The Committee’s Bankruptcy professional, Melanie Cyganowski, and Talc Plaintiff Committee Member Representatives Michelle Parfitt, Leigh O’Dell, and Lisa Nathanson Busch, provided updates on the Committee’s progress and the next steps in the ongoing bankruptcy case. TCC members Rebecca Love and Patricia Cook also shared their cancer journeys and experience being on the Committee.

 

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Alright. Good afternoon. Everyone.

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On behalf of the official committee of Tell
claimants sometimes refer to simply as the TCC.

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Welcome to our second Town Hall before
we dive in. I want to share that we have

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over 525 people joining us live on this
webinar to those of you who are tuning in.

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I want to first say, thank you. We know your
time is precious, and we appreciate you.

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Taking a few minutes to be with us today. Today’s
Town Hall is scheduled to last around 30 min.

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Our goal is to be as efficient with your
time as we can in the future there may be

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longer town halls as we discuss future
and further details in greater light.

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Excuse me in greater depth when we anticipate
that happening, we’ll be sure to let you know.

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Now, let’s get on to today’s agenda.

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The purpose of this Town Hall is to
introduce you to a few of our 11 TCC

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Members and discuss their stories as well as

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to answer some of your most
frequently asked questions.

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If you have questions, we encourage
you to submit the by email.

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Okay.

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To. And I quote [email protected].

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[email protected].

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We also have a web page and we
encourage you to look at it.

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The web page is updated regularly. The web page is

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found at ltltalccommittee.org
– ltltalccommittee.org

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The speakers on today’s town hall are myself,

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Melanie, Ziggowski, from Ottawa.

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I am one of the co-counsel,
together with brown redneck,

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and other law firms, representing the
committee also speaking today are TCC.

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Members, Patricia, Cook and Rebecca Love, who are
represented respectively by our co-presenters,

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Lisa Nathanson Bush, from whites in Luxembourg
and Michelle, perfect from Ashcraft,

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We’re also joined by committee representative

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Leo dell from Beesley Allen, who represents
Alicia Lantern, Alicia was planning to join

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us today, but due to treatment for her
cancer is unable to participate today.

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Lisa, Michelle and Lee are co-chairs of the TCC.

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Michelle and Lee are also
colleague counsel in the Mdl.

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Multi District litigation for
those who may not know the top

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Kindness Committee is comprised
of 11 members of those members.

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10 are either suffering,
from ovarian cancer or miso,

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or they have family members who
suffered and died from these diseases.

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In addition to Patricia and Rebecca, the
other members of the committee are Brandy.

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Carl Randy, drawer. Christie Doyle is the
state representative of Dan Doyle, April fair.

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William Henry as the State representative of
Depra, Henry Alicia Landrum, Sue, Summer, Chris

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Tanya, Wetzel, as the estate representative of
Brandon and Blue Cross Blue Shield, Massachusetts,

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today.

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You will hear directly from Members
Rebecca Love and Patricia Cook, the TCC.

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Was appointed by the office the US Trustee the
committee is the official committee specifically

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appointed under the bankruptcy code, and
it’s the fiduciary which represents all.

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Talc claimants under the bankruptcy code.
The committee has a duty to communicate

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with all of the creditors
and claimants, and the LTL

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Management bankruptcy case. Lastly,
before you meet our members,

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let us remind you that we are not your lawyers,
and we are not here to give you legal advice.

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We understand that many of you have counsel, and
for those who identified your counsel when you

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signed up for this town Hall we reached
out to invite your council to attend.

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This is not a solicitation for
or against the proposed plan.

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This town hall is being recorded, and will be
posted on our committee’s web page, and before

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I turn it over I just wanna mention that we now
have over 630 participants welcome to you all.

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Now I’d like to turn it over
to Patricia Cook, Patricia.

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Hello, everyone! Thank you for being here today.
I appreciate the time you’ve taken to join us.

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My name is Patricia Cook, and I
am one of the committee members.

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I have been asked to join
you today and share my story,

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but I have a feeling that many
of you have similar stories.

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I grew up using Johnson and Johnson
products. Smart worked for the company

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when she was younger, and she encouraged
my sister and I to use their baby powder.

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We always had. J and J. Things around the
house. I used it as part of my daily routine,

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and when my sons were born I used it on them
as well as part of the Diaper change routine

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as an adult, and through my career as a personal
trainer I’ve always been mindful of my health.

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I worked out and ate well,

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which is why I knew something was wrong when I
felt a lump in my abdomen early in the year 2020.

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By December of that year I was
diagnosed with baphasic pertoineal.

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The news was so shocking. It
was paralyzing in the beginning.

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I was so overcome by fear and stress
that even the most basic first steps,

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like finding a doctor, were overwhelming.

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I couldn’t believe that someone like
me who had always prioritized my help

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could get cancer in February of 2021 I
had cyto reductive surgery with high tech.

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My admin was full of tumors.

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I had my gallbladder appendix spleen, momentum,
and parts of my intestines and diaphragm removed.

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I had a hysterectomy, and also had Hermia’s
repaired that were caused by a large tumor.

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After that he did heated chemo was poured into
my abdominal area for 2 h, and then rinse down.

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I had complications from the surgery that
included a blood clot on my portal vein,

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and an elevated resting heart rate
due to a reaction to the anesthesia.

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Because of covid roles. I spent
12 days alone in the hospital.

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Then I had a ruling 3 month recovery
that included 2 more hospitals,

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and during the time I lost almost all of my hair.

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After recovering, I did 10 months of immunotherapy

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until my cancer returned last year,
and then I had 4 rooms of chemo.

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My cancer diagnosis and treatment
has been devastating and disruptive.

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Even now, as I sit here today, my last scan showed
some growth and more chemo is in my near future.

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Through all of this, however,
I’ve worked hard to find peace.

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And get back to feeling myself. I
come to appreciate every single day.

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I started practicing hypnotapy, Reggae and
breathing butterflies as way to combat my stress,

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I continue to work out, and
eat even healthier than before.

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I can’t do everything I used to do,
but I’m back at work with the support

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and encouragement of my clients who
motivate me as much as I motivate them.

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I spent more time. I spend
more time with my husband,

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and we’ve been traveling as much as possible.

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I also enjoy the time I
spend with my 2 adult sons.

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I have a wonderful network of friends, and I found
strength through some online meso support groups.

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2 of my friends from those support
groups passed away this year

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which just reminds me of how important our
committee’s work is joining. This committee is.

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Given me an opportunity to stand up for myself and

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for everyone like me dealing
with the consequences of J

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And J’s negligence. I’m a very
private and reserved person.

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While I typically hate drawing
attention, I feel so infuriated by J. and

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J’s maneuvers to evade responsibility.

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I knew I had to take a stand for myself and
the thousands of other victims out there.

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I’m curious like J. and. J. Is
trying to avoid accountability

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for what we’ve gone through
until we see justice served.

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I’ve made it my mission to be a voice for
those battling these terrible diseases.

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Please know that it is people like
you and me who make up this committee,

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and we know it’s at stake, and we’ll
keep on fighting until justice is served.

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Now I would like to introduce my
fellow committee member, Rebecca.

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Thank you. Patricia. Hi, everybody,
and thank you for joining us today.

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I’m Rebecca, love, and I am one of the 11 TCC.

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Members. In fact, most of us
were involved with the first J.

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And J. Talk bankruptcy case

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that one was successfully dismissed
by the third Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Back in January, and when it was finalized
in April, within 2h and 11 min, LTL.

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a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson
filed for bankruptcy for a second time.

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So Patricia and I both are
working on this committee as well.

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We’ve been in for appointed by US

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Trustees to represent all the claim people.

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Is my honor to sit here today to serve as a voice.

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For all of us the unfortunate victims and I’m
deeply passionate about being on this committee.

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It gives me renewed purpose in the
wake of the diagnosis that we have.

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Tell you a little bit about myself.
I am a dentist by profession.

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In my career. One of the things I love
the most was being the dental educator,

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teaching young people how to become
dentists and how to become dental hygienist.

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I’m also retired Air Force veteran.

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Now!

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I have to add to that list, and can add to
that list that I am an ovarian cancer survivor.

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At this point.

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In 2018 I found a lump in my groin. And I saw my
physician, and everything started happening fast.

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Cat, scans, pet scans, biopsies,
and then I received the phone call.

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“I’m sorry to tell you this,
but you have a variant cancer.”

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I’d already been brca tested.
I didn’t have brca gene.

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I have since been tested for a battery of other
genes that cause cancer, and I have none of them.

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I have no family history. The one
thing I do have is over 40 year.

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History. I’ve using Johnson and Johnson
baby powder and in my groin area

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Going through the treatments.

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I went through 7 chemo cycles, de-bulking surgery.

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Rehabilitation.

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After the surgery.

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And then.

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I was so –

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Sick that I add to give up my
greatest passion, which was teaching.

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I was too weak to continue on.

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I wondered what was my purpose? It was
never a “why me, what do I have this?”

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But what is my purpose for having this?

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And I found a couple of answers.

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First I was fortunate enough
to go into a clinical trial.

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And that clinical trial is for women
with advanced Stage 3 and Stage 4

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Ovarian cancer that combines a what we
call a part inhibitor part in our bodies,

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repairs the DNA and the cancer
cells, and the cancer comes back.

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But it was combining that with an
immunotherapy as well, hoping that

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the immunotherapy will potentiate the action
of the inhibitor to bring the cancer back.

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With that.

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I wanted to make sure that I was representing
and helping women with advanced ovarian cancer.

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And to help all these people in the future. So,

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being in this clinical trial was
really really critical for me.

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My oncologist and I both believe
that I was on both of the drugs.

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It’s very fortunate as those of
you with ovarian cancer know.

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Stage 4 ovarian cancer is only a 17% chance.

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of being, alive.

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In 5 years!

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I will make it I’m a few
months away. I’ll make it.

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I’ll be in that 17%, and for
that I will be forever grateful.

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My second purpose is being on this
committee to represent all of you.

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I want justice for the victims of Johnson and
Johnson, who knew that they had a product.

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That had carcinogens in it.

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And I want to make them accountable for that
action, putting products and profitability

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over people’s health and people’s lives.

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J&J’s Deceptive plan to invent a fake company.

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that didn’t exist before. That includes
all the talcum powder claims in it

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to settle all talcum claims forever and ever.

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It’s unconscionable what they are doing.

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I find their proposed plan
to be a little bit troubling.

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We’re not gonna talk about that
now our TCC representatives

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Are going to continue to analyze the
plan, and at the proper time will be

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prepared to comment on that plan and
answer any questions you may have.

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In many ways I feel that the universe
has called me to serve others.

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I proudly dedicated my life to help
in, people around me, find answers

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to any questions they have.

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I’ve done that through being an educator as a
dentist and one of the things I did in dentistry –

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I am a forensic dentist, so I helped,
have helped many families find closure.

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When they’ve lost loved ones
that needed to be identified.

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So, being a part of this committee
is a continuation of that calling.

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Despite.

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Everything.

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That I’ve been through. You have been through.

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I have hope.

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I want you to have that hope too.

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For those of you listening today.

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Who are also battling cancer.

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Please know that there’s hope.
There is hope for her futures.

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There is hope for having more time with our
families, and our friends are our loved ones.

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All the things that we love to do.

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Most importantly, there is hope that we will,
and we are living beautiful, fulfilling lives.

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Like Patty. I’ve decided to take my life back.

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With my husband Tommy at my side.

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I’m discovering, rediscovering. I love for
lot of the hobbies that I used to have.

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But, more importantly, it’s probably
more about doing the simple things.

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I want to get back out in the middle
of the river and fly fish again.

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I finally feel I have enough strength
to to get out and to do that.

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Be in the river, walking my dog by the river,

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being with my friends, having dinner
parties again, having the joy of travel.

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Reading new books and hopefully
revisiting old masters.

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Once again. The simple things are what
make our lives beautiful and wonderful.

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I want to find joy. My happy place
is just sitting out on my deck.

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And looking at the beauty all around me.

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Once i created a fundraiser

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for a wonderful ovarian cancer
organization that I’m passionate about.

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It’s called the Clarity Foundation.
This for ovarian cancer.

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A nonprofit organization aimed at supporting

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people

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who have ovarian cancer in all sorts of ways.

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They have fundraisers.

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I read a book.

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That really struck me.

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It’s wonderful. The book is called “The Boy
The The Fox and The Horse”, by Charlie Mackesy.

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In this book.

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The boy is trying to figure out the
meaning of life and what is around.

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And he’s talking to the horse, and the
horse says “sometimes just getting up

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And carrying on, is brave and magnificent.”

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So I named my team, brave and magnificent.

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I want you all to remember. We have hope,

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and I want to encourage you to live
every day and be brave, and magnificent.

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Now a lot of you have had questions. So we’re
going to answer some of those questions now.

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Okay, this question is for Lisa. Lisa,
what do you think about what’s happening?

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Thank you, Patricia, and thank
you, Patricia and Rebecca,

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for your stories for sharing
and for giving everybody hope,

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and we wish you so much good health, and to get
better for everybody who’s listening in today.

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What do we think? The Talc Claimants Committee?
Everybody on the Talc Claimants Committee

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believes that this bankruptcy was filed
in bad faith, the same as the first one.

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Right, filed in bad faith, and
that this should be dismissed,

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we will be having a trial at the end of the month,
in front of Judge Kaplan, in the Bankruptcy court

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to see if he will dismiss this trial.

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It will go on for the entire week. Of last week
in June, and if he does not dismiss this case,

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we intend to appeal the decision to the
third circuit, and that third circuit is who,

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in the previous case, dismissed this
bankruptcy the first time as it should be

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dismissed the second time.
So you know we are here.

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We are backing you up, we are all ready to go, and

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you know, go right into this trial, and,
you know, have you all by our side and

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in our thoughts, on a daily basis, is
always helpful and keeps us all going.

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So you know we can all hope,
and everybody can listen in

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on zoom and hear what is going on
in that trial at the end of June.

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It’s the last Tuesday in June
is when the trial begins.

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So any other questions, there
we will be having some hearings.

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But as Patricia and Rebecca know, we are involved.

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We are ready to go. Everybody’s
gearing up with multiple depositions.

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It’s going on on a daily basis
now for a couple of weeks, and

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we are hopeful that this case gets dismissed, if
not in this bankruptcy court, and we will appeal

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it again to the third circuit, and hopefully
they will do what they did the first time around.

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Michelle. I’m just curious, and
so are a lot of other people.

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What can you tell us about ongoing
litigation outside of the Bankruptcy Court?

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Rebecca. Thank you for that question, but before I
answer that Patricia and Rebecca, and frankly all

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of the women in your families that are listening,
you are the brightest and most courageous people.

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You’re not just survivors.
You really are warriors,

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and I just want you to know that on behalf
of all of us, those that get to speak,

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those that voice and give a chance to
give voice today are all sitting here.

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I think.

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Having the same thoughts about the 2 of you
and the battles that you have frankly, won.

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So with regard to your question,
Rebecca, the bankruptcy, unfortunately,

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has stayed all pending litigation in the MDL.

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Courts, that’s the Federal court. Now we hope
that that situation will be remedied shortly,

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but in light of that stay that
stays only applicable to the Mdl.

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Or the Federal court cases for ovarian
cancer outside of the Federal court,

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emerged about the ongoing litigation.

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As to mesothelioma cases, and ovarian
cancer cases, there is aggressive discovery

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being had in the State Board cases, all
types of discovery, except for trials.

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That is one limitation to the ongoing
progress of the State court cases.

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Now, there’s an exception
to that one in California.

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We are anxiously watching and listening to the
Valadez trial which is being tried by the Saturday

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firm, and a gentleman who is unfortunately
suffering from Mesothelioma, and that case

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is moving forward in California, and we look
forward to hearing very positive things for Mr.

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Valadez. Aside from that, many, many State
court cases, we have cases going forward,

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in Atlantic County of New Jersey, where
we have the Honorable Judge Porto.

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We have cases going forward
and Miss Middlesex County.

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We recently had a motion that was filed to
dismiss one of the newer and added parties.

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In addition to J, Amp. J. And Jjci. And both Co.

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And Jansen we also have can
view a new concept of spin-off.

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Judge Fiskomi recently ruled that he denied J.

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and. J’s motion to dismiss those
claims, and that amended complaint.

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Judge Porto will have that same issue
before him shortly at the end of this month,

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in addition to what we’re seeing in New
Jersey, we’re seeing cases continuing to

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be filed in California in Florida,
in Pennsylvania, Missouri, Georgia,

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Delaware discovery is ongoing again, with the
exception of trials, I wanna touch on one thing.

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Though Rebecca, you talk about hope, Patricia, you
talk about hope I will tell you what we are hoping

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that we could return all of you back to
a system of justice that allows you your

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right to trial by jury, and we are hopeful
that your case will be moving forward and

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progressing, and we thank you for
all of your efforts, all of you.

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Listening and on the camera today you’re
an incredible group of human beings,

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and you are making change each and every day.

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You are powerful. Thank you.

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Okay, Lee, is there anything that
claimants can or should do with this time?

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Thanks. Patricia, and thank
you, and Rebecca again.

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I want to add to what Lisa and Michelle have said,
your bravery encourage commitment to service.

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Your hopeful attitude is, is inspiring to
us, and I will tell you, for those of us

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who’ve been in this litigation a long time, and
you need to have any reminder, and we don’t.

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But any reminder of why? We’re doing what
we’re doing in the battle that we’re fighting.

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What we’ve heard today is galvanizing.

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And so we’re grateful for you. Thank you so
much, and so what should claimants be doing?

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What should all of you who are listening? Be
doing now? I think one of the things is what

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you’ve done today, and that is by joining
all the Town Hall sessions we’ll endeavor

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to make them as informative and efficient
as possible so I would encourage you to

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do that to stay in touch with the website
go on frequently in order to get updates.

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No only will you hear about Town Hall meetings,

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but anything that’s actually happening
in the litigation will be noted. There.

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So you can track the progress. If the court
has a hearing like Lisa mentioned the upcoming

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motion to dismiss a trial or hearing that will
happen at the end of this month from June 27,

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through the thirtieth, there’ll be a link
there so you can click on the link if you

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want to watch for part of the hearing. So
not only the motion to dismiss hearing,

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but as well as as other hearings that happen along
the way between now and the motion to dismiss,

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you know you might ask about the plan.

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What is the plan? What? When
are we going to comment on that?

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Just know that we are analyzing
the plan now, and that at the

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appropriate time when the law allows us
to comment on it, we will be doing that,

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and to provide information to you that
would be, I think, helpful to understand

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exactly what is being proposed and what’s not
being proposed, and then lastly you may have

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questions along the way, all of you listening,
and we encourage you to reach out to your lawyer

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to ask questions, and and I know they’ll
be a available to you to provide answers

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as much as possible, and so the those are the
things for the moment that’ll change. Over.

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Time what you can do to be
involved in this process,

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and we believe it is absolutely
critical that all of you that are

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claimants be involved in this process to be
educated and understand what’s happening.

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Because we are better together,
and as we stand strong, then that

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will be the most powerful thing thing
that we can do to stand against this.

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What we’ve called an illegitimate
bad faith, bankruptcy

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By LTL, so thank you for the question.

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Thank you. Thank you. Lee, Michelle,
Lisa and of course Patricia Rebecca,

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before we conclude today’s session.

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In addition to these, thank you. So we wanted to
share that part of the purpose of today’s session

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was to show you that each of the TCC members truly
have a stake in the outcome of the proceedings.

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Many people have said several things that
are particularly kind from time to time,

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and we wanted everyone to
know that behind the words

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TCC and Talc Claimants Committee
are real people with genuine.

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Ties to the horrible diseases
that we’ve been talking about.

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As we mentioned at the beginning of this event,
we appreciate you taking the time out of your

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day to tune into today’s session. I’m very
pleased to report that at 1 point during

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the session there were over 705 people who
are on the webinar. Looking ahead there are

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few near term milestones we’re
approaching quickly on June thirteenth.

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This coming Tuesday there will be an omnibus
hearing to discuss, among other things,

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and extension of the preliminary injunction
that motion was recently filed by the debtor.

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In addition, there’ll be the committee’s motion
to remove, and what we call lift exclusivity,

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so that the committee can propound its own
plan, and there will also be discussions of

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proposed of the proposed disclosure statement
and plan and the scheduling of future hearings

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soon there after on June
27 through June 30, as we’ve remarked,

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there will be a hearing to just at which the
court will hear evidence and determine whether

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or not the TCC’s motion to dismiss the bankruptcy
case should be granted for more information about

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the motion to dismiss, and
why we decided to file it.

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Please visit the committee’s website at
ltltalccommittee.org to read through our

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frequently asked questions, or to watch
the first town hall that we presented.

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We will continue to keep the committee
website updated frequently we will be

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able to flag upcoming Town Hall dates
and events as they are set forth.

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If you have any questions about the case
between now and then, please don’t hesitate

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to contact your own lawyer, or submit questions
to the email on our website, we will endeavor

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to promptly respond to walk questions again, as
I’ve stated our website it’s ltltalcomittee.org.

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You can submit questions to the email,
address, add [email protected].

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Thank you very much, and have a wonderful day.