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Turning Disappointment into Opportunity · The World Knowledge

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  Speaker 1: Well, good evening, listeners. Thank you again, as always. I'm
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  Speaker 1: so grateful for all you guys who have built this
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  Speaker 1: podcast up, who listen, who watch. And I've just been,
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  Speaker 1: you know, falling across so many different stories this year,
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  Speaker 1: and they're so different. But I came across Dawn Wilcox,
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  Speaker 1: who's on the screen, and then for those listening, you'll
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  Speaker 1: hear her voice.
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  Speaker 2: For crime victims, and Polly was... abducted and murdered years ago,
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  Speaker 2: or John Walsh, whose son Adam was killed, and all
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  Speaker 2: the parents who have taken this immeasurable grief and used
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  Speaker 2: that to propel change. The Amber Alert system that was
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  Speaker 2: named after a little girl who was actually, I think,
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  Speaker 2: murdered here in Texas. So those are the um, those
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  Speaker 2: are the good things that have come out of these
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  Speaker 2: horrible situations. And I'm always, um, amazed at the strength
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  Speaker 2: of families who, um, want their loved one to remember,
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  Speaker 2: be remembered, not just for what happened to them, but
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  Speaker 2: to be remembered for who they were as, as women
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  Speaker 2: and as girls. And, uh, which I think is, uh,
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  Speaker 2: really meaningful. Um, cause I, I can't imagine what they
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  Speaker 2: go through every mother's day, every birthday, every anniversary of
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  Speaker 2: their death. Every, um, I read about a little girl
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  Speaker 2: who was the other day. I took a little girl
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  Speaker 2: who was, um, she had gone to the store to
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  Speaker 2: buy like Laffy Taffy. And, you know, you think about
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  Speaker 2: being a parent and anytime you go into a store
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  Speaker 2: and you see Laffy Taffy, you know, Just things like that, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I'm so grateful for the work you do
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  Speaker 1: and the way you personalize something that is so... It
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  Speaker 1: seems so inhuman and yet... we are so wicked. Like
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  Speaker 1: people are just, we're, we're my opinion because I think,
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  Speaker 1: especially coming from a place of believing in God, like
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  Speaker 1: seeing what man is capable of doing is so frightening.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we, we love to detach kind of similar
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  Speaker 1: to what you're saying earlier about serial killers. Like, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: they're just their own little genre of people. It's like, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: There is almost everyone, first of all, has had a
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  Speaker 1: friend or has been touched by sexual assault, murder in
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  Speaker 1: some way. You can't go too far down the chain
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  Speaker 1: before you've connected. And then outside of that, someone has
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  Speaker 1: that capacity in them. Like you said, it's a choice.
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  Speaker 1: It's not something that comes upon them like a cloud
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  Speaker 1: or they just suddenly don't understand what they're doing. Most
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  Speaker 1: of the time, it's a decision they make. They've decided
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  Speaker 1: to do it. you know, and it's so important.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes it feels like premeditated too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of times very premeditated. And that's why it's
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  Speaker 2: so important.
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  Speaker 1: It's so important to show the responsibility and also to
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  Speaker 1: give names to the women, because regardless of what you
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  Speaker 1: said earlier about how some people do blame the women,
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  Speaker 1: like how they dressed, where they were, what they did,
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  Speaker 1: why they didn't do this, who they didn't talk to.
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  Speaker 1: Their choices don't determine what another person's choices are. And whatever,
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  Speaker 1: each person's choice is his own. And so I think
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  Speaker 1: that's just such an important thing to remember. Because you're right,
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  Speaker 1: it's so easy to try to find an explanation or
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  Speaker 1: blame when really it was just that somebody wanted to
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  Speaker 1: kill someone, they did. That was it.