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Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome back to Bounce Forward with me, Tip Haul.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land

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Speaker 1: in which I'm recording this podcast, the wore hundred people

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Speaker 1: of the Cooler Nation. I pay my respect to elders

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Speaker 1: past and present. Laura came at me with a great question. Hi,

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Speaker 1: Tif This is a bit of a more personal question

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Speaker 1: for you. But I listened to your episode with Ed

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Speaker 1: on the podcast last year and I would love to

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Speaker 1: hear about your love story. How did you actually meet Ed?

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Speaker 1: What was your wedding like? And do you have any

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Speaker 1: tips on how to stay married for so long?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Ed?

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Speaker 2: Yes, Okay, let's talk about how I met Ed.

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Speaker 1: I was working as a gladiator, which was a weird

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Speaker 1: job anyway, and I was on Tally in a little

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Speaker 1: bra and lycra panties and boxing boots and some mechanical wings,

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Speaker 1: and my hair was out with feathers in it, and it.

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Speaker 2: Was a good look like it was like a you know,

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Speaker 2: it looked good.

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Speaker 1: I reckon, I look good back then, and Ed turned

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Speaker 1: to his housemaid at the time, who is now a

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Speaker 1: good friend of ours, and said, I'm going to marry

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Speaker 1: that girl. On the TV and his housemates said, you're

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Speaker 1: going to marry the Gladiator angel and Ed said, yep,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to marry that girl. As it happened, Ed

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Speaker 1: was working for Nova at the time as a broadcaster

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Speaker 1: and he was flown up to Sydney where we were

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Speaker 1: filming Gladiators to interview the gladiators. And I was about

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Speaker 1: to go out and compete. And you've got to understand,

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Speaker 1: I'm in competition mode here. I'm about to meet someone

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Speaker 1: out on the obstacle course that wants to kill me

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Speaker 1: basically for money, and they're going to hurt me.

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Speaker 2: And I've got to be focused, right.

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Speaker 1: My head's got to be in the game because you

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Speaker 1: can get hurt if you distracted. And here I am

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Speaker 1: about to go out and compete, so focused, and this

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Speaker 1: guy is trying to chat me up, sort of interview me,

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Speaker 1: but sort.

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Speaker 2: Of like you know, how's your day been?

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Speaker 1: Like what, I don't want to talk to you, And

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Speaker 1: so I was a bit rude and like barred him.

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Speaker 1: Now it's not a time for this, no no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 2: And I didn't even remember meeting him, to be honest,

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Speaker 2: But he didn't give up. He didn't give up.

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Speaker 1: When I finished filming Gladiator As I came back to

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Speaker 1: Melbourne to do press, and Ed requested through publicity that

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Speaker 1: I go into the breakfast radio show he was doing

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Speaker 1: at the time and do an interview in the radio station.

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Speaker 1: And so I went along and we had a great

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Speaker 1: interview and a lot of chemistry, you know, in the interview,

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Speaker 1: and then I left and then he asked me back

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Speaker 1: again on breakfast radio. It's sort of unusual to have

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Speaker 1: the same guests back like two or three times in

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Speaker 1: a row. It's a bit unusual. But he kept asking

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Speaker 1: me back, and I kept happily going back. And on

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Speaker 1: the third time that I went in for an interview,

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Speaker 1: I said to him, look, do you want my number,

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Speaker 1: because it would be a lot easier just to call

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Speaker 1: do an interview on the radio station. And he was

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Speaker 1: like shocked, and he quickly took my number and we

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Speaker 1: went out for dinner. We went to Japanese teriarchy Ed

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Speaker 1: didn't have a car. He rode his bicycle and I

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Speaker 1: had my Brena. You know, we're early twenties at this stage,

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Speaker 1: and he took me out for dinner and then we

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Speaker 1: had a little kiss and I thought, I really like

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Speaker 1: this guy. I really like him, and then we were

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Speaker 1: inseparable for many years. That was like two thousand and seven,

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Speaker 1: and about seven years later, in twenty fourteen, we got married.

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Speaker 1: We got married on the wedding anniversary of my parents,

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Speaker 1: who were still married and celebrating something like fifty years

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Speaker 1: marriage this year. And we had a beautiful wedding, very traditional.

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Speaker 1: Ed wanted me to walk down the aisle to the

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Speaker 1: traditional bridal music D D D. And I wore a

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Speaker 1: very traditional white dress. It was just a boat neckline,

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Speaker 1: bit puffy like a princess dress, and had a tiny

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Speaker 1: little belt. I've never shared a picture of my wedding

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Speaker 1: dress some so that's like the first description anyone's ever got.

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Speaker 1: And I had these beautiful white shoes with a blue

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Speaker 1: my dress into the pocket my grandmother's bracelet. She had

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Speaker 1: passed away a week before my wedding, which was so sad,

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Speaker 1: and that was something borrowed. We had so many friends

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Speaker 1: and family come and write us letters on how beautiful

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Speaker 2: Afterwards. It was intimate, it wasn't a big wedding.

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Speaker 1: This is gonna sound weird, but if I can find

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Speaker 2: I decorated the tables with.

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Speaker 1: Veggies and kale and kale roses and beautiful bunches of carrots,

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Speaker 1: and because you know, it was still healthy and fitnessy

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Speaker 1: and whatever, but it was these beautiful, rich, big tables

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Speaker 1: of veggies that instead of flowers, which was cost effective,

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Speaker 1: but it also looked really gorgeous. And then we had

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Speaker 1: a huge curtain pull back and there was ladders, big ladders,

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Speaker 1: and on each run of the ladders were the desserts,

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Speaker 1: and just ladders and ladders and ladders of desserts, which

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Speaker 1: was beautiful.

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 1: I loved our wedding, and Ed cried all the way

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Speaker 1: through it. I didn't shed a tear into this day.

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Speaker 1: He's like, what's wrong with you?

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Speaker 2: But I was just so happy. I was even too

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Speaker 1: I was just so like beaming. We had been together

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Speaker 1: for like eight years or something. It was time. It

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Speaker 1: was the right time for us. I was thirty and

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Speaker 1: I wanted to have children, and it was just such

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Speaker 1: a gorgeous wedding. But Ed was just bawling his eyes

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Speaker 1: out the whole time, which was lovely. He cried when

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Speaker 1: I walk down the aisle, he cried when he said

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Speaker 1: a few words at the reception, and just to have

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Speaker 1: our friends fly in from all over. It was a

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Speaker 1: Melbourne wedding, was so beautiful. Do I have any tips

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Speaker 1: how I stay married this long? I think you have

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Speaker 1: to have a real admiration and respect for each other.

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Speaker 1: I really, really really respect my husband. I think he's

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Speaker 1: so talented and I really admire him. I am his

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Speaker 1: biggest fan, and I think that being each other's biggest

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Speaker 1: fan and always pumping each other up, being like you

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Speaker 1: can do this is really important. And also having your

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Speaker 1: own thing going on, it's really important. I've always had

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Speaker 1: my first baby, my Tixo, my little my business which

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Speaker 1: was a small, little business and it has grown to

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Speaker 1: a medium sized company now. And I've always had that love,

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Speaker 1: Ed's always loved his radio and his television, and he's

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Speaker 1: you know, comedy, He's always loved that, and we've it's

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Speaker 1: very separate, but we've had our own drive and our

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Speaker 1: live in each other's pockets. I think that's really important

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Speaker 1: and healthy. My biggest tip I think, and well I

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Speaker 1: married a comedian, I think, is you've got to have

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Speaker 2: You got to have a laugh, Like even on.

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Speaker 1: The biggest days where the baby's done a punami.

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Speaker 2: You know, work is intense.

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Speaker 1: You know, the kids are out of control, like literally

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Speaker 2: The house is a disaster. Sometimes we just crack.

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Speaker 1: Up laughing, like like oh my god, but you just

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Speaker 1: like edit, I'll have a laugh, he'll crack a joke,

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Speaker 1: and I will just lose it, you know. And I

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Speaker 1: our marriage. It'll be ten years on October the twenty

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Speaker 1: fifth this year. I don't know if, I don't know

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Speaker 1: how we'll celebrate, probably a low key date or something

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Speaker 1: And it's always nice to sort of acknowledge that. It's

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Speaker 1: also my parents' wedding anniversary also, and they've been married forever.

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Speaker 1: They met when they were like eleven years old at

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Speaker 1: But my brother is twenty six, and it's just a

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Speaker 1: different world now because Ed and I met before social

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Speaker 1: media and so we had that experience of Ed calling me,

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Speaker 1: And you know, we had that experience of dating and

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Speaker 1: catching up face to face. And my brother now dating

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Speaker 1: You know, the only twenty year old I know who

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Speaker 2: It's just a different world now.

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Speaker 1: And I'm really grateful that I met Ed without the

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Speaker 1: I think hobbies are really important. I've always had my taekwondo,

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Speaker 1: And it sounds a little nerdy, but we would get

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Speaker 2: And I just love that.

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Speaker 1: And I would always invite Ed to see the demonstrations,

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Speaker 2: We weren't that extreme, but we liked to think we were.

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Speaker 1: And we actually made it onto Australia's Got Talent into

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Speaker 1: Have your own passions, have your own hobbies, and involve

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Speaker 1: them as much as you can support them. And I

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Speaker 1: guess things really changed for Ed and I when we

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Speaker 1: became parents, because we always had a rhythm with it

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Speaker 1: best of each other. You know, seeing Ed as a

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Speaker 1: But you also see each other ragged and tied and

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Speaker 1: And I had such a great time in that wedding dress.

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Speaker 1: want to wear my wedding dress. I didn't want to

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Speaker 1: And I'm at peace with it now. Definitely time to

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Speaker 1: move on. So thank you for that question, Laura.

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Speaker 2: A bit of a personal.

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