Hey guys and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast. A true crime podcast featuring myself, Mandy, and my dear friend Melissa. Hi, Melissa.

Yo, girl, what's up? Yo, girl, what's up?

I never read reviews, but I did happen to see one when I was having to go on to, like, change something.

And it was like, Melissa sounds so monotone.

She always has the same reaction at the beginning of the episodes.

Oh, is that the same review that said, is that the same review that said, why is the intro so fake?

Girl, it's so I can edit. Like, I can find it so

easy. I literally look in the thing for the words, dear friend Melissa, and I'm like, all right,

I could start lining things up now. So I've just messed myself up. I hope they're happy.

I hope they're happy, too. But also, they're correct. The intro is absolutely fake. We don't actually

address each other like that. It's an intro for the podcast that everyone, well, apparently

not everyone, but I feel like most people have come to know and love the intro. We have people

write to us all the time and they say that they, you know, they can say it word for word and

they can hear it in their head because it's always the same. So, there you go. You know, you have, you have, can't have it both ways. Yeah. Can't have it all or you can, but it ain't going to happen to me. Okay, let's not do this. All right. Mandy, before we get started on the episode just a reminder this is the domestic violence awareness

month and this campaign we're doing we partner with navigating advocacy to put together

bags to bring to local shelters so if you've thought about it you're not quite sure

want more information it's on it'll be in our show notes And we're working on putting our bags together this weekend to donate. So it's just like odds and ends, things that they need in these shelters. It doesn't cost a lot of money. If you're able to do 10 bags, wonderful. If you can do one bag, that's great. Anything is helpful. So if you do that, please let us know, Tag us if you do it on social media. We would love to see that and share it. Yeah. So as Melissa was saying, we are back with our fifth and final episode for the month of October. And it truly, truly has been such a privilege. I speak for both of us when I say that to be able to share some

really impactful stories this month as we've been addressing the topic of domestic violence.

We've shared so much with you all in the hopes that some of this information might reach

the people who need to hear it and that together we can work to prevent domestic violence

and end the cycle of abuse. This week we're telling another story that hasn't received

a lot of coverage, but it's a story that touches on some different but equally important

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