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Speaker 2: I'm just a lot to tell them. You just say

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Speaker 1: Lay it down, all right. I seventeen female, am gay.

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Speaker 1: My dad is a pastor. That is sometimes a rough combination,

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Speaker 3: Oh what did she do? Well?

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Speaker 1: She had done that in two years since I got

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Speaker 1: my own phone and paid for it myself. Needless to say,

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Speaker 1: they did not take the news of my gain as well.

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Speaker 1: My mother told me to leave, so I did so.

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Speaker 1: I went to my aunt's house, who was fully aware

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Speaker 1: Shortly after I got there, my parents pulled up into

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 1: They proceeded to yell at me for two hours in

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Speaker 3: Crying in the car.

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Speaker 2: Oh, pee your parents and Sundays like they kind of suck.

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Speaker 3: I kind of want to slap.

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Speaker 1: I want to slibbity slap them all over their stupid faces.

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Speaker 1: They told me to give them my keys since the

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Speaker 1: They said they would leave if I did, so I

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Speaker 2: How can they be homophobic? They're assholes and they are

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Speaker 1: They are My mom went home while my dad yelled

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Speaker 1: The next day was Sunday, the large day, and no

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Speaker 1: my frecking room dad. He said he'd be back at six.

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Speaker 1: I have a cousin who's only a few months younger

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Speaker 1: feel comfortable being home alone. Sometime during my visit, she said, hey,

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Speaker 3: Okay. I then proceeded ask who B was? Who is B?

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Speaker 1: It turned out she was my older cousin who I

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Speaker 3: That's a pretty good deal.

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Speaker 2: When I got back to my aunt's house around four,

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Speaker 3: What's with these parents always pulled into the driveway.

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Speaker 2: She's like, there's a trifley for me to pull into,

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Speaker 1: She came inside and told me I was going home

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Speaker 3: Take up your eye? Are you kicking her out? Or? God?

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Speaker 2: She said, they may not be able to do anything

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Speaker 3: God give me a break.

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Speaker 1: My aunt's trailer had some problems that she had been

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Speaker 1: But I was my aunt and her family or my

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Speaker 1: That's a lot of books. Bro, It's like a hundred bucks.

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Speaker 1: You smart, you smart? You were smarty pants over here.

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Speaker 1: All of my books were in my car, as I

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Speaker 1: And they were burning all the books like a big

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Speaker 3: What the fuck is wrong? Wow?

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Speaker 1: When they finished, my parents came into my old room

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Speaker 3: Dude, oh, p this sucks. Actually, Like you're trying to think, like,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm building up a response as we're going through it.

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Speaker 2: It's like maybe trying to get a part time job

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Speaker 3: Socky.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully, hopefully, one of these family members seems like the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she said she'd take me back to my aunts

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Speaker 1: After a horrendous church service, she took me back to

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Speaker 1: Oh I wish I still had pictures of the holes

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Speaker 3: God.

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Speaker 1: I've been staying with Bee, her brother, and her long

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Speaker 1: So like op he's now staying in a better place.

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Speaker 3: Good.

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Speaker 1: She's with her family, who seemed much more accepting. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: few concerns. One B is more than okay with me

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Speaker 1: know my parents are going to tell everybody. And Two,

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Speaker 1: I'm not eighteen yet I won't be for a few

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Speaker 3: Okay, Opy, we really loved Hell. We were not lawyers.

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Speaker 3: We are not.

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Speaker 1: But something I do know is you can get emancipated

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I'm not really sure how that works. Let's see emancipation.

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Speaker 1: So it's not easy to get emancipated from your parents

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Speaker 1: when you're under eighteen. Emancipation is a legal process that

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Speaker 1: you have to be at least eighteen to be emancipated. However,

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Speaker 1: be emancipated before the age of eighteen. These circumstances vary

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Speaker 1: by state, but they conclude being married, being on active

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Speaker 1: so join the army, get a base, or be financially

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Speaker 2: But I don't know anything about anything, but I I

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Speaker 2: feel like you have a decent case for emancipation here.

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Speaker 3: I think you do. I think you do.

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Speaker 1: I mean you could also wait it out, you know,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's actually a great point.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think probably, Like this is again, we are

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Speaker 2: with them and like, luckily, like there's only a few

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's tough one. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The thing is because like if you're seventeen, your parents

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Speaker 3: That's true.

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Speaker 1: But a minor who is seventeen may be able to

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Speaker 1: petition the court for a change in their living rage arrangements,

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Speaker 1: which is known as custody modification or change of custody.

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Speaker 3: Interesting, but yet to prove to the court that there's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there's great evidence like this podcast, this podcast,

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Speaker 2: Hey shoot this in your petition for a man. If

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Speaker 2: but it's crazy. I would look into those options. It

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Speaker 2: seems like you've you've found a family member in b

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Speaker 2: already working, like it's it seems like you're on your

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Speaker 2: to join the military or join the military, or get

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Speaker 2: maarent army strong baby, But don't be above be financially Hey,

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Speaker 2: if you join the military, you will be financially independent,

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Speaker 2: and people in the military get.

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Speaker 3: Buried very quickly. That's true. You'll probably you'll get all three.

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Speaker 3: Dude trying to.

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Speaker 2: Be an independent military wife. Hey, isn't that the dream?

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Speaker 3: That's the dream.