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So I'm going on a trip and my daughter's coming with me and I was just speaking to one of her friend's moms because I may bring someone.

And the mom was talking to me about safety and, you know, I said we would have at least one or two men if the girls would go get ice cream or something.

The only thing that would be, I said, like, I'll be with them. The only time that I wouldn't be

with them is, let's say, I'm at a work thing. And then there is one of the boat members, the crew

members, that would be with the girls to go get ice cream. They won't be alone. And she was like,

yeah, because of trafficking, et cetera. And trafficking is a brutal concept. And there have been times when my daughter's been

with friends and she's been like in the city and they're going to dinner and, you know,

or they're taking a daytime train from the suburbs into the city. And like, you just cringe a little.

Like you don't know how hard to go. You know what we did, but I think it's a different world.

And it's terrifying. And so you're trying to convey to your kids the fear, but also, like,

they can't know what it's like until they feel scared about something. So, like, I always say to my daughter, you know, you don't know what it's like until they feel scared about something.

So, like, I always say to my daughter, you know, you don't know what it's like in Puerto Rico after an earthquake or a hurricane or something when they've lost everything and their waste deep in filthy water and have no electricity.

She can't understand that unless I take her. And I haven't yet

taken her. The one time I was supposed to take her to North Carolina, she was a really little kid,

and she got sick. And I was going to take her to Poland and it didn't work out. And I'm going to

take her. And it's not late because I do this as a part of my life. But I'm going to take her,

but I want her to feel it. And in the same way,

it's almost like something happened recently with a friend group and something happened where there was something, something occurred where there was like a, she got a glimpse of fear.

And I was also scared, but I was also happy because it was like getting in a car and spilling something at the beginning of the ride.

You're like, something's going to get spilled. Let's just get it out of the way.

Meaning, like, I want her to feel a sense of fear so she knows that, like, the world isn't so innocent and pure.

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