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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Brad Dowdy:''' Who we got next, Myke? This next question comes from <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Penny</del>. I'm looking for a very nicely weighted mechanical pencil for my daughter-in-law. She just loves her pencils. For Christmas, she asked for a Platinum Pro. Use mechanical pencil for Christmas. She's being frugal. She likes nice quality. The description of the pen reads very well. I would really appreciate it if you read the description and tell me if you can suggest or offer me anything that is more interesting and unique. I have a budget of around $50 but can't spend any more than $65. I thank you so very much for helping me find this fantastic woman a nice surprise. Also, if you would, in a few words, let me know if her requested pencil is okay only because I'm being curious. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you from <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Penny</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Brad Dowdy:''' Who we got next, Myke? This next question comes from <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Peny</ins>. I'm looking for a very nicely weighted mechanical pencil for my daughter-in-law. She just loves her pencils. For Christmas, she asked for a Platinum Pro. Use mechanical pencil for Christmas. She's being frugal. She likes nice quality. The description of the pen reads very well. I would really appreciate it if you read the description and tell me if you can suggest or offer me anything that is more interesting and unique. I have a budget of around $50 but can't spend any more than $65. I thank you so very much for helping me find this fantastic woman a nice surprise. Also, if you would, in a few words, let me know if her requested pencil is okay only because I'm being curious. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you from <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Peny</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. That was totally the path that I went down. And when I wrote this, I wrote the header, what's your favorite inky gift? It wasn't with Colorverse in mind. But once I went down the path, I was like, oh, well, Colorverse is the obvious choice because it's essentially a gift in a box, right? So the packaging is exquisite. The bottles are super cool. The colors are really great. And I picked, similar to you, a shop limited edition. So they did the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Penn </del>Chalet limited edition, Monsoon Storm and Monument Valley. And I just think the color mixture of these, although these aren't mixable, I don't believe. I mean, I'm sure technically you could, but it'd probably make like doo-doo brown or something because it's like a green and a yellow. It'd probably not, let's do not mix those. But the colors like complement each other super well. The box and packaging is cool. They're on a really big sale right now at <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Penn </del>Chalet. I think I might have to get these for myself and just wrap it up and stick it under the tree and be surprised like on Christmas morning when I open these up. The colors are really, really great. So yeah, that was, we were totally thinking along the same lines with the Colorverse. They're just kind of like a perfect gift setup.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. That was totally the path that I went down. And when I wrote this, I wrote the header, what's your favorite inky gift? It wasn't with Colorverse in mind. But once I went down the path, I was like, oh, well, Colorverse is the obvious choice because it's essentially a gift in a box, right? So the packaging is exquisite. The bottles are super cool. The colors are really great. And I picked, similar to you, a shop limited edition. So they did the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pen </ins>Chalet limited edition, Monsoon Storm and Monument Valley. And I just think the color mixture of these, although these aren't mixable, I don't believe. I mean, I'm sure technically you could, but it'd probably make like doo-doo brown or something because it's like a green and a yellow. It'd probably not, let's do not mix those. But the colors like complement each other super well. The box and packaging is cool. They're on a really big sale right now at <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pen </ins>Chalet. I think I might have to get these for myself and just wrap it up and stick it under the tree and be surprised like on Christmas morning when I open these up. The colors are really, really great. So yeah, that was, we were totally thinking along the same lines with the Colorverse. They're just kind of like a perfect gift setup.</div></td></tr>
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