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Speaker 1: It is Monday, March ninth, and a high school senior

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Speaker 1: one in which most of us probably participated in when

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Speaker 1: we were kids. With that, welcome to this episode of

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Speaker 1: Amy and TJ an awful tragedy that is Robes. Now

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Speaker 1: a new part of this story is really tugging at

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Speaker 1: us all in our heartstrings about this. Yes, it's actually

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Speaker 1: the wife of the guy who died who is pleading

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Speaker 1: that the teenager not be charged. Robes will get into

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Speaker 1: the details, but that's the line. That's the bottom line.

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Speaker 1: Now that's turned the story, yes, into a tragedy. But Robes,

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Speaker 1: what's the next thing it's become now, right, tragedy at first,

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Speaker 1: and now it's there's a different twist or angle to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're like you said, it pulls on your heart

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Speaker 2: streams because yes, a forty year old math teacher died

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Speaker 2: and his wife instead of wanting justice or revenge for

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Speaker 2: the teens and we'll get into the prank that they

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Speaker 2: were basically rolling their house and I say rolling, that's

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Speaker 2: what we call it when you throw toilet paper up

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Speaker 2: in the trees and just a high school prank but

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Speaker 2: it ended up tragically killing her husband. And she now says,

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Speaker 2: I don't want that teenager charge. And he has been

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Speaker 2: charged with vehicular homicide. And what an amazing act of

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Speaker 2: forgiveness and understanding that this was just an accident.

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Speaker 1: This happened over the weekend, folks. This is down in Gainesville, Georgia.

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Speaker 1: It's about an hour northeast of Atlanta. To give you

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Speaker 1: some perspective there. But it was a junior senior prank

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Speaker 1: and these kids were out, five of them in two

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Speaker 1: separate cars. And yes, they threw toilet paper at the

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Speaker 1: house of their teacher. So what happened after that? As

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Speaker 1: they tossed the toilet paper, the kids were hopping back

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Speaker 1: in their cars to take off. The teacher comes outside

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Speaker 1: and as the cars are taking off, the teacher, according

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Speaker 1: car didn't swerve. They say, actually that was slick pavement.

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Speaker 1: He accidentally slipped and fell into the street where the

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Speaker 1: but Robes there on the scene. Even you imagine the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so look, and I just put myself in these kids' places,

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Speaker 2: because I'll admit I did this with my friends multiple times,

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Speaker 2: a fun prank. It wasn't even mean spirited. I look

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Speaker 2: it's just something that kids do and.

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Speaker 3: Just a playful kind of hahaha. He was a beloved

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Speaker 2: His wife is also a math teacher at the same

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Speaker 2: high school, so they were just having fun.

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Speaker 3: But to think that it just so many things had

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Speaker 2: But then know that the kids got out of the

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately he didn't survive.

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Speaker 1: It did not keep authorities from charging Jaden Ryan Wallace,

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Speaker 1: eighteen years old. He is charged with first degree vehicular homicide,

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Speaker 1: reckless driving, criminal trespassing, and littering. They have not ruled

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Speaker 1: other kids that he was with. Again, it was five

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Speaker 1: kids in total, but he was driving the car in particular. Now,

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Speaker 1: the other part of this story to add robes is

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Speaker 1: that they say the teacher. When I first read the story,

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Speaker 1: I thought he came out he was upset with the kids. No,

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Speaker 1: that's not it. This was an annual tradition, planned prank.

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Speaker 1: He came out robes to be a part of it

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Speaker 1: and almost kind of bust them playfully. He wasn't. He

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Speaker 1: He ran out there because he knew the kids, He

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like this is It's almost like they were rolling

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Speaker 2: the house of the teacher they loved, like as a joke,

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Speaker 2: pull up this picture. This teacher, Jason Hughes is his name,

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Speaker 2: and they're just this beautiful family. They had moved to

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Speaker 2: that's we went rolling on Friday nights and just yeah,

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Speaker 1: There have been robes and we've seen incidents over the

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Speaker 1: then they run away. Yeah, we've seen that some. There

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Speaker 1: are times and there are incidents where there are misunderstandings

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Speaker 1: a prank. That's one thing. This was not that at all.

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Speaker 1: Robes were actually talking about a slip. This is the

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Speaker 1: worst type of why you end up asking if you're religious, like,

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Speaker 1: what sense and meaning of life can you make of this?

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Speaker 1: It was an accident. Now it's up to legally rose

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Speaker 1: before we even saw and we're gonna read here in

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Speaker 1: her statement, we were both saying to each other, man,

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Speaker 2: And I because it just obviously he is going to

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Speaker 2: I don't even know that he's out of jail yet.

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Speaker 2: Did you see that he was, because it said as

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Speaker 3: So this is a kid. This happened Friday night.

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Speaker 2: To think he's just sitting in that jail cell and

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Speaker 1: All the chargers away. You don't drop every charge right now.

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Speaker 3: Hell be in his own prison.

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Speaker 1: There's that punishment that he is getting. Romes. We do

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the prosecutor has to weigh. And

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Speaker 1: be done, who should we listen to? Robes? We should

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Speaker 1: she has released two statements that will break your heart.

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Speaker 1: Stay here.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ,

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Speaker 2: where we are talking about a playful high school prank

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Speaker 2: that turned deadly. Unfortunately, forty year old Jason Hughes, a

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Speaker 2: beloved math teacher in Hall County, Georgia. This is in Gainesville, Georgia,

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Speaker 3: Of his house.

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Speaker 2: It was a playful prank where he was going to

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Speaker 3: Rolled his house with toilet paper.

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Speaker 2: It was an annual prank and he was coming out

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Speaker 2: The kids stopped and unfortunately mister Hughes died at the

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Speaker 1: And she and two separate ones. She was she alluded

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Speaker 1: more direct in what she was requesting, but the first

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Speaker 1: one part of it says, quote, our family wants to

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Speaker 1: thank the Hall County community for the outpouring of prayers

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Speaker 1: grieve the loss of Jason. We ask that you continue

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Speaker 1: us in extending grace and mercy to them as Christ

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Speaker 1: is now again, rhobes. We've seen incident. Different type of crimes,

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Speaker 1: But still to see at a woman who lost her

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Speaker 1: I want to meet this lady.

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Speaker 3: I do too.

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Speaker 2: And look, we were looking up this family and the

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Speaker 2: something that Jason himself put out about moving to Gainesville

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Speaker 3: It's you can just get.

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Speaker 2: A sense of who this family is and who Jason was.

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Speaker 2: Just to read his own words talking about teaching in

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Speaker 2: how he put this to teach and serve at North

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Speaker 3: See God move here.

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Speaker 2: Faith was such a huge part of their family, and

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Speaker 2: you can see that playing out. It's one thing to

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Speaker 2: say that you're a Christian, it's one thing to say

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Speaker 3: But wow, she is proving it by her words.

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Speaker 1: She's doing this in practice. Again, folks, you would have

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Speaker 1: to assume that night the whole family was at home

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Speaker 1: is now that is her number one priority in everything,

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Speaker 1: and so to see this and this is the other

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Speaker 1: part she put out again from Laura Hughes, the widow

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Speaker 1: of the teacher killed, saying, this is a terrible tragedy

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Speaker 1: and our family is determined to prevent a separate tragedy

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the law says about prosecutors having

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Speaker 2: We've talked about it, and it just seems like that

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Speaker 2: the discretion of the prosecutor. But the whole county Sheriff's

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Speaker 2: office has said that the four other students are being

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Speaker 2: charged with criminal trespass and littering. Now, obviously that's nothing

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Speaker 1: They're getting charge of littering. Somebody's dead and we had time.

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Speaker 1: But I know, I guess they're just doing they want

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what to do with

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Speaker 1: this one. But to her point, Laura Hughes, I would

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Speaker 1: listen to her a separate tragedy. This was an accident.

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Speaker 1: It was horrible. I don't know what to do with

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Speaker 2: I was I agree that, look, what he is going

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Speaker 3: I hate to use the word enough, but I do

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Speaker 3: believe that a plenty. Yes, I do believe that. And

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Speaker 3: I was just imagining.

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Speaker 2: Look, we're recording this, and this is the first day

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Speaker 2: back at school on Monday, at North Hall High School.

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Speaker 2: I cannot even imagine what it is like to be

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Speaker 2: at that high school today. This was a beloved math teacher.

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Speaker 2: Obviously his wife Laura, who was the other math teacher

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Speaker 2: I'm sure is not at school today. But my goodness,

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Speaker 2: it's just a It's an unspeakable tragedy. I wonder how

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Speaker 2: much this will change just the idea of pranks and

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Speaker 2: having fun because you see it. Maybe in the intention

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Speaker 3: I mean, is there a lesson here? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't The lesson, babe, is that sometimes crap has

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Speaker 1: happens and there's no explanation for it. You're supposed to

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Speaker 1: I don't know, es, I don't know, so if I

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Speaker 1: hadn't said that enough. But we want to pass this

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Speaker 1: a conversation and robes, this is a part of This

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Speaker 1: is not just a story. This is about human nature.

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Speaker 1: And this is about human being humanity, excuse me, and

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Speaker 1: grace and forgiveness and love. And Laura Hughes is teaching

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Speaker 1: us a lot at a time that she ain't got

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Speaker 3: It's beautiful. It's easy. It's easy to be kind.

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Speaker 2: It's easy to be to give grace to folks when

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Speaker 2: things are going your way and things are great and beautiful.

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Speaker 2: This is when it's hard when you're angry, when you're upset,

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Speaker 2: when you're devastated, and to see Laura Hughes be able

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Speaker 2: to make that statement that she's made it is.

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Speaker 3: Uh yeah wow. I have learned so much from her today.

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Speaker 2: It's a reminder for us all to be kind and

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Speaker 2: to recognize that forgiveness is probably the biggest gift, the

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Speaker 2: best gift you could give anyone. So with that, everyone,

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Speaker 2: thank you so much for listening to us. I'm Ami

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Speaker 2: Roboch alongside TJ.

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Speaker 3: Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.