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Hi everybody, I'm pet, I'm also a Florida girl.

When Terry and I talked and she asked me, she gave me a couple of choices of things to talk

about at the workshop here and one of them was relying on women and immediately I dismissed

that.

I didn't like women so there was no point in me talking about relying on women.

And then I thought for a second, I said, yeah, I'll talk on that because after I had

a few seconds to reflect, my attitude toward women is sort of a little bit of what has

what it was like and what happened to me and what it's like now because my relationship

with women, really my relationship with myself has changed dramatically over the years.

And I was a little girl, I was named after my mother and father's best man, Patrick.

And I always felt like they were a little bit disappointed because I was not a man.

And they always would tell me the story and they would tell me that Patrick was six feet

four and just a giant of a man and I was a pretty insignificant little toddler.

I was the only grandchild for 12 years and I loved that.

I had a half sister but she was always at her father's and I would go up to my grandparents

where all the uncles and two aunts were.

I loved that because I was the only kid but I observed a lot of things there too.

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