diff --git a/similarities/weekly_cosine_similarities.py b/similarities/weekly_cosine_similarities.py
index 309f56a..791fe44 100755
--- a/similarities/weekly_cosine_similarities.py
+++ b/similarities/weekly_cosine_similarities.py
@@ -67,8 +67,6 @@ def cosine_similarities_weekly_lsi(*args, n_components=100, lsi_model=None, **kw
     print(kwargs)
     term_colname= kwargs.get('term_colname')
     # lsi_model = "/gscratch/comdata/users/nathante/competitive_exclusion_reddit/data/similarity/comment_authors_compex_LSI/1000_author_LSIMOD.pkl"
-
-    lsi_model = pickle.load(open(lsi_model,'rb'))
     #simfunc = partial(lsi_column_similarities,n_components=n_components,random_state=random_state,algorithm='randomized',lsi_model=lsi_model)
     simfunc = partial(lsi_column_similarities,n_components=n_components,random_state=kwargs.get('random_state'),lsi_model_load=lsi_model)