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SC BOOKGAL & FRIENDS PODCAST 5-6-25 HOST PATRICE GRIMBALL · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: K k.
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  Speaker 2: K k.
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  Speaker 3: K k, San gentlemen, may I have your attention? Leads
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  Speaker 3: to the show stops it right, okay? Seven six by
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  Speaker 3: shoot fun go.
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  Speaker 4: Hey everyone, this is your girl sc book out A
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  Speaker 4: four three put tre scrimble. And it is another Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 4: So y'all already know what we're doing, new book, new author.
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  Speaker 4: We chatting, so everyone knows that what's coming up this
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  Speaker 4: Sunday Mother's Day, that beautiful day we honor the women
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  Speaker 4: in our lives. No notice, I said women and not
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  Speaker 4: just mothers, because in a way, I feel almost every
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  Speaker 4: woman has that motherly spirit, but there are some obstacles
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  Speaker 4: might be in the way, and so I'm just like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: I don't want none.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Like, for an instance, I have one sister that has
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  Speaker 4: no kids, but she got hold on five nieces and nephews,
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  Speaker 4: so in a way she's like their second mom too.
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  Speaker 4: So this whole month on Etsie bookals and friends, we
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  Speaker 4: are honoring the mother mothers to be the auntie mommy's
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  Speaker 4: women in general. Okay, so every author this month is
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  Speaker 4: on a line in that category. Sorry, fellas. Next month
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  Speaker 4: is for y'all. Okay, don't worry, you know, I gonna
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  Speaker 4: forget y'all. But tonight I have an author with me.
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  Speaker 4: She has several books, she got some journals, she had
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  Speaker 4: a couple of kids, and the scene to be doing
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  Speaker 4: real good because I'm hearing her talk and I'm hearing
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  Speaker 4: like some high standards. Okay, so I'm gonna break up
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  Speaker 4: the Cheryl Norton La Grant, come on up, Girley, come
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  Speaker 4: on up.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, all right, I am doing great this evening. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for allowing me to be up here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, thank you for being with me.
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  Speaker 4: So before I go any further, Happy Woman's Day, Happy
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  Speaker 4: Mother's Day.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you are so welcome.
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  Speaker 4: So tell us a little bit about yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. My name is Cheryl Northern Lagrant. I am originally
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  Speaker 1: from Norton, New Jersey. I resigned the Nightdale, North Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: I was in the military wife for fourteen years. That's
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  Speaker 1: how I got here. Also, I started writing my books
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  Speaker 1: after I got a divorce. It became my healing process.
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  Speaker 1: So I started off. I had a family member come
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  Speaker 1: to my house and feels like you have a story,
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  Speaker 1: and it was truly a blessing. I was keeping kids
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  Speaker 1: at the time, a lot of kids and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: how can you do this? You know, I've been keeping
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  Speaker 1: kids for a while. And what happened was was nothing
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  Speaker 1: but God. When I started writing my books, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: have no WiFi. I started writing my books on hotspot
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  Speaker 1: and I just kept writing and pushing. And I made
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  Speaker 1: a lot of mistakes at first, and people kept buying them.
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  Speaker 1: And the next year, no, I just said stopped. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't quit, and I you know, I tell anybody whether
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  Speaker 1: you have money or don't money, money or no money,
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  Speaker 1: just stuff out on face. So with me, it became
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  Speaker 1: a journey. And at the time, I had a son
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  Speaker 1: that used one side of his body will pause me.
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  Speaker 1: So as I was pushing hem, I was pushing myself
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  Speaker 1: and has been truly a blessing to be able to
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  Speaker 1: share with the world your truth, your testimony, because it's
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  Speaker 1: not about me. It's about another sure or another Mary one,
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  Speaker 1: another job. So that's what keeps me going every day
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  Speaker 1: when we here we get to serve it's not about us.
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  Speaker 1: That is.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody uses books as healing, and I noticed that a
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  Speaker 4: lot working at the library. I've known a lot of
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  Speaker 4: people to say, oh, I just want to get this
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  Speaker 4: book just to read it. And the healing is sometimes
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  Speaker 4: of information that they received. The healing sometimes is that
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  Speaker 4: escaping getaway, and sometimes it's just pure entertainment. So I
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  Speaker 4: just want you guys to know now, healing doesn't have
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  Speaker 4: to be right, hard, harsh, even though most of it is,
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  Speaker 4: I won't say most of it isn't most of it
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  Speaker 4: is it. People don't look like their struggle. So how
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  Speaker 4: does being a mother and being an author.
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  Speaker 1: Work for you? At first, it was difficult because my
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  Speaker 1: children was younger when I got started, but I involved them.
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  Speaker 1: So my daughter and my sons, they started helping me
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  Speaker 1: do my book covers. And that's one thing I learned.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we have every nationality to help each other.
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  Speaker 1: With me, everything I do, I involve my kids. So
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  Speaker 1: in our trial and area, we became a team because
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  Speaker 1: I was doing band with the football track and everybody
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  Speaker 1: is two years apart, so can you imagine. And at
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  Speaker 1: first I was angry and mad. You know, when you
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  Speaker 1: get a avoid. I was married, like twenty years in
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  Speaker 1: the military, wife, you be angry. But I think the
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  Speaker 1: Lord that he turned my anger into dining. I had
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  Speaker 1: friends and family that I travel with, but with me.
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  Speaker 1: How it worked because I got my children involved, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the same way we get them involved in ministry and
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  Speaker 1: we have them go to church. I everything that I do,
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  Speaker 1: I have my children, any business, anything I do, I
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  Speaker 1: have my children get involved and I get involved with them.
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  Speaker 1: So it's become a team. So it's no longer such
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  Speaker 1: a struggle. They do the reviews, they'll look at and say, no, mom,
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  Speaker 1: you need to take this out. You need to do
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  Speaker 1: this out, or no, you write and like you speak,
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  Speaker 1: you didn't change this, or you need to change that.
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  Speaker 1: So with me, it became a blessing. Whenever you get
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  Speaker 1: your family involved, your children with you, it'll become better
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  Speaker 1: because in that way, it's like, Okay, I'm gonna spend
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  Speaker 1: this time after you do their homework, do stuff with them. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna do this, and guess what they are doing this? Well,
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  Speaker 1: now my son write books for the band and do
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  Speaker 1: the covers. You don't know when God give us something,
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  Speaker 1: it's not about us. We don't know what is planted
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  Speaker 1: in our children when they see us. You know that
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  Speaker 1: don't mean we perche we got it all together. But
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  Speaker 1: He already is planting that seed and we don't know
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  Speaker 1: what seed he's going to be planted. So they end
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  Speaker 1: up what they helped me do. They doing it as well.
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  Speaker 1: They're doing it in a different way, but they are
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  Speaker 1: doing it now. So that's how I balance my life
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  Speaker 1: out getting them involved.
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  Speaker 4: I love that because I have to admit the generation
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  Speaker 4: under me, they're not as involved with their kids like
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  Speaker 4: they used to do. I am a very involved parent.
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  Speaker 4: My kids are twelve years apart, yes, love twelve years fut.
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  Speaker 2: Who and the last one?
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  Speaker 4: This was a girl, y'all y'all? Yeah, usually I know
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  Speaker 4: how I feel. So I have to admit being there
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  Speaker 4: for her and all the activities that she's involving is
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  Speaker 4: way more harder than it was for my son. But
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to give her the end of the stick.
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  Speaker 4: So I find myself having to take the time off
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  Speaker 4: to be inside her programs. And if I can't make it,
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  Speaker 4: I will tell her. I will tell her teacher, Hey,
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  Speaker 4: I can't make it, but what is the next thing?
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  Speaker 4: And I can show up And there are times she
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  Speaker 4: doesn't even know that I'm in the building in the school.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not cutting you off, I think for me
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  Speaker 1: not cutting off, I was told I will never ever
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  Speaker 1: have to, so I didn't happen to thirty four, thirty six,
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  Speaker 1: thirty eight. That makes a differen And I'm an older parent,
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  Speaker 1: So I did things with them that me, growing up
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  Speaker 1: in North I didn't want to do, and I didn't
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  Speaker 1: do it. It's a totally do I was having a
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  Speaker 1: good time. My children are totally the opposite of me.
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  Speaker 1: They wanted to always be the leader and the flock,
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  Speaker 1: so that out of my comfort zone and to be
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna answer, so it would it will help.
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  Speaker 2: I totally understand.
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  Speaker 1: But that's what happened to me. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: See, you had your kids at thirty five, thirty thirty.
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  Speaker 1: Eight because the doctor told me I would never in
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  Speaker 1: life have.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you tell me that same thing too. Went to
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  Speaker 4: the doctor for headache and came out with a whole baby. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: oh my god, So how is it? How how does
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  Speaker 4: it feel to have a have a baby that? Oh lord?
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  Speaker 2: How did you do it?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm gonna be honest with you, because I was.
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  Speaker 1: I was getting ready to adopt. They told me I
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  Speaker 1: would never have them, and my I came cycle with
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  Speaker 1: all of them. But it was very challenging because I
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  Speaker 1: had three emergency c sections. I had to push for
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  Speaker 1: all three of them. Then after my daughter I had
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  Speaker 1: procremcy in toxmia, they gave me a down syndrome book
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  Speaker 1: because that's what they thought. But God is so good.
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  Speaker 1: So I had to sign my daughter over to my
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  Speaker 1: ex husband and my mom for maybe like four or
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  Speaker 1: five months because with procremtion toxi, I stayed in hospital.
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  Speaker 1: Then they told me not to ever in life have
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  Speaker 1: another one. So when my ex telling got the went
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  Speaker 1: to Fort Hood, I had my other son, which is
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  Speaker 1: have se repositives one side of his body, but you
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't know. You would think he got a little left
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  Speaker 1: because you know, he's in a marching band, he played football,
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  Speaker 1: he played tracks, so you wouldn't know because it's in
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  Speaker 1: a life motor. Then with the last one, I was
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  Speaker 1: thirty eight and I was at Fort Campbell and I
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  Speaker 1: was really sick, and he took the military ID to
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  Speaker 1: get my medicine and they did all my blood work
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  Speaker 1: and I came home and he said the nurse got
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  Speaker 1: something to tell you. I said, well, he said, well,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna have it for a long time. I said
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  Speaker 1: what when she told me I was pregnant? Hours like,
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  Speaker 1: are you serious? But it was dys timing because I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't ready. And you know, we got to remember that
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  Speaker 1: he knew what time when I was going to be ready.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the oldest grand at that time, but I was
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  Speaker 1: the It took me the longest. Stand They was like
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  Speaker 1: sure having the baby, Sure having the babies like it,
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  Speaker 1: like it went on the news. But and it's challenging
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  Speaker 1: when you are older. Even now, I have one in Texas,
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  Speaker 1: I have one in Greensboro. I have wanted drink. It's
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  Speaker 1: it is challenging because my nerves are not like it
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  Speaker 1: used to be. But I'm grateful that all three of
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  Speaker 1: them graduated. I'm grateful that they all are busy. But
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  Speaker 1: we got to pray more now because it's a whole
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  Speaker 1: lot more go on now. So I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: it's better to having when you're younger or you're older.
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  Speaker 1: But to me, you don't get no book for being
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  Speaker 1: a mother. You just have to pray. And then being
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  Speaker 1: a single mind. On top of that were two sons
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  Speaker 1: and a daughter, so it is that's something now.
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  Speaker 4: It's you are so right with right now having kids
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  Speaker 4: in this stay in age with everything that's going on.
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  Speaker 4: I said, I don't I don't have a problem telling people.
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  Speaker 4: My daughter that I found out the day she learned
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  Speaker 4: my password totally not to change because you won't be
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  Speaker 4: giving yourself extra screen time. Okay, phone shuts off at four.
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  Speaker 4: I monitor what she looks at on TV. I am
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  Speaker 4: very particular even in what she wears, because the influences
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  Speaker 4: up today is totally different than influences that had back
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  Speaker 4: in the day. We had Sweet Valley High and the
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  Speaker 4: most dangerous thing they did was kiss and when they
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  Speaker 4: would turn our heads or my grandmam be like, turn
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  Speaker 4: your heads.
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  Speaker 2: You don't need to look at that.
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  Speaker 4: Now it's a little different ball game. Okay, So I
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  Speaker 4: truly understand where you're coming from. How does how does
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  Speaker 4: being an author affect your for writing as well? How
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  Speaker 4: does being another affect your writing?
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  Speaker 2: That's my question.
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  Speaker 1: Sometime it could slow you down. When they was younger,
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  Speaker 1: it did slow me down. I wanted to tell you
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  Speaker 1: why you think you putting that phone down. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if you got Wi Fi, they could turn it on
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  Speaker 1: when you're not looking. So let me just let you know.
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  Speaker 1: You may be turning off. But if your daughter got
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  Speaker 1: Wild Fi, she could still be on the problem. But
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  Speaker 1: what I want I'm just letting you know, heads up.
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  Speaker 1: But what I'm saying is that it's challenging, you know
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  Speaker 1: when you're a mother and you being an author, because
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  Speaker 1: you want to put your all into them. But then
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  Speaker 1: I learned how to say, okay, it's time for mommy
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  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna I'm gonna do this at this time,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because you have clubs, you know. But as
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  Speaker 1: they get older, to me, it gets better because now
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  Speaker 1: they're involved in different things that in college. They're in
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  Speaker 1: the fraternity, they in the sorority, they have different stuff,
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  Speaker 1: they doing music, so it mays it's a lot better.
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  Speaker 1: But I can say it's still a blessing when I
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  Speaker 1: have issues. I could still call my daughter and son
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  Speaker 1: to this day to review my books for looking, and
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  Speaker 1: that is the blessing. Or say my may don't think
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  Speaker 1: you should do this book cover right here. That's not
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  Speaker 1: saying anything. And like I said, my first couple of
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  Speaker 1: books I made, I made mistake because I didn't have
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  Speaker 1: no internet, like I said, I was doing it off
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  Speaker 1: a hot spot, trying to publish it myself. But as
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  Speaker 1: I got better and as I got learned and we
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  Speaker 1: all did it together, it is surely a blessing when
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  Speaker 1: they be honest with you. Some people tell you to
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  Speaker 1: put it out, but my children are bowl and they
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  Speaker 1: be honest. I don't think you should put that out
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  Speaker 1: right now, and that to me is really humbling, and
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  Speaker 1: I love the fact that we still have that collaboration
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  Speaker 1: together even though we all live in different places.
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  Speaker 2: You just took away my questions.
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  Speaker 4: I was going to ask you, how does it feel
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  Speaker 4: that I have the backing of the crew your kids?
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  Speaker 2: How does it How does it feel to know that.
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  Speaker 4: God yes, yes, yes, God too? How does it feel
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  Speaker 4: to be like you know what, you got your own
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  Speaker 4: support team like right there in needs.
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  Speaker 1: Well, my aunt is a year older than me. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: even how I met miss Angela, my aunt, I started
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  Speaker 1: with her. We just called an author emotion. We're still
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  Speaker 1: very close. We're in different business together now and she
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  Speaker 1: is the one her and two other my friends. I'm
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  Speaker 1: in business wich still. If the one came to my
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  Speaker 1: house and put it they said, one day your children
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  Speaker 1: are going to leave and you need to find something
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  Speaker 1: because you do track, football and everything, But what about
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  Speaker 1: sirl Because we can lose ourselves being a mother, a wife,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: or whatever the case may be. Then we get a divorce,
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  Speaker 1: you can go into depression. I thank the Lord that
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  Speaker 1: I didn't stay there long. But they she was saying,
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  Speaker 1: they are going to leave. I said, when I was
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  Speaker 1: keeping kids. She said, okay, then I was doing lives
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  Speaker 1: like I was doing lives every week, and I was
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  Speaker 1: nervous about that. I would call myself. And then when
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  Speaker 1: I started doing this, it got easy and easier. But
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  Speaker 1: as they grow up to me, it get easy and
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  Speaker 1: easier because we all live in different places and we
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  Speaker 1: still collaborate. I mean, we get on zooms. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna say this for what's going on in the world,
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  Speaker 1: because we don't know. We have to pray about what
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  Speaker 1: I tridn't see out there. But I tell anybody the
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  Speaker 1: world that we're living in because we don't know. You
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  Speaker 1: can go to church and jump over the past the head.
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  Speaker 1: You could do everything you do and everything right. We
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  Speaker 1: don't know, but I would tell everybody try to get
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  Speaker 1: involved with your younger adults. We tend to say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: they sixteen, seventeen, they grown. No, they're not. That's when
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  Speaker 1: we've really got to be involved in their life. Because
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  Speaker 1: this technology, they know how to hide things. You think.
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  Speaker 1: I like to think my daughter far by turning off,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, why is she laughing when I
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  Speaker 1: come in the room because I had Wi Fi. So
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  Speaker 1: if you turn your daughter phone off and you're not
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  Speaker 1: home and she got Wi fied, she don't have to
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  Speaker 1: have her phone off. She could steal FaceTime or talk
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  Speaker 1: talk to her friends through that. So I want you
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  Speaker 1: to know that when they're on the games, they could
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  Speaker 1: talk through the Wi Fi through the game.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, yes, yes, what that.
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  Speaker 1: Wi Fi you gotta pray about. And so I just
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  Speaker 1: tell people just get involved with your family as much
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  Speaker 1: as possible, because the world is getting involved with my children.
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  Speaker 4: And you are so true to the fact that if
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  Speaker 4: I turn my camra my background off, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it'd be a crazy situation.
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  Speaker 4: But in this corner over here, all electronics are brought
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  Speaker 4: in my room at night. The remote even comes in
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  Speaker 4: my room.
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  Speaker 1: Good, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: I don't do that because I've been in situations before.
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  Speaker 4: I've seen like kids on the phone twenty four seven,
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  Speaker 4: when I even have little cousins come over. Because I
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  Speaker 4: am an older cousin just like you, I'm the oldest,
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  Speaker 4: So I do have younger cousins that are like ten
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  Speaker 4: or eleven, and they would come over. Literally I would
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  Speaker 4: tell them I just had a cousin of them. Maybe
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  Speaker 4: spring break, Yeah, it was spring break.
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  Speaker 2: I told my little cousin.
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  Speaker 4: I said, we don't do screens all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Here.
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  Speaker 2: My daughter is.
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  Speaker 4: Ten years old, guys, and we still got a Barbie
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  Speaker 4: dream house.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's what. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I hate her her little friends and they're talking like
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  Speaker 4: the little Barbie girl. And I remember that when I
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  Speaker 4: was younger, and I take pride in saying I still
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: want her to enjoy her childhood. So what you're saying
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  Speaker 4: is totally totally correct, and it's reaffirming how I feel.
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  Speaker 4: So I want to thank you for that. So, out
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  Speaker 4: of your kids, you're gonna have.
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  Speaker 2: A little one who is your biggest critic?
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  Speaker 1: Who the youngest one? That's he is? I could go
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  Speaker 1: outside with the mama, you ain't mad? I mean, like, boy,
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  Speaker 1: I want to go into the mailbox. He is. Here's
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  Speaker 1: my outspoken like me and the other one say stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But he's a little bit loud with no mama. I
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  Speaker 1: mean like, I'm just going, man, you don't need that green,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: blue and orange one. But he is. I'm gonna say
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: all of them but the youngest one is my biggest critic.
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  Speaker 1: Even when I was going he was like, Mama, you
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  Speaker 1: keep clicking off that hit. I was just click on.
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  Speaker 1: She can hear us like he is. The youngest one
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  Speaker 1: is my busiest one. He's traveled doing music. One like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that that's the one I'd like. Just praying. I tell
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  Speaker 1: all my children right now, I'm not worrying about them,
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  Speaker 1: but pray who you around. That's my biggest thing. I
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: don't worry about them. I never once y'all get caught
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  Speaker 1: up being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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  Speaker 1: That is my biggest Just be careful, especially with him
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  Speaker 1: in the music industry. And my daughter, she's a critic too.
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  Speaker 1: She's in law school in Texas third good Marshall, that's
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: what she's in grad school. But I'm gonna say even
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  Speaker 1: my middle son, they all are critics. But my youngest
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  Speaker 1: one is my biggest credit.
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  Speaker 4: It's always that youngest one to me that has out
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  Speaker 4: or outspoken personality or what I like to call him,
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  Speaker 4: the family spokesperson.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, definitely.
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  Speaker 4: And I got my little nephew. He suffers from short
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  Speaker 4: man complex, but he and.
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  Speaker 1: Please the youngest ones always.
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  Speaker 4: Peez and the oldest ones to me seemed to be
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  Speaker 4: the humble child.
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  Speaker 1: And not for you. I'm gonna be honest with you.
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  Speaker 1: My youngest, in my oldest roof, I was like, oo,
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  Speaker 1: I mean even though they really smart, but I remember
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: she was in school, and I remember I was like,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: cause I look at the same school for eight years
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  Speaker 1: to each one, because you got to remember mins are
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  Speaker 1: two years apart. So every band teacher she had, they
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  Speaker 1: had they followed my daughter and football. Yeah, like even
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: at my daughter was in college fell, she did watch
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  Speaker 1: your band. And my middle son, who was one side,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: he did watch your band. He doing so well well
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  Speaker 1: he was, and he was a contender. And see like
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: making his own music there doing certain things because he
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: can draw. And then my youngest one is doing music
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: where he's traveling. That is something in them. So they
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: kind of followed my daughter.
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  Speaker 2: So your daughter is.
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  Speaker 1: My daughter, the oldest and she away and test as
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: she got through with college, she said, Mommy, how you
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: feel about me going to grad school? And text I said,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: you know what I left Jersey. I said, you gotta
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: follow your dreams and your heart and I said I
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: got your back, whether work or not, and make sure
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: it will be her last year and people be taking
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: the bar, you know, the test, but she's enjoying. She
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: don't like all these storms, but my daughter is there.
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  Speaker 4: That is awesome. But that says a lot to you, Mam.
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  Speaker 4: That says a lot for you. M I didn't tell
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  Speaker 4: you about the last five minutes of my show. M
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  Speaker 4: the last five minutes of my show.
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  Speaker 2: I love to have fun.
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  Speaker 4: I love music and I love TV movies, videos things.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna ask you some questions.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, who do you consider the best TV mom?
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  Speaker 2: And why?
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  Speaker 1: Mm hm? Who do I say? I used to like
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  Speaker 1: Cincily Tyson for me?
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, okay.
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  Speaker 1: The reason why she could play all type of roles
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: from the old to the young. But I think the
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: last one she played before she died was a Tyler
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Perry movie when she was on that movie where they
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: were kidnapping the older people. But it was something about
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: her to me, her spirit or from the Tyler Perry
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: movies to Sydney forty. Whatever she did, she had something
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: on her. And one more I liked the man was
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: played on Bill Cosby. I ain't gonna fun. I like
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: that the one from that did on the cosy. That's
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: another one. But to me, yes, them two, I think
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  Speaker 1: the number one because they can they can go either.
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  Speaker 1: They had that fun with them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can see that.
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  Speaker 4: Cicily Tyson, I mean, just a trail blazer when I'm
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: in the entertainment industries, and Tyler Perry did take her
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: under his wing and under his umbrella and being sure
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: that hey, you know, we as a younger generation did
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: not forget those who blazed the trail and felicitra shod.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: She's still going right now as we speak. I know
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: she's supposed to be on a new movie that comes out.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: I cannot remember the meme. I'm looking at the preview
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: and I cannot remember the name.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: But yes, those are two good ones.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Those are two good ones.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: I can see those two.
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  Speaker 4: So let's go to the music industry.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: Who if you could choose for them to be your mother,
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: who would it be? And why?
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Back then? For me, it would have been Patty LaBelle
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: and Gladys and Gladys.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: Oh whoa.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Patti LaBelle and Gladys N So now you got Patty
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: LaBelle was so close. She she she came out with
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: her little stuff on. But she she did her thing.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: She loved to cook, she kept a smile, She played
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: on different worlds, so many things. She just didn't do singing.
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  Speaker 1: She did it all like they carol, all of them.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I like all of them. Then carol her. But in
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: the music business it would be Patty LaBelle and Glass.
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  Speaker 1: I like Gladys because she had that soul in her
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: when she sings, it's like you like you like that
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: could be your on your mind, mute, you're gonna put
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: that potato sat it on and do that. They just
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: pass back then to me versus now and even my
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: my kids listen to that kind of music. Actually, they
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: have order about her. You could be sexy, but you
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: don't have to be all out there. They were sexy,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: but they still had class about themselves instead of the
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: stuff that they doing now they show some, but they
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: still have that step in that order Patty Lavelle about it,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: and that's what I love, the order that inside of them.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: And when they sung, they sung through their heart. Now
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: I don't know what they're saying. I mean, I'm.
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: You you felt when Patty was singing, Now you felt
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: that nowadays. I can't even remember the last time I
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: listened to the radio listening recently because I can't get
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: into it. The singing nowadays, I can't get into it.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: I just h And the way y'all dress. Yes, I'm
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: a big girl. I ain't imagine your little girls and
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: now tiny little things.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: But good god, seriously, that's the.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Thicker little girls. The mother should tell them because I
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: know the beauty is not about weight, but every I can't.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: I might can't wear what you wear, and you might
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: can't wear what I wear. But for some reason, everybody
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: just showing everything now, and we did. But I think
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: it's on another level now, you know, because I mean I.
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: Just think it's on another level now, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: and and unfortunately it's one of those things whereas in
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: it's it's it's truly society and what they see now
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: today at work, I look at some of those make
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: gala outfits.
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: Mm hmm, yeah, some of the some of y'all know,
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: y'all wrong, y'all been cute. I'm gonna give you that,
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: but come on, man, yeah, and we're wrong.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: We didn't have social media. I'm kind of glad we
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: didn't because these babies are being exposed now human traffic
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: it's so sad, you know, I think the Lord we
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: will sheltered from from that from social media, because social
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: media is good, but if the wrong person tap into it,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: and unfortunately with our baby, the enemy is being been.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: And we do have to pray names for our children.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: That's because even if we take it away, we got
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: to pray what they see in school on the bus,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: the little kids somebody else, the friend may let them
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: and other parents are not the same either, and so
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: the parents, which when I was raised to see and
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Samuel was totally different from Isaiah. I knew all of
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: my oldest two parents, but the younger generation, I like
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: you bugging them when you check on the kids. It
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: was a totally different opposite, which make things a little
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: different now as well.
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  Speaker 4: It is truly, because I can remember a getting in
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: trouble when I was younger and walking home from school.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: There were several mother figures that were along the way,
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: and they would have heard what would happen. I would
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: have gotten testised by each one of them, and then
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: got the worst when I got home. Nowadays, you can't
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: do that. You can't chastise these kids. You can't tell
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: them what they're wrong, because guess what, Mama gonna get
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: mad you jumped on her son. Mama gonna get mad
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: because you told her daughter she shouldn't be talking like that.
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: More thing like that. But what happened to the village mentality?
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: I was blessed in that area. My sons them had
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: some coaches and to this day when they see them,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: they say, yes, sir. And I was around other single
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: parents that we could check each other kids. Now I
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: can't do it to them other kids, but I was
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: blessed be for the being band and football on trap.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: We was able to check each other kids with them
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: saying coaches, now that's coaching. If they say something to
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: a child, it is a problem. But when my children
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: was younger, they was able to do that. But now
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know if they can. But I'm so grateful
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: that we had a commonity that we were in where
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: they could check my sons. Even in college, they call
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: and check on them from the band teacher, the football teacher,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: and the track to this day. And that is truly
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: a blessing.
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  Speaker 2: It surely isn't.
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  Speaker 4: And I do have a village and I learned that
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: when I was younger from my family. I learned that
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  Speaker 4: younger from my grandparents and my mother is that.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: You need a village.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: And even if your village is just you and somebody else,
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: you got a village. You know what I'm saying this, Yo,
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna be honest. We can't do this on our owns.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: We and we need more play and we need some people.
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: Talk about the prayer to getting up late nights and
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: just with your eyes wide open while somebody getting in
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: your nerve. Father God, in the name of Jesus, please
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: race all thoughts.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: So before we end tonight, you know you have to
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: tell us how we get follow you your books. I
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  Speaker 4: need the down Okay.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: With my books, I'm on Amazon and I can give
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: you my website. I have it on all my pages
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: where you can actually go on Amazon to find me.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: You can also go on Instagram and find me. It
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: would be sure on Northern or Yeah, and then on
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Facebook and sure than the grand I have an author
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: page of what I do. Every time I share in
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: a group of anything, I put my link, so any
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: of my books, my journal, you can find me.
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: Awesome, you guys, Let's thank her for being with us tonight,
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: Miss Chryl nor Than the grand I thank you for
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: being with me tonight, and it.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Lets me know.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: I all right, I just like you, and you pay
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: in the way you another and often you got all
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: those wonderful kids you go.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: I just want to say we see I think miss
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Angel Thompson because I'm connected to her through so many
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: books and so many platforms, and I'm truly humble and
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: grateful for her for allowing me to be part of
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: the one hundred offices and so much more so, I
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: have to give credit when it's due. I have to
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: acknowledge her. I'm on the radio station, I'm on the
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  Speaker 1: five a m. And I'm doing poetry I never did,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: and thank you. So I like to give acknowledgement where
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: it's due. And it's been truly a humbling spend and
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: a bluffing.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: Now I wasn't I telling y'all, but just one hundred
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: off the movement.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: I've been telling y'all, y'all we all in this.
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: Y'all just need to go ahead to join. If you
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: look at each one of the offices that are in
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: the group and you see them flourishing, you see them
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: going to higher levels, all y'all gotta do is go
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: on the crew, or you can look for the one
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: hundred off the movement, or you can look under the
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: angel of Thomas Smith telling you it's like matter of fact,
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: it's like the mom with all the family behind him
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: that's rooting them on and helping them to continue to grow.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: That's how we're doing it. So you just heard Simonia
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: from someone in the group. Okay, and believe you me,
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: you won't be hearing plenty more. Okay, tell you guys
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  Speaker 4: another often, another Tuesday Night. Thank you again, Micheeryl for
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: being with us tonight.
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  Speaker 1: M h.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, welco. Good night everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Who oh, everybody gone,