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and got a bunch of questions. Not sure how many I will get through today of these questions,

but they are very, very deep. So we'll take some time. Hi, Stephanie, I need to reach out to you

because of a very complicated situation I find myself in. First and foremost, there are almost no complicated

situations in life. Just want to tell you that straight up front. There are almost no complicated

situations in life. There are temptations to avoid principles, and those

temptations to betray our principles to betray virtue and honesty and integrity. We call those

complicated. But that's just a matter of, yes, we're susceptible to temptation, all of us, and then

we say, and one of the ways that temptation

gets us is it says, ooh, this situation is so complicated, it's so difficult, it's so complicated,

no, situations are almost never complicated, it's just a matter of whether you stick to principles

or not. Should I have told the truth about controversial topics when I was on top of the world. Oh, it's complicated. You've got to not talk about this, but you've got to balance things with that. It's like, no, it's just you're tempted to lie. So you call it complicated. You know, should you cheat on your wife? Well, it's complicated. You know, we don't have much affection and there's this other woman and she could be better. but it's like, no, it's not, it's not complicated. You know, we, we, we, we don't have much affection and there's this other woman and

she could be better, but it's like, no, it's not, it's not complicated. So when people say the

situation is complicated, what I hear, and, you know, I'm not saying this is 100% of the time,

but, you know, I'm telling you, 99 plus percent of the time, when they say something's

complicated, they're saying that they're

trying to baffle gab or confuse or gaslight themselves into breaking principle, and they use the magic

word complication to do that. It's complicated. No, it's not. It's not complicated. You just don't

like where integrity is going to lead you, which I understand. I don't like where integrity

has led me sometimes, but it's always worth it in the long run. So, he says, around nine years ago, was a selfish, careless young man, I met a woman who introduced me to heroin, and in a hedonistic haze, I foolishly got her pregnant. Needless to say, it was a turbulent relationship, and we broke up promptly, after which I never touched heroin again. I maintained that I wanted contact with my child, however. Sorry, however, one day she called me and told me that the child wasn't mine, that she'd been cheating with a mutual friend. I could hear him in the background of the call, both of them laughing. I was unconvinced that this was true, so I continued to fight for a paternity test involving lawyers in the process.

The day of the birth came and I showed up to the hospital,

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