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Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup. Thank you. Hey guys, and welcome to the moms andies podcast, a true crime podcast featuring myself,

Mandy, and my dear friend Melissa. Hi, Melissa. Hi, Mandy. How are you? I am doing well. I can hardly

believe that we are already more than halfway through October. And yes, and this month has been amazing. We've heard from so

many of our listeners that they are just really loving the stories that we've been sharing

this month and loving and appreciating the information that we've been sharing about

domestic violence for domestic violence awareness month. Absolutely. I've learned so much this month,

especially just signs that I would not look out for that I would have never really

notice maybe. So as like we've talked a lot about us having kids that are getting ready to date

or are dating to be able to see these signs way before, you know, maybe something escalates. It's invaluable.

I mean, I'm just thrilled that we're doing this. And yeah, I hope it's helping other people as much.

Yes, me too. I feel like this has been such a wonderful opportunity to be able to even share,

like you were saying, a little bit more information and more in-depth information as far as resources and signs to

look out for and just information that people might not. Some things that you might think are

common sense, but you have never heard them verbalized. And there are some things that are

going to come up in this episode that I'm really happy that we're going to be able to share this

week, more detailed information about the cycle of abuse and how it pertained to this week's story.

So we're just going to get really directly into it.

Megan Kiefer was someone who left a lasting impression on everyone she met.

Born on June 29, 1994, Megan was the first of four kids born to her mom, Bevin, who we actually had the honor of

working with to produce this episode. Bevin and Megan's father were married, but he was abusive,

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