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Speaker 1: Apod Shape Production. Welcome back to another episode of Am

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Speaker 1: I A Bad Mom? Podcast?

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Speaker 2: You know sometimes when I tell people what our podcast

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Speaker 2: is called, and like I it's called am I A

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Speaker 2: Bad Mom? And they go, oh, I'm sure you're not

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Speaker 2: a bad mom?

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Speaker 1: Like, no, really, I am. You should hear some of

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Speaker 1: the chats we have.

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Speaker 3: Questionable depend on what day, what weekend we've had, and

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Speaker 3: what it's looking like for the forecast. Speaking of forecasts,

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Speaker 3: we're well into term three, yeah, and Elsie is already

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Speaker 3: on the countdown to camp. She's got her first camp

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Speaker 3: this term, two nights, three days, and I think it's

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Speaker 3: like week seven or week eight, and she's already on

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Speaker 3: the countdown.

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Speaker 1: I feel like that kid will love a school camp.

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 3: She is so excited because she has also watched Gracie

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Speaker 3: do four, five six camps already because Grade six has

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Speaker 3: already had their camp. So she's ready.

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Speaker 1: She's ready.

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Speaker 3: She wants to sink her teeth into I feel like e.

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Speaker 3: She goes, how are you going to be without me? Mum?

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Speaker 1: What did you say?

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Speaker 3: I looked at her and I was like, what's that

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Speaker 3: supposed to me? She goes, Oh, I just think you're

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Speaker 3: going to miss me too much.

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Speaker 1: I looked at her.

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Speaker 3: I was like, I think you're going to miss me

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Speaker 3: too much. I was like, who's going to be doing

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Speaker 3: everything for you? And when you have dinner, who's going

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Speaker 3: to say that's okay, you don't have to eat that.

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Speaker 3: They won't literally, Katie know whereever Lie. She came home

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Speaker 3: the next day and was like, Mom, I spoke to

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Speaker 3: the teacher about how I don't eat everything. Oh, do

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Speaker 3: you have an allergy to something or is it just

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Speaker 3: a preference? And she was like, what does that mean.

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Speaker 3: I was like, you're just a preference, You're not an analogy.

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Speaker 2: Don't tell her what it means because then she'll start

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Speaker 2: throwing the allergy word at Yeah, I got an allergy

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Speaker 2: freaking vegetables, this kid.

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Speaker 3: Am I a bad mum for trying to lighten the mood.

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Speaker 3: Just lightening the mood, which is actually not my role

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Speaker 3: naturally in our family dynamic. You know how people play

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Speaker 3: roles in families.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like Mum's hitler, Dad's the clown.

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Speaker 3: Yes, nailed it. That was one hundred out of a hundred.

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Speaker 3: That's exactly our family dynamic. And over the weekend, typically

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Speaker 3: in the thirday household. This always happens, but it's always

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Speaker 3: a late Friday AVO.

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Speaker 1: Something goes down.

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Speaker 3: And it was really funny because a couple of days

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Speaker 3: before that, I had this moment, this flicker through my

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Speaker 3: brain of going touch wood. We've been really lucky. No

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Speaker 3: like broken bones, No this, no that, don't get me wrong.

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Speaker 3: Stacked the pee wee fifty a couple of months back

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Speaker 3: with her cousin on the back and round dead set

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Speaker 3: straight into the orange tree.

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Speaker 1: Everyone survived, what about the oranges?

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Speaker 3: The orange tree was a little worse for wet, but

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Speaker 3: everyone survived and everyone had helmet and protective giron. But

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Speaker 3: I mean no, like we didn't have our injuries.

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Speaker 1: Out of it.

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Speaker 3: So carry forward Friday afternoon. I think I just popped

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Speaker 3: out to get stuff for dinner, so maybe maximum fifteen minutes.

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Speaker 3: Elsie was running around. She was still in school uniform,

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Speaker 3: doing a thing. Everyone was doing their own thing. I

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Speaker 3: come home from the shop's mum goes, I think that

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Speaker 3: it's quite bad, but I'm not too sure. And I

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Speaker 3: looked at her and I was like, you know, hands

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Speaker 3: full of groceries, and I was like what, she goes,

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Speaker 3: Elsie's out the back. She's crying pretty bad. She's fallen.

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Speaker 1: I was like, fuck, okay.

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Speaker 3: So I like put everything down, and I could hear her,

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Speaker 3: you know the difference in cry of like I'm putting

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Speaker 3: it a bit on because I'm getting a bit of

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Speaker 3: attention kind of vibe. And I was like, but this

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Speaker 3: was real, And I thought, are you serious? Friday afternoon.

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Speaker 1: I haven't even had the grocer I don't even.

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Speaker 3: Unpacked the groceries. The idea had possibly crossed my mind

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Speaker 3: about having a wine, and I was like, this is

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Speaker 3: fucking unreal, Like put everything down. When outside, I was like, Dube,

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Speaker 3: what's wrong? And then Dad's there trying to make a

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Speaker 3: but genuinely, this child has hurt herself. Now I look

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Speaker 3: to the fence. We've got like this fence that would

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Speaker 3: be the same height of like pool fence, so it's

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Speaker 3: still quite a Now she was standing on top of that,

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Speaker 3: so she's got her height on top of the fence height.

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Speaker 3: She's climbing along this fence top and then the fence

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Speaker 3: snaps and just falls and she falls with it and

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Speaker 1: Were you angry about the broken fence.

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Speaker 3: I looked at the fans. The fence is fucked, like,

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Speaker 3: it's clearly fuck like there's no recovery in that that's gone.

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Speaker 3: And I'm looking at her, going, you absolutely amping this

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Speaker 3: up right now because it's Friday. I don't want to

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Speaker 3: go to the hospital.

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Speaker 1: It's like I'm.

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Speaker 2: Just about to open a bottle of wine. This is

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Speaker 2: a really inconvenient timing.

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Speaker 1: Has done it in the morning.

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Speaker 3: Anyway.

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Speaker 1: Sam's looking at me, going, no, she's.

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Speaker 3: Fine, and I'm like, she's obviously not. So I'm trying

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Speaker 3: to like talk to her, you know, trying to lighten

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Speaker 3: the mood but kind of you know, calm her down

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Speaker 3: and see if I can get her to talk me

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Speaker 3: through the movement of her foot. Can you do this?

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Speaker 3: Can you do that? She could see that I was

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Speaker 3: genuinely concerned, thinking more about myself of going to a

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Speaker 3: hospital on a Friday night with a child. But she

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Speaker 3: wouldn't move, it wouldn't wait there, And I'm thinking, you're

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Speaker 3: a ship mum, and I sort of carried over Saturday

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Speaker 3: hoping for a miraculous recovery overnight.

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Speaker 1: Did you do the whole put a cold pack on it? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: here's a band aid, have glass of water and a

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Speaker 1: fine yeah, yeah yeah, pop it up.

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Speaker 3: Let's see if we can get some elevation mite sort of. Anyway,

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Speaker 3: by Saturday morning, it's getting bigger. Oh no, yeah, by

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Speaker 3: Sunday morning, it's getting bigger.

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Speaker 1: You have left it three days.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't broken, Katie. That's why I was like, it's

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Speaker 3: just swollen. She was also on crutches by this stage.

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Speaker 3: We have crutches at home because we go through.

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Speaker 1: This ephir bit, because if it's not the kids.

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Speaker 3: It's me. We have like moon boots just laying around.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, she's on crutches, loving it, just milking this attention.

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Speaker 3: People are like, oh my god, what did you do?

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Speaker 3: You know, she wasn't telling people what she did, just

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Speaker 3: a bit embarrassed that she'd snap the fence in half.

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Speaker 3: And anyways, by Monday morning, I said to mum, look,

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Speaker 3: it's not I had work, it's not going down. I've

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Speaker 3: organized the appointments. Can you take her together the ext

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Speaker 3: ray down and then I'll meet your home. By that

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Speaker 3: time I'll be home from what kind of thing?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 3: No breaks, Katie, no breaks, got an ultra sound done.

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Speaker 3: Monday afternoon no nothing, no torn ligaments, no nothing. I said,

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Speaker 3: looked at this kid, you hamming this up? Like are

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Speaker 3: you dead set? You've got a day of school. I've

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Speaker 3: looked after you extra all weekend because I've basically had

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Speaker 3: to carry you everywhere. I was like, are you hamming

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Speaker 3: this up?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 3: What? Put your four on the ground and walk if

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Speaker 3: you were turning this on anyway. I think it's a

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Speaker 3: bit of bone bruising. But I'm pleased to say that

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Speaker 3: the crutches have resigned for a little bit and nothing's

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Speaker 3: severely wrong. But guess what happened to me on Sunday?

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Speaker 1: You broke your foot.

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Speaker 3: I fucking almost slipped into the I was doing like

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Speaker 3: this recovery center thing and I went to step into

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Speaker 3: the cold plunge pool and just fucking slid straight across

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Speaker 3: the front. I had to fall headfirst into this cold

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Speaker 3: plunge pool. What time of day was this, Like eleven

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Speaker 3: o'clock in the morning, Sunday morning. But I was like

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Speaker 3: straight away came like I sort of just caught myself.

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Speaker 3: Sort of. It hurt a little bit, but I didn't

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Speaker 3: want to play it up because it was in front

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Speaker 3: of people. And I looked at everyone, and I was like,

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Speaker 3: do you know what that was? That was karma. That

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Speaker 3: was karma for me being a bad mum not taking

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Speaker 3: my child to get an extray on Friday night. It's

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Speaker 3: now Sunday. I was like, that is just okay. I

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Speaker 3: get it.

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Speaker 2: Well, at least she didn't make your kid with a

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Speaker 2: broken heel hop around Vanuatu for a week.

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Speaker 3: Katie, It's all I thought about was you On the

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Speaker 3: Friday night. I was like, nah, it can't be worse

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Speaker 3: than Katie made one of the girls hop around van

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Speaker 3: Wachu with no crutches, eating even on sand.

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Speaker 1: Because I didn't believe it. I didn't believe this.

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Speaker 2: I thought I thought she was having it on. And

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Speaker 2: it wasn't until literally the last day and we were

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Speaker 2: in the duty free shop. I was buying vodka and

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Speaker 2: sunny and I was like, geez, get the par