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It means a lot actually . Um This is 

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something that I have wanted for a long 

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time and it worked , I worked hard to 

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get here , but I my sailors and things 

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like that . Um So it's a pleasure of 

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mine to be given this opportunity to 

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actually put on the anchor and show 

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what kind of leader I can be . So over , 

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over time , I've gone through a lot of 

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adversities coming up throughout the 

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ranks and a lot of things that I 

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thought should be changed and I didn't 

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have the ability to change certain 

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things myself . I don't want anybody to 

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suffer in silence . So I wanna be able 

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to be that person , people could go to 

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and make things happen to my sailors . 

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I was just saying , I will start off by 

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saying thank you . Right ? Because 

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sometimes when I want to give up , I 

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didn't because I know it was them that 

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was staring at me and knowing that I 

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had to be strong , right ? So if they 

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see me do it and they know that they 

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could do it too . So continue to push 

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forward and be strong is what I do . I 

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was a hard head in the beginning and 

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with all those people that saw 

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something in me and continued to push 

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me to be better , then I would not be 

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here . I'm very thankful for the 

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support system that I've had over the 

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years . Um , and again , I could not 

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have done it without them .