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Speaker 2: But fiance's sisters like the fiance.

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Speaker 1: I thirty six Mail, am an Indian living in Canada.

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Speaker 1: After high school, I moved to Canada for further studies

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Speaker 1: through arranged marriage. Who By the way, this comes from

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Speaker 1: So it was during one of my visits back home

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Speaker 1: that I met Priya thirty three email and her family.

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Speaker 1: I will be changing all the names for anonymity, but

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Speaker 1: her name is a very common name in India. Priya's

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Speaker 1: father had a distinguished military career that took their family

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Speaker 1: across India, resulting in Priya attending several schools and accumulating

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Speaker 1: numerous fascinating stories.

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Speaker 2: Okay, she sounds like a cat's.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she's well rounded worldly. We hit it off immediately,

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Speaker 1: and after two weeks of background checks and frequent days,

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Speaker 3: The only thing that is hard about that is, like

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Speaker 3: I feel like people can fake being like a nice

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Speaker 3: person for two weeks, absolutely, but it's really hard to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you got you gotta wait a year. And also yes,

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Speaker 1: Caitlin von Common, Kamal and Non Johnny. The stat is like,

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Speaker 1: whenever you're dating someone, it takes about three months for

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Speaker 1: would say that. I mean when I first, like, I

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Speaker 3: Feel like I don't really fully know like the entirety

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Speaker 1: Wow, I would say I get a couple months in.

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Speaker 3: I mean like I think, like but like I like

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Speaker 3: what I'm saying in terms of like a life partner. Oh, Like,

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Speaker 3: And I've seen them in enough different places, like I've

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Speaker 1: I think that makes because I think a lot of

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Speaker 1: people and relationships at the two year marks. Yep, all right,

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Speaker 1: what were you saying?

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Speaker 2: That's me?

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Speaker 1: You think you get what?

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Speaker 3: Oh, I think you just get a full picture at

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Speaker 3: two years, which is why I always done it.

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Speaker 1: You're like, I've got the full picture.

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Speaker 1: However, amidst our Joy's plans for the future, there was

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Speaker 1: a tragedy that haunted my family. My younger brother, on Kits,

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Speaker 1: thirty three, had always been a gentle soul, sensitive and

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Speaker 1: Kits was seventeen years old, his small build and quiet

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Speaker 1: That was horrible. That's horrible. I can't imagine.

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Speaker 2: Locked in a locker is no fun.

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine. Like I know that a lot of

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Speaker 3: But it is terrible. But when you're seven, So I

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Speaker 3: That's horrible, Like not for very long or like for

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Speaker 3: Kids that I think were like bullies in you know,

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Speaker 1: That's a really great perspective. Yeah. The days that followed

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Speaker 1: Kit immersed himself in his studies and personal growth, dedicating

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Speaker 2: With the like ripped. He was like, no one will

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Speaker 3: Let me tell you, the nerdiest guys in middle school

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Speaker 2: Just get ripped Exhibit A.

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Speaker 3: I mean not anymore, but back in back in college,

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Speaker 1: Years later, as my engagement with Priyo was finalized, on

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Speaker 1: The engagement party was incredible, but when Priya entered the room,

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Speaker 2: His fiance.

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Speaker 1: The title was a little bit misleading. I thought it

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Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know if you can come back if

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Speaker 3: But like not just like oh like haha stuff, but

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Speaker 1: Like I wouldn't I know, I would absolutely not marry

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Speaker 1: I couldn't believe what I was hearing. On Kid had

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Speaker 3: Oh, Prevor, what do you think in the comments instant Prevor,

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Speaker 3: I think it's a prevorce for me to.

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Speaker 1: Instant prevors if this was you instantly wait wait wait, actually, okay, rude,

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Speaker 2: Uh hold the head.

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Speaker 3: Game, though, I need to think, because it's like, I

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Speaker 2: So I didn't. I Sometimes I just say prevoice because

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Speaker 1: He thought about it, and and now he knows one

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Speaker 1: hundred prevorce.

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Speaker 1: Once composed himself, he apologized profusely for disrupting my engagement celebration.

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Speaker 1: I hugged him tightly, reassuring him that he had nothing

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Speaker 1: sacrifice today. We return inside, where the atmosphere had shifted.

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Speaker 1: Priya and Mina noticed the tension and approached.

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Speaker 1: Kit stood beside me, his gaze unwavering as he spoke up. Pria, Mina,

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Speaker 1: do you remember me? Pria frown clearly confused. I'm sorry

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Speaker 1: how we met before. You might not remember, but I do.

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Speaker 1: You made my life a living hell at school you

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Speaker 1: and Mina. Pria's eyes widen in shock, while Mina scoffed dismissively.

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Speaker 1: That's absurd, she retorted. We would never. Before Mina could

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Speaker 2: Oh dude, they know, yeah, they know.

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Speaker 3: Also the fact that they're not immediately saying sorry, so sorry,

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Speaker 3: it's a sign that they have a change, which makes

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Speaker 3: me even more confident in the prevorce mindy Holder says.

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Speaker 1: Agreed, agreed, This was all the confirmation I needed. Priya's

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Speaker 1: Priya's father demanded. I turned to face him on Kit

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Speaker 1: has just informed me that pre and Mina were responsible

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Speaker 1: Pria hesitated, unable to meet her father's gaze. Minus scoffed, again.

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Speaker 2: This reads like a honest story.

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Speaker 3: You don't know these people after two weeks. You know,

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Speaker 2: Stun silence. Oh he is a writer.

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Speaker 2: Do you know that one song they do with the

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Speaker 3: All right, I think one, you should before marrying someone,

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Speaker 2: Ud get over What are you talking about? Just get

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Speaker 1: To all of them, I replied that all of my elders,

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Speaker 3: But they failed every test. They had an opportunity to

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Speaker 1: I showed my parents this thread. Initially they were upset,

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Speaker 1: three pm PST. Just Tapper profile who Today Colonel showed

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Speaker 2: Therapy, anxiety, medication and therapy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, did you think about that? My parents stood their ground,

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Speaker 2: Bro, we are We're so yeah psychic, We're psychic.

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Speaker 3: Dodged a bullet, like I feel like again, That's why

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Speaker 3: I don't think getting married like in two weeks every Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I understand culture, there's you know, different expectations

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Speaker 2: But we got another for you. We got another door,

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Speaker 2: We got a note Dory,