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My fiancé keeps DELAYING our wedding…because his brother is in jail! | Reddit Stories | EP3048 · ok storytime

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  Speaker 3: My fiancé keeps delaying our wedding because his brother is
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  Speaker 3: in jail.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, he wants his brother there. Who wouldn't?
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  Speaker 3: And trigger warnings for mentions of loss at the beginning,
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  Speaker 3: but a heartwarming ending. I, 26 female, have been with
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  Speaker 3: my fiance, 29 male, for three years. Engaged, be married,
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  Speaker 3: for nine months. So they've been engaged for nine months.
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  Speaker 3: Everything between us was great. We really get along. We
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  Speaker 3: like each other's families.
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  Speaker 2: Mostly, more on that in a minute, we both want
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  Speaker 2: to be married and have two and a half kids
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  Speaker 2: and a house with a white picket fence and swimming pool.
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  Speaker 2: Two and a half kids? Half. You can either have
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  Speaker 2: two or three kids. Do you want the bottom half
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  Speaker 2: or the top half? Or left or right. How are
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  Speaker 2: we cutting this?
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  Speaker 3: This is like the Solomon rule where he's like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: you guys have to pick which half of the kid
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  Speaker 3: do you want.
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  Speaker 2: Or what's the guy in Two and a Half Men's name? Charlie. Yeah, Sheen. Sheen.
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  Speaker 2: Or your child is Charlie Sheen. Charlie. Sheen. Sheen.
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  Speaker 3: Problem is, we can't move forward or plan anything on
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  Speaker 3: the wedding because his brother is in prison.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Long story short, his younger brother, 25 male, was drinking
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  Speaker 3: and driving with a friend in the car, crashed it,
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  Speaker 3: and the friend did not make it. His brother was
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  Speaker 3: convicted of homicide by vehicle while under the influence or
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  Speaker 3: something and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, yeah, understandable.
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  Speaker 2: It does make sense. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It pretty much tore my fiance's family apart. His dad
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  Speaker 3: refused to admit one of his sons is a felon
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  Speaker 3: and pretends he doesn't exist, won't visit him. His mom
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  Speaker 3: is a mess, serious depression issues, cries all the time,
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  Speaker 3: can't keep a job. Fiatse and other younger brother are
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  Speaker 3: somewhere in between. It upsets them to talk about it,
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  Speaker 3: and they don't like to talk about it. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sophia. I'm Savannah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Dakota.
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  Speaker 3: And we're here to give good advice goofily, but we
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  Speaker 3: don't have all the answers. And if you've got answers,
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  Speaker 3: give them in the comments. And Opie says, Fiance didn't
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  Speaker 3: tell me he had a brother in prison until we
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  Speaker 3: had been dating for a year. Did not mention this
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  Speaker 3: brother at all before then.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of makes sense. I feel like that's a fairly
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  Speaker 2: reasonable time to bring that up. I feel like you
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  Speaker 2: don't just bring it up like, oh, by the way. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: first date. First date. Brothers in prison. My brother's a felon.
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  Speaker 3: Thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: Thought we could bond about that.
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  Speaker 2: Like, what?
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  Speaker 3: But he visits him once a month and mails him
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  Speaker 3: books and money to his prison account. His dad forbids
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  Speaker 3: their mom from sending prison brother money. So fiance and
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  Speaker 3: his other brother have to do it so he can
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  Speaker 3: buy candy bars or whatever in there. How this relates
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  Speaker 3: to me. I want to plan our wedding and was
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  Speaker 3: pretty excited when we were engaged. My fiance was very
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  Speaker 3: hesitant to pick a date with me for months and
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't figure out why. It started to make me
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  Speaker 3: worried that he didn't really want to get married. Finally,
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  Speaker 3: I asked him and he came clean. His brother has
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  Speaker 3: a parole hearing in five months. from now, originally further off,
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  Speaker 3: when I first asked, and may get early release. He
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  Speaker 3: wants to wait to see if his brother will get
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  Speaker 3: released before a date is set in stone because he
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  Speaker 3: wants his brother at the wedding. Basically, we've been fighting
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  Speaker 3: over this ever since. Fiance wants his prisoner brother to
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  Speaker 3: be at the wedding. Don't love how you said that.
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  Speaker 2: He wants his prisoner brother at the wedding. His prisoner
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  Speaker 2: Mike brother at the wedding.
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  Speaker 3: He thinks brother being at a big family celebration will
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  Speaker 3: fix all the problems in their family.
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  Speaker 2: Dad will be happy. Mom will be happy. All will
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  Speaker 2: be fixed.
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  Speaker 3: First, I doubt that. Did not tell him that. But
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  Speaker 3: I think we have to start planning the wedding without
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  Speaker 3: knowing if his brother will be there or not. This
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  Speaker 3: will be his brother's second parole hearing. First time he
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  Speaker 3: didn't get early release because the parole board was not
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  Speaker 3: happy his brother has not been going to AA meetings. Well,
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  Speaker 3: that's not great. Yeah, you should probably do that. I
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  Speaker 3: feel like that was the whole reason you got in there.
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  Speaker 3: So I feel like that's kind of the point.
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  Speaker 2: It would probably be helpful.
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  Speaker 3: My fiance says his brother tried going, but is an
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  Speaker 3: atheist and was offended at all the mentions of God
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  Speaker 3: in AA. AA is basically like a religious thing, which
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know. I thought it was like a rehab thing. No,
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  Speaker 3: I have heard that. It can be pretty religious.
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  Speaker 2: They use higher power or something. Yeah, it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: like replacing the addiction to alcohol with a new thing
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  Speaker 2: that you can put your faith in. Be addicted to.
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  Speaker 2: Be addicted to faith, not alcohol.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that's a funny way to put it, but
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  Speaker 4: it is essentially like that. It gives you a higher power.
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  Speaker 1: It's a higher calling. It's whatever you want called.
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  Speaker 2: Have a quote-unquote good addiction rather than bad addiction.
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  Speaker 1: But it's like, it's what keeps you.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, that's why I won't go back to how
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  Speaker 4: I was because I am now guided by this new.
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  Speaker 2: Now addicted to this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But I also understand why your, you know, brother-in-law would
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  Speaker 3: not want to go back to that.
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  Speaker 2: I would hate that.
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  Speaker 3: I'd be like, okay, preaching to the wrong choir. He
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  Speaker 3: still has not been going to the meeting. So I
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  Speaker 3: don't understand why they would let him out.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 2: My fiance told me to keep planning the wedding without
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  Speaker 2: knowing the date, but I tried to explain him.
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  Speaker 3: You can't really do that. He told me to look
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  Speaker 3: at dresses in a catalog or something, which made me cry.
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  Speaker 3: We had another big fight about that and he accused
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  Speaker 3: me of being embarrassed to be married to a guy
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  Speaker 3: with a felon brother. I told him that wasn't true
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  Speaker 3: and he asked why I never went with him to
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  Speaker 3: visit his brother. He asked me right after we were
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  Speaker 3: engaged to go with him to meet his brother. He
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  Speaker 3: said his brother wanted to meet me. I told him
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  Speaker 3: honestly that the idea of going to prison scared me.
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  Speaker 3: He said it was safe and I said I didn't
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  Speaker 3: feel comfortable so we never asked again. During our fight
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  Speaker 3: about this, he said his brother isn't a bad person.
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  Speaker 3: He just made a costly mistake and was serving his
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  Speaker 3: time honestly. I said I believed him. He then accused
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  Speaker 3: me of claiming that I was worried his brother would
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  Speaker 3: hurt me, which I never said. I was uncomfortable with
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  Speaker 3: just going to the prison, not uncomfortable meeting his brother.
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  Speaker 3: I said I would love to meet his brother anywhere
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  Speaker 3: else and would love to have him at our wedding.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you can't meet him anywhere else.
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  Speaker 1: He's in prison.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You can meet him at the prison or not
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  Speaker 2: at all. Or in 10 years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I guess, I don't know, like it would be
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  Speaker 2: if he got out, that would be the first time
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  Speaker 2: he would meet her. Like, I don't know. I would
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  Speaker 2: want to meet him before he came to the wedding
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  Speaker 2: just to be like, oh, hey, not be like, hi, welcome.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for coming. I don't know you. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know you. Welcome to the wedding. And also here's all
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  Speaker 2: your friends and family you haven't seen in 10 years. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That would be a little uncomfortable. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He accused me of being a selfish bridezilla who cared
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  Speaker 3: more about picking out wedding dresses than seeing his family
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  Speaker 3: whole and happy together again. I didn't even know what
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  Speaker 3: to say to that. I started crying and he left
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  Speaker 3: the room and slammed the door. It's starting to affect
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  Speaker 3: more than.
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  Speaker 2: Just us too.
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  Speaker 3: My parents know I'm eager to start the wedding planning
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  Speaker 3: and they know he is refusing to pick a date
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  Speaker 3: with me. My parents are going to pay for it
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  Speaker 3: and so they've been planning things financially and can't put
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  Speaker 3: things off forever. They think he's not serious. They know
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  Speaker 3: he has a brother in prison, but I haven't told
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  Speaker 3: them why he's delaying the wedding planning. And they, in turn,
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  Speaker 3: think he's having second thoughts about marrying me, and they're
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  Speaker 3: starting to resent him for it. This is just ruining
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  Speaker 3: everything between us. We pretend everything's fine when we're out
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  Speaker 3: in public and around other people, but privately we don't
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  Speaker 3: talk much anymore. We never fought before this. He never
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  Speaker 3: called me names before this. I'm really not a selfish person.
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  Speaker 3: I really would put off the wedding forever until his
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  Speaker 3: brother got out if I had known it meant that
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  Speaker 3: much to him. But at the same time, my parents
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  Speaker 3: are bugging me because they have money earmarked for paying
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  Speaker 3: for it. I feel like a horrible person for pressing
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  Speaker 3: the issue. And now he's mad at me all the time.
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  Speaker 3: I try apologizing to him, but he just says he
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  Speaker 3: doesn't want to talk about the wedding. I feel like
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  Speaker 3: his family hates me too. His other younger brother glares
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  Speaker 3: at me now. His mom called me and tried to
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  Speaker 3: apologize for something and just started blubbering and hung up.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I've ruined everything. I wanted to start
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  Speaker 3: planning and my parents were bugging me, so I forced
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  Speaker 3: the issue. Now things are ruined between us. And we've
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  Speaker 3: got additional comments and an update, but what do you
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  Speaker 3: think OP should do?
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  Speaker 2: Truthfully, I think she's got to get over this and go,
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  Speaker 2: you gotta go to the prison. I agree. And also
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  Speaker 2: I think she should tell her parents. Yeah, telling the
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  Speaker 2: parents definitely because like they already know he's in prison. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they know he's in prison you might as well just like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, say hey, this is actually what's going on
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  Speaker 2: and it's not that he has cold feet because then
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  Speaker 2: it's putting a bad taste in their mouth and you
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  Speaker 2: need to just like put everything out in the open
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  Speaker 2: just so everyone is on the same page because it
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  Speaker 2: seems like everyone, like, they're having trouble communicating which ends
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  Speaker 2: up affecting the parents, trying to plan the wedding, which
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  Speaker 2: then affects the other parents. Communication. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: First step, you communicate with your husband, you communicate with
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  Speaker 3: your parents, everyone is on board, and then we don't fight.
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  Speaker 2: World peace.
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  Speaker 4: It's really hard to communicate about stuff where it's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: my brother has been in prison, and.
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  Speaker 1: What he did was so hard to get past, and.
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  Speaker 4: You know, a lot of people just make up their
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  Speaker 4: minds immediately and they go, oh, well, that guy's a scumbag.
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  Speaker 4: And it's like, you know, the whole point of going
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  Speaker 4: to prison or jail is it's like you're paying for
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  Speaker 4: your crime and it's, you know, you're supposed to be
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  Speaker 4: reformed and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: We don't really focus on that in the States, but.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he shouldn't be. It shouldn't be so stigmatized to
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  Speaker 1: talk about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you're felonious. history.
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  Speaker 2: But I hope that she does those things. Let's see
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  Speaker 2: if she does.
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  Speaker 3: Opie says, first of all, I honestly did not know
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  Speaker 3: visiting his brother was that important. He had never invited
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  Speaker 3: me in the two years we dated before our engagement.
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  Speaker 3: He asked once, I said I rather wouldn't, and he
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  Speaker 3: dropped it. This is a man who will bug me
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  Speaker 3: in text all day if he wants me to make
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  Speaker 3: BLTs for dinner. BLTs and your brother being in prison
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  Speaker 3: are different.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you know this. Don't know if
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  Speaker 2: you know it, but yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, no, it's basically the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: Brother loves time in prison.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's better than mine.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it was yours.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say brother locked up tight. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's a good one.
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  Speaker 2: Brother locked up tight. Let me come up with that. Yeah, yeah, go.
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  Speaker 2: Brother likes... Mine wasn't going to be good, actually. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: you know what you should have said? Actually, mine was
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  Speaker 2: not going to be really good. You should have said, oh, wait,
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  Speaker 2: I've got one. Bacon, lettuce, tomato. Wait, I got... You
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  Speaker 2: know I got one. Bacon, lettuce, tomato.
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  Speaker 1: There we go.
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  Speaker 3: He never lets it go if it's important to him.
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  Speaker 3: He mentioned it once, so I thought he didn't care. Secondly,
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  Speaker 3: I did try to have a discussion. He didn't want
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  Speaker 3: to set a date until his brother's parole hearing. I
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  Speaker 3: asked him what if his brother didn't get out because
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  Speaker 3: as fiance has told me, he hasn't been going to
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  Speaker 3: the AA meetings and the parole board didn't like that
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  Speaker 3: last year. Fiance blew up and started this whole thing.
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  Speaker 3: And we do have an update.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if that was the wisest thing for
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  Speaker 2: you to have said when clearly this is something so
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  Speaker 2: close to his heart. And you're like, well, what if
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  Speaker 2: he never gets out? And he's like, well, yeah, that
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  Speaker 2: would make him mad. Yeah, I'd be pretty upset with
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  Speaker 2: that comment. Yeah. But there is an update. One week later. Yay,
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  Speaker 2: happy update. Yay. Oh, thank God. Everything was addressed. Yay. Yay.
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  Speaker 2: There we go.
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  Speaker 3: So last Sunday, I finally decided I needed to talk
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  Speaker 3: to my S.O. I told him I wanted to talk
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  Speaker 3: to him about his brother. Remember, we haven't been talking
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  Speaker 3: and things have been pretty lonely and quiet when we're
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  Speaker 3: just alone at our place. Not even having spicy sleep.
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  Speaker 2: Gah!
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  Speaker 3: And we kind of have been putting on an act
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  Speaker 3: when we're around other people or out in public. I
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  Speaker 3: told him I wanted to talk about his brother. He
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  Speaker 3: immediately got angry and tried to start an argument, and
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  Speaker 3: I just kept calm and said, I want to talk
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  Speaker 3: about this calmly, and you should listen to what I
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  Speaker 3: have to say. He asked very angrily if I was
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  Speaker 3: breaking up with him. I said no, and then told
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  Speaker 3: him I wanted to meet his brother. He said that
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  Speaker 3: I didn't have to do anything I was uncomfortable with.
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  Speaker 3: I love that he probably went, Opie said, hey, I
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  Speaker 3: want to talk to you about your brother.
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  Speaker 2: And he said, oh, oh, come on, we're not having
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  Speaker 2: this conversation. And she's like, no, like, hear out, hear
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  Speaker 2: me out. And he's like, oh, are you breaking up
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  Speaker 2: with me? And she's like, no. And he's like, okay.
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  Speaker 2: And she's like, I want to see him. And he's like, hmm,
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  Speaker 2: I have conflicted feelings now. Wait, I thought I was
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  Speaker 2: going to, I thought this was going to be another argument.
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  Speaker 2: I thought I was mad. I'm in a mad mood
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: right now, but I'm not actually mad. Give me a second.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be back. Let me process.
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  Speaker 3: I said it made me uneasy, but I didn't understand
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  Speaker 3: how important it was to him when he first asked,
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  Speaker 3: so I wanted to do it for him and to.
• 13:12
  Speaker 2: Meet my future brother-in-law. OP's picturing, like, prison break.
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  Speaker 1: Just do it. It's a heist movie now. We're heisting him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, she's like, well, I just didn't, you know, before,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know how to process how we would do
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  Speaker 3: our escape plan for him, but now I have it
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  Speaker 3: all ready.
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  Speaker 2: My parents are in on it. They're paying for it.
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  Speaker 2: They're paying for that and the wedding. They're not paying
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  Speaker 2: for the wedding anymore. Oh, they are paying for both. Sorry.
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  Speaker 3: He smiled and squeezed my hand and thanked me. He
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  Speaker 3: explained that his non-prison brother and him have avoided talking
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  Speaker 3: about girlfriends when they visit prison brother because they don't
• 13:46
  Speaker 3: want to remind him of girls. Seemed weird to me,
• 13:48
  Speaker 3: but okay. Fiance finally brought me up to prison brother
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: when he told him he planned to ask me to
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: marry him. Prison brother said, sounds like a cool girl
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  Speaker 3: and wanted to meet me. I feel like at this
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: point in the story, we can start giving them real names.
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  Speaker 2: You know? P.B. Prison brother. P.B. P.B. and J. Prison
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  Speaker 2: brother in jail, P.B.J. B.L.T. B.L.T. BLT, PB & J. Yes. Yum.
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  Speaker 1: Yum, yum, yum.
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  Speaker 2: I'm starving. Beyonce said he would bring me next time.
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  Speaker 3: I obviously never came in like five, six time visits
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  Speaker 3: in a row without an explanation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He said his prison brother is having a rough time
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  Speaker 3: in prison and feels alienated from his family and friends.
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  Speaker 3: Only visitors he gets are his brothers and sometimes his mom.
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  Speaker 3: High school and college friends pretend like he doesn't exist. Aunts, uncles,
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  Speaker 3: and cousins don't visit, except for one aunt who visited
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  Speaker 3: once and said she would pray for him not to
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  Speaker 3: go to heck. Remember, he's an atheist, so he took
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  Speaker 3: this poorly. Fiance wanted me to be like a new
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  Speaker 3: family member who didn't shun him and accepted him, despite
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  Speaker 3: him serving time. So when I refused, yeah, some crap
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: started boiling under the surface with my fiance. That all
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: happened last weekend. This weekend, we just got back from
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: our big trip. First of all, things were really great
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: between fiancé and I all week. Agreeing to his brother
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: really lifted the block between us. So thank you Reddit
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: for telling me I was being a witch and should
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: have met his brother when he asked. I was still
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: nervous to go. Fiancé and I go pick up his
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: other brother. We drive to the prison, which was two
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: hours away, and I'm biting my nails. Somebody asked in
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: my first thread exactly what I was afraid of. I'll
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: tell you what. Fiance told me his brother is in
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: the state's maximum security prison. He's in there with unalivers
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: and other bad people. Brother told fiance previously that there
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: are fights every day and guards sometimes break them up.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: I am basically imagining the movie The Book of Eli
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: or The Purge. Just total anarchy and gangs all over
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: the place. Hope you were in a maximum security prison.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think anyone wants to punch you, but
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I guess you never know. You never know.
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: They're just going to open all the doors accidentally. They're like,
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: oh no, we pressed the big red button that frees
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: all the prisoners at the same time.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: We let them all out at the same time.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: I thought guys would be leering at me, catcalling and
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: trying to grab me through the chain link fence.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: That's what I was afraid of. Reality, just a little different.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: Before we left, fiance told me they're kind of strict
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: about what female visitors can wear. So I should dress
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: like I was going to a job interview.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: So I did.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: We get there, and it was like the airport. A
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: woman cop put us through a metal detector. She was
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: really mean and strict, but probably had to be. One woman,
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: who was my age with a toddler, must have been
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: the wife or girlfriend of somebody inside in front of us,
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: was kicked out for wearing a super tight white tank
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: top and jeans. And the lady cop.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: Said, We tell you this every time, Tiffany. You can't
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: come near dressed like that. Thankfully, they let me in.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: We go in and there were like elderly grandmas and
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: women with kids. A lot of kids, actually.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: It was kind of sweet and a little bit sad
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: to see all the inmates getting their monthly or weekly
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: visit with their kids. No worries about getting leered at
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: or whatever. All the other inmates were too busy with
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: their families and friends and didn't notice me. His brother
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: comes out and was totally different than what I expected.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: I don't know what I expected from the stories, but
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: his brother was really funny, cool, and friendly. Although he
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: would kind of get oddly quiet at times, he asked
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: me a lot of questions about what I did, my family,
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: and what it was like living with his brother. That
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: kind of naturally segued things into the wedding. He said
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: he hopes he gets out in time for the wedding
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: if he was invited. I said of course he was invited,
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: and that we were waiting to plan things to see
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: if he.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Got out in January.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: He said he appreciated it. but he didn't think he
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: would get out early. He later said what fiancé had
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: told me. He tried going to AA meetings like parole
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: board asked, but couldn't stand it because of all the
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: mentions of God. He said it was unfair that his
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: early release from a government institution was based on his
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: involvement in a clearly religious program, which I agreed, and
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: said we should just start planning our wedding, and if
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: he's not there, we can celebrate when he gets out. Well,
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: it's nice that you've got brother on your side.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Truthfully, I like how he's not making it
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: a big deal that he's there or not. He's like,
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: I understand. Don't plan anything around me. Yeah, don't wait up.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: I have no idea. You guys live your life. I'll
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: come when I come. That's kind. Yeah, that is nice.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Beyonce just kind of looked at me and smiled, and
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: I wanted to start crying and hug them both. He
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: told me a few funny prison stories, like how the
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: only books in the library are religious books and awful
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: grocery store romance novels. The books are donated, apparently, by
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: heavy women who write letters to inmates all day. So
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: they send them the books they like to read. I
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: told him we would send him Fifty Shades of Grey,
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: and he was like, what's that?
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Crazy. Yeah. He missed that whole chapter. Thank goodness. Finally,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: it was time to say goodbye, and I did start crying.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: I only have sisters and never really saw brothers show
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: affection for one another before. Seeing the three brothers hug
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: and say goodbye to each other made me cry. It's
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: really clear they all love each other, and the one
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: brother being in prison upset them all deeply. We've got
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: a little bit left to this story. Any final thoughts?
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: It worked out. It worked out. I'm glad that you
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: got over your, you know, fear, phobia of going to
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: the prison, and it actually turned out a wonderful experience.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: It seems like, yeah, it went really well, which I
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: love that for everyone. And now, you know, everyone talked
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: it out. Everyone kind of knows what, like, we're on
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: the same page now. Everything's good. Everything's fine. Everything's BLT.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Better life together. There we go.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: Prison brother hugged me and asked me to come back sometime.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: Said that I was better to look at than his brothers.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: And I said I would. I kind of felt sorry
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: for him. The four of us were together in this
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: room talking like equals. Then they took him away back
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: inside a chain link cage again. And the three of
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: us got to walk outside the doors and it was
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: like total freedom. Big difference. Anyway, all is resolved. Aside
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: from future brother-in-law still in prison. In the car, fiance
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: said if his brother didn't want us to wait, we
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: wouldn't wait. Things between us and fiance are now back
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: to normal. Good things are happening. I thought some of
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: you were intentionally kind of hurtful, but tough love works
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: and it all led to a good outcome.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Reddit. And that's the end of that story.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I think it was a good outcome. I
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: think so, too. It was really nice. I drew a snake.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: And look at that snake.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: But now OP's fiancé' s brother has one more person.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: In his corner. I love that. Yeah. And that's always
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: so nice. You know, and... Just because I know it's very,
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know, but I would assume it's
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: pretty lonely in prison. Yeah. Especially not seeing your family
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: and friends and having no connection to the outside world.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: You don't know what's going to happen. So seeing like
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: a new fresh face is probably. Who's not judging you. Yeah.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: In this environment. I feel like it worked out in
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: the end. But that's the end of that story, and
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: we've got another one coming right up. Hey, it's Angie,
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: your favorite fake redhead host here, and we're going to
• 21:28
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• 21:31
  Speaker 2: break from our sponsors. I refuse to change my dress
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: even though I'm upstaging the bride. I want to upstage her.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: So my 27 female cousin, 29 female, is soon getting married.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: My not is getting married soon. That was just weird wording.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: She is soon to be married. Already hate OP. The
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: thing is, our families have been in no contact for
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: the last 10 to 12 years because of some issues
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: between our fathers. In total, four brothers who hated each other.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: The feud recently came to an end because all the
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: kids are grown up now and we kind of want
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: to keep our differences aside and enjoy the upcoming events.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: We all had a little reunion. This issue started with
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: my cousin's engagement party. Now I want to highlight that
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: I take good care of myself. Okay. I do yoga
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: and dance to stay fit. All right. Fun. She's just dancing.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: She's just dancing. On some special occasions, I love to
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: dress up a lot. Stop it. It makes me feel
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: good and confident. As it should, girl. Look at you.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: My cousin is a doctor, and due to her schedule,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: she has put on some weight. But I respect her
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: because her profession is tougher than mine. I am an engineer. Okay, OP.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: For her engagement, I wore a nice, beautiful peach-colored gown. Ooh. Peach. Peach.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: I want a peach. Pretty nice. It wasn't a new one.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: This was a three-year-old gift from someone. We are Indians
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: and brides generally prefer to wear lehengas or saris. By
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: the way, this comes from Strictly Unknown. And if you
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: want to submit your own stories, go to the r
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: slash okay story time subreddit. I'm Savannah. I'm Sophia.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: I'm Dakota.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: And we're here to talk about some stuff, give some advice,
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: but we don't have all your answers. We're only going
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: to tell you what we would do, but let us
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: know what you would do down in the comments. Thanks.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: As Opie says, even though we have reconciled as a family,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: my sister never involved me with her planning or anything
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: related to her wedding, and I was totally okay with that.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: When me and my mother arrived at the location of
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: the event, all was good, but the bride was late.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: People from the groom's side welcomed us nicely, and I
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: was feeling great. My cousin was almost two hours late.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: To her own wedding? Yeah, that's crazy. I don't think
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: she wanted to be at that wedding. Yeah, what? But
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: when she arrived with her two besties, I could feel
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: the tension between us rising high. To my horror, she
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: was wearing a peach-colored gown exactly like mine, but it
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: was more glittery. Oh, no. Only the bottom part of
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: our dress was slightly different.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, no.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: She went on without acknowledging my existence. My mom noticed
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: me but told me to relax as it was an
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: accident and to enjoy myself. She went ahead to help
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: my auntie with further preparations. I took a seat in
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: the corner with my other cousin. When I was talking
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: to him, one of the bride's besties came to talk.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: I thought she was there to invite me to join them,
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: but she straight up told me to change my dress.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Into what? Do you have a backup dress for me? Yeah.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: is this something something wrong here also like honestly that
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: is on the bride because if there's one thing i
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: know about an indian wedding you cannot outdress the bride
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: that's true it's really hard to because everything's so pretty
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: and like an ornate and stuff and the fact that
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: you're outdressing or even like dressing similar to her she
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: did not try yeah but.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: Isn't it also for indian weddings like Normally it's not
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: like peach.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: It's more like colorful, like red and stuff.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I think they tend to, they can
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: be many different colors. I think. I can ask Sunny's roommate.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: She just went to her cousins. I know they do
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: this thing where they like are on different sides of
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: like the door and the groom side has to like
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: give money to the bride's side in order to like
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: get over. Like to be like, oh, I'll give you
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: all my money for the bride or something like that.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: I don't know. There seems to be a lot of
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: different colors. Yeah. Based off my quick research. I was speechless.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: I told her no because one, there was nothing else
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: to wear. And two, my house was several kilometers away
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: and it would take me almost two hours to do so.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: She started suggesting different options for buying a new dress
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: or she could lend me some clothes. I firmly told
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: her no. My mom and dad were unaware of all this.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: She kept arguing with me but gave up. When the
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: ceremony started, my cousin was looking fine and smiled at
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: me because in the end, she was getting engaged to
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: the love of her life. Okay, she's chill. We're all good.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: We both got lots of compliments and I thought the
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: drama was over. But her friends kept giving me side
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: eyes throughout the event and today one of them tried
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: to contact me on Instagram. The most hurtful thing was
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: the fact that there was an after party thrown by
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: the bride and groom for all the cousins and their
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: special friends, but I wasn't invited. That's so stupid. Because
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: you wore a dress that resembled her dress. Yeah, come on.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: I'd be like, ooh, twins. Love that. Yeah, I don't know.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: I kind of feel like an a-hole, but I need
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: an honest opinion. Like for what? For wearing a dress
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: and then telling them that you didn't have another dress
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: when they were like, change. Yeah, I don't think this
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: is anyone's fault, really. If she really didn't want that
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: to happen, there should have been like a dress code
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: or something. Yeah, don't wear this color. Yeah, like, yeah, exactly.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: So I feel like it was no one's fault. I
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: don't think anyone's the a-hole except for the friend that's like,
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: you need to change. Everyone's just here. It's not even
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: about the dress. Oh, this is the engagement party. So
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: even more so, it doesn't matter. That's ridiculous. I don't know.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Call me Scrooge, but I don't care. Call me Scrooge.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Call me Scrooge. Call me Scrooge. He says this all
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: the time. I don't care. Does he say that? Yeah,
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: they say Merry Christmas. He goes, I don't care. Oh, no,
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: I'm joking. Oh, dang it. I don't give one F.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: I don't care. Dang it. He goes, period. Period. Update.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Let me clear out a few things. I don't hate
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: my cousin. Who is the bride? I am not petty
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: or mean, and this dress incident was totally unintentional. Her
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: friend said that I was upstaging the bride, which was
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: not the case. During the ceremony, I tried to keep
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: a low profile, even though it wasn't my fault. I
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: compared our looks and weight because it had been literally
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: a competition between us since childhood to look better than
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: each other, which was really childish and created more issues
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: in our family. And I thought her friends were mean
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: to me because of our previous issues. So, for an update...
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: A few days ago, my aunt, the bride's mom, called
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: my mom. They were having this general discussion about further
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: planning for the wedding. Then my aunt told my mom
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: that I would be beside the bride on stage during
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: the wedding. It was a shock for me because it's
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: like getting a maid of honor position. I quickly texted
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: my cousin to thank her and we talked for the
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: first time after her engagement. We decided to meet up
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: for a coffee. At the coffee, I brought up the
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: topic of our matching dress and she told me she
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: was shocked at first, but later totally forgot about it.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: I also asked her why she was choosing me over
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: her friends to be on stage. She gave a few
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: reasons why they are not punctual and irresponsible and can
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: be very demanding sometimes. And I am literally her family. Oh, okay.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: So this is like kind of nice. Well, then why
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: weren't you invited to the after thing? Yeah, that's a little,
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: you should bring that up. Maybe like, hey, I just,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: I just felt like I was being excluded. I don't know,
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: I would bring up, oh. I heard like you know
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: you had a party but like I don't was there
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: a reason why I wasn't invited? Yeah do you hate me?
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah because it's weird to go from you're not invited
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: to the after party to now you're basically the maid
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: of honor. Yeah because my friends will be late because
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: my friends there's a lot of problems with my friends.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: Also just like a tough tough reasoning it's nice that
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: she's honest I guess.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: But like oh like why did you choose me as
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: your maid of honor I just felt like you had
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: some closer they're gonna be late i mean they were
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: they were two hours late you'll be on time so
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: like it is it is bad yeah and good morning
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: petty potato says i think the friends purposely didn't invite
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: op that makes sense seems like they were more upset
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: about everything than the bride was. Yeah, that's true. But
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: did they, I mean, I guess maybe they planned the party.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: I don't know. They could have. We'll see. As I mentioned,
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: she was actually looking very happy during her engagement. She
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: also told me that she was a bit disappointed that
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: I wasn't there at the after party. Oh, and then
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: you go, uh, I wasn't invited. And her soon to
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: be husband was also asking for me from her talk.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: One thing I know is that she is not aware
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: about her friends being mean to me and lying about me.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Cousin and I are on good terms. At the end,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: we ate some delicious burgers and had fun, and I
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: also showed her my dress, which I will be wearing
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: at her wedding. Super glittery, light green color lahenga. I
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: am still unsure if I should tell her about her
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: bestie or just let it go. I just want to
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: enjoy the wedding without any further drama. Edit, my lahenga
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: for the wedding, the upper part, choli, is yet to
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: be customized. Okay. And that's the end. Nice. Well, yeah.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: I would say something after the wedding, maybe. You don't
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: want to bring her stress and be like, oh, now
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: I have to be mad at my friends during my
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: wedding or whatever. I would bring up after. That's a
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: weird kind of... The reason I wasn't there was because
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Bestie over here forgot to invite me. Yeah. I mean,
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: you could have done it pretty... You.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: Wouldn't even have to call her out. You could be like, oh,
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: I didn't know you guys had a party. I didn't
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: get an invite for that.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Or you could have just said that and then,
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: you know. And then let her deal. I don't know.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: You know what I love?
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: What do you love?
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Those little, like, candy necklaces. Oh, yeah. Candy necklaces. Well,
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: you put it on your neck and you're like. Yeah,
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: and you're just, like, taught. Or a bracelet. Like, you
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: just have it and literally it's like this. And you're like. Like,
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: I love that. It's the best. Is it? It is wearable.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: What is wearable? It's a macaroni necklace. I'm calling it now.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Macaroni necklace. We should all make some macaroni necklaces. Oh,
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: and now Purple Trader, I'm reading your thing. Oldest took
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: to camp free time. It was The Giver. And I
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: love The Giver. Dude, I never knew that they had
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: a whole series. They do? They've got a whole series
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: because they only have you read the first book in school.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: But it's a whole series. What? The Giver. wait i
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: did not did not know that i thought it was
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: just wait wait no i think that's crazy i think
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: i do know that there's like a second there's like
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: four oh what or three something they only do the.
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: First one so generous so giving of the author to
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: give us so many givers uh.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah there's four there's four isn't that crazy oh but
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: interesting what They're all following different characters. So number one
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: is Jonah. Yes, Jonah. Well, two, it says Gathering Blue
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: follows Kira, an orphaned, physically disabled girl with a gift
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: for embroidery who uncovers the dark secrets of her own society. Three,
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: set in the community of Village. This book brings together
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: characters from the first two novels and follows Maddie, a
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: young boy with a unique gift. And four, Sun, the
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: final installment, which focuses on Claire, the birth mother from
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: the original book, on a desperate quest to find her
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: lost son. Isn't that crazy? Where's my smoothie? I don't know.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: But that's the end of that story, and we got
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: another one coming right up. Sure do.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Hey, it's Keon, the Silly's Goose. We're going to get
• 33:21
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• 33:25
  Speaker 3: My cousin demanded I give up my spot at his
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: dream school where he got rejected.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Dream shmeem, get over it, buddy. Basic context, I, 18 female,
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: just got into a really good college. Calling it here,
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: it was an Ivy League. Because she's not saying. Poison
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Ivy League.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: I'm there right now, sitting on my dorm room bed,
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: typing this. I have a cousin, 18 male, that also
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: wanted to attend this particular school. He'd been talking about
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: it since we were in middle school. He was absolutely
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: positive he would get in, but didn't. Supposedly, my cousin
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: had a full-on freakout when he got rejected. But I
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: wasn't there for it. He got his email a few
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: days before I got mine. My parents were overjoyed that
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: I'd gotten in and with a big scholarship. But as
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: soon as my uncle, aunt, and cousin heard, they jumped
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: on me immediately. Calls, texts, showing up to my parents'
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: house uninvited, trying to convince me to give my spot
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: to my cousin. So it's been a minute since.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: I've gone to college. Savannah, can you do that? No. No.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: I've been out of college way longer than you have.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: And no. And she still knows that you can't do that.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: And I still know that you cannot just be like, hey,
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: I don't really want to go here, but my cousin
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: wants to go here. He got rejected, but like, can
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: I just give him my acceptance letter? That's not how
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: that works.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: He was livid that I was accepted, but he wasn't.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: I told him it was probably because I had a
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: bunch of extracurriculars and he didn't because he thought they
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: were a waste of valuable study time. Ooh, sorry, colleges
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: want well-rounded people.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Bummer.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: He said I didn't work as hard as him or
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: get as good of grades as him and didn't deserve
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: to go to this college when he couldn't. I told
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: him tough crap, that's life. And he scraved that I'd
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: probably just drop out anyways because I wouldn't.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: Be able to handle it like he would. Dude, get
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: over yourself. Yeah, why don't you try, I don't know,
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: being happy? I know you haven't seen it, but have
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: you seen the movie Bottoms? Nope. Yeah. Oh, wait, no, sorry.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Not bottoms. Oh, I just top mix. Yeah. Tops. No, no, no, no.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: I wasn't thinking of bottoms. I was thinking of the
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: movie about those two girls and they have like a
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: crazy night. And why am I forgetting with Jonah Hill's sister?
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: I didn't know he had a sister. Okay, wait, sorry.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: We're going to run this back like I remembered it.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: When you say bottoms, I think of bottoms up. Sister.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: This bottom's going to be on top. Beanie Feldstein. Booksmart.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: There you go. Booksmart I have not. Okay, okay. We're
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: going to take that back and pretend that I didn't
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: say bottoms. Did you see Bookmark? Bookmark. No. We'll take
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: it one more back, one more time. Let's bounce off
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: of that. Let's bounce off of that. Bookmark. Book. Bookmarks. Walmart.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Have you seen Booksmart? No. Perfect. Okay. In that movie,
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: one of the girls is.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, both of them have spent all of their
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: time in school trying to get into these really hard
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: schools and studying. And then they find out that the
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: kids that they always thought were goofing off and didn't
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: care about school also got into those schools.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: And they're like, how did you get in? We were studying.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: You guys were goofing off. And they're like, well, we
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: didn't care about just school. And that's OP right now.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: She's like, I didn't care about just school just because
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: you were studying all the time and didn't have time
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: for anything else. I was doing multiple things. Yeah. I
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: did a lot of stuff. She did. And she got
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: into a school. And I got into a school. It
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: got to the point that I just left my phone
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: off and exclusively used my laptop for about a week
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: because they wouldn't stop bugging me. By the way, this
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: comes from AdRelative130. And if you want to submit your
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: own stories, go to the R slash OK Storytime subreddit.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: I'm Sophia. I'm Savannah.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: I'm Dakota.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: And we're here to give good advice goofily. But we
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: don't have all the answers. We only know what we do.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: So let us know what you would do in the comments.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: And Opie says, once.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: They figured out they wouldn't get me to give my
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: cousin my acceptance, because I can't, that's not how the
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: acceptance works, they started trying to convince me to go
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: to a different school, since apparently this one can't actually
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: be all that good if they couldn't even recognize a
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: talented and smart person like my cousin, and that I'd
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: probably be much happier at some other school. This went
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: on until the day I left for school three weeks ago.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: The day I left, my cousin actually came to my parents'
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: house just before I left and told me flat out
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: that if I really went through with this, we weren't
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: family anymore because he doesn't want to be related to
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: someone that would be so willing to steal his dreams.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: Actual quote. Well, I don't want to be related to
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: crazy people, so good for me. Good with me. Yeah,
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: you're actually doing me a favor because I don't want
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: you to be in my ear being like me, You're
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: a bad person for doing what I want. Yeah me
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: like shut up Sorry, you didn't get a poker Didn't
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: didn't didn't shut up. It's really nice. Thank you. Sorry.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: You didn't get into Harvard bud You're not out woods.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: I got a picture of Opie's family. I don't know
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: I found him.
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: They do not have you to succeed Wait, who is
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: that old man? This is a Knives Out reference, and
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: if you don't know Knives Out, you don't know Ball.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, I do know Knives Out. Great movie, great movie.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: I need to rewatch that.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: Now I'm all set up in my dorm. My roommate
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: is fun as heck. Classes are going well, and I'm
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: really happy. My cousin still keeps posting angsty junk on
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: his Instagram about dreams being false and hard work being
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: BS that doesn't get you anywhere.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: It's annoying. So what do you guys think? Should I
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: have gone to a different school? Am I the a-hole?
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: There is an update. What do you think, Savannah? Literally
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: go to the school and screw this guy. You're going
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: to have haters no matter what you do. You're going
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: to have haters. Unfortunately, this happens to be your family member,
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: which is really annoying and there's not much you can
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: do about it. It's truthfully, they're making it the big deal.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: You just got accepted. They should be happy for you.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: For real. Like, you know. It's ridiculous that they're not. Like,
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, Sophia just got this V6 at the gym.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: I didn't see it. So technically there's no proof. So
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: it didn't really happen. But she texted me. She was like,
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: I got that V6. I was like, heck yeah, you did.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: I'm not like, oh. Well, I didn't get that V6,
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: so you can't get it and you have to unclimb
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: that wall. Why are you climbing? It's just like, why
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: not be happy for someone? I don't understand. Like, it's
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: so much more effort to be mad at someone than
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: it is to just be like, oh, yeah, that's cool.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: I feel like the best kind of way to look
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: at it is when, especially in acting, this happens so much. Yes.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: Because there's constantly going to be, I mean, you're always
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: going to be with someone. you know, especially in school,
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: you're always with these people, these are your friends, and
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: sometimes they get a role that you really wanted, and.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: Sometimes you don't even get into the show. And you really,
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, like, it's tough, because we've all been there,
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: if you're an actor, where you're like, oh, that person
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: didn't deserve that role, and I wanted that. But like,
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: if it's your friend, you really gotta just be happy
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: for them. Me and my friend for this, we're the
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: same character type, and it was hard, because we were
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: always up against each other. And sometimes she'd get it,
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: sometimes I'd get it. But we never hated each other
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: for it.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: No, you can't do that. We'd be like, ugh.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: I'd be like, you B. But, like, it would be in, like,
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: a funny way. It's not like, oh, now I hate you.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: I literally was just texting her, like, a minute ago because, like,
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: we're still friends and everything. Like, she's great. I don't
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: hate her because someone else saw her in that role
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: more than me.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: And it's kind of.
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: Ridiculous that your cousin is making it out to be
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: like it's your fault that he didn't get in. If
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: this is his villain arc, that's on him.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's not on you. You didn't take his place.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: He didn't even have a place.
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: Someone on the wait list is going to, you know,
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: if you didn't go, someone on the wait list would
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: get in.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: Not him. Exactly. Update.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: Where were your parents during all this? Trying to keep
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: me distracted from the drama. Taking me shopping for my dorm.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: Getting my car checked out before I left. A celebration
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: dinner with my grandparents. Just trying to make sure I
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: was still happy about my acceptance. Did your cousin apply
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: to any other schools?
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: Yes, he did.
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: But only because his guidance counselor told him to have
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: at least one backup just in case.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: He was only going to apply to that school? I mean, well,
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: that's just stupidity. That's crazy. I mean, you just, you
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: should apply to like all schools. Yeah, I mean, people
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: usually apply to what, like six to ten? Yeah, I
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: think I- Theater's different. I applied to like 15, but
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: that's because they tell you to, because the rate is
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: so low. Yeah, I don't even remember. I think I
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: did at least probably 10 to 15 as well. It's
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: for theater.
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: It makes sense. He did get accepted to his second
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: choice school, but he's still salty. What program did you pick?
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: I'm doing videography. It's a pretty competitive program, so I'm
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: really lucky I got in. Why haven't you blocked your cousin?
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: This one is fair. I really should have a while ago.
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: He's stopped talking to me completely anyway, so it's not
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: the worst idea. What's the deal with your uncle and aunt?
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: They're obnoxious.
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: That's pretty much it. They're the type of people that
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: think very highly of themselves, and it rubbed off on
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: their son. They drilled it into my cousin's head for
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: years that getting into a good college will set him
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: up for life. And for those of you wondering if
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: there's some schmexism involved in these tantrums, the answer is no.
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: I don't come from that kind of culture that prioritizes
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: boys over girls.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: My family is just kind of weird. Again, thanks for
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: the kind and funny words. Bye. Bye. Second update. Oh,
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: not bye. You, you trick. You little trickster.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: I've been debating the last few weeks if I should
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: make this update or not, but I think it's funny.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: So I'll give you a little laugh. Please, that's what
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: I need. I love laughing. A little laugh. Give me
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: a little laugh. I went home for Thanksgiving, as one does.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: And it was interesting.
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: I saw the suggestions to wear my school hoodie to
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: annoy my cousin, and I might have thought that was
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: petty gold, and I didn't. Boy, was he not happy
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: when my parents and I got to my grandparents' house
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: and he saw me walk in with my school name
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: and logo on my hoodie.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: Yikes. But he tried to play it off saying, really?
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: School hoodie? Tacky. Okay. He's like, really? School hoodies? And
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: if he got in, he probably that would be like, yeah,
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: the only thing you'd have a tattooed on his chest.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: It's true.
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: But I could definitely see in his eyes he wanted
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: to say something meaner, but he wouldn't in front of
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: the rest of the family. Everyone was complimenting me on
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: my hoodie and my acceptance and asking me how my
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: studies are going, except for my uncle, aunt and cousin,
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: who kept trying to get the attention back on him
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: by jumping in with his own college stuff at every
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: moment he possibly could. Meanwhile, my aunt and uncle were
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: gushing at anyone who would listen about how proud they
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: were that their son got into.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: Such a good school. For those of you who were
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: wondering before, my cousin studies mathematics and quantum theory something.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: I don't totally know, but I think he wants to
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: work for NASA.
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: And went on and on about how he's going to
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: make a difference in the world while I'm stuck behind
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: a camera doing videography.
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: Okay, so they also applied to like different things. It's
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: not like they're applying to like the same thing, you know? Yeah,
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: which also makes sense. Yeah, why he didn't. I mean,
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: that's probably a lot harder to get into than videography.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: But I don't know. It depends on how big the
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: program is.
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: I love how this guy is trying to denigrate videography
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: as if there's no media that's ever, I don't know,
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: completely changed the world before. Meanwhile, he's doing engineering and mathematics,
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: which pretty solid pipeline into the defense industry there.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: It really there is kind of only so many things
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: that you can do in engineering. Yeah.
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: This man's talking about he's going to change the world.
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: It's like you're going to develop like a quantum targeting system.
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: And yeah, that's going to change the world.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: It certainly will.
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: You really either work for space or the military. I
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: pretty much just ignored him when he started rambling, which
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: he did not like. And he really didn't like it
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: when I brought up that I was already getting practical
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: experience for my degree by being the camera operator for
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: my school's student news shows. My family was really happy
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: for me, except for him. But that's all the boring
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: things that happened. What makes me want to make this
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: update was what happened next. One of my other uncles
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: that's always not so subtly liked me better than my cousins.
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: Said that he was really proud of me because I
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: chose a practical degree and career that would work well
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: in my favor because in this age of content creators,
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: everyone needs a good person that can work a camera
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: and edit software. And that's true. It is true. We're
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: always looking for someone.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: And that putting in the work now will give me
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: a lot of job security down the road.
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: We've got a little bit left. OP says, this pissed
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: off my cousin so much. he actually stood up and
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: got in my uncle's face screaming.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: She's not better than me. She'll never be as good
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: as me, so shut the F up. Wow. I mean,
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: he's really letting this affect him, and this is all
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: his self-worth right here in this school, and that's crazy.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: Maybe you need to go talk about that somewhere. Yeah,
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: if I'm the uncle, I'm like, I'm like, oh, right.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: Let's get you set up with someone. Let's just do
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: some breathing exercise. Yeah, for real. That's exactly what happened. Awkward.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: The room got silent.
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: I think my cousin realized he effed up because he
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: suddenly said he had another thing to get to and
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: rushed to his car. He's crying in the car. His
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: parents tried to excuse him, saying my uncle shouldn't have
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: been so passive aggressive and targeting him.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why he can still do what he does.
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  Speaker 2: Get away with it.
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  Speaker 3: But when he asked why they thought him complimenting me
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  Speaker 3: meant insulting him, they kind of figured out they backed
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  Speaker 3: themselves into a corner and just left. The rest of
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  Speaker 3: the night was much more fun. My grandma made cheesecake.
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  Speaker 2: Yum. Homemade cheesecake. Delish. Like a Basque cheesecake. I want
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  Speaker 2: my smoothie. So yeah, that's it. Hope you got some
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  Speaker 2: enjoyment out of my cousin's nonsense. Bye again. And that's
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  Speaker 2: bye for real. Oh, that's bye for real. And that's
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: bye for real. And that's bye period. But we've got
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  Speaker 2: comments and these comments come from the video. I stole
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  Speaker 2: grandpa's secret money and let my family fight over the will.
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  Speaker 2: And this was posted July 22nd, 2026. And the TLDR
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: comes from story three. OP is a 31 year old
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  Speaker 2: single mom living alone with her 11 year old daughter.
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  Speaker 2: After a normal family movie night, one of her nephew's
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  Speaker 2: 16-year-old friends, John, showed up at her doorstep two weeks later, uninvited,
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  Speaker 2: holding flowers and refusing to leave. He kept insisting he
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  Speaker 2: loved her and even brought up her being a single mom.
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  Speaker 2: OP got a terrible feeling, asked him to leave twice,
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  Speaker 2: and only when she threatened to call the cops did
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  Speaker 2: he finally run. But instead of support, she got backlash
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  Speaker 2: from John's mom and even her own sister telling her
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  Speaker 2: she overreacted and could have ruined a kid's life. But
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: OP trusted her gut. And when the truth came out
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  Speaker 2: about how John knew where she lived, it pointed straight
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  Speaker 2: back at someone in her own family. And if you're
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  Speaker 2: curious to know the full story, you can go watch
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  Speaker 2: the full video. But we got comments from story three.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we do.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: We've got some comments.
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  Speaker 4: Comment one from AllTheEraMan says, Any adult propositioned by a
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  Speaker 4: minor needs to report immediately. Otherwise, the story could spread
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  Speaker 4: and look very different, and the adult could be in
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  Speaker 4: a lot of trouble.
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  Speaker 2: Ain't that the truth.
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  Speaker 1: Pro tips.
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  Speaker 2: Pro tips.
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  Speaker 4: Tell on those minors going after you adults uh ghost
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  Speaker 4: ribs says i knew plenty of dangerous 16 year olds
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  Speaker 4: in high school just because he was 16 doesn't mean
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  Speaker 4: he couldn't have harmed them and 16 is definitely old
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  Speaker 4: enough to know you don't show up on someone's doorstep
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  Speaker 4: without asking and especially not leaving after being asked twice
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  Speaker 4: he may not have heard her but you can't risk
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  Speaker 4: it when you have.
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  Speaker 2: A child Yeah, she had an 11-year-old daughter.
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  Speaker 4: And SinJazzy402 says, in quotes, this can ruin his life.
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  Speaker 1: He's just a kid.
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  Speaker 4: If the kid is old enough for this to be life-ruining,
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  Speaker 4: then his parents should have taught him not to do
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  Speaker 4: stupid stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: And it really wasn't life-ruining at all. But that's the
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: end of those comments and the end of this episode.
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  Speaker 2: So if you love us, make sure to subscribe. We
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  Speaker 2: love you. And see you tomorrow.