. That's another way you can do shipping. And that's my favorite way. That's how I bought my things here because I could really monitor it. After that box was loaded, I put a serious padlock on it, and it did not open until it arrived its destination. And nobody could open it. They had to call me to open it. Now they probably weren't too happy because they couldn't actually it couldn't go through um customs until I got there. But I didn't care. I was happy that I knew my stuff was untouched, and that means that nobody picked something out of there, and it didn't, nothing broke because it was still in the same shape. Because I packed it so tight, nothing could even move, sink, or rattle. And that's something that you want to think about. If you get like a 40-foot container and you can't really feel it, your stuff is gonna be moving all around inside that container, and you don't want that to happen. And so now those are the different ways. And I know there's probably other ways. Drop in the um comment section if there's other ways that you have thought about shipping your things that you know about. Now, the other thing I want you to think about, hey, before I do that, have you subscribed? You know, I don't ask you guys a lot to subscribe. So please go ahead and subscribe. Please put on your notifications because I go live every Sunday and I don't want you to miss it. But if you have your notifications on, you will not. All right. So now let's talk about customs. Customs and duty. If you are ship, if you're shipping household goods in your personal items, your personal items and they are things that you own, not that you went out and bought a brand new whatever. These are used items. Most countries, as you are moving there to be a resident, will waive the duty in your first year. So check that out for your country. Is my duty waived, which is why you want to make sure you have established residency before you start shipping things. So this way you can get your um you can get your items and you don't have to worry about paying um the duty. And duty can be a lot. And so I'm gonna talk about some of the different costs. There's customs, there's duty, there's doomage. And so um, these are fees that are collected at the border when your stuff comes in. And so that's some cost that sometimes we don't think about. We're like, oh, I loaded my container, I loaded my pallet, I've gotten that done. But when you get here, you get to your destination, there's another cost you have to pay. Plus, how is your stuff getting from the port to your destination? And so when I used the U-Haul box, they actually, it was end-to-end. They even, the cost that I paid also already included um the moving, the sh the movers who actually overflowed and bought all the things into my apartment, and they now put everything in place. They set up my bed, they set up my TV. It was awesome, absolutely awesome. So now you see why I have no regrets of bringing my stuff. And so you also want to understand what is the stuff that people are not saying that you cannot read that's happens at the ports. And this is what I'm talking about bribery. If there's a lot of corruption and bribery that's happening at the port, you need to know that. You also need to understand, do you speak the language in that country? Because this is not the time for you to be going down with your dualingual language, especially at the customs and ports. Most of those people only speak like the local language. And if you're gonna have to ask questions, answer questions or whatever, if it's a country where they're really expecting you to bribe them, you want to make sure you have a customs agent or duty agent who's gonna be there, who's gonna handle everything for you. That is not something that you want to really get involved in. You will get you will get ripped off trying to do it yourself. Yes, your custom agent is gonna make some money on that, but that's what you're paying them for. But if you try to do it by yourself, I can guarantee you that you're gonna pay more than you expected. Now, that is not for every country. You need to know your country. And um, some of the countries that we moved to and we bought our things in, that that was a very real thing. They know that you want your stuff, and they start out with some exorbit amount, and it's a negotiation back and forth before you can have your things released. And while you're negotiating, every single day they were just being added in, which means that every single day you are paying for your stuff to still be in that port and not in your house. Now, who wants to do that? Because you know you want your stuff in your house. The other thing you want to consider is when you're shipping, don't let stuff come in during a holiday. So understand when your country government holidays are. Because if your stuff lands during a holiday, nobody's going to run down to that port and clear your stuff. And there you are, paying every single day because your stuff is still in the port, because everybody's on holiday. So those are some of the things that you absolutely want to think about. When you travel, when you come yourself, one of my um little um hacks, I love to say stuff your bag as much as possible. Learn how to pack um, you know, the most important things. Put those, of course, your medication and everything in your carry-on. And also find luggage and different kinds of suitcases that are already lightweight. You don't need your suitcase alone to be weighing 10 pounds. You need something that's gonna be really lightweight. And if I get a chance, I'll drop in the comments um a couple of bags that I use that I absolutely love. These things absolutely are like they're so wonderful. Because you don't want to spend a lot of money also on suitcases that you're never gonna use again. Like, how many suitcases? So, what's my hat? My hat is flight business class. When you find business class, you get a larger um um luggage allowance, which would save you and paying so many um or so much for extra luggage. So I hope this was super helpful for you. 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