A guy came up to the mic right over there and he said, 'My wife left me because she said I wasn't you.' ... But the gentleman stopped and then he said, 'And I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart.' And he literally dropped the mic and I thought that kind of covers the whole gamut.
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