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Hello and welcome to another edition of Turned Out of Punk. I'm your host, Damian Abraham, and it's going to be kind of a different sort of episode. A week ago, I kind of cryptically talked about there being some family issues going on.

My mom, Cheryl Hastings, suffered a cataclysmic stroke. The time of recording the intro, I didn't realize how bad it was.

She held on for another week, giving us time to all get a chance to say goodbye.

And when she did finally pass, Tristan and I were with her and her sister was with her too and so she was surrounded

by love and I think in that situation that's the best I could hope for at that point.

She was a really great person, you know, like I'm not, I'm not a good person myself, you know, like I try, but I don't think I'm as pure of heart as she was.

She was someone that really strove to make the world

around her a little bit better. She didn't do massive projects or you know

things like that but she was always trying to help people

around her and I think I really saw that this past week with all the people that have, you know, talked to me and talked about how much

she meant to them.

I'm going to take this chance right now to say thank you to each and every one of you that have

reached out to me and said, you know, a kind word or if you knew or a memory and if you didn't just

offering support to me and the family, you know, we're going to get through this, obviously, but right now for Tristan and I, it just

felt really inappropriate for me to kind of come on here and hype up another episode of the show to you and talk about someone and

be full of joy when that's not at all what's going on right now. So I thought it would be better instead of giving you

nothing to listen to. I'm going to repost up the episode that I did with my mom a year or so ago.

It's a great conversation and I think it really shows who she was as a person, you know, and the kind of joy and love that she inspired from, you know, not just me but a lot of people around her.

So I dedicate this episode to her and her memory and to Tristan and once again to our entire family and to anyone

around us that's experiencing pain right now with her loss. And also this goes out to anyone out there who's ever lost

someone they love, you know, a parent, you know, I lost people before but

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