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Hey, what's up you guys? I'm Andrea. And I'm Haley. And you're listening to In Human, the Monster of Cleveland, and the badass survival story of Michelle, Amanda, and Gina.

Oh, and I also wanted to just, I forgot, I was going to do this last episode, but I wanted to give a shout out to Charles, the man who came up to the door and helped them.

We never, like we talked a little bit about him and the lady who was like me and then the other guy, but shout out to you, Charles, you're the real MVP.

Yeah, really. I mean, there's actually you guys should look it up. There's like an interview with him and him talking about it. And it's like the best thing. He's just like amazing. So you got everybody should go on interview. He's great.

Doesn't doesn't he say like when a white woman runs up to you and hugs you, you know, as a black man, like something, something's up. Yeah.

And I thought that was hilarious because yeah, it's kind of true. Yeah, I mean, I get I mean, I guess in what's certain people's perspective and the neighborhood that they lived in and things like that. Yeah, I can see that. Yeah.

So this episode we're going to be covering where are they now? What are the girls up to now? How they're coping, how they're healing and what amazing things that they're doing to kind of give back to the community or we'll touch base on that. But then we'll go into a little bit more detail later on, I think. Right.

Yeah, I'm going to talk for Amanda and Gina, at least kind of like what how their lives were right after and then kind of the things that they have done to give back, I guess. I don't know if that's the right word, but you know what I mean.

Yeah. Okay. So we're going to rewind a little bit.

Just to kind of cover the story as to like leading up to now for Michelle. So after her stay at the hospital, Michelle actually snuck out the back way to try to avoid the media.

She was escorted to an assisted living home that was run by an older couple.

Had her own room on the main floor, which was a wonderful change after being chained to another person on the top floor for so many years.

I know. Michelle craved freedom. She said in her book, quote, do you have any idea what it's like to wake up and realize no one's going to rape you that day? How wonderful it is to see the sunlight pouring through your window.

So great it is to walk around without a heavy chain around your wrists and ankles. It feels amazing. And once you feel that you want your full independence.

In other words, you want your whole life back.

And I totally understand why she felt that way. I know.

And why she was like seeking that solitude because she, I mean, like she said, she was with Gina for like what eight years basically or maybe a little less than that, but a long time.

Right. Yeah, exactly.

I mean, and it's just crazy to think like, you know, something we take for granted, not having that stuff happen to us every day.

And all of a sudden she is like, it's the opposite. And it's crazy to think about how, you know, they went through so much shit that like we can read about we can talk about, but we'll never understand it.

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