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Speaker 2: ASH.

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Speaker 1: So, you're at a funeral, unfortunately for a cousin.

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Speaker 2: In the next thing, he found out you had a cousin.

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Speaker 2: More family, more family that I had no clue about.

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Speaker 2: All right, we're live ninety three three FLZ. It is

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Speaker 2: a Joe Show.

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Speaker 1: When did you find out about a completely new family member?

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Speaker 1: I talked about the potential of my dad having a

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Speaker 1: sister in Cuba. My family's currently trying to figure that out.

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Speaker 1: Might have an aunt. Hey, Derek, yes, now you more.

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Speaker 1: You had this family member, You just didn't know who

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Speaker 1: they were, how they were actually related.

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Speaker 2: You had a cousin, right, correct?

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Speaker 3: He was our entire lives. My mom always told us

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Speaker 3: she was our cousin. We used to go spend time

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Speaker 3: with her. Then when we were younger, we know, we

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Speaker 3: got separated. She ended up getting locked up for seventeen

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Speaker 3: years for some personal reasons. So so my mom was

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Speaker 3: close to being on her deathbed and then my sister

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Speaker 3: but was cousin at the time that we knew face

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Speaker 3: time does from prison letting us know what she was

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Speaker 3: getting out to come meet her. And blah blah blah.

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Speaker 3: So once we saw her, me and my brother looked

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Speaker 3: at each other on face time and saw that she

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Speaker 3: looked just like my mother, and we knew we had family.

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Speaker 3: We just could never figure it out. I took the

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Speaker 3: genealogy test, and come to find out, we have a

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Speaker 3: lot of siblings and cousins or whatever. But I never

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Speaker 3: cared about cousins. I wanted to find brothers and sisters.

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Speaker 3: So we looked up at each other and saw then

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Speaker 3: we asked our mother. Then our mother proceeded to tell

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Speaker 3: us that was a mistake that she had when she

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Speaker 3: was younger from a family member that accidentally, well not accidentally,

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Speaker 3: but you know, did what they were supposed to do

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Speaker 3: with my mother, and my mother left the child there

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Speaker 3: for the family to raise, and she ran away, and

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Speaker 3: I guess thirty one years later I found out that

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Speaker 3: my cousin was my sister the whole time, and see

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Speaker 3: but identical to my mother. So it's hard to see

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Speaker 3: her now now that my mother's dead and we've never

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Speaker 3: seen our sister, so it's hard to look at her

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Speaker 3: now because it looks like my mom.

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Speaker 2: So it's hard for you to relationship with her.

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Speaker 3: Life. Yeah, it's hard to have one.

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Speaker 2: Now, how didn't she feels you know what I mean,

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Speaker 2: Like it's not her foot.

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Speaker 3: No, it's not. So we've tried to talk to her

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Speaker 3: and get some you know, information about our family, this,

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Speaker 3: that and the third. But she's been locked up from

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Speaker 3: a majority of her life, so when she got out,

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Speaker 3: she just never like try to get herself together. So

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Speaker 3: I just like never continued that relationship with her. Communicate, No,

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Speaker 3: we communicate face Facebook every once in a while, but

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Speaker 3: I don't really get on Facebook because the only reason

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Speaker 3: why I had it was because my mother. Now she's gone.

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Speaker 3: I just left to go. But I tried to stay

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Speaker 3: in contact. She's just so involved in her world trying

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Speaker 3: to figure out what to do outside of not being

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Speaker 3: locked up.

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Speaker 2: But it's just hard.

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Speaker 1: Mates love Facebook if you've been locked up, I know,

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Speaker 1: your favorite social media Facebook.

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Speaker 2: But at least you found her. You know who she is,

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Speaker 2: and you know she's not a cousin, she's a sister.

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Speaker 1: I would rather know that, and then you know, if

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Speaker 1: you can't have the relationship with her, you know, life

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Speaker 1: goes on.

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Speaker 2: But you found the sibling.

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Speaker 1: And thank god too, by the way, that no one

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Speaker 1: has called in and said, Hey, I had a girlfriend.

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Speaker 1: You know I find out Yeah, my cousin Derek, thank

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Speaker 1: you for calling in and sharing your story. We could

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Speaker 1: take seven thousand calls everyone sharing these stories right now

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Speaker 1: of secret family members, and well, maybe we continue this

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Speaker 1: conversation later. We've spent enough time on it now, but

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Speaker 1: it sounds like this is definitely something that we will

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Speaker 1: circle back on it at some point.

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Speaker 2: And we haven't even asked Katie yet. If she's got

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Speaker 2: a secret she is sibling, I'm surprised.

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