Um... what?pic.twitter.com/MfdCCGfZOt
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Have you tried having an honest conversation with him? Not just quips on Twitter? Dude's had my back when he hasn't needed to. I got banned off of Twitter, all kinds of folks bounced, yet he was one of the folks that still checked in regularly.
Talk to him in private sometime and maybe listen to his story.
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