Welcome to Can't Believe Reckless, a production of IHartRadio and The Black Effect.

And just like that, we're back on the air.

Happy Wednesday, y'all.

Welcome back to yet another carefully reckless episode with

your girl, Jess Alarious. I'm going to jump straight in. We got more voice notes. I love this,

y'all. I love this shit. I still got a lot of stories to read, but I'll revisit that next week.

We're going to start with the voice notes, make those priority this week. How I'm going to do it is I'll do for the first

two weeks out of the month, I'll do voice notes. And then the last two weeks out of the month,

I'll do the red stories because I still want you guys to send in paragraphs or whatever.

I joke and play when I say you guys don't punctuate. I can read through it and I can

make sense of it unless you just plain damn slow. All right? Get your shit together. We're going to start

off, jump straight into it. Here we go. Hey, Jess. I just want to say I've been listening to you

since episode one of this podcast and girl, I you I love you reels I miss just with the

mess but I know why you stopped doing it with your son and Chadwick and I respect that but

anyways my mess is family related and I'm gonna try to keep it shorter than it really could get

so I have a cousin and me and that cousin grew up kind of like sister, brother cousins.

Similar age, when we got to be older, you know, groups mingle. I would date his friends. He would

date a few of my friends. Always was, you know, that's how it went. As we got a little older,

it started to seem like he wanted to kind of shut me out but still date my friends.

So I had a friend and at the time he had a child on the way and I invited my friend to a family

event.

She met my cousin unknowings to me.

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