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Can Sailing Make You Healthier? 12 Ways It Benefits Your Mind and Body
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Apr 8, 2025
If someone asked me to name one of my favorite sports, I would say sailing. There’s nothing quite like being out on the water—it’s exhilarating and refreshing. Sailing isn’t just a hobby; it’s a fantastic way to improve both mental and physical well-being. From reducing stress to building strength and focus, sailing offers incredible benefits for the mind and body. Discover 12 ways sailing can enhance your health and happiness: 👉 https://abusonadustyroad.com/how-sailing-can-improve-your-mental-and-physical-health-12-ways/ #SailingLife #MentalHealthMatters #StayActive #OceanTherapy #HealthyLiving #AdventureAwaits #WellnessJourney #ABusOnADustyRoad We loved to hear from you! Check out our blog at ABusOnADustyRoad.com https://abusonadustyroad.com/ Find more great travel videos, recipes and food ideas, tips about ex-pat life, and ancestry travel.
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hi this is Anita from the Dusty Roads
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podcast At the Dusty Roads podcast we
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talk about things of living your life as
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a global citizen And as part of that we
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talk about travel we talk about history
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we talk about other cultural type of
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things What does it mean to be living
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your life as a global citizen and one
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aspect of things that I talk about a bit
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too is sailing because I believe that
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sailing is a great way to be able to see
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the world You see different perspectives
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out there on the water and it is just a
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great form of exercise or hobby or
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whatever you want to call it I want to
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talk a bit about how sailing though can
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help you improve your mental and your
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physical health We don't obviously think
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about that but you know there's many
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ways that sailing can help your mental
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and physical health Let's talk first
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about mental health And I think you know
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this goes for anything If it's not
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sailing if you're out biking if you're
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out hiking whatever it is that you do
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that can help you to be able to find a
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mental health benefit is helpful That's
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one of the great things about travel
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that I've always enjoyed and especially
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when I was younger and I was out
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backpacking a lot You know I sometimes
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would love just getting on a bus or on a
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train I could spend 12 hours a day just
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looking out the window and looking at
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life going on outside there I was
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fascinated I never wanted to sleep I
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didn't want to miss anything I wanted to
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make sure I saw everything you know
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every chicken running across the road
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every person on the road I just really
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really love that and that's part of the
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you know mental health benefits of
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sailing and what sailing does So whether
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it's sailing or whatever it is it can it
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can help you to be able to do this One
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can reduce stress reduction and
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mindfulness which I think in the world
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that we live in today it can really help
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you to be able to reduce stress and to
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just have more of a mindfulness you know
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and whether that mindfulness for you is
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being out on the road and and looking at
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you know nature as it passes by on a
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train or if it's out sailing that can be
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helpful for mental health connection
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with nature It's you know sailing is a
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great way to connect with nature Um or
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if you're out hiking is a great way to
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connect with nature You can improve
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focus and mental clarity When you're out
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there in nature it helps improve your
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focus and mental clarity It can boast
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your self-confidence and problem solving
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skills You know especially when you're
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out there whether you're sailing or
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whatever you're doing anything like that
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can help you boast your self-confidence
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and help you be able to solve problems
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better can give you social connections
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and teamwork Especially if you're like
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me where the boats you sail you have to
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sail with somebody It can give you some
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social connections You can get to know
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people and you can foster teamwork and
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it can help you with these emotional
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resilience Another thing about selling
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for the physical aspect is it can be a
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full body workout You know as you're
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pulling the ropes and other things it is
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a full body workout It can be great
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cardiovascular health you It help you
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improve coordination and balance You
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know those that don't believe it you
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have to be able to balance on a sailboat
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It can enhance endurance and stamina You
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can be exposed to fresh air and vitamin
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D We in today's world probably don't get
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enough vitamin D I know that I myself am
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low in vitamin D And that's because we
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are just not getting enough vitamin D
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We're not outdoors as much as we used to
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be outdoors And so we're lacking in many
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of these basic type of nutrients If you
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go out sailing it can help you get some
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exposure to fresh air and vitamin D And
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it's a low impact exercise with high
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benefits So you might ask yourself well
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why you know why should I consider you
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know doing something like this well you
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know there's many reasons why taking up
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a form of exercise like sailing can be a
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great way great thing One way is it
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could be a great way to be able to see
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parts of the world One reason why I'm a
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great advocate of it is it allowed me to
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escape the hustle and bustle and to just
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sort of be out there on the water and
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just sort of relax and see you know the
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city from far off It's just amazingly
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relaxing and beautiful It allows you to
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stay physically active at almost any age
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I've sailed with people in their late
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80s or some of the best sailors I've
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ever met who really understand how to
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sail Great mental relaxation And like I
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said before even if you don't sail if
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you hike or whatever you do it can be
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great mental
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relaxation Social and family bonding It
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can be a great way to be able to bond
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socially and as a family It's a valuable
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life skill You know just like I always
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say that swimming is a valuable life
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skill so is boating and sailing can be
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valuable life skills Affordable options
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can be available If you look around
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there's some community sailing centers I
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know Milwaukee where I grew up has a
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fantastic community sailing center and
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it can give you some lifelong enjoyment
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Even though we're talking here about
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sailing how it can improve your mental
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and physical health I'm a great believer
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in as we talk about living your life as
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a global citizen that you're doing
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whatever you want to do whatever helps
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you to be able to be able to have the
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mental and physical you know health that
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that you need or whatever it is that you
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do whether it's like I said if it's
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hiking if it's biking even if it's
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getting on a on a bus somewhere in a
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foreign country and looking out the
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window and watching Watching the culture
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go by can also be very mentally
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stimulating and also at the same time
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can be extremely relaxing It you know
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can help you For me I find that that
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also helps me to be able to reduce um
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some
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stress So whatever it is that helps you
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we know part of this about you know
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Dusty Rose podcast about travel One of
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the things about travel is that to
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really be able to travel well you need
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to you need to have some health and
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fitness you know both mental and
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physical health and fitness So that's
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one reason why I'm talking about this
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too that if you want to be able to
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travel and to be able to see the world
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it's important that you have some type
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of you know mental and physical health
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that you can be able to do those things
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that you need to do when you're out
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traveling and seeing the world and
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seeing other cultures For me I find that
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sailing is more than a leisure activity
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That's a powerful way for me to enhance
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my mental and physical well-being For me
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personally the experience of being out
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in the water you know feeling the wind
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against my face and watching the sun
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glisten on the waves can be you know
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incredibly therapeutic It can be you
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know an opportunity to disconnect from
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the daily grind and reconnect again with
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nature and with life and immerse myself
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in an environment that promotes
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relaxation mindfulness and physical
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fitness So whatever that activity is
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that you do we hope I hope that you'll
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be able to do it and find it and be able
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to get out there and to be able to look
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for your mental and physical well-being
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I've writt a blog on this if you are
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interested and the blog that I've
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written is called How Sailing Can
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Improve Your Mental and Physical Health
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12 Ways So you go on there and you can
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find out some more information on that
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if you're interested in that We thank
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