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Speaker 1: And good news, happy stories. We share them every day

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Speaker 1: on the show What'd you find? Kay?

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Speaker 2: So this year Juneteenth is even even more meaningful for

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Speaker 2: Ople Lee, affectionately known as the Grandmother of Juneteenth. The

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Speaker 2: ninety seven year old received the keys to her new

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Speaker 2: house this week, built where her family's Fort Worth, Texas

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Speaker 2: home was burned down by a racist mob eighty five

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Speaker 2: years ago. Courtesy of various local Texas organizations, including a

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Speaker 2: Trinity Habitat for Humanity and Texas Capital, she was given

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Speaker 2: the property for just ten dollars. The house was built

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Speaker 2: by history Maker Homes and furnished by J. C. Penny

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Speaker 2: And while talking about the home and the historic meeting

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Speaker 2: behind it, Trinity Habitat for Humanity CEO Gage Jaeger, a

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Speaker 2: friend of Lee's, said, with tears of sadness for past

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Speaker 2: atrocities and tears of joy for this momentous occasion. We

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Speaker 2: are humbled and honored to welcome our friend Ople home.

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Speaker 2: There truly is no place like home.

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Speaker 1: Wow. So the beigest person named Ben ben Clark, a

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Speaker 1: Disney super fan. He was so big that he couldn't

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Speaker 1: fit on the theme park rides Win and lost two

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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty pounds, and now not only can he

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Speaker 1: ride the Rise, but he plays Prince Charming on stage

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Speaker 1: at Disney What he weighed four hundred and twenty pounds,

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Speaker 1: had a fifty inch waist before traveling to Poland for

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Speaker 1: gastric sleeve surgery in October of twenty twenty two. The

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Speaker 1: guy realized the need to take action when he was

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Speaker 1: denied boarding at some rides at Disney World after flying

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Speaker 1: all the way to Florida. So he had the procedure done,

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Speaker 1: lost all this weight, and now he's actually playing the

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Speaker 1: role of Prince Charming. That's cool. God. Yeah, talk about

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Speaker 1: that for a transformation.