And when you have gone through what I have gone through, you have to say to yourselves, 'There is no way that the creator has taken me this far to leave me.' It's just not possible. Regurgitating a scripture or the Quran or a religious text is not believing. And you have to really transform from reading to believing. I do not wake up one day believing, as mommy would say, 'Baby, you got this.' New Yorkers, we got this. And I say it over and over again when I wake up, it scares me that I'm not scared. And I did not have to be fluent in Spanish to know what you were saying to me and understanding every word of it. If I'm speaking Spanish or Greek Coptic church or a Sikh temple, go into those houses of worship and you will begin to fully understand how God does not speak with us in language, he communicates through our hearts.

And I thought Pastora Rodriguez, what I do often that I would encourage you to do is to go into houses of worship that do not speak the language that I'm familiar with. And I want to just touch on a few items and then allow us to really exchange greetings with each other. And just all of you who have been with me on this amazing journey for so many years. I saw your husband, he said you got a new grandchild. Marx for opening the library to allow us to come in.Īnd a long time friend Iris is here also. And just an amazing, amazing, amazing team. I don't know if Sheena's here, my first deputy mayor.

Those who're in administration, Sue, Ydanis, and Fred of this amazing team of my… You heard from my chief advisor, but also I have here my amazing chief of staff, Camille. But I am going to ask just people I have grown to adore and just love so much, I'm going to ask my team to stand up. Because if you weren't new you'd know the rule.

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