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Speaker 1: The Alice Springs community has rallied to support a little

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Speaker 1: sixteen and seventeen broke into the family's larapint home, with

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Speaker 1: Baseball Associations now started a go fund me page to

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Speaker 1: the Adelaide Women and Children's Hospital. That baby girl's dad

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Speaker 1: joins me on the line right now, Marlon Sequenza, Good morning.

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Speaker 2: To you morning. How are you going?

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Speaker 1: Not too bad?

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Speaker 2: Mate?

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Speaker 1: How is your little girl going?

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Speaker 2: Look, it's a good day to day. She's been out

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Speaker 2: of the intensive care units a couple a day in

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Speaker 2: a bit ago now, so that's been a huge win,

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Speaker 2: a great sense of relief that she's going one step

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Speaker 2: forward each and every day. So that that's the first thing.

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Speaker 2: And and she's actually had no siezures since since late

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Speaker 2: Friday afternoon as well too, so that's that's a huge

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Speaker 2: tick as well too. So we are we're slowly, slowly,

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Speaker 1: Forward, mate, I am so pleased to hear that. I

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Speaker 1: know that the whole of the Northern Territory is going

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Speaker 1: to be breathing a sigh of relief hearing that as well.

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Speaker 2: How's your wife, she's she's okay. You know, mums and wives,

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Speaker 2: they're an amazing mix, one hundred and ten percent, aren't

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Speaker 2: they not? Because they you know, she she's come, she's

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Speaker 2: coming off the adrenaline that has been the last few days.

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Speaker 2: You know. She she flew down by herself with antonia,

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Speaker 2: and it was it was turbulent, to say the least,

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Speaker 2: the whole situation, you know, with the condition of the

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Speaker 2: unnaturally so many doctors and nurses trying to help as

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Speaker 2: well too. But she's okay for the moment. She unfortunately, yes,

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Speaker 2: she did stuffer the the hit to the face across

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Speaker 2: you Jesus's no, there's no internal damage, which is great.

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Speaker 2: So she's she's she's slowly on the mend for herself

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Speaker 1: Malon, what was it like for you when you received

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Speaker 1: the call and found out that your home had been

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Speaker 1: invaded by two teenagers and the situation that your little

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Speaker 2: It was horrible. It was horrible. That's the honestly the

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Speaker 2: best way to describe it. Like, you know, when when

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Speaker 2: when you receive a call like that, naturally it's unexpected,

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Speaker 2: and it's it's all senses heightened, and it's the overwhelming

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Speaker 2: one to throw up feeling of what what like what

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Speaker 2: is this information that I just received? You know what

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Speaker 2: I mean? Where it's And then and then driving home

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Speaker 2: seeing my children shell shock, absolutely shattered by the experience

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Speaker 2: and frightened. It It rips at the core of your being,

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Speaker 2: you know, realizing that someone infected your your personal space,

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Speaker 2: someone infiltrated that what should be your safe space, and

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Speaker 2: it was just gut wrenching, really, mate, it's.

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Speaker 1: Like it's it's I feel so many different emotions when

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Speaker 1: I heard what had happened last week as a mom

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Speaker 1: I can't even begin to imagine how your wife must

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Speaker 2: One hundred percent, one hundred percent, it was Yeah, just

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Speaker 2: shattering to all all the emotions, you know, like and furthermore,

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Speaker 2: knowing that my two older boys, valiant, strong little little

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Speaker 2: you describe it? But horrible?

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Speaker 1: Welon, how old are your children? All of your children, so.

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Speaker 2: Out of the well, all of them. They are eleven

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Speaker 1: Oh mite? How are they all going? How are your

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Speaker 2: Look, I'll be honest, it's not good. You know. They're

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Speaker 2: They they're processing it in all directions, you know, from

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Speaker 2: It is a process with them, because they witnessed the

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Speaker 2: not something that It's not a movie. It was real life.

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Speaker 1: I I've thought a lot about you guys over the

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Like you know, we consider ourselves pretty pretty normal,

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Speaker 2: things that you do for a family, right and exactly

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Speaker 2: you said, like what do you do after after this

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Speaker 2: have that conversation when when your children ask you are

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Speaker 2: it's heartbreaking.

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Speaker 1: Where are where are you all now? Are you in

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. Look, we've been so fortunate because of

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Speaker 2: best feeling out of out of everything so far. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: we are currently here, yeah, and we'll be here until

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Speaker 1: Oh your dear little girl. And you know, like I say,

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Speaker 1: my heart just breaks for you guys, what you've been through.

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Speaker 1: But talking to you this morning, Marlon, you know I

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Speaker 1: I think is just incredible.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. I mean, there's there's definitely been a you know,

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Speaker 2: I've been saying, it's a Titanic size worth of tears

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I bet it is, Marlon. There's you know, there's

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Speaker 2: Look, it's horrible, it's disgusting, and no one should have

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Speaker 2: it really is a saddening situation. It's angering because of

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Speaker 1: You're so so spot on there, Marlon. Look, I always

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Speaker 1: I guess. In the Northern Territory is that when these

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Speaker 1: Alice Springs, the Alice Springs Baseball Association started a go

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Speaker 1: fund me page for you guys. It's currently sitting at

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Speaker 1: more than fifty one thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: How does that like, how do you feel when you

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Speaker 2: It's it's it's all inspiring, but it's also it makes

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Speaker 2: because people relate on that emotional level where they say, wow,

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Speaker 2: And like I said, it's not that it was asked for,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well this is the thing, right, you know, people

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Speaker 1: that right now or you know, like it's just days

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Speaker 2: That's right, Like I mean, we we don't have a

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Speaker 2: So you know, as best as we can, we'll we'll

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Speaker 2: still celebrate the season. You know, it's the best, Like

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Speaker 1: Oh mate, can you a beautiful dad? You know, like

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Speaker 1: And you know, I think about you receiving that phone

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Speaker 1: So it makes me really happy to see the way

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Speaker 1: like over the recent days as well? You know, you

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Speaker 2: I mean, like I've through throughout the last few days

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Speaker 2: first twenty four hours of that million dollar question what

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Speaker 1: Oh made I'm so pleased to hear that.

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Speaker 2: I really am.

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Speaker 2: Look, I was having a chat with a buddy of

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Speaker 2: Alice Springs has a way about it, right. The nature

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Speaker 2: is just beautiful, The location is wonderful. Yes, crime is

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Speaker 2: have an answer for that one. You know what we'll do.

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Speaker 2: It's home. It's home for my children, it's home for us.

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Speaker 2: So you know what we do is just right now,

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Speaker 2: then too. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, Marlon, thank you so much for having a chat

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Speaker 1: to make sure that you and your little family and

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Speaker 2: No certain amount of time naturally in Euroslogion wants to

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Speaker 2: there has been talks of. You know, if it's good,

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Speaker 1: Well made. All my love, my prayers, support to you guys.

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Speaker 1: I please keep us up to date and let us

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Speaker 1: know how you're all tracking, and we'll try to do

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Speaker 1: the same. But thank you very much for having a

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Speaker 1: to show you guys that love well amazing.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate the time

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thanks so much,