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Thank you so much for listening.

You think you know me, you don't know me well, at all, at all.

You can't know me.

You don't know me.

You don't know anybody until you don't know a lot of someone. I was enjoying my time with my friends.

We went on a lot of different road trips, so it was a good time.

I ended up dating somebody who was in my revival group.

We were friends, and it turned into something more.

I'll call him Will.

He was from Europe, and we were really good friends,

but we ended up falling into sin, as they would say at Bethel.

There was a lot of shame around that, a lot of guilt that we both had because of how much Bethel was preaching purity.

We ended up going to our revival group pastor and telling her what we had done,

which we hadn't even done anything crazy. It was just not Bethel approved. I just remember feeling

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