They were like, 'You can't have that. It's too expensive.' I was like, 'OK, 29.' Then I slowly went down to 17, 13, 11, nine. I said, 'I'm not going any less than nine. It's not going to make sense and there's not going to be enough kids.' But then I realized I could not chart nine kids in an hour and a half.
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