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SEASON 2 DA CREW PODCAST|BONUS SHOW|HOST PROPHETESS ALMA THOMAS(REPLAY SEASON 1) · DA CREW Podcast

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a lot time. That's all. Good evening and welcome to the second episode
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of Live Again. On this evening, the show is going to be dedicated
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to my son who passed away in two thousand and nine. His passing is
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the reason and that Born and Live Again was born because I wanted people to
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know that after such a traumatic loss that you can live again. So on
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tonight, I'm gonna talk a little bit about the stages of grief, what
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I went through with losing my son, and also I have two people who
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are very very close to my son, and they're gonna come on tonight to
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share some memories that they have of Tai shan Allah, Lawrence, Nervous Thomas,
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my son. In two thousand and nine, I faced the worst thing
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that any parent could ever go through. I had to bury my son.
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It was something that I never thought that I could through, that I can
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make it through. But grief is universal. This point in everybody's life where
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you're going to face grief, sorrows, trials, and tribulations, and you
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go through many, many emotions when you suffer the loss of a loved one.
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And what I found after I had my stroke and through my divorce is
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that you go through those stages of grief. Whenever you lose a part of
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yourself, a loved one, a relationship, You'll go through the stages of
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grief each time you suffer a loss. So there are five stages of grief.
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The first one is denial. When my son passed away, and the
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doctor told me that he did everything that he could do. But I'm supposed
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to be planning for his college graduation. I'm supposed to be planning for his
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marriage, for him having children. I am not supposed to be he burying
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my son. That it was just a bad dream that I wanted to wake
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up from the nightmare. But each day that I woke up, I realized
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that it wasn't a dream, that it was real. So I went through
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denial, and then after denial state, I got angry. I was upset.
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I was even though I hold a title in church. I've been going
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to church most of my life, and I know to be absent from the
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body is present with the Lord. But when it's your child, when it's
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your baby, you just don't understand that at the moment when people come to
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you and say, at least he's in a better place, you're thinking in
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your mind, or I was thinking in my mind, if he's in such
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a better place, why no your son or your daughter go to the better
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place. And then you ten angry that I thought that I was the worst
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person in the world because I was having these thoughts that someone would tell me
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that their grandfather who was ninety five years old. He had a heart attack
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and he survived, and I would be upset. I would be like angry
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with God, like why did you save him? But you didn't say my
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son and he was only eighteen years old. His whole life was in front
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of him. But you know, that's the anger stage. And then I
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went through the bargain and stage where I made bargains with God. I said,
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God, you know if you hadn't took him that, you know,
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I'll come to church and all these deals that I tried to make with God.
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And then after the bargaining stage is the stage of depression. That's when
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I didn't want to get out of bed. On April thirteen was his first
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birthday when he was in heaven, and I remember taking a handful of pills
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and pouring them in my hand and saying, this is it. I'm gonna
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spend my son's birthday with him. Because everybody wants to spend their children's birthday
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with them. You want to make sure they're having the birth best birthday ever.
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And I couldn't leave it up to anyone to make sure that he was
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enjoying his day. So I wanted to take those pills so I could go
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with him. And you know how they say that you hear God in a
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still voice, Well, in a still voice, I heard, if you
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do it, you'll never see him again again, because he was saved and
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he's with me. And I put the pills back in the bottle, and
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I only took two of the pills, and I went to sleep, and
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I slept that day away. So I was suppressed. I didn't want to
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get up, I didn't want to get dressed. I forced myself to go
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back to work so that I went. I couldn't spend the whole days sad
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because my children was dependent on me. And just before this show came on
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tonight, I found that a woman who used to work in my classroom that
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helped me get through the death of my son, Grandma Young, that she
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passed away on today at when one fifteen this morning. She went to her
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eternal home. And so I'm feeling the little I'm in those stages of grief
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again because even though Grandma was ninety seven years old, I still wasn't ready
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to leave her. And then the last stage that you go through is acceptances.
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You accept that he's really dead and he's not coming back. And that's
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when you turn your pain into passion. And that's when I started to tie
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show on Thomas Scholarship Fund so that other black boys that were raised in single
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homes could go to college and pay for their books or something. It starts
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off now that it's small, but we shouldn't with small beginnings. We shouldn't
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despise more beginnings. That's what it says, that we shouldn't despise more beginnings
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because everything that got big started small. So since I finally was in the
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steps that then, you know what, grief has no time limit. You
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can't no one can tell you how long you can grieve, like nobody can
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say, oh, you can grieve for five minutes of five days, or
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ten days or ten years. Because you know what, I finally got in
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acceptance stage. My son's been dead fourteen years and I just got got in
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this acceptance stage ten years ago. So as of late, I've given out
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fifteen scholarships and I started the last year giving out the scholarship to girls just
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because my son loved her and she ended up doing the COVID losing her mother,
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so I gave her the scholarship that year the sense of COVID and you
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know, I had a stroke two years ago. So the scholarship fund has
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been on poorse but years this to too worthy people who want to go to
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college because my son, My son was a scholar. He was loved by
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everyone that there was. There was standing room room only. They opened the
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balcony, they opened the downstairs. There was people standing out outside. And
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it wasn't because I'm a minister, I'm an elder that people were there.
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They were there because of him. At eighteen years old, he was saved,
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sanctified and filled with the precious Holy ghost. He wasn't playing church.
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He was about the church. Matter of fact, one of my funniest stories
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that I remember about my son is that he had gotten in trouble in school.
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So I told him to apolog to the teacher and he was like,
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nope, I'm not gonna apologize to the teacher because he can't teach. I'm
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talking in class because I'm explaining to everybodyody how to do the problem. And
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he's mad because they understand me, but they don't understand him, and I'm
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not apologizing, so I joy him. You have to let the teacher do
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his job. So you, the teacher is I'm threatened to fail you.
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If you don't apologize, you're graduating this year. And he was like,
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Nope, I'm not gonna apologize. So then I said to him, well
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if you and tell you apologize, you can't go back back to church.
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And then we both started dying laughing because he said, Mom, how many
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people who are ministers tell their child that you punished by not being able to
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go to church? And we just laughed. But the only reason I used
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that because that was the only thing that he cared about was going to church.
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I could take his TV away, his phone away, or whatever.
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He didn't care as long as I didn't take try to take Jesus from him.
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So that's one of the things that gives me conforting now is that I
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know he was saved and the same energy when the enemy told me that I'll
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never preach again. How can I be the president of the youth's apartment when
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my son was dead? But then God gave me the revelation that pour into
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your pour into everybody else's child, everything that you poured into your son.
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Because your son was only eighteen, but he was already a deacon on Saturday
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mornings, he would get up early and spend the whole day at church cleaning
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the church. He would get up early Sunday morning and go to church and
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make sure that heat was on in the winter and the ally dedicated to God.
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So God told me to use that same energy. It's not just about
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your child being ready, but for everybody's child that you come into contact with
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to be ready when Jesus comes. So the losing my son was one of
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the worst things that anybody could ever go through. The pain is so unbearable,
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and as people tell you that it gets better with time, you learn
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how to live through it. You I gave myself the reason why I named
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this podcast live Again, because I finally gave myself permission to live again.
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I said, your son would have wanted you to go on living. He
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didn't want you to die on February thirteenth, two thousand and not with him.
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He wanted you to go on. He had already fulfilled his purpose in
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life. The lives that he touched over the eighteen years that he was on
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this earth, it was awesome, like I can't even explain it. There
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were so many bishops and elders and ministers at his funeral that the place couldn't
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contain all the clergy. And like I said, they wasn't there because of
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me, they were there because of him. And after he passed away,
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a lot of my friends were calling me and telling me that that last week
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before he died, he called them and he had so many profound conversations with
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them about Jesus and Heaven. And I remember the last before he passed away,
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every time he got into my mom's car, he was playing to Murkkirkland's
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family as long as Jesus is there. And I remember one night he was
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standing in my room and I was looking at him and he was looking at
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me, like, you know, it was weird how he was looking at
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me. And I was telling him, you know, if anything ever happened
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to you, I don't think that I could live, and he was like
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just looking at me and he didn't say anything. And then the last words
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that he put out was when I I started I started believing, and I
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stopped stressing and started believing. That's it. I stopped stressing and started believing.
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And that's when he just It's like he knew that he was going to
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die and he was ready to make that transition. And on the night that
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he passed away, him and my sister had a very special bond that he
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thought my sister was superwoman, that there was nothing that his Auntie couldn't do.
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So his last words to me was call Auntie. Call Auntie. And
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I was like, Okay, I'm gonna call her. I'm gonna wait till
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we get to the hospital, and then I'm gonna call her. I hated
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that I didn't call her when he said call her because he would have been
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still alive and she would have saw him alive. But she He just knew
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that nothing he couldn't go through without his Auntie. So he was a very
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very special young man. He didn't die the violence. He wasn't a violent
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kid. He was just he just fulfilled his purpose on earth because he was
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a wonderful son. He never talked back back to me, never gave me
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any trouble. He didn't like running the streets. He liked, like I
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said, going to church. That made it over the years. That made
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it a lot easier. In the beginning, didn't make it easier. No,
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you didn't want to like I said. You didn't want to hear all
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those things like he's in a better place and you can have more kids.
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You didn't want to hear all of that because I wanted him. I missed
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them terribly. Every day I missed them. And someone is telling me a
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story about something that they remember about Tied, showing how intelligent he was far
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beyond his years. That my bitch hip with love, just sitting down and
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discussing the Bible with him, discussing Democrats and Republicans and telling us, you
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know, you can't go with the status quo. You gotta go with what
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you believe in. You know. He was a very deep young man,
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two deep at times. But like I said, I really miss him and
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love him. And we're gonna go to a brief commercial or something, and
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then when we come back back, my I just see that one of my
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guests is on, so she's gonna come on and talk about what she remembers.
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Because I want to. I want to leave on a positive note.
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I want to leave on positive memories because that's all I have now, all
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the good memories of him that I hold close to my heart. So I
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just need a moment to get myself together and to transition and speak with my
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guests, Okay, believe in the journey that you have been placed on because
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God has a purpose for everything that you have been through. So come along
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with me as I share my journey with you, and my friends will come
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along and share their journey with you too, and know that every single thing
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is working together for the purpose in which God has created you. Basically Basic
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I could have been dead, and God, the Lord let me live on.
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So Hi, welcome back to the Live Again podcasts, and I have
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my guests. Matter of fact, it's my guests from last the other Wednesday
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to Wednesdays ago. That I've known her for over twenty years and we both
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as single parents, raised our children together. Can you hear me past so
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Abrica? Yes, I can. Hey, Hey, hey, hey,
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hi, Well we're talking about tonight. We're talking you know that we just
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celebrated the death anniversary of our boy on February thirteenth, So I dedicated this
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show tonight to him, and I talked I've been talking talking about grief and
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the stages of grief that we will go through, and how I felt when
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I went through the loss of Tao. So you can birds tell me that
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you were here. You were with me through the funeral and losing him and
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everything, and you and him had a special bond together. So would you
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like to share with the one he is? Guys, you know, there's
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so many stories that I haven't been little close. There's so many stories I
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have a tied Sean. And first of all, let me just say this,
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that was my boy, That was my partner in crime. He made
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me his honorary godmother, and I carried that title very proud. My first
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introduction to meeting Tie Shan. And there's no legal you know, statues or
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whatever. But I was using one of my friend's address, our sister's address
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to put my kids in school, so I was that was their first share
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of high school. He was he was a freshman. My daughter number two
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was a freshman. So I was going to pick him up and he was
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like, wait, you lying you. I'm like, who is this child
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talking to this adult like that, nobody's gonna pop him into his mouth.
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How was he in this car? I said, I said, ain't no
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one talking. He said, I gotta say, I gotta do so.
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I said, it's none of your business. He said, but you're lying.
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I'm lying. Let me a liar, and and we would lay a
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laugh about it. Because Todd from it was that it was that trans action
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that brought us together. And I have so many wonderful stories. And you
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know, one of the stories that I love is that when Propers and Almana
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we started a camp. Was that two thousand and six to two thousand and
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seven we started the camp and Shawn and I we we we were Bonnie and
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Clyde without being intimate. If I can say that we listen, we left
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his mama, my partner, my business partner. There were all those kids
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while we was eating out. We was at the mall, but we was
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lolly gagging. We left tough to deal with the mess. While we was
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look, as long as we was together, as long as I was with
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Ta Shawan, I knew I wasn't going to get in trouble. And he
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said, as long as he was with me, we were going to get
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in trouble. And that was one of the greatest things because at one point
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Ta Shawn did I don't know what Shawn did, heard someone's feeling whatever,
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and I called myself me too, called myself punishing him, telling him that
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he can't come back to camp for a day or two. Well, he
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stood his ground and he said, no, I'm coming. You can't know
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no, listen, he came back to camp. I said, you can't
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define me in front of people. I'm the boss, I'm one of the
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bosses. But he defied me, and it was in a funny way.
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But Tashawn was my partner in Tashawn, he would take my truck. My
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fiance at the time was like, your husband, there go your husband.
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That's what jealous people do, That's what insecure people do, that's what immature
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people do. People were issues, They say stuff like that. But we
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were so close. And I remember February thirteen, two thousand and nine,
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as if it was yesterday because I was preparing to go to North Carolina.
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I've been to North Carolina so many times, but it would be my first
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time on the plane and Ta Shawn had called me a couple of days before
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but I was preparing for the trip. I said, oh, that's ta
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Shawn. I'll call him back. You know, I never got the chance
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to call him back because that morning, around six o'clock, probably Alma was
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calling me and I I was in the living room that point, I was
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leaving and needless to say, Alma gonna call me back. And when she
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called, about was like, hey girl. And when she started crying,
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I began crying because I don't even know why, but I knew that this
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cry was different. It was a cry that I never heard. And when
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she said that he's gone, I just I just lost it. He was
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the first person that I loved that I lost. I don't lost grandparents' friends,
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whatever, But this hit so so bad. And like prophetas Alma said,
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he was saved, He was saved. He he knows God, He
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listened. He was a believer. Everyone loved him. I did I say
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he was my partner in crime. He was my partner in crime. But
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he was respectable. Everyone loved him. And my daughter, I think they
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liked each other. They fought like cats and dogs. But whenever Joey y'all
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needed to go somewhere because she had the car, with the permit, but
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he had the license. She's calling Tad Sean. They're hanging out, and
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to think that it's been fourteen years. And it was hard for all of
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us because this was a child that everyone loved. He was disrespectful, he
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stood up for what he believed him. I remember and then I'm gonna go.
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I remember another argument that we had in the car when I voted vout
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Barack Obama and he talked about he didn't vote for no black president. And
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we get into it and he was like, well, I don't feel sorry
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for people, when park I was like, what you saying? And you
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black like us? What's wrong with Joe? Right? That's how we talked
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to each other. But he was adamant. No one was going on to
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change his mind. He did what he wanted to do, and he did
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it with the spirit of excellence, and he did it to the utmost.
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And I will forever remember February thirteen because that call came in a little rate
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before six am. He was They called him the little biggie little Biggie Smalls.
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That's what he said from he was decked out. Did he not do
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his thing? He did? If that's the picture that you've shown with the
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white tucks with the peach the top. My brother was smooth, My brother
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was clean. My brother loved God. He was that son that I never
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had and to have to watch him be nule jized. But the one thing
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I know, Tai Shawna loved Jesus. Tai Shawna loves Jesus. His mother
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listen Shawn's driving buses and his mama wanted to keep him in a bar.
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We were like, let that boy live, not knowing that he got to
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do everything that he wanted to do. And I'm so glad he got to
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experience that. So that's my baby. There's nothing bad because even when he
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was checking me, you're gonna pop him in the mouth, talking to adult
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like this was wrong with Joe, But no, he was right and I
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miss him and I you know, I'm here to support you, my friend,
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and I'm proud of you. Fourteen years. It would never, it
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would never. The pain would never go away, the hurt would never go
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away. But it gets a little bit better knowing that Shoe Sean live in
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the best like Jesus. We got to make it to where he's at.
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Are we that saved enough? Are we gonna see him again? Because he's
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straight. He's been straight for fourteen years. So that's my memory of Tye
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Tie. I loved him. I know he loved me. I remember his
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mother. His mother is a crab. Can I say that with the utmost
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respect. He borrowed my car was the promise, something that he had not
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let him use it for. And with the truck, it was two thousand
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and six, so it was a two thousand and three Ford Explorer, all
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white, Eddie Bauer captain seats everything, and ty let someone borrow it and
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I I think they got they hit something or whatever. And his mother,
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she did the right thing, but she's still crab. She was like,
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you're gonna tell her. She trusted you. And when he came to me,
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he's like, sister, Eric, I'm sorry that I let you down.
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I'm proud of you. You took ownership, you took accountability. That's
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the type of guy he was. I love him, So I love you.
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Thank you for this opportunity to share my time, all right, thank
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you for sharing. Thank you for loving my son like you did. Like
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I said, this whole movement was birthed out of after that Shawn's death.
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I turned my pain into my passion and you can too that no matter what
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kind of loss you've been through that once you go through the stages of grief
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and you finally get to that accepting stage, you can accept anything. And
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now I have another one of my dear friends that's gonna share her one of
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her memories, some of her memories. He's of her with Tie Shawan.
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Good evening, everybody. My name is Desiree Sessions. I'm glad, I'm
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Sean. First of all, Alma told a little bit of lie because that
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had a mouth on him. I don't know who she was describing when she
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got to that part, but he had a mouth on him. Okay,
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let's just get that's great but loving and witty. He was so ahead of
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his time, so his knowledge was well beyond his years, and you had
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to get to know him and understand him for who he was. So I
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had many fond memories because ty Shawan was spoiled rotten, Okay, spoiled rotten.
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And I met Alma when I began working at Headstart in nineteen ninety six.
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I think it was somewhere around there. She was my daughter's teacher and
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I had an opportunity. I had just finished college and they were looking for
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an educator. Alma and I being Alma always encouraging people. She was so
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so resourceful, and we got to talk and and she said, oh,
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they have a position here. And that's a whole nother story. But anyway,
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I ended up getting the job. But you know, sometimes it's not
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good for your children to attend where you work because they're spoiled. Ty Sean
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was a terror at headstart, right, so right, So anyway, Alma
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was like, we had become like the best of friends, like sisters.
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So it was like, if he can't go in Desiree's class, I'm taking
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him out of here. So they switched him into my class. And it
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was a wonderful marriage. He tried me a few times, but I was
35:45
tim enough for him at that point. But I grew to love ty Sean
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like they were like family. We spent countless hours together, laughing. I
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was always at their house, Alma was at my house. I was doing
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her hair, so beyond the school day, we spent so much time together.
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And I'll never forget. I was on Facebook and I did hear Alma
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shared some of that. Alma was hard to reach. She's like a CEO,
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like I couldn't get to him that week. Maybe it was like Wednesday,
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because I believe it was a Saturday. And was it a Saturday,
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Alma when he passed? Oh no, he passed away on the thirteenth,
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and I think it was right before maybe with a Friday or a Friday with
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a Friday because the next day was the fashion show. Okay, well,
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whatever day it was, I flew up to New York. I flew up
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on that Saturday. But anyway, we had been talking that week. I
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want to say, maybe about Wednesday. And I said to him, I
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said, Tyshaw, and tell your mother that you are my new found best
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friend because I cannot reach her. Reach her. I now live in Maryland.
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I've been in Maryland for one year, so at that point that was
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fourteen years ago. I was here for a while. So anyway, I
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told her. So we were talking and it was just amazing and it was
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wonderful. So imagine getting a car, Daisy, I need you to pray,
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and I'm like, okay, what we're praying for? Ty Sean died?
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But wait, I wasn't ready because how does the mother how does the
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mother call you and tell you her son died. I mean that shattered me
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into a million pieces because at that point I just wanted to take her pain
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away. And at that point I really had nothing. I had nothing.
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I had nothing because I am I've been saved for most of my life,
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but I'm not one to get you know, scriptures. At that moment,
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he's in a better place, like you know, silence. You know,
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like the Jews, they practiced shival. So I just wanted to be there
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for her. But I was devastated, believing what I tell you, because
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at that point I felt like there was nothing that I can do. And
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because of his journey, I felt like he was on the bend. But
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he did get healed, just not over here. And I know now if
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he was alive, I mean, oh, we can only imagine he would
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be the CEO of people, might even be the President of the United States,
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because that boy was well beyond his years. And another funny thing,
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he had Alma's sense of humor. He was so witty and sarcastic. So
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she talked about his favorite auntie Alice, and who fed us very well.
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I mean, we used to be up. I'm surprised May Mae didnt put
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us out. We'd be up cackling to the wee hours of the morning.
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We've shared so many good memories, but one of my fondest memories of Tyshawan
38:47
was going in baskin Robbins. I don't know if it was after work,
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and he went in there and asked them to give him the nastiest flavors of
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ice cream, so for his auntie. So he's a prankster, right,
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So I'm saying to myself, what do these people know what to give him
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the nastiest flavors. So he got his auntie a cone with the nastiest flavors
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of ice and he was young, and I just thought that was so hilarious
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because he likes to play a lot of jokes and they actually gave him the
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flavors that they thought were the nastiest. But again, he was loving,
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he was smart, he loved his mom. You know, you could communicate
39:29
with him as if he was on yet level. He was rotten. He's
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missed. I thank God for Alma's healing and her growth. I mean,
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it is something to be it's all inspiring, something to be modeled, something
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to model after. Like I'm pulling from her strength like even now, like
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every day, because I'm like, I don't even know you know, well
39:52
I know God, but still all that she's gone through, you know what
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I'm saying, only God, and even now to be able to talk and
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you know, talk about it and share and help other people through. You
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know, I have conversations with God and I said, you know, Lord,
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I've been through enough. I help people just naturally, that's what I
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love to do. But I don't want to help nobody else in no big
40:15
way. Please don't give me. I mean, we can't tell God how
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to do, but this is I talk to God just like this. I'm
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like, I don't need another testimony in that way, but look at the
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growth. Look at Alma, even all that she's been through, and she's
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still able to, i mean, encourage people. And I just thank God
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for her heart art and I just pray that even in this that her ladder
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to see how she's going through the journey. And I have my own testimony
40:47
that at another time I'll talk about it, but Alma is helping me through
40:54
grief and healing just the way that she persevered. And you know, and
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I will tell I will say this and that I'm going to be quiet.
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Sometimes we like to say, you know, well a person went through this,
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but they didn't go through that. And I went through the worst two
41:12
years of my life ever, this past two years. And I was saying
41:15
to Alma if I don't know if she remembers this, I said, but
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Alma, you lost a child. So I feel so guilty, you know,
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I feel so guilty venting to you, talking to you. And she
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genuinely said, but it doesn't matter whatever it is. I wasn't grieving the
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loss of a child, but I'm grieving the loss of some parts of me
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because of trauma and tragedy. And she still was able to encourage me and
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say, but you know, it doesn't matter. You know, sometimes we
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minimize things because well, you shouldn't be. I lost a child, so
41:46
what are you crying about? But it doesn't matter. Your trauma, your
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tragedy is yours and nobody can tell you. And I appreciate her and that
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resonates with me and I love her for that. So Alma, we love
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you, and I just thank God for your continued healing and growth. Yes,
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I love you too, And as a matter of fact, I'm gonna
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get with you and book you to be one of my guests where you can
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share. I think you need a whole show to share your testimony. But
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I thank you for being on the show tonight, the show that birth this
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whole movement to Live Again movement. So thank you for being on the show.
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I love you, and I'll talk to you soon to book you for
42:30
the show. Okay, thank you. I'm laughing at Erica's comment. I
42:35
remember when he served my ex husband divorce papers. Lord love it. I
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love you, and yes you are. You don't know what your birthing in
42:47
me right now by giving me this opportunity, So we're gonna talk. We
42:52
have many unfinished business, and we have much unfinished business and projects. But
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I believe that God is using this platform for us to you know, be
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able to continue what He needs us to do. So I love you and
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I thank you all right. Thank you once again for being on to Live
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Again Podcasts, and I will see you on this platform again real soon sharing
43:19
your testimony with the world. So I have a great night and I'll talk
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to you soon. Love you once again. Thank you for tuning in to
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the Live Again podcasts. I appreciate everyone in their comments and their love.
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That's what keeps me going is the love that people show me and the fact
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that I could be an inspiration to someone that despite what the circumstances look like,
43:50
you can't put your purposes. You got to continue to allow God to
43:54
use your circumstances to make you. I chose to use my circum answers to
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make me better, not bitter. So thank you for being on the show.
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We'll see desertt Sessions on the show real soon sharing her testimony. So
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I will see you every first and third Wednesday. I'm looking forward to my
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shows and March. Please tune in, be apart, share share, share
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night. God bless you and remember I double dog dar you to live again.
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