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we're driving and I just start gushing blood.

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Speaker 2: Marla felt a deep, body wide ache, unlike anything she'd

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Speaker 1: I had never miscarried before, but I knew something was

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definitely wrong.

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Speaker 2: They rushed to the emergency room and waited in agony

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for doctors to search for a heartbeat.

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Speaker 1: And she's like, I am so sorry, but you're going

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to lose this baby.

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Speaker 2: This is the Miracle Files.

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Speaker 3: I'm Emily Jones and I'm Holly Worthington. We're two sisters

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who love a captivating true story, but we're also seeking

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more light in our lives.

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Speaker 2: So we're on a mission to find and share unforgettable,

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uplifting stories of God's miracles. We hope you'll join us

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on this journey. Welcome back to the Miracle Files. We

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have another great story for you today about a pregnant

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woman named Marlat and the crazy things that she went through.

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Speaker 1: And men, you.

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Speaker 2: Don't have to skip this episode, do you know you

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get off the pregnancy, But yeah, it's an incredible story.

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Speaker 3: Blake actually really loved this episode, So yeah, men, you

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gotta stay for it. It's really good. But we do

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want to give a trigger warning to anyone who's dealt

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with fertility issues, or who has dealt with infant loss,

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or has had difficulties with childbirth. We just want you

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to know that this one might be a harder episode

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for you before we start.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've had several friends who struggled with that, and

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go through. And if you are going through that, we

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want you to know we love you, we're thinking about you,

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we pray for you, and yeah, so yep, all right,

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let's jump into this amazing story. In December twenty twenty,

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Marla and her husband Sam had just come through a

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difficult season in their marriage. They both felt the same

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unmistakable impression from the Holy Spirit they were meant to

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have another child. The timing seemed a bit precarious with

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their marriage still healing, but the message was clear, and

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almost immediately Marla was pregnant. The suddenness of it left

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them in awe.

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Speaker 1: I got pregnant right away, and it felt so divinely guided,

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and it felt like spiritual whiplash.

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Speaker 2: Shortly after Marla got pregnant, her inlaws did something strange

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and unexpected.

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Speaker 1: I got pregnant the very end of December, and I

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found out the very beginning of January of twenty twenty one,

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and his parents had gone on a vacation to Arizona

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over the holidays, and they came back and they walked

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in the kitchen and they put a house listing on

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our kitchen counter, and I was like, what is that?

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And he said, oh, we just bought a house in Arizona.

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And We're like, you just bought a house in Arizona.

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Speaker 2: What were you thinking. Marla was surprised and saddened that

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her in law was we're suddenly moving away.

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Speaker 1: They're like, we actually can't move there until the end

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of May. But we bought this house and we are

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moving all of our stuff out and we are going

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to fully furnish that house. It's just going to sit

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there though until May. And I thought they were crazy,

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to be honest, I was like, what, But they said

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they felt strongly about it.

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Speaker 2: Over the next few weeks, the gloomy Utah winters weighed

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heavily on Marla. She was exhausted, sick, and struggling. Her

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own parents lived in Arizona, and they suggested she come

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visit them for a few weeks.

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Speaker 1: They said, why don't you come down and we'll take

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care of you. We'll take care of your other three kids,

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and you can just get some sunshine.

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Speaker 2: It sounded like a welcome change and a great idea,

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Speaker 1: The day after we arrived, I felt this gush of blood,

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and that gush was the worst feeling. I had never

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miscarried before, and so I didn't understand, but I knew

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something was definitely wrong. And so I went to the

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bathroom and my husband came in and I'm like, I'm miscarrying.

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room and waited in agony for doctors to search for

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a heartbeat. But there it was. Marla couldn't believe it.

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Her baby was still alive nine weeks. A long relief

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swept over her, but it was short lived. The ultrasound

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revealed large subchoreonic hemorrhages, pockets of blood wedged between the

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placenta and uterine wall. The doctors warned Marla that these

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hemorrhages could cause a placental abruption. The instruction was clear,

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don't travel, stay on bed rest. Wait. Marla was stunned.

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supposed to be a visit.

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Speaker 1: So what was supposed to be a ten day vacation

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is now a you need to stay here until this

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Speaker 2: Marla's husband, Sam, had just started a new job that

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could work remotely, and that felt like a huge blessing.

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with her parents. It was one thing to visit, but

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a whole other to live there for an undetermined length

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of time. As Marla waited for her next appointment, she

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prayed for guidance, and suddenly her in laws made a

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generous offer.

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Speaker 1: And when we found out that I could no longer

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travel and we were stuck there, his parents said, well, wait,

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we just bought that house. We just bought that house,

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and it is fully furnished and it's just sitting there.

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Speaker 2: So Marla, Sam, and their other children moved into her

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in law's vacant house, determined to make the best of

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an unusual situation.

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Speaker 1: So I'm taking it easy for a while, and I'm

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feeling a lot of peace. Like I had said, the

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whole pregnancy had felt so guided, and so I was

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just holding onto that, Okay, this is divine, this is

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going to be okay. I felt so much peace.

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Speaker 2: With the place to stay temporarily. Marla and her family

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felt blessed and assured. But then a week later, at

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eleven weeks pregnant, came another gush of blood.

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Speaker 1: One morning, I get my kids in the car and

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we're driving and I just start gushing blood again as

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I'm driving, and I quickly pull over and get back

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home and realize, okay, wow, this is a lot I

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need to get back into the doctor. And my husband said,

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do you want me to come in with you to

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see the doctor? And I said, I'm sure it's fine.

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I'm sure it's just another bleeding episode. And they're gonna

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do an ultrasound and then send me home and tell

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me to rest more. And so I drop everyone off.

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do an ultrasound and it is slow and it is quiet,

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and I go into the room to wait, and I

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wait there.

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Speaker 2: For a very long time. The doctor returned to the

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room and looked seriously into Marla's eyes. She then hit

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Marla with devastating news, her words echoing through Marla's brain.

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Speaker 1: And she's like, I am so sorry, but you're going

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to lose this baby. And we don't know when you're

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going to lose this baby, but you're going to lose

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this baby because you've had a placental abruption and your

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placenta is more than half the way off, and those

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pockets of blood are expanding so fast that it will

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just tear the placenta off. And we don't know if

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you're going to lose it any moment, or if you're

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going to lose it in the next day or so,

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but we do know that you're going to lose the baby.

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felt like it was so divine. It felt like this

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spirit was supposed to be in our family, and that

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peace had been so pervasive, and so I just wasn't

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expecting that whatsoever. It was just crushing to me that

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my body was the thing that was going to fall

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apart in this situation. I had often thought of miscarriages

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as being maybe something in the baby, or there was

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a defect or something hadn't gone right, and so the

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baby would pass and I had a very very healthy baby.

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would say, Wow, we're just so amazed at how lively

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your baby is. She's so alive, and they would use

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those words over and over, she is so lively. And

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so then as I leave, I'm thinking, Wow, I have

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this beautiful little baby in there who's so so lively

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and it's just going to lose its life support. And

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that was something that I hadn't really ever thought about

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or grappled with. And so they said, you can schedule

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another appointment for a week out, but you're not going

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to make get and so we just need as soon

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as you start losing a lot of blood, we need

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to schedule you for your blood transfusions and you need

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to go straight to the hospital.

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Speaker 2: As Marla left the appointment, she felt numb. She felt

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like her own body was betraying her. After breaking the

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heart wrenching news to Sam, they ordered an expedited gender test.

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If this was the end, they needed closure, They needed

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to know more about the little life they already loved.

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The results came quickly, a girl, a sweet baby girl

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who they would never get to meet. The emotional pain

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was terrible, but then came the physical pain, intense, throbbing pain.

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It came out of the blue. Just days later, Marla

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felt a deep body white ache, unlike anything she'd felt before.

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Speaker 1: And there is one day in particular that my whole

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body hurt so bad, particularly my stomach.

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Speaker 2: Marla remembered her doctor's words, you're going to loose the baby.

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With her placenta almost completely detached, there was no way

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the baby could survive. Its life depended entirely on that

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fragile connection for oxygen and nutrients, and once detached, a

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placenta cannot reattach. Marla feared this was the end. She

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looked to God for comfort. In the midst of her sorrow, I.

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Speaker 1: Had the distinct impression, come, your uterus is under construction.

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Speaker 2: Her uterus was under construction. This thought made no sense

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to Marla's mind, but despite the odds, her heart continued

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to hope for a miracle.

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Speaker 1: Now every day is just like this waiting game. When

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am I going to pass this baby? When is the

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next guy of blood coming? When is that fully detaching?

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But at the same time, I'm processing God does miracles

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and I have felt a lot of peace, and is

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that piece that things are gonna work out or is

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a piece that in the end things are gonna be okay?

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Like eternally.

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Speaker 2: One week later, Marla returned with Sam for another ultrasound.

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Her baby wasn't supposed to have made it this far.

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At the appointment, the ultrasound tech frowned.

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Speaker 1: And I have just been dying to see what is

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happening inside of me, and they do that ultrasound and

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the ultrasound tech space is just like utter confusion. She

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looks at it, She's going through so many things. She

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stops and she's like, I don't understand what I'm seeing.

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I want you to go to the bathroom. Maybe it's

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because you have too much in your bladder. We need

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to figure out what's going on. So go to the bathroom,

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come back in. They read the ultrasound again a whole

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other time, all these measurements, all these things, and I'm

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saying there trying to figure out for myself what was

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going on.

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Speaker 2: Marla and Sam were instructed to have a seat in

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the waiting room with feelings of both hope and sorrow.

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They braced themselves for whatever news the doctor might bring.

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After what felt like an eternity, the doctor came out

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to the waiting room, a serious expression on her face,

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and with quiet gentleness, she delivered some unbelievable news.

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Speaker 1: They say, okay, well, so it looks like your planet

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of senate is attached, and it looks like you do

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have some big subquoryonic hemorrhages, and so we need to wait.

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You should not travel, you should not go anywhere. And

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I was looking at her and I'm like, what do

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you mean, what do you mean it's attached? And she

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was like, well, it looks like it's attached. And I

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was like, I understand, but before it wasn't. And she

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gave me no explanation. And I even saw one thing

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that was very intriguing to me, and one was that

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the placenta that was before posterior, which means to the back,

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was now anterior to the front. And I said, wait

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a second, wasn't my placenta on the other side of

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my uterus? And she said, oh no, I'm sure that

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that was just a ultrasound tech mistake. I'm sure that

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they just labeled that incorrectly. Before she said no, I

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mean placentas don't cross a uterus, so that must have

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just been a mistake on our part.

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Speaker 2: Marla was sure it hadn't been a mistake, but either

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way she felt an overwhelming gratitude that her baby was

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still alive, still growing. While the doctors couldn't explain it,

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Marla could, and the only explanation was that this was

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a miracle. She knew her uterus had truly been under construction.

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God had told her he had been working in Marla's life,

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on her marriage, on her faith, and on her womb

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in ways that went beyond worldly understanding. The weeks turned

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into months, Marla remained in Arizona, unextended, bed dressed, and

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even here she saw God's fingerprints the address of the

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home her inlaws had bought, Milagro Avenue.

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Speaker 1: And if you know what malager means, Malagro is the

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Spanish word for miracle. And so we lived on Miracle

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Avenue and that house was bought for us to experience

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a trial, but also the most magnificent miracle that we

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could realize what God can really do. Doctors and other

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people will say that things are done and there's no

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hope and that there's nothing that can be done in

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a certain situation it's too bleak. But God will come

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in and he will work miracles, and he will change

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what was impossible to being a reality. That's what he

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did for our family.

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Speaker 2: In April, on Marla's birthday, she was it finally cleared

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to return home. By then, the ultrasound showed no hemorrhages

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at all and a completely normal pregnancy, and on September eighth,

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at thirty nine weeks, Marla delivered a healthy baby girl.

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clear scarlines, evidence of where it had torn away and

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where it had reattached. Marla and Sam named their baby

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girl Eva Jane.

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meaning for her because of what we knew that that

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could mean for her, knowing that she had been saved,

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her life had been given to her by God. And

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so we went to the hospital with three different names.

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looked at each other and we were like, her name

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is Eva Jane. Eva means full of life and Jane

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means by the grace of God. That way she can

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know that is really just because of him that she

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is that lively, lively girl that she is.

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Speaker 2: And then one quiet day a month later, Marla found

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herself wondering. She couldn't quite shake it. She had to know.

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but she just needed to see something for herself.

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Speaker 1: So I was so nervous, actually, once I thought that

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it was a miracle, I was really nervous to go

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back and actually look through all of them and think, like,

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was that actually a miracle or did that not actually

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really happen? And then I looked back at my earliest

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ultrasound from that er visit, and the placenta was on

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the other side, and they had documented it and written

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it out. The placenta is posterior, and I delivered with

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an anterior placenta. It had definitely switched all the way across.

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Speaker 2: As her heart swelled, Marla knew now with even more

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certainty than before, that she had been blessed with a miracle.

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She hadn't just imagined it, it was all real. Marla's

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gratitude to God was almost overwhelming. Today Eva is four

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years old and just as vibrant as ever, Warla often

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thinks back to those words that carried her through under construction.

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Doctor said there was no chance, but God had the

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final word, and that word was life.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Crazy story.

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Speaker 3: Can you imagine getting stuck on vacation like that being bignant?

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Speaker 2: I know it would be wild, but at the same time,

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like it's amazing how everything was like in place for

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their family. Yeah, to be able to move into this house,

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this vacant house on this street called Malagro or Miracle Avenue,

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like miracle, It's just all these little things that God did.

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That's like, you know what, this is gonna be really hard,

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but I've got you, like I'm.

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Speaker 1: Aware of you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that. Can you imagine also getting that

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news about your baby, like it had to been so

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absolutely heartbreaking to her to know that you are just

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carrying this baby that is going to pass. And I've

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had a couple of miscarriages myself, nothing to that extent,

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but I know how hard that is, Like you have

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all those plans and dreams for this little one and

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then to just have those go up and smoke is

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just devastating, I know.

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would just be absolutely heartbreaking. And the sad reality is

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there are people who have to go through that, and yeah,

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I mean, amazingly, Marla didn't have to. She had this

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beautiful miracle. But it's one of those questions that always

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comes up, like.

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Speaker 3: Why why does one person? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, why doesn't that happen for everyone?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: But yeah, Marla had a really cool perspective. I really

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like what she said about this. So let's play her

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SoundBite to hear what she had to say. Okay, I have.

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Speaker 1: This Instagram account and this video about her just went

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viral and people are asking like, oh, that's great for you,

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but like, what about everyone else? And my answer about

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miracles is I think it's complex that some miracles happen

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and some miracles don't, but it's also really simple. God

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honors our individuality and he will parent us that way,

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and he will give us what we need. And knowing

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that He is so aware of us, I think is

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what I love. Because it's not that you don't receive

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a miracle because God isn't aware of you, or he

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doesn't think you're good enough or anything like that. For

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some reason, we received a miracle and I felt it

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very impressed on me. You need to share this miracle

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with as many people as possible, Like this is not

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just your miracle. This is a miracle where you share

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what I'm capable of doing, and so he does the

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impossible and I'm just here to tell you about it.

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are asking for and I mean literally sometimes begging God

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for right, you know, it's so hard. And I kept

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thinking about Jack from The Mystery Bote. I don't know

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if you remember what he said, but he said, sometimes

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we just have to hit the eye believe button and

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just trust God that he has a plan well.

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Speaker 2: And trust that even if you're going through a hard time,

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God can be there with you. He can help you

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get through whatever it is you're going through. So yeah, absolutely, yeah.

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to you know, honor God and to share how good

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he is. She also said something that I thought was

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really interesting about her placenta.

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Speaker 1: I feel like the placenta is like a sermon in itself.

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and He is our life. He's the way, the truth

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the life, and he is what made that life possible

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by healing that and it just blows my mind. But

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the fact that you could see all those scars was

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just another testament. The scars are there and they tell

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this story like his scars do. They tell a story.

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And I'm so glad that the scars stayed to tell

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that story.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I love that because you think about Jesus. I mean,

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he didn't erase his scars when he was resurrected, like

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he chose to keep them. Yeah, so that we would

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never forget the love that he has for us.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So powerful.

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Speaker 3: And we have one last downbite that we want to

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share today. Eva Jane is four years old and we

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asked Marlott if Eva Jane is still as lively as ever,

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and this is what she said.

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Yes she is. She is so so lively.

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Speaker 2: She is.

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Speaker 1: She's a real life Disney princess. That's what we always

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just say.

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Speaker 3: She is.

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Speaker 1: She is so vibrant and so alive. And it's really

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really sweet to see that spirit how it just never

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stopped bouncing.

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Speaker 2: Isn't she just so cute? She is cute as little girl.

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Speaker 3: Yes, someday maybe she'll be a Disney princess.

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Speaker 2: I could see well.

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