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Okay, today is September 29th. We're at Art All Night in Mount Pleasant. Could you tell us your name?

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Hi, I'm Valeria. Hi, and we're so glad you're our first interview of the night. Would you tell us a little bit

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about your relationship to Mount Pleasant? Okay, I'm from Colombia and I moved to Mount Pleasant. It was the first place that I have ever lived since I came to the U.S.

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And I love it so much. I think it's a great neighborhood. I have made all my friends in the neighborhood.

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I have been in like different cities of the U.S. But I haven't found anything like Mount Pleasant.

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Like I feel the warmth, I like to walk and find the neighbors. Like Mount Pleasant is a community.

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You get to know, even when I bring friends to visit me and they get surprised when we walk around and I know my neighbors like it's a community. Oh that's terrific.

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You put on the we're doing in the exercise outside the truck and you put a note about your favorite place in Mount Pleasant. Would you mind telling us about

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that? Yes, I put that my favorite place in Mount Pleasant is a house that is located in Parrow. I put this house because it is so colorful that it's a different house from the rest.

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And they always put really cool decorations for Halloween, for the cherry blossom season. Every season they put something and I love it. I love to walk by the house and had that moment to stare at it and

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look at the creations. And when a quick question how long have you been in the neighborhood 3 years 3 years and have you seen any changes since you've arrived? Yes, when I arrived it was the end

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of pandemic so the neighborhood was kind of like a little bit like closed like we didn't have all the all the restaurants that we have now open so yes more has more like life because there are new restaurants or the stores are open again so I got to see that

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different. Oh, that's great. And what would you like for the future of the neighborhood? For the future of the neighborhood, I don't know, maybe

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to like try to stay this way as a community and have the offer for the different restaurants. And I like a lot that is very family friendly and I get to see the kids.

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So maybe having like another playground for kids to have like more of the space for kids, outdoor space for the kids. But just like keep working on being good how it is right now. Thank you so much for sharing, I appreciate it.

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Okay.