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Rachel goes back to California, to the place where she grew up and where her brother and father died, to find answers.

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We Were Three - Ep. 1: Black Box

Rachel McKibben's and her dad, Pete Kamacho, stop talking and resume talking many times

He could be generous, he could be mean and drunk, she learned how to be mean.

She left California, moved across the country.

She loved him when she could, and she never wrote him off.

She made sure her kids knew the good version of him.

When COVID started, Rachel and her father were in a barely talking phase.

Trying to find the email where he reached out.

And it said, just want to be sure that my New York family is safe in all of this.

Please, if there's anything you need, let me know.

And I was like, okay, here's an olive branch.

Rachel and her partner at the time, Jacob, ran a bar in restaurant in Rochester, New York.

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0:00.0	Rachel McKibben's and her dad, Pete Kamacho, stop talking and resume talking many times
0:07.2	over the course of her life.
0:09.2	He could be generous, he could be mean and drunk, she learned how to be mean.
0:14.8	She left California, moved across the country.
0:18.2	She loved him when she could, and she never wrote him off.
0:21.5	She made sure her kids knew the good version of him.
0:25.4	When COVID started, Rachel and her father were in a barely talking phase.
0:29.8	But a few months in, he emailed her.
0:32.2	Trying to find the email where he reached out.
0:35.2	So I think the word was infusion.
0:39.5	Infusion meant he was sending money.
0:41.8	Yep, here we go, infusion.
0:43.9	That was right.
0:44.9	She opened the email.
0:46.5	And it said, just want to be sure that my New York family is safe in all of this.
0:53.2	Please, if there's anything you need, let me know.
0:57.1	We are family after all.
0:58.8	And I was like, okay, here's an olive branch.
1:03.9	He sent $1,000 to her bank account.
1:06.8	An infusion, it saved the day.
1:10.2	Rachel and her partner at the time, Jacob, ran a bar in restaurant in Rochester, New York.
1:15.8	It was closed, COVID.
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We Were Three - Ep. 1: Black Box

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