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17 or 18. And back then, with special permission, you could still smoke in your hospital room. And that was in the mid 90s, I mean it wasn't that long ago. And they had to get special permission, but they didn't want me going outside because it was the death of winter. And I was in there for pneumonia, I think, no tonsils, tonsils it was. And I never ended up getting them out because it didn't happen again, but I had a flare up. And my tonsils swelled and I couldn't, you know, barely swallow or anything. So I was put in hospital a week, 10 days, something like that. And I was constantly trying to go outside for a cigarette and I couldn't go out in the cold because of my condition. And so they got special permission from me to smoke near the window in my hospital room. I remember it like it was yesterday. This is repeater station kilo, kilo 7, November, Quebec, November. Yeah, well, yeah, well now it's kind of changed, right? It's like you kind of, just to even ask now, you kind of almost feel like a wet blanket.