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Download the free anchor app or go to anchor dot fm to get started. Hi everyone I'm Lexi Lumbart the host of this podcast the at Lexi

podcast and my life has completely changed since

yesterday and I can't believe that I feel comfortable enough to share it but I do and I'm going to

take advantage of that I might have trouble saying the sentence out loud, but I want to document this and if anyone

out there has gone through this, I want to know you, I want to talk to you.

So yesterday, my mother died. She had a heart attack unexpectedly, was not sick.

I've actually been in Los Angeles for the past few weeks

and I expected to show up with this episode,

still being in California and sharing with you my plan to stay for a while.

My last episode was with my friend Claudia and I was just having such a great time. I had the most beautiful week and was just having the most beautiful time in California.

And then at 3 in the morning yesterday I received a call from my dad and he gave me the news. He was at the hospital and I my cousin and my aunt they booked a flight for me and I I took an 845 flight to Dulles Airport from LAX and I'm here now with my dad and family is coming in and it's definitely one of the more strange and unexpected.

No, it's not, nothing.

This whole year, this whole past year,

20, 2021 has been full of surprises and I said this in some episode that I think

2020 took away our ability to be surprised, I will say it I was surprised I don't want to

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