The interview is almost over. Just one final question. There anything that we haven't talked about, or that i should have asked you? It seems to allifan you should have asked me why i'm missing fingers on my left hand, ok? I i keep saying to myself that this was because i, a, was so weak, and i got the a axe caught up in a tree, and i didn't have rapid enough reaction time to pull my hand away,. So i removed some fingers. But there it was. And you ask an experience that i remember? I sure remember that.
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