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thanks for that Mark while according to
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Dave metso women are objects of Wonder
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they miraculously transform adversity
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into Triumph and he has compiled a book
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of miraculous stories by Wonder Woman
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from all over the world well after the
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death of his precious wife Monique his
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book pays tribute to her and the many
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women who have changed Society despite
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adversity all of this through love
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endurance and understanding Dave joins
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us in studio to share some of the moving
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stories captured in Miracle woman
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triumphing over adversity good morning
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David so great to have you in studio
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with us hello Stacy thank you very much
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for having me you flew up from deran all
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the way to chat all the way from der to
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chat good flight chat with us um it's
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really a fantastic book just reading
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some of the stories last night I read um
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one of the the final Stories the one
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about Jessica and I really I was brought
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to tears and I I actually I don't
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understand how some of these women um
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got through the pain and the horror of
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what they experienced to the point where
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they could share it so openly um um with
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the rest of the world with with South
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Africa but you certainly got them to
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confide in you well um that's why I call
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them butterflies because because they
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did they they went into this you know
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this caterpillar was the experience that
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ugly experience and then for a for a
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while it was like a dark cocoon
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depression but then being an object of
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Wonder this miraculum you know the woman
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thing um she and and and many like her
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have have taken a different stance on
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things so they said you know what I'm
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not a victim I'm a survivor as J says in
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her story and so they come out of the
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Cocoon and they spread their beautiful
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colorful wings and they share it with
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the world and they you know they they're
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instilling hope um for for other um
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survivors victims of of rape so yeah the
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butterfly stories are are quite
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astounding and for me it was a wonderful
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experience to to be able to go through
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those things because I thought that my
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own story you know was quite a thing
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well I mean just going back to your old
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sto Your Own Story uh in chapter one you
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open the chapter with when a man marries
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he sweethart he changes tell me about
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Monique and and how she changed your
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life have we got a few
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hours you know just very briefly um
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because I realized the time is short is
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that um when I I I I was running many
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many businesses at the time and I needed
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a secretary yeah and so I I went to my
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banker and I knew that his secretary was
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very very efficient besides beautiful
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and so I I asked if you wouldn't mind
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you know having an interview with me
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just to talk about maybe moving over to
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me you know as a as an employee so
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that's what we did we went to
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lunch and in the lunch we didn't talk
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about business whatsoever she was like a
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a breath of fresh air to me I couldn't
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believe that that woman like this
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existed you know um she had this
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infectious Little Giggle and and and she
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wasn't flirtatious at all you know and
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neither was I because I was a very stoic
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kind of individual very disciplined but
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something had happened and in that
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moment I realized that um there were
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bounds that I was crossing here that I
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really shouldn't be Crossing as I say I
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was quite you know disciplined and I was
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trying to I was trying to be a righteous
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boy but um it it just happened and and
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so she went back uh to her place of
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employment went back to the bank and
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that afternoon I found her and I said
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listen can we meet for coffee this
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evening uh or this late in the afternoon
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when she finished work so we went to a
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little coffee shop and I fell in love
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with her at that coffee shop she was
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talking across the table and she was so
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you know full of love and life and
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whatever you and I thought to myself wow
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now I understand what this feeling is
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cuz I didn't quite understand it at
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lunch yeah but at the coffee I
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understood it it was it was something
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I'd never experienced in my life before
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I want to read excer from your book and
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um it really just highlights um why this
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is such such a powerful book because
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Dave's wife passed away uh from breast
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cancer and we celebrate breast cancer in
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October and Dave mentioned that this
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wasn't the reason why you decided to
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publish and release the book at this
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particular time just perhaps it
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coincided but this particular paragraph
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Kelsey was stroking her mom's hair and
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saying goodbye when Eden arrived I went
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out to meet her my vision was blurred by
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tears but I saw her running towards me
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down the corridor fear and questioning
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on her face I knelt and held her in her
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arms mommy is in a lot of pain my
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darling and she cannot bear it anymore
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she's going to live much she isn't going
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to live much longer come and tell her
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how much you love her and say thank you
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for being such a wonderful mother come
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and say goodbye to Mom that must have
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been such a difficult moment not just
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for you but for your daughters terrible
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I mean it's very difficult for me to
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actually talk about it because um and
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that was the most difficult part of
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writing the whole book is is to having
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to go over the stories and and and I
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have to tell the same story over and
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over again yeah um because Monique and I
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were one in every sense of the word we
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were so to um to have gone through that
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experience it just it just destroyed me
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just destroyed me and you know the
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children but but the truth is is that in
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writing the book okay because I wanted
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to it didn't start out as as writing a
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book of this nature I was just writing
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perhaps for therapy perhaps as I said in
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one of the pages that I I I had a little
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heading saying why I've written the book
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and really it was try trying to
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reconnect with money you see to relive
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those experiences that I had so enjoyed
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and um then because she she has this
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online um women's organization women's
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lifestyle I think you saw that there um
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and she had 30,000 women in South Africa
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on her daa base so I sent out a a
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message to them to say if you've got any
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stories of you know difficulty that
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you've overcome let me know yeah and
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then was a huge amount of therapy for me
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and that's why I think to a large extent
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the book kind of like encompasses a
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healing is because it was a healing for
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me um but for all the writers all those
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beautiful women that had contributed
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these stories it was a healing for them
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as well so I'm told you know overall I
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feel that the it's not really a book I
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think that this is an experience yes I
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and I can completely agree with you and
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U many women out there if you've ever
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overcome difficult circumstances or
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you'd like to encourage other women out
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there this is a perfect gift gift how do
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people get hold of the book off the off
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the website the yeah just go to the
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website Miracle women as in plural n on
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the end all right. and all the details
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are there and you're looking for for
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more stories this is Vol volume one
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that's volume one you're hoping to um
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release the invitation is there for all
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the readers if they've got a story that
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they want to tell and there's the
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examples of of you know how and what to
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talk about right right from the heart
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tell me your story and we'll put you in
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volume two so there's the miracle wife
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mother the miracle sister daughter it
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goes on and on the miracle butterf and
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the miracle and stress get the book you
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can um contact Dave we're chatting to
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Dave M metler rather the author of
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Miracle woman triumphing over adversity
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to purchase the book and to contact him
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especially if you have a story and you'd
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like to contribute to Volume 2 go to his
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website www.m miracle woman.
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