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This is my life you're making. There is love for the taking. It's a rare one. We're back.

Wow. That was heart-wrenching and so emotional.

Lee and Cody, thanks for joining us again. Thanks to everyone who's been tuning on the live feed.

We have had so many comments and so much incredible feedback on the live Facebook stream.

Cody, Leah, what are your reactions to listening to that again? And to all the comments?

It's an emotional thing. It's surreal even doing this podcast, even hearing that recording

and reliving those feelings and those emotions. It's still hard.

Yeah. Leah?

Yeah, I just, I really thought that we were going to be exonerated. I don't know. I just can't

understand. It just doesn't make sense to me and people think I have a polyann at you, you know,

of this process. And I did. I really did. I really, I did. I mean, every step, I just thought,

this is this is the step that's going to help us come together. And and Brindley really did.

And she really, really, I think that by mistake we may have gone into the forgiveness conversation

too soon. So I'm grateful that your, your wife helped Brindley when she was upset with her parents

because we went into, you know, it's, they're, they're kind men doing the best thing that they

think is best, but they just don't see that it's, it's really not what's best, what we think is best.

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