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last year
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2024 it looks like an epic year right
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you become a dad for the third time you
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have you won 100th game for Wellington
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you win the is it still called NPC
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what's it called yeah yeah you're on
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fire you're playing rugby in France
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everything's going good and then your um
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your you know your brother um passes
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away at the age of 25 obviously I played
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my H 100th game for Wellington we won
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the championship but I wasn't not
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supposed to be there four months ago
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four months before that like I was in
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France and just been in the offseason I
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was i' just driven back from Spain the
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night before and you know I had no
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thoughts of playing for Wellington at
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all probably ever again cuz I I was
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doing the overseas thing so yeah that
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that was pretty confronting on on the on
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the week of that final especially in my
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100th game everyone saying congrats you
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know do this for your brother your
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brother brought you home for this and
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it's was like far right like thanks bro
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like I'd rather you didn't it real
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bizarre trying to trying to give myself
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permission to be happy in those moments
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where I was really feeling