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Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to Malik's Bookshelf, Bringing a world together
Speaker 2: with books, culture and community. Hi, my name is Malik,
Speaker 2: your host of Malik's Bookshelf. I'm down in a dirty South,
Speaker 2: deep in Texas, in Arkansas and Louisiana. We in search
Speaker 2: of April's lost family for over fifty years. She's gonna
Speaker 2: be you, red and nine it. It's gonna be an
Speaker 2: Antoine officier experience. I'm gonna be talking to her family
Speaker 2: members in April about this.
Speaker 3: I'm here to witness it.
Speaker 2: It's in a deep, dirty South out here in Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas.
Speaker 2: They spread it all over. This is a surreal experience.
Speaker 2: I'm glad to share it with my audience on Malik's Bookshelf,
Speaker 2: Bringing a world together with books, culture and community.
Speaker 3: You know what brings people together? Also family.
Speaker 2: You can choose your family, you can't choose your relatives.
Speaker 3: But the fact that she has a.
Speaker 2: Biological father, biological grandfather, biological sisters, that she just now
Speaker 2: finding out at fifty years old.
Speaker 3: That's my episode.
Speaker 2: This episode is about this whole experience. I'm here to
Speaker 2: witness it, recorded, document it, and share it all. Right now,
Speaker 2: this is a different lifestyle here. I ain't never I'm
Speaker 2: a city born, city raised, and I ain't never been
Speaker 2: in the backwards woods like this, off grid, no internet,
Speaker 2: no paved streets, ponds and you know, and just in
Speaker 2: the wilderness, you know out here. And let me tell
Speaker 2: you something. Driving all around, this is country. This is
Speaker 2: Trump country. Town flags everywhere. I'm in the deep and
Speaker 2: this is Trump country when I'm driving. When I'm not driving,
Speaker 2: but some family members are driving, and that's all I
Speaker 2: see out here. I might have seen one Harris walks
Speaker 2: months hundreds and hundreds of Trump flags everywhere, so we
Speaker 2: know this is a conservative. All I know is I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna be found out at night and going somewhere
Speaker 2: I don't know. That's just me keeping it one hundred.
Speaker 2: It's like Compton and watchs. I know not to go
Speaker 2: in that neighborhood at a certain time. Beware of your surroundings,
Speaker 2: keep your head on the swivel.
Speaker 3: Like I said, I hope this car will break down.
Speaker 2: You feel me, So hey, all I know is.
Speaker 4: This is an experience for me. This is new for me.
Speaker 2: I'm here to be supported for April. My wife also
Speaker 2: want to say this. Yesterday we all sat around her
Speaker 2: new family. Like I said, it's an Antoine Offisher experience,
Speaker 2: and watch the LSU in Texas.
Speaker 3: A and M game. They have. April has a nephew.
Speaker 2: This is a starting D lineman on Texas AM DJ Hicks,
Speaker 2: and he was explosive in.
Speaker 3: Texas INM won the game.
Speaker 2: And I got a chance to witness us all cheering
Speaker 2: for Texas A and M for the first time with
Speaker 2: her family.
Speaker 3: It's not every day that a did you get.
Speaker 2: Us to know a surprise starting nephew whom her whom
Speaker 2: her brother David. That's her son and her father name
Speaker 2: is David. Her brother name is David, her nephew is
Speaker 2: it plays for a Texas and M defensive line. DJ
Speaker 2: hicks name kept being announced on television as we watched
Speaker 2: Texas and M beat LSU yesterday's So that was an experence.
Speaker 2: Stay tuned for this upcoming episode.
Speaker 3: We're out here on a journey.
Speaker 2: This is a what I call a Antwine Fisher experience
Speaker 2: where April.
Speaker 4: After fifty years.
Speaker 2: Found contact with her biological father, biological sister, biological grandfather,
Speaker 2: deep in the South Louisiana and Arkansas. I'm standing right
Speaker 2: here with her biological father, David, her two biological sisters,
Speaker 2: Kimmy and Courtney, and I just wanted to do a
Speaker 2: podcast on this holy experience.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna start with April because she.
Speaker 2: Just found out after fifty years that she got a
Speaker 2: family cross way across America. She live in California, twenty
Speaker 2: five hundred miles away, deep in Louisiana, deep in Texas,
Speaker 2: and so this has been an Antoine Fisher experience, and
Speaker 2: so just speak on this whole experience.
Speaker 3: April.
Speaker 5: Well, this whole experience has been very, very overwhelming. And
Speaker 5: it's not a sad overwhelming feeling. I'm getting emotional already.
Speaker 5: It's just a feeling of completion. I know, I didn't know,
Speaker 5: but I knew, and the DNA don't lie. And I
Speaker 5: have sisters that I really say that that's my sisters.
Speaker 5: I have friends, that's my sisters. But you know, I
Speaker 5: found sisters. I have a brother, and that was hard for.
Speaker 6: Me to say.
Speaker 5: For my husband, No, that it was hard for me
Speaker 5: to say that I have any siblings because I didn't
Speaker 5: have any. You know, I grew up with people that
Speaker 5: said they weren't my my siblings, but I never said
Speaker 5: brother or and my husband say that's your brother. I'm like,
Speaker 5: that's my daddy's brother, that's my daddy's son.
Speaker 6: My daddy son. Never said it.
Speaker 5: But I'm comfortable saying my sisters and my brother. So
Speaker 5: it's very beautiful.
Speaker 3: That's true. That's right. This is really emotional.
Speaker 2: And you find out fifty years later a family twenty
Speaker 2: five hundred miles away, and believe me, this has been
Speaker 2: an experience for me as well. We're in a deep,
Speaker 2: deep South, off the grid, no internet, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. We need silent dirt roads. Come on, man, wilderness.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: So, but the people loved this. This is where they
Speaker 2: grew up, generational families out here. So this is her
Speaker 2: biological father, David, And after fifty years, you finally met
Speaker 2: your daughter.
Speaker 3: Just tell me.
Speaker 2: My audience on Malie's bookshelf bringing the world together with books,
Speaker 2: culture and community, Well, we're trying to bring families together
Speaker 2: that have been lost.
Speaker 3: So speak on this experience for you.
Speaker 7: It's been a great experience to me because I've been
Speaker 7: looking for April for fifty one years really ever since
Speaker 7: she was in Pampers and due to my granddaughter did
Speaker 7: asking me said, how about.
Speaker 8: You still want to find your I said, yes, I do.
Speaker 8: She said, well, wasn't her grandpa? Wasn't her grandpa name?
Speaker 8: I said, Bill Ray stay at Maryland somewhere, And I'm
Speaker 8: just wondering how did she find his address to get there?
Speaker 7: She did so much completions with technology and knowing how
Speaker 7: to use it and brought this into a close that
Speaker 7: everything worked out like we're playing yesterday and standing my story.
Speaker 3: How did you feel when your first laid eyes?
Speaker 7: How did you feel in your first laid I tears
Speaker 7: in my eye and my alma skin.
Speaker 3: Just drew up.
Speaker 7: Feels just just ooh, open up now?
Speaker 3: How did that first hug feel?
Speaker 7: That first hug felt so good that I couldn't hold
Speaker 7: it no more. WHOA, it's well looking, couldn't hold it anymore.
Speaker 5: April, I was that first hug at first sight beautiful,
Speaker 5: It was beautiful energy.
Speaker 2: I did, I did, I did, I witnessed it. I'm
Speaker 2: here too, I told her, I'm coming with you. I
Speaker 2: ain't gonna that you go experiences without me. I came
Speaker 2: down here with you. She was out here trying to
Speaker 2: make plans, and I'm like, well, I ain't think you
Speaker 2: want to go on something like that.
Speaker 3: But I'm like, hold on, hold up now.
Speaker 2: First of all, you need me, I need you need
Speaker 2: the security there too. You don't know what damn you're
Speaker 2: about to go in the deep South, all kind of shit.
Speaker 4: I'm now the way the bodies have buried at out
Speaker 4: this tree.
Speaker 3: It's off the grid.
Speaker 2: It's deep in the South, all right, one sheriff And
Speaker 2: about what how many fifty sixty miles?
Speaker 3: Come on? Right? Dang? You need launch too manitude to
Speaker 3: get here. Yeah, see that? So hey, hey, wow, this
Speaker 3: has been an experience.
Speaker 2: But you was just speaking on your granddaughter, y Yes,
Speaker 2: and this is the mother.
Speaker 1: Oh my name is Courtney.
Speaker 9: My daughter name is Casey. I've been telling Casey all
Speaker 9: her life, y'all. I have an older sister. She didn't
Speaker 9: believe me. My husband's appearance is Beardy Wood. And I
Speaker 9: always was out there and I was like, my sister's
Speaker 9: close to me.
Speaker 6: Then realize.
Speaker 2: On seven you was on sixth ass y'a was yeah,
Speaker 2: look I was on seven.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I live on seven the cemetery.
Speaker 9: Yes, and I was right there. We was always right there,
Speaker 9: and I was like, oh, so close, but just didn't know.
Speaker 9: Look I got I was so close and I just
Speaker 9: didn't know. But I kept saying, I feel my sister,
Speaker 9: she's close by. And it was like, Mama, please, Yes,
Speaker 9: I never knew, Mama, I know, I said, Dad be
Speaker 9: telling me years that I have a sister, and I
Speaker 9: have an older sister.
Speaker 6: I'm not the oldest.
Speaker 9: And she all he always said, go ask miss Barbara,
Speaker 9: and Miss Barbara her aunt that she didn't get a
Speaker 9: chance to meet. She used to be like, oh, she
Speaker 9: live in California. You won't be able to go there.
Speaker 9: I said, we go there all the time. But she
Speaker 9: never would really give me any information on her. And
Speaker 9: so finally Casey said, you know what, Mama, this is
Speaker 9: going to be my project before I go back to school.
Speaker 3: Something.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna find your sister. If you say like you said, but.
Speaker 9: I really don't believe you, because I know how y'all
Speaker 9: make stories.
Speaker 1: Here we go, here we go again.
Speaker 9: So I was so excited and it seemed like I've
Speaker 9: been knowing her the whole time.
Speaker 6: And it's like it wasn't any distance.
Speaker 9: It's like you know how you meet people for the
Speaker 9: first time, you be like okay, but this time it
Speaker 9: was like I've been knowing it my whole life, and it's
Speaker 9: like she's not a stranger to me.
Speaker 3: Wow, well, I know one thing.
Speaker 9: We have so many similarities in its soul.
Speaker 2: Yes, y'all looking like shame cheeks built from the hips down,
Speaker 2: the same pair, texture, the same you know. Yeah, walking
Speaker 2: in your house. I feel like, you know, y'all got
Speaker 2: a lot in common. And so this has been an
Speaker 2: eye opener. And we got Kemi over here her sister,
Speaker 2: I guess with the third oldest.
Speaker 10: I'm the middle, so well, I guess now I got bumped,
Speaker 10: so like I grew up with my sister Courtney, I'm
Speaker 10: the middle.
Speaker 1: Then my brother David, so.
Speaker 10: Well, our dad got sick lately, and that's when I
Speaker 10: started hearing a lot about April and my niece. She
Speaker 10: bought the idea to me because she gets stuck. It's
Speaker 10: only so much you can find on Google. So I
Speaker 10: have a friend that works for the government, and I
Speaker 10: gave him what she gave me, and he was able
Speaker 10: to find things in detail. So he's just he's so happy,
Speaker 10: like he is so happy.
Speaker 1: I am too. I'm so grateful.
Speaker 10: But myself, kim Ya and April and my dad David,
Speaker 10: we did a DNA test, so we sent it off
Speaker 10: and this was the longest how many days?
Speaker 1: Five four? Five days? Yeah, we had to wait.
Speaker 10: Yeah, so this was the longest way ever. And I'm
Speaker 10: telling her, like she's trying to find her dad, I'll
Speaker 10: make sure he mind. I'm just so grateful, Like I mean,
Speaker 10: I love family, like that's near and dear to me.
Speaker 1: And even to have that.
Speaker 10: Not necessarily closure, but it's like now what you've been
Speaker 10: missing or that feeling that you're like something is missing
Speaker 10: or something that's not right now to just know that,
Speaker 10: it's just so it's you can't even explain it.
Speaker 1: You can't explain the feeling that you have.
Speaker 10: So piece you feel a piece, Oh yeah, a piece,
Speaker 10: A piece.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: As I was telling you guys yesterday, I was so
Speaker 5: conflicted with the decision of moving forward because I just
Speaker 5: felt like I was betraying my mother, you know, and
Speaker 5: she wasn't here to say yes, daughter, go ahead. So
Speaker 5: I just was feeling so conflicted, like am I doing
Speaker 5: the right thing?
Speaker 1: And now what I see you guys like, oh man,
Speaker 1: this is this.
Speaker 5: Is so right, this is so right.
Speaker 2: Hug Her up, hug her up, hugger up. Come on, Dad,
Speaker 2: come on, Pop, come on, get on in there.
Speaker 3: Look at this. Yeah, hold on, y'all, stay right there.
Speaker 4: I gotta take a picture, my audience.
Speaker 2: You gotta be still because I gotta take this picture
Speaker 2: of all for hugging the round table. You know, this
Speaker 2: is surreal. This is filled with a lot of emotion.
Speaker 2: This is history, It is extraordinary. I didn't want to
Speaker 2: miss it. This is an Antoine Fisher moment. Find you're
Speaker 2: not alone, You're not ain't.
Speaker 3: God gotta answer, Like she said, she.
Speaker 2: Didn't know if her daughter, if her mom would feel
Speaker 2: a certain way when she passed away a few years back.
Speaker 3: But God gotta say so.
Speaker 5: A week joke, kim joke, and this corny joke that
Speaker 5: we just been laughing about other people be like, why
Speaker 5: are laughing?
Speaker 1: But we know why we're lafting.
Speaker 5: Like corny stuff.
Speaker 6: I'm so I'm a jokester.
Speaker 5: And I thought I I thought I got it for my.
Speaker 1: Father because he was a joke to too. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: he used to just joke Jojoe. But now it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so good.
Speaker 5: I believe that laughter. Is this the most powerful medicine.
Speaker 5: It's so powerful, and I use it. I use it
Speaker 5: on a daily basis.
Speaker 10: And all of us are vegetarian. Yeah, I courtinate a vegetarians.
Speaker 10: None of us wear the old room. You don't stink,
Speaker 10: but I trot the owner. That's all long before this.
Speaker 10: We have so much of the same like similarities, just
Speaker 10: like we were grew up in the house together, siblings,
Speaker 10: and we did what the other ones did.
Speaker 1: First time meeting each other in fifty one years. And
Speaker 1: so I'm.
Speaker 10: And I'm forty six, so yes, first time meeting. He
Speaker 10: just turned forty in our So yes, first time meeting.
Speaker 1: And we already are having connection. Yes, and we do some.
Speaker 10: Of the same things unconsciously knowing.
Speaker 1: But because the DNA, yes.
Speaker 2: It's just ain't physical, but there are certain things inside
Speaker 2: of the DNA personality traits as.
Speaker 5: Well as when I didn't believe it, I even called
Speaker 5: the people like this, right, the lady said, ma'am, if
Speaker 5: it's no zeros on there, it's right, that's right, y.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I'm I'm grateful. I'm more than grateful. I
Speaker 1: mean it just feels like, I mean, the torch, we
Speaker 1: gotta keep going with it. And then it's like.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I feel like like I called Courtney and talking
Speaker 10: to her as a big sister.
Speaker 1: I mean I feel that with you too, like I
Speaker 1: can call you and talk to you as a big.
Speaker 10: Sister and get that guy in their wisdom and even
Speaker 10: knowledge and so and I always rely on my big sister.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I call her.
Speaker 10: She's been through some things that I'm just now going
Speaker 10: through and how she dealt with and me watching thinking back,
Speaker 10: I don't know how she did it, but I asked
Speaker 10: questions now because I'm going through those things and she's
Speaker 10: able to help me.
Speaker 1: And then even the short time that you've been here.
Speaker 10: I feel like, oh my god, I could talk to
Speaker 10: my sister too, like we can have our comforts calls
Speaker 10: and yeah, we just talking. So this is like this
Speaker 10: is a miracle to me. This is miraculous and it's
Speaker 10: a blessing. And so yeah, I'm grateful.
Speaker 9: You know, you know how I always tell you how
Speaker 9: life repeats yourself and think about all the families you
Speaker 9: helped found their siblings.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and she.
Speaker 1: Has helped her.
Speaker 9: She has helped people find their people, and look why
Speaker 9: she was in Los Angeles and she was down there.
Speaker 10: A family I found from Mississippi. Her family thought she died.
Speaker 10: And I went live near uh yes, what's the area
Speaker 10: skid roll and these people's tent had burned up, and
Speaker 10: I went to the good store sport and good store
Speaker 10: bought them new tents and everything. I was going live
Speaker 10: and like five people in boxed me, like.
Speaker 3: That's our sister.
Speaker 1: We've been looking for her for.
Speaker 10: Seven years and we're way in Mississippi. So they asked
Speaker 10: me if I can send the address, send whatever, and
Speaker 10: they asked me to ask her questions about her children.
Speaker 10: She had seven children, lost them to the system, and
Speaker 10: she was pregnant now so I still they still keep
Speaker 10: in touch with me.
Speaker 1: They made a trip to l A and found her. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I've helped like a couple of people do that.
Speaker 1: It's like the seeds, Yeah, so so on the seed.
Speaker 6: Is she and that years ago like six fower.
Speaker 10: That was at least about six years ago. Yes, I
Speaker 10: have their picture. I'll show you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, six years ago. To see with someone never.
Speaker 10: And I mean even to see them, I mean I
Speaker 10: can imagine this feeling that they had seeing their lost
Speaker 10: loved one that they grew up with and then rekindling
Speaker 10: after seven years. So this is like, I mean, it's
Speaker 10: a joy that's unexplainable.
Speaker 1: So I'm grateful.
Speaker 2: I'm glad they have witness shit. I think this was
Speaker 2: an eye opener. You know, it's never too late as
Speaker 2: long as you have life too correct change, seek fine,
Speaker 2: but don't give up.
Speaker 10: And maybe this would encourage somebody to come forward if
Speaker 10: you were maybe missing a sibling, or if you are
Speaker 10: in search of your own family, like, there are ways
Speaker 10: that you can do it.
Speaker 1: There are ways, and.
Speaker 10: Even if you feel like something is missing, most of
Speaker 10: the time it is. It is, So I encourage everybody
Speaker 10: to find their families.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm good.
Speaker 2: This is organic now and it's not scripted. They speaking
Speaker 2: from the heart and mind. We in the deep South
Speaker 2: wind Arkansas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got a pond, we got a.
Speaker 2: Dirt road, we got with the wilderness all around us.
Speaker 2: You know what's gonna pop out of them trees?
Speaker 3: Man? Look, look, I'm a city boy. Yeah, I'm a yeah.
Speaker 4: Look beautiful butterflies I see.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm the city you know, and that ain't gonna change.
Speaker 3: I need to be around people and around things.
Speaker 2: I like concerts, I like grocery stores close, you know,
Speaker 2: you know, yeah, this ain't my cup of tea. But hey,
Speaker 2: it's beautiful though. It's quiet and feel peaceful.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: It's a good place to probably retire, you know, buy
Speaker 2: some land.
Speaker 4: But you know, I need to be developed because out
Speaker 4: here is wilderness.
Speaker 3: They love it.
Speaker 2: They great. It's generational. You know, this is generational. The
Speaker 2: Hicks family, they own over one hundred acres. You know,
Speaker 2: many of us in the past showed our acres and
Speaker 2: moved and land and moved to the inner moved the
Speaker 2: city's north up north.
Speaker 3: In the east coast.
Speaker 2: But out here they own about one hundred and something acres.
Speaker 2: They all grew up here, generational one hundred and eighty acres.
Speaker 2: And I'm looking at it and I'm standing on it.
Speaker 3: They grew up.
Speaker 2: Here, Their grandfathers grew up here, their great great great fathers.
Speaker 3: So you know, this is this is their home.
Speaker 2: This is where they all grew up And the young
Speaker 2: lady who found yes, she come on up here, come on.
Speaker 2: What's your daughter's name again?
Speaker 3: Casey? Casey. That's why I thought, what this is? Casey.
Speaker 3: She's the one that found April.
Speaker 2: I'm doing my podcast Maleak's Bookshelf, bringing the world together
Speaker 2: with books, culture and community.
Speaker 3: But today you brought.
Speaker 2: Together a long lost sister, a long loss that's your
Speaker 2: neat Auntie, and today I wanted I'm talking to my audience,
Speaker 2: but tell me about that experience and what made you
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 6: The experience of finding my aunt.
Speaker 11: Honestly, it was very excited, fast faced.
Speaker 5: I was a girl.
Speaker 11: I was hoping first because mister Billy Ray remember that
Speaker 11: he originally gave me.
Speaker 6: It was like it didn't come back to anything, and.
Speaker 11: I was a little scared and I'm like, I don't
Speaker 11: know hypa found When my first day searching, I found
Speaker 11: other ladies with the name April, I'm like, this be her,
Speaker 11: but it was like they didn't seem right. And then
Speaker 11: finally talking to my other aunt, I found I finally
Speaker 11: found her, and honestly, it has been one of the
Speaker 11: most exciting experiences ever.
Speaker 6: I'm in this speech class. I literally wrote my speech
Speaker 6: pouder I got an.
Speaker 3: A wow, wonderful, wonderful and.
Speaker 6: Hostually, I'm just happy to have her in my life.
Speaker 3: Out Yeah, yeah, I'm glad. I'm glad.
Speaker 2: I'm mad your experience the reunion. After fifty years, April
Speaker 2: finds out that she has family out here in Texas
Speaker 2: in Arkansas, and the person I'm talking to right now
Speaker 2: is the one that did the research, found enough connection
Speaker 2: and pinned down and called her. I was sitting on
Speaker 2: the couch when you called. When she got that call,
Speaker 2: she thought it was a telemarketer.
Speaker 3: I remember that.
Speaker 6: I heard you in the background.
Speaker 11: You were on your computer talking about the ancestry and
Speaker 11: never talked about like the Higgs.
Speaker 3: And all that.
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, yeah, we did some twenty three and
Speaker 2: meters with me and the family. And Hicks popped up
Speaker 2: in her DNA at saying relatives, and that kind of
Speaker 2: got her mind spinning too. Who's all these Hicks? And
Speaker 2: I don't see Hagen. So that's beginning. But her mom
Speaker 2: was already passed, her father was ill, her daddy that
Speaker 2: raised her, so she wasn't aware at all about her
Speaker 2: family out here and her biological dad. So this was
Speaker 2: all new a surprise. But what comes out the dark
Speaker 2: comes to the light. And you was part of that
Speaker 2: reunion and reuniting of her relatives, and now she could
Speaker 2: choose to be part of your family.
Speaker 6: Wait, you ask me, how does that feel?
Speaker 3: Yeah? How does that feel?
Speaker 6: This was amazing. It feels wonderful because the.
Speaker 11: Fact is that I'm walking this earth and I have
Speaker 11: five other cousins, another uncle, another another, ain't it? And
Speaker 11: I have all this amazing family. And the fact that
Speaker 11: we were literally around the corner when we were visiting
Speaker 11: my grandparents or my other uncle, and the fact that
Speaker 11: we could have met y'all.
Speaker 3: Yep, y'all was on six. I believe we're on seven.
Speaker 3: Were right down the street in Englewood.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's just it's, honestly, just a surreal feeling. It's exciting.
Speaker 6: At first, you get a little confused and you're like,
Speaker 6: ain't no way. But honestly, when I see y'all yest day,
Speaker 6: I'm like, it's real.
Speaker 2: It is real, and we happy to meet you. Look
Speaker 2: at that you got some West Coast on you right there.
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Speaker 4: Well, I hope my audience enjoyed that.
Speaker 2: I'm glad that y'all was open to allow me to
Speaker 2: interview you from a podcast. Malik's Bookshelf, bringing the world
Speaker 2: together with books, culture, and community and I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2: I think this will definitely inspire someone who has a
Speaker 2: family member that they trying to connect with, this loss
Speaker 2: or forgotten or whatever. This definitely gonna inspire them to
Speaker 2: want to take some steps to reunite with a family member.
Speaker 2: You know, you can't choose your relatives, but you could
Speaker 2: choose your family. So seek you, seek them out, find them,
Speaker 2: embrace them. You know, I'm sure I got relatives somewhere.
Speaker 2: You know, we know the history of America, a lot
Speaker 2: of us have been separated, but either forcefully or by choice.
Speaker 2: But nevertheless, it's still family, still relatives.
Speaker 3: That is so thank you, Thank you.
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