And I get a phone call from my mom around 10 o'clock. And she just is like kind of crying-ish and just panicked. And she's like, the barn's on fire. The barn's on fire. And I'm like, whoa, what? Like our life was so calm and all of a sudden everything changes in that one moment.

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So sweet friend, in these last months, not even that long, but you've been through an incredibly

difficult experience.

And we actually are jumping on Mike just because we feel like the story is something so profound

that we need to capture it in the moment.

And thank you in advance for being willing to open up your heart about this experience,

Aaron.

Yeah, it's been maybe three weeks right now to this recording that my parents experienced

and our family experienced a tremendous loss.

I'd like to preface.

We're going to be talking about a loss that is of like family, legacy, history, a building that was caught on fire from a lightning bolt.

So I want to make sure to be sensitive to anybody that's experiencing a loss of a person.

It's a different type of loss.

And so I'll just be sharing what it's like to experience a loss of something physical,

but like a thing, but had a meaning behind the thing.

And saying that, you know, this has been a season of rippling losses for a lot of people

in the United States.

I mean, the floods and lots of fires and the horrible tragedy in Curville, Texas,

and just so many inexplicable experiences of grief.

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