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<v Speaker 1>For seven years. I had a small ranch in the

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<v Speaker 1>foothills of Temecula, California. The area is pretty much avocado

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<v Speaker 1>groves and hillsides and it is beautiful. My property, however,

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<v Speaker 1>had ruby red grapefruit trees, lemons, a prolific red apple tree,

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<v Speaker 1>and one huge lime tree. We were set for margaritas.

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<v Speaker 1>I had two eighty pound dogs, one a Shepherd Akita

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<v Speaker 1>mix and the other a Shepherd coyote mix, a Koi dog.

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<v Speaker 1>Coi dogs are either smarter than a teenager or dumber

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<v Speaker 1>than a rock, and I had a smart one and

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<v Speaker 1>she was a great dog. I have to say I

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<v Speaker 1>love your videos with your hounds all running around and

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<v Speaker 1>tails wagging as they explore everything. It makes me miss

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<v Speaker 1>my dogs leading every walk or trip to the barn

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<v Speaker 1>on my quad. I hadn't given big Foot any thought

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<v Speaker 1>since nineteen sixty nine and the release of the Patterson

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<v Speaker 1>Gimlin film because one, I figured they were up north

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<v Speaker 1>in the woods, and two because I would never encounter

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<v Speaker 1>them in southern California at least that was my mindset

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<v Speaker 1>so much for that. When I started watching your channel,

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<v Speaker 1>I couldn't get enough of the videos. Any channels videos

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<v Speaker 1>I spent hours and hours watching them after my accident.

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<v Speaker 1>Did you ever have a real epiphany in your life?

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<v Speaker 1>I mean one of those stop you in your tracks,

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<v Speaker 1>hit you in the face moments where you realize something

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<v Speaker 1>that was right there in front of you all along

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<v Speaker 1>and you had missed it. As I watched a video

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<v Speaker 1>one day, the story about two marines stationed at Camp

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<v Speaker 1>Pendleton who had come face to face with a twelve

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<v Speaker 1>foot tall sosquatch and a mock city at the back

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<v Speaker 1>of the base, and it was ducking to get through

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<v Speaker 1>a ten foot high doorway. Their guns were loaded with blanks.

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<v Speaker 1>They were between the back of the town and the

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<v Speaker 1>squatch's path to the canyon behind it. It began to growl,

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<v Speaker 1>and one marine told the other to lay his gun

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<v Speaker 1>on the ground, and when they did, as they backed

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<v Speaker 1>out of the sasquatch's path, he strode by them in

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<v Speaker 1>huge steps and then took off at a speed they

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<v Speaker 1>were awed by. My ranch was nine miles up the

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<v Speaker 1>canyon from that base, and then right in the face,

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<v Speaker 1>I had an epiphany that lasted ten minutes, as suddenly

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<v Speaker 1>everything that I had encountered on my ranch was replayed

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<v Speaker 1>in my mind with an overlay of all the sasquatch

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<v Speaker 1>stories I had heard. I shook when I thought of

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<v Speaker 1>the times I must have been within feet of them

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<v Speaker 1>trying to find who was around my barn at midnight.

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<v Speaker 1>My dogs were no lap dogs and guarded the property

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<v Speaker 1>like lions, afraid of no animal, and no person had

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<v Speaker 1>to shoot at the feet of a mountain lion one

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<v Speaker 1>day as they were backing it in to my barn,

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<v Speaker 1>about to get themselves killed. They never ran from anything,

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<v Speaker 1>and they charged everything, and they were imposing as a pair.

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<v Speaker 1>As I was running the pass through my mind, I

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<v Speaker 1>recalled that they had on several occasions come running like

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<v Speaker 1>the wind up to the house, with the Akida even

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<v Speaker 1>jumping up in my lap, which he never did. And

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<v Speaker 1>the Koi dog loved to sit in the love seat

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<v Speaker 1>with me while I smoked cigars in the evening, but

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<v Speaker 1>he wasn't a tough guy. I had put the dog

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<v Speaker 1>door on the back door to the garage where they

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<v Speaker 1>had beds under the stairs, and on those nights they

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<v Speaker 1>would get into their beds and not come out. Now

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<v Speaker 1>I remembered how the night was dead silent on those nights.

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<v Speaker 1>Delu's Creek had a zillion frogs a singing, but not

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<v Speaker 1>on those nights. And the more I thought about it,

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<v Speaker 1>the stupider I felt. I never harvested the lime tree,

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<v Speaker 1>which easily produced a thousand lines, and there was never

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<v Speaker 1>more than ten limes on the ground. I had a

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<v Speaker 1>gated ranch, so nobody was picking them, especially from the

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<v Speaker 1>top of a thirty foot round and fifteen foot high tree.

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<v Speaker 1>I did give away grape fruits to people because I

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<v Speaker 1>didn't have time for the business, but the trees were

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<v Speaker 1>always picked clean above six feet as soon as the

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<v Speaker 1>fruit was right. Most of the trees were fifteen plus

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<v Speaker 1>feet high and large diameter. Man I was feeling stupid

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<v Speaker 1>at this moment. The apple tree was always picked clean

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<v Speaker 1>above six feet and it was bigger than the lime tree.

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<v Speaker 1>I shot a coyote one night as it came way

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<v Speaker 1>too close to the house, which I could not have

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<v Speaker 1>as my two year old granddaughter and her mother were

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<v Speaker 1>living with us at the time. I figured I would

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<v Speaker 1>get it in the morning and bury it with my tractor.

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<v Speaker 1>I woke up at five am with my dog standing

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<v Speaker 1>on the driveway looking to where the dead coyote was.

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<v Speaker 1>I say, that's where it was, because it was gone.

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<v Speaker 1>Something had dragged it a ten feet down the slope,

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<v Speaker 1>and that's where the marks stopped. The more I thought,

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<v Speaker 1>the more I realized I had inadvertently flown my plane

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<v Speaker 1>too close to Camp Pilton while circling my ranch one day,

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<v Speaker 1>I was shocked when a voice came over the radio

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<v Speaker 1>telling me it was an Apache something and if I

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<v Speaker 1>didn't turn to a three hundred and forty degree heading,

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<v Speaker 1>I would be shot down. My plane was starting to

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<v Speaker 1>vibrate as I looked out my passenger window to see

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<v Speaker 1>an Apache chopper with a pilot pointing to three hundred

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<v Speaker 1>and forty degrees. I rocked my wings and headed that way,

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<v Speaker 1>noting my position. My ranch was only nine miles up

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<v Speaker 1>the canyon from the back of the base and thirteen

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<v Speaker 1>miles from the Pacific Ocean. I pondered this incident during

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<v Speaker 1>my epiphany, and I thought of how many times the

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<v Speaker 1>county sheriff in our area had asked me if I

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<v Speaker 1>knew anything about people disappearing along Deluge Road, which ran

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<v Speaker 1>along the creek for miles, starting five miles from the

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<v Speaker 1>back of Camp Pendleton Marine Base. It was also a

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<v Speaker 1>back route to coyote smugglers who used to run illegals

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<v Speaker 1>into Orange County. In the last few months, several of

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<v Speaker 1>the illegals had disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The sergeant wanted

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<v Speaker 1>to know if I knew where the holes were dug

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<v Speaker 1>around the area. I'm afraid stripping avocado crops can be

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<v Speaker 1>a capital offence in some ranchers eyes. There were holes

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<v Speaker 1>with bags of lime in waiting around the hills in

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<v Speaker 1>several places. However, I had never heard of anyone actually

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<v Speaker 1>using one. I thought they were more of a deterrent

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<v Speaker 1>story for the local thieves. Since I was out of

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<v Speaker 1>ways from town. I had a refrigerator in my barn

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<v Speaker 1>that I kept stock with sodas and water for the

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<v Speaker 1>police and Border patrol guys in the area. I liked

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<v Speaker 1>them being on the property, knowing my dogs and just

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<v Speaker 1>shooting the breeze about what was going on in the area.

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<v Speaker 1>Sergeant knew I had previous police experience. I was included

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<v Speaker 1>on several things. I came home one afternoon to find

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<v Speaker 1>a black chopper sitting in front of my barn with

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<v Speaker 1>three Sheriffs vans and four black suburbans. I was introduced

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<v Speaker 1>to the chopper pilot told he was a dea officer.

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<v Speaker 1>Supposedly the whole deal was to rate a six acre

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<v Speaker 1>pot grow they had found out by the creek. The

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<v Speaker 1>dudes in the black windowed at berbs never came out.

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<v Speaker 1>It was common for the pot guys to hook into

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<v Speaker 1>grow irrigation and set up grows in the bottoms, so

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't have any reason to doubt it, But I

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<v Speaker 1>should have thought it out a little better. The week prior,

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<v Speaker 1>my sergeant friend had asked me if I had seen

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<v Speaker 1>anyone by my barn on a specific night. I told

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<v Speaker 1>him that I hadn't, and as he knew, my dogs

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<v Speaker 1>would have shredded anyone on the property at night. He

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<v Speaker 1>then told me two junkie thieves had gone missing that night.

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<v Speaker 1>One of the wives told the police he and his

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<v Speaker 1>power were going to steal a tractor which was sitting

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<v Speaker 1>next to a dirt driveway at the back of a

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<v Speaker 1>property off my road. The sergeant said, you're the only

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<v Speaker 1>one with a nice tractor sitting in that situation. Yep.

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<v Speaker 1>If they had opened my barn door, they would have

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<v Speaker 1>been right on the dirt road between the properties. Law

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<v Speaker 1>enforcement had found their truck and trailer down on Delu's Road,

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<v Speaker 1>where they could have coasted my tractor downhill. No trace

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<v Speaker 1>of them was ever found other than the truck and

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<v Speaker 1>the trailer. And then I thought of all the nights

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<v Speaker 1>my dogs were in their beds when I was feeling

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<v Speaker 1>someone or something was on my property. Using my million

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<v Speaker 1>candle power light to scour the property from my hilltop home,

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<v Speaker 1>I could see almost all of it. After a while,

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<v Speaker 1>I decided I was just being unnecessarily cautious. And then

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<v Speaker 1>one morning I found my pool with a film and odor,

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<v Speaker 1>which nearly choked me. When I cleaned the skimmers the

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<v Speaker 1>next day, there was dark brown hair in them that

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<v Speaker 1>nearly plugged them up. Since I had no fencing and

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<v Speaker 1>it was a beach entry pool, I just figured the

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<v Speaker 1>neighbors' kids had been in again with their dogs. The

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<v Speaker 1>coup de gras came a week after my epiphany. My

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<v Speaker 1>excavator who dug my pools and I were discussing my

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<v Speaker 1>epiphany at breakfast one day. He had worked for me

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<v Speaker 1>for years and had been on my ranch since then.

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<v Speaker 1>I had moved to San Diego, where he lived. He

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<v Speaker 1>laughed at me when I told him about it and

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<v Speaker 1>how I figured that they wouldn't be in southern California,

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<v Speaker 1>and then he told me about how he went to

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<v Speaker 1>build a large retaining wall in Alpine, about thirty miles

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<v Speaker 1>outside of San Diego in the foothills, for a well

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<v Speaker 1>known doctor in San Diego. One day, while leaving the job,

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<v Speaker 1>he met the doctor on the drive to his ranch.

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<v Speaker 1>The doctor waved him down and asked him to s stop,

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<v Speaker 1>and when Paul stopped, he saw a fifty caliber stainless

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<v Speaker 1>steel revolver in the seat next to the doctor. Paul

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<v Speaker 1>asked him why he was carrying a hand cannon on

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<v Speaker 1>his seat, and the doctor hesitated a minute and then said, Paul,

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<v Speaker 1>this is why I stopped you. At the risk of

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<v Speaker 1>sounding crazy, I need to warn you about something on

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<v Speaker 1>this property. I have the big guys living at the

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<v Speaker 1>back of the property. There's a whole family of them,

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<v Speaker 1>and so far I've had no problems with them. Paul

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<v Speaker 1>asked what he meant by big guys, and the doctor

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<v Speaker 1>explained that his property was so close to the border

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<v Speaker 1>that the sasquatch roamed along his back property line in

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<v Speaker 1>the trees. When Paul told me this, almost choked like

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<v Speaker 1>he did when he heard it. Finally, Paul understood the

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<v Speaker 1>doctor wasn't kidding and he better keep his eye peeled

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<v Speaker 1>when working back there, I employed dozens of illegal aliens

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<v Speaker 1>in my business over forty years. It's how things got

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<v Speaker 1>done back then. In the business. There were no gringoes

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<v Speaker 1>or kids or adults doing the digging work my business required,

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<v Speaker 1>and I spoke Spanish fluently, and I had heard them

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<v Speaker 1>talking about the people going missing at the border many times.

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<v Speaker 1>Some claimed there were monsters at the border eating them.

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<v Speaker 1>Others told them that they were loco. And now I

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<v Speaker 1>wonder has sasquatch been feeding on illegals coming to the

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<v Speaker 1>border for decades. Every year hundreds of them come to

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<v Speaker 1>America and are never heard from again by their families.

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<v Speaker 1>It is written off to the smugglers killing them by

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<v Speaker 1>the authorities, supposedly, which makes no sense, and I've only

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<v Speaker 1>heard of rare cases of that happening. Why kill someone

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<v Speaker 1>who was worth three thousand dollars to you? I know

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<v Speaker 1>I never saw a sasquatch, but it makes my blood

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<v Speaker 1>run cold to realize that I was out with a

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<v Speaker 1>shotgun in the middle of the night searching for what

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<v Speaker 1>I thought were people on We had silent nights where

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<v Speaker 1>owls were all I could hear all around me in

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<v Speaker 1>the trees. Ranchers had owl boxes to keep the rodents

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<v Speaker 1>at bay, so I never thought a thing about it.

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<v Speaker 1>My dogs would sit on the porch at the house

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<v Speaker 1>and watch me patrol on those nights. I just thought

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<v Speaker 1>I was five feet from a si squatch with my

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<v Speaker 1>on that chopper, I never saw it again in that

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<v Speaker 1>back on the whole thing, I feel pretty stupid. But

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<v Speaker 1>as my shrink says, you can't act on information that

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<v Speaker 1>you don't have. Now do I believe sasquatch lives in

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<v Speaker 1>the Cleveland National Forest, which is only six miles north

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<v Speaker 1>do believe sasquatch lives along the border, and he does

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<v Speaker 1>possibly feed on illegal aliens. Yes, Los Montrose de la Fonterra,

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<v Speaker 1>the monster of the Border are real and I believe that.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you for your channel cam. Without it, I would

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<v Speaker 1>have never realized any of this. Your narration kept me

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<v Speaker 1>interested enough to continue researching the subject and research I have.

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<v Speaker 1>God bless you and your family and your dogs and

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<v Speaker 1>your chickens. And he signs off, but he wants to

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<v Speaker 1>be anonymous. But man, what a cool story. This man

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<v Speaker 1>lives in southern California. You heard the whole story, but

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<v Speaker 1>this time, and he's putting two and two together. Anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>I want to read the first part of his email.

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't want to read it first because I thought

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<v Speaker 1>people might click away. This man's had a remarkable journey

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<v Speaker 1>and these epiphanies. I'm not sure whether they came before

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<v Speaker 1>this accident I'm about to read for you or after,

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<v Speaker 1>he probably said in his email. But anyway, I'll just

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<v Speaker 1>read his It's three or four paragraphs. It's real interesting

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<v Speaker 1>how he has recovered from a horrible accident. And let

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<v Speaker 1>me just read it to you, he says. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know if you remember me, but I'm the guy who

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<v Speaker 1>introduced you to Thunderbird with my experience from nineteen fifty eight. Yes, sir,

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<v Speaker 1>I remember that story well. I was also writing a

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<v Speaker 1>fictional book about Sasquatch at the time. Well, as the

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<v Speaker 1>Walking back from dinner one evening in Pacific Beach, California,

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<v Speaker 1>almost killed me. Every doctor and the surgeon said the

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<v Speaker 1>break of my humorous was the worst they had ever

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<v Speaker 1>seen humorous. I think that's his leg. I'm not a

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<v Speaker 1>It looked like you took a huge sledgehammer to a

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<v Speaker 1>of consciousness for over a week. With a major brain

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<v Speaker 1>trauma too. I spent nearly a year laid up with

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<v Speaker 1>was about was reading the book I was writing about Sisquatch,

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<v Speaker 1>which was nearly complete. Much of the book I had

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<v Speaker 1>doing at the time that I had narrated that part

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<v Speaker 1>I was listening to. Now, this struggle to remember forced

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<v Speaker 1>me to dig deep and use the memory portion of

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<v Speaker 1>my brain. My neurologists was very pleased and impressed with

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<v Speaker 1>my progress. It was his opinion that my ability to

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<v Speaker 1>put back together the year prior to my accident through

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<v Speaker 1>the recordings was incredibly important in my recovery. Now I'm

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<v Speaker 1>not out of the woods yet, but I am functioning

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<v Speaker 1>closer to normal. I did lose the ability to design

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<v Speaker 1>the custom pools and landscapes I have created for forty

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<v Speaker 1>any longer. With that said, I want to tell everyone

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<v Speaker 1>my heart. In my years of having a large swimming

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<v Speaker 1>pool construction business, I have hired vets with PTSD. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>I always had a heart for those guys. I saw

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<v Speaker 1>their struggle to find themselves and return to normal life,

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<v Speaker 1>often having wives and children that they couldn't support with

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<v Speaker 1>them to try to live life on any normal level.

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<v Speaker 1>And I cried when I thought about one young man

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<v Speaker 1>who became lost for three hours on a trip to

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<v Speaker 1>grown up in the area, and when he finally answered

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<v Speaker 1>the phone, he was crying and distraught, and I asked

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<v Speaker 1>him where he was and he didn't know. I sent

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<v Speaker 1>him to a street corner and asked him to read

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<v Speaker 1>the signs. He was sixty miles away from the job

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<v Speaker 1>and hopelessly lost. I tried to keep him working, but

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<v Speaker 1>he realized that he was not able to function well enough,

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<v Speaker 1>and he just disappeared one day and he never returned.

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<v Speaker 1>Two months later, he committed suicide. He left a lovely wife. Oh, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>that's hard to read. That's because my son is an

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<v Speaker 1>Afghanistan VETT. I know he deals with this stuff. He oh,

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<v Speaker 1>Now I cry as I write this, and it's been

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<v Speaker 1>sixteen years ago. I tell you of this to say this,

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<v Speaker 1>I want everyone who knows a VET suffering PTSD to

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<v Speaker 1>take a completely different advantage point on these unfortunate men

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<v Speaker 1>whom have given up any normal life to protect yours.

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<v Speaker 1>I know the pain of trying to remember who I

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<v Speaker 1>was and what I was about. I know what it

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<v Speaker 1>was like to wonder if I would ever be mentally

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<v Speaker 1>whole again. I also know what it is like to

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<v Speaker 1>I was or what I was. I'm fortunate to have

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<v Speaker 1>come back as far as I have, and I thank

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<v Speaker 1>God for that because I know that it was because

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<v Speaker 1>of of Him who did this for me. You can

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<v Speaker 1>read this story of my experience if you like. However,

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<v Speaker 1>I do have a sosquatch experience to share with you,

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<v Speaker 1>and here it is. And that's the end of the email. Wow,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry about that. Got kind of choked up on that.

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<v Speaker 1>I had not read that paragraph. I had read the

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<v Speaker 1>first three or four paragraphs, and I thought, well, I'll

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<v Speaker 1>put this at the end so people may get a

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<v Speaker 1>little encouragement if they're going through something hard, and maybe

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<v Speaker 1>catch a tip on how you know, trying to remember things, etc.

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<v Speaker 1>And then I came up on the vet and I

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<v Speaker 1>have a heart for those guys too. I saw my

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<v Speaker 1>son come back from Afghanistan I don't even think he

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<v Speaker 1>knew he had problems. He thought he was normal. I

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<v Speaker 1>never said a word. I just let him deal with

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<v Speaker 1>it on his own, and he's come out pretty good.

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<v Speaker 1>He's got a great job, beautiful family, beautiful wife, three children,

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<v Speaker 1>and they're doing fine. He's fine. But those guys come

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<v Speaker 1>the writer. We need to remember those guys. It's been

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<v Speaker 1>years since they all came home. Those are our sons.

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<v Speaker 1>Most of my audience is my age, give or take

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<v Speaker 1>off and did some unspeakable things, saw unspeakable things, and

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<v Speaker 1>my heart goes out to them. So I'll get off

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<v Speaker 1>of that. I just wanted to share my feelings on that.

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<v Speaker 1>I really appreciate this email, the bigfoot connections that he made,

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<v Speaker 1>and the part that he wrote about his recovery. It's

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<v Speaker 1>very inspiring. I really appreciate it.