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Adrian,

Cousins came in from Ireland to join us for Thanksgiving.

The cousin my age, her husband supplied Irish dog food made from very healthy ingredients. In the tariff war, a company from Texas took its business away with a crap product. The revenue loss is $40 million. His brother-in-law owns the company, and he has been there all along since high school. All they can do is accept it. Texas is shortening the lives of your pets one pet at a time.

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