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Speaker 1: All right, Steve, it's time now to check your voicemail

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Speaker 1: at eight seven seven twenty nine. Steve, you can call

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Speaker 1: us and leave a message and you just might hear

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Speaker 1: your call on the air. This is from Selena Steve

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Speaker 1: who left a message about grief. Take a listen.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Steve. My name is Selena. I'm thirty four years

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Speaker 2: old and I recently lost my mom. Is about to

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Speaker 2: be a year in December, and I find myself really

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Speaker 2: like plumaging into grief and just having that like, dang,

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Speaker 2: you really let me girl. You always seem to give

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Speaker 2: really good advice and I want you to listen to

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Speaker 2: see you all. But so I was just calling because

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Speaker 2: I wanted to know if you can give me some

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Speaker 2: advice because I know she's nine times out of saying

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Speaker 2: she would agree with what you had to say. Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, grief is different for everybody. There's no

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Speaker 3: manual for grief. Grief is oftentimes just the miss sing

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Speaker 3: of love and that I don't know that that goes away.

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Speaker 3: I still grieve the loss of my mother and it's

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Speaker 3: been twenty eight years. I still grieve that. Here's what

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Speaker 3: you have to do, though, and I learned this at

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Speaker 3: my mom's funeral. I was sitting there and I was

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Speaker 3: at the most broken moment I've ever been in. And

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Speaker 3: the pastor stood up after everybody had talked, and he

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Speaker 3: was talking to the five of us, the six of us,

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Speaker 3: my father, and the five children, and he said, I

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Speaker 3: know this is the worst day of your life, but

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Speaker 3: I want you to take a moment to turn around

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Speaker 3: and look at this church. And for the first time

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Speaker 3: I turned around and looked at the church. It was packed.

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Speaker 3: The balcony standing room only. He said, we got the

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Speaker 3: overflow room downstairs. It's packed two there's no more room.

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Speaker 3: He said, we have put speakers outside because people are

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Speaker 3: in the park lot on the street to come to

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Speaker 3: pay respect to your mother. Your mother has been in

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Speaker 3: the soul saving Sunday school business for forty years. He said.

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Speaker 3: She done taught every hustler, gambler, pimp, servicemen, congressman and

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Speaker 3: mayor to come through this city. He said, Now, as

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Speaker 3: you sit there and you grieve the loss of her,

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Speaker 3: I want you all to think of all of the

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Speaker 3: lives that she affected. That's why this church is so

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Speaker 3: full right now, he said. Remember all the great things

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Speaker 3: she taught you. He said, now listen to this. When

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Speaker 3: you do that, joy and depression cannot reside in the

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Speaker 3: same space. And for that brief moment, for the first

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Speaker 3: time in a week since my mama had died, I smiled.

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Speaker 3: I had not smiled the entire week. And then he

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Speaker 3: was right because I looked at the procession of people

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Speaker 3: that was coming around to view my mama's body. Gangsters, hustlers, pimp,

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Speaker 3: dope boys, I mean, hey man, and they all stop

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Speaker 3: to my brothers. They was my big brother's friends. A

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Speaker 3: lot of them was mine. Hey man, your mama tried

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Speaker 3: to save me. Man, I appreciate your mama. Your mama

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Speaker 3: told me about the Lord. Is that the only reason

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Speaker 3: I'm still here. I had a dude come see my mama.

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Speaker 3: Been on the run thirty years. He came back to

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Speaker 3: Cleveland to see my mama and then he had to

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Speaker 3: get up out of town. He's still on the run.

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Speaker 1: So it's good to save you from.

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Speaker 3: Brother stood up and husband and they missed it. That

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Speaker 3: was a gangster moment. But to her, think of the

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Speaker 3: joyous thing she has taught you, and smile about it,

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Speaker 3: and you still gonna share tears about it. Everybody on

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Speaker 3: this show Shirley Carler, the lost their mama. They will

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Speaker 3: tell you Tommy lost his dad. Ain't that ain't going

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Speaker 3: nowhere now? Every day it's gonna be days, man. But

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Speaker 3: as the time gets only been a year, it's gonna

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Speaker 3: get better for you. Just hanging that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, hopefully Selena can take something from that jew.

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Speaker 3: And here's one other thing. This is just a little

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Speaker 3: gangstous thing to keep with you. This is what keeps me.

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Speaker 3: If anybody say anything about my mama, I slapped all

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Speaker 3: the flavor out they mouth on site, on site to

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Speaker 3: this day. I don't care who you are, open your

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Speaker 3: mouth if you want to. I'm gonna give you some

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Speaker 3: of this grief today.

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Speaker 1: All right, coming up next, Have a good day, Selena. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: thank you for your call, Selena, and our condolences. Of course,

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Speaker 1: you're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.