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Testimony | Baby Cancer, Atheist to Believer, Mental illness, Black Sheep, Tragedy By Brett Keane · Brett Keane and Eve Show

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Goodness. There we go.
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Hello, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Brett keen and you
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were watching the Brett King show.
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I wanted to thank all of you out there that gave support and
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donations on the GoFundMe of Adeline Adeline is a little baby
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that suffers from cancer and her parents.
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Unfortunately, we're not able to pay for the hospital cost in
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order to help her, to be able to get a lot of the things done
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that she needed. She's been suffering, she's been
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going through a lot of pain and originally whenever I started
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out trying to support her and also got my friends to put up
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videos advertising her GoFundMe. It quickly went up to 3 Grand
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and the last week though they're almost about to meet their quota
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there a little over eight thousand dollars and the goal is
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10,000 dollars. So only 1,500 more to go and
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they have everything they need in order to build a helper.
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Now, she does have cancer, the money's going to take care of
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the hospital bills and we got to cross our fingers and some of
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you out there should probably pray to God.
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And I asked that even though they've got the money coming to
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them, will the child survived? The GoFundMe link is in the
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description as well as the comments.
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It'll be penned if anyone wants to help the little girl in her
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family, click on the link. I myself I know all too.
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Well, what it's like to bring a child into the world and then
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find out from doctors that your child may not survive.
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It was one of the reasons why I became a big-time atheist back
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in the day. My daughter is 20 years old now,
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but whenever she was born, we were told by the experts, we
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were told by the medical people of Cardinal Glennon Children's
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Hospital that Was most likely not going to make it.
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And what's sad about it was is that it wasn't as though she had
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some kind of condition or some kind of problem that was
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inherited from her mother or myself.
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What had happened was whenever she was being born a nurse who
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had just started working there, had not cleaned off her hands
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properly and help the doctor assist in bringing our child
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into the world. Fortunately, because of the
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unclean hands, my daughter ended up getting a condition called
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meningitis which then resulted in hydrocephalus, my daughter
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would have to go through nine. Major surgeries on her skull and
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ordered to be able to deal with this issue.
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Nowadays, she wears a shunt that goes from behind her ear.
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It goes around your neck and go. Down into her stomach, where
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liquids from up there have a place to go because the
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condition caused so many issues and so many problems that, that
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was the case. And even after we finally got
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out of the dark on this and we're told our child would make
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it. We were told that our little
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girl was probably going to end up being slow disabled, having a
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terrible issues and pain and, and the stats.
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Kind of issues over and over and over.
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And for two years we went through this process.
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Nowadays, my daughter's, 20 years old miraculously, she is
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able to, she has graduated high school, she has her job, she's
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doing great things, she's not slow, she's actually more
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intelligent than the majority of people that I've talked to and
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dealt with and she's extremely strong and fast.
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That she gets, she thinks it's cute to just run up to me, or
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her mother. Put her big bear arms around us,
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and lift us into the air and stuff, showing how strong and
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tough she has. So that was one of the reasons
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why I ended up becoming a Believer, becoming a theist
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believing that there's more to this universe than what meets
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the eye. It made me believe that Miracles
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were possible blessings and all that.
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While my wife and I were going through all this process during
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the time that she was a baby and having these issues, we didn't
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have go fund me back. Then 20 years ago, we didn't
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have like some kind of thing that we could do on the internet
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where we could ask for people to do money and support us and all
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that. I had put out PayPal's whenever
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PayPal was invented and ask for some help.
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But unfortunately there were a couple people out there who made
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Videos simply claiming that I was scamming or something or
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playing a game that I really didn't need money and so people
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were against the idea of actually helping and supporting
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because of the gossip and rumors that were spread out so I didn't
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get any financial assistance. I didn't get any help and we
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ended up my wife and I ended up having to pay everything out of
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pocket and eventually we ended up not only given up All of our
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savings account and all over money to pay hospital bills, but
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we would then find ourselves in a really, really horrible
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position where we couldn't afford our mortgage anymore on a
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home. We lost our home.
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And luckily for us, even though, at the time, I was a
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non-believer, I was able to contact some Churches and they
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were able to help with a deposit to get into a smaller place.
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Well, This helped out this was Grand.
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This is really cool that even though I had been an Atheist at
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the time, a church actually helped where non-believers were
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busy on the internet claiming that I was a scammer or just
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trying to get money for fake issues or whatever, but it all
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worked out in the end. I ended up obviously getting
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closer and closer to understanding that there's
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something beneficial about Some forms of Christians out there.
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Not so much the religion, because I think that there's
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plenty of people out there who have good hearts that are on
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both sides. I don't think that religion
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actually makes people good. I don't think that the Bible
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actually makes people good. I think that some people are
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born with light and some people are born Children Of Darkness.
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It is what it is. It was a tough time.
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You got a child that needs a whole lot of care, you lose a
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home. And now your wife and yourself
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have nowhere that you're going to be able to take your child to
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be able to take care of the child.
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So my stepmother and her father ended up coming into the
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picture, my stepmother would not my stepmother but my wife
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stepmother did not like me at all because she knew that I was
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a super popular atheist on the internet.
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She thought that anything that I touched would basically turned
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to shit that I was cursed. She believed in curses, she
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believed that if he denied the existence of God then you were
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on your you were Hellbound and it made her even I'm more upset
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that I had children with. Dawn, and she was in her own way
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related through being married to my wife's father, So she ended
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up convincing my wife. That look you don't have a place
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to stay right now. You have no way of being able to
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take care of this baby. And if you don't go somewhere
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soon, then caseworkers are going to come in and they're going to
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take away your child. And she was right about that she
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obviously was right. It cost us everything everything
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that we had in order to be able to pay for the expenses on the
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issues. Well, what would eventually
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happen is obviously, my wife would go and she would Move in
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with her dad whom that she never got along with in the past, but
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she knew that she needed someplace to go to take our
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daughter well about a couple weeks into this, the stepmother
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and the her father sat down with my wife and said, look, we don't
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want your husband coming up here, wanting to see you or the
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kid. We don't want this happening.
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So we want you to do something about it and she said, well, he
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has a right to visit his child. He has a right to see me.
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I still love him. I still care about him and all
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that. And she said, look, He doesn't
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have a place, he can't provide for you, he can't protect, he
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can't do nothing. And we don't want him showing up
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on our doorstep. We don't want him involved their
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basic, they were basically telling her.
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They didn't want me in there, her life anymore.
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Her church didn't want me there. They didn't want an atheist
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around, basically, a non-believer.
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There's a lot of non-believers out there who have the sad
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stories of not being able to get along with your family and there
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are people out there who are homosexuals who get kicked out
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of the house or people don't want to be around them because
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of their sexual preference are because they're not a part of
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the faith or a form of Christianity.
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It's sad but that's a reality that a lot of people have had to
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experience and go through and I unfortunately had to go through
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that whenever I was a non-believer.
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Ever a lot of my family did not appreciate that at all.
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They did not like me making videos criticizing the Bible or
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God at all. It really made me into a black
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sheep. Atheists are in the internet.
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Had become like a They had become my substitute family when
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everybody else basically took a walk.
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Well, finally, after a while. Obviously, because I loved my
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wife and because I wanted to father my children, I wanted to
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be there for my kids. I was doing everything possible
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to be able to get a roof over our head, a place set up and
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everything like that and that church ended up giving us a
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deposit. So I was able to get something
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small for the moment. And the idea, the plan was save
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up some more money and then get into a bigger place, where the
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kids had their own room and all that kind of stuff going on.
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Well, while I was trying to do this, Apparently the stepmother
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got so anxious and so concerned about me sooner or later coming
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back into the picture and getting my kids and getting my
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wife that she told my wife, look, I'm not going to help you
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and I'll put you right out on the street today.
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If you don't go up to the courthouse and get a restraining
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order to make it illegal for him to come over here.
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So, my wife had a really, really difficult challenging Choice
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ahead of her, she had to choose to be out in the street with our
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child or throw me under the bus in order to keep me away.
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And she did what she had to do. She had she needed a roof over
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her head. She needed a place and the place
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I had hand at the time was too small.
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It wasn't wasn't good enough for that to be the case.
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I completely understand it. I completely understand why my
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wife did what she had to do. She was put in an impossible
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position and that's how it went down.
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I know what it's like to lose everything.
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I know what it's like to be judged and condemned by people
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simply because you don't agree with them or there's people out
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there who don't care if you're dead in a ditch.
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They don't even care if you want to be a good man and you want to
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be a good father that you want to be good.
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Family man. They don't even care about that
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if you don't think like they do in agree.
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Like they do, you're screwed strangely enough.
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It seem like out of nowhere. I started doing a lot of praying
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and a lot of asking God for wisdom and asking God for help.
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And something really weird happened.
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My one of my only survived grandparents came to me.
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And that grandparent was crushed them and said, Brad, I want you
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to be able to get your family back, I want you to.
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I know that you're good, I know that you Have a lot of
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potential. You're very talented.
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You're smart. And I really think that You
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could if you make some changes about yourself having to do with
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your beliefs and Views, you may be more.
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Highly accepted people may treat you better.
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People may do this and this and that it was basically telling
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me, I wouldn't called extortion, but he was basically telling me
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luck get away from The Atheist bullshit and your life will
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drastically improve. And all you have to do is just
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simply accept Jesus Christ, what he did and your life will Be so
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much better. So when you're a person who's
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desperate, when you're person who's suffering and you're a
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person who's wanting your family back and you tried everything
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under the sun, sooner or later, you know, you're already to the
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point where you're praying and you're crying out to whatever is
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listening up there. You say okay.
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Okay. We'll try this will try
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something different. See, one of the other reasons I
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had become a non-believer. Some of you may not know this is
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because just a year before my daughter was born, my mother
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ended up committing suicide. She was a bipolar
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manic-depressive. She was the type of person that
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would call the police on her neighbors all the time.
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She would call, the police aren't family members, she would
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call the police. Police on my dad all the time
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even though my father left her, whenever he whenever I was about
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13 years old, she was constantly trying to get my dad in trouble,
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trying to get Brett Keane, senior, my father shares the
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same name as me. And I have kind of a very not an
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extensive relationship with my father at all him, and my mother
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went round after round and had a lot of issues.
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Well, eventually a couple of years.
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For she committed suicide. She ended up it came to the
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realization that she was. So messed up that she had to be
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committed to like a psychiatric ward.
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And after the psychiatric ward, they ended up putting her in
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like a residential type of Institute thing.
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It's like a home for people who can't take care of themselves
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and that was where she was able to.
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Some nurses ended up leaving some diabetic medications, some
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needles on a counter. And when they weren't looking,
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she grabbed them, she went into her room and she overdosed on
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insulin. I remember a preacher telling me
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the preacher that she used to go to before she got really sick
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said that If you kill yourself, then it's a one way.
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Ticket to hell. And I remember thinking to
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myself, well, shit, my mother suffered all of her life and now
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she gets Eternal. Damnation.
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Really? Wow.
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So, a year later, my daughter is Born Into the world and has all
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these medical issues It was just like one slam after another over
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and over, and over again. A lot of issues, a lot of
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problems. But my wife and I within a month
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of her filling out that stupid document, that the stepmother
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wanted my wife said, you know what, screw you, she said screw
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you to her stepmother and she left, she got out of there.
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She came home to me and my wife and I worked hard and we got
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herself a bigger place. We got enough rooms for our kids
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and we have been happily ever after.
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For For almost 30 years now. And the daughters 20.
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I've got a 24 year old son, who's got a job, a truck is own
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home and everything and we love our children.
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Me and my wife, loved each other and we've been doing this and
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doing this. And still to this day, the debt
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was so high, having to go in and out of the hospital's we've had,
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we still have a lot of crap that we got to take care of still, a
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lot of debt. It's ridiculous.
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Thousands and thousands of dollars.
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So, one of the things that I decided to do as a man was, if I
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see that there are children out there that are hurting or
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suffering, if I see that there's families out there that are
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going through hell and having some of the experiences that I
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went through or can identify with if I see that there's a
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child or somebody out there that is suffering miserably, then I
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try to help them the best I can and I really hope that if some
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of you choose to go to the GoFundMe for Adeline, it's
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little baby with cancer. I just hope that people help her
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and I hope that once the money comes through for her and her
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family, that the doctors will be blessed enough by God, to be
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able to have the power in the ability, in the wisdom, to be
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able to get this out of her, get this cancer out of her so she
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can live a fool and beautiful life.
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Oh, and it brings a lot of joy to me, brings a lot of Happiness
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to me. Whenever I succeed at being able
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to do something to help other people that are going through
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these problems. If you're a mother or a father,
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and you have a child You're having some issues in your life
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reach out to me my email, as well as my contact information
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is in my description. If there's anybody that requires
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any kind of help you, let me know and if I can help you, if I
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can help you personally, as well as get people to also be aware
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of your issues and problems. I'll do whatever I can to take
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care of whatever I can on it. God bless you, Adeline?
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Hmm. Hey.