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Speaker 3: In this episode, will witness Santiago confront his past, finding
Speaker 3: unexpected solace and hope in the stillness of a blackout
Speaker 3: as he takes his first steps towards healing and redemption.
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Speaker 1: de recordo, dolorosos, gevava, javaria, semanas, en loospital in capasadr
Speaker 1: mir percegido por la sombras, su pasado, paloma, sutera, pelta, erouna, Presencia,
Speaker 1: Calida and al lugar frio yesterday todas la semanas da
Speaker 1: tratava de jera, Santiago and zucamino ai la sannacion elenre media,
Speaker 1: dad colosojo sundidos por la falta de sueno, yuna, tristesa, constante,
Speaker 1: videniava and cadaestavra Santiago, omegustaia cale moso re looke real,
Speaker 1: mene ma espirto di jo, paloma, consubo, suave, santada, frente,
Speaker 1: la pecena, salade, terapia, Santiago, mido, sus manos, estavan erboso,
Speaker 1: como siempre la si magen ze ro del pasado, ld vienna, sumente, unaccidente,
Speaker 1: via rido, ali Cercano, un or Quez and tia Keno, podiapadonna,
Speaker 1: nossipodo and fran Terreso, murmuro conna penas au dible paloma, spero, paci, demente,
Speaker 1: observando las lucas internas de lombriqueti and frente enesa sala
Speaker 1: solos escuchavlsum vido, the lairia, Conditiononado, perofera, lannoch and nimava
Speaker 1: con risas musica racomosidos, mundo di stintos co existerra and
Speaker 1: parallelo entoncees sucedo alguen previsto las lucees titi Laroni is
Speaker 1: a pagarond repente, puna, pagon cobrio, todo de escurida, Santiago, contobola, respidracion, sorprendido,
Speaker 1: prespida santiago, estoyaki, contigo, dijopaloma, subos, firme serena and las
Speaker 1: corrida as a momento the silencio yescuridao fresiona, couriosa, calma
Speaker 1: y algo and el esperto unde de liver ESAs cadenas
Speaker 1: in vice le scell impendendes cancer entoncees conunes for socelo
Speaker 1: the hotel Blando comenzo ablar form culpa elaxidente, nopodido dej
Speaker 1: coul pablo confesso las palavas lugiendo con difi culta po
Speaker 1: liverandole poco paloma leuscuchos in inter rumpi dandolelees paso eel
Speaker 1: tien Poparavasia su corrason lintamente Santiago compartio cada detag cada,
Speaker 1: sentimiento concada palava, Parisia coo sa Parisia de sosambros, condovolviola
Speaker 1: LUs Santiago Santiago, tado pero di ferente comosila bordael monstro
Speaker 1: de su pasado uber and contra dona porta Asia albo
Speaker 1: mejor azad grandpa so oi dijopaloma, sondrino quezusho javanel can
Speaker 1: sancio de Santiago, mentrasalia de la sala Veterapia Santiago, s
Speaker 1: dio cuenta de ca lagon vo a villa commenzado por
Speaker 1: primera vesen mucho tempo Cinthiona, pisca esperanza, saville l Camino
Speaker 1: por delane largo, pero ta vience estava solo alres savita,
Speaker 1: seveejo ca re la cama, serrando, lo sojos, ele cojo
Speaker 1: de los fogo, artificial Sonava, comna, nunciovo, comienzo, Yela, savida
Speaker 1: de Verano, Santiago, finl mainteen, contron dez caso, Cavia, Elado,
Speaker 1: dote tanto tempo a via de cidido and friend su pasado,
Speaker 1: d rumpasa, la pasiicomenzao calla promesa dia.
Speaker 3: Let's take another listen. Listen closely to any parts you
Speaker 3: may have messed.
Speaker 1: Enela la siquie trica, las luses blanca, sibrientees del pasigo,
Speaker 1: contrastavanl calor del Verano, Querri Navafoa.
Speaker 3: In the psychiatric wing, the bright white lights of the
Speaker 3: hallway contrasted with the summer heat that reigned outside here.
Speaker 1: La vispera della nonoevo, ion ke, Santiago, po dies cucos, fogo,
Speaker 1: sartificiele sel leJOS sumentes tava trapada in numbu c linterminavle
Speaker 1: de ricordo sol rosos.
Speaker 3: It was New Year's Eve, and although Santiago could hear
Speaker 3: fireworks in the distance, his mind was trapped in an
Speaker 3: endless loop of painful memories.
Speaker 1: Gievava ja varia semana senellos pitel in capazi dor mir
Speaker 1: persegido porla sombraze supasado.
Speaker 3: He had already spent several weeks in the hospital, unable
Speaker 3: to sleep, haunted by shadows of his past.
Speaker 1: Paaloma, Sutera, Pelta Rona Presencia Calida and naqulugar frio yesterri.
Speaker 3: Paloma. His therapist was a warm presence in that cold,
Speaker 3: sterile place.
Speaker 1: Toda la semanas ivietra, tava de yerra Santiago and Suca
Speaker 1: mino a siela san nacion.
Speaker 3: Every week she tried to guide Santiago on his path
Speaker 3: to healing.
Speaker 1: Elera nombred me dienda coloso ho sunddos por la falta
Speaker 1: de sueno yu na tristeza constant kiesevi den sievra in
Speaker 1: cavahestri paalavre.
Speaker 3: He was a middle aged man with eyes sunken from
Speaker 3: lack of sleep and a constant sadness evident in every
Speaker 3: gesture and word.
Speaker 1: Santiago omegusta rie keevle mosovre lo kee ral mine te
Speaker 1: mantiendes pirto dijo. Paloma consuvo suave centava frente le la
Speaker 1: tecna sa la veteratia.
Speaker 3: Santiago. Today, I would like us to talk about what
Speaker 3: really keeps you awake, said Paloma with her soft voice,
Speaker 3: seated across from him in the small therapy room.
Speaker 1: Santiago mido sus manos.
Speaker 3: Santiago looked at his hands.
Speaker 1: Estava nervioso como siempre he was nervous as always la
Speaker 1: si mahinize quell del pasado volvienna sumente.
Speaker 3: The images of that past mistake came back to his mind.
Speaker 1: Unaidente vier rido al jienscano.
Speaker 3: An accident that had harmed someone close. Unerrque centie ke noo,
Speaker 3: a mistake he felt he couldn't forgive. No frenteso murmuro
Speaker 3: connavos dibl I don't know if I can face that,
Speaker 3: he murmured, his voice barely audible.
Speaker 1: Paloma sperro pacientemente, uservando las lucca sinterna de lorien frente.
Speaker 3: Paloma waited patiently observing the internal struggles of the man
Speaker 3: before her.
Speaker 1: Innisasa la soloses cucavel sunvido de la condido pero fura
Speaker 1: lamava conrisa simusica.
Speaker 3: In that room only the hum of the air can
Speaker 3: conditioning could be heard, but outside the night was lively
Speaker 3: with laughter and music.
Speaker 1: Here coomsidos mundo zistintos co existira and paralelo.
Speaker 3: It was as if two different worlds co existed in parallel.
Speaker 1: Intonsis sou sevio al lumprevisto.
Speaker 3: Then something unexpected happened.
Speaker 1: LEAs luses titi lenicararonde repente.
Speaker 3: The lights flickered and went out suddenly.
Speaker 1: Buna paronku to de courida.
Speaker 3: A blackout covered everything in darkness.
Speaker 1: Santiago contuo l respiracion sorprendido.
Speaker 3: Santiago held his breath, surprised.
Speaker 1: Prespira Santiago.
Speaker 3: Breathe. Santiago estoye qui contigo vigo paaloma subosna las courida.
Speaker 3: I'm here with you, said Paloma, her voice firm and surre.
Speaker 3: In the darkness is a.
Speaker 1: Momento de silencio. Yoes courido freciona couriosa calma yell uen lisperto.
Speaker 3: That moment of silence and darkness offered a curious calm,
Speaker 3: and something in him awoke.
Speaker 1: Unde si de li verercevees as cavenasim visibles quillim pethen
Speaker 1: this cancer.
Speaker 3: A desire to free himself from the invisible chains that
Speaker 3: prevented him from resting.
Speaker 1: Intonsis conunes forso kelo dejo tele comnzola.
Speaker 3: Then, with an effort that left him trembling, he began
Speaker 3: to speak, for.
Speaker 1: Mi culpa alexidne.
Speaker 3: It was my fault, the accident.
Speaker 1: Nopodido de herdla confesso las palavas fluendo convivii culta po
Speaker 1: liverando le poco.
Speaker 3: I haven't been able to stop feeling guilty. He confessed,
Speaker 3: The words flowing with difficulty, but slowly free him.
Speaker 1: Paaloma, luis cuccio sininte rumpire. Then le lies pasio il
Speaker 1: tempo paravasierzu corra.
Speaker 3: Son Paloma listened without interrupting, giving him the space and
Speaker 3: time to unburden his heart.
Speaker 1: Lintamente Santiago compartio, cara retaje, cavra centimento.
Speaker 3: Slowly, Santiago shared every detail, every feeling.
Speaker 1: Conquer palavre parisia, conpezo de sa parrecia de so sombros.
Speaker 3: With each word, it seemed as if a weight was
Speaker 3: lifted from his shoulders.
Speaker 1: Condovolvio la LUs Santiagos cintia rotado pero di ferente.
Speaker 3: When the lights came back on, Santiago felt exhausted yet different.
Speaker 1: Commosie la borda el monstro de su pasado, uvien contra
Speaker 1: dna porta sielo mejor.
Speaker 3: As if by confronting the monster of his past he
Speaker 3: had found a door or to something better.
Speaker 1: A zavon grampas dijo paaloma, sondriendo quezu sojo refle il
Speaker 1: caa and sanso de Santiago.
Speaker 3: You've taken a big step today, said Paloma, smiling, though
Speaker 3: her eyes reflected santiago As fatigue.
Speaker 1: Mien trasaalia de la sa la veterapia, Santiago sevio coentavequ
Speaker 1: lavo a vieco minsado.
Speaker 3: As he left the therapy room, Santiago realized that the
Speaker 3: new year had begun.
Speaker 1: Por prima vesen mucho tiempo, Cinthiona piscave speranza.
Speaker 3: For the first time in a long time, he felt
Speaker 3: a glimmer of hope.
Speaker 1: Saville kel ca minho por de lentello peru ta vience
Speaker 1: noestava solo.
Speaker 3: He knew the road ahead was long, but also that
Speaker 3: he was not alone.
Speaker 1: Alreavitacion sevejo caa re la cama, serrando lo sojos.
Speaker 3: Returning to his room, he let himself fall onto the bed,
Speaker 3: closing his eyes.
Speaker 1: Eleco lejno de los fogos, tificiele sonava comna nuncio devo comienzo.
Speaker 3: The distant echo of the fireworks sounded like an announcement
Speaker 3: of a new beginning.
Speaker 1: Yiela sa vid de sche verano, santiergo finlmenteen controun des
Speaker 1: cansu kee via ne lad dourrentetan to tempo.
Speaker 3: And in the softness of that summer night, Santiago finally
Speaker 3: found a rest he had longed for for so long.
Speaker 1: A vie de sivido, frentsa supasado darumpasua sie la pasi
Speaker 1: coomensa la promesa deo di.
Speaker 3: He had decided to face his past, take a step
Speaker 3: towards peace, and start the year with the promise of
Speaker 3: a new day. Today's vocabulary words are coming up right
Speaker 3: after this commercial break. Here are today's vocabulary words, first
Speaker 3: in Spanish, then in English.
Speaker 1: E la la Sikiatrica, E la la Sikiatrica, E la
Speaker 1: la sirkiatrica psychiatric wing, el pasigo, el pasigo, el pasiggo hawe,
Speaker 1: pray Nava, pray nava, pray.
Speaker 5: Nava, reigned, atrapada, atrapada, atrapada, trapped, boom book linterminabli umbuk linterminable,
Speaker 5: umbook lin, terminabli en m sloop, perseido, perseguido, persegiedo, haunted place, sombras,
Speaker 5: las sombras, las sombras, shadows, elvarra, diagonala trapelta, elvarra, Diagonala Trapelta, elvarra, diagonalda,
Speaker 5: terra pelta. Therapist Buna presents Yaklida, Una presents Yakalida.
Speaker 1: Una presents Ja Calida, warm, presence, steady, steil is steady,
Speaker 1: stero plas a nacion, las a nacion, las a nacion healing,
Speaker 1: elmbre media that, elmbre that, elmbre media that middle aged man,
Speaker 1: losjo soundidos, los hoosundidos, losjo sunvidos, sunken eyes el histo,
Speaker 1: el histo, el histo, gesture a pena saudiblipenas pennasau dibli
Speaker 1: barely audible, loas Lucas internas, los Lucas internas, los Lucia's Internas,
Speaker 1: internal struggles, El zum Vido, el zum vido, el sum vido,
Speaker 1: hum e la pagon, el pagon e la pagon blackout,
Speaker 1: plaus courida, loos gurida, laos courida, darkness, plarispiracion, larispiracion, larispiacion,
Speaker 1: breath plas, carvenas, las carvenas, las cavenas, chains tem Blando,
Speaker 1: tem Blando, tem Blando, trembling cool, pably cool, pably cool,
Speaker 1: pably guilty, Bassier Vassier, Bassier, unburdened, hel peso, el peso,
Speaker 1: el peso wait blos monstros, los monstros, los monstrous monsters,
Speaker 1: plos passos, los passos, los passos steps buona pisca, buona pisca,
Speaker 1: una pisca, glamor he leco e leco eleko echo be
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