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Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess,

Trine Hermosta, Sarah Nicole, and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed

in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that. So get ready to get inspired, get

candid, get real because we are all in this digital space together.

All right everyone, welcome back. I am really excited to have today's guest on

to be honest. She was actually submitted by a friend who I don't even tell you this.

She texted me one day and she was like, you need to have this person on your podcast. And I was like,

all right, like people tell me this all the time, they're always submitting their friends and

different people that they think would be great guests, which is awesome. Keep doing that.

But I immediately went and looked at this person's profile and knew that she had to come and share

her story in this space. And thankfully, only lives like just down the road. So it worked out

very, very, very splendidly. Please welcome Marquis Etier.

Hi, thanks for having me. Oh my gosh, I'm so excited. So you have quite an incredible story

and you're one, I'm just saying you're one of the podcast guests that I actually did a little

research on because usually I like to be surprised by a story. However, your story is one that

I think for many people don't realize is something that happens so close to home. It's not,

that we feel like it's something so foreign. It's something that we see in movies. It's something

that won't touch us. It won't touch our families. And you have kind of come in and shared your

story and you're changing the way that we're looking at the subject. So take a moment, take 10

minutes, take however long you want, and tell your story. And then we'll kind of go from there

because I really, I really want people to get a chance to hear this and listen with a lot of

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