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Happy Heavenly Birthday Mom Wendy! · Asian Adjacent

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  Speaker 1: The reason why I started this podcast and a few
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  Speaker 1: days ago, it was this person's birthday. My mom, Wendy,
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  Speaker 1: her birthday was November 5th, 1950, if you want to
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  Speaker 1: go that way, birthday. My mom, Wendy, was such a
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  Speaker 1: strong force in my life.
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  Speaker 3: It's not even.
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  Speaker 1: I'm even feeling it more as I'm sitting here going
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  Speaker 1: she was a really strong force in my life she
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  Speaker 1: really but here's the thing for me this is going
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  Speaker 1: to be totally a different thing I when.
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  Speaker 3: It comes.
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  Speaker 1: To when it comes to my godmother slash mom my
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  Speaker 1: bonus mom She was so much fun even when she
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  Speaker 1: was being parental. She believed in us being who we
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  Speaker 1: were and going out there and doing stuff. But she
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  Speaker 1: was also very, you know, just tough. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: get through school, eat your food. She was the one
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  Speaker 1: who had us when we couldn't drink anything to actually
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  Speaker 1: finish our food. I think now I drink all the
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  Speaker 1: time during eating because of her.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't that funny?
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  Speaker 1: So I think that's just one of those things that
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  Speaker 1: I do. And.
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  Speaker 2: It's... It's... I'm smiling as I'm sitting here trying to
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  Speaker 2: talk to you guys.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, I just kind of remember a flood of,
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  Speaker 1: as I sat down to talk to you guys, like
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  Speaker 1: now a flood of memories coming in.
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  Speaker 3: It was, so she lived in Montebello. And she had
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  Speaker 3: a backyard.
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  Speaker 1: And it was a bunch of, back in the 70s
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  Speaker 1: and 80s, there were new properties.
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  Speaker 3: So they were.
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  Speaker 1: A new property. And it was exciting. Because it was
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  Speaker 1: so different from where I lived. It took us a
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  Speaker 1: while to drive out there, and that was an adventure.
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  Speaker 1: I had no concept as a kid what miles or
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  Speaker 1: distance was, but it was an adventure driving out there
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  Speaker 1: just from Los Angeles. We used to live in the
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  Speaker 1: mid-Wilshire area. We'd drive on the freeway. It was 60.
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  Speaker 1: We'd get off on Paramount Boulevard or whatever. We'd go
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  Speaker 1: to Montebello and see them. And it was all these
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  Speaker 1: new properties. They were all track homes. But for me,
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  Speaker 1: they were exciting. Um.
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  Speaker 3: She had an upstairs and downstairs. She would cook. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: my God.
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  Speaker 1: Her and my aunt Deanna could throw down. My uncles
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  Speaker 1: could throw down. And I just remember going there and
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  Speaker 1: being so excited to eat, like, real homemade food. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it was so good. That ambrosia salad. That was my
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  Speaker 1: favorite ambrosia salad.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: Her fried chicken was so good. Oh my goodness, it
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  Speaker 1: was so good. And we had to play in the
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  Speaker 1: backyard with my cousins. We'd all play in the backyard.
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  Speaker 1: And it wasn't like her backyard was anything super special.
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  Speaker 1: She had a few things out there, but we would
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  Speaker 1: make our own fun. Back in the 70s when you
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  Speaker 1: did that, right? And 80s when you did that. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just thinking all these really great memories, just riding bikes
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  Speaker 1: and Hanging outside and spending the night and getting to
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  Speaker 1: watch TV. When I look back at my childhood, I
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  Speaker 1: have to say she is one of the best parts
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  Speaker 1: of my childhood. And she was somebody who really stepped
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  Speaker 1: in and went to my things and really, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And my brother Colin, she's passed obviously as you guys know. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and my brother Colin is, you know, sending me, we
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  Speaker 1: have a group text and he sent me all these
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  Speaker 1: pictures of his daughter, Emma, who looks just like, looks like,
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  Speaker 1: looks like my mom, looks like her, looks just like her. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and she's growing up and I've never, actually, I've never met,
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  Speaker 1: I hate to say this, I've never met my niece.
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  Speaker 3: Um, I've got some pictures of her. They live on
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  Speaker 3: the East Coast. I'm not here.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a whole different world. I just haven't, I've
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  Speaker 1: never met her. I'm sure I'll meet her at some point.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know my brother. I know my sister-in-law.
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  Speaker 3: I've never met her.
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  Speaker 1: This is very interesting. But that'll probably change at some point.
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  Speaker 1: At some point, well, you know. I remember when Colin
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  Speaker 1: was born.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: I remember getting a phone call. That little brother. That
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  Speaker 1: was another story, too. And my sister Carrie. So, anyway,
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  Speaker 1: it's happy birthday. Happy, happy birthday, Mom.
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  Speaker 3: Mom Wendy. I'm sure you're in heaven, and I'm just
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  Speaker 3: so sad you're not here.
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  Speaker 1: There are times, oh my God, I wish she was here. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I have so much personal stuff going on in my
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  Speaker 1: family that I, she'd be one of the same parts
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  Speaker 1: of the family.
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  Speaker 3: I just, I wish, yes, I wish she was here.