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Hello and welcome back to my interview with Nikki and Lance Miles. That's right.

So far we've covered Nikki's loss of her father and how that tight started

tying her to the church to be the good daughter. To get her all family back into

the Celestial Kingdom again, we talked about their respective mission

experiences and how maybe they're a little too friendly with each other or not

friendly enough depending on your perspective and how that led to massive

pre and during and post mission trauma is they're trying to be worthy and you

know you know had a little bit too much fun according to the church and at the

same time nothing serious or severe that in any way should warrant such trauma.

We talked about all that, we talked about them getting married and it's just a

really moving first part, first couple parts. And so we're touched, we're

so grateful to have so many people joining us through Facebook Live and now

what we're gonna do is we're gonna we're gonna focus the next little segment on

the story about Lance's dad because it's truly kind of a harrowing epic story

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