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The Power of Positive Thinking · The World Knowledge

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  Speaker 1: Well, good afternoon, listeners. Thank you for listening to Lament
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  Speaker 1: of Hope podcast. And I'm very grateful. This is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a little unconventional, because if you're watching this, you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna see it's just the logo for the podcast. But Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Katina and I really tried. And unfortunately, we weren't able
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  Speaker 1: to do video, but that's okay. I'm thinking too, your
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  Speaker 1: wife must be a comfort to you too, to have
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  Speaker 1: a companion, too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, that's, Now we have three kids.
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  Speaker 2: We have three adopted children. The youngest will be two
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  Speaker 2: next month. I mean, he is awesome. So they're stories
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  Speaker 2: unto themselves. But, you know, before I married, we married
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  Speaker 2: 10 years, 10 years next month. So before that, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was much, much more bleak. You'd finish the day
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  Speaker 2: in the hospital, go back to my room, it'd be
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  Speaker 2: late at night. There was, you know, there's no TV here.
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  Speaker 2: There's no entertainment. You just kind of sit there. You're like,
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  Speaker 2: no one to talk to, really. It was a pretty,
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  Speaker 2: pretty bleak existence. It was just the work. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it was kind of just work and not much else. Now,
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  Speaker 2: at least I got something to take my mind off it.
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  Speaker 2: I can come home in the evening. I can play
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  Speaker 2: with the kids. I can see how things went for them.
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  Speaker 2: So it's much, much better to have my wife there
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  Speaker 2: and my kids. It's a huge, been a huge blessing.
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  Speaker 1: Can I ask how you met her?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so she was... Because I was.
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  Speaker 1: Like, how did you have time to date anybody?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we didn't really date. Dating here is taboo. So
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  Speaker 2: dating is totally, totally... You can't use that word boyfriend
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  Speaker 2: or girlfriend. I mean, I can't even think about it.
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  Speaker 2: You can't publicly say, hey, this is my girlfriend. Her
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  Speaker 2: brothers would come and beat me up. Everything's got to
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  Speaker 2: be top secret. So you quietly get to know somebody
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  Speaker 2: kind of on the side, you steal a moment here
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  Speaker 2: or there. Like she'd be working at night. She, we, she,
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  Speaker 2: we hired her as a, as a nurse. She wasn't
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  Speaker 2: a nurse. We hired her, we trained her on the job,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, I, I know her schedule and figure
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  Speaker 2: out when she was working at nights and I'd find
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  Speaker 2: myself down in her ward at night, kind of spending
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  Speaker 2: a few minutes kind of chatting with her. Um, I, I,
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  Speaker 2: I know other, I know another social life to go on. So, um,
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  Speaker 2: I come to know her very informally like that. But
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  Speaker 2: it was it was very. Yeah, it was kind of
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  Speaker 2: just stealing moments here and there. Kind of be alone
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  Speaker 2: for a minute here or there and kind of chat
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  Speaker 2: and talk. But yeah, dating is totally, totally forbidden here.
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  Speaker 2: It's all kind of done a little bit on the
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  Speaker 2: side of the top secret. Then you got to kind
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  Speaker 2: of approach the family. So she went away to school.
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  Speaker 2: and approach them and then you can be seen kind
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  Speaker 2: of publicly with her you can't be seen in public
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  Speaker 2: with with a woman unless you've already as you've gone
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  Speaker 2: to the family you said i want to marry your
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  Speaker 2: daughter then you can be seen in public with her
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  Speaker 2: before that you're you know you will be attacked by
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  Speaker 2: her brothers if they see you in public with her
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  Speaker 2: with their sister it'll go after you so it's a
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  Speaker 2: very yeah it's a strict culture what if you
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  Speaker 1: Have no brothers