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Speaker 2: I want to welcome a very famous special guest. Her

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Speaker 2: name is Caitlin. Good morning, Kaitlin, Good morning Now, Caitlin.

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Speaker 2: People might know you because you have gone wildly viral

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Speaker 2: in the last I don't know how what has it

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Speaker 2: been forty eight seventy two hours. It's just a few

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Speaker 2: days since you became since and people don't necessarily know

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Speaker 2: what I'm talking about yet, but I mean this has

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Speaker 2: been what less than a week? Right, Yeah, it's been.

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Speaker 1: Since Friday, so just a few days.

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Speaker 2: So Caitlin is Lila's mom, and Lila is two years old.

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Speaker 2: And you've probably heard of this, of this duo because

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Speaker 2: Taylor Swift donated one hundred thousand dollars to your GoFundMe

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Speaker 2: for your daughter who is battling a rare form of

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Speaker 2: brain cancer stage four. But this, this is the mom

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Speaker 2: and daughter duo that you've been hearing about that's gone viral.

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Speaker 2: So first of all, we're wishing the best to Lila,

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Speaker 2: and I understand she had surgery and now she's going

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Speaker 2: through some treatment. But what's the most importantly what is

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Speaker 2: the prognosis, Like, what's the outlook?

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Speaker 1: Oh so well, thank you for praying for us and

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Speaker 1: thinking about us. The prognosis isn't the greatest our. Doctors

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Speaker 1: don't really like to talk about it too much because it,

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Speaker 1: you know, it brings us down. But she has about

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Speaker 1: a forty percent survival of the next five years. Over

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Speaker 1: the next two years is when her chances of death

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Speaker 1: are like way hire the most steps to her in

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Speaker 1: the first two years of diagnosis. So the odds are

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Speaker 1: not in our favor at this moment.

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Speaker 2: But it's why you know, you having the resources that

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Speaker 2: you need to get the best care for Lilah are

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Speaker 2: so important, which I'm sure is where the GoFundMe came from.

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Speaker 2: And so Taylor saw the video of your little girl

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Speaker 2: singing along to a song and saying that that was

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Speaker 2: her friend. That's how this all started.

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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, it all started with Sila. She's just amazing.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so you listened to Taylor while you were pregnant

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Speaker 2: with her, and so you're saying, I've read that she

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Speaker 2: is a Swiftie from birth. But how did the video

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Speaker 2: come about? What did she say? And then when did

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Speaker 2: you find out that Taylor had donated?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so the video started because I was just listening

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Speaker 1: to Taylor's new album and Lylah heard it and she said,

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Speaker 1: that's Taylor Swift. Mom. I was like, oh, see it is,

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Speaker 1: and she's like, I really want to listen to it.

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Speaker 1: So I set up the iPad for her on the

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Speaker 1: new music video for her, and I just heard filman

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Speaker 1: because I filmed everything she does, and she's just dancing

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Speaker 1: along and out of nowhere, she looks at the video

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Speaker 1: of Taylor and she goes, that's my friend, and it

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Speaker 1: kind of took me by surprise. I didn't realize what

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Speaker 1: And she's like yeah, And it just went viral from there.

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Speaker 1: Everyone started tagging Taylor. I didn't expect anything to come

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Speaker 1: of it. I just wanted to, you know, show Lila.

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Speaker 1: And on Friday, my husband called me up and he's like,

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Speaker 1: Taylor Swift just gave us one hundred thousand dollars. Like

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Speaker 1: that's just how he opened the conversation.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that is amazing. So she must have seen the

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Speaker 2: video then, and it is the cutest video. Leila is

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Speaker 2: a beautiful little girl. And and so that was I

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Speaker 2: think it was what and it's sixty thousand of one

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Speaker 2: hundred thousand, that was your goal, I believe if I

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Speaker 2: dollars and then since then Swift Tisa started to donate

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Speaker 2: and as of this morning, he was like at three

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Speaker 1: So our goal I think was a right around sixty thousand,

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Speaker 1: Taylor donated. Once she donated, like we were just blown away.

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Speaker 1: I didn't think anything more would come of it. And

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Speaker 1: then the Swifties have almost doubled her donation now in

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Speaker 1: less than forty eight hours, and it has been insane.

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Speaker 2: That is amazing and I did see you online yesterday,

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Speaker 2: and I hate that you even have to address this, Caitlin,

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Speaker 2: but I you gotta love the internet, and I'd say

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Speaker 2: and there's been a lot of generosity out there, and

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Speaker 2: had to make it addressing the people who are saying, well,

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Speaker 2: are you going to give this money to other people?

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Speaker 2: First of all, I think you should be able to

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Speaker 2: process this. Second of all, and you made this point

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Speaker 2: and our show we in the Chicagoland area, we work

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Speaker 2: with a lot of different organizations who deal with children

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Speaker 2: with pediatric cancer. And you have no idea the resources

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Speaker 2: that you will need. And you were given this blessing

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Speaker 2: of over three hundred thousand dollars and I'm sure that

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Speaker 2: you'll find a way to pay it forward, but you

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Speaker 1: Right And the thing is is that we don't know

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Speaker 1: how much treatment's going to cost at the end of

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Speaker 1: all of this, and we don't know what treatment she's

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Speaker 1: going to need to surpass, what we're doing already. I

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Speaker 1: know that our insurance has been built at least a

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Speaker 1: million dollars for only one round us want of sure

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Speaker 1: it costs a lot, and I don't know how much

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Speaker 1: It takes months for insurance to process things. So when

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Speaker 1: we started our GoFundMe, we don't like asking for things.

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Speaker 1: We're very you know, prideful people. We didn't want to

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Speaker 1: ask for help. So we actually originally started our gofunding

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Speaker 1: with a school of five thousand dollars because you're like, well,

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Speaker 1: we don't know what we need that will probably help us,

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Speaker 1: just we'll see, like fiting groceries while we're going through this,

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Speaker 1: And while our community rallied behind us and supported us,

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Speaker 1: take advantage of anyone. But treatment in itself, like, we

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Speaker 2: The cost is, right, so you have far surpassed your goal,

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Speaker 2: and Taylor helped you do it, and the swiftiest helps

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Speaker 2: you do it. But I mean the idea that you

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Speaker 2: don't have to justify to anybody what you do with

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Speaker 2: fight this and you know, the travel that you may incur,

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Speaker 2: or the specialists that you may visit, or who knows,

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Speaker 2: maybe somewhere across the world they have a better solution

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Speaker 2: for Lilah, your daughter, and if and now you have

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Speaker 2: the resources to be able to do that. And I'm

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Speaker 2: certain that not only are you raising awareness right now,

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Speaker 2: but I think also I'm sure you'll find a way

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Speaker 2: to pay it for it. But I saw you yesterday

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Speaker 2: having to justify this, and I hated to see it

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Speaker 2: because I don't think you should have to worry about that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you. It's we are eventually going to do something.

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Speaker 1: We have tons of like, even if it's not a

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Speaker 1: monetary thing, we are going to pay it forward in

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Speaker 1: some way once we are in that position to do so.

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Speaker 3: You take your blessing. Just focus on that little one

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Speaker 3: and get through this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, And this is Caitlin and her daughter.

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Speaker 2: Lylah is the two year old in the viral video

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Speaker 2: that you've probably seen. Taylor Swift donated one hundred thousand

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Speaker 2: dollars to the campaign. Now, I don't know if I've

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Speaker 2: read this or not, but have you heard from Taylor

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Speaker 2: one hundred thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: No, we haven't heard anything from Taylor, nor do I

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Speaker 1: expect to. A lot of people keep saying, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: you're totally going to meet her. I have no expectation

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Speaker 1: for her to ever say anything. She has blessed our family.

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Speaker 1: She has done more than enough and more than I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, look all, we wish you the best. We

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Speaker 2: wish Lyah the best. Such a beautiful little girl, amazing story.

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Speaker 2: And you know, people gonna say what they want about

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Speaker 2: Taylor and about the Swifties, but she is generous and

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Speaker 2: she is thoughtful, and she does step up, and so

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Speaker 2: does her fan base. I'm surprised they have any money left,

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Speaker 2: but we hope to keep in touch of anything that

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Speaker 2: we can do here to help you. Please let us know,

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Speaker 2: and obviously wishing you and your family the very best,

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Speaker 2: and thanks for taking the time to talk to us.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for sharing your story. I really

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Speaker 2: Of course, all the best to you. Yeah, be strong,

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Speaker 2: have a great morning, and we will post the uh,

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Speaker 2: we'll post that video if we haven't already, and then

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Speaker 2: let's post the GoFundMe too if anybody wants to help

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Speaker 2: and over again. And of course the internet has got

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Speaker 2: an internet. Stop it, guys, stop interneting.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, I mean that's If that doesn't show where

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Speaker 3: we're at in our world, I don't know what does.

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Speaker 3: She does not need to defend or explain her blessing.

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Speaker 3: She's going through probably the worst thing that a family

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Speaker 2: Where does Yeah? Yeah, and you know, in Chicagoland we

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Speaker 2: work with Cal's Angels. We've worked with which is an

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Speaker 2: organization that is in place to help families who are

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Speaker 2: battling pediatric cancer. And over the years, I've learned so

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Speaker 2: much about how little research and how little treatment there is,

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Speaker 2: Ronald McDonald House another organization that we work with that's providing,

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Speaker 2: these are there's just so many aspects of this that

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Speaker 2: people don't think about. How much is the treatment, how

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Speaker 2: much will insurance cover? How much of that battle are

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Speaker 2: you going to win? If you've ever tried to fight

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Speaker 2: the insurance company, you know, do you have access to

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Speaker 2: experimental treatment to save your kid's life, how much is

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Speaker 2: that going to cost?

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Speaker 3: You have to quit your job, you know, to be

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Speaker 2: You know, where where is this treatment taking place? Is

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Speaker 2: it down the street, is it in a different city,

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Speaker 2: is it a different part of the country. How much

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Speaker 2: she she will probably need all of that money. And

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Speaker 2: obviously we're wishing them the very best. Showbiz showing a

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Speaker 2: little bit late. We'll do that next six hundred Bucks

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Speaker 2: in the showdown, Waiting at the phone, why did somebody

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