The whole story read like something out of a cold war thriller.

A bunch of outsiders descend on a sleepy town in the Ozarks

to steal its prized fish, undercover federal agents

who launch a three-year-long sting to crack open

an international crime ring.

So who exactly were these poachers?

I'd heard rumors, it might be the Russian mafia.

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She thought of us parents.

She did, I mean, yeah, we were her parents,

but she thought we was her friends as well.

Close friends.

And she didn't mind telling any of her friends or whoever.

And her friends loved to hang out with us too, you know.

We just treated him just like one of ours.

It's the good things, I mean, when you think about her

and that hurt is there, then you put a good memory in there,

and that good memory drowns out a bad for eight while,

a little while.

You have to, I mean, we have to.

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