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.

Today, first we just want to give an update as to kind of what we've been doing.

And, you know, we haven't released an episode in a little bit.

So we wanted to just fill people in on where we've been

and what we've been doing. So our last episode talked about investigations. Our last two

episodes actually talked about investigations. And we mentioned that an independent investigation

was going to be starting, that a local church had hired an outside company to come in and do an independent investigation.

So we have been prepping for that for the last several weeks.

Prepping is a small word.

Prepping is a small word.

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