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Speaker 1: So you alluded that we're going to the blood zones

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Speaker 1: I've got. Well, that's what I like to call it,

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Speaker 1: because we've got the Kleenex here for you. And do

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Speaker 1: you want to put on when don't? Don't? Don't? Oh,

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Speaker 1: I don't. Well, this just gets it out of your sister. No. Well,

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Speaker 1: if my sons were listening to this, they'll be horrified.

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Speaker 1: But I listened. I read a piece that Mere Friedman

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Speaker 1: wrote a couple of weeks ago, and it's she has

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Speaker 1: you know how I've spoken recently about when Liam turned

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Speaker 1: eighteen and how the rush for motion I had. Oh,

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Speaker 1: can you turn the music off? It's not going to

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Speaker 1: help me turn it off? Thanks you. I started the

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Speaker 1: blo started talking about how it feel my own fingernails

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Speaker 1: back as I talked, okay, breathe, and she just articulated

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Speaker 1: so brilliantly what it's like to be a mom of

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Speaker 1: a of a boy who grows up to be a man.

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Speaker 1: And I'll just read you some of it if I can,

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Speaker 1: if I can get through it, she said, being the

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Speaker 1: mother of a son is like someone breaking up with

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Speaker 1: you very slowly, because she had recently seen a movie

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Speaker 1: called Otherhood and that's where those movies are from. When

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Speaker 1: she said the movie is supposed to be about boys

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Speaker 1: growing up, moving out of home, and it's supposed to

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Speaker 1: be a comedy, but she said it examines what it

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Speaker 1: means to be a mother of a son who's no

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Speaker 1: longer a boy, no longer your boy, but a man.

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Speaker 1: And when she spoke about it recently and Mama mia

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Speaker 1: out loud, look at you. You're getting You've got boys too, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you've got two boys. She said that there were audible

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Speaker 1: gasps of recognition and yelps of pain in the room.

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Speaker 1: And she spoke about this, and she said that if

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Speaker 1: our boys will grow up and grow away and break

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Speaker 1: up with us, and if they do, oh god, this

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Speaker 1: is a heart. If they do, we've done our job correctly,

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Speaker 1: and we have. That's what you want your kids to be,

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Speaker 1: to be, to grow up and leave you. That's what

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Speaker 1: our job is. But it's so hard. And she said

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Speaker 1: here that there are many crazy things about being a parent,

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Speaker 1: and one that definitely wasn't in the brochure is the

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Speaker 1: way you don't actually parent one person or one child.

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Speaker 1: Your parents very differently have a newborn, a baby, a toddler,

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Speaker 1: a preschool schooler, a primary age kid, a preteen, an adolescent,

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Speaker 1: a full blown teen, a young adult, and then an adult.

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Speaker 1: And they all answer to the same name, and they

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Speaker 1: all call you mom. And you never notice. I can't

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Speaker 1: even read it on Braith. You never notice the inflection

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Speaker 1: point where one morphs into the next. You never get

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Speaker 1: to now I've got a snot okay, this happens as well,

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Speaker 1: She says. You never get to properly say goodbye to

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Speaker 1: all the little people who grow up, because you don't

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Speaker 1: notice the growing and the changing. Except when Facebook sends

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Speaker 1: you those bloody memory reminders that make me cry, she said,

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Speaker 1: because it's like showing me the face of someone I

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Speaker 1: could never see you again. No, and she says, she's

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Speaker 1: crying as she writes it, And she knows that it's indulgent,

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Speaker 1: and she knows it's almost insensitive, because if you've experienced

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Speaker 1: the loss of a child, they would give anything to

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Speaker 1: feel this exquisite pain of missing a healthy child. And

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Speaker 1: she says, while I know they love us, their lives

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Speaker 1: no longer spin around us, they don't no longer have

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Speaker 1: their mother as their main access. We are not the

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Speaker 1: sun around which they spin. It'd be very weird if

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Speaker 1: it were, she said, And I know that logically. And

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Speaker 1: she goes on to say how great it is to

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Speaker 1: have tall people in the house. It can get down

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Speaker 1: things from talk cupboards, and she says, it's an ongoing

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Speaker 1: wonder to me that I grew one of my best

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Speaker 1: friends in the world, one of the best men I

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Speaker 1: know in my own body. And I just thought that

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Speaker 1: just sums up exactly how it is to have a job.

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking a lot about this. How you bet you

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Speaker 1: you know how to physically love a little baby, but

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Speaker 1: when they're taller than you and their giant units, how

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Speaker 1: you can express your love for them as you watch

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Speaker 1: them go? And it makes me miss my own mum

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Speaker 1: because she she graciously let me leave home and I

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Speaker 1: never said thank you, and she's not here anymore. So

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Speaker 1: I thought, just me and nailed that absolutely. And I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: I've beloved. I just wanted to say, isn't this a

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Speaker 1: great piece of writing? Are you're all smoke? It's just

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Speaker 1: smoke on the sardines. Alright, let's all take a deep breath,

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Speaker 1: all right. And if I've made you cry this morning,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but it's you know, Okay, take a deep breath,

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