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Pops Healthcare Aligning With Our Grandmother’s Birthday Week Gives Me Solace (recorded 3/27/26) · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett. All Right, well, I posted
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  Speaker 1: a couple of big interviews the last few hours here
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  Speaker 1: at Willing Up Alex Media, with lou Terminello, of course,
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  Speaker 1: and a returning guest in Jay Paterno, the son of
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  Speaker 1: Joe Paterno. But I haven't been able to opine with you.
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  Speaker 2: On some thoughts I've had this entire week.
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  Speaker 1: My grandmother's birthday was this past Tuesday, and she.
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  Speaker 2: Would have been one hundred and eight.
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  Speaker 1: And it's interesting because what one hundred eight is the
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  Speaker 1: number of years it took for the cubs to break
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  Speaker 1: their curse ten years ago. But it was also interesting
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  Speaker 1: because March twenty fourth, twenty twenty three, was the day
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  Speaker 1: my dad finally admitted he needed a lot of medical
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  Speaker 1: help and a lot of medical care. And on March
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  Speaker 1: twenty fourth, in addition to our earthly support to Simon
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  Speaker 1: Richard from our church, I do believe on March twenty fourth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, it's proven my parents from a.
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  Speaker 2: Far Mom and Vic as well, I do believe.
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  Speaker 1: That shift from where he was to the hospital took
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  Speaker 1: place with my grandmother overseeing it from above. You know,
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  Speaker 1: my Deedy wanted the best for everybody in her life
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  Speaker 1: and wanted the best for everyone in her life, and
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  Speaker 1: my dad was no exception. She always welcomed him in
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  Speaker 1: to her house in Queen's. We always stayed over on weekends.
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  Speaker 1: She always made a nice warm coffee, nice hot coffee
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  Speaker 1: in the mornings, and she made his breakfast every every
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  Speaker 1: Sunday morning when we were there staying overnight. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there was just a lot of ways my grandma, my deity,
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  Speaker 1: made my dad included in our family. So perhaps on
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  Speaker 1: her birthday twenty three, that would have been five years
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  Speaker 1: after we all were there, my dad included in twenty
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  Speaker 1: eighteen to celebrate her on hundredth birthday, five years later,
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  Speaker 1: her acts of giving, her acts of kindness, her acts
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  Speaker 1: of love continued from above. By I think now that
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  Speaker 1: I look back at it, I didn't think of it
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  Speaker 1: in the moment, but looking back at it, by putting
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  Speaker 1: that energy for my dad to get the help he needed,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't think it's a coincidence. On March twenty fourth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, my dad went to the hospital. I
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  Speaker 1: went to the er to get the treatments he needed
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  Speaker 1: to start getting the treatments he needed. Because that's what
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  Speaker 1: my grandmother.
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  Speaker 2: Would have wanted.
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  Speaker 1: She would have wanted him to take care of himself,
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  Speaker 1: just like she wanted me to take care of myself.
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  Speaker 1: And there were times when she'd say, put on your
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  Speaker 1: big boy pants and just get the job done, whatever
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  Speaker 1: that might be, whatever that might be. So it took
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  Speaker 1: a little time to self reflect on this, but yes,
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  Speaker 1: I believe this week three years ago my Grandma, Myddi,
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  Speaker 1: ourdity from above, put her energy into that and got
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  Speaker 1: the ball rolling from my father to get the help
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  Speaker 1: he needed where he would end up staying till of
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  Speaker 1: course April fifteenth, twenty twenty three, where he would pass away.
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  Speaker 1: But he passed away in great care.
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  Speaker 2: He was taking great care of it, Sony down to
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  Speaker 2: State Hospital.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't think him going to the hospital in
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  Speaker 1: March twenty fourth isn't a coincidence.
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  Speaker 2: I really don't. I really really don't.
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  Speaker 1: And I do miss him on this day every day, but.
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  Speaker 2: I miss him on those.
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  Speaker 1: Days where those medical actions had to be taken, where
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  Speaker 1: the push to get him into the hospital to begin
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  Speaker 1: with was taken.
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  Speaker 2: And now.
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  Speaker 1: I could say three years later my grandmother.
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  Speaker 2: Had a role in it.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't remember it was a guy from twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: but it was it was in that vicinity.
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  Speaker 2: I always thought it was the day. The twenty fourth
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  Speaker 2: was the day though, And I do believe.
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  Speaker 1: D D's energy that month, that push to get him
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  Speaker 1: to the hospital was supported my of course mom, and
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  Speaker 1: stepdad VIC, my dad VIC and of course Richard, our
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  Speaker 1: friend from church.
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  Speaker 2: I do believe those were all part of the push.
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  Speaker 1: But I think DDE had a role in it, even
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  Speaker 1: if we couldn't see it.
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  Speaker 2: The date that he went and got help.
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  Speaker 1: Is significant for all of us, it really is, and
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  Speaker 1: we will miss him. And then, of course on my Instagram,
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  Speaker 1: I just posted the picture with the Commissioner's trophy where
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  Speaker 1: in the Cubs in honor of my dad, in honor
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  Speaker 1: of the ten years since the Cubs won, and I
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  Speaker 1: posed that picture with Rizzo, and I've.
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  Speaker 2: Said the story before.
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  Speaker 1: I got to thank Anthony Rizzo at the Today's Show
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  Speaker 1: Plaza for winning the World Series in a time where
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  Speaker 1: my dad and many many millions of Cub fans could
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  Speaker 1: watch it happen and break the curse all together in
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  Speaker 1: Unison that night.
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  Speaker 2: And I feel very.
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  Speaker 1: Touched about this whole week three years later because I
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  Speaker 1: think three years ago i'd be getting a picture in
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  Speaker 1: front of the Commissioner's Trophy with a Cubs sweater on
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  Speaker 1: that has our namesake, Garrett, I didn't know. I did not,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm glad I got it, and I was given
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to by NBC in Peacock and uh MLB
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  Speaker 1: of course, and maybe for you, the NBC hosting baseball
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  Speaker 1: again is a nostalgia trip. I said last night to Loutermanello,
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  Speaker 1: I said, look, I remember when Bob coss Is called
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees team of the decade and team of the
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  Speaker 1: century back.
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  Speaker 2: In the D eight. You know that was that was
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  Speaker 2: pretty cool. Now he's back on NBC. How cool is
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  Speaker 2: that guy? I've always looked up to a guy that always.
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  Speaker 1: Remember my dad and I for many years, alongside Kenny
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  Speaker 1: Albert and all that. But but and of course Kenny
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  Speaker 1: on NBC also having that historical of the Golden goal
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  Speaker 1: by Jack Hughes. I love the NBC Sports is relevant.
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  Speaker 1: I've always thought a role in NBC Sports would be
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  Speaker 1: very special.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe we'll get there one day.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we'll have to see maybe one look up Alex
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  Speaker 1: Media will get there a sports throwing it out there
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  Speaker 1: but I also want to take a moment and say
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  Speaker 1: everything has an order of Malchisa deck. I'll look it
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  Speaker 1: up if you're not sure what I mean, but everything
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  Speaker 1: has a synchronousity to it.
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  Speaker 2: And if my timing is correct, and that my.
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  Speaker 1: Dad was brought to the hospital the week of my
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  Speaker 1: grandmother's birthday, then she definitely played a role. She. I
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  Speaker 1: think it was a twenty second he was brought in
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  Speaker 1: because I remember the twenty third. We were there on
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  Speaker 1: Thursday at twenty third, and then Friday the twenty fourth.
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  Speaker 1: But it's my grandmother's birthday week, So there's no doubt
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  Speaker 1: there's a synchronousity there between my dad finally getting the
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  Speaker 1: help he needs the week of my grandmother's birthday.
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  Speaker 2: She would have been one hundred and five.
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  Speaker 1: That week, and that pushed to get him in to
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  Speaker 1: the hospital. It was painful watching him struggle out of that.
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  Speaker 2: Place he was living at the time.
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  Speaker 1: It was painful, and it was even more painful when
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  Speaker 1: actually on that Friday they tried to get him to
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  Speaker 1: walk and he here's a guy that carried all his
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  Speaker 1: bags and everything, his cups and bags and all that
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  Speaker 1: for miles, for miles, and it was painful to see
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  Speaker 1: he could not move anymore. And I haven't really talked
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  Speaker 1: about it because I never thought I should talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: I could talk about it, my dad would never want
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  Speaker 1: me to talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: But I have to share it because it's my Catharsis.
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  Speaker 1: Three years later, this podcast is my Catharsis getting me
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  Speaker 1: through all these emotions and feelings, thoughts and whatever else.
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  Speaker 1: And it's been Catharsis ever since he went to the
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  Speaker 1: hospital March of twenty twenty three. It's been a catharis
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  Speaker 1: since I lost my grandmother in June of twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: a few months after she turned eight one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: now the synchronicities of my dad going to the hospital
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  Speaker 1: the same week as my grandmother's one hundred and fifth birthday,
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  Speaker 1: I think, and see him in the hospital the same
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  Speaker 1: day as my grandmother's birthday. I mean, there's no doubt
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  Speaker 1: her energy helped push him to get help. She always
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  Speaker 1: had a way to make her point on and I
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  Speaker 1: think her birthday week three, she was focused on that
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  Speaker 1: from above because she did love my dad, she did
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  Speaker 1: want the best for my dad, and maybe she saw
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  Speaker 1: the strain those few months were on me trying to
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  Speaker 1: care for him, especially from January through till March. I
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  Speaker 1: think it was March twenty second. She was always sharp
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  Speaker 1: like that. She was always sharp like.
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  Speaker 2: That, and I miss her.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm so thankful to feel that there's synchronicity between
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  Speaker 1: my dad's getting help three years ago this week and
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  Speaker 1: my grandmother's one hundred fifth birthday this.
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  Speaker 2: Week three years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Cause that'll help me process and understand she's very intertwined
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  Speaker 1: in our lives to this day. So happy Birthday week, DD,
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  Speaker 1: and thank you for always watching over us, and thank
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  Speaker 1: you for always welcoming and including my dad in your home,
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  Speaker 1: in our family home basically, and I pray you both
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  Speaker 1: are reconnected by now up there. And that's my message
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