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There's still things that I block in the back of my head, not because I don't want to think about them now, but for reasons of that that's behind me and I have my future in front of me. I'm my future in front of me.

Hey, it's Jamie Cabe.

Welcome back to The Forgotten podcast.

You can find out more about today's episode by visiting the forgotten initiative.org

slash S3E12.

That's for season three, episode 12, and that actually means the end of season

three. Next time we will play our encore episode, and then we will start season four in just a

couple of weeks. Well, my guest today is my friend Keith McAfee. Keith had a less than

idyllic childhood. He was denied by his biological father, raised by several abusive stepfathers.

He made poor decisions, suffered various kinds of abuse. But you know what? His story is a story of redemption, beauty from ashes.

And today he's going to share his story with us. And I hope that this episode will remind you that

God is a God of details and he can make good out of any situation. Let's go to my interview with Keith right now.

Keith, I am happy to have you on the show today. You're a good friend, and I am excited for

our listeners to hear your story. We talked a little bit before recording that your earliest

memory was when you were two sitting on your grandpa's lap with your blankie driving a bobcat,

right? And I think we can look at that and think, wow, that sounds perfect. Like, that's the perfect

childhood memory. But your childhood was nothing really perfect, right? It wasn't like

that. Can you just talk to us and just we'll walk through kind of your childhood, but just start

telling us a little bit about what you experienced? Well, I guess to set that picture up,

probably need to go a year or two prior. My mother was

17, a senior in high school, and she got pregnant. The story goes at a party with, she met up

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