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  Speaker 1: into today's story. In twenty seventeen, twenty seven year old
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  Speaker 1: Lydia Macarchuk left her home country of Ukraine and moved
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  Speaker 1: to Bracknell, which is a town just outside of London.
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  Speaker 1: Shortly after moving into her new apartment, Lydia went out
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  Speaker 1: and got a job as an accountant at a local hotel,
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  Speaker 1: and then after that Lydia pretty much swore off her
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  Speaker 1: social life and instead just focused exclusively on working hard
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  Speaker 1: and saving money. The one reprieve she got from work
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  Speaker 1: was going to church on Sundays. Two years later, Lydia
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  Speaker 1: was at her church enjoying the coffee hour that always
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  Speaker 1: followed the Sunday sermon when another member of her church
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  Speaker 1: who she didn't really speak to, this forty one year
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  Speaker 1: old man named Norbert Varga, approached her and kind of
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  Speaker 1: awkwardly complimented her shoes, and she was so flattered by
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  Speaker 1: this that it opened up a friendly conversation between the
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  Speaker 1: two of them, and during this conversation, Lydia was pleasantly
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  Speaker 1: surprised to find out that Norbert.
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  Speaker 2: Was an expat too.
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  Speaker 1: An expat is someone who lives outside of their native country.
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  Speaker 1: Norbert had moved to the UK in twenty eighteen, so
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  Speaker 1: that's one year after Lydia had moved to the UK.
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  Speaker 1: And he came from Hungary, which shares a border with Ukraine,
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  Speaker 1: and just like Lydia, when he got to the UK,
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  Speaker 1: he kind of put all his energy into his work
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  Speaker 1: and trying to save money. He was a radio technician
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  Speaker 1: and a photographer and so the two spend the rest
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  Speaker 1: of this coffee hour chatting and enjoying each other's company.
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  Speaker 1: And then afterwards, when they left the church and they
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  Speaker 1: both got home, they both found themselves thinking about the other.
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  Speaker 1: There was clearly an attraction there, and so the following
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  Speaker 1: Sunday they both very eagerly rushed back to church in
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  Speaker 1: order to spend more time together. And sure enough, during
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  Speaker 1: that coffee hour they spent the whole time together just
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  Speaker 1: chatting it up. And then afterwards they exchanged phone numbers
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  Speaker 1: and made plans to get together outside of church. They
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  Speaker 1: were going to go on a date, and so the rest,
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  Speaker 1: as they say, is history. Two years after Norbert complimented
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  Speaker 1: Lydia's shoes, they got married in Bracknell, and while the
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  Speaker 1: wedding was great, unfortunately none of Lydia's family members, who
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  Speaker 1: were all in Ukraine, none of them could attend the
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  Speaker 1: actual wedding, and so the newlywed couple decided the way
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  Speaker 1: they would handle that is, their honeymoon would be spent
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  Speaker 1: in Ukraine. That way, Lydia's family could celebrate their wedding
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  Speaker 1: as well. For a variety of reasons, this honeymoon tripped,
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  Speaker 1: the Ukraine kept getting pushed back, but finally in September
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  Speaker 1: of twenty twenty one, everything lined up, everyone was available,
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  Speaker 1: and so Norbert and Lydia rushed to the airport and
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  Speaker 1: they hopped on a flight, and during this flight to Ukraine,
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  Speaker 1: Lydia remembers being so excited, specifically about her husband finally
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  Speaker 1: getting a chance to spend some time with her twenty
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  Speaker 1: nine year old younger brother, Miroslav. Lydia was very close
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  Speaker 1: with her brother, and so it mattered to her greatly
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  Speaker 1: that he and her husband had a good relationship. But
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  Speaker 1: to that point, because of the great physical distance between
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  Speaker 1: the UK and Ukraine, the two had really not had
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  Speaker 1: that much interaction, and so they really didn't know each
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  Speaker 1: other very well, and so this trip was really important
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  Speaker 1: to Lydia and Miroslav. He really picked up on that
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  Speaker 1: because he put together this camping trip for the end
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  Speaker 1: of their stay in Ukraine, where he knew he'd be
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  Speaker 1: able to step aside with Norbert and chat with him
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  Speaker 1: and get to know him a little bit. And so
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  Speaker 1: that was kind of like the fail safe where if
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  Speaker 1: he and Norbert did not get a chance to speak
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  Speaker 1: all week because they were visiting with so many people, well,
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  Speaker 1: they would have a chance to at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the week on this camping trip. So after a few
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  Speaker 1: hours of flying, Lydia and Norbert touchdown in Ukraine and
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  Speaker 1: they make their way to Lydia's family's house where they're
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  Speaker 1: going to be staying for the week. And that night
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  Speaker 1: and for the next several days, the couple was swamped
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  Speaker 1: with several family reunions and meet ups with old friends
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  Speaker 1: that hadn't seen Lydia in years, and so Norbert and
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  Speaker 1: Miroslav were not getting any time to themselves, and Lydia
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  Speaker 1: really knew that, and so she and Norbert began looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to this camping trip because that not only represented
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  Speaker 1: a kind of peaceful break from the chaos of all
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  Speaker 1: these reunions, but it also did represent the one chance
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  Speaker 1: they knew Miroslav and Norbert would get to interact with
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  Speaker 1: each other. And so finally September fifteenth, the end of
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  Speaker 1: the week, it came and it was time to go
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  Speaker 1: on this camping trip, and so Lydia and Norbert and
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  Speaker 1: Miroslav and nine other family members they all packed up
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  Speaker 1: their tents and their camping belongings and they loaded up
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  Speaker 1: a couple of cars and they drove over to the
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  Speaker 1: base of the Carpathian Mountain Range. This mountain range, which
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  Speaker 1: spread which for nearly one thousand miles across eastern and
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  Speaker 1: central Europe, are very popular amongst tourists.
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  Speaker 2: Because it's stunningly beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: Everything is green and lush, and there are these crystal
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  Speaker 1: clear lakes and breath taking waterfalls, and all these amazing
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  Speaker 1: animals running around, and there's no mosquitoes, and they have
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  Speaker 1: these really cool hikes that bring you up to these
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  Speaker 1: very impressive overlooks. And so that night Miroslav had made
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  Speaker 1: reservations for this one campsite, this very popular campsite that
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  Speaker 1: was up in this clearing not too far up the mountain,
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  Speaker 1: and it had this great view down to the forest below,
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  Speaker 1: and because it was in a clearing, it had this
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  Speaker 1: unobstructed view up to the sky where in this area
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  Speaker 1: you could look up and just see stars in every direction.
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  Speaker 1: And so when Lydia and the rest of this group
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  Speaker 1: arrive in the parking lot of this mountain range, they
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  Speaker 1: were all really excited to get up to this campsite
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  Speaker 1: and just enjoy being there. And so they park their cars,
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  Speaker 1: they get their gear out, they find the trailhead and
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  Speaker 1: then they begin hiking up the mountain, and about two
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  Speaker 1: hours later they arrived at this clearing. They find their campsite,
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  Speaker 1: which was marked by the small fire pit underneath the
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  Speaker 1: cop the trees, and so they go over and they
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  Speaker 1: set their tents up, and some people go out and
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  Speaker 1: get some firewood, and then before long a fire was made,
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  Speaker 1: and this group of twelve people that had not seen
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  Speaker 1: each other and so long, they just sat down and
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  Speaker 1: began enjoying each other's company. They put tea on, they
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  Speaker 1: were swapping stories. It was really just this wonderful time.
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  Speaker 1: And then around eight pm the sun started to set,
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  Speaker 1: at which point this huge group just stopped and enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: this beautiful sunset. And then once the sun had gone down,
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  Speaker 1: there were two kids that were there on this trip,
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  Speaker 1: and so they were put to bed in their tent,
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  Speaker 1: and then the remaining ten adults just kind of hung
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  Speaker 1: out by the fire and enjoyed each other's company. And
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  Speaker 1: it was actually during this second half of the night
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  Speaker 1: that Norbert and Miroslav finally really got a chance to
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  Speaker 1: just chat with each other. So for about an hour
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  Speaker 1: they were talking to each other, and Lydia is just
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  Speaker 1: watching this happen and she couldn't be happier. This is
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  Speaker 1: like the perfect ending to this trip. And then around
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  Speaker 1: nine pm, Norbert stands up. Lydia sees him stand up,
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  Speaker 1: and he tells the group he's going to run back
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  Speaker 1: to his tent, which was a ways away from the campfire,
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  Speaker 1: and he was going to get his camera, and so
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  Speaker 1: Lydia said, okay, no problem, and she remembers watching him
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  Speaker 1: walk off into the distance, because when you're at the campfire,
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  Speaker 1: if you're looking away from the campfire, everything is pitch
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  Speaker 1: black in that direction, and so she watches him disappear
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  Speaker 1: into the darkness, and then she and her brother and
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  Speaker 1: everyone else just kind of turned back towards the campfire.
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  Speaker 1: And then all she remembers about what happens next is
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  Speaker 1: she heard a whistling sound, and at first it was
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  Speaker 1: very faint, but it started to get very, very loud,
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  Speaker 1: and when it got loud, she tried to kind of
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  Speaker 1: figure out where it was, but before she could, suddenly
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  Speaker 1: something hit her in the face, predominantly hit her in
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  Speaker 1: the nose, and as soon as it did, she went blind,
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  Speaker 1: she went death, and then she felt herself on the
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  Speaker 1: ground and she has no idea what's going on, and
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  Speaker 1: all she can remember thinking is, oh my god, something
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  Speaker 1: horrible has.
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  Speaker 2: Happened to me. I might die.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what's happening, but I might die. And
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  Speaker 1: so she started praying for herself to survive whatever was
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  Speaker 1: happening to her. And then her hearing started to come
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  Speaker 1: back just a little bit. Her vision was still totally blurred.
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  Speaker 1: She could only kind of tell where the fire was
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  Speaker 1: because it was bright, but her hearing it started to
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  Speaker 1: come back, and that's when she heard moaning coming from
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  Speaker 1: somewhere near her. And so she's thinking, Okay, whatever horrible
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  Speaker 1: thing has happened to me has happened to other people too,
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  Speaker 1: and so instead of just praying for herself, she began
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  Speaker 1: praying for everyone who is at this campsite.
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  Speaker 2: And so, as her hearing.
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  Speaker 1: Is getting louder and louder, and she's hearing more and
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  Speaker 1: more moaning and crying happening all around her, she suddenly
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  Speaker 1: hears her husband screaming her name. He vision is still gone,
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  Speaker 1: but she knows it's him, and he lands right behind
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  Speaker 1: her and he grabs her and he's just repeating her
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  Speaker 1: name over and over and over again. And then Lydia
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  Speaker 1: manages to kind of choke out to her husband what happened,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a pause, and then Norbert says to her,
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  Speaker 1: it's bad, It's really bad. It would turn out their
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  Speaker 1: campsite was on a battlefield from World War One, and
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  Speaker 1: buried underneath the soil, right under their fire pit, was
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  Speaker 1: an unexploded bomb from World War One, meaning for over
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  Speaker 1: one hundred years, countless campers have arrived at this campsite
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  Speaker 1: and lit fires on top of this bomb that they
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  Speaker 1: couldn't see, and each fire gradually eroded the outer metal
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  Speaker 1: casing of this explosive, until finally, that night in September,
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  Speaker 1: with Lydia and eleven of her loved ones nearby, there
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  Speaker 1: little fire finally was it. It pushed through that last
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  Speaker 1: little bit of the casing, and it ignited.
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  Speaker 2: The bomb, and it detonated.
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  Speaker 1: That whistling that she heard was the sound of the
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  Speaker 1: fire finally cutting through that casing and being exposed to
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  Speaker 1: the fire. And then that thing that struck her in
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  Speaker 1: the face, that hit her right on the nose, that
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  Speaker 1: was almost certainly a piece of the bomb itself, so
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  Speaker 1: shrapnel that was cutting through her face. And then the
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  Speaker 1: moaning she heard was primarily her brother, who was right
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  Speaker 1: next to her. Lydia would be gravely wounded, but she
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  Speaker 1: would survive. As for her brother and another man who
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  Speaker 1: was not named, they would not survive. Here is a
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  Speaker 1: picture that was taken of the group literally minutes before
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  Speaker 1: this bomb detonated. In twenty fifteen, I was in the
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  Speaker 1: military and me and my unit were sent overseas to
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  Speaker 1: do some training. Now, normally training for us consisted of
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  Speaker 1: doing things both on the land and also in the oceans.
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  Speaker 1: But when we got to this particular country, we were
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  Speaker 1: told by this country that we were not allowed to
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  Speaker 1: go in their waterways unless we had head to toe
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  Speaker 1: complete full body protection, and even then it was still
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  Speaker 1: pretty risky. And so naturally we said why, and they said,
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  Speaker 1: because our waterways are too toxic, they are too polluted.
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  Speaker 1: and so the idea that some trash was going to
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  Speaker 1: stop us from doing any training in the water seemed
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  Speaker 1: far fetched. But when we got there and we walked
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  Speaker 1: down to the edge and looked out at the water,
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  Speaker 1: we were shocked. The water looked black from all the
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  Speaker 1: oil and pollution and amidst this black sludge were thousands
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  Speaker 1: and thousands and thousands of pieces of plastic just bobbing
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  Speaker 1: this waterway had gotten so bad people had just kind
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  Speaker 1: of given up on it and just continued to dump
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  Speaker 1: trash and pollutants into this waterway. And so we would
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  Speaker 1: not go in it, but we'd be out in the
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  Speaker 1: water and we would look down and we would just
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