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Speaker 1: The Michael Barry Show.

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Speaker 2: You will remember we had the sweetest old lady call

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Speaker 2: the show a couple months ago. Her name was Dolores,

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Speaker 2: and we loved her, and so many of you did

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Speaker 2: as well. And she wanted to go for an estate sale,

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Speaker 2: but she didn't have him body to take her anymore.

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Speaker 2: So our creative director Jim Mudd, who lost his own

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Speaker 2: mother who's also named Loretta, a couple of years back,

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Speaker 2: he said, I'll take her, so he did. They went

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Speaker 2: out to lunch at Federal American Grill and when they

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Speaker 2: were done, they sat down for a short conversation.

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Speaker 3: And here's how it went. Earlier, when we were talking,

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Speaker 3: you were telling me that you met your husband in

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Speaker 3: a very unusual way. Can you tell me that story.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I was visiting a friend and I had Mike.

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Speaker 4: I was driving and I'd come up to an intersection

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Speaker 4: that I was supposed to stop, and I kept going.

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Speaker 4: My brakes failed and I hit a young man in

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Speaker 4: his father's new car and had to call my station

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Speaker 4: that I always did my business.

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Speaker 3: At the gas station.

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Speaker 4: The gas station at that time, they filled your tank,

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Speaker 4: worked on your cars, did everything, and I called to

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Speaker 4: have my car towed and The young man who came

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Speaker 4: to get me told his boss, I want to go

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Speaker 4: get her. I've been trying to meet her.

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Speaker 3: This is your husband.

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Speaker 1: Yes, were you?

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Speaker 3: Were you aware of him?

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Speaker 4: Never paid any attention till yeah, So.

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Speaker 3: How did you get your attention that day?

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Speaker 4: Well, he drove to my car, hooked it up, and

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Speaker 4: he said, I'll take you home.

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Speaker 3: Oh that was it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: So you liked a man that could throw your car around?

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Speaker 3: Or was there a quality about him that day that

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Speaker 3: stood out?

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Speaker 4: He was sure of himself. He was not going to

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Speaker 4: be working at a gas station the rest of his life.

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Speaker 4: He was going to industrial school to learn machine repair.

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Speaker 1: And that's what he did, and that's what he did.

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Speaker 3: How old were you when you met him? And how

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Speaker 3: old is he?

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Speaker 4: Uh, he's four years older than me, and I was

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Speaker 4: twenty five. I think it was twenty.

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Speaker 1: Six like that.

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Speaker 3: And what year is this?

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Speaker 4: Nineteen fifty eight?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 4: Okay, October of nineteen fifty eight. And when I had

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Speaker 4: to go to court because I hit the young man

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Speaker 4: who was home on leave, he was in the service,

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Speaker 4: Oh okay, and he felt terrible because it was his father's.

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Speaker 3: New car, right right, and.

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Speaker 4: My tow truck driver said, I'll go with you to

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Speaker 4: court to vouch for you that the car's brakes failed.

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Speaker 3: Oh I bet he did.

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Speaker 4: I bet he did, and the rest is history.

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Speaker 3: Now, how did it work back then? Did you have

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Speaker 3: insurance back then?

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Speaker 1: Yes? I did?

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Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, I've always carried insurance.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I wasn't alive yet, so I didn't know when people

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Speaker 3: started having insurance, if it's always been a thing or

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Speaker 3: if it because I grew up in Illinois and it

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Speaker 3: wasn't what. You didn't have to have insurance until I

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Speaker 3: was already driving. We had insurance, but you didn't have

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Speaker 3: to have it. So I didn't know back then if

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Speaker 3: it was common.

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Speaker 4: It was always common for my family. I don't know

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Speaker 4: if it was the law. Yeah, like I think it is.

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Speaker 3: Now right, it's a good law.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well look at me. Yeah, took care of it.

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Speaker 3: For me, right, and that got you a husband and everything.

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Speaker 3: He's like, well, she's got insurance. So how long were

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Speaker 3: you guys dating after that before you got married?

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Speaker 4: Till March of fifty nine?

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Speaker 3: Oh, not long. That was a short engagement. Oh when

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Speaker 3: you know? You know? Did you know right away or

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Speaker 3: after about a month or so? You're like just.

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Speaker 4: After a month or so, and he was already.

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Speaker 3: He was ready. He was because he was almost thirty. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: oh yeah, he was ready. Oh yeah, I get it.

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Speaker 4: And he had a girlfriend at the time.

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Speaker 3: Oh and did you guys see her around after that?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 3: No, I know if you saw her around town?

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Speaker 1: Where was this at Michigan? Oh in Michigan, Detroit?

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Speaker 4: I lived by myself in an apartment and he lived

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Speaker 3: That's when Detroit was really happened.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, not like now, that was That was.

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Speaker 4: Then, right, You weren't afraid to live there then?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah. So what did you guys do on dates?

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Speaker 3: What do you do in fifty eight to twenty year

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Speaker 3: olds and fifty eight? What do you do? Where you going?

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Speaker 4: We went to Belle Isle.

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Speaker 3: What is that?

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Speaker 4: It's an island in Detroit between in the lake Great Lakes,

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Speaker 4: and they'd have music there. We'd go on the weekends.

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Speaker 4: What kind of music bands?

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Speaker 3: Like big bands?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was still pretty popular though, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Symphony okay, And we go to the theater a lot.

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Speaker 4: We loved going to the show.

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Speaker 3: What did you guys? What do you remember any movies

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Speaker 3: that you saw when you're dating.

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Speaker 4: One of them? I didn't like because it's called the

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Speaker 4: Stepford Wives.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you didn't like that.

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Speaker 4: No, I didn't like the way wives were treated.

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Speaker 3: Then did you let him know, You're like, Okay, if

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Speaker 3: we get married, it's not going to be like the

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Speaker 3: Stepford Wives.

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Speaker 1: Well it sort of was, was it.

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Speaker 4: Well that's why I drove a school bus because I

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Speaker 4: started having children right away and I had to be

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Speaker 4: home with my children. He worked. Yeah, I was a

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Speaker 4: stay at home mom and uh, and that's when I

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Speaker 4: started selling Avon so I could earn some money, but

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Speaker 4: I still stayed at home.

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Speaker 3: How long did you sell Avon?

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Speaker 1: A couple of years?

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Speaker 3: Did you like it?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? I did?

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Speaker 3: Did you keep any When I was a kid, my

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Speaker 3: mom would buy Avon. She'd buy like the Clone and

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Speaker 3: stuff for my dad. And remember, if you remember back then,

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Speaker 3: they had maybe I don't know if there's still they

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Speaker 3: had them when you were selling it, But when my

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Speaker 3: mom was buying it, the Clone bottles were like cars

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Speaker 3: and all that I.

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Speaker 4: Started me collecting elephants.

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Speaker 3: Is that how it started?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: How many elephants do you have?

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Speaker 4: Over a thousand?

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Speaker 3: So when they say the elephant in the room, they

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Speaker 3: mean it at your house? Yes, yeah, I see a

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Speaker 3: picture of an elephant over there.

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Speaker 4: Now, yeah, that's a little girl sitting next.

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Speaker 3: To him holding yeah on that one.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well you'll find them all.

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Speaker 3: Over yeah, elephant. Do you have any pink elephants?

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Speaker 4: I have everything, I promised. After the two front bedrooms

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Speaker 4: were full of elephants, I had elephant's shelf in there.

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Speaker 4: And that's why I was able to give those two

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Speaker 4: rooms to my daughter, because I took all the elephants out.

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Speaker 4: And I promised a couple of years ago I wouldn't

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Speaker 3: You had to promise. Huh.

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Speaker 4: And well because it.

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Speaker 3: Was it's overwhelming.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and uh, but people still gave it to me.

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Speaker 1: I'd accept that, of course. Yeah, you don't be rude.

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Speaker 4: But I said, except jewelry.

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Speaker 3: No elephant jewelry.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, I could still you could buy that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And those books are elephants.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, elephant elephants mm hmm. Oh and there's an

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Speaker 3: elephant on the table.

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Speaker 4: Uh huh oh yeah.

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Speaker 3: Do any of your kids or grandkids collect elephants?

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Speaker 4: Nope?

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Speaker 1: Nobody does what he does.

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Speaker 3: How many how many kids do you have?

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Speaker 4: I have five?

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Speaker 3: Do you do you have one more than the other four.

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Speaker 4: Do I love one more than yeah? Different times.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's going to answer.

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Speaker 4: To be totally honest, Mike, my oldest son would tease

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Speaker 4: Kim because she was my accident, totally unexpected. There's eight

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Speaker 4: years difference. Oh yeah, and so he always baby sadder

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Speaker 4: and he would tell her, well, you know, mom picked

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Speaker 4: full of mud.

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Speaker 3: Looking at elephants.

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Speaker 4: You found her, and she was totally unexpected.

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Speaker 3: And she's what Bob Ross would call a happy accident.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, and I God planned that one, of course,

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Speaker 4: because it's meant to be. In fact, I always tease

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Speaker 4: her and call her my Singapore sling. That's a drink,

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Speaker 4: you know.

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Speaker 3: Oh, is that how the accident happened? You're drinking Singapore slings?

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Speaker 1: The uh huh.

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Speaker 3: Good for him, Good for him, that's funny.

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Speaker 4: The first step in destroying the black community is to

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Speaker 4: dismantle the black family.

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