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I'm gonna start with the prayer, okay? Okay, sure.

Could I help her that? Yeah. Our Father in Heaven, how grateful we are for the many blessings

that those give us. We're grateful for this earth and experiences that we have. We're grateful for

our families. We love that we share. We're grateful for particularly for the Son and for His

us, that Tony Sacrifice has made everything possible for us. Father, we pray at this time

that the Spirit would be with us. I'm grateful for the young family and pray that the

richest blessings would be poured out on them and we pray for these things in the name of Jesus Christ,

Amen. All right. Well, I know you had several conversations with

and also I wanted to have the opportunity to talk to you as well. Just become acquainted with you.

I know who you are. I know you've got children. I don't know you real well because we've never had

the opportunity to sit down and talk. So maybe you can just kind of tell me how your family's doing,

maybe to start off with that would be okay. Yeah, that would be fine. We are doing great. Now,

it has been a really difficult, painful, extraordinary year. And we feel better than we've ever

felt at this point. We feel whole and grounded and happy and connected and we have a great

spirit in our home. Our marriage has never been better. We feel purposeful in living our core values

as a family, which is one of the first things that we did when we were going through this as we

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