Unable to load sent2vec

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import sent2vec ValueError: numpy.ndarray size changed, may indicate binary incompatibility. Expected 96 from C header, got 88 from PyObject

uninstalled and reinstalled sent2vec as per https://github.com/epfml/sent2vec.

Running python 3.8.10 numpy 1.20.3 Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS

Any suggestions/recommendations? thanks a lot.