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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation. Oh, We've got a lovely

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Speaker 1: email and it's about Mother's Day, so I'd like to

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Speaker 1: read it to you. Hello there, my name is Forest

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Speaker 1: White and I'm emailing from America. I wanted to share

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Speaker 1: a story about my mum, Joanne White. For as long

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Speaker 1: as I can remember, my mum listened to you every

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Speaker 1: morning every car ride to school in Campbelltown back in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and seven. A lot of my current song

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Speaker 1: library is based on what I heard back then. In

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Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, our family moved to bolder, Colorado. Still,

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Speaker 1: my mom would go online and find ways to listen

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Speaker 1: as she went about her day. Every time she'd be working,

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Speaker 1: you guys would be on. Even when I came home

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Speaker 1: from college at the start of twenty twenty, I'd hear

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Speaker 1: her downstairs with Jones and Amanda in the morning. You

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Speaker 1: were a part of her routine every day. In late

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, she was diagnosed with cancer. My mom

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Speaker 1: kicked its butt with a treatment and you all helped

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Speaker 1: her along listening every afternoon morning in Australia. She eventually

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Speaker 1: lost her fight. At the start of twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: Joe was an amazing part of so many people's lives,

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Speaker 1: and I'm so proud to have had her as my mom,

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Speaker 1: and I want to thank you as through everything, you

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Speaker 1: guys were a consistent light in her life. As I

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Speaker 1: opened her computer one last time, I saw WSFM up

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Speaker 1: there with Jonesy and Amanda. This Mother's Day, I'll be

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Speaker 1: remembering my mum and keeping you all on my radio.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for everything, Forest White. Wow. Mother's Day is

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Speaker 1: tough for people who don't have a mom. I still

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Speaker 1: get a shock that my mom's not here. She died

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Speaker 1: probably twenty years ago. I have a very yeah twenty

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Speaker 1: years this October. I have a very good memory for

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Speaker 1: dates and things, but for the year and the date

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Speaker 1: that my mom passed away, I don't remember.

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Speaker 2: I remember it really well because I was willing you

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Speaker 2: to come over here to work with me, and we'd

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Speaker 2: gone to the ARIA Awards the night before and you

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Speaker 2: said to me, because I said, breakfast radio will not

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Speaker 2: change your life, and you got we got invited to

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Speaker 2: the after party. I said, well, I've got to go home.

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Speaker 2: And he said, you said breakfast radio won't change your life,

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Speaker 2: and I said, well, you know, I've got to get

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Speaker 2: up early. You said breakfast radio won't change your life,

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Speaker 2: You're going to prove it to me. And you made

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Speaker 2: me party on in the city till two weeks.

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Speaker 1: I don't think i've partied ever since. But also, well,

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Speaker 1: that's what's that got to do with my mum.

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Speaker 2: Then your mom passed away.

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Speaker 1: She did the very next day. I call for my

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Speaker 1: brother saying I think it's time for you to come

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Speaker 1: up to Brisbane. And you know, I still get a

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Speaker 1: shock that Mum's not here, but in a million ways,

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Speaker 1: like I'm wearing her rings today, I just and when

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Speaker 1: I go to watch the boys play sport or whatever,

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Speaker 1: you know, I wear her jewelry. And the boys have

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Speaker 1: always known about Grandma because Liam was only three and

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Speaker 1: Jack was only you know, not even one when Mum died.

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Speaker 1: So when I did well at school, I said, oh, Grandma,

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Speaker 1: I'd be so proud of you. Remember that time Liam

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Speaker 1: did a drawing, it was me, Grandma and our dog Ripley,

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Speaker 1: And at one point it was five, I think he'd

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Speaker 1: scribbled out he'd put a cross through Grandma across through

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Speaker 1: the dog and said two down, want to go dreadful?

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Speaker 1: He didn't wasn't aware of what he was doing. But

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Speaker 1: on the on the morning that my mom passed away,

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Speaker 1: I'd be in Brisbane and I knew that that was

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Speaker 1: the hardest thing I've ever had to do, was to

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Speaker 1: say goodbye to Mum, knowing I wouldn't see her again.

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Speaker 1: And I had two little children at home. I'd been

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Speaker 1: up there for a week. I had to come back

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Speaker 1: and I was at a friend's house the next morning.

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Speaker 1: I still had my red Nokia in my hand, the

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Speaker 1: phone in my hand, because around the table it was

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Speaker 1: like we're in a May of Binchi novel. Two very

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Speaker 1: close friends of mine, one of my friends, her husband

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Speaker 1: had just had open heart surgery. He has since passed away.

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Speaker 1: Vanessa told me she was having a baby. I get

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Speaker 1: a phone call around this same table telling me that

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Speaker 1: Mum had passed away. And so as we were driving home,

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Speaker 1: Lim said, well, I said, Grandma's passed away. And he said,

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Speaker 1: why are you crying? And I said, well, this is why,

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Speaker 1: and he said, will she be dead every day? It

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Speaker 1: was such an insightful thing to say, and I said, yes,

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Speaker 1: said a few minutes later, he said, well, how about

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Speaker 1: you stop your grizzling. It obviously heard me say stop

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Speaker 1: your grizzling, but it was such a thing my mother

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Speaker 1: would find Hilaire and it gave me this moment to laugh.

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Speaker 1: And she's still in our lives in so many ways.

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Speaker 1: But there are lots of people who and I know

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Speaker 1: what this is like too, going through Mother's Day. We're

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Speaker 1: struggling to have a family. Maybe you wanted children, it

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Speaker 1: never happened for you. There's a lot of stuff that's

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Speaker 1: hard on Mother's Day. And having said that, if you've

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Speaker 1: lost your mom, there's an organization called Motherless Daughters Australia.

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Speaker 1: It's a not for profit community that will support you

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Speaker 1: at times like this. Head to daughters dot com dot au. So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: find something nice to do for yourself on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: If it's a tough day, two down, wonder go.

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Speaker 1: I've still got the drawing at home and.

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Speaker 2: No doubt you'll bring that out on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Don't you worry about that.