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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Sam, this is John, and we are

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Speaker 1: My husband's stepsister won't leave us alone, so we left

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Speaker 1: the country. Get out of there, Get out of that country.

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Speaker 1: Me twenty seven female and Callum twenty eight male, met

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Speaker 1: in college, fell in love, and decided to get married

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Speaker 1: once we both found stable jobs and a little life footing.

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Speaker 1: Callum is the nicest, weedest guy on the planet, but

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Speaker 1: also a bit of a people pleaser. He'll bend over backwards,

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Speaker 1: hold up to not hurt anyone's feelings that's relevant later

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Speaker 1: to explain why things went the way they did or

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Speaker 1: so long. By the way, this comes from Public Sense

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Speaker 1: fifteen oh three, and if you want to submit your

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Speaker 1: A bit of info about me. I have dual citizenship.

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Speaker 1: My dad is Canadian, but I went to college in

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Speaker 1: the States in the same city. My maternal grandmother lives

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Speaker 1: family Looper Chill. Unless hockey's involved, then the gloves come off.

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Speaker 1: Callum's family not chill, They suck. His mom is actually fine,

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Speaker 1: she's the ex wife of his dad, But dad and

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Speaker 1: stepmom not so much. Enter Layla, which we love. Leila, yeah,

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Speaker 1: generally who at the time of this story was twenty

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Speaker 1: one female. She is Callum's stepsister from his dad's for marriage.

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Speaker 1: She's been in his life since she was a little kid.

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Speaker 1: But the critical detail here, Layla has had a crush

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Speaker 1: on Callum. Wait four years wait.

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Speaker 2: Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait the stepsister.

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Speaker 1: Don't go into the washing machine, step says the crush.

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Speaker 1: Layla has been a painfully obvious crush on Callum since

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Speaker 1: she was fourteen. At the time, everyone in his family

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Speaker 1: brushed it off as cute and puppy love. They make

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Speaker 1: comments like isn't it adorable how she follows him around,

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Speaker 1: which totally ignored how uncomfortable it made Callum. Once Callum

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Speaker 1: moved out, he went low contact with them, mostly to

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Speaker 1: sending weirdly suggestive selfies, baking emergencies to guilt him into visiting,

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Speaker 1: and worst of all, making threat of self harm if

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Speaker 1: he didn't pay her enough attention.

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Speaker 2: Dude, why isn't this family do we anything to stop this?

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Speaker 1: It was emotional blackmail, and Calum, being the nice guy

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Speaker 1: he is, felt torn between guilt and genuine unease over

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Speaker 1: her behavior. Throughout our time dating, Laylah was absolutely clingy.

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Speaker 1: She'd get furious if he ignored her calls, bombarred him

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Speaker 1: and later our house, seemingly determined to insert herself into

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Speaker 1: and Callum's dad did nothing more than coddle her, dismissing

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Speaker 1: her behavior as nothing more than harmless puppy love, rather

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Speaker 1: than stepping in to address the escalating boundary violation. That's

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Speaker 1: so frustrating now our engagement. I mean, Lailah's gonna go banana.

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Speaker 1: Fast forward to a couple of years ago, Callum and

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Speaker 1: I Godden gave. She planned a sunset picnic and did

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Speaker 1: the cheesy ringing glass stunt, but with sparkling apple juice

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Speaker 1: Leila immediately lost it. She posted sad, dramatic Tiktoks wrote

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Speaker 1: MOPI captions on her socials and repeatedly called me a

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Speaker 1: equal footing financially. Layo's parents suddenly decided it was Callum's

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry if I don't like usually encourage clapping back

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Speaker 2: on people's socials, but honestly, I would just go on

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Speaker 2: all of her posts and say you're into your step

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Speaker 1: They insisted we post upon our wedding because it was

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Speaker 1: too distressing for Layla and that our mental health was fragile,

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Speaker 1: which is probably true, but it's not Op's job. I

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Speaker 2: Sorry, yeah, there's some therapy. Health is fragile because you

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Speaker 2: guys did nothing.

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Speaker 1: They even floated the idea that Callum should go to

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Speaker 1: Therapy, Yes, you read that right, couples therapy, not family

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Speaker 1: But Callum did offer to attend family therapy, and we

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Speaker 1: being cruel by not taking Leila's emotional turmoil more seriously. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: As I didn't plan on having a full wedding party,

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Speaker 2: Who does that? She probably freaking showed up in a

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Speaker 1: I'm here my own priest.

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Speaker 2: I have him on retainer.

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Speaker 1: He's ready to stand in anytime. He can object to

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Speaker 2: It's really quite easy.

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Speaker 1: One stop shop. A friend posted a group picture in

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Speaker 1: Leayla found out where we were. I was in the

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Speaker 1: who do I see in the mirrors reflection behind me? Layla? Dude,

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Speaker 1: It's like a horrible yeah, Hi, it's me Layla. Now

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Speaker 1: I don't remember everything that was said. Stress plus time

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Speaker 1: to me, looked me up and down, and sneered, Wow,

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Speaker 1: they actually have dresses in your size. Well, I'm not

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Speaker 2: Yeah, probably like oh, sorry, didn't know that.

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Speaker 2: Me or wouldn't fit baby girl. You can't have it

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Speaker 2: both way. He's either your brother or your lover.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he can't come to the side. It took a

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Speaker 1: Why didn't you invite her in the first place? You

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Speaker 1: of Layla's fragile catered to whim the silver lining. I

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Speaker 1: still found my dream dress that day. It wasn't the

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Speaker 1: That night, Calum and I had a long talk and

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Speaker 1: we agreed that Layla and by extension, that side of

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Speaker 1: his family would not be involved in any wedding events

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Speaker 1: outside of the actual wedding and would be on an

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Speaker 1: even stricter info diet. If they kept pushing, we'd have

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Speaker 1: no choice but to disinvite them entirely. We knew it

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Speaker 1: our wedding was drama and stress free. Passwords with all

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Speaker 1: our vendors, a day of coordinator who also recommended a

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Speaker 1: security company, and several other measures to be taken, no

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Speaker 1: plus ones unless we personally knew them, et cetera. Dude,

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Speaker 2: Test you're You're like, Oh, you had to get through

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Speaker 2: Layla before you could have Callum. Yeah, we had to

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, the love is strong if you can

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Speaker 1: get through all this mess. Well, meanwhile, Callum's dad and

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Speaker 1: Leila's mental health was delicate, and Calum's dad even threatened

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Speaker 1: to my bridle shower, which honestly felt like more of

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Speaker 1: next arc in this drama, The bridal shower.

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Speaker 2: The shower.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, we're not even a quarter done. Dang man,

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Speaker 1: there's a chunker. My bridle shower was a Bridgertron themed

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Speaker 1: Picture a dozen of my closest friends in a few relatives, Mom, grandma,

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Speaker 1: delicate teacups and speaking in fake push accidental. It was

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Speaker 1: But the moment we left that bubble of the Regency

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Speaker 1: Both side mirrors were broken, almost every panel, keyed, four

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Speaker 1: When the police arrived, they asked me if I had

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Speaker 2: Must be that retainer priest.

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Speaker 1: I never trusted him, never trusted him. It was Leila.

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Speaker 1: The officer said, they do what they could, but with

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Speaker 1: My insurance ended up covering part of the damage, but

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Speaker 1: the timing and the emotional toll was brutal. I remember

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Speaker 1: utterly done At that moment, I even considered if staying

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Speaker 1: with Callum was even worth it. No, let her take it,

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Speaker 1: don't she's she's gonna win. Don't let her win.

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Speaker 2: Don't let her win.

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Speaker 1: He was and still is. And of course, when we

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Speaker 1: there was no proof it was Leila, and that random

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Speaker 1: acts of vandalism happen all the time, right because random

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Speaker 1: Bridal Showers and yet none of this prepared me for

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Speaker 1: what Layla did next, the break in. Oh man, do

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Speaker 1: we have a lot, Leilah.

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Speaker 2: I really think that you have to talk to Callum

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Speaker 2: and say, dude, I understand that you have people pleasing tendencies,

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Speaker 2: but like I feel like my life is in danger.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean this is getting dangerous.

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Speaker 2: Leila is crazy.

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Speaker 1: I mean she's just drying property with drying property. But

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Speaker 1: now we get into the break in. So, with the

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Speaker 1: Cannot haven't held her accountable at all yet. That's crazy.

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Speaker 1: She can come to Canada. She doesn't know how to

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Speaker 3: Wrong, wrong, We got an update and it might be happy,

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Speaker 1: but it's a big one. There were some attempts to

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Speaker 1: And now next part of the story Leila's arrest and charges.

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Speaker 1: Maybe finally some karma beIN caught up. What finally some

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Speaker 1: Kotta some kara karma's catching up? Okay, God, finally karma's

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Speaker 1: catching up. Because it was our first official offense and

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Speaker 1: was sentenced to probation, mandatory counseling, and ordered to pay

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Speaker 1: restitution for damages, which was paid to our lawyer into

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Speaker 1: a trust and then allocated us good From the time

433
00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:03,760
Speaker 1: Layla was arrested to the court hearing, it took around

434
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Speaker 1: six months. There were multiple delays, mainly because her lawyer

435
00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:10,400
Speaker 1: requested extensions. According to what our lawyer told us, we

436
00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,080
Speaker 1: weren't there for the hearing itself, using instead to submit

437
00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:16,760
Speaker 1: victim impact statements and such through a lawyer. It was

438
00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:20,160
Speaker 1: partly to avoid further emotional distress, but mostly because by

439
00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:22,440
Speaker 1: that point we'd already moved away and attending the hearing

440
00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:25,960
Speaker 1: in person felt like taking a step backward. And there's

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Speaker 1: another updates called minor issues.

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00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:33,000
Speaker 2: Oh no, we were doing so well. Everyone was getting

443
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Speaker 2: what they deserved.

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Speaker 1: No. I thought it was like, oh, that's a nice,

445
00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:37,560
Speaker 1: even nicer postcript.

446
00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,679
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was like, yay, but at least there's minor,

447
00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,000
Speaker 2: just minors, not major as she was just all like,

448
00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:46,639
Speaker 2: Layla's back, No, she's back.

449
00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:49,439
Speaker 1: Yeah. Maybe it's just like she's annoying us on social

450
00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:52,320
Speaker 1: media or so yeah. Because there was so much ongoing drama,

451
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Speaker 1: I originally trimmed my post for brevity. But here a

452
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Speaker 1: few things that occurred. Engagement party crash. Leyla crashed our

453
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Speaker 1: small friends only in engagement party barbecue, which was to

454
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Speaker 1: announce and celebrate our engagement with them. Laylah showed up

455
00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:06,679
Speaker 1: at the house and dramatically burst into tears, claimed we

456
00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:10,159
Speaker 1: had purposely excluded her countless people pleasing ways and desire

457
00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,800
Speaker 1: not to cause a scene. Came to the forefront, resulting

458
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Speaker 1: in Leayla joining us. Oh, she spent the entire night

459
00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:18,560
Speaker 1: whining about the food, pouting and attempting to eat things

460
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Speaker 1: off his plate, h asking him for his jacket because

461
00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:23,719
Speaker 1: he was because she was cold.

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Speaker 2: Well, damn, Jackie, I can't control the weather.

463
00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:29,800
Speaker 1: It wasn't cold, and he wasn't even wearing a jacket,

464
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Speaker 1: and various other small antics to be the center of attention.

465
00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:37,280
Speaker 1: I meanwhile, decided to punish him by keeping well away

466
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Speaker 1: from them, both so he could reap what he sewed

467
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Speaker 1: and letting her stay. My go to line was it's

468
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Speaker 1: your sister, not mine. You deal here there.

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Speaker 2: If he's gonna let her say and be the people pleaser,

470
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Speaker 2: then he's got to deal with the consequences.

471
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Speaker 1: And then next job sabotage attempt I suspect, but I

472
00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:55,800
Speaker 1: have no real proof that Leyela and her friends tried

473
00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:58,400
Speaker 1: to sabotage my job by making false complaints to HR

474
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Speaker 1: alleging inappropriate behavior. Thankfully, my boss knew me well enough

475
00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:03,600
Speaker 1: to see through the claims, and we have cameras which

476
00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:07,400
Speaker 1: they reviewed. But it still led to an uncomfortable conversation

477
00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:09,480
Speaker 1: with a lot of anxiety over my job. I also

478
00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:11,679
Speaker 1: suspect it isn't the first time she has done this,

479
00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:15,760
Speaker 1: as I was let go from my previous employer from

480
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,720
Speaker 1: complaints about my conduct with customer.

481
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:22,199
Speaker 2: Oh my god, she is false claims to get you fired.

482
00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:23,640
Speaker 2: Nobody followed up on that.

483
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:29,840
Speaker 1: Laila has successfully ruined everything successfully. I mean, as at

484
00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:32,520
Speaker 1: least the marriage wasn't broken up. But she's been pretty.

485
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:34,919
Speaker 2: But she canceled the she got the wedding canceled. She

486
00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:36,560
Speaker 2: got them to literally move countries.

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Speaker 1: I mean she uh. I mean, say what you will

488
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Speaker 1: about Laila, but dang is she effective? Hard worker? I

489
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:45,080
Speaker 1: only a hard worker if only she applied that to

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Speaker 1: anything else. So fake illness. Leila pretended to have a

491
00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:50,960
Speaker 1: severe illness while her parents were away on holiday she

492
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:54,200
Speaker 1: lives with them. Desperately demanding Callum to come over. She

493
00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:57,439
Speaker 1: sent him panic text claiming she could hardly breathe and

494
00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,560
Speaker 1: she thought she might die because she couldn't find her inhaler. Callum,

495
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:03,840
Speaker 1: genuinely concerned and too nice for his own good, rushed

496
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:06,520
Speaker 1: over with me along for the ride, and she opened

497
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:11,400
Speaker 1: the door in a skimpy nightgown yea, throwing herself at him,

498
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:16,359
Speaker 1: losing and coughing. She miraculously recovered after seeing I was

499
00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:20,280
Speaker 1: there For context. She has asthma and often uses it

500
00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,840
Speaker 1: as an excuse for attention. One more thing, On the

501
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:25,000
Speaker 1: same note, she once accused me of trying to unlive

502
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:27,920
Speaker 1: her because I'd worn some fororal perfume around her. I

503
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:29,920
Speaker 1: didn't stop wearing it after this, but she continued to

504
00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:33,200
Speaker 1: accuse me of wearing strong perfumes afterward, even though I'd

505
00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:38,240
Speaker 1: long since stopped wearing them and only use minimally scented roll.

506
00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:42,800
Speaker 1: On next part of the story, social media, Oh my goodness, Layla.

507
00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:46,160
Speaker 1: Leila was rather active online, posting vague, get passive, aggressive

508
00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 1: statuses about how the family betrays you and men are

509
00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:50,320
Speaker 1: scum who don't know what they have. And while I

510
00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:52,800
Speaker 1: have no proof, I suspect Leila and her friends were

511
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,440
Speaker 1: the ones creating anonymous accounts to spam my social media

512
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:59,520
Speaker 1: with hateful comments, insults about my appearance, and accusations about

513
00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:02,400
Speaker 1: being un faithful, a gold digger, and more. I did

514
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,760
Speaker 1: lock down as best I could, but even my phone

515
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:06,800
Speaker 1: would get spammed with messages and I had to change

516
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:10,200
Speaker 1: my numbers several times. As she was I suspect using

517
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:15,120
Speaker 1: my number on various websites for quotes and callbacks for salespeople, insurance,

518
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 1: et cetera. Then there's a wedding registry sabotage. Again. I

519
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 1: have no proof, but someone with access to our wedding

520
00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:23,680
Speaker 1: registries started marking nearly everything as purchased. This was found

521
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,160
Speaker 1: out when a friend asked me what else we might

522
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,920
Speaker 1: want as everything on the registry was taken. With everything

523
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,240
Speaker 1: going on, I don't know who else to accuse, but Laila,

524
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:37,240
Speaker 1: these smaller, those still wildly frustrating issues made the larger

525
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 1: events feel even more exhausting. Writing it all out makes

526
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 1: it even clearer that we should have set more boundaries

527
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:45,960
Speaker 1: and enforced them way earlier. It wasn't that we weren't trying,

528
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 1: because we were. We made numerous attempts to set firm boundaries,

529
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:53,760
Speaker 1: from directly confronting Layla about our behavior, to limiting contact

530
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:57,280
Speaker 1: to explicitly laying out what was and wasn't acceptable. But

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Speaker 1: every single time we drew a line, family pushback, accusing

532
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,480
Speaker 1: us of overfreacting and being cruel, and ask Callum to

533
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 1: be a good brother because his sister needed him.

534
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 2: Someone needs to pick what they want Callum to be

535
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 2: towards Tila. I'm just switching it up.

536
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 1: I just don't know how they see all this behavior

537
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 1: and are not trying to put some kind of line there,

538
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 1: Like what it felt like finding a constant, uphill battle

539
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 1: with Leila always cast as the victim and us made

540
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:28,240
Speaker 1: out to be unreasonable villains standing up for ourselves. For me,

541
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,160
Speaker 1: I'm out of people pleaser like Callum. I am more

542
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,000
Speaker 1: roll my eyes and move on kind of person. So

543
00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:35,439
Speaker 1: I initially let a lot of things slide, thinking it

544
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:38,919
Speaker 1: wasn't worth the energy or stress to fight every small battle.

545
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,760
Speaker 1: I figured Leila would eventually get bored, which she did not.

546
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 2: No, Layla finds ways to entertain herself.

547
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:48,040
Speaker 1: I thought she'd grow out of it, or at least

548
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,199
Speaker 1: redirect her obsession elsewhere. I even tried to set her

549
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,720
Speaker 1: up on a date at one point while Calum and

550
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 1: I were just dating. God to help that guy. Oh

551
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 1: my goodness, watch out. Yeah. She wasn't as bad before

552
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 1: we got engaged, and back then most of her antics

553
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,640
Speaker 1: were annoying but manageable. It was only after we announced

554
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 1: our engagement that Layla's behavior escalated dramatically. When we were dating,

555
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,840
Speaker 1: it was things like Laylah constantly texting her, calling Calum

556
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,719
Speaker 1: late at night, having small emergencies just to get his attention,

557
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 1: like having asthma attack. And now I'm writing this, I'm

558
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:21,200
Speaker 1: wondering if her allergic reactions were her purposely eating sesame

559
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,240
Speaker 1: or sesame products, or if they were legitimate mistakes.

560
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:26,159
Speaker 2: Then Leyla, you never know.

561
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 1: Then there was her showing up unannounced to his apartment

562
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 1: and then our house after removed, whenever she knew we

563
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 1: had plans. She once let herself in very early in

564
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 1: her dating days and had a complete breakdown after finding

565
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 1: us in bed sleeping. This should have probably been a

566
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 1: red flag, but I was a bit love sick for

567
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:45,920
Speaker 1: my husband back then. Who am I kidding? I still am?

568
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 2: She broke Wait what happened?

569
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,160
Speaker 1: Broke into the house and then went into the room,

570
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 1: went into their room and was like ah. She also

571
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:57,119
Speaker 1: regularly tried to guilt trip him into canceling dates by

572
00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 1: pretending to feel lonely or abandoned. When she even through

573
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 1: a tantrum because Calum spent Valentine's Day with me instead

574
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:07,119
Speaker 1: of her claiming he was neglecting family. God now remember

575
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,439
Speaker 1: that one. It really makes me cringe. But while annoying

576
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 1: and frustrating. These things felt more childish and cringe rather

577
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,719
Speaker 1: than outright malicious, so I mistakenly thought she'd eventually grew

578
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 1: out of them. Clearly we underestimated how far she'd be

579
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:22,120
Speaker 1: willing to go, By the way, should never underestimate how

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Speaker 1: I was the person I am today and was back

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00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 1: at the start of dating Callum, I don't think we

589
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 1: would have made it past the first few months. Not

590
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:49,480
Speaker 1: because Callum he's always been wonderful, but because the family

591
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,479
Speaker 1: drama and like a Layla's obsession would have been an

592
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 1: immediate deal breaker. The older and wiser verse of myself

593
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 1: recognizes that love alone isn't always enough healthy boundaries, mutual respect,

594
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 1: in a motional safety it mattered just as much. Thankfully,

595
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 1: Callum eventually saw this too, but it was a long

596
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 1: journey to get there, and a really good therapist definitely helped,

597
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 1: as did some of the books on a meshment she

598
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 1: had us read. Honestly, it's eye opening now to see

599
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 1: just how much we tolerated slash overlooked in the name

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00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 1: of keeping the peace. And that is where that saga.

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00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 1: My goodness, Leila needs to learn some boundaries and maybe

602
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 1: maybe learn that in the confines a very small cell.

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00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 2: Wow.

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00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 1: Wow, well we got one more story. I mean, it

605
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 1: sounds like she just never got therapy. Sounds like she

606
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 1: was never given boundaries that she respect. It's yeah, it's really.

607
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 2: Bad, but let's get into this next story.

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00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 1: Oh wait, that's a great Wait. Wait can I can

609
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 1: I dunk my head in cold water really quick? That's

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Speaker 1: we'll be back.

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00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 2: I'm gonna leave you to keyon now, all right, unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: I am ready.

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00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 2: All right, let's do it. I'm s wearing a towel.

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00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,959
Speaker 1: Now, how do you do the thing? What the ladies

615
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 1: do you throw?

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00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 2: So you did it?

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00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:09,120
Speaker 1: You had it, but it wasn't quite there.

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00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 2: So yeah, did you just twist it?

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Speaker 4: I twisted twist it, twist it and then and then yeah,

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Speaker 4: and then to throw it behind you.

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Speaker 2: My goddaughter's stepmother tried to replace our real mother and

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Speaker 2: got a dose of karma.

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Speaker 1: Karma needs to come to someone. I was tired and

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00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 1: I needed to dug my head in the ice bath.

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Speaker 2: This is a story about my unofficial daughter, Ella. Ella

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Speaker 2: made godmother when my twins were born. Mary became godmother

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Speaker 2: to my daughter. We were part of each other's family

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Speaker 2: Ella was ten at the time of the diagnosis. It

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Speaker 2: Mary's parents had left Mary with some family heirloom jewelry,

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Speaker 2: and when Mary was terminal, she made her will. I

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645
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:39,520
Speaker 2: but has no backbone and does everything to avoid confrontation.

646
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: Noodle spine, Noodle Tom, Noodle time, Noodle spine.

647
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 2: Noodle Tom, Tom, the man is worse than me. I

648
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 2: know that I also lacked a backbone. Mary was very

649
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 2: afraid what would happen if he would marry again, and

650
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 2: that person wouldn't have Ella's interest at heart. In her

651
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 2: infinite wisdom, Mary made an iron clad will. The heirloom

652
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 2: jewelry was left with me as Mary wanted me to

653
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 2: give Ella everything when she would marry. Tom had documentation

654
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 2: and insurance papers of every piece, as did the attorney

655
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 2: who made Mary's will. After Mary's death and funeral, Tom

656
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 2: and Ella got our support. We helped Ella navigate a

657
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 2: life without her mother, standing in when she needed me

658
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 2: as a mother figure. He helped Tom with whatever support

659
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:28,560
Speaker 2: he needed, and when Ella was twelve, Tom met Clarissa.

660
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 2: Clarissa couldn't have children of her own, and when she

661
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 2: and Ella were introduced to one another. She latched on

662
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 2: to Ella Wheersa, tried to erase Mary's memory in whatever

663
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 2: way she could, and inserted herself in every moment possible.

664
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 2: He introduced herself as Ella's mom and completely ignored every

665
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 2: boundary Ella put out.

666
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 1: You could not know. God, get wait and this is

667
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 1: the mom passed away.

668
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 2: Mom just passed away, and now she's introducing me.

669
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 1: Kay, I forget about that that old thing. That's yesterday's news, yesterday's.

670
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 2: Mom, today's mom.

671
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 1: We would improved mom two point zero.

672
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 2: She became jealous of the bond between Ella and me

673
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 2: and tried many different things to separate us. Things took

674
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 2: a bad turn when Ella was four fourteen. I remember

675
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 2: this day very well. It was a Monday. I had

676
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 2: an appointment with a client at the venue they owned

677
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 2: at the time. This appointment was later in the day.

678
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,240
Speaker 2: The venue itself was a nice one and often used

679
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 2: for reunions, birthdays, weddings, and the owner let the elderly

680
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 2: people use it twice a week for their hobbies and activities.

681
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:39,959
Speaker 2: Mom's mother, Stacy, who was still alive then, was a

682
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 2: volunteer and helped in the organization. I was waiting in

683
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 2: the lobby when Stacy saw me, came up and we

684
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 2: started to chat. Eventually the owner came and greeted us

685
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 2: with the remark, eh, how wonderful to see you here.

686
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:55,719
Speaker 2: I'm so excited for Tom and Claius, this wedding, this

687
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 2: upcoming Saturday. I'm sure you are as well. Stacy and

688
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 2: I were shocked. Wedding. What wedding? No clue? The owner

689
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 2: sensed something was wrong. When the shock had worn off,

690
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:08,799
Speaker 2: the owner and I went to the office and conducted

691
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 2: the business that I came from. After this was done,

692
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:15,320
Speaker 2: I asked some questions, wedding is this Saturday? What time?

693
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 2: How many people? I managed to gather everything. The owner

694
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 2: even showed me the contract with both signatures of Tom

695
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 2: and Clarissa. She gathered that we didn't know and was

696
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 2: somewhat shocked as she knew our history. Then I went

697
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 2: to find Stacy and told her everything. This woman was

698
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 2: a livid her son was getting remarried and she wasn't

699
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 2: informed nor invited. Yeah, now you look like you're in Greece, Marizonaona.

700
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 2: I also hadn't heard anything from Ella. She told me

701
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 2: that Tom and she would go away to have a

702
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 2: father daughter At this point, we had the growing suspicion

703
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 2: that Tom had been lying to Ella about that Saturday's

704
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:05,399
Speaker 2: plan to Yeah, I mean, seems like there's a lot

705
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 2: of lies going around about this sweat to.

706
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: Keep track of Speaking of trying to keep track of things,

707
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 1: can you give me a TLDR?

708
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 2: Ah basically sorry, sorry?

709
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:18,840
Speaker 1: Could you give everyone else a TLDR?

710
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:25,760
Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay, So I believe what happened is Opie's Opie

711
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 2: is the god daughter to her her friend who passed

712
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 2: her daughter. Uh, and this daughter's like the friend's husband

713
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 2: remarried to this new stepmom who has kind of been

714
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:41,959
Speaker 2: inserting herself in every way.

715
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 1: And I believe way a friend's husband.

716
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:55,239
Speaker 2: Or Opie's friend's husband, friend's husband, Uh, he remarried, and

717
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 2: the new stepmother of this daughter has been trying to

718
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 2: insert herself in every way. Yeah, and I think what's

719
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 2: happening now is that Tom who's the husband, and the

720
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:12,360
Speaker 2: new stepmom. I guess this is when they got married. Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, sorry,

721
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,280
Speaker 2: So this is in the past, before they were married.

722
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 2: So now Opie is recounting the time when they found

723
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:18,600
Speaker 2: out that they were getting married.

724
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:20,319
Speaker 1: They said, they're not married yet.

725
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 2: They weren't married at the time in the past. Now

726
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 2: Tom is now getting married to Clarissa, and Opie found

727
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 2: out that Tom's mom, Stacy, didn't know that this wedding

728
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 2: was happening. Okay, I also hadn't heard anything from Ella.

729
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:38,479
Speaker 2: You told me that Tom and she would go away

730
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 2: to have a father daughter day. At this point, we

731
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 2: had the growing suspicion that Tom had been lying to

732
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 2: Ella about the Saturday play. That is crazy. That is

733
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:51,920
Speaker 2: crazy to be like the daughter and expecting a father

734
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 2: daughter day and you just get your father marrying this

735
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 2: terrible stepmom.

736
00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're literally marrying the evil step right wedding you

737
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:02,280
Speaker 1: you are a Disney character.

738
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 2: To unravel this growing mystery, she and I went to

739
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,919
Speaker 2: pay Tom a visit. We had some time until Ella

740
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 2: came home, and we didn't want her to see or

741
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 2: hear any of this. Stacy went off the moment he

742
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 2: opened the door. She barged in and furiously told them

743
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 2: to explain himself. Clarissa came home and join in the fight.

744
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 2: Accusations flo left and right. In a quiet moment, I asked,

745
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 2: does Ella know about your wedding? We wedding. I don't

746
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:32,759
Speaker 2: know about anything about a wedding. Ella had come home

747
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 2: earlier than expected, practice had finished sooner. Then the realization

748
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 2: hit poor Ella. She asked Tom if that was the

749
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:44,320
Speaker 2: plan for Saturday, their wedding instead of some father daughter bonding.

750
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:46,319
Speaker 2: Clarissa caught in and told her that she had been

751
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:48,360
Speaker 2: motherless long enough and this wedding would give her a

752
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:48,839
Speaker 2: new mother.

753
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:53,400
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you can't replace my mom. Stop trying

754
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 1: to you're on.

755
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 2: My mom Ooh boy. Ella didn't even get the chance

756
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 2: to say anything. Her beloved grandma Stacy did that for her.

757
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,840
Speaker 2: Stacy tore Clarissa a new one. Blunley told her that

758
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,359
Speaker 2: she would have that she had a wonderful daughter in law,

759
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 2: and that she would and could never replace her. A

760
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 2: wedding wouldn't change the fact that she disregarded Ella's wishes

761
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 2: from the get go, trying to erase the memory of

762
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 2: a good woman and mother and trying to destroy the

763
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 2: relationship between me and Ella. She also told her own

764
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 2: son that he was a weak willed man and that

765
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 2: is why he was never made the executor of Mary's will,

766
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:34,880
Speaker 2: because she had always known deep down that she couldn't

767
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:36,399
Speaker 2: trust him to protect their daughter.

768
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:40,800
Speaker 1: Oh my God, she sounds like a lovely bowl of

769
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:42,879
Speaker 1: soup that you just want to slurp on a cold day.

770
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,360
Speaker 2: Uh yeah. To add insult injury, she told them she

771
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 2: disowned him and would make sure neither he nor the

772
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 2: Pispoor substitute would get anything from her. Props to Stacy Man.

773
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:59,279
Speaker 2: Stacy did not hold back. She had something to say

774
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 2: and she said it you shot at it, and with

775
00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 2: that she asked me to drive her. Ella was enraged

776
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 2: and wanted to live with her grandmother. Tom and Clarissa

777
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:12,320
Speaker 2: said no, Ella came to us, but we couldn't do anything.

778
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 2: Tom tried to threaten us by saying that he would

779
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 2: forbid Ella to come to us if we did or

780
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 2: said anything. Ubby laughed in his face, asked if he

781
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 2: was Clarissa's lapdog now, and said that we didn't need

782
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 2: or say anything to dang him or Clarissa in Ella's eyes,

783
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,399
Speaker 2: as we couldn't do a better job than they were

784
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:34,240
Speaker 2: doing themselves. Ella became silent. In the next couple of days,

785
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:36,399
Speaker 2: they became the talk of the town.

786
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a big blot. I can't understand.

787
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 2: Why Stacy told a lot of people what was going on.

788
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:46,880
Speaker 2: People do love drama. So Saturday rolls around. Our children

789
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:50,279
Speaker 2: had their pre arranged sleepover with some relatives, something that

790
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:52,880
Speaker 2: we saw as a blessing in disguise. We were nervous.

791
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 2: We decided to go to Stacy's as we figured, Oh,

792
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 2: she was just as anxious. At eleven thirty am, Tom

793
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 2: called us in a fe yuri, asking where Ella was.

794
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:04,720
Speaker 2: We had no idea what he was talking about. After

795
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 2: some back and forth and us telling Tom to stop

796
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 2: the legal threats, we got the story. Apparently Clarissa had

797
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:14,840
Speaker 2: bought Ella a dress for the wedding, absolutely not Ella's style,

798
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:17,799
Speaker 2: but hey, it's not like Clarissa ever listened to what

799
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 2: Ella told her. Ella had taken it upon herself to

800
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 2: buy a black dress and shoes, as if in mourning. Yeah,

801
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 2: I mean celebrate your mom.

802
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:31,280
Speaker 1: Over this, yeah, a statement.

803
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 2: She had managed to sneak in the dress, and when

804
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:36,720
Speaker 2: asked for privacy to get change, she spilled some drink

805
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,799
Speaker 2: on the dress. Clarissa got her then put the black

806
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 2: dress on. Wow, but she didn't stop there.

807
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:46,319
Speaker 1: I feel like that's like almost like art, you know.

808
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:49,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this is like princess Princess die level

809
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 2: of Yeah, Glarisa hadn't put on her wedding dress yet.

810
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:54,360
Speaker 2: She had booked a room that had something like a

811
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 2: sliding wall separating two rooms, each with her own beds, vanity,

812
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:02,240
Speaker 2: et cetera. It stored her wedding dress in the front room,

813
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,439
Speaker 2: and she was in the other room, where the hair

814
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 2: makeup stylist was busy doing the hair and makeup of

815
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:11,640
Speaker 2: the blushing bride. Ella snuck in and put itching powder

816
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 2: in Clarissa's dress.

817
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:18,480
Speaker 1: Oh wow oo, I mean she's fourteen. Wow, but yeah,

818
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 1: it's still yeah, it's.

819
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:22,960
Speaker 2: Like it's a big move, but she is fourteen. I

820
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:24,239
Speaker 2: can't say it's a mature move.

821
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 1: But we won't. We all condone it. But it is

822
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 1: a nice little home alone prank.

823
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 2: Then she left the room as quietly as she had come.

824
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 1: Itching powder. What's itching powder?

825
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 2: Uh? It's it's itching powder. What do you mean it

826
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:38,879
Speaker 2: makes you itch?

827
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 1: Why do they have that?

828
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 2: Have you not seen like any movie with a bully

829
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:45,360
Speaker 2: in it?

830
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 1: Itching powder? Yeah? No, I've never heard of itching.

831
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:50,320
Speaker 2: It's like, I don't know, I feel like it's super

832
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:54,880
Speaker 2: common in like every high school movie with a bully.

833
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 1: I've never heard of it.

834
00:41:57,160 --> 00:41:59,799
Speaker 2: Tom flipped his lid when he saw his daughter. Ella

835
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,839
Speaker 2: didn't care less, showed him the dress Clarissa gave her

836
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:06,360
Speaker 2: and sat at the front of the venue. When Clarissa

837
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:09,440
Speaker 2: saw her, she seemed very angry, but focused on the ceremony.

838
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 2: She was visibly uncomfortable and kept pulling her dress and

839
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 2: scratching it.

840
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 1: Nita Nelson says, maturemercier.

841
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:21,840
Speaker 2: Yeah. When the famous line I've object now or forever

842
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:25,840
Speaker 2: hold her peace was said, Ella made her speech. Oh wow,

843
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 2: Ella's pulling out all.

844
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 1: The saws stops. Dude.

845
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was an impressive fourteen year old.

846
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:31,239
Speaker 1: Uh.

847
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:33,840
Speaker 2: The owner later called and told us what was said.

848
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:36,319
Speaker 2: Ella spoke her mind about what Clarissa had done and

849
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:38,880
Speaker 2: not done, how Tom had failed her as a father,

850
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 2: and that Clarissa would never be her mother, alongside some

851
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 2: other things. Then she left the venue.

852
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 1: Kind of just like poetic.

853
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:51,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean this is iconic. Tom tried to

854
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 2: call Ella, but she was ignoring his calls. Stacey managed

855
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:58,239
Speaker 2: to contact Ella and picked her up. Afterwards. She called

856
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 2: Tom basically saying her would spend the rest of the

857
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 2: weekend at her house and she would bring Ella home

858
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 2: Sunday evening. Ella was silent but had a look of

859
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 2: satisfaction on her face. We hugged a lot and told

860
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 2: her she's always welcome at our house and that she

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Speaker 2: was loved. Sunday evening, Stacy takes Ella back home. According

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Speaker 2: to Stacy, Clarissa looked like a slice of raw steak

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Speaker 2: due to her scratching herself.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow wow.

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Speaker 2: Larissa started to freak out the moment they entered the house,

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Speaker 2: screeching at Ala, about you ruined our wedding. This was

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Speaker 2: out of line and my personal favorite, how could she

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00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 2: do this to her mother?

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Speaker 1: Uh? Stop taking the girl.

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Speaker 2: You can't catch a hints. Oh how I wish I

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00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:47,360
Speaker 2: could have seen this myself. When those words left Clarissa's lips,

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00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 2: Stacy slapped her and told Clarissa that she would never

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00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:56,319
Speaker 2: utter those words to Ella ever. Again. She wasn't her

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00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 2: mother and her spread in her legs for he son

875
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 2: wouldn't change that. Stacy read them the Riot Act, telling

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00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:04,839
Speaker 2: them that if they even thought of barring her and

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Speaker 2: me and Hobby from Ella's life or making Ella's life

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Speaker 2: more difficult, she would make their lives a living Heck.

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Speaker 3: Again, we're not advocating for the slapping, no no, but

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Speaker 3: if you say these things you should expect to maybe

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Speaker 3: get slapped by someone. Yeah, you can't go out saying

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Speaker 3: these things not expecting consequences.

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Speaker 1: But ideally you're not the one.

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Speaker 2: Ideally though, But we don't advise you whiles to be

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Speaker 2: the purpose No.

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Speaker 1: No, one slap people not a good move.

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Speaker 2: Yes, but also don't say crazy things. Expect not to

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Speaker 2: be slapped.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, expect a slap, but don't be the slapper.

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Speaker 2: Uh. Then she left. Tom and Clarissa didn't try anything

891
00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:47,399
Speaker 2: until Stacey passed away. When Ella was sixteen. She kept

892
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:50,920
Speaker 2: her word, disowning her own son. He only got what

893
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 2: the law allowed him. The rest went to Ella. Since

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Speaker 2: Ella was still a minor at the time of the

895
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:58,240
Speaker 2: will change, Stacy named two executors to make sure Ella

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00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:01,440
Speaker 2: got what Stacy left her. This included her apartment and

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00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:04,600
Speaker 2: some savings. And you guess who those two were. Give

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Speaker 2: yourselves a cookie if you think it was me and Hobby.

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Speaker 2: Did we know, yes. Did we say anything to Tom

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Speaker 2: and Clarissa before Stacy's passing Nope? Did they lose their

901
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:21,880
Speaker 2: minds yep, yep. Did we care, absolutely not. Did they

902
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 2: try to fight the will, of course it did. Did

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00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 2: it matter Nope? Stacy had made sure that several independent

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Speaker 2: doctors had declared her of sound mind before she made

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Speaker 2: the will. Since Stacy had also given Tom his rightful

906
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 2: inheritance by law, he couldn't do it ang thing. Tom

907
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:40,359
Speaker 2: called us after the court's decision to try and get

908
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:42,400
Speaker 2: us to give him the role of executor of the

909
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 2: will alongside Mary's belongings that she had given to me.

910
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 2: He tried, saying that Izola's father and Mary's widower he

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00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:51,759
Speaker 2: had more right to that role. We just hung up

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00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 2: and he didn't try again. But we would love if

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Speaker 2: you could try and listen to more full episodes stories

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Speaker 2: a little bit left to this story.

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Speaker 1: You any dive into it. Okay, hey, it's Sam. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna get back to these stories. But here's three minutes

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Speaker 2: When Ella turned eighteen, everything was transferred to Ella left

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Speaker 2: the house and from there she slowly rebuilt somewhat of

922
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:24,760
Speaker 2: a relationship with Tom and to an extent, Larissa. Clarissa

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00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:27,719
Speaker 2: calmed down a bit after Stacy's slap, and Ella became

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00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 2: an expert in shutting them both down. Bubby and I

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00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 2: have stayed out of it. After Tom's attempt of getting

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Speaker 2: his hands on Ella's inheritance from both her and mother

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Speaker 2: and grandmother, we have had no contact. We never contacted

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Speaker 2: them and they never contacted us. We have always supported

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Speaker 2: Ella in the following years. She went to college, traveled abroad,

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Speaker 2: got a job, and got her life together. And that

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Speaker 2: is the end of that.

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Speaker 1: Story and the end of this episode.

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