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Welcome to the Cheekies and Chill podcast.

I hope that this holiday season has treated you well and that you're joyful and happy. And talking about

the holidays, this year's holiday season has looked a lot different for me. As most of you know,

I'm about a year and a half into my marriage, which means it's time for me and Emilio to start

making our own family traditions. In the past, my holidays have been really centered around my siblings,

but I think we've all reached a point where we're starting to move away from that.

And that's been very difficult to accept, but I'm ready.

Okay. Where do I start? Yes, Emilio and I have been married a year and a half and I

have grown quite a bit in this relationship. I have shared that with you guys, how I've

grown and why and where I come from in my past

relationships and all of the things that I had to face, accept and also learn and unlearn.

So there's been a lot of growing in this relationship, which I'm very grateful for.

And one of those things have been understanding what marriage really is, understanding that we are a team, that it's him and I, and that is my family.

And that's a family I chose.

It's him, Banjo and Ryu Ryu are dogs. That's it. For me,

in the past, which I can accept, one of the things I had to accept was that I would always put my

siblings first. They were my everything. That was my family.

And there's nothing wrong with that. It served its purpose. I was able to help guide them

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