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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Christine.

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Speaker 3: Good morning.

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Speaker 1: How are you not too bad? Christine? Can you must,

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Speaker 3: Just been calling me asking me to come up to hospital.

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Speaker 3: I'd say, we're up for another miserable morning. Um, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I can. She doesn't like that hospital.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you no, Christine, I mean you you

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Speaker 3: Oh, it just kind of unfolded, Katie. You know, I've

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Christine, what followed after that point?

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Speaker 3: We had to wait until surgery at seven point thirty um,

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Speaker 3: But can I say at this point, well, I have

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Speaker 3: The staff have been absolutely phenomenal.

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Speaker 2: That is really good to hear.

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Speaker 1: And you know, Christine, I can't imagine how you must

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Speaker 3: Your little She's alive. It's always a good point. It

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Speaker 3: And then when they did the surgery, it was about

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Speaker 1: Oh, Christine, Honestly, it's every parent's worst nightmare. You know,

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Speaker 1: Can you tell me from your perspective what actually happened,

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Speaker 3: It's terribly confronting, but every bit of vision that comes

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Speaker 1: It just goes to show like it just shows you how,

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Speaker 3: Not Yeah, Kira's friends, her first coat, her closest, Nick grew,

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Speaker 3: they were all there. Yeah, they were all on the

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Speaker 3: Make love not war?

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Speaker 1: Oh you're so right? Hey, can you tell me? You

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Speaker 1: Now, Christine, what grade is she in at school? Is

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's gonna it'll be tough. I mean she's

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Speaker 3: Yeah, she loves the sisters.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the brothers of what a legend.

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Speaker 1: Well, can you pass on our love to Kira please

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Speaker 1: and please let us know how she progresses, just very quickly.

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Speaker 3: what's going to stop him from just going to do

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Speaker 3: what do we do where? You know, I believe also

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Speaker 1: There's so many questions. Yeah, And there's so much that

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Speaker 3: We live in the best city in Australia. We live

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Speaker 3: in the best country in the world. We're so privileged.

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Speaker 3: You know why, why, what's wrong? What's why are you angry?

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Speaker 1: Oh Christine, I really appreciate you talking to me this morning.

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Speaker 1: You are an incredible woman, and you know, the strength

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Speaker 2: Actually, so I.

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Speaker 1: Really appreciate you having me. Yeah, I really appreciate you

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you very much. Okay, thanks for your time.