Hey guys and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast, a true crime podcast featuring myself, Mandy, and my dear friend Melissa. Hi, Melissa. Hi, Mandy. How are you? I am doing well. How are you doing, Melissa?

Mandy, I am doing pretty good. I had surgery a week and a half ago on my hip. I had basically

everything you could have done to your hip without having it replaced. And so I'm sitting today

recording in a giant brace and just living life to the absolute fullest. Yes, I'm I'm living

my life max. And by that, I mean, I'm walking around on crutches and having other people help me

pull my pants up. But besides that, things are going well. Yeah, I was able to see you earlier this

past week. So I got to see you with your brace and you were actually

impressing me with how you were getting around very well. I was, I don't know why I always hear

hip surgery, which is very serious and it sounds serious and it is. But like I always am so

impressed with people who have hip things, hip surgeries, and you guys are like up and moving around,

like, so well. I don't know what I was picturing. They make you. It wasn't because of choice. I was on the

exercise bike with like no resistance less than a week after. So it's been, it's crazy. It's just like certain movements you can't do, which is why you have a brace. But yeah, I'm so glad to have that behind me. Cannot wait to do things like walk, just walk my neighborhood, which has been my goal the whole freaking time. And yeah, so I am doing really good. I'm on the other side of it. And that is a wonderful feeling. Yeah. So yeah. So we're here recording. It's been a while since we've recorded. We took a little

break so you could just focus on healing up. But yes. So this episode is going to be coming out on

Thanksgiving Day. Of course, as you guys know, if you listen to the show for a while, you know,

we don't normally

release an episode the week of Thanksgiving. It's always such a busy time. But we have been

releasing episodes on Thursdays all year this year. So we did want to share a special story.

The family really just wants to get the story out there and to share what happened to their loved

one. So today we'll be telling the story

of Nicole Sanchez. She's a young woman whose life was filled with light, creativity, and

plans for the future. But a single act of violence took all of it away. Nicole was born on April 22nd,

1982 in Saginaw, Michigan, and from the moment she arrived,

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