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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A teen girl disappears wearing

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Speaker 1: nothing but her pjs. Where is Heidi? I'm Nancy Grace.

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Speaker 1: This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us

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Speaker 1: here at Crime Stories. Joining me right now is a

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Speaker 1: special guest. I managed to track down Heidi's mother, who

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Speaker 1: is completely distraught the search ongoing for her teen girl,

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Speaker 1: Heidi Sidney. Thank you for being with us. Thank you, Sydney.

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Speaker 1: First of all, tell me when you first realized Heidi

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Speaker 1: is missing.

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Speaker 2: I saw Heidi at about twelve fifteen midnight running on

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Speaker 2: the seventh.

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Speaker 1: January seventh, twelve fifteen am. Yes, man, So at twelve

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Speaker 1: fifteen am, you were having a verbal argument with your

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Speaker 1: daughter because she had been smoking pot. Is that correct?

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Speaker 2: It was a lot of different behaviors that were coming

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Speaker 2: from her. But no, we weren't having an argument. We

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Speaker 2: were having a conversation. When the conversation was.

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Speaker 1: Over, okay, it was like.

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Speaker 2: She said, Mom, you know what, I'm really tired. I

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Speaker 2: want to go to bed. And I was like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's really late. It's about eleven forty five at this time.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, it's late.

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Speaker 2: I'm tired too. We can talk about it. Tomorrow, and

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Speaker 2: she said, okay, we'll talk about it tomorrow. I love

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Speaker 2: you good night. I love you good night. It wasn't

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Speaker 2: an explosive argument. It was a parent child conversation about

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Speaker 2: life choices.

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Speaker 1: So you at that point think, well, okay, I brought

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Speaker 1: it up to her, we'll talk about it tomorrow. What's

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Speaker 1: the next thing that happened.

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Speaker 4: The next thing that happened is I was sitting outside

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Speaker 4: on my back patio, probably about I don't know, ten

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Speaker 4: to twenty minutes after she went to her room, and

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Speaker 4: what I thought.

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Speaker 2: She was laying down and it's adjacent to her bedroom window,

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Speaker 2: and I could hear her yelling at someone. I had

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Speaker 2: just taken her phone. Like, I was like, you're in trouble,

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Speaker 2: you're making bad choices. I'm taking your phone, which she

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Speaker 2: wasn't happy about, but I mean, and she's yelling. She's

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Speaker 2: yelling so loud, and she doesn't sound like herself, and

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Speaker 2: I'm like, who is she talking to? I have her phone?

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Speaker 2: And then I thought, oh, she still has her MacBook.

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Speaker 2: So she's yelling at somebody and I'm trying to listen,

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Speaker 2: but I can't really understand what she's saying. I made

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Speaker 2: out a few cusswords, and the next thing I know,

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Speaker 2: my front door slams, and I realized that she has

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Speaker 2: her car keys, and so I be larna outside And

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Speaker 2: when I get outside and I'm at the car door,

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Speaker 2: I'm looking at her and I know that she's not home,

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Speaker 2: that she's having a mental health episode.

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Speaker 1: What happened?

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Speaker 2: Then there's a pause and I'm just looking at her

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Speaker 2: and I'm trying to process what's going on, what she's thinking.

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Speaker 2: And then she's trying to lock the door, but it's

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Speaker 2: like obvious that she doesn't have control of her faculties,

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Speaker 2: and she's rolling down the windows. And I open the

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Speaker 2: door and I'm like, it is after midnight, Like you

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Speaker 2: can't go anywhere, Heidi, You're not going anywhere. And I

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Speaker 2: go to pull the keys out of the car, and

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Speaker 2: she puts the car in reverse and hits the gas

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Speaker 2: as hard as she can. She drags me with the car.

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Speaker 2: She's not saying much. He's hitting me or trying to

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Speaker 2: hit me and trying to go back and forth and

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Speaker 2: trying to get me off of the car so that

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Speaker 3: With the car.

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Speaker 1: And what happened.

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Speaker 2: I was able to get the keys out of the

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Speaker 2: car and I just held onto the keys for dear life.

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Speaker 2: I'm hurt, and she's striking me over and over again.

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Speaker 2: At one point, I'm laying on the concrete with my

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Speaker 2: right hand holding the set of keys and my left

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Speaker 2: hand over it, just holding them so tight. She's striking

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Speaker 2: me and trying to get the car keys. And when

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Speaker 2: I get my footing, I'm able to stand up, and

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Speaker 2: when I stand up, she takes off running. And that

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Speaker 2: was the last time I saw my daughter. She didn't

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Speaker 2: have any shoes on. She had black, fuzy pajama pants.

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Speaker 3: On in a great sweatshirt.

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Speaker 1: Prime Stories with Nancy Grace. Guys, you are hearing the

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Speaker 1: mother of teen girl, Heidi Kane. You're hearing Sydney five

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Speaker 1: for her mother who was on a desperate shirt to

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Speaker 1: bring her daughter home. And all of you mothers out

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Speaker 1: there know that even if your child misbehaves, you don't

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Speaker 1: stop loving them. They're still your number one priority, the

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Speaker 1: love of your life. Especially teens act out, but this

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Speaker 1: is far beyond acting out. Heidi has now been missing

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Speaker 1: since January seventh in fed County, Georgia, Fetteville, the county seat.

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Speaker 1: This is about an hour and a half south of Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: If this child has made it to inner City Atlanta,

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Speaker 1: what has become a her? Where is sixteen year old

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Speaker 1: Heidi Caine Sydney since January the seventh? Have you gotten

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Speaker 1: a phone call or a text from your daughter, even

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Speaker 1: from someone else's phone?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: Nothing, nothing. Is it true that police have told you

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Speaker 1: she's most likely quote a runaway? Yes, miss Fife. I

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Speaker 1: just can't count the number of times that children and

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Speaker 1: teens have been classified as a runaway and they weren't

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Speaker 1: runaways at all. And I want to remind everyone listening

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Speaker 1: that most states have what we call a law against

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Speaker 1: harboring runaways. Those are children that run away from home.

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Speaker 1: And there's no question you hear Sidney describing her daughter

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Speaker 1: having some type of a mental episode after her phone

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Speaker 1: is taken away and she knows she's in trouble, she

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Speaker 1: tries to leave in the car. Mom manages, at great

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Speaker 1: risk to herself to her own safety, to stop her

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Speaker 1: in the dark of the night, those shoes, and now

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Speaker 1: she's missing again. Any One harboring a runaway will be prosecuted.

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Speaker 1: You will go to jail for putting the mother through

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Speaker 1: what she's going through. It is a crime for adults

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Speaker 1: to encourage miners to run away, to hide miners from

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Speaker 1: their parent or their guardian. You cannot encourage a child

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Speaker 1: to run away or stay away from home. That is

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Speaker 1: a crime. If this girl does not have control of

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Speaker 1: her faculties, this could be a kidnap where you keep

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Speaker 1: a person away from where they want to be. It's

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Speaker 1: all it takes. It doesn't require a gun or a

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Speaker 1: knife for binding them with cord. Simply keeping them away

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Speaker 1: will count as a kidnap. Do you believe Sydney that

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Speaker 1: somehow someone is harboring her? And if you conveyed that

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Speaker 1: to police.

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Speaker 2: Over over and over again, and the police keep telling

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Speaker 2: me of red tape, not enough probable cause, this and that,

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Speaker 2: And I have been working tirelessly to get the police

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Speaker 2: what they need. I've been rattling all the cages. And

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Speaker 2: it should not be like that in the case of

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Speaker 2: a missing child. Hidie's a straight a student on track

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Speaker 2: to do whatever she wants with her life. Heidi logged

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Speaker 2: into school and I'm hoping this is the key that

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Speaker 2: unlocks it. Nancy. Heidi logged into school on the eighth

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Speaker 2: of the ninth. Heidi is homeschooled through a program called

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Speaker 2: Georgia Connections Academy. And when I realized that, I sent

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Speaker 2: it straight.

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Speaker 3: To the detective.

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Speaker 2: This red tape shouldn't be a sing Nancy. And I'm

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Speaker 2: telling you it'll take me three to maybe seven years,

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Speaker 2: but I'm going to change law surrounding this. I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: rally for it. No red tape with a missing child.

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Speaker 2: None when it comes to a baby. When it comes

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Speaker 2: to somebody's children, especially a child that's in danger, there

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Speaker 2: should not be this tape. It's wrong, It's so wrong.

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Speaker 1: I want to know, Sydney, what you're going through every

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Speaker 1: night when you try to put your head on the pillow.

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Speaker 1: What goes through your mind?

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Speaker 2: Where is Maby? Is she her? Is she hungry? Is

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Speaker 2: somebody exploiting her?

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Speaker 1: Is she miss five? I have a daughter and a

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Speaker 1: son Heidie's age, and I I watch them like hawks

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Speaker 1: as best as I can, because I'm so afraid that

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Speaker 1: something could happen to them. I'm just so sorry what

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Speaker 1: you're going through. I can't imagine trying to fall asleep

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Speaker 1: at night without John, David or Lucy safe at home,

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Speaker 1: whoever may have Heidi Kine. I will do everything in

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Speaker 1: my power to see ye behind bars. If you have

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Speaker 1: information on this teen girl, she's just sixteen, a beautiful girl,

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Speaker 1: five to one, around one hundred and twenty five pounds,

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Speaker 1: just gorgeous. Please dial seven seven zero seven one nine

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Speaker 1: four two eight four repeat seven seven zero seven one

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Speaker 1: nine four two eight four. Please help us find Heidi

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Speaker 1: and bring her home to her mother.

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Speaker 3: Good By friend,