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Speaker 1: the other forty four year old Alice Hawthorne from all Benny, Georgia.

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Speaker 1: I never met Alice Hawthorne, but I met her brave,

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six July twenty seventh, at approximately one twenty am. Now,

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Speaker 1: I never forgot her, and every year on the anniversary

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Speaker 1: I message her sorry I got a little chucked up.

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Speaker 2: Sorry that is I did as well. That means so

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Speaker 2: much to me that after all of these years, you

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Speaker 2: have not forgotten. You are a person of intent.

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Speaker 3: And I am very, very grateful for this opportunity to

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Speaker 3: else as far as my standpoint is concerned with our interactions.

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Speaker 3: You genuinely seem to wholeheartedly care about me and my

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Speaker 3: mother and my family in totality, and that's really hard

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Speaker 3: so much for that, and it means the world to me.

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Speaker 3: So anytime that I can do anything for you in

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Speaker 3: any capacity, I would be more than gracious to lend

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Speaker 2: So I'm very excited to do this with you today.

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Speaker 1: Man, do y'all hear her? She what grace? I mean here,

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Speaker 1: we're trying to do something for her. We want to

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Speaker 1: hear about her experience and honor her mom. And she's saying, Hey,

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Speaker 1: anything I can do for you, And that's the thing falling.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I thought about you so much. I thought

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Speaker 1: wasn't a mama yet, but I became a mom in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and again in two thousand and three.

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Speaker 2: Oh what a blessing.

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Speaker 1: Oh you have no idea transformative right. And I think

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Speaker 1: often because I thought, here is this mama. She ain't

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Speaker 1: got a ticket to not one event. She is not

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Speaker 1: to experience this unbelievable once in a lifetime event in

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Speaker 1: know what, We're gonna move like Alice Hawthorne, Baby, We're

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Speaker 1: gonna get in the car, We're gonna have some fun.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna create our own party. We don't need no ticket.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Like.

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Speaker 3: I can't reiterate enough how wonderful of a mother I had.

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Speaker 2: I think if I've as I've.

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Speaker 3: Grown, of course and have had a million experiences of

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Speaker 3: if she knew she was gonna leave early or not,

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Speaker 1: Amen. And you know when I first saw you the

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Speaker 1: And both just beautiful, but as beautiful as you were

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Speaker 3: I had the intent to, and I'm sure as you

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Speaker 3: So you know, my mother actually died at forty four,

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Speaker 2: Her last full year of life was at forty three.

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Speaker 2: In the world the way that she did.

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Speaker 3: She was just extraordinary, absolutely extraordinary businesswoman, mother, student. I mean,

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Speaker 2: She had an infectious personality, a.

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Speaker 2: Realized was what a blessing it was to have her.

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Speaker 2: My birthday was the twenty fourth.

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Speaker 3: We had a huge celebration in all Bennie, and she said,

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Speaker 3: Out to my God, Charles barklay Shack. I still great.

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Speaker 3: So we celebrated her on my birthday. We celebrated her

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Speaker 2: It was a great, great time. I wish you were

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Speaker 1: I do too. I'm telling you, I looked at some

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we had time.

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Speaker 1: But you know that's something you have in common with

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Speaker 3: I keep saying that I think she must have knew

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Speaker 2: The amount of things she did in her lifetime.

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Speaker 3: From her childhood walking with Martin Luther King, because we're

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Speaker 3: And she told me the same thing, that she couldn't

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Speaker 2: I may not have.

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Speaker 2: You treat people the way you want to be treated like.

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Speaker 3: These are all things she is stilled to me so

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Speaker 1: I'm a professional. Okay. So you mentioned doctor Martin Luther King,

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Speaker 2: This is this is the point.

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Speaker 3: was substantial, and they put me in the ambulance. You know,

441
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:24,160
Speaker 3: they separated us immediately. I never saw her again. Godley,

442
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:35,119
Speaker 3: you just can't imagine. You can't even verbalize how much

443
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 3: that moment impacts you, how it.

444
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:52,240
Speaker 2: It stings you. It changes your whole life in one moment.

445
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,680
Speaker 3: One moment can change everything that you thought you would

446
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Speaker 3: be and put you on a whole nother path.

447
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:07,200
Speaker 2: And the next thing I know, I was in the ambulance.

448
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 3: And I had an opportunity to kind of assess my

449
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 3: own injuries.

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00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 2: And I used to not even used to steal, probably

451
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 2: an overly vain person.

452
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 3: So I used to my skin, used to keyloid when

453
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 3: I was a child, and I would get, you know,

454
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 3: scratches and things, and I'd be like, God, look at

455
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 3: my skin. And I remember like I was like, God,

456
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Speaker 3: that's gonna leave an awful scar because I'm looking as

457
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,879
Speaker 3: my leg is hanging over, as my finger is hanging

458
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:44,919
Speaker 3: on literally by a thread, as my arm is in shreds,

459
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 3: and I'm thinking to myself, you know.

460
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Speaker 2: Like what is like what is this going to look like?

461
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:52,479
Speaker 3: Like?

462
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 2: What is this going to be?

463
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:59,719
Speaker 3: And then I'm also thinking to myself, if I have

464
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Speaker 3: to taking on so much damage, you know, what does

465
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Speaker 3: my mother look like? You know, because she was a beautiful, beautiful,

466
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Speaker 3: stunningly beautiful woman, Like.

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Speaker 2: What damage did it do to her? And to.

468
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 3: You know, fast forward and be able to see the

469
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:20,440
Speaker 3: amount of damage that it did to her body, the shrapnel.

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Speaker 2: You just it's like dying a thousand times. It's like

471
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Speaker 2: dying a thousand times.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to tell you something as a mama,

473
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Speaker 1: she knew when you mumbled it under your breath, but

474
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Speaker 1: that was you. That was the strong, opinionated, fun loving

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Speaker 1: kid she raised. And you know, I've got a real

476
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Speaker 1: good buddy. She has a daughter just like her, and

477
00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 1: she said, I'm so tired of trying.

478
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Speaker 2: To beat me out of her.

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00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: So when you told her, I'm gonna take this damn picture.

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00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 1: I think we need to flip this around, Fallan. I

481
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 1: think this needs to be part of your ministry where

482
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Speaker 1: we remind people. You may feel like you don't look

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Speaker 1: great after a baby, or maybe you've just turned sixty

484
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 1: two and you think you look like a haint you

485
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Speaker 1: may not want to take your picture at a class

486
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Speaker 1: reunion because everybody looks better than you. Take the damn picture.

487
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 1: People want that picture.

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Speaker 2: Hashtag take the damn picture.

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Speaker 1: Take the damn picture, and it's a wonderful reminder. Alice

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Speaker 1: Hawthorne was gonna take the damn picture.

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Speaker 2: That's it.

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00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 1: Now take this picture me because a I'm cute and

493
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 1: two we're in the Olympic Park celebrating, So that, I

494
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 1: think is what we need to do. And just remind

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00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 1: people it don't matter if you think you're fat. The

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Speaker 1: person that's in love with you don't. It don't matter

497
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,479
Speaker 1: if you think you look skinny and you know, old

498
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 1: and just pitiful. Take the picture with coworkers, with family,

499
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 1: with friends, with neighbors, of yourself at fantastic places, because

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Speaker 1: the people you love are gonna want the damn picture.

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Speaker 3: I just want to take an opportunity to just highlight her,

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Speaker 3: you know, as a as a mother, as a as

503
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 3: a business owner, as a coworker, as a wife, as

504
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 3: a best friend, as a sister. You just never understand

505
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 3: how impactful a person is. Sometimes into the gone about

506
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 3: how many people that she's helped along the way, pulled

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00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:53,719
Speaker 3: up gave a helping hand. How many students that all

508
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 3: any state that she's encouraged and helped.

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Speaker 2: Get through school.

510
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 3: How many student that we've encouraged through her scholarship fund

511
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 3: that we had at all any state? Single mothers to

512
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 3: be able to be educated and make sure that they

513
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 3: are able to give something back to their children, to

514
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 3: their community. This is all part of God's plan. Nothing,

515
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 3: nothing is a mistake. Nothing in life is a mistake.

516
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 3: Nobody that you meet is by chance. Everything is a design,

517
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 3: and we have to walk in purpose. And I think

518
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 3: that's what she did. I hope that's what I'm doing.

519
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 3: I know that's what you've been doing for a very

520
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 3: long time. And I just encourage everyone to walk in

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00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 3: their purpose, whatever it is.

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00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 2: It doesn't have.

523
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 3: To be a big, grand thing, you know, it may

524
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 3: just be being the best you can be for the

525
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 3: people that love you. But find a purpose and something

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00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 3: that you love and do it. I mean, do it

527
00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 3: with everything that's in you. And I promise when you

528
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 3: close your eyes, you will not have not one regret.

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00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:09,840
Speaker 3: That's the only thing I can wholeheartedly say about my mother.

530
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 3: I'm sure she didn't know she was going to close

531
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 3: her eyes that day, but when she did, she didn't

532
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 3: have one regret. She had lived life in a way

533
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 3: that very few lived, and she lived it at an

534
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 3: accelerated rate with such love and passion not only for

535
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 3: herself and her family, but everyone else around her that

536
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 3: to this day, if a person sees me, they say,

537
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 3: you look like somebody I know, and to be able

538
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 3: to smile at them and know who they're talking about

539
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 3: and just say I get that all the time and

540
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 3: know that they mean her.

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Speaker 2: That is such a blessing. It's such an honor.

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00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 3: It's a badge that I will carry for the rest

543
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 3: of my life and know that I have came from

544
00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 3: such a remarkable woman who wanted to live her life

545
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 3: out loud and proud and.

546
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 2: Be the best at everything that she absolutely touched.

547
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 3: And so that's my purpose, you know, to just be

548
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 3: the absolute best that I can be, and I hope

549
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 3: that I can inspire someone else to walk in theirs.

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Speaker 1: She is so proud of you, there is no doubt

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Speaker 1: about it. And you also affected my life. I changed

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00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 1: the way my entire career was done, the way I work,

553
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 1: the way I operate, the way I respond to people.

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00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: And you probably had no idea, but that is an

555
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 1: absolute fact. And I appreciate you and what you brought

556
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 1: tonight was not just honor to your mama, but I

557
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 1: think you have given everybody that's going to hear this

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00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 1: energy and, as you have said repeatedly tonight, deliberate purpose

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00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 1: to love in action.

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Speaker 2: I thank you so much.

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00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 3: You know how much I adore you, like I absolutely

562
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 3: adore you. I think a lot of people fall off

563
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 3: along the way, and that's just natural, you know, that's

564
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 3: just the way. You know, people work a reason, a

565
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 3: season and a lifetime, and for me to be able

566
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 3: to have you in my life for a lifetime has been.

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Speaker 2: A true blessing. It hasn't been a season, it hasn't

568
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:22,280
Speaker 2: been a reason.

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Speaker 3: You have been very present for a lifetime, and I

570
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 3: am humbled and honored to know.

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Speaker 2: You, y'all.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to do something a little different tonight. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to end Zone seven.

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Speaker 2: With two quotes.

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Speaker 1: We will remember not the hatred, not the bitterness, not

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00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 1: the alienation, but the joy and happiness. Ambassador Andrew Young,

577
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 1: chair of the nineteen ninety six Atlanta Committee for the

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Speaker 1: Olympic Games. Second quote, take the damn picture fallen Stubbs,

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Speaker 1: daughter of Alice Hawthorne. I'm Cheryl McCollum and this is

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Speaker 1: zone seven

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Speaker 3: Mm HM