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Stories of Survival Against the Odds · 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.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it would be cousins to be male cousins, uncles, somebody,
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  Speaker 2: maybe somebody.
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  Speaker 3: Males on her side of the family would, they're all,
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  Speaker 3: and they're all in tune to this thing.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: It happens all the time. All the time it happens here.
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  Speaker 3: You know, some guy is without, you know, with somebody,
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  Speaker 3: somebody's sister, they're out, you know, talking to each other somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: And the next.
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  Speaker 3: Day the guy comes in, the hospital beat up, you know,
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  Speaker 3: happens all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: It's a very different culture here. Very different.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, in a funny way, it's, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's another extreme, but here there are so many broken
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  Speaker 1: families that no one cares whether you're dating or not.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Well, that's, that's the point. It's like, which one,
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  Speaker 2: which one do you prefer? I think I prefer this one.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the U S is so, it's such a mess,
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  Speaker 3: such an absolute mess. You see what happens with the
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  Speaker 3: people's mental health. I mean, it's, it's terrible. It kills me.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we're just, We're just kind of so far
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  Speaker 3: off track. I mean, that's another issue. But yeah, it's tragedy.
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  Speaker 3: The collapse of the American family is a tragedy for everybody.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting because America, we are blessed in so many
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  Speaker 1: ways because we don't see a lot of the hardships
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  Speaker 1: you see all the time. But it does allow us
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  Speaker 1: to have a mask to tragedy because it's happening, but
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  Speaker 1: we don't have to see it. We don't have to
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  Speaker 1: walk there. Whereas in other countries, there's nothing to hide it,
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  Speaker 1: you know?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody here has lost brothers in the war. Everybody here
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  Speaker 3: has lost people at young ages to sickness. Everybody, everybody
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  Speaker 3: has lost a kid, you know. A two-year-old brother died
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  Speaker 3: from malaria. This kid died from diarrhea. This kid died
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  Speaker 3: from malnutrition.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, no family's been unscathed. So they're used to it.
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  Speaker 2: It'd be a tragedy.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Dr. Tom, I'm so grateful. I'm looking at the
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  Speaker 1: time and I'm thinking, this poor man. So I need
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  Speaker 1: you to go to bed now, so.