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The Season Of Gratitude Part4 · Have A Little Faith with Delilah

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  Speaker 1: Hello, my friend. Welcome, Welcome to Have a Little Faith
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  Speaker 1: with Delilah, a podcast we've been doing for three or
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  Speaker 1: four months now where I take some of my most
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  Speaker 1: powerful calls where I share my faith or invite you
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  Speaker 1: to share yours, or we just explore faith together. And
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  Speaker 1: the calls that you hear on my radio show are
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  Speaker 1: usually three or four minutes long, but the actual call,
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  Speaker 1: the actual time that I spent with the listener, could
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  Speaker 1: be five, ten, fifteen, twenty minutes longer even And in
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  Speaker 1: today's episode of Have a Little Faith with Delilah, we
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  Speaker 1: are going to share an entire call that might be
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  Speaker 1: one of the most, if not the most powerful call
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  Speaker 1: I received all year. Had and ugly crying here in
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  Speaker 1: the studio, like sobbing. So you are going to hear
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  Speaker 1: this amazing conversation about the ultimate gift, the ultimate gift
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  Speaker 1: of gratitude. It's about health and well being. It's about miracles.
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  Speaker 1: Our gratitude for our health sometimes only occurs to us
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  Speaker 1: when we face a huge crisis. Let me tell you
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  Speaker 1: something about that. In quiet moments, when you wake up
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  Speaker 1: without being racked by pain, when you can actually breathe,
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  Speaker 1: when your body carries you through the day without complaint,
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  Speaker 1: when your kids are okay. These are everyday miracles we
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  Speaker 1: really don't often recognize or acknowledge, and yet they shape
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  Speaker 1: the quality of our lives. Thank God for that. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you Gus. When we wake up pain free, able to move,
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  Speaker 1: able to celebrate life, when our kids are healthy. I
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  Speaker 1: have an incredible conversation I'm going to share with you
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  Speaker 1: in this episode. It's a testimony that I bet you
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  Speaker 1: don't forget two women that formed a lifelong friendship through
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  Speaker 1: the most painful, horrifically painful of times. So let's start
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  Speaker 1: with Kathy. Hi, Kathy, what can I do to make
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  Speaker 1: your holiday season a little more joyful, a little more sparkly,
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  Speaker 1: a little more like the scent of cinnamon simmering on
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  Speaker 1: the stove.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I really don't want this for me. I want
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  Speaker 2: this for the family in Tennessee. The mother and father
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  Speaker 2: their son became my daughter's donor. Vicky and Tony. They're
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  Speaker 2: from Maryville, Tennessee, and I'm in upstate New York. And
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  Speaker 2: my daughter got a transplant h three years ago and
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  Speaker 2: their son, their only son, was her donor. And we
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  Speaker 2: are very close to this family. Vicky and I as mothers.
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  Speaker 2: We are very similar. And I'm sitting here wrapping Christmas
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  Speaker 2: presents and I'm looking at what I call my transplant
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  Speaker 2: tree because that my daughter was waiting for her lungs.
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  Speaker 2: We did a transplant tree. And now what Vicky does
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  Speaker 2: is every Christmas she sends me ornaments of her son
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  Speaker 2: from when he was little.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm sorry. I'm just sitting here crying
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  Speaker 1: for you and for them.
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  Speaker 3: You would not believe the story it is.
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  Speaker 2: It is a miracle. Vicky believes, like no doubt that
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  Speaker 2: her son's purpose was to say live because he was
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  Speaker 2: a special needs boy and he wasn't even supposed to
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  Speaker 2: live till like three years, and he lived thirty three years.
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  Speaker 2: So I love her, I love her husband Tony.
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  Speaker 3: They're beautiful people.
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  Speaker 2: We met them this summer, and yeah, I would just
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  Speaker 2: the song that reminds me of her is Mary.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know? Oh so you just want to flame me.
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  Speaker 4: What you're saying is the tears you're crying right now
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  Speaker 4: aren't enough. You're going to play this song and think
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  Speaker 4: about Mary letting Jesus go while this woman had to
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  Speaker 4: do that for her son, who was the same age
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  Speaker 4: that Christ was when he died really.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and the Blessed Mother has been like, I love
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  Speaker 2: the Blessed Mother because it was like at the eleventh hour,
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  Speaker 2: the lungs came because my daughter was ready to go
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  Speaker 2: home to the Lord.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, oh, you are killing me here. I
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  Speaker 4: came in the studio expecting, you know, hot cocoa and
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  Speaker 4: jingle bells and greeted you with cinnamon on the stove,
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  Speaker 4: and instead you just take my filay, my heart with
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  Speaker 4: the heart of the Mother of Jesus. Oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 4: what a beautiful story. But what a sad, painfully beautiful story.
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  Speaker 2: I know Vicky and I both are firm, strong believers
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  Speaker 2: in Lord and God shows miracles and our story. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot to the story that I could go
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  Speaker 2: on with you for two hours.
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  Speaker 4: But oh, my producer David, who's been a part of
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  Speaker 4: the show for twenty years, his partner got a heart
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  Speaker 4: transplant this time last year. He hasn't got to find
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  Speaker 4: out who his donor is yet. It's not been a
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  Speaker 4: year yet, but he's doing awesome, beautiful Yeah, and.
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  Speaker 1: We're all so grateful.
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  Speaker 2: But my gosh, Yes, Vicky and I are strong advocates
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  Speaker 2: for organ donation. It is a very private decision, but
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  Speaker 2: eventually in our lives, we want to reach over a
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  Speaker 2: million people if they would please become organ donors.
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  Speaker 4: Amen. Amen, Amen. I cannot urge people to do that enough.
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  Speaker 4: And it's it's not just enough on your driver's license.
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  Speaker 4: You got to tell your family. You got to tell
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  Speaker 4: your family if anything happens. This is what I want.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, my daughter's a miracle. I look at her every
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  Speaker 2: day and I just yeah, it's yeah. So yes, in
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  Speaker 2: honor of our Bradley and Vicky and Tony, if you
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  Speaker 2: would be able to play that song, i'd appreciate that.
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  Speaker 4: I will do that and I will just say a
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  Speaker 4: prayer asking God to bless that family so deeply.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: For calling and sharing Uhila, thank.
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  Speaker 2: You so much. I really appreciate that you touched so
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  Speaker 2: many lives. And you know, I just like I said,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sitting here looking at my little Transplantrey and there's
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  Speaker 2: a little picture of him, and yeah, they're just it's
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  Speaker 2: a miracle and very blessed our families. And she says
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  Speaker 2: to me, you have no idea how you have helped
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  Speaker 2: us heal by letting us be in your life, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and in your daughter's life. I said, oh, God, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, can I say a prayer with you before you
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  Speaker 1: hang up? Absolutely, Father, God, I thank you, Lord, I
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  Speaker 1: thank you that you chose such a beautiful woman and Mary,
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  Speaker 1: when you decided to place yourself your son in her womb.
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  Speaker 1: And she said yes, yes, knowing that it could cost
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  Speaker 1: her her life, knowing it could cost her feeling yance,
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  Speaker 1: knowing it could cost her everything. She raised her hand
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  Speaker 1: and said, yes, choose me, Choose me.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't know God in that moment if she
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  Speaker 4: had any clue what she was saying, but she said
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  Speaker 4: yes to you. And this beautiful family that chose to
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  Speaker 4: donate their son's organs did the same thing. They said yes,
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  Speaker 4: they said yes to a painful decision, but in doing so,
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  Speaker 4: they bless this family with the daughter's life. And I
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  Speaker 4: thank you for that miracle. I thank you that this
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  Speaker 4: young man was able to live long past what time
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  Speaker 4: the doctor said he would have, that he was able
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  Speaker 4: to enjoy his family for thirty three years, and that
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  Speaker 4: he was able to give the gift of life. I
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  Speaker 4: pray you would knit these families together with chains of
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  Speaker 4: love that cannot be broken, and that Lord, they would
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  Speaker 4: know that this experience, this life, is but a breath,
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  Speaker 4: a breath, and then we'll be with you and everything
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  Speaker 4: will make sense. But until then, I love their faith,
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  Speaker 4: I love their passion for living, and I pray they're
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  Speaker 4: able to reach more than a million people with the
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  Speaker 4: notion that organ donation is giving the gift of life.
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  Speaker 4: I say all these things the name of your precious
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  Speaker 4: and holy son, Christ, Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Amen, thank you, Delilah, God bless you can I just
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  Speaker 2: quickly to see if you could just say hello to Vicky.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, I also have to tell you this. There's
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  Speaker 2: a twist now. Her husband, Bradley's dead, needs a transplant,
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  Speaker 2: a blood transplant.
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  Speaker 4: You guys are like a Hallmark movie, a documentary and
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  Speaker 4: a tissue advertisement all wrapped up in one here.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I I know, I know, I know, And
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  Speaker 2: I want to say, Vicky reached out to you years ago,
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  Speaker 2: prior to all this, and I don't know, because we
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  Speaker 2: talked about you, how much we loved listening to you
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  Speaker 2: when we met. We were in We went to see
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  Speaker 2: them in March in their home in Tennessee. So that's
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  Speaker 2: what they're going through right now. So I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: if I could, I'd like to see if she would
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  Speaker 2: pick up. I just text her and I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: see if she would pick up with you be able
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  Speaker 2: just to hang on one second? Sure? Thank you, Delilah,
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  Speaker 2: one moment please.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, you call me light girl.
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  Speaker 2: This is on the phone with me, Vicky.
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  Speaker 3: Eh, Delilah, What.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Vicky?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, are you serious?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it really is me. I understand you've been trying
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  Speaker 1: and trying to get a hole of me, but your
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  Speaker 1: new bestie Kathy filled me in a little bit on
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  Speaker 1: what you two mamas have been through, and she wanted
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  Speaker 1: me to be able to hear from you.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, when it's all, when it's all the place I
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  Speaker 5: watched out here you become.
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  Speaker 3: My son loved you so much. He listened to you
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  Speaker 3: every night. Every night.
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  Speaker 5: You are.
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  Speaker 3: You're just amazing to me. Huh, yes, And Vickie, I was.
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  Speaker 2: I was just calling because you know how we love her,
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  Speaker 2: and we talked about her, and I'm looking at the
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  Speaker 2: transplantry and I'm like, you know.
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  Speaker 3: What, I'm gonna call Delilah and dedicated a.
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  Speaker 2: Song to you, and I have Delilah crying, and she.
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  Speaker 4: Said, crying ugly Vicky, ugly crying here I finally pulled
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  Speaker 4: myself together.
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  Speaker 3: You just don't notice like I said, Bradley or he
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  Speaker 3: loved you every not at seven o'clock.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I would go to bed and he would
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  Speaker 5: first like he would saying ave blilah, and then we
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  Speaker 5: allry on.
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  Speaker 3: We listen to you A new.
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  Speaker 5: Word the thing that absolutely helped me through this because
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  Speaker 5: I thought of you so much and what you've brought
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  Speaker 5: to everybody about being an organdomer and you're just you
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  Speaker 5: just amazing me through this way here. So Kathy, of course,
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  Speaker 5: is the absolute mother of all mothers.
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  Speaker 2: I believe in no, no, no, no, you are no
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  Speaker 2: no no, no, no no no.
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  Speaker 5: You are to know she listened, and I know she
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  Speaker 5: never talks about herself, but Kathy is absolutely one of
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  Speaker 5: the most bravest, strongest woman that I've ever known in
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  Speaker 5: my life to go through what she's been through and
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  Speaker 5: done what she's done, and yet she absolutely opened her
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  Speaker 5: heart up to me and only being part of her
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  Speaker 5: family with Francesca, so she knows how much I love
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  Speaker 5: her for that. And absolutely I'm just I'm dumbfounded right
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  Speaker 5: now by you call and me get me talk to you, Oh,
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  Speaker 5: this is the best Christmas. This is the best Christmas.
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  Speaker 5: I will tell you that. Now, this is the best Christmas.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you need to write a book or a movie
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  Speaker 4: about your story and the way God has woven you
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  Speaker 4: two families together, because it's just unbelievable, unbelievable, what a
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  Speaker 4: powerful testimony to the power of God.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly. That's why I say to every night, because I
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  Speaker 3: actually was.
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  Speaker 5: I had join with Wall of Go, but he like
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  Speaker 5: cut y'all because I said, well, I'm gonna go back
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  Speaker 5: out of my bedroom and I've been doing diamond dot
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  Speaker 5: art stuff right now, keeping my mind because the next
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  Speaker 5: week my husband goes into the hospital for his transplant,
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  Speaker 5: and he he's nervous, but he also knows that we've
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  Speaker 5: got so many people in our corner prayers going for him,
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  Speaker 5: especially on New York family, and so we just we
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  Speaker 5: know that we've got this beautiful family up in New
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  Speaker 5: York that just keeps us every day in their thoughts
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  Speaker 5: and prayers for us.
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  Speaker 3: So, yes, Delilah, you are just an amazing woman.
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  Speaker 5: Though I'm telling you you're an amazing You're an amazing woman.
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  Speaker 1: I feel well, God bless all these families, all these people.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Vicki and I, like I told you very we're
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  Speaker 2: very big advocates on organ donation and we believe in
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  Speaker 2: the power of prayer. And Vickie believes her son was
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  Speaker 2: God used her son to stay five lives, right, VICKI
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  Speaker 2: was at five.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, yes, yes, and exactly it because I believe
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  Speaker 5: Francesca and Bradley were in line in the stars when
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  Speaker 5: they were just fout of on God's creation. They were
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  Speaker 5: in the stars. And I believe that with everything in me.
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  Speaker 5: So that is why Bradley he gave so much to
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  Speaker 5: us on this earth, our families. We've been so blessed
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  Speaker 5: to have a special needs child and our family because
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  Speaker 5: it really helped every one of us through different ones,
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  Speaker 5: brothers and sisters, my family, we figured out that Brady
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  Speaker 5: was just so special. I mean, he was such a
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  Speaker 5: special person, but now we knew that he was going
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  Speaker 5: to be special after his wife here and given to
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  Speaker 5: these other people. And as I've always told him, Francesca
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  Speaker 5: was the only one that I really hoped that would
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  Speaker 5: reach out to me was the girl who at that
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  Speaker 5: time was thirty years of age. I thought, and I
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  Speaker 5: really wanted so badly to know her, and that's how
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  Speaker 5: it happened. I mean, Kathy, you have to give the
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  Speaker 5: Kathy who knows. So she's the one who did the
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  Speaker 5: investigation of frightening us because she she's that strong of
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  Speaker 5: a woman. She is so she is so driven by
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  Speaker 5: her daughters, both of her daughters for that matter. She
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  Speaker 5: will do whatever she has to do for those girls.
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  Speaker 5: So she is. Let me tell you, Kathy is an amazing,
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  Speaker 5: amazing mother herself.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I love you.
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  Speaker 2: Stop talking about me, Vicky.
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  Speaker 1: I can barely make it through this conversation without ugly crying. Again.
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  Speaker 1: Your son Bradley saved how many lives? Five lives? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know if I have words for that. Vicky.
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  Speaker 1: I am so grateful to God that you and Kathy
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  Speaker 1: found each other. I'm so glad you both found your
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  Speaker 1: way to me. I'm glad I was a part of
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  Speaker 1: your children's lives, Bradley's life, both the kid's lives. I
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  Speaker 1: am blessed to have been able to hear this story.
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  Speaker 1: If more people understood that the best gifts we get
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  Speaker 1: in life aren't things. They're not things come and go.
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  Speaker 1: The best gifts are experiences, the acts of love, the
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  Speaker 1: best gifts involved sharing your life with others, being vulnerable,
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  Speaker 1: being real, those moments always driven by love. Vicky, I
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  Speaker 1: know that Bradley is safe in God's arms. His purpose,
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  Speaker 1: his mission was great. He graduated from this world with honors. Kathy,
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  Speaker 1: your daughter Francesca received a gift that I know you
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  Speaker 1: think you can never repay, and I know you know
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  Speaker 1: your job isn't to repay it, it's to pay it forward.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you both for finding me. Thank you both for
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  Speaker 1: sharing this story. I am truly humbled, but mostly grateful.
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  Speaker 1: I will be in touch with both of you so
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  Speaker 1: I can help you share the importance of organ donation.
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  Speaker 1: I pray that the Lord blesses you, that he keeps you,
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  Speaker 1: that he gives you peace and joy, and that he
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  Speaker 1: surrounds you and your family with mighty angels and of
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  Speaker 1: course his Holy Spirit and love. I will be back
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  Speaker 1: next week to continue sharing this holiday season with solid
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  Speaker 5: Delh