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Here's Aridian. At that time, I graduated with my associates at our community college and it was like such

a wonderful experience and Lindsay, Ben's sister, got so excited and like, she was like, let's

celebrate you.

This is wonderful.

Ben's mom was so proud. Like she at that point was like, you are like my daughter

and I'm so proud of you. And my parents got together and my grandparents were in town on their

visa, like coming from out of the country. And they like came to have dinner with us and I just remember crystal throwing the biggest

fit because everyone was celebrating my graduation and she was just saying like well no one celebrated

my graduation and I got two associates degrees

and she only got one. And this was not around me or Ben at all. This was in front of Lindsay and

Ben's mom and she was just visibly angry.

And then I guess at one point,

Lindsay was like,

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