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hey y'all I got my sister here with me I
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had to be here um Susan green bubbles
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most y'all know her is bubbles and I
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would like to hope that everybody during
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their lifetime would have one friendship
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one friend that will be there for you no
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matter what and that you'll be there for
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them no matter what that you can trust
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with your life and they can know all
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your secrets and they still love you and
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that's I feel like that's the kind of
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friendship that we have oh I'll tell you
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this you know Susan is from Albany from
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my hometown y'all and we had not met but
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you know everybody knew of somebody in
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Albany
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it was like when I was in high school I
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think it was 70 that population of
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70,000 and I don't think it's funny me
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it's 100 oh it is but not the same yeah
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yeah I'll bet he didn't really want some
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real beatnik but so we moved to Savannah
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in 1987 and I got a phone call one day
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from Susan Williams she was at the time
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oh she was married done
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someone else and her stepdaughter was
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gonna be attending SCAD and Susan knew
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that I lived here and she called me and
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she said listen I just would feel better
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if I could give Slade he's like mmm your
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phone number just in case she had an
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emergency and needed somebody
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immediately and like I said Susan and I
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had never met but that through Margaret
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Jo yeah a good friend yeah Margaret
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Johaug was a teacher at Albany high and
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Margaret Jo I had such a wonderful close
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relationship with many of the girls and
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Susan was one of them that was
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exceptionally close to Margaret Jo so
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Susan had come over to help Slade unpack
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and get settled and she came to my house
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to see where I was and Yatta Yatta Yatta
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and I told her that I wanted to make
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some changes in my life and I have been
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dreaming about starting this little
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business and I think when we first met I
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had not started
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yeah I started the bag lady ran my first
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round June the 19th 1989 and so I shared
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my dreams with Susan and oh my gosh
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actually I think I want to doing the bag
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lady that just started cause when did
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Margaret Cho bring the embryo
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I wonder got to up down yeah yes but why
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blame graduated in May of 89 so you had
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just gotten into it okay yeah he would
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just stop and she said yes yes Margaret
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Jo's mother and father were in the
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restaurant business there now B need to
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Okla for where to motel and the
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restaurant i cant resis over the Oval
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for me but yeah breakfast lunch and do
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well I had made to come and I sure
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didn't need a grill and concrete joe
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said well I have one was she and Susan
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loaded up back commercial grills that
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was in the Oval thought restaurants
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kitchen and they brought it over here to
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me and I put it in the best
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yeah remember so do but Susan Susan saw
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what a desperate situation I was in and
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she would just come over and help me it
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was more fun I remember one day you know
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because I had to send my boys out to
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sell and then I had to take that money
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and then go to the grocery store and buy
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the groceries for the next day I mean I
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was that tight the shoestring was so
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tight but Susan would come over and she
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would go to the store and buy my
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groceries so yes I remember this girl
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coming over here y'all and she's always
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been been there for whoever that needs
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help she's an amazing woman she was
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meant to be people's like secret I hate
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jewels I don't I don't know how to say
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it but she takes care a lot of a lot of
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people in fact she lives right around
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the corner from my ain't Peggy there in
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Albany and as I've told y'all ain't
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Peggy is here I'm hiding her away from
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the epidemic that hit all b-but Susan
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just lives right around the corner so
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she takes in and looks after my ain't
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Pig that was on wheels
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yes and then Susan's mother is 96 years
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old and lives with Susan and feel get
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you a break but Margaret Jo has sense in
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the past ten years been diagnosed with
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Alzheimer's hmm
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and susan has taken care of that woman
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like she was her sister
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in fact Susan
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Margaret Jo came from a very comfortable
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Veneto family and she had lost her
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brother so she was the only one left in
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her family and Susan has seen to it that
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Margaret Jo oh and listen to this
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so everything that Margaret Jo had is
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being left to Susan so you'd think oh
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gosh most people would be so excited
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right they're gonna get a big
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inheritance why are you doing what
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you're doing
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I know I know that they are judging you
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by what they would do well I told
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somebody go today if you've never lived
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or cared feedback with Alzheimer's the
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caregiver needs time out and the
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mortgage I went to a facility for three
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years
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that gave me from 9:00 to 3:00 every day
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and she was looked after she had a meal
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they played games I mean you know that
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movie and it's a horrible disease and
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the building that they were going to was
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destroyed in one of our storms we are 25
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they had no place to go they don't know
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but the caregivers are calling I said
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what are we gonna do what are we gonna
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do I mean I'm down my mom I've got my
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aunt I've got my sister I mean baby you
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don't realize what a blessing a timeout
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situation is until you use it and see I
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can't imagine I have experienced my
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latest experience was losing my precious
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baby brother but you can't it was so
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hard oh yes I cared for him
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but you know he had his mind and I have
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never I've never experienced I've never
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known any viper Sallee that had
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Alzheimer's so I can't imagine second
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imagined but because Margaret Jo was
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very well healed in the money department
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Susan has decided to take Margaret Cho's
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money and build this wonderful facility
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we were moving in the process of moving
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and when the storm took the building we
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had to go to the church and say please
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would you join us take a Sunday School
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room or something because I mean you
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can't just dump these people on the
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street
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I woke up one night and I said film we
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are going to have to break the trust and
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yeast market does money we're gonna
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build a building and he said can't be
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done cannot be done I said why
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we don't need it we don't why he said
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citizen legally cannot be done no I was
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told by my lawyer legally it could not
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pick to into but I went downtown to our
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friend the probate judge named Stephen
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since it is just since died if it had
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not been for me dad passed away she did
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and it was not from the vows but she had
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some heart issues but anyway I went in
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there just what you need I said I need
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to break the trust how do I do it
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she said hmm I told him I want to spend
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that money and build a building brands
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thanking me she said come back in 30
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minutes I got that my papers they just
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said these are for feel just Margaret Jo
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could not sign so anyway I said you got
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to come to the privileged office about
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30 minutes he said I'll be there and I
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said what is that she said done just
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break ground now this was money that
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Susan was to receive at Margaret Jo's
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death and I know some people may think
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what she's doing it to get Margaret
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Jones money
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she is not Susan doesn't need anybody
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else's money she's got plenty of her own
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I mean just uh you know we've been
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blessed we have been blessed and blessed
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but so she she got that trust broken and
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took that money and have built it's
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going wonderfully and the name of it is
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Margaret Jo Hogg Alzheimer's Outreach
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Center
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I mean if my great Joe if she was in her
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right mind she would dinner right man oh
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my gosh I just don't know she would have
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done it so a selfless person is
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incredible defined know you are time I'm
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honest honest but so there you go
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there's some of our new history students
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have large chicks happy ah I wanted
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though the kitchen I'm gonna do garland
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Oh ain't that wonderful and things that
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she did for them that we never knew
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mm-hmm so it has just been amazing
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hmm so you got enough money it's a
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building they'll be paid for now the
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building is paid for we did a campaign
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for the furnishings but the building is
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Mac white for to the plans yes Mac and I
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graduated together yes he and his wife
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Karen last a 65 to do Susan's five years
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younger than than me but he did a
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phenomenal job I mean and we thought you
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know we really were thinking this would
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be too
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we gotta speak this man I mean this
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people are at home I mean I got well
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it's just been wonderful for me to watch
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and I was so fortunate that Susan came
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into my life on a consistent basis so
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yeah yeah it's been what this is 2020 I
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think you know when to use Susan had
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been married twice before she kissed a
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couple of frogs shown uh she kissed a
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couple of frogs but but I'm not smiling
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the prince yes she did
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she found a pretty nice she was at the
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best for last
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she was unless she was the first one to
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get there with that casserole actor
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Fields wife God love her passed away
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Susan was the first one they are saying
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I hope that you're doing all right
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and shares your wonderful yummy
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casserole I can't all the time about
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well we don't start making uh keep my
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mom yeah we go make a key lime pie how
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about this Baba's key one time I can't
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tell you how many I took back to my
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daddy
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what
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so key lime pie okay well we gonna take
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a break and get her get our thoughts
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back together y'all got it then we gonna
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start on this cheer back
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