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My Valentine To You · Have A Little Faith with Delilah

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  Speaker 1: Hello, my friend. Welcome, Welcome to have a little faith
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  Speaker 1: with Delilah and man, do we need to have a
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  Speaker 1: little faith right now? We need to have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of faith right now, everything going on, all the crazy
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  Speaker 1: revelations that are coming to light, that are sickening, that
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  Speaker 1: are so vile, so evil, so beyond anything that people
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  Speaker 1: can wrap their heads around. I think we've become numb
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  Speaker 1: to so many evil things in this world. But we
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  Speaker 1: need faith right now more than ever, And that is
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  Speaker 1: why I started this podcast last year. But this week,
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  Speaker 1: leading up to Valentine's Season, to Valentine's Day, We've decided
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  Speaker 1: to share conversations that celebrate all the different aspects of love.
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  Speaker 1: Because romantic love is great. It is Oh, it's intoxicating.
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  Speaker 1: It's intoxicating when you first fall in love, and then
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  Speaker 1: it mellows into something so pure, so beautiful, so beyond explanation.
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  Speaker 1: But there's also family love. There's the kind of love
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  Speaker 1: that God allows two best friends to share, the kind
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  Speaker 1: of love that shared between a group of friends. That
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  Speaker 1: kind of love doesn't flourish with flowers or chocolates or expectations,
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  Speaker 1: the kind of love that grows over days and months
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  Speaker 1: and years, today, I want to share a few examples
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  Speaker 1: of love between couples, between people who are falling in
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  Speaker 1: love or have fallen in love, but also between a
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  Speaker 1: mother and a child, between a best friend, and even
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  Speaker 1: even the love we have for our fur babies. This
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  Speaker 1: episode of Have a Little Faith will hopefully make you laugh,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully make you think that might make you cry, and
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  Speaker 1: that's okay too. Let's start out with a little laughter. Hi, Abigail,
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  Speaker 1: welcome to have a Little Faith with Delilah. Tell me
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  Speaker 1: who is your number one Valentine on your heart tonight?
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  Speaker 2: I hurt you. I'm sending him out like Valentine's and
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  Speaker 2: I just wanted to shoot out of Valentine to my cat,
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  Speaker 2: punkers bunkers, my husband a j.
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  Speaker 1: Wait wait wait, the cat took first place over your hobby.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yes, oh my god, Yes.
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  Speaker 1: You dedicated a song to your cat before your husband.
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  Speaker 1: That speaks volumes, my dear.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I love my cat, well, my cat, my dog,
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  Speaker 2: my husband, just.
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  Speaker 1: My whole family. All right, let me see what I
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  Speaker 1: can do for you in the meantime. You and the
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  Speaker 1: cat and the dog, oh yeah, and the hobby have
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  Speaker 1: a great Valentine too.
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  Speaker 2: Us Well, thank you, Delilah, You're awesome.
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  Speaker 1: We love you, Abigail. Thank you for the laughs. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you to your sweet husband who understands not to get
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  Speaker 1: jealous of your fur baby. I'm guessing he's a very
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  Speaker 1: secure man who understands the cat is doing him a favor.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe animals are often called to step in and just
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  Speaker 1: be love. Abigail, thank you again for making me laugh
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  Speaker 1: and smile.
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  Speaker 4: Up.
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  Speaker 1: Next, we have Margaret, who has decided to be her
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  Speaker 1: own Valentine. Let's hear her story right now. Hi, this
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  Speaker 1: is Margaret, Margaret, Hi, this is Delilah. What can I
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  Speaker 1: do for you?
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  Speaker 5: I kind of was wondering if you could just tring
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  Speaker 5: me a song. My boyfriend and I have been going
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  Speaker 5: through a little bit of a rough time, and I
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  Speaker 5: think I just want to, you know, kind of claim
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  Speaker 5: back like myself loved you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? I do you know what you mean? So, in
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  Speaker 1: the pursuit of a relationship, you haven't taken care of yourself. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: how old are you? I'm twenty three, so you are
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  Speaker 1: learning this early. I am old enough to be your grandmother.
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  Speaker 1: Just this year, well last year, after a trip to
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  Speaker 1: the doctor where I found out I had health issues
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  Speaker 1: that you know were a direct result of not taking
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  Speaker 1: care of myself. I went, wait a second. I have
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  Speaker 1: spent my whole darned adult life taking care of all
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  Speaker 1: these people that I love, and I have not loved
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  Speaker 1: or respected or taken care of myself. You said it, then,
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  Speaker 1: So it's a new year, a new me, a new you.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I'm glad that you are taking care of yourself.
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  Speaker 1: And I lung me too, because if I don't, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I got five minor kids that I'm raising.
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  Speaker 6: It.
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  Speaker 1: If I don't take care of me, ain't nobody else
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  Speaker 1: going to do it? I have to stop being a knucklehead.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: That's easier said than done, though.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah it is. So what are you doing to bring
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  Speaker 1: self love, self care? And I'm not talking egotistical, narcissistic nonsense,
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  Speaker 1: I mean just taking care and loving yourself. What are
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  Speaker 1: you doing to change that?
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  Speaker 5: I've been going out by my belf more honestly, I've
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  Speaker 5: been I've been taking myself a little solo date.
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  Speaker 3: That stumb is this.
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  Speaker 1: Sound that doesn't sound dumb. That's why I ride my horse.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I hop on my horse and ride. It's
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  Speaker 1: my solo date with me and God. That's when I
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  Speaker 1: take care of me. I talk to God and I
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  Speaker 1: have time just to process.
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  Speaker 6: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: You get it, Margaret, self love really is actually from
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. He wants us to value ourselves, to respect ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: to cherish ourself elves as he values us. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for sharing your story. Thank you for opening your heart
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  Speaker 1: and being vulnerable. I think I needed to hear that
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  Speaker 1: as much as anybody listening.
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  Speaker 4: Up.
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  Speaker 1: Next, we have a double dedication, one to a cherished
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  Speaker 1: daughter and one to the love of a country. Stephen,
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  Speaker 1: welcome to have a little faith with Delilah. How can
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  Speaker 1: I help you celebrate this season of love? Lilah?
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  Speaker 7: This is Steve.
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  Speaker 8: Is this really you?
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  Speaker 1: It's really me, I promise in the flesh.
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  Speaker 9: I look to you for years and I just started
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  Speaker 9: picking your channel up and yesterday you had a show
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  Speaker 9: about an AMNI military disabled veteran. I swear to God,
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  Speaker 9: I thought you were talking about me, and it.
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  Speaker 8: Touched me so much. I just wanted to say, how
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  Speaker 8: specially you are the people. You're definitely God gifted. You
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  Speaker 8: know you will well.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for your service. What branch did you serve in?
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  Speaker 8: I was years ago, years ago, I was a old Iraq.
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  Speaker 8: We broke brown there.
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  Speaker 7: You know.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Stephen, I'll be honest with you. I come
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  Speaker 1: from a military family. My grandpa was in the Navy,
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  Speaker 1: my brother was in the Air Force. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: family in the military. But I did not get it.
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  Speaker 1: I did not get it until I was blessed to
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  Speaker 1: get to travel with the military and do an entertainment
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  Speaker 1: tour many years ago. I saw first hand what sacrificial
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  Speaker 1: love is. I didn't get it. Yes, I didn't get it,
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  Speaker 1: but that tour changed my life. And I came back
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  Speaker 1: and I said, man, how can I bless our military?
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  Speaker 1: What can I do? And they let me be on
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  Speaker 1: Armed Forces Radio. So that's one of my favorite things
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  Speaker 1: about doing this show is that it gets carried on
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  Speaker 1: Armed Forces Radio. But man, do I love armen and
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  Speaker 1: women in uniform?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, thank you. We appreciate a quarters like you as well,
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  Speaker 8: you know, thank you. I was the next COPO too.
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  Speaker 8: I retired a couple of years ago. It's been quite
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  Speaker 8: quite the experience, you know. And I'm trying to teach
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  Speaker 8: my young daughter all about the world, you know, and
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  Speaker 8: she's a senior.
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  Speaker 1: And what's your daughter's name, Stephen?
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  Speaker 8: Alana Grace from Massachusetts. Lover her again.
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  Speaker 1: So Alana Grace started her senior year? Did she do
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  Speaker 1: the first day of senior year? Pictures standing right outside
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  Speaker 1: the door?
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  Speaker 8: Oh God, you're on a coastal community in Massachusetts, so
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  Speaker 8: they had four o'clock. We'll call whatever you want to say,
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  Speaker 8: but yeah, yeah, they basically started it with a bang.
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  Speaker 8: I'm so proud of her.
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  Speaker 1: Oh Stephen, thank you for calling. You have a great night.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for letting me be a part of your evening.
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  Speaker 1: And thank you for your service both in uniform with
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  Speaker 1: the military and especially man for being somebody who's out
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  Speaker 1: there putting your life on the line of an officer.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you. Thank you Steven for sharing your love
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  Speaker 1: and support for your daughter. Dads are so important and
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  Speaker 1: your love really does make a difference. Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: serving this country, for supporting our military brothers and sisters.
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  Speaker 1: My prayers are with all of you. We all need
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  Speaker 1: a gallantine. I talk about this so much. It's important
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  Speaker 1: to cherish your best friends. So up next we have Joe.
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  Speaker 1: Her sister in law is also her bestie, and she
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  Speaker 1: shares that she could never give her up under any circumstances.
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  Speaker 1: Let's let Joe tell her own story.
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  Speaker 3: Hike Eli love, this is Joe.
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  Speaker 1: How are you Joe? I'm good. What can I do
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  Speaker 1: to add a note of romance to your night?
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  Speaker 6: Oh it's not so much romance, but it is love.
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  Speaker 6: It's my sister inm all any praise song for her?
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  Speaker 1: Sure? Tell me about your sister in law and how
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  Speaker 1: you two are connected heart to heart.
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  Speaker 6: And married my brother about thirty years ago high school speetworts,
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  Speaker 6: and she's been there to take him with me, and
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  Speaker 6: I wouldn't know what to do about her, and I
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  Speaker 6: just wanted to give her a shout out and let
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  Speaker 6: her know that I love her.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 1: God didn't just bring your brother a great wife. He
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  Speaker 1: brought you a great sister. Correct. What a sweet package deal?
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  Speaker 6: Oh my god, she is the best. She's been to
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  Speaker 6: everything with me.
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  Speaker 1: I have parents. I call him mom and dad. They
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  Speaker 1: are the parents of a man that I was married
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  Speaker 1: to and had two children with. We divorced twenty five
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  Speaker 1: years ago, but his parents are still my parents. And
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  Speaker 1: they live in a house that was mine, and they
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  Speaker 1: lived next door to their granddaughter, my daughter. I got
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  Speaker 1: them houses together so they could be neighbors, and they
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  Speaker 1: are my parents.
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  Speaker 4: Don't let them.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad you didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Amen, I don't know what I do.
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  Speaker 6: That's my life right there?
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  Speaker 3: Was she awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I will play a song, a Gallantine song for your
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  Speaker 1: sister in law.
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  Speaker 6: That is awesome. And thank you for doing what you do.
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  Speaker 6: I listen to you every night. You give people hope
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  Speaker 6: and dreams. You're just awesome, Joe.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for sharing your story, your love for your sis.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what I would do without my besties.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't I couldn't survive. They are such a huge
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  Speaker 1: key in my heart. Have you ever been in a
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  Speaker 1: long distance relationship? My husband and I have had a
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  Speaker 1: long distance marriage the entire time we've been together, up
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  Speaker 1: until two years ago, when life happened. Life was lifing
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  Speaker 1: and I moved to another state so that I could
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  Speaker 1: care for him. He had some health issues, still does
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  Speaker 1: and it's the first time outside of COVID that we
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  Speaker 1: have been together in nineteen years. Some people manage to
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  Speaker 1: stay together for years even though they live separately. They
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  Speaker 1: live apart. Some people should live apart and their relationship
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  Speaker 1: would work a lot better. In just a moment, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to talk with a young woman whose heart is
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  Speaker 1: breaking because She's going to be apart from her beloved
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  Speaker 1: for more than a day or two, and I could
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  Speaker 1: tell she loves him so much.
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  Speaker 4: He is the.
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  Speaker 1: Very breath in her lungs. And I'm going to try
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  Speaker 1: to find a song to keep their hearts together even
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  Speaker 1: though they're going to be continents apart. Stay tuned for
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  Speaker 1: this sweet love story and a song to bridge the
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  Speaker 1: gap coming up next. Nia. Thank you for your patience.
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  Speaker 1: I was on a TikTok live now I'm here. What
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  Speaker 1: can I do for you tonight? My darling?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, I was just calling to see if you could
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  Speaker 3: play me a.
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  Speaker 1: Song I can. Who's on your heart?
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  Speaker 3: So my fiance lawson he So we're in an international relationship.
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  Speaker 3: He's Australian and he leaving America to go back home,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm not going to be able to see how
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  Speaker 3: for a really long time. Again, How old are you,
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  Speaker 3: I'm twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: So why can't you go visit him in Australia.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we're trying to figure out visas.
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  Speaker 4: At the moment, it doesn't look like I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: be able to get over there for about three to
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  Speaker 4: four months.
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  Speaker 1: And you think that's a very long time, Well for.
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  Speaker 3: Us, to be. We've been living with each other for
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  Speaker 3: almost a year now.
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  Speaker 1: So oh, mea to be young and in love. When
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  Speaker 1: my grandparents were married, they'd been married and had a kid,
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  Speaker 1: my grandpa went into World War Two and they were
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  Speaker 1: apart for over a year, and they didn't have phones,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't have FaceTime. They had letters that took months
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  Speaker 1: to get back and forth to each other. Months. When
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  Speaker 1: my grandparents died, we found all the letters they wrote
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  Speaker 1: each other tied up with ribbon in a chest at
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  Speaker 1: the foot of my grandma's bed. Wow, we're very spoiled.
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  Speaker 1: We're so used to being able to be with somebody
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  Speaker 1: or see them on FaceTime or whatever. Imagine not being
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  Speaker 1: able to see the one you love for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I would be able to do it.
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  Speaker 3: It would be so difficult.
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  Speaker 1: It would be difficult. But it sounds to me your
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  Speaker 1: voice sounds like you're very secure in this relationship. Oh
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  Speaker 1: I am, then you would be able to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on to that hope. So I will say a
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  Speaker 1: prayer that your visa is processed quickly, that you are
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  Speaker 1: able to go join him. Will you be going to
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  Speaker 1: visit or going to stay?
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  Speaker 3: I will be going to stay.
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  Speaker 1: Even though they're spiders that are deadly and crocodiles and alligators.
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  Speaker 1: You're going for it. Love is that strong? Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and his name is Lawson. Yeah, I love that name.
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  Speaker 1: What song can I play that? Then you can play
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  Speaker 1: on repeat while you're missing him?
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  Speaker 4: Wow?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, how about I find one that'll bridge the distance
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  Speaker 1: and keep your hearts connected And anytime you're missing him,
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  Speaker 1: if you can't call him or text him, you can
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  Speaker 1: just play that over and over and over. Or if
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  Speaker 1: you're like me and you have ADHD you do that anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's definitely another gogram.
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  Speaker 1: I'll find a sweet song for you, Mia. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for being so patient.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna be fine. You're going to make this. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: this time apart will just make your love all the stronger.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: Each night we are here to talk to you, to
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  Speaker 1: listen to you, and to connect with you heart to heart.
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  Speaker 1: I love hearing from people who have called me in
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  Speaker 1: the past. I love hearing the rest of the story.
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  Speaker 1: I love hearing how things have turned out. I love
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  Speaker 1: hearing where you were the first time you called me
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  Speaker 1: and where you are Today, in just a moment, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to talk with a listener who called me when
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  Speaker 1: she was not a kid, a very young adult, a
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  Speaker 1: very young unsure of her decisions, adult, unsure if she
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  Speaker 1: could take a step be bold for love. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to find out how things went and if they're still going.
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  Speaker 1: Stay tuned for this week love story coming up next.
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  Speaker 3: Kid, Elila, my name Isa.
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  Speaker 1: What can I do for you tonight?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I saw a bit of a story for you.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me your story and tell me what I can
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  Speaker 1: do to enrich your life.
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  Speaker 4: I called you about sixteen years ago something like that.
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  Speaker 4: I had met my husband exactly twenty years ago today.
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  Speaker 4: We met online. And eleven years after that I had
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  Speaker 4: called you. It was twenty sixteen and it was August
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  Speaker 4: and I was touching about this guy that I had met,
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  Speaker 4: and he said, well, why haven't you flowed out to
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  Speaker 4: meet him. I was in Florida and he was in Oregon.
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  Speaker 4: And I said, well, I'm young, I'm like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: twenty four. I can't do that yet. And he said
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  Speaker 4: why not? And that night I booked a flight flew
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  Speaker 4: to Oregon in December of twenty sixteen, and twoy eighteen,
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  Speaker 4: he flew to Florida to stay for two weeks and
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  Speaker 4: decided two days before his two weeks were up, she
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  Speaker 4: was not going to go back to Oregon and he
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  Speaker 4: was just going to move here. We got married in
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty into an apartment together. Twenty twenty one we
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  Speaker 4: had our first son, twenty twenty four we just had
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  Speaker 4: our daughter, and twenty twenty five we bought our first house.
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  Speaker 1: So I wonder what would happen if you had called
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  Speaker 1: a radio station and that person would have said, you
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  Speaker 1: are too young to know what real love is. Don't
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  Speaker 1: be crazy, don't be foolish, don't be throwing your life
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  Speaker 1: away on somebody that lives four thousand miles away. Forget
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  Speaker 1: about him.
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  Speaker 4: Yea.
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  Speaker 1: Instead you called a pathetic, hopeless romantic who always wants
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  Speaker 1: to believe that real love wins.
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  Speaker 4: Yep. So we always listened to you, and kind of
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  Speaker 4: thank you for being the turning point, I want to say,
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  Speaker 4: and the starting point of what has been a whirlwind
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  Speaker 4: of an adventure together. And on the twenty second we
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  Speaker 4: will sell our six years married.
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  Speaker 1: And look at the little family God has created through
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  Speaker 1: you too. Yes, ma'am, let me play a song to
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  Speaker 1: celebrate the long distance love that became the forever love.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, God, bless you, bless you, bless you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, ma'am you too.
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  Speaker 1: A blast we have Alan. Alan met the love of
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  Speaker 1: his life when he was a kid. They were kids,
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  Speaker 1: they weren't even teenagers yet. It's a story of a
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  Speaker 1: deep love for friendship, for romance. When you are blessed
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  Speaker 1: to meet the love of your life early in life,
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  Speaker 1: what a precious gift. Let's have Alan share his story
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 3: How there?
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  Speaker 7: This is Alan? How are you tonight?
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  Speaker 1: I'm good, Alan? What can I do for you tonight?
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  Speaker 7: I'll lost my wife three months ago, non or every
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  Speaker 7: said that she was ten and I was twelve, and
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  Speaker 7: back then I'll say one day I'm going to marry you,
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  Speaker 7: and I did. We've had a wonderful life that I
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  Speaker 7: lost to the kids or three months ago. So it's hard.
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  Speaker 7: Reach is hard. I'm a strong believer. I know she's
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  Speaker 7: no longer in pain, but to her is still there
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  Speaker 7: every day.
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  Speaker 1: So how many years did you get to share that life?
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  Speaker 1: You were twelve when you said someday I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: marry you.
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  Speaker 7: That's right. We grew up in church together, of course,
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  Speaker 7: we went different ways as far as college and stuff,
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  Speaker 7: and we got back together and we've got together for
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  Speaker 7: thirty six years. And I turned sixty five tomorrow, so
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  Speaker 7: I thought, I'm gonna give no Ala call just as.
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  Speaker 1: She and well, I answered, happy birthday tomorrow. I know
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  Speaker 1: it won't be happy, because I know your heart has
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  Speaker 1: been flayed and it's going to be very sad and
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  Speaker 1: it's going to take every ounce of energy that you
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  Speaker 1: have to make it through. But I will say a
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  Speaker 1: prayer for you, my friend. I'm so sorry, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 7: To and Teresa and I. Her name is Teresa, and
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  Speaker 7: we always enjoyed listening to your show with miss Bleaching
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  Speaker 7: just to actually get you and we both loved you.
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  Speaker 1: So what happened to your beloved?
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  Speaker 7: We've been battling cancer for eight and a half years
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  Speaker 7: and I've been a lot of road trips to Vanderbilt
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  Speaker 7: to Mayo plenty. God used her in the mighty way
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  Speaker 7: during those eight years. With every hospital, every nurse, every doctor,
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  Speaker 7: she would ask what do she pray for? And she
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  Speaker 7: would write those so I was gladed. I learned a
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  Speaker 7: lot through.
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  Speaker 1: Her, And do you carry on her tradition of incredible
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  Speaker 1: faith that moves mountains.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I try to do. I'm you know, both of
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  Speaker 7: us were bothal leaders, and they tried to share the
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  Speaker 7: love of Christ wherever we can. I got my own
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  Speaker 7: heating and their business, and I'll see people every day,
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  Speaker 7: and by the time I get done, I want them
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  Speaker 7: to know where I'm as far as what I believe.
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  Speaker 7: Not pushy, but they know by the time I'm gone,
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  Speaker 7: they know what my faith is.
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  Speaker 1: So you show up and they think you're just there
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  Speaker 1: to repair the heating system and put in a new thermostat,
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  Speaker 1: and you leave letting them know that the real warmth
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  Speaker 1: comes from God alone.
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  Speaker 7: That is correct, Dlallah, That is absolutely trud.
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  Speaker 1: I am so sorry for your loss, but I am
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  Speaker 1: so proud of you, and I will pray for you.
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  Speaker 1: And just remember your wife is a much bigger part
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  Speaker 1: of your future than she is a part of your past.
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  Speaker 7: That's correct. That's very truth. Eliah.
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  Speaker 1: Cling to that, okay.
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  Speaker 7: And most certainly will and thank you, Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: So much, God, bless you, thank you y'all. Bless you
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  Speaker 1: to Delilah Alan. I was so very moved to hear
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  Speaker 1: the story. You know where your wife is, but I
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  Speaker 1: also know that missing her is so hard. I was
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  Speaker 1: blessed to hear that you share your faith in every
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  Speaker 1: aspect of your life. You sure know how to fix
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  Speaker 1: a stove, but I can't help to wonder how many
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  Speaker 1: hearts you have also led to the great Physician. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you Allan for your love's story, thank you for your testimony,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for being here on Have a Little Faith.
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  Speaker 1: I said this at the start of this podcast. For
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  Speaker 1: people of faith, celebrating love isn't something we earn. It
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  Speaker 1: is something we receive, we are invited to. It's a
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  Speaker 1: gift of grace that is freely given. You can never
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  Speaker 1: earn it, You only need to accept it and then
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  Speaker 1: pay it forward. My prayer tonight is that you recognize
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  Speaker 1: the true love, the source of real love, and that
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  Speaker 1: is I believe my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the
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  Speaker 1: source of real love, unconditional love, Love that can never
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  Speaker 1: be manipulated, can never wane, can never go away. It
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  Speaker 1: is eternal love that comes from the Father through faith
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  Speaker 1: in the Son. I hope you have enjoyed our Valentine's
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  Speaker 1: edition of Have a Little Faith. May God bless you
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  Speaker 1: and enrich your life with love that is beyond measure
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  Speaker 1: God bless you, Deve