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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Cindy Stampo Toughest Nails on WBZ News Radio

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<v Speaker 1>ten thirty. Let's go, Samantha, Yes, mother, all right, work

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<v Speaker 1>with me, honey. Are you going to introduce her? Yes, honey, no,

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<v Speaker 1>you are. It was your experience that met her. I

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<v Speaker 1>was just a sidekick that day. But you were there, right,

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<v Speaker 1>I was there. Okay, you want to introduce yourself. Money,

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<v Speaker 1>go ahead, you introduced.

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<v Speaker 2>Your Hey, my name's Mel.

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<v Speaker 1>We're going by Mel. Yeah, okay, Mel, now Melanie? Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>forget Melanie. I like Mel better, easier for her. Mel's cool. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>three letter words A good for right now? Dogcat and out. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>all right, I want you to give my listeners. Go ahead,

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<v Speaker 1>tell the story how you and I met.

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<v Speaker 2>I was at work.

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<v Speaker 1>What's your work?

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<v Speaker 2>I work in the lab at mass General Rago.

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<v Speaker 1>What are you? What do you do there?

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<v Speaker 2>I'm a phlebotomist. Okay, and told you I'm thirty years old.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay.

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<v Speaker 2>And I was at work and you were in the

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<v Speaker 2>chair needing some assistance because they couldn't find it, didn't

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<v Speaker 2>have neat assistance.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay. Swamp sitting in the cheer and another woman is

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<v Speaker 1>taking my blood and she put the needle in. Then

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<v Speaker 1>she rejammed and I went and you're hurting me. And

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<v Speaker 1>then you said, I'll take it from here, and you

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<v Speaker 1>walked over. I think we went in my left arm

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<v Speaker 1>and we found the bane. You went right in there smoothly.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't wasn't poked twice, and I didn't feel anything.

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<v Speaker 1>I had no bruise. And at that point we started

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<v Speaker 1>to talk, and I think I asked you how old

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<v Speaker 1>you are, because that's a typical question. I will ask

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<v Speaker 1>how old you are? Where are you from? What's your zodiacs?

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<v Speaker 1>On my questions? Right?

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<v Speaker 2>I think Mexico so much.

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<v Speaker 1>And then I said to you said to me, what

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<v Speaker 1>are you, Cindy? And I said I'm a cancer and

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<v Speaker 1>you said, my brothers or my brother my brothers, right,

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<v Speaker 1>we're both cancers. And I said, what do you mean

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<v Speaker 1>they were?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, they passed away.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, So there's why I want you to pick up

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<v Speaker 1>the story. Okay, So and actually no, we're going to

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<v Speaker 1>come back that. Just let's hold that off for a minute.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's go back to when you were a young girl.

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<v Speaker 1>I want you, I want people to hear what your

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<v Speaker 1>life was at a young girl and how you changed

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<v Speaker 1>it up so people know how we met now.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, and we connected just because we have the same

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<v Speaker 2>kind of values and morals in life. And I had

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<v Speaker 2>a hard time.

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<v Speaker 1>At well those morals and values came a little bit

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<v Speaker 1>later for you. Yes, Okay, I got there. That's how

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<v Speaker 1>you get this, as long as they get.

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<v Speaker 2>There, right. I had lost my son when I was

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<v Speaker 2>around seventeen turning eighteen, and I kind of thought I

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<v Speaker 2>was a dude for a little bit, and dude, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>I was on the streets, you know, doing things I

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<v Speaker 2>wasn't supposed to be doing, hurting people because I wanted

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know, I wanted everybody to feel how I

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<v Speaker 2>was feeling at the moment.

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<v Speaker 1>So you can basically throw a haymaker.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah you know what.

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<v Speaker 1>The haymakers nice a good punch. Yeah, it's not nice,

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<v Speaker 1>not nice, No, but you have the strength to throw it.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. And it's like like it's just like so much

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<v Speaker 2>energy energy that you exert in a negative way, it's

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<v Speaker 2>not even worth it. You have to leave people where

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<v Speaker 2>they're at and learned that that's just their capacity they're

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<v Speaker 2>in right now. And you can't do anything what control yourself.

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<v Speaker 1>So from what age to what age, were you running

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<v Speaker 1>and doing all the.

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<v Speaker 2>Bad, bad things from eighteen till I was like twenty four.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, so at fifteen sixteen you were normal whatever normal

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<v Speaker 1>young girl was.

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<v Speaker 2>Kind of I kind of transitioned once I went to

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<v Speaker 2>high school and kind of got brought into the world

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<v Speaker 2>of like being a grown up too fast. Basically, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>we've all been there, yeah, and getting into things I

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<v Speaker 2>shouldn't have been getting to, and I kind of got

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<v Speaker 2>a little exposed, and you know, people didn't really like

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<v Speaker 2>me and my brother so it was a lot of

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<v Speaker 2>problems and then like why, well I don't know why.

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<v Speaker 2>They just always you know, the dudes always had problems

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<v Speaker 2>with my brothers, and I was always kid protective, so

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<v Speaker 2>whatever problems were theirs were mine as well.

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<v Speaker 1>How what's the difference in age between you and your brothers?

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<v Speaker 2>Ranging from like who's flu to three five years some

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<v Speaker 2>of them they are I'm the baby, I'm the youngest one.

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<v Speaker 1>So but you stuck together as a family.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and I was. I They never liked me to

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<v Speaker 2>be a part of anything. But I just imagine your

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<v Speaker 2>sibling getting hurt and you're just standing there like I

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<v Speaker 2>couldn't do that.

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<v Speaker 1>But were they better kids than you were. No, so

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<v Speaker 1>everybody was in the same.

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<v Speaker 2>Because they were ahead of me. So they had already

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<v Speaker 2>gone intoto what they gone into. And then here I come, like,

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<v Speaker 2>oh no, this isn't going to happen.

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<v Speaker 1>So they want you to be a good kid.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I was up until high school and then I

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<v Speaker 2>kind of like exploded. And then once my kid died,

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<v Speaker 2>I just amplified it. I was like turned.

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<v Speaker 1>Up, and what about your mom and dad at that

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<v Speaker 1>time trying to control embarrassed.

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<v Speaker 2>They were just embarrassed and disappointed. Like my family come

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<v Speaker 2>from a literal jungle. Like my parents made out of

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<v Speaker 2>a jungle. My dad's a businessman.

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<v Speaker 1>Sucisse jungle.

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<v Speaker 2>So caverd is west, yeah, okay, and it's ten islands

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<v Speaker 2>in the middle of the ocean and most of it

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<v Speaker 2>is like a jungle and then there's like parts of

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<v Speaker 2>cities and stuff. It's very poor, especially back then they

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<v Speaker 2>were just farming and stuff like that. Both my parents

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<v Speaker 2>had to quit school and help their parents farm. Kind

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<v Speaker 2>of a few clothes, one two pair of shoes deal.

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<v Speaker 2>Growing up, they had it really hard. They came to

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<v Speaker 2>this country when they were young, before they were twenty

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<v Speaker 2>and worked and you know, my mom's been like a

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<v Speaker 2>CNA her whole life, but she makes she so she

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<v Speaker 2>does well wow, yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Like okay, So they were immigrants, yes, and they came

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<v Speaker 1>here the legal way.

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<v Speaker 2>Legal way, and my dad brought over more than half

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<v Speaker 2>of his family here. He got here, did what he

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<v Speaker 2>was supposed to do god as citizenship because back then,

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<v Speaker 2>when you got your citizenship, you can bring someone. Then

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<v Speaker 2>they have to go get this citizenship through the process

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<v Speaker 2>and then they can get somebody else.

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<v Speaker 1>So then he gets five hunds dollars three meals and

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<v Speaker 1>then it gets so fun.

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<v Speaker 2>No, my dad busted his ass studied. I used to

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<v Speaker 2>go to night school. My dad used to go to

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<v Speaker 2>school at New Bedford High School at night, and I

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<v Speaker 2>would go with him and help him with his like

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<v Speaker 2>English and stuff like that, because if you don't know

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<v Speaker 2>this language, it's very hard to pick up because our tongue,

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<v Speaker 2>our language is very heavy tongued.

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<v Speaker 1>Our languages.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, cave Verdian. So I feel like like Bundia. It's

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<v Speaker 2>like kind of like a broken down version of Creole,

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<v Speaker 2>I would say, like a slang version almost. So yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>I just it's just amazing, Like my parents are just.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, looking at you, and they're pretty face to you,

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<v Speaker 1>as in I smile to think that you were throwing

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<v Speaker 1>haymakers back in the day.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, I was such a but you know.

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<v Speaker 1>We all will since some form of our lives at

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<v Speaker 1>some point. People that are honest, right, Like, yeah, back

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<v Speaker 1>in the seventies and eighties we jammed up to I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>but this is good. That was then. We weren't using

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<v Speaker 1>guns and we weren't doing.

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<v Speaker 2>What yeah what, you know, it's even worse. I'm thankful

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<v Speaker 2>that I was around what I was around back then

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<v Speaker 2>because now it's like, you're just gonna You're gonna die.

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<v Speaker 2>These kids are insane. Yeah, one of my friends got

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<v Speaker 2>killed like almost, it's about to be a year almost

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<v Speaker 2>by a twenty year old. It's twenty seven.

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<v Speaker 1>Before I let you keep going forward. I'm gonna bring

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<v Speaker 1>you back because that's what I have to do. Because

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<v Speaker 1>we'll go from my ninety five and go to four

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<v Speaker 1>ninety five, we'll go to enter seventeen, and then we'll

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<v Speaker 1>be really heading down in Florida and we'll be in

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<v Speaker 1>the Gaza Strip going Israel and then back to Italy.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know where we can go, so let's go

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<v Speaker 1>back in time. You get in a bad place around

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<v Speaker 1>eighteen years old. If from eighteen to twenty something, twenty

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<v Speaker 1>what twenty four, you're running crazy? Yeah, just beating people

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<v Speaker 1>up no reason. Yeah, you robbing them.

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<v Speaker 2>No, I was just beating their butts. And then I

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<v Speaker 2>got into a little issue. I went away for a

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<v Speaker 2>little bit.

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<v Speaker 1>And what was your mom and dad saying to you

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<v Speaker 1>at that time?

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<v Speaker 2>It was just hard. I was like, no, they didn't

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<v Speaker 2>know what to do because they did the best. I

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<v Speaker 2>feel like, as parents, you do the best you can

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<v Speaker 2>with situations. Keep talking, you do the best you can

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<v Speaker 2>with situations. So it's kind of hard when your kid's

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<v Speaker 2>going through something. You have no idea what to do.

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<v Speaker 2>So they try to take me on vacation, do things

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<v Speaker 2>to Johanna Khana, but it's like, what.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, that thought would be right back. I'm sinny stumping you.

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<v Speaker 1>Listen Toughest Nails on w BZ News Radio ten thirty.

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<v Speaker 1>He'll be right back. Welcome back to Toughest Nails on

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<v Speaker 1>WBZ News Radio ten three. Leave that sung going, No

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<v Speaker 1>you never heard James Taylor, Huh.

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<v Speaker 2>What's up? Girl? No? But I love it. I'm loving

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<v Speaker 2>the guitar if.

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<v Speaker 1>You actually listen to the song. He wrote this song

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<v Speaker 1>at McClain's coming off Heroin. Yes we have, Yes, we have,

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<v Speaker 1>Yes to the history on James Taylor and I've seen

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<v Speaker 1>fire and rain Yes, m hm wow, So pick it

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<v Speaker 1>up from them. My music always has a reason for

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<v Speaker 1>what I play online.

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<v Speaker 2>I love that well, I love my job, and I'm

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<v Speaker 2>so thankful where I'm at in life. I always wish

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<v Speaker 2>that I would live in Boston and work in Boston.

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<v Speaker 1>And you're there, Yeah, but it's taken you some time

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<v Speaker 1>to get there. So I'm gonna take you back again.

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<v Speaker 1>So your mom and dad they're trying every which way

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<v Speaker 1>to take you on vacations.

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<v Speaker 2>Not be depressed and angry.

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<v Speaker 1>And that wasn't doing anything. No, So what did it

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<v Speaker 1>take you to hit your rock bottom to say, okay,

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<v Speaker 1>I got to move this now, I don't want to

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<v Speaker 1>be this girl When I went to jail, and that

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<v Speaker 1>did a few But the thought of going to jail

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<v Speaker 1>did not scare you. No, you have to say the

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<v Speaker 1>word people can't see you. No, No thought of that Scharedule,

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<v Speaker 1>not in that moment. And now you find yourself in jail.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and it was it was weird. Because I'm raised.

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<v Speaker 2>It was so such a weird experience because you know,

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<v Speaker 1>No, everybody in the cell.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so you go through an intake unit. They make

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<v Speaker 2>So yeah, you go through the intake process and stuff

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<v Speaker 2>Basically, it was like I was attached to and I

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<v Speaker 2>And someone throws like the newspaper on the table and

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<v Speaker 2>And this is what you're in trouble for. And I'm like,

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<v Speaker 2>because I didn't do nothing, girl, yeah me, I my problem.

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<v Speaker 2>It'll get sorted out, like I know, like you know

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<v Speaker 2>the consequences that come with the things that you're doing

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<v Speaker 2>be doing, you know, consciously, subconsciously, your conscience is always

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<v Speaker 2>But it was like I was just fighting it, like okay,

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<v Speaker 2>like my I'm gonna led my demons when I want

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<v Speaker 2>to be mad. I want to feel this way because

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<v Speaker 2>Like I couldn't out my child, I could do anything.

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<v Speaker 2>I just sit there and let him pass away, you know.

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<v Speaker 2>So it was like I didn't want to deal with

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<v Speaker 1>And how how did you pass away?

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<v Speaker 2>I basically had an infection in my universe, so I

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<v Speaker 2>gave birth too early and then Rhode Island. It's against

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<v Speaker 2>a law of recessitated child that's under a certain amount

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<v Speaker 2>of weeks. I was like one week, shy being five months,

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<v Speaker 2>so they would have literally just crushed him if they

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<v Speaker 1>But that that that's in some states people boord up

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<v Speaker 1>to that age, right, Yeah, but this still affected you

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<v Speaker 1>and just swung you the way it swung you.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it was not nice.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you think you were going to go down that

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<v Speaker 1>path either way? And that's your your out.

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<v Speaker 2>No, I wasn't. I was in college to be like

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<v Speaker 2>criminal justice. I wanted to be like little a judge

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<v Speaker 2>and like like Supreme Court and be changing laws and stuff. Yes,

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<v Speaker 2>because look at the difference. Now I'm in the medical

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<v Speaker 2>fields and I want to be a trauma surgeon.

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<v Speaker 1>Like, what do you think you went through a depression?

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<v Speaker 1>What do you think happened to me?

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<v Speaker 2>I think it was a depression mixed with a little

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<v Speaker 2>bit of PC at a young age. Like once once

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<v Speaker 2>my kid died, they made me go on birth control.

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<v Speaker 2>I had no choice. I had to go see a psychiatrist. Automatically.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm freaking seventeen, like just about to turn eighteen. And

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<v Speaker 2>they're just like, oh, yeah, you're depressed. Here's some freaking

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<v Speaker 2>fifty milligrams of Sarah. Will you'll be isis and go

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<v Speaker 2>to therapy. My parents are going to listen to the doctors.

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<v Speaker 2>They're supposed to know what they're doing. They're supposed to

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<v Speaker 2>give you a proper land. It's that's you correctly that

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<v Speaker 2>they don't. Seventeen year old on a fifty milligram dose

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<v Speaker 2>of Sarah quill Are you delusional? It literally makes you

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<v Speaker 2>feel like a zombie. You don't feel anything. You're just

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<v Speaker 2>like an empty shell. And I feel like it made

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<v Speaker 2>me even worse because now I can't feel nothing.

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<v Speaker 1>Now there's no pain.

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<v Speaker 2>It's like the Hulk at all times.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, emotionless.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not healthy. You people need to get in there

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<v Speaker 2>to get through it and clean it up the freak up.

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<v Speaker 1>Sorry, it's okay, you know what you're doing. But it's like,

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<v Speaker 1>come on, so you see the world for what it

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<v Speaker 1>really is.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I feel like these meds are just it's almost

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<v Speaker 2>like feel like it's like my third eye opened up.

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<v Speaker 2>If I didn't go that route and I went to

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<v Speaker 2>the justice system, Like if I didn't go through the

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<v Speaker 2>justice system to see what it was really like. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't think I would have switched to even and even

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<v Speaker 2>all my FLI like being close to who I was

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<v Speaker 2>close with and losing who I lost, like watching people

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<v Speaker 2>I love die like. I don't think I would have

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<v Speaker 2>chosen the medical fields if I was already in the

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<v Speaker 2>legal fields.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's like, okay, so now I'm gonna bring you

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<v Speaker 1>back again. That's okay, No, this is good. I like this,

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<v Speaker 1>and people need to hear this, because you did a

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<v Speaker 1>three sixty in your life like most people can't even do.

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<v Speaker 1>Most people can't change it up, and when they do,

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<v Speaker 1>we call them, uh, what's it called? OG's right, the

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<v Speaker 1>O g's try to come out. But you're young. The

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<v Speaker 1>young will listen to you. You're only thirty years old.

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<v Speaker 1>You're young. It's it's easy to listen to a thirty

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<v Speaker 1>year old. And it's you a guy that tries to say, look,

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<v Speaker 1>i've been I've spent you know, ten cents in jail,

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<v Speaker 1>blah blah blah. They don't kill these kids. They don't care.

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<v Speaker 2>They're not listening.

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<v Speaker 1>So now you're in jail for how long?

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<v Speaker 2>I uh, it was thirty days. They sentenced me to

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<v Speaker 2>ninety because they found me dangerous, and then my lawyer

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<v Speaker 2>got me out in thirty days.

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<v Speaker 1>And then the thirty days were you afraid to be

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<v Speaker 1>there at all?

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<v Speaker 2>No? Like I told you, I walked in sell hello

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<v Speaker 2>to everybody. Like one person tried me, but I was

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<v Speaker 2>just like, we can just go find you myself, but

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<v Speaker 2>you better leave me the alone after this.

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<v Speaker 1>So that's it. No one, No one's gonna.

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<v Speaker 2>No and everyone it's so nuts. Everyone just treats me

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<v Speaker 2>like a baby everywhere I go. Not the baby, but

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<v Speaker 2>like like I don't know what the energy is of

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<v Speaker 2>me or what I give off. It's just like everywhere

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<v Speaker 2>I go, even at like work is out, I'm just

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<v Speaker 2>not baby. But I'm just treated as like what a

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<v Speaker 2>nice person, Yeah, like a young little like they would

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<v Speaker 2>do my hair and braids before my court days. They

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<v Speaker 2>threaded my eyebrows for the woman liked you. Oh my god,

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<v Speaker 2>they were so nice. They were all older than me.

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<v Speaker 2>A lot of them have passed away. My sally passed away.

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<v Speaker 2>God bless hers souls.

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<v Speaker 1>Sorry, but yeah, try anything on you sexually in there? No,

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<v Speaker 1>So is that all overrated in jail?

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<v Speaker 2>Or is it? Yes? It is? I feel like TV

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<v Speaker 2>and all stuff, and especially for the women's side. The

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<v Speaker 2>men's side, it's like in a zoo.

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<v Speaker 1>You were in central though, right, No, it was state. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>so but over the men's it's like a bunch of crazy.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, it's like an a zoo. It's absolute zoo. I

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<v Speaker 2>would be you. You'd have to fight.

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<v Speaker 1>There wasn't one tough girl that wanted.

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<v Speaker 2>To Yeah, there was one, but I told her we

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<v Speaker 2>can go on the setle and fight right now, but

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<v Speaker 2>it's about to be done. After that, you're not about

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<v Speaker 2>Like we're about to get that and that say it's done, And.

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<v Speaker 1>Then you would have watch just kicked a Biden and

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<v Speaker 1>called it a day.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And then she was like, oh, I like you, Like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>what did you think I was about to make Like

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<v Speaker 2>I'm a nice person. I'm not going to give off.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, I'm going to kill you. But it's like,

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<v Speaker 2>don't come for me. I'm not going to come for you,

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<v Speaker 2>like I just wanted.

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<v Speaker 1>To come for me.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Yeah, you see Mortal Combat, you know them special moves. Yeah, absolutely,

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<v Speaker 2>make me take one.

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<v Speaker 1>We're not gonna show she's my new body.

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<v Speaker 2>God.

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<v Speaker 1>By the way, okay, so now let's go. Now you've

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<v Speaker 1>stepped it up and you have got out of jail,

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<v Speaker 1>and you said, okay, it's time to.

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<v Speaker 2>What changed my life?

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<v Speaker 1>And then the introm Did you have both your brothers

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<v Speaker 1>living while you were in jail? Yeah, so while you're

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<v Speaker 1>in jail you get out. Were they pissed to you

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<v Speaker 1>when you got sense?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah? And the people that I was with, because it

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<v Speaker 2>was like, why would you ever you know, put that

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<v Speaker 2>her in that type of situation knowing.

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<v Speaker 1>So your brother's are upset with the people that you're

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<v Speaker 1>hanging with.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and me of course too, Like I took accountability.

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<v Speaker 2>It wasn't like even when my parents try to bail

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<v Speaker 2>me on stuff like that, and I got a lawyer

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<v Speaker 2>like I'm just like no, I'll handle it myself. Like

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<v Speaker 2>I knew what I was doing, and I chose to

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<v Speaker 2>do what I chose. So I got to reap the

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<v Speaker 2>concussio prief quessions. You know what I mean. You can't

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<v Speaker 2>expect to be out here.

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<v Speaker 1>And right now mom and dad are completely embarrassed. No

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<v Speaker 1>now for you, No, no, back then.

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<v Speaker 2>Back then? Yeah, that's I mean. People are talking crap

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<v Speaker 2>about me. They like forced the situation. Like, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I was old and on a situation, so you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I just looked like an I was just trying to

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<v Speaker 2>like kill people around the school and all was crazy

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<v Speaker 2>and like so you just look kogle. Yes, So it's

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<v Speaker 2>like people are talking crap all the time. It's like,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, you're a kid. But unfortunately, the circumstances are

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<v Speaker 2>gonna say otherwise.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, of course people are gonna talk. Yeah, well that

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<v Speaker 1>I thought we was going to break. I'm city Stumble

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<v Speaker 1>And you listen to Tapes Nails on w BZ News

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<v Speaker 1>Radio ten thirty. We'll be right back and welcome back

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<v Speaker 1>to Tapes Nails on WBZ News Radio ten thirty. And

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<v Speaker 1>we're in the studio with Mel. I think Sammy's right there,

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<v Speaker 1>but okay, I'm glad you're right here. Mel. Talk to

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<v Speaker 1>me about something. You still live in the same area

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<v Speaker 1>that you grew up, which is what's that for New

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<v Speaker 1>Bedford in the last ten years. How much worse to

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<v Speaker 1>New Bedford get with crime and gangs and everything in

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<v Speaker 1>the last decade? Worse? Better at the same I.

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<v Speaker 2>Would say worse and everyone. I feel like people always

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<v Speaker 2>think like one generation is always complaining about the next

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<v Speaker 2>and I totally get that. But I feel like my generation,

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<v Speaker 2>I forget what we're called millennials. I don't know, I

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<v Speaker 2>hate that whole, I know, but I feel like my generation,

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<v Speaker 2>thirty year olds or whatever. I feel the thirty year

424
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<v Speaker 2>olds like we, yeah, we tripped up and stuff like that.

425
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<v Speaker 2>But a lot of us try to do our best

426
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<v Speaker 2>every day and try every day. And it's like, but

427
00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:42.680
<v Speaker 2>you come from a good family, and ya, they're amazing. Okay,

428
00:19:43.079 --> 00:19:45.160
<v Speaker 2>a lot of kids don't come from that, right, No,

429
00:19:45.799 --> 00:19:48.519
<v Speaker 2>And but I have friends that are doing amazing.

430
00:19:49.319 --> 00:19:52.119
<v Speaker 1>She's literally like the last year of the monial and

431
00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:54.359
<v Speaker 1>then what comes after them? Gen z.

432
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<v Speaker 2>Yeah those judges, girl, Even at McDonald's, they had the

433
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<v Speaker 2>slowest energy. I just went in there for me, for you.

434
00:20:00.519 --> 00:20:02.039
<v Speaker 2>Oh my girl, Can I just use the machine I

435
00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:03.480
<v Speaker 2>used to work here when I was fourteen. Let me

436
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<v Speaker 2>just do the think what is going on?

437
00:20:09.000 --> 00:20:12.680
<v Speaker 1>There's no in between. There's no pep in this step. No,

438
00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:14.720
<v Speaker 1>it's either that like no pep in their step, or

439
00:20:14.759 --> 00:20:17.559
<v Speaker 1>the overachiever this way. There's no in between. I've had

440
00:20:17.559 --> 00:20:19.680
<v Speaker 1>to meet many overachievers in that age group. I really

441
00:20:19.720 --> 00:20:22.799
<v Speaker 1>have all my friends, Yes, you have thirty seven hundred. No,

442
00:20:22.839 --> 00:20:25.640
<v Speaker 1>they're all younger than me. How much suger. They're all like,

443
00:20:25.799 --> 00:20:30.079
<v Speaker 1>they're all twenty six, twenty seven college. They're all crushing

444
00:20:30.119 --> 00:20:34.200
<v Speaker 1>it in tech. Oh tech tech, this tech tech. Okay,

445
00:20:34.519 --> 00:20:34.920
<v Speaker 1>we'll do it.

446
00:20:36.519 --> 00:20:37.039
<v Speaker 2>Spartiate.

447
00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:40.599
<v Speaker 1>They have to crush Okay, good for them, not our story.

448
00:20:40.599 --> 00:20:42.599
<v Speaker 1>We don't want to. We can do about this story. No,

449
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<v Speaker 1>I just want to know what we don't care so much.

450
00:20:44.519 --> 00:20:44.880
<v Speaker 2>I don't know.

451
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<v Speaker 1>We can't answer those questions. But we're gonna stay on

452
00:20:47.480 --> 00:20:49.880
<v Speaker 1>mel story and stop going off by ninety five. For

453
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<v Speaker 1>the love of God.

454
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<v Speaker 2>This is what happens when we get together.

455
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<v Speaker 1>Okay, so bring it to me. You come home. You

456
00:20:57.240 --> 00:20:59.599
<v Speaker 1>have two parents, will love you, your your auditor as far

457
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<v Speaker 1>as I'm concern, you're rich right there because you're lucky

458
00:21:02.200 --> 00:21:04.400
<v Speaker 1>to have him. Oh the dad right yes, that love

459
00:21:04.440 --> 00:21:06.880
<v Speaker 1>you and care about you, and they're trying to straighten

460
00:21:06.920 --> 00:21:08.559
<v Speaker 1>you out but being oh my god.

461
00:21:08.599 --> 00:21:09.319
<v Speaker 2>One the best they could.

462
00:21:09.400 --> 00:21:12.160
<v Speaker 1>Okay, So now what happens you come home? How old

463
00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:13.720
<v Speaker 1>is your first brother when he passes?

464
00:21:14.759 --> 00:21:18.400
<v Speaker 2>He was about twenty four and this was where what

465
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<v Speaker 2>year twenty eleven?

466
00:21:21.000 --> 00:21:25.759
<v Speaker 1>So he was twenty four twenty eleven, And how did

467
00:21:25.799 --> 00:21:28.440
<v Speaker 1>he pass he was shot shot?

468
00:21:28.599 --> 00:21:28.920
<v Speaker 2>Yep?

469
00:21:29.279 --> 00:21:31.079
<v Speaker 1>Was he the one s dying the trouble or nted

470
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<v Speaker 1>into a trouble to break them.

471
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<v Speaker 2>And get both parties to end peacefully.

472
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<v Speaker 1>And because those two parties ended peacefully when the pow pop,

473
00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:42.759
<v Speaker 1>how he goes down?

474
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<v Speaker 2>Yes, and.

475
00:21:46.799 --> 00:21:50.839
<v Speaker 1>They know him, Yes, they didn't want him to die. No,

476
00:21:52.200 --> 00:21:53.640
<v Speaker 1>So what happens to the one that kills him? How

477
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<v Speaker 1>long does he get for jail time? Ten and he's

478
00:21:56.359 --> 00:21:57.319
<v Speaker 1>still spend ten years?

479
00:21:57.359 --> 00:21:58.680
<v Speaker 2>Or is he out out?

480
00:21:58.960 --> 00:22:03.839
<v Speaker 1>That's it? Ten years because it's what it's still murder? Yeah,

481
00:22:04.519 --> 00:22:05.559
<v Speaker 1>why do only get ten years?

482
00:22:05.680 --> 00:22:07.640
<v Speaker 2>That's it? My brother? Oh my brother, the one that

483
00:22:07.640 --> 00:22:09.240
<v Speaker 2>got shot fifteen times and lived.

484
00:22:09.799 --> 00:22:10.640
<v Speaker 1>Let's stay with one brother.

485
00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:14.079
<v Speaker 2>Sorry? Sorry, they don't get no time and then you

486
00:22:14.119 --> 00:22:16.519
<v Speaker 2>have good time also as well. So yeah, they got

487
00:22:16.559 --> 00:22:18.759
<v Speaker 2>ten years, but if they do have good time, they

488
00:22:18.799 --> 00:22:22.559
<v Speaker 2>get months chopped off their time, so they could come

489
00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:27.480
<v Speaker 2>home anywhere from like seven six years eight? Why because

490
00:22:27.480 --> 00:22:29.279
<v Speaker 2>they have good time they behaved in prison.

491
00:22:29.359 --> 00:22:31.599
<v Speaker 1>But so you kill somebody only get ten years in prison?

492
00:22:32.160 --> 00:22:33.799
<v Speaker 1>What happens to the days that youve got life?

493
00:22:34.519 --> 00:22:37.319
<v Speaker 2>I don't they don't have that Massachusetts. That's why I

494
00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:40.039
<v Speaker 2>wanted to be a judge in Supreme Court. They don't

495
00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:44.759
<v Speaker 2>have that Massachusetts. It's illegal, I mean not that I think. No.

496
00:22:44.880 --> 00:22:49.000
<v Speaker 2>The stipulations for life is very difficult to gather on somebody,

497
00:22:49.039 --> 00:22:51.400
<v Speaker 2>and they don't have what's one to murder someone? Now

498
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<v Speaker 2>murder someone.

499
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<v Speaker 1>But if you thought, okay, I'm only spend ten years

500
00:22:54.400 --> 00:22:57.720
<v Speaker 1>in gailmen to murder somebody, that's not really like a

501
00:22:57.720 --> 00:22:59.599
<v Speaker 1>long a time when you're fifteen, sixteen years old.

502
00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:04.279
<v Speaker 2>And then if you're fifteen and sixteen and you're committed

503
00:23:04.680 --> 00:23:09.799
<v Speaker 2>to DYS, you're not going to real prison. You're going

504
00:23:09.839 --> 00:23:12.400
<v Speaker 2>to DYS because you're committed till you're usually twenty one

505
00:23:13.759 --> 00:23:16.440
<v Speaker 2>unless they literally fight for you. But if you're committed

506
00:23:16.440 --> 00:23:18.960
<v Speaker 2>to you're twenty one with UYS, it's it's like you're

507
00:23:19.000 --> 00:23:22.599
<v Speaker 2>ordering Chinese food, you're playing PS five yere chilling. Why

508
00:23:22.599 --> 00:23:24.759
<v Speaker 2>wouldn't you do that? It's enabling you.

509
00:23:25.160 --> 00:23:26.880
<v Speaker 1>And then your other brother go ahead.

510
00:23:27.079 --> 00:23:30.279
<v Speaker 2>It was also shot how well was he He was

511
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<v Speaker 2>twenty six.

512
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<v Speaker 1>At the time, twenty six, two thousand and what.

513
00:23:35.319 --> 00:23:39.359
<v Speaker 2>That one was twenty and fifteen? What was he doing

514
00:23:40.559 --> 00:23:43.160
<v Speaker 2>getting ready to go out to a party? It was

515
00:23:43.240 --> 00:23:43.880
<v Speaker 2>New Year's Eve?

516
00:23:44.359 --> 00:23:45.319
<v Speaker 1>And what happened.

517
00:23:45.359 --> 00:23:47.240
<v Speaker 2>He just was in the car with his friends and

518
00:23:47.279 --> 00:23:49.440
<v Speaker 2>people pulled up and started shooting, and he got shot

519
00:23:49.480 --> 00:23:51.440
<v Speaker 2>in the head. His friends try to drive him to

520
00:23:51.480 --> 00:23:52.359
<v Speaker 2>the hospital.

521
00:23:51.960 --> 00:23:53.519
<v Speaker 1>But it was hold on too late. He's in a

522
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<v Speaker 1>car with a group of friends.

523
00:23:55.039 --> 00:23:55.279
<v Speaker 2>Yep.

524
00:23:55.680 --> 00:23:57.799
<v Speaker 1>How he's twenty six, is going out New Year's Eve?

525
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<v Speaker 1>Another gang. Was he part of a gang?

526
00:24:01.759 --> 00:24:02.160
<v Speaker 2>Yeah?

527
00:24:02.480 --> 00:24:04.920
<v Speaker 1>So another gang members pull up yep, and they start

528
00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:07.839
<v Speaker 1>shooting at this gang. And this is going on right

529
00:24:07.880 --> 00:24:14.680
<v Speaker 1>here in New Beije, in New Bedford. It doesn't even

530
00:24:14.720 --> 00:24:18.440
<v Speaker 1>make the news. It made your local papers. Yeah, was

531
00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:21.279
<v Speaker 1>this on Channel seventy five or four news? Either one

532
00:24:21.319 --> 00:24:22.519
<v Speaker 1>of your brother's shootings?

533
00:24:22.599 --> 00:24:23.160
<v Speaker 2>I don't think so.

534
00:24:23.400 --> 00:24:25.599
<v Speaker 1>No, doesn't that seem weird?

535
00:24:26.160 --> 00:24:31.559
<v Speaker 2>Of course they don't care, though. They They need these

536
00:24:31.559 --> 00:24:35.240
<v Speaker 2>things to happen. They need chaos, they need chaotic That's

537
00:24:35.279 --> 00:24:39.599
<v Speaker 2>why they brought crack into our communities back then. That's

538
00:24:39.640 --> 00:24:42.960
<v Speaker 2>why if you notice that most of the banks and

539
00:24:43.160 --> 00:24:48.359
<v Speaker 2>certain is in low income areas they literally target from

540
00:24:48.440 --> 00:24:52.039
<v Speaker 2>the get go. It's like a lifelong curse that everybody

541
00:24:52.079 --> 00:24:56.000
<v Speaker 2>inherits a generation generation why and everybody's like warped to

542
00:24:56.279 --> 00:24:59.000
<v Speaker 2>make it look like it's school. You got rappers that

543
00:24:59.039 --> 00:25:01.480
<v Speaker 2>are like it's our it's are about my life. But

544
00:25:01.519 --> 00:25:03.720
<v Speaker 2>it's like it's one thing to say that something is

545
00:25:03.759 --> 00:25:05.480
<v Speaker 2>your art, but it's one thing to not turn your

546
00:25:05.519 --> 00:25:07.480
<v Speaker 2>life around and still be doing what you're doing and not,

547
00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:09.920
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean, still putting that image out

548
00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:13.160
<v Speaker 2>or you know what I mean, Like it's just fed

549
00:25:13.279 --> 00:25:17.359
<v Speaker 2>into these kids every day. I feel so bad for them.

550
00:25:17.440 --> 00:25:19.119
<v Speaker 1>It wasn't fed into you and your brothers.

551
00:25:19.519 --> 00:25:22.359
<v Speaker 2>No, I chose that I had a choice.

552
00:25:22.880 --> 00:25:25.680
<v Speaker 1>Okay, so one brother breaks up a fight, he definitely

553
00:25:25.720 --> 00:25:31.440
<v Speaker 1>doesn't deserve that. The other brother isn't a gang, and

554
00:25:31.440 --> 00:25:33.279
<v Speaker 1>and he didn't deserve that either. So there were no

555
00:25:33.359 --> 00:25:36.319
<v Speaker 1>gangs killing each other back then, there was no retaliation.

556
00:25:36.559 --> 00:25:40.680
<v Speaker 1>This wasn't they just shot up them. And now I

557
00:25:40.680 --> 00:25:41.400
<v Speaker 1>don't don't.

558
00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:42.319
<v Speaker 2>I still don't even know.

559
00:25:42.359 --> 00:25:44.839
<v Speaker 1>Why did they ever find out who did that?

560
00:25:45.160 --> 00:25:49.839
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, they're still out away. I'm pretty sure they both

561
00:25:49.880 --> 00:25:51.079
<v Speaker 2>got a life.

562
00:25:51.400 --> 00:25:54.160
<v Speaker 1>Did they? So did you get to did you get

563
00:25:54.160 --> 00:25:54.920
<v Speaker 1>to go to the court?

564
00:25:55.079 --> 00:25:57.160
<v Speaker 2>No? I didn't go to any of that. No, I

565
00:25:57.200 --> 00:25:58.240
<v Speaker 2>can't parents.

566
00:25:58.759 --> 00:26:02.599
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, So coming from parents that have lost a child

567
00:26:02.680 --> 00:26:06.359
<v Speaker 1>at twenty eight years old to a sudden death and

568
00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:09.839
<v Speaker 1>watching the demise of my parents. How do your parents

569
00:26:09.839 --> 00:26:12.559
<v Speaker 1>bury two children and ever be the same or they're

570
00:26:12.559 --> 00:26:16.839
<v Speaker 1>not the same, or you you have a sister, right? No, no, sure,

571
00:26:17.680 --> 00:26:20.160
<v Speaker 1>and so it's just you left like me. We're orphans, right,

572
00:26:21.079 --> 00:26:23.640
<v Speaker 1>So they had to pick up all the pieces for

573
00:26:23.720 --> 00:26:26.000
<v Speaker 1>them since the age of.

574
00:26:25.960 --> 00:26:29.759
<v Speaker 2>What I was young. Let me see, so I was eleven,

575
00:26:29.759 --> 00:26:32.400
<v Speaker 2>I was still I was about to graduate high school next. Ye.

576
00:26:32.440 --> 00:26:34.319
<v Speaker 1>No, you went to jail. Then you come out of jail,

577
00:26:34.759 --> 00:26:37.640
<v Speaker 1>and that's when the football got thrown to you. You

578
00:26:37.640 --> 00:26:38.519
<v Speaker 1>need to pick it up.

579
00:26:38.720 --> 00:26:41.079
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and then I had just lost, like I got

580
00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:42.920
<v Speaker 2>kicked out of college and all that because I was

581
00:26:42.960 --> 00:26:45.920
<v Speaker 2>in a criminal justice program at the time. I got

582
00:26:46.160 --> 00:26:47.960
<v Speaker 2>out of my program. Had to just kind of start

583
00:26:47.960 --> 00:26:49.920
<v Speaker 2>from scratch. Nobody would hire me.

584
00:26:50.160 --> 00:26:52.279
<v Speaker 1>Okay, so let me go back. Both brothers died by

585
00:26:52.359 --> 00:26:55.720
<v Speaker 1>twenty six. The last one dies. You're how old the.

586
00:26:55.759 --> 00:26:57.359
<v Speaker 2>Last one I died? So I was at fifteen, I

587
00:26:57.559 --> 00:27:01.440
<v Speaker 2>was twenty. Oh my god, what is it twenty twenty four?

588
00:27:02.720 --> 00:27:03.880
<v Speaker 2>I'm not gonna have math girl.

589
00:27:04.039 --> 00:27:06.599
<v Speaker 1>Okay, that's okay. What's the difference in age between you

590
00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:07.079
<v Speaker 1>and your brother?

591
00:27:07.960 --> 00:27:09.880
<v Speaker 2>It's about only like four.

592
00:27:09.960 --> 00:27:12.960
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, So let's say you were twenty two at twenty two,

593
00:27:13.000 --> 00:27:15.880
<v Speaker 1>were you out of jail by then? Yes, as you

594
00:27:15.960 --> 00:27:19.440
<v Speaker 1>came out of jail, he passes. How long afterwards the

595
00:27:19.519 --> 00:27:21.319
<v Speaker 1>other brother passes before you go to jail?

596
00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:24.880
<v Speaker 2>No? That, Yeah, he passed away before I went to jail,

597
00:27:25.400 --> 00:27:29.759
<v Speaker 2>and the other one after after. And then when I

598
00:27:29.759 --> 00:27:31.799
<v Speaker 2>got came home. It was probably maybe like two.

599
00:27:31.799 --> 00:27:34.480
<v Speaker 1>Three years after Yeah, right ahead talking.

600
00:27:34.519 --> 00:27:37.000
<v Speaker 2>Sorry, maybe like two to three years after I came home.

601
00:27:37.079 --> 00:27:37.599
<v Speaker 2>That happened.

602
00:27:38.599 --> 00:27:40.960
<v Speaker 1>And is that when you decide like I need to

603
00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:42.759
<v Speaker 1>fly straight or when you got out of jail.

604
00:27:42.920 --> 00:27:44.359
<v Speaker 2>No, when I got out of jail, I tried my

605
00:27:44.400 --> 00:27:46.880
<v Speaker 2>best to do what I needed to do. One of

606
00:27:46.880 --> 00:27:48.599
<v Speaker 2>my friends that en lied up taking me to church

607
00:27:49.559 --> 00:27:52.319
<v Speaker 2>New Life South Coast in New Bedford, and I was

608
00:27:52.359 --> 00:27:54.759
<v Speaker 2>still doing path things on the streets, you know, trying

609
00:27:54.759 --> 00:27:59.720
<v Speaker 2>to make money at least. And I used to like

610
00:27:59.759 --> 00:28:01.160
<v Speaker 2>the first day I was in there, I'm just looking

611
00:28:01.200 --> 00:28:03.519
<v Speaker 2>at everybody like going side to side, swaying. I'm like,

612
00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:05.480
<v Speaker 2>what the hell is going on in here?

613
00:28:05.799 --> 00:28:07.000
<v Speaker 1>Doing church swing?

614
00:28:07.559 --> 00:28:09.440
<v Speaker 2>No, I'm watching everybody else way, how am I what

615
00:28:09.480 --> 00:28:11.839
<v Speaker 2>the Hell's going on in here? And then they play

616
00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:15.119
<v Speaker 2>this song called Reckless Love by Corey. I think it's

617
00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:18.640
<v Speaker 2>a loom or something like that, and I start sweating.

618
00:28:19.480 --> 00:28:22.079
<v Speaker 2>I'm like what, Like now I'm thinking of my head like,

619
00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:23.400
<v Speaker 2>oh my god, is this the part of the Bible.

620
00:28:23.440 --> 00:28:25.759
<v Speaker 2>I'm about to melt because I'm the devil or something.

621
00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:29.960
<v Speaker 2>And I start end up swinging and I started just

622
00:28:30.039 --> 00:28:33.039
<v Speaker 2>crying and I just feel like this warm feeling come

623
00:28:33.119 --> 00:28:35.720
<v Speaker 2>over me and like I don't know, I felt.

624
00:28:35.519 --> 00:28:37.599
<v Speaker 1>Like my jeez, with that thing, hold that thought? Well,

625
00:28:37.640 --> 00:28:40.440
<v Speaker 1>coming right back, It's Cidney Stumple Toughest Nails WBZ News

626
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<v Speaker 1>Radio ten thirty. Welcome back to Toughest Nails on w

627
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<v Speaker 1>BZ News Radio ten thirty. And I'm Sydney Stumpo and

628
00:28:45.880 --> 00:28:48.480
<v Speaker 1>I'm here with Sammy and I'm here with Melt Melt.

629
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<v Speaker 1>So we're now we're going to church. We're swaying, We're

630
00:28:53.279 --> 00:28:56.319
<v Speaker 1>going what are we doing here? And how fast does

631
00:28:56.359 --> 00:28:58.799
<v Speaker 1>the light bulb go off that you go? I got

632
00:28:58.880 --> 00:28:59.440
<v Speaker 1>straighten my.

633
00:28:59.400 --> 00:29:02.799
<v Speaker 2>Act out the moment I started crying in church. It

634
00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:05.000
<v Speaker 2>was like the spirit came over me, like what are

635
00:29:05.039 --> 00:29:05.480
<v Speaker 2>you doing?

636
00:29:06.680 --> 00:29:09.079
<v Speaker 1>And you left that one day? How many days you

637
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<v Speaker 1>go to church before you got that feeling.

638
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<v Speaker 2>That one day that one day, one day, and then

639
00:29:15.039 --> 00:29:18.799
<v Speaker 2>I started going every single Sunday ever since then. I

640
00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:21.839
<v Speaker 2>joined Crew, which is they put you in a group

641
00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:25.319
<v Speaker 2>of a certain amount of women. It's like four or

642
00:29:25.359 --> 00:29:28.839
<v Speaker 2>five women, different kind of all different ages, different areas

643
00:29:28.880 --> 00:29:31.559
<v Speaker 2>of life, and you guys meet up, you pick a

644
00:29:31.640 --> 00:29:34.400
<v Speaker 2>day to meet up every week and you guys touch base,

645
00:29:34.440 --> 00:29:37.319
<v Speaker 2>you talk about church. It was like such a beautiful

646
00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:38.599
<v Speaker 2>experience because the women that I was.

647
00:29:38.599 --> 00:29:39.880
<v Speaker 1>Around, so that got you help.

648
00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:41.720
<v Speaker 2>Oh so so good.

649
00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:45.200
<v Speaker 1>Okay, now your mom and dad today, So now you

650
00:29:45.240 --> 00:29:48.519
<v Speaker 1>put yourself to school, you get at church, and you say,

651
00:29:48.519 --> 00:29:50.680
<v Speaker 1>all right, I'm gonna make something in my life. Yes,

652
00:29:51.160 --> 00:29:51.799
<v Speaker 1>and then you do.

653
00:29:51.799 --> 00:29:54.079
<v Speaker 2>What I applied to Brigham thirty times.

654
00:29:54.480 --> 00:29:55.079
<v Speaker 1>Thirty times.

655
00:29:55.160 --> 00:29:58.480
<v Speaker 2>Yep. I was working overnight at South Coast Behavioral Health

656
00:29:58.880 --> 00:30:01.119
<v Speaker 2>and I finally got it into and of course it

657
00:30:01.200 --> 00:30:03.240
<v Speaker 2>was right after my overnight, so I said, okay, let

658
00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:06.799
<v Speaker 2>me go, and I go there. They're like, oh, we're building.

659
00:30:06.799 --> 00:30:08.759
<v Speaker 2>Who's the lady that da They never gave me a

660
00:30:08.839 --> 00:30:12.000
<v Speaker 2>last name, only the lady's first name, Tracy. I'm They're like, girl,

661
00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:15.279
<v Speaker 2>there's Tracy and almost every department. So it's like an

662
00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:18.079
<v Speaker 2>hour now over my interview. I can't find them, and

663
00:30:18.079 --> 00:30:20.880
<v Speaker 2>then I just I walk into over into the Shapiro building.

664
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<v Speaker 2>I didn't know it was this Chaberas at the time,

665
00:30:22.880 --> 00:30:25.839
<v Speaker 2>and I just asked somebody that was like rolling around

666
00:30:25.839 --> 00:30:27.519
<v Speaker 2>with a car and I'm like, hey, do you know

667
00:30:27.519 --> 00:30:29.880
<v Speaker 2>who Tracy Dada? And they're like, honestly, I think I

668
00:30:29.920 --> 00:30:32.160
<v Speaker 2>heard that name before. I follow me. I think it's upstairs.

669
00:30:32.720 --> 00:30:35.319
<v Speaker 2>So they take me to the sixth floor the Cardiac

670
00:30:35.400 --> 00:30:37.359
<v Speaker 2>I see you, and they bring me inside. They're like, hey,

671
00:30:37.359 --> 00:30:39.440
<v Speaker 2>I have a girl here. She's looking for Tracy. And

672
00:30:39.480 --> 00:30:41.279
<v Speaker 2>the lady gets out and she's like, I'm Tracy and

673
00:30:41.319 --> 00:30:43.240
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, I'm Melanie. I've been looking for you, guys

674
00:30:43.279 --> 00:30:45.359
<v Speaker 2>for over an hour. They only gave me your first name.

675
00:30:45.400 --> 00:30:47.920
<v Speaker 2>I'm from a small town, Saint Lukes, don't even got

676
00:30:47.960 --> 00:30:51.640
<v Speaker 2>four fools, like this is crazy bridges and this and that.

677
00:30:53.599 --> 00:30:57.319
<v Speaker 2>So they're like, oh my god, you're still here. Didn't you?

678
00:30:57.519 --> 00:30:59.400
<v Speaker 2>Don't you work overnight to something like we saw your

679
00:30:59.400 --> 00:31:01.680
<v Speaker 2>resume and like yeah, They're like, yeah, you have the

680
00:31:01.799 --> 00:31:04.799
<v Speaker 2>job that's more than persistent. The job is yours.

681
00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:07.480
<v Speaker 1>So Tracy gave your job yes, and that that job

682
00:31:07.559 --> 00:31:08.079
<v Speaker 1>was doing.

683
00:31:07.880 --> 00:31:10.880
<v Speaker 2>What I was a CNA in the cardiac, I.

684
00:31:10.920 --> 00:31:12.359
<v Speaker 1>See you, And then how did you learn how to

685
00:31:12.400 --> 00:31:12.880
<v Speaker 1>do blood?

686
00:31:13.240 --> 00:31:15.119
<v Speaker 2>I went back to school and they paid for it.

687
00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:18.000
<v Speaker 2>I went to Roxburgh Community College. But I learned while

688
00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:19.440
<v Speaker 2>I was in the cardiac I see you because the

689
00:31:19.480 --> 00:31:21.640
<v Speaker 2>nurses like they saw how good I was, and they

690
00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:24.240
<v Speaker 2>wanted to help me learn. So we had a dummy

691
00:31:24.319 --> 00:31:27.400
<v Speaker 2>and then they would let me practice on them, on them. Yeah,

692
00:31:27.519 --> 00:31:29.400
<v Speaker 2>stick a needle in my vein. Go ahead, let's just

693
00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:31.839
<v Speaker 2>hope you don't need a main lottery. That was nice,

694
00:31:31.920 --> 00:31:33.079
<v Speaker 2>literally so nice.

695
00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:35.359
<v Speaker 1>Okay, So then now you're going to work every day,

696
00:31:35.400 --> 00:31:40.519
<v Speaker 1>you're at Brigham's, And now what's the relationship like with you? Your

697
00:31:40.359 --> 00:31:40.960
<v Speaker 1>mom and dad?

698
00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:46.160
<v Speaker 2>So much more healthier. I wish sometimes that I could

699
00:31:46.200 --> 00:31:48.759
<v Speaker 2>take back how much of an I was back then,

700
00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:51.599
<v Speaker 2>and like, like, you know, because your parents are your

701
00:31:51.680 --> 00:31:53.480
<v Speaker 2>God's gift, you know what I'm saying. People don't get

702
00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:56.960
<v Speaker 2>that every day, and to have parents that just try

703
00:31:57.000 --> 00:32:00.160
<v Speaker 2>every day and do their best with you is it's

704
00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:02.359
<v Speaker 2>amazing and it shouldn't be taken for granted. And I

705
00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:05.279
<v Speaker 2>feel like I took it for granted. Like before my

706
00:32:05.279 --> 00:32:07.279
<v Speaker 2>grandma died, she'd always tell me that, like, make sure

707
00:32:07.279 --> 00:32:09.359
<v Speaker 2>you take care of your mom. Make sure you take

708
00:32:09.359 --> 00:32:11.200
<v Speaker 2>care of your mom. Like it makes me want to cry,

709
00:32:11.240 --> 00:32:13.559
<v Speaker 2>because like my mom's such a good person, you know,

710
00:32:13.640 --> 00:32:15.759
<v Speaker 2>and like I can't wait to eventually retire her so

711
00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:18.359
<v Speaker 2>she won't got to work, like you know, just being

712
00:32:18.440 --> 00:32:21.400
<v Speaker 2>my friend, never judging me, always loving me, like everybody

713
00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:24.160
<v Speaker 2>was talking about me, and she she saw who I was,

714
00:32:24.359 --> 00:32:27.720
<v Speaker 2>you know, from the beginning. It's never a doubt.

715
00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:30.440
<v Speaker 1>So your mom knew you'd come out of this crazy stage.

716
00:32:30.920 --> 00:32:33.000
<v Speaker 2>She knew what I was like made for so to

717
00:32:33.039 --> 00:32:36.400
<v Speaker 2>my grandmother, My grandmother literally didn't die until the day

718
00:32:36.519 --> 00:32:39.880
<v Speaker 2>my first day orientation I got. I got the job

719
00:32:39.920 --> 00:32:43.039
<v Speaker 2>at Brigham on my birthday, I got my badge all

720
00:32:43.039 --> 00:32:47.200
<v Speaker 2>my birthday May nine, six years ago. And the day

721
00:32:47.240 --> 00:32:49.640
<v Speaker 2>of my orientation, my mom called me two hours into

722
00:32:49.680 --> 00:32:54.079
<v Speaker 2>it like your grandma's we're gonna save the body, hurry

723
00:32:54.160 --> 00:32:56.880
<v Speaker 2>up and get here. And they even pushed my orientation

724
00:32:57.079 --> 00:32:59.319
<v Speaker 2>like further from me. They like, oh my God, Like

725
00:32:59.400 --> 00:33:01.200
<v Speaker 2>it was crazy. It was like, how is that not

726
00:33:01.319 --> 00:33:04.000
<v Speaker 2>God right there showing you here, you are your introduction

727
00:33:04.160 --> 00:33:06.680
<v Speaker 2>to your life. Now stay to the right and don't

728
00:33:06.680 --> 00:33:07.640
<v Speaker 2>go left anymore.

729
00:33:08.440 --> 00:33:12.000
<v Speaker 1>Like, come on, and that's all it took, all that

730
00:33:12.119 --> 00:33:14.039
<v Speaker 1>craziness and all we do is put you in church

731
00:33:14.119 --> 00:33:15.759
<v Speaker 1>three years four years prior to that, and you would

732
00:33:15.799 --> 00:33:16.640
<v Speaker 1>have went down, Like.

733
00:33:16.640 --> 00:33:18.279
<v Speaker 2>I just focused on people who loved you.

734
00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:22.960
<v Speaker 1>Sometimes you have to have bad, you know what really

735
00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:29.279
<v Speaker 1>good and then sometimes that's life. And then sometimes to

736
00:33:29.400 --> 00:33:32.200
<v Speaker 1>know good, you gotta feel bad. Then you can pick

737
00:33:32.200 --> 00:33:35.240
<v Speaker 1>out which which is something to compare. So I want

738
00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:38.400
<v Speaker 1>the feeling of good. I want the feeling of bad.

739
00:33:38.640 --> 00:33:40.480
<v Speaker 1>Then there are people like me that vicariously live through

740
00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:43.039
<v Speaker 1>everybody because I can. That's part of being a cancer.

741
00:33:43.480 --> 00:33:47.279
<v Speaker 1>Which your brothers knew that. They knew that, so they

742
00:33:47.279 --> 00:33:49.720
<v Speaker 1>were really good souls. I know they were.

743
00:33:50.920 --> 00:33:52.480
<v Speaker 2>My cards were like I have a video I once

744
00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:56.559
<v Speaker 2>go see Maureen Hancock and she literally is like, oh

745
00:33:57.000 --> 00:34:02.039
<v Speaker 2>you're not You're not dying anytime soon. Sorry. Oh yeah,

746
00:34:02.160 --> 00:34:04.240
<v Speaker 2>nobody knows that though. How would you know that.

747
00:34:04.559 --> 00:34:05.720
<v Speaker 1>She's that spiritual woman.

748
00:34:05.960 --> 00:34:08.559
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, she's I told you to go there, girl, told

749
00:34:08.559 --> 00:34:12.039
<v Speaker 2>you to look that up. Amazing. I'll go again. I

750
00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:14.440
<v Speaker 2>love that she's amazing. They literally were like, you are

751
00:34:14.519 --> 00:34:16.800
<v Speaker 2>made for so much more. It's not your time and

752
00:34:16.840 --> 00:34:18.559
<v Speaker 2>it won't be for a long time, Like we miss

753
00:34:18.599 --> 00:34:20.559
<v Speaker 2>you too, but you have way too much to.

754
00:34:20.519 --> 00:34:22.039
<v Speaker 1>Do that your brother's talking.

755
00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:24.599
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it was crazy. It was the craziest experience. We

756
00:34:24.719 --> 00:34:26.159
<v Speaker 2>have to go, you have to go.

757
00:34:26.199 --> 00:34:29.280
<v Speaker 1>And now you were saying to me in the hospital

758
00:34:29.320 --> 00:34:31.559
<v Speaker 1>and when we met that you literally wait for your

759
00:34:31.599 --> 00:34:33.280
<v Speaker 1>dad now to come home from work to make sure

760
00:34:33.320 --> 00:34:38.039
<v Speaker 1>he's safe, and you feel that's your responsibility to make

761
00:34:38.039 --> 00:34:38.880
<v Speaker 1>sure he gets that house.

762
00:34:38.920 --> 00:34:42.280
<v Speaker 2>Everybody. It just makes me like it's so crazy because

763
00:34:42.280 --> 00:34:44.119
<v Speaker 2>it's like after losing so many people, I feel like

764
00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:49.320
<v Speaker 2>you just get scared, Like it's just like an anxiety,

765
00:34:49.360 --> 00:34:52.079
<v Speaker 2>like you just expect a ball to drop or something

766
00:34:52.119 --> 00:34:54.840
<v Speaker 2>to have, Like every year I've lost someone, it's like

767
00:34:55.199 --> 00:34:58.800
<v Speaker 2>it's like a domino effect almost. It's like like so

768
00:34:58.840 --> 00:34:59.880
<v Speaker 2>it's like you get stuck in that.

769
00:35:01.159 --> 00:35:04.280
<v Speaker 1>You know, I told your mom and dad my mom.

770
00:35:04.280 --> 00:35:06.639
<v Speaker 2>Is fifty five, my dad is fifty four.

771
00:35:07.719 --> 00:35:10.119
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, but you still want to make sure that you

772
00:35:10.199 --> 00:35:12.679
<v Speaker 1>think you can keep them safe forever forever.

773
00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:15.719
<v Speaker 2>You can't be selfish, I know, but yeah, forever.

774
00:35:15.800 --> 00:35:18.480
<v Speaker 1>That's not being selfish, Like you know, like, what's that?

775
00:35:18.559 --> 00:35:20.159
<v Speaker 2>What was that? Founding the Founding.

776
00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:23.039
<v Speaker 1>Youth, Everlasting found of Youth? I wish I had the

777
00:35:23.039 --> 00:35:25.639
<v Speaker 1>founder of youth too. So you want your parents around

778
00:35:25.639 --> 00:35:26.880
<v Speaker 1>here for a long time.

779
00:35:26.719 --> 00:35:28.679
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, because I want to make it up, you know, like.

780
00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:30.039
<v Speaker 1>I want to make it up to them.

781
00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:32.400
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Like they came from nothing from me for me,

782
00:35:32.679 --> 00:35:35.400
<v Speaker 2>like and my siblings, like like my whole family, like

783
00:35:35.639 --> 00:35:38.079
<v Speaker 2>my aunts, my uncle's, like they all raised us, like

784
00:35:38.079 --> 00:35:39.239
<v Speaker 2>you know what I mean, Like we was raising that

785
00:35:39.280 --> 00:35:40.920
<v Speaker 2>whole school setting. They all dropped us off at my

786
00:35:41.000 --> 00:35:42.760
<v Speaker 2>nie in his house, like they all went to work,

787
00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:45.159
<v Speaker 2>like you know what I mean, Like my name always

788
00:35:45.199 --> 00:35:46.960
<v Speaker 2>taught us, like this is who God gave you to

789
00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:48.239
<v Speaker 2>do life with you take care of you.

790
00:35:48.320 --> 00:35:50.480
<v Speaker 1>Come from a family of hard working people.

791
00:35:50.280 --> 00:35:52.000
<v Speaker 2>Hard working God driven people.

792
00:35:52.079 --> 00:35:54.000
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, nobody's doing anything illegal.

793
00:35:54.079 --> 00:35:58.159
<v Speaker 2>So the next Gennel, Oh yeah, it's embarrassing, bro, Like

794
00:35:58.320 --> 00:36:00.000
<v Speaker 2>my family came from nothing. This is what you want

795
00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:01.760
<v Speaker 2>want to do with your life? What are you doing? Girl?

796
00:36:02.119 --> 00:36:02.719
<v Speaker 2>Wake up?

797
00:36:03.519 --> 00:36:04.280
<v Speaker 1>And now you woke up?

798
00:36:04.360 --> 00:36:05.599
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Like I want to be in d I want

799
00:36:05.639 --> 00:36:07.280
<v Speaker 2>my parents to be Like my daughter is a doctor

800
00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:11.480
<v Speaker 2>like you said she was gonna be a what Yeah,

801
00:36:11.599 --> 00:36:14.360
<v Speaker 2>Like people are so mean to my mom during that

802
00:36:14.400 --> 00:36:16.239
<v Speaker 2>time when I was away, like I wanted to come

803
00:36:16.280 --> 00:36:19.119
<v Speaker 2>home and beat up everybody because like it's not her fault.

804
00:36:19.199 --> 00:36:21.400
<v Speaker 2>Like your parents do the best that they can do,

805
00:36:21.480 --> 00:36:23.960
<v Speaker 2>and whatever they instill in you doesn't mean that you're

806
00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:26.320
<v Speaker 2>gonna have a perfect life. You still can take that left.

807
00:36:27.679 --> 00:36:29.679
<v Speaker 1>You're right, That's why good kids come out of bad

808
00:36:29.719 --> 00:36:31.039
<v Speaker 1>homes and bad kids can come out.

809
00:36:31.079 --> 00:36:33.440
<v Speaker 2>I'm telling you because like sometimes when you're I come

810
00:36:33.480 --> 00:36:35.079
<v Speaker 2>from a strict ass coult. I'm the only girl I

811
00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:38.639
<v Speaker 2>was allowed to do so obviously I'm a rebel. I

812
00:36:38.679 --> 00:36:40.440
<v Speaker 2>want to learn. I want to see what's up. Like

813
00:36:40.519 --> 00:36:42.280
<v Speaker 2>what I don't get to go out till I was

814
00:36:42.280 --> 00:36:46.000
<v Speaker 2>twenty one. I didn't even have a fake ID the hell?

815
00:36:46.119 --> 00:36:47.039
<v Speaker 1>What's so wrong with that?

816
00:36:47.760 --> 00:36:49.719
<v Speaker 2>Like you know, I know, of course, and I used

817
00:36:49.719 --> 00:36:51.639
<v Speaker 2>to be like I want to be like my man isma,

818
00:36:51.679 --> 00:36:52.199
<v Speaker 2>I don't give.

819
00:36:52.159 --> 00:36:56.519
<v Speaker 1>Up like damn mothers. Mothers is so yeah, a mother,

820
00:36:56.679 --> 00:36:57.639
<v Speaker 1>That's what I'm saying.

821
00:36:57.719 --> 00:36:59.599
<v Speaker 2>Like and it's crazy because it's like you don't see

822
00:36:59.599 --> 00:37:00.840
<v Speaker 2>it in the more when I've been trying to tell

823
00:37:00.880 --> 00:37:03.239
<v Speaker 2>these kids, like if I had listened to my mother

824
00:37:03.360 --> 00:37:05.360
<v Speaker 2>ten years ago, I would not be where I would

825
00:37:05.400 --> 00:37:07.360
<v Speaker 2>be even I would already be a doctor.

826
00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:11.239
<v Speaker 1>Like what so a lot of your friends didn't come

827
00:37:11.239 --> 00:37:13.199
<v Speaker 1>from didn't have moms and dads.

828
00:37:13.320 --> 00:37:15.920
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, like I have nobody. Like I watched all of

829
00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:18.320
<v Speaker 2>my friends be single parents and bust their ass, and

830
00:37:18.360 --> 00:37:20.280
<v Speaker 2>I try my heartiest to help them and try to

831
00:37:20.360 --> 00:37:21.800
<v Speaker 2>kind of be a step in dad or whatever the

832
00:37:21.880 --> 00:37:23.960
<v Speaker 2>hell I can be for them, because it's not easy.

833
00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:25.599
<v Speaker 2>You need a tribe like.

834
00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:29.039
<v Speaker 1>To raise a child, my God, especially.

835
00:37:28.719 --> 00:37:31.440
<v Speaker 2>If they are autistic or have any type of like.

836
00:37:31.599 --> 00:37:33.599
<v Speaker 1>So you're out there helping your friends now that have

837
00:37:33.679 --> 00:37:34.480
<v Speaker 1>children that are.

838
00:37:34.360 --> 00:37:38.320
<v Speaker 2>Single anytime I can, girl girl, like, I'm a girl's girl.

839
00:37:38.800 --> 00:37:41.519
<v Speaker 2>But we all need to be helping each other way more.

840
00:37:41.519 --> 00:37:44.800
<v Speaker 2>I don't care, like time is time is valuable and

841
00:37:44.920 --> 00:37:47.239
<v Speaker 2>it shouldn't be wasting.

842
00:37:47.960 --> 00:37:52.599
<v Speaker 1>You're not you got away from Yeah, from the bad?

843
00:37:52.760 --> 00:37:56.039
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you know, so bad. I still pray for them

844
00:37:56.079 --> 00:37:58.639
<v Speaker 2>because God will work through people when he's supposed to.

845
00:37:58.679 --> 00:38:01.400
<v Speaker 1>You know, God might be worth them, But at the

846
00:38:01.480 --> 00:38:04.760
<v Speaker 1>end of the day, water seeks its own level, and

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<v Speaker 1>you're seeking a whole different level of water now, And

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<v Speaker 1>that's good. That's good. That's how I Yeah, sometimes you

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<v Speaker 1>have to put those kids in the rear view mirror

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<v Speaker 1>if you want better, And that's called survival. Never ever

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<v Speaker 1>disrespect your mom and dad. Always love them every right, Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>we're going off to break I'm Sindy stumbling lists in

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<v Speaker 1>Toughest Nails on w BZ News Radio ten thirty. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>welcome back to Toughest Nails on w BZ News Radio

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<v Speaker 1>ten thirty. Mel you got fifty seconds. What do you

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<v Speaker 1>want to say, honey.

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<v Speaker 2>That I am grateful I met you and life always

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<v Speaker 2>brings you exactly where you're supposed to be and put

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<v Speaker 2>you in front of exactly who you need to be

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<v Speaker 2>in front of. If you would never went to my

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<v Speaker 2>job that day or needed assistance.

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<v Speaker 1>If I need never need a blood, I would have

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<v Speaker 1>got the crazy blood lady that took my blood. But

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<v Speaker 1>you offered, you said, I got this, I got her.

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<v Speaker 1>You got her like you came over right. I'm twice

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<v Speaker 1>your age.

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<v Speaker 2>That's just my heart. I don't like people in pain.

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<v Speaker 2>I got it.

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<v Speaker 1>I will take care of you. That's what you taking

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<v Speaker 1>care of people. Yeah, I got her, I got her.

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<v Speaker 1>So we got a new friendship. Yes we do, girl, Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>and I love you still. We went on and by

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<v Speaker 1>the way, we went out in the hallway and we

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<v Speaker 1>talked for another twenty minutes after that. By the way,

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<v Speaker 1>everybody have a great, safe weekend. This is Cindy Stumbo

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<v Speaker 1>tup his nails on WBZ News Radio ten thirty