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Michael Austrich And The Transcript From His Epstein Related Deposition (Part 1) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
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  Speaker 1: In this episode, we're going to dive back into those
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  Speaker 1: court documents and we're going to take a look at
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  Speaker 1: the deposition for James Michael Ostrich and he was one
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  Speaker 1: of Virginia's boyfriends during this whole entire ordeal. So we
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  Speaker 1: have Laura Meninger doing the examination and then on cross
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  Speaker 1: we have Brad Edwards, and like a lot of these depositions,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't seem to be the complete and full deposition,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll just rock with what we have. So let's
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  Speaker 1: get to it. Menager, Okay, where did you go to
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  Speaker 1: high school? Answer Robert Morgan? Menager? Which city is that in? Ostrich?
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  Speaker 1: I guess Miami? Menager? Okay, when did you graduate? Ostrich
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  Speaker 1: ninety eight? Menager? How old are you now? Austrich thirty five? Menager?
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  Speaker 1: When's your birthday? Ostrich? Redacted? Menager? Do you remember a
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  Speaker 1: woman by the name of Virginia Roberts? Answer yes, Manager,
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  Speaker 1: And do you see her here in the room today?
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  Speaker 1: Answer yes, Manager. When was the last time you saw
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  Speaker 1: answer sixteen years ago. Manager. How did you meet miss Roberts?
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  Speaker 1: Answer she was a friend of my sisters. That's how
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  Speaker 1: I met her. Manager. What's your sister's name? Answer redacted
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  Speaker 1: phonetic last name is spelled or redacted, but I still
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  Speaker 1: can't spell it my stepsister, But after so long, she's
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  Speaker 1: basically my sister. Manager. Okay, where is miss redacted now? Answer?
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  Speaker 1: I believe Broward County. Menager. How is it that she
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  Speaker 1: came to introduce you to Miss Roberts? Answer she brought
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  Speaker 1: her to my house. Manager. And do you know how
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  Speaker 1: they were friends? Answer? They met each other in rehab. Manager.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of rehab? Answer I'm not sure. I was
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  Speaker 1: living in Miami at the time, and I only came
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  Speaker 1: up once in a while to visit her. At the
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  Speaker 1: very end, when I moved back to Broward with my dad,
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  Speaker 1: that's when redacted was home. Manager. Do you know the
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  Speaker 1: name of the rehab prom Answer no? Manager? And you
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  Speaker 1: do know what the rehab program was for drugs alcohol? Answer?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess everything, probably. Manager. Do you
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  Speaker 1: recall approximately what year you met Miss Roberts. Answer I
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  Speaker 1: believe around nineteen ninety eight. Menager. How old were you
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  Speaker 1: at the time? Answer eighteen? Menager. Do you know how
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  Speaker 1: old Miss Roberts was? Answer? Fifteen or sixteen, I believe, manager.
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  Speaker 1: Was she approximately your sister's age? The questioning cuts off
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  Speaker 1: there and then picks back up with working at Taco
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  Speaker 1: Bell and Sunrise? Did I get that right? Answer? Yeah? Yeah? Manager? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: did miss Roberts come to work at the Taco Bell
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  Speaker 1: where you worked? Answer? Not at the one in Sunrise.
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  Speaker 1: When we moved to Broward? Did she work with me?
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  Speaker 1: I think it was another one in Sunrise? Manager. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so you're saying sometime later you and miss Roberts moved
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  Speaker 1: to Broward. Is that right? Answer? Yes, we lived in
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  Speaker 1: an apartment. Manager. Where was that apartment? Answer Oakland Park?
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  Speaker 1: I believe, manager. And when you moved to that apartment
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  Speaker 1: in Oakland Park, that's when she came to work with
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  Speaker 1: you at Taco Bell? Answer yes, menager. Do you know
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  Speaker 1: how old you were when that happened? Answer? It had
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  Speaker 1: to be around It wasn't long after meeting her. Manager.
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  Speaker 1: Why didn't you take a step back and tell me
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  Speaker 1: what you recall about meeting miss Roberts. Answer it was
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  Speaker 1: a long time ago, menager, I understand. Answer. All I
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  Speaker 1: remember is my sister bringing her over one day. We
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  Speaker 1: got to talking. We liked each other, and we just
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  Speaker 1: got to know each other. Manager. Was she in school
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  Speaker 1: at the time? Answer no, Manager, why not? Answer I'm
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  Speaker 1: not entirely sure, Menager. Was she done with this rehab program?
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  Speaker 1: Answer yes at the time. Manager. Did she go back
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  Speaker 1: into it later? Answer not that I know of, Menager.
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  Speaker 1: So your understanding is she was not in school and
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  Speaker 1: not in the rehab program at the time that you
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  Speaker 1: met Miss Roberts. Correct answer, not that I know of, no, Menager.
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  Speaker 1: Where was she living when you met Miss Roberts? Answer
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  Speaker 1: she was staying with us or she came over and
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  Speaker 1: then I guess she was staying with us for a
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  Speaker 1: little while, I believe, Menager. And who do you mean
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  Speaker 1: by us? Answer at my dad's house, Menager? Who else
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  Speaker 1: was living there besides yourself, your dad and your sister?
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  Speaker 1: Answer my stepmom, my other step sister, my stepbrother, and
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  Speaker 1: their grandmother. It was a big house, Menager. How long
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  Speaker 1: do you recall Miss Roberts living at the house with
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  Speaker 1: the family? Answer no, idea, not long, Menager, weeks, months, years,
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  Speaker 1: answer weeks, Menager. Okay, you said that you spend time
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  Speaker 1: getting to know miss Roberts when you first talked to her.
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  Speaker 1: Answer yeah, manager. Did she tell you anything about her childhood? Answer?
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  Speaker 1: If she did, I don't remember. It was so long ago. Manager.
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  Speaker 1: Do you recall meeting her parents? Answer yes? Manager, Was
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  Speaker 1: that sometime later? Answer yes, Menager. Tell me about when
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  Speaker 1: you remember meeting her parents? Answer I think that was
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  Speaker 1: all I remember. Really, all I remember is going to
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  Speaker 1: the house and meeting her parents. I don't remember much
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  Speaker 1: from that time, menager. Okay, I appreciate that this is
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  Speaker 1: all a long time ago. Answer yeah, Manager. Did you
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  Speaker 1: and miss Roberts become a couple soon after you met her?
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  Speaker 1: Answer yes? Manager. Was she dating anyone else at the time?
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  Speaker 1: Answer no? Manager. Tell me where you did you both
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  Speaker 1: move out of that home your dad's home together? Answer yes, menager.
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  Speaker 1: And where did you go directly after that home? Answer
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  Speaker 1: to the Oakland Park apartment? Manager At the time you
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  Speaker 1: got the Oakland Park apartment. Do you recall how old
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  Speaker 1: you were? Answer I had to be eighteen to get
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  Speaker 1: an apartment. Manager okay, And do you know how old
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  Speaker 1: miss Roberts was? Answer sixteen? Manager. Is that a guess
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  Speaker 1: or do you remember? Answer that's a guess. Manager. Do
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  Speaker 1: you think you're about two years older than she is?
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  Speaker 1: Answer about maybe a little more. Manager, Okay, how long
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  Speaker 1: did you two live together at the Oakland Park apartment?
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  Speaker 1: Answer les, I know it wasn't a full year. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know exactly how long it was. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how many months it was. Manager. Did anyone else live
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  Speaker 1: with you? Answer? Yes, a roommate. Manager? And who was that?
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  Speaker 1: Answer Mario? Last name? I can't remember. I haven't seen
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  Speaker 1: him since that apartment. Manager. Was he a friend of
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  Speaker 1: yours or hers or just someone else? Answer he was
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  Speaker 1: a friend of mine. He worked with me at Taco Bell. Manager,
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  Speaker 1: and after you moved to this Oakland Park apartment, miss
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  Speaker 1: Roberts came to work at the Taco Bell as well?
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  Speaker 1: Answer yeah, with me and with him. Manager. Do you
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  Speaker 1: recall where that Taco bell was? Answer by the Sawgrass Mall? Manager.
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  Speaker 1: How long did miss Roberts work at that Taco Bell? Answer?
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember. Manager. Were you a manager at the time?
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  Speaker 1: Answer yes, me and my roommate manager, You were both managers?
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  Speaker 1: Answer yes? Manager. Was she an official employee? Answer yes? Manager?
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  Speaker 1: Was she on the page? Answer yes, manager, and you
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  Speaker 1: were the manager? Answer uh huh? Manager? And she paid?
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  Speaker 1: She was paid for by Taco Bell? Answer yes? Manager.
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  Speaker 1: Was it a franchise if you know? Answer? I know
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  Speaker 1: when I first started there they were corporate, but then
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  Speaker 1: they were a franchise. They were bought out, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure if when I got there there were a
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  Speaker 1: franchise or not. Manager got it. Do you know if
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  Speaker 1: miss Roberts had any previous employment before she worked at
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  Speaker 1: Taco Bell? Answer? I think by the apartment she worked
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  Speaker 1: for KFC for a little while. Manager, Are you looking
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  Speaker 1: at miss Roberts the witness, I'm thinking I can't remember.
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  Speaker 1: I remember something with KFC, they had one really close
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  Speaker 1: to us. I think she worked there for a tiny,
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  Speaker 1: tiny bit. I'm not sure Manager before the Taco Bell Answer.
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  Speaker 1: Or she could have applied there. It's just in my head.
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  Speaker 1: She might have just applied there and didn't get it,
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  Speaker 1: and that's why I brought her to Taco Bell. Manager okay, answer,
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  Speaker 1: because we were both the night managers. Manager got it. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So for not a full year, the two of you
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  Speaker 1: worked together at a Taco Bell near the Sawgrass Mills
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  Speaker 1: as heard, and lived in an apartment in Oakland Park.
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  Speaker 1: Answer yes. Brad Edwards objects to the form and manager
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  Speaker 1: asked another question with Mario. Answer yes. Manager. Did Mario
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  Speaker 1: live there the whole time? Answer yes? Manager. What caused
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  Speaker 1: you to stop living at the Oakland Park apartment Answer
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember exactly, but I know we moved out
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  Speaker 1: before and Mario stayed in the apartment. Manager. Where did
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  Speaker 1: you move to? Answer her parents' house? Manager. Did you
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  Speaker 1: move into the house or someplace near the house? Answer?
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember if we originally moved into the house,
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  Speaker 1: but I know they had a trailer in the back
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  Speaker 1: that we lived in. Manager. How long did you live
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  Speaker 1: in the trailer in the back? Answer? I have no
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  Speaker 1: idea Manager. Do you know what year this was? Answer?
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  Speaker 1: Not really? Manager. Do you know about how old you were?
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  Speaker 1: Answer when? What? Menager, I'm just focused on the period
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  Speaker 1: of time which you were living at her parents' house
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  Speaker 1: in the trailer Answer I was probably eighteen when we
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  Speaker 1: moved in there. Manager, And you said you were only
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  Speaker 1: there for a couple of months. Answer not that I remember,
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  Speaker 1: like it might have been a little longer. I'm not sure. Manager.
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  Speaker 1: Were you engaged to Miss Roberts Answer yes, Manager, When
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  Speaker 1: did you become engaged to her? Answer when we were
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  Speaker 1: living in Oakland Park. Manager, tell me about the engagement.
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  Speaker 1: How did it come about? Answer well, we fell in
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  Speaker 1: love and I believe it was Valentine's Day when I proposed. Manager.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have a ring? Answer yes? Manager? Did she accept?
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  Speaker 1: Answer yes? Manager? How long were you engaged? Answer I'm
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  Speaker 1: not entirely sure. Manager. Do you remember an event where
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  Speaker 1: the engagement was broken off? Answer? When I left? Manager left? Where?
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  Speaker 1: Answer when I left Royal Palm Beach. I guess, well
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  Speaker 1: as our apartment. Manager. When you left our apartment, that's
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  Speaker 1: when the engagement was over in your mind? Answer yes. Manager.
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  Speaker 1: Where your family's happy about the engagement? Answer yes, my
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  Speaker 1: mother was. My dad wasn't too happy. Manager. Have you
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  Speaker 1: been married since then? Answer no? Manager. Have you been
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  Speaker 1: engaged since then? Answer no? Manager. Do you know what
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  Speaker 1: happened to the ring? Answer yes? Manager? Where is it? Answer?
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  Speaker 1: I have it? Manager still? Answer yeah, it was my
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  Speaker 1: grandmother's Manager. Did you get down on one knee? Answer yes,
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  Speaker 1: at the beach, I believe. Manager. When you were living
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  Speaker 1: in Oakland Park in this apartment. Manager, So from the
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  Speaker 1: ages from when you were eighteen to twenty is when
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  Speaker 1: you were living together with Virginia. Answer yes. All right.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to wrap up this first part, right,
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  Speaker 1: here and then the next episode we're going to pick
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  Speaker 1: up with Part two. All of the information that goes
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  Speaker 1: with this episode can be found in the description box.