Hi, I'm Kate. And I'm Lori. We've always thought that the most compelling story

strikes the perfect balance between an honest look at the mess of life and the humor that can be found in the mess.

To be perfectly honest, we don't really know how to live life without both the humor and the authenticity.

Our podcast might be a little bit of whiplash at times. We can spin from hard, We don't really know how to live life without both the humor and the authenticity.

Our podcast might be a little bit of whiplash at times.

We can spin from hard and deep to humor and laughing on a dime.

The hard will be really hard and the truths we share are the ugliest of humanity.

We don't intend to make it seem like it's all fine or to pretty up the pain.

But we also know that the joy we found is all the more profound because of the pain. So we hope you can stick with us through the ugly

because there will also be joy and hope and humor. Welcome to the ugly truth about the girl

next door. Hi, welcome back to our podcast, the Ugly Truth about the Girl Next Door.

I'm Kate.

And I'm Lori.

And today we might sound just a bit funny because we are having to record from two different

places.

But we felt like it was really important to share this information today and just to get this out into the stratosphere.

Um, I don't even know if stratosphere is like a word. I use it a lot. I'm not 100% sure on that. But anyway, big, big spaces. Well, then yeah, that is the, that's the right thing.

Yeah, it is. Oh.

But, um, so we, we kind of briefly shared, I briefly shared a little bit just about what this past

week has meant, um, and kind of all the different connections that we've put together,

but we wanted to be able to unpack that and talk about it on a podcast

episode. So, obviously, if you are following us on social media or you're caught up to the podcast,

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