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Speaker 2: Michael Very Show.

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Speaker 3: Is on the air. What love is this.

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Speaker 2: That calms our hearts?

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Speaker 4: Whispers the promise into the dark that we are love,

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Speaker 4: Yes we are love. And to you forever, though we

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Speaker 5: How we are love?

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Speaker 6: Yes, we are love.

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Speaker 7: It's our Adoption special and to you forever. We're gonna

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Speaker 8: I know some people tune into talk radio because you

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Speaker 8: want to be pissed.

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Speaker 2: Off and mad. Not your day.

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Speaker 8: I'm sorry, I'd love to have you every other day,

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Speaker 8: not today. Adoption is very important to us. This is

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Speaker 8: the most meaningful show we do per year. National Adoption

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Speaker 8: Day this year is this Saturday, twenty third, but obviously

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Speaker 8: so we chose today.

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Speaker 2: Why not tomorrow because.

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Speaker 8: Tomorrow is our annual Thanksgiving show, and that's also important

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Speaker 8: to us. We're going to talk about news of the

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Speaker 8: day throughout the course of the year, the way every

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Speaker 8: important to us, and we understand that's not for every listener.

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Speaker 8: The things that are important to us or mother's Day,

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Speaker 8: Father's Day, Adoption Special, our Thanksgiving Special, our Veterans Day,

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Speaker 8: President Trump understands the importance of adoption during one of

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Speaker 8: beautiful moments. Of course, Rush Limbaugh getting the Presidential Metal

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Speaker 8: we're going to hear it in just a moment. I

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Speaker 8: and President Trump knew.

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Speaker 1: It because we have seen tonight the most difficult challenges

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Speaker 1: bring out the best in America. We see a vivid

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Speaker 1: Lets Spend of New Mexico. Brian Holets is twenty seven

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Speaker 2: Frank you Ryan.

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Speaker 1: Last year Ryan was on duty when he'sa a pregnant

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Speaker 1: In that moment, Brian said he felt God speak to you,

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Speaker 2: He heard those works.

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Speaker 1: He took out a picture of his wife and their

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Speaker 1: Ryan and Rebecca, do you embody the goodness of our nation?

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Speaker 8: I not only want to be the most powerful military

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Speaker 8: Ryan Holett told his story at the RNC, and I

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Speaker 8: It's a beautiful story about life and sacrifice and sharing

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Speaker 9: I encountered the ravages of addiction every day, but nothing

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Speaker 9: When Crystal said that she was looking for a family

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Speaker 9: Hope is a thriving two year old. Crystal is fast

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Speaker 8: Everything we do promotes life, life at birth, dignity in

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Speaker 9: Captain something wrong, well, something must be right.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to Michael Berry. You know, elections aren't the

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Speaker 8: Very sweet when we consider the human condition, faith, family, science, medicine, commerce, transportation, literature, art, love,

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Speaker 8: Of abortion has become a talking point in every conversation.

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Speaker 8: Whatever your position on all of those things. Everyone can

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Speaker 8: The aspects of adoption I would like to address today,

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Speaker 10: Running down the hall of the fifteenth floor of the

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Speaker 10: The pairs heading into the courtroom that will change their

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Speaker 11: Granted too, that the day has finally come. We've been

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Speaker 10: Doctor Bernaita Baker opened up her home to Bella right

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Speaker 10: Bella's mother was never in the picture, and Bella's father

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Speaker 10: Yes, and today a judge made the undeniable bond Doctor

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Speaker 2: Congratulations, Thank you, Thank you.

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Speaker 10: Doctor Baker now looks forward to spending her first Christmas.

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Speaker 11: This is a Christmas miracle, one that I could have

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Speaker 2: Look look at the camera.

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Speaker 10: After their first official portrait, Bella led her new family

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Speaker 10: out of the courtroom stealing. Not just doctor Beakers hardened

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Speaker 8: This one is another one that just the ladies, if

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Speaker 8: A little boy invice his whole class to his adoption hearing.

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Speaker 2: This one gets me.

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Speaker 6: Yes, a big family.

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Speaker 13: Family with an even bigger heart.

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Speaker 6: Michael Orlando Clark Junior.

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Speaker 14: Who he is a very active and silly, silly.

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Speaker 15: It is ordered Michael that your forever mom and dad

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Speaker 15: Sometimes their journeys have been very long. They've included miracle

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Speaker 8: Man, that one gets me every child. Every child should

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Speaker 2: What a beautiful thing, Michael Barry.

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Speaker 8: Every year, reading the emails I get from you related

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Speaker 14: For family history turns up a family one woman didn't

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Speaker 6: They can't believe this day is here. We just always

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Speaker 17: I always wondered where she was, what she could be

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Speaker 6: Payvee consents her daughter is close, text her.

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Speaker 2: And see how much long are we gotta wait? Where

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Speaker 13: Finally, after hours of anticipation, agony, in five decades of wondering,

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Speaker 6: This is the first touch in fifty two years. Wow, hug,

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Speaker 6: I feel like I'm floating.

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Speaker 2: It is surreal for me.

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Speaker 14: Oh yeah, I'm finally breathing a little, even though they've

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Speaker 13: It's clear the two are similar, from looks to matching shoes.

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Speaker 6: This is a moment Payvee didn't think was possible.

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Speaker 17: I knew I'd see her in heaven, but I never

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Speaker 13: Now, neither mother nor daughter will let the forever bond

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Speaker 18: If I could have taken care of him, I would have,

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Speaker 12: It was a name she didn't know, Wes Fenner's calling

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Speaker 19: She was not expecting a phone call at work saying Hi,

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Speaker 12: A few weeks later they agreed to me did a

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Speaker 18: I wiped away his tears, You wip wiped away mine.

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Speaker 18: I've thought about him every day since he was born.

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Speaker 18: You know, you wonder about nature, virgus nurture. We send

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Speaker 18: I'm looking forward to the next because meeting him wasn't

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Speaker 12: It's just the beginning. After a mother and her baby

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Speaker 8: I spend a lot of time on politics, and I

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Speaker 20: Fighting for our country, and I believe it. But we

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Speaker 20: We're fighting for children or fighting for their futures. Never

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Speaker 21: Yes, we've found a way to girl for your adoption,

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Speaker 8: If they sold a couple extra Toyotas from that spot,

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Speaker 8: stepdad raised her as if he was her own dad,

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Speaker 8: and she surprises him with the big news.

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Speaker 6: Can you read it?

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Speaker 3: Out loud.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I open, but don't say anything because Haley

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Speaker 5: hasn't opened hers.

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Speaker 6: Can you read it?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I know your birthday is thirteen days away, but I

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Speaker 1: am too excited to hold it in.

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Speaker 2: What do you get it?

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Speaker 14: Bed?

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Speaker 2: What do you get in?

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Speaker 21: Bed?

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Speaker 2: Has ever? Once?

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Speaker 14: I could hit at poder day, But in the is

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Speaker 14: I know that it would make you happier that what.

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Speaker 22: I'm about to say today to one two thousand two Bed.

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Speaker 14: We would share it forever as we grow, Haiti? Did

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Speaker 14: you I belive this, dog, Haiti?

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Speaker 22: That yell could be ye happy birthday and happy Vattletales day.

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Speaker 22: You stole her heart from day walk, but today she

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Speaker 22: stole your last thing forever.

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Speaker 23: Everybody says that. Everybody thinks that she to daddy man.

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Speaker 14: Everybody says she worship up to the ground.

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Speaker 2: I won't come, but I'll I'll worship the down.

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Speaker 10: She walks up.

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Speaker 14: I love you, I love you, Love you?

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Speaker 2: Who was too serious?

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Speaker 8: We can't be that serious in here, people trying to

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Speaker 8: drive home getting all choked up. If you're anything like me,

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Speaker 8: so here's comedian Leo Allen.

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Speaker 16: You know they say you can never go home again.

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Speaker 16: At least that's what my parents say. At least that's

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Speaker 16: what the letter from their lawyer said. I'm adopted, and

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Speaker 16: I'm glad that my parents were honest enough with me

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Speaker 16: to tell me that I'm adopted. But why every day

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Speaker 16: that seems excessive, That seems.

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Speaker 2: And I'll never forget. Well my parents first told me.

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Speaker 16: I was adopted, because it was a very emotional day

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Speaker 16: for everyone in my whole family, because that was the

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Speaker 16: same day my parents decided to tell my brother he

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Speaker 16: was gay. That's rough on a five year old. Laughter

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Speaker 16: really is the best medicine. You remember that time on

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Speaker 16: Good Times when Penny got adopted. Did you watch Good Times?

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Speaker 1: Mom?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Man, I wore Good Times out.

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Speaker 5: Maybe I wanted too much, you know, wanting to be

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Speaker 5: a mother, wanting.

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Speaker 6: Someone to love.

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Speaker 5: I knew it was a long shock from the beginning. Melana, Honey, Hey.

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Speaker 2: Jay, are you crying. I'm not crying, Michael.

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Speaker 6: It just encouraged me though.

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Speaker 2: Now that you're not leaving, I'm gonna have to eat

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Speaker 2: thumbus cookies.

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Speaker 5: I'd almost given up hope.

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Speaker 17: Well, you know, in the past, Miss Woods, it was

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Speaker 17: very difficult for single parents to adopt. But laws have

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Speaker 17: changed and times have changed. And there are so many

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Speaker 17: older children waiting for a good home. And anyway, we

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Speaker 17: got such glowing reports about you, especially for mister Bookman,

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Speaker 17: that well, we decided that one could get just as

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Speaker 17: much love as to.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Penny.

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Speaker 5: I know we have so much to learn about each other,

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Speaker 5: but I promise you I'll love you more than any

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Speaker 5: mother's ever loved a little girl.

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Speaker 8: Oh, Mama, you remember when we didn't know that Penny

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Speaker 8: was Janet Jackson. Sheted some fine little girl on the

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Speaker 8: TV show. Well, you didn't watch it, so you want

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Speaker 8: to know. I remember thinking that grows fine. And then

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Speaker 8: one day.

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Speaker 2: There she was singing on stage. Oh Penny's all gone.

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Speaker 10: Oh she was already.

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Speaker 2: I had no idea