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Jenny Tella, everybody who's listening.
The drama behind today's Minnesota Goodbye Drama is

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the fact that we already recorded this
entire podcast, twenty minutes worth of it,

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and then guess what day went to
go export it because that's what I

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need him to do. When I
loaded and it was not there, it

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disappeared. It is like, this
is something that so many people have gone

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through. You record, or you
work on something, or you have there's

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a huge paper and you write it, or there's a bunch of photos and

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they disappear. Everybody's got a story
about this. Well, this is twenty

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minutes out of our day. But
I've done things for like I think I

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used to send out a newsletter to
DJ's. It was a printed newsletter with

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jokes and show ideas, and I
did it on an app called front Page,

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which was back in the nineties,
and it was you wrote newsletters and

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scripts or whatever. And I remember
ahead it saved on a floppy disc and

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I went back to look at it
and it was gone, and it was

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probably a day's word of words and
all the jokes were written on there.

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I didn't have backup copies of the
jokes, so I lost all the jokes

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and so this is nothing. So
we're gonna go back and reread some of

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the emails that we covered earlier.
Let me scroll and see if I can

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find them. All right, we're
gonna start off with this from show.

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Not what my parents let us do. But when I was a kid,

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my brother and I would walk and
go and look for snakes to catch.

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We would find snakes under rocks,
logs, et cetera. I remember one

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of my friends caught a three foot
black snake by the tail and it was

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trying to come up his hand to
would bite him. We were around ten

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years old. Also, one time
we climbed up on this old lift bridge

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that wasn't in use anymore. It
was one of the old style ones made

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out of metal. We would climb
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around fifty feet. Oh my gosh, above the river. Good thing.

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Nothing bad happened to us. It
was the late eighties or early nineties.

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Oh yeah, Jenny, get one
of those bug ultrasonic plugins and put it

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in your basement to keep bugs out. It doesn't work one hundred percent of

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the time, but it does help. Oh that's stupid thing. I don't

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know if it's a cricketer or grasshopper, but it's a very consistent sound,

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and I don't know the difference between
the two. And we listen to that

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thing chirping last night, and it
sucks because we like to binge watch shows

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in the basement on our comfy sectional
and now we haven't been able to do

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it because we don't want to listen
to this thing chirping away for like an

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hour straight. But I'll look into
that. Here's the bad news. My

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computer just completely froze up. So
I can look at email subject lines,

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but when I click on them,
it is just going to be a disaster.

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I can tell you what we did
cover on the last thing. One

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thing that we can talk about,
yes, we won't be able to read

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the exact email. Was someone was
emailing in about what to do with their

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child if they start school early and
they're like the older person for the year,

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or if they start a school later
and then they're like the younger person

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in their grade. Right, So
they said that they were they got a

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kid that's born like August thirtieth or
something, they would either be the oldest

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in their class or the youngest.
I was one of the youngest in my

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classes. I didn't really mind it. I mean, when you're eight and

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your friends are nine, you also
want to be nine. But you know,

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in the scheme of things as an
adult, I'm glad I graduated a

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year earlier, you know, and
got started on my adult life earlier,

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rather than being eighteen. Most people
graduate when they're eighteen, and you spend

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half year senior year eighteen years old. That's fine. I didn't turn eighteen

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until the fall after my senior year, but it didn't bother me. I

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mean, I got an early start
on my adult life and it was fine.

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It bothered me when I was eight
my friends were nine. I think

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the main thing of my friends was
the fact that, like the people who

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were younger, and this is later
in life, you know, they couldn't

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senior year you got to call yourself
into school if you wanted, if you

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were eighteen, like you had the
right to do that. Well, my

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birthday was in May and we finished
school like two weeks later, so I

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never really my year got to call
myself in, which I wouldn't have anyways.

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But then also, like all of
these things once again are not really

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positive stuff. You are then the
youngest person to turn twenty one if you're

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like younger for you grade. And
that was me and my college years.

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I was the youngest of all of
my roommates and so that was the bummer.

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But those are like silly things to
not worry about. But I do

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think that my friends liked being older
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If you have any preference on that, maybe you grew up the youngest

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or the oldest in your grade.
Let us know, would you recommend that

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she hold her kid back or that
she let her kid go in and go.

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I'm going to stop the recording right
now because we're four and a half

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minutes in and I'm going to double
check to make sure it okay. Records,

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so this is what's going on behind
the scenes. I'm going to stop

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it and check it right now.
Good news, Jenny, it worked.

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It recorded, so we can continue
and see what happens. Was I shared

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the story earlier when we recorded this
twenty minutes ago, that I entered kindergarten

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early. I think my mom was, you know, she had six kids.

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I was the youngest, and I
think she just wanted like time away

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from kids, and so she got
me into kindergarten a little bit early,

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and I was telling the story about
how I had to take a pre kindergarten

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entrance exam and it was an oral
exam where I sat there with the kindergarten

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teacher, missus Heath, who was
not the nicest lady. She had been

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teaching kindergarten for one hundred and sixteen
years and she should have retired long ago.

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She wasn't terrible, yeah, but
she was not nice and warm.

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Really, I'm kind of a strict
teacher. And she asked me an entrance

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question to check my maturity and intelligence. I guess. She said, David,

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where does ham come from? Which
is a weird question to ask a

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four year old, because what fucking
four year old knows where ham comes from?

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No, I wouldn't be able to
tell you. My answer was,

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well, it comes from the grocery
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And my mom told that story for
years because she thought that was so

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cute that I didn't say pig that
I said mommy buys at the grocery store.

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I mean, I think that that's
a pretty smart answer for a four

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year old. Most kids could have
been like I don't know, Pluto,

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I like you actually had an answer
that makes sense. It was that was

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where she got him. I got
in trouble once that I remember in kindergarten

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from missus Heath. And she picked
me up and she shook me, not

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really hard, but picked me up. It just kind of like, David,

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I told you no that type of
thing, okay, because I said

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but oh, I said the word
but and I don't remember what the context

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was, but it was kind of
like, yeah, you're a butt.

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And she picked me up, held
me up to her eye level. I

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can still picture her inches from my
face and her glasses and her gray hair,

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and she was kind of like moderately
like shaking me a little bit.

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And I said, I met like
a cigarette. But because I was a

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liar even in kindergarten, she was
not stupid. She knew what I meant.

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So I remember I had to stay
inside from recess, so I had

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my mouth washed out because I said, but we weren't allowed to say anything

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growing up, which is like when
we read that email about saying God in

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Jesus Christ. I am surprised how
much that is in my vocabulary now,

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because I was not saying those things. When I was growing up, I

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was not allowed to swear, and
then I said, but a couple of

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times, and like one time too
money. My mom was like, get

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over hair, and I got the
bar of soap in my mouth. Your

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mom did it. My mom did
it. And I was old enough to

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be a little brat myself, and
I was like, I'm called child abuse

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services or whatever it's called. Like
I was a little brad threatening yes,

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yeah, yeah, wow. I
ran away from home one time because my

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mom did something, and so I
literally ran away from home. I got

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to the end of the driveway and
nobody came looking for me. So I

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went back. Did you have a
stick with a little bag attached to the

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end of it? You know what
I mean? I did, And I

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didn't want to bring that up because
it sounds like you made that up,

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But I literally did. I found
a pillow case or a scar for something,

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tied it to a stick and put
something in it, like probably a

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hat or a bag of chips or
something stupid. I don't know, it's

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probably seven. Got to the end
of the driveway, kind of hid behind

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a tree, hoping that somebody would
come look for me, and nobody did.

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So I went back home. I
feel like, because you're bringing this

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up, it's like bringing up a
memory of my childhood that I just forgot

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about. But I definitely did the
same thing where I grabbed a stick and

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tried to pack something and like carry
it over my shoulder. Really, and

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I think I didn't even leave the
yard. I think I just like went

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to the back of the yard where
there's like a bunch of trees and you

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can't really see me. And I
was like hoping that they thought I ran

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away, but I don't think I
even left. And you because at that

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age, you really don't want to
run away. Where are you going to

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run away too? Yeah, if
you ever ran away, tell us your

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story. We also had some stories, and again my emails frozen up,

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but we were talking about what you
had sex up against and we got some

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good stories on that one. So
if you wrote in yesterday or the day

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before and you're going they haven't read
my email, it's because we did read

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every email and the computer deleted the
Minnesota goodbye and now it's frozen. So

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my sister Donna ran away from home. I'll tell you the quick story because

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I can't access emails right now.
Donna ran away from home when she was

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about sixteen, and the reason she
ran away from home was because she was

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dating a black guy. And back
then it was more taboo to date a

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black guy. And so my mom
and dad, I think especially my dad,

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said you are not to date him. But Donna was in love.

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She was sixteen, and so she
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The guy would come by and pick
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a date or make out or whatever. Mom and dad are at church.

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A couple of months later and the
youth group leaders said, hey, friend,

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Louise, Donna hasn't been coming to
youth group lately. She okay,

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and they're like what. So they
found out they confronted her and said you

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are not to date him anymore.
And Donna ran away from home. And

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I was too young to really comprehend. I was probably eight years old or

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so. I was really too young
to comprehend. And I was certain that

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Donna did what I would have done, and that was go hide in the

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backyard. We had a TP in
the backyard. It was set up all

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the time a year round, and
I thought, where would I go?

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I would go hide in the TP. I was certain she was in the

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TP. So Mom and Dad said, she's not in the TP. So

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I went and looked myself figured and
I'd walk in and triumphantly go, there

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you are. No, she wasn't
there. She ran away and joined some

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Christian group home or something downtown.
So she was actually gone for a while.

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She was Jenny. She was gone
for I don't know how long she

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was missing. Let's say, yeah, maybe a day or part of a

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day, maybe a week, I
don't know, but she was missing for

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a while. Can you imagine how
freaked out you'd be. Oh gosh,

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yeah, if your sixteen year old
kid goes missing, absolutely that'd be terrifying.

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But they, you know, they
she lived in a group home in

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Colorado Springs, like a Christian group
home, and eventually came back home.

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But she was always a little,
you know, a little troubled, rebellious,

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troubled, bad decisions. I mean, you know, I love her

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now, of course, but okay, you know what, we got to

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cut it short of the Minnesota goodbye, because we do want to read your

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emails, but we're gonna have to
wait till tomorrow. So there'll be bonus

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content on the Minnesota. Goodbye.
Anything you want to comment on, whether

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you ran away from home, where
you went, whether your kids ran away

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from home, anything else like that, or especially should you put your kid

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in school a year early or a
year later. Let us know. Send

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your email to Ryan Show at KADWB
dot com. Let's see how long we

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are in the Minnesota. Goodbye.
Oh, we're okay. We're about eleven

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twelve minutes, so we're a little
short, but that's okay. Thanks for

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listening, and we'll look for your
email.