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      <video:title>I have the Midas touch. All I have to do is sit in an office and the deals start rolling in.</video:title>
      <video:description>I have the Midas touch. All I have to do is sit in an office and the deals start rolling in. The Vice President treated me like a queen, terrified Id jump ship.</video:description>
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      <video:description>Never Go to the Farm, Margaret The words came back to me as I sat in Jamess attorneys office two weeks after the funeral. Never go to the farm, Maggie. Promise me.</video:description>
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      <video:title>I was pouring coffee when the phone rang. It was my son Ryan, the pilot</video:title>
      <video:description>I was pouring coffee when the phone rang. It was my son Ryan, the pilot. Mom, I need you to tell me something quickly. Is Caroline home? I answered without thinking. Yes, she just got in the shower. There was a long silence on the other end of the line. Then he whispered, Thats impossible. She just boarded my flight to Paris.</video:description>
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      <video:title>When my son got married, I stayed silent about the 53 million dollars I inherited from my late husba</video:title>
      <video:description>When my son got married, I stayed silent about the 53 million dollars I inherited from my late husband. Thank goodness I did. Because days later, his wife showed up with a lawyer at my door.</video:description>
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      <video:title>Youre nothing but a useless old woman, Mom. What would you even do with a real inheritance?</video:title>
      <video:description>I never imagined Id spend my sixty-eighth birthday sleeping in an abandoned garage, surrounded by the smell of motor oil and decades of dust. But there I was, fumbling with an unfamiliar key in the dark, tears blurring my vision while my sons words echoed in my head. Youre just a useless old woman, Mom. What would you even do with a real inheritance? Dad knew that.</video:description>
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      <video:title>Why is there an elderly couple living in the lakefront house I bought for you?</video:title>
      <video:description>At Thanksgiving dinner, in front of the whole family, my mother stood up from the table and said, Why is there an elderly couple living in the lakefront house I bought for you?</video:description>
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      <video:title>My son humiliated me at my 60th birthday party, in front of forty guests, telling me</video:title>
      <video:description>My son humiliated me at my 60th birthday party, in front of forty guests, telling me I needed to start paying rent or move out.</video:description>
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      <video:title>That night, while my son screamed, Get out of here, Mom! My fiancé doesnt want you here!</video:title>
      <video:description>That night, while my son screamed, Get out of here, Mom! My fiancé doesnt want you here! in front of two hundred guests, I finally understood.</video:description>
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      <video:title>My own son tried to kill me with a box of poisoned chocolates</video:title>
      <video:description>My own son tried to kill me with a box of poisoned chocolates, and the thing that saved my life was the same flaw he despised in me. When he called the next morning and asked if I had eaten them, I told him the truth.</video:description>
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      <video:title>Perfect. That was the word I said to my daughter-in-law, Tiffany, when she...</video:title>
      <video:description>Perfect. That was the word I said to my daughter-in-law, Tiffany, when she announced that twenty-five members of her family were coming to spend Christmas at my house.</video:description>
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    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/my-name-is-eleanor-i-am-sixty-nine-years-old-and-on-the-day-my-husbands-will-was-read</loc>
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      <video:title>My name is Eleanor. I am sixty-nine years old. And on the day my husbands will was read</video:title>
      <video:description>My name is Eleanor. I am sixty-nine years old. And on the day my husbands will was read, my sons split thirty million dollars between them like it was a hand of poker. Steven took the construction companies. Daniel inherited the restaurant chain, the properties, the luxury apartments, the sports cars. Everything.</video:description>
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      <video:title>A toast to my father, who finally got rid of that disgusting woman who is my mother.</video:title>
      <video:description>A toast to my father, who finally got rid of that disgusting woman who is my mother. My daughter said it out loud, lifting her champagne glass, and the whole table burst out laughing.</video:description>
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      <video:title>During a family dinner, my son Michael looked at me across the table and said:</video:title>
      <video:description>During a family dinner, my son Michael looked at me across the table and said, Your job is to take care of my kids while I enjoy life with my wife. Thats it. If you have a problem with that, the door is right there.</video:description>
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      <video:title>On my 65th birthday, my daughter-in-law knocked my cake onto the patio and smiled at me.</video:title>
      <video:description>On my 65th birthday, my daughter-in-law knocked my cake onto the patio and smiled at me. Oops, she said. Just that one word. So I picked up her twenty-five-hundred-dollar Gucci purse, dropped it into the fire pit, and said the exact same word back to her. Oops.</video:description>
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      <video:title>I was lifting my champagne glass to toast my retirement when I saw my daughter-in-law Jessica</video:title>
      <video:description>I was lifting my champagne glass to toast my retirement when I saw my daughter-in-law Jessica tipping something into my drink, whispering under her breath, Finally.</video:description>
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      <video:title>I keep telling myself I should have spoken up earlier, but then again, maybe everything happened exa</video:title>
      <video:description>I keep telling myself I should have spoken up earlier, but then again, maybe everything happened exactly when it was supposed to.</video:description>
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      <video:title>I took my daughter-in-laws broken phone to be repaired, but after examining it</video:title>
      <video:description>I took my daughter-in-laws broken phone to be repaired, but after examining it, the technician pulled me aside and whispered, Maam, you need to cancel everything. Change all your cards, all your passwords, and get out of that house immediately.</video:description>
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      <video:title>After an argument, my daughter cancelled my ticket and left me alone at the international airport in</video:title>
      <video:description>After an argument, my daughter cancelled my ticket and left me alone at the international airport in Dubai with no phone, no wallet, and no way to call for help.</video:description>
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      <video:title>When I walked into that courtroom, my own daughter let out a little laugh and my son-in-law shook hi</video:title>
      <video:description>When I walked into that courtroom, my own daughter let out a little laugh and my son-in-law shook his head like I was a misbehaving child.</video:description>
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      <video:title>I stood in my kitchen in Queen Anne, watching the mist crawl over the Space Needle like</video:title>
      <video:description>I stood in my kitchen in Queen Anne, watching the mist crawl over the Space Needle like a slow gray ghost. The coffee in my mug had gone cold, a bitter sludge that matched the metallic taste in my mouth.</video:description>
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      <video:title>My name is Emily Bennett. Im 31 years old. Nine weeks ago, I gave my own father my left kidney and s</video:title>
      <video:description>My name is Emily Bennett. Im 31 years old. Nine weeks ago, I gave my own father my left kidney and saved his life.</video:description>
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      <video:description>My husband left me for his secretary and took every last penny I had. I sold my wedding ring to buy a train ticket out of town.</video:description>
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    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/rot-in-jail-mom-while-we-spend-every-dollar-of-your-fortune</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>Rot in jail, Mom, while we spend every dollar of your fortune.</video:title>
      <video:description>Rot in jail, Mom, while we spend every dollar of your fortune. My son Brians voice cut across the courtroom just as the officer clicked the handcuffs shut around my wrists</video:description>
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    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/i-drove-my-husband-to-the-airport-on-a-thursday-night-i-thought-it-was-just-another-business-trip</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>I drove my husband to the airport on a Thursday night. I thought it was just another business trip</video:title>
      <video:description>I drove my husband to the airport on a Thursday night. I thought it was just another business trip, but as I was about to start the car to head back, my six-year-old son grabbed my arm so hard that his little nails dug into my skin. He whispered, his eyes wide with terror, Mom, dont go back home, please. This morning I heard Daddy on the phone. Hes going to do something really bad to us. I felt the blood freeze in my veins. And that was where it all began.</video:description>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/my-son-nathaniel-looked-me-straight-in-the-eye-and-said-dad-maybe-its-time-you-found-your-own-place-2</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>My son Nathaniel looked me straight in the eye and said, Dad, maybe its time you found your own plac</video:title>
      <video:description>My son Nathaniel looked me straight in the eye and said, Dad, maybe its time you found your own place.</video:description>
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      <video:duration>1997</video:duration>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/the-first-time-i-realized-my-own-family-no-longer-saw-me-as-a-mother-full-story</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>The first time I realized my own family no longer saw me as a mother FULL STORY</video:title>
      <video:description>The first time I realized my own family no longer saw me as a mother, I was standing alone in my kitchen, watching a pot of soup go cold while my phone lit up with Christmas emojis.</video:description>
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      <video:duration>2080</video:duration>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/one-month-after-my-daughters-wedding-the-photographer-called-me-and-whispered</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>One month after my daughters wedding, the photographer called me and whispered</video:title>
      <video:description>One month after my daughters wedding, the photographer called me and whispered, Mr. Coleman, I found something terrible in the photos. Come to my studio immediately, alone, and dont say a word to your daughter.</video:description>
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      <video:duration>2075</video:duration>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/im-not-an-old-ladys-ambulance-thomass-shout-still-rang-in-the-kitchen-while-i-stood-there-shaking</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>Im not an old ladys ambulance. Thomass shout still rang in the kitchen while I stood there shaking.</video:title>
      <video:description>Im not an old ladys ambulance. Thomass shout still rang in the kitchen while I stood there shaking...</video:description>
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      <video:duration>2089</video:duration>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/my-daughter-in-law-didnt-see-me-come-in-she-was-talking-to-my-son-yes-i-cut-the-brake-line</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>My daughter in law didnt see me come in. She was talking to my son. Yes, I cut the brake line</video:title>
      <video:description>My daughter in law didnt see me come in. She was talking to my son. Yes, I cut the brake line</video:description>
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      <video:duration>2055</video:duration>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/i-drove-nine-hours-with-a-box-of-family-heirlooms-only-to-be-told-the-engagement-dinner-had-been</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>I drove nine hours with a box of family heirlooms only to be told the engagement dinner had been</video:title>
      <video:description>I drove nine hours with a box of family heirlooms only to be told the engagement dinner had been yesterday. I stood on the porch holding that box while they smiled at me like I was a neighbor who had shown up uninvited.</video:description>
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      <video:duration>1854</video:duration>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/on-fathers-day-my-son-gave-his-father-in-law-a-truck-worth-more-than-my-house</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>On Fathers Day, my son gave his father-in-law a truck worth more than my house.</video:title>
      <video:description>On Fathers Day, my son gave his father-in-law a truck worth more than my house. To me, he gave a pair of eighty-nine-dollar sandals in a plastic grocery bag. No box. No card. Nothing.</video:description>
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      <video:duration>1732</video:duration>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/i-set-my-coffee-cup-down-on-the-kitchen-counter</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>I set my coffee cup down on the kitchen counter</video:title>
      <video:description>I set my coffee cup down on the kitchen counter and made myself very still, because the two people whispering in my hallway did not know I could hear them, and they were already dividing up my life while my wifes grave was still fresh.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/vfec7dWrwaPX/1784419881/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=_9-pCY2Gdtu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>1727</video:duration>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/the-flight-attendant-looked-at-my-bag</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>The flight attendant looked at my bag</video:title>
      <video:description>The flight attendant looked at my bag like it was something I shouldve left at home.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/KTvENfCb-qL6/1784431679/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=3C3E1lwbIZu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>2021</video:duration>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/my-son-told-me-to-pay-rent-or-get-out</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>My son told me to pay rent or get out</video:title>
      <video:description>My son told me to pay rent or get out, in front of twenty-five guests</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/uQiYQh5GYuN4/1784441127/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=2eFx9B2rddu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>2057</video:duration>
    </video:video>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/my-son-gave-me-two-choices-on-my-sixty-eighth-birthday</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>My son gave me two choices on my sixty eighth birthday</video:title>
      <video:description>My son gave me two choices</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/Iszk2nSQAAO5/1784524628/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=ET320t34Isu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>2037</video:duration>
    </video:video>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/cancel-your-wedding-tomorrow-morning</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>Cancel your wedding. Tomorrow morning</video:title>
      <video:description>Cancel your wedding. Tomorrow morning, before anyone expects you, go to your mother-in-laws house. Youll see everything with your own eyes.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/LYfqkbHGBWni/1784570729/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=EmFEvAxOcIu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>2114</video:duration>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/my-husband-left-his-empire-to-me</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>My husband left his empire to me</video:title>
      <video:description>My husband left his empire to me. My stepson sued, claiming I was an uneducated housewife who manipulated him.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/dqbmEfTd_0lG/1784589228/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=F0xNutFOdsu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>1556</video:duration>
    </video:video>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/i-drove-up-to-my-mountain-house-to-rest-my-sons-wife-opened-the-door</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>I Drove Up To My Mountain House To Rest My Sons Wife Opened The Door</video:title>
      <video:description>My husband dragged me to the gala to impress the new owner. Stay in the back. Stay in the back. Stay in the back</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/vff4cDeR20uP/1784618798/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=FfE_8cEjdcu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>1884</video:duration>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/my-sons-wife-brought-a-notary-to-my-kitchen</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>My Sons Wife Brought A Notary To My Kitchen</video:title>
      <video:description>On Mothers Day My Son Said He Wished Id Never Been His Mom - So I Drove Off In The Porsche He Thought Was...</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/uDrO7bGGYOXa/1784702802/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=_fE-v6xXksu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>1960</video:duration>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/on-mothers-day-my-son-said-he-wished-id-never-been-his-mom</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>On Mothers Day My Son Said He Wished Id Never Been His Mom</video:title>
      <video:description>On Mothers Day My Son Said He Wished Id Never Been His Mom So I Drove Off In The Porsche He Thought Was His</video:description>
      <video:thumbnail_loc>https://video-meta.open.video/poster/rfvaJdPrwOlH/t1784703191_poster.005.jpg</video:thumbnail_loc>
      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/rfvaJdPrwOlH/1784703432/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=Fe-UuRxGRZu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>2629</video:duration>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/nine-days-after-i-buried-my-husband-my-daughter-in-law-told-me</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>Nine Days After I Buried My Husband My Daughter In Law Told Me</video:title>
      <video:description>Nine Days After I Buried My Husband My Daughter In Law Told Me To Sign The Company Over And Move To A Home Then His La RENDER2</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/2hfG3fHlEU4H/1784807106/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=3e329swzQIu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>2088</video:duration>
    </video:video>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/i-never-told-my-daughters-ex-i-was-a-retired-us-marshal</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>I Never Told My Daughters Ex I Was A Retired U.S. Marshal</video:title>
      <video:description>I Never Told My Daughters Ex I Was A Retired U.S. Marshal He Threatened My Family, And Then He Came Up My Driveway</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/1uCC_tvYs6PJ/1784807834/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=Fe3MCtxjQdu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>2586</video:duration>
    </video:video>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/i-wore-my-oldest-coat-to-christmas-dinner-so-they-would-show-me-who-they-were</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>I Wore My Oldest Coat To Christmas Dinner So They Would Show Me Who They Were</video:title>
      <video:description>Raymond Callahan, 74, lives in a brick ranch house on Mill Creek Road in Rowan County, Virginia, drives a 1998 pickup and lets the whole town believe he was in the Army a long while back. He was. He retired with four stars on each shoulder and never told his son-in-laws family a word about it. After two years of being treated like a burden, he gets invited to Christmas dinner at their big house, so he wears the torn brown work coat he splits firewood in, on purpose, to find out exactly what a family like that does to a man they believe has nothing. He gets his answer in the doorway, at the table, and in the laugh that goes around the room. Then his son-in-laws father slides a white envelope across the tablecloth with two fingers, and inside it is a legal document with Raymonds own daughters signature already dried at the bottom.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/3-e83t1RtIad/1784808559/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=3C3MCs3ikcu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>3068</video:duration>
    </video:video>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/declared-dead-for-14-months-i-came-home-and-found-my-wife-scrubbing-floors</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>Declared Dead for 14 Months, I Came Home and Found My Wife Scrubbing Floors</video:title>
      <video:description>Fourteen months after a floatplane crash left him legally dead, a 69-year-old Montana builder walks up his own driveway and sees his wife on her knees, scrubbing the walnut floors he laid by hand while his brothers wife orders her around with a wine glass in hand. Instead of knocking, the dead man turns around in the dark and decides to stay dead just a little longer... until he has everything he needs to take back his house, his fortune, and his wifes dignity.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/wOfy_jKA_6jO/1784812030/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=-vF2Ds3PQZu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>1965</video:duration>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/my-3-year-old-grandson-touched-my-nose-in-the-bath-and-said</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>My 3-Year-Old Grandson Touched My Nose in the Bath and Said</video:title>
      <video:description>A 69-year-old widow leaves her little white house in Portugal and flies across the ocean because her daughter says Theo needs his grandma. Five weeks later, during bath time, her toddler grandson innocently repeats the plan he heard through the wall: sign the paper, get on the airplane, Mommy gets the money. She smiles, sings the duck song, tucks him in and that same night, behind a locked door, she buys a one-way ticket home. But before boarding, she finds the folder, discovers what her daughter and son-in-law already did with a house that wasnt theirs, and quietly does three things that two months later put her daughter on her doorstep in Portugal, unable to look her in the eye.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/1HvWRzGIYMZb/1784812366/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=wCFxCs3PRcu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>2028</video:duration>
    </video:video>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/my-daughter-in-law-didnt-see-me-come-in</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>My Daughter-in-Law Didnt See Me Come In</video:title>
      <video:description>A 74-year-old widow overhears her daughter-in-law planning to dump her in a nursing home and take her house. Instead of screaming, she backs out, rings her own doorbell, and plays the confused old lady while quietly moving the house into a trust. On the day of the scenic drive to the facility, her lawyer walks in, and the daughter-in-law races home to find her own boxes on the driveway.</video:description>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/my-son-and-his-wife-moved-in-at-midnight-and-handed-me-a-list-of-rules</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>My Son And His Wife Moved In At Midnight And Handed Me A List Of Rules</video:title>
      <video:description>Ruth Ann, 71, a widow in Chillicothe, Ohio, opens her door at twenty to midnight and finds her son and his wife on the porch with two hard-sided suitcases already set down. Ten minutes later her daughter-in-law has claimed the front bedroom and handed her a typed list of rules for her own home. Ruth swallows it and smiles. Then she notices the page is warm from that girls hand and printed on both sides, and the back of it is page three of a state form with her own legal name in capital letters, a case number, a line that reads Caregiver of Record, and her own signature at the bottom, dated fourteen months ago.</video:description>
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      <video:duration>2729</video:duration>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/my-son-sat-me-by-the-dumpsters-at-my-grandsons-18th-birthday</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>My Son Sat Me By The Dumpsters At My Grandsons 18th Birthday</video:title>
      <video:description>Marguerite Vance, 76, arrives at her grandsons eighteenth birthday party at the country club in the navy dress she bought for her husbands funeral, with his gold watch in a velvet box in her purse, because he promised it to the boy from a hospital bed six years ago. Her son walks her past forty-one guests and the men who flew in to buy his company, out the side door, to a folding table eleven feet from the dumpster corral, under the fryer vent, with one chair. She does not cry and she does not sit down. She picks up her purse, and on her way out she stops at the banquet desk and asks one quiet question about whose membership the party is booked under. At twenty past eight, a woman in a banquet blazer walks onto that terrace with a folio in her hand.</video:description>
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      <video:duration>2179</video:duration>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/my-daughter-in-law-threw-me-out-with-one-suitcase-then-a-black</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>My daughter-in-law threw me out with one suitcase, then a black</video:title>
      <video:description>Youre in my husbands house, eating food that WE pay for. If you dont want a nursing home, find another place to live! I took a deep breath, packed my little suitcase and walked out. Then a black limousine stopped beside me. The window rolled down... and when they found out who had come to pick me up, desperation took over.</video:description>
      <video:thumbnail_loc>https://video-meta.open.video/poster/H5fQtzaPFSBR/t1784839426_poster.005.jpg</video:thumbnail_loc>
      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/H5fQtzaPFSBR/1784839509/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=_9Fpv7w5QZu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>1623</video:duration>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/on-my-70th-birthday-my-son-said-he-couldnt-come-to-dinner</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>On my 70th birthday my son said he couldnt come to dinner</video:title>
      <video:description>On my 70th birthday, I called my son and asked, Dinner tonight? He said he couldnt make it. So I went alone and there he was at the best table in the house, toasting champagne with his wife and her mother. I didnt make a scene. I did something much worse.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/cdjckljy68Gk/1784839865/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
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      <video:duration>1444</video:duration>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/we-sold-our-apartment-were-moving-into-your-house-tomorrow</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>We Sold Our Apartment Were Moving Into YOUR House Tomorrow</video:title>
      <video:description>At a family dinner, my daughter-in-law announced theyd sold their apartment and were moving into my house the next day my son just smiled beside her. I wiped my mouth with my napkin and said: Perfect! But you two will be sleeping on the street, because... What I revealed next made her panic and exposed the two-year scheme shed built to steal my home.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/NTyosDDz38Hc/1784840241/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
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      <video:duration>1563</video:duration>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/my-daughter-in-law-shamed-me-for-coming-empty-handed-to-her-birthday</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>My daughter-in-law shamed me for coming empty-handed to her birthday</video:title>
      <video:description>At sixty-nine, a widow living on her late husbands pension is publicly humiliated by her daughter-in-law for showing up empty-handed at a birthday party, in front of eighty guests and her own silent son. What none of them knew was what she was really carrying in her purse that night.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/2EbsobbR6KHl/1784878905/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=Ef_w9J-5lZu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>580</video:duration>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/my-son-gave-me-a-beautiful-apartment-but-i-ended-up-living-in-the-garage</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>My son gave me a beautiful apartment, but I ended up living in the garage</video:title>
      <video:description>At her seventieth birthday dinner, in front of the whole table, a widow finally tells her wealthy son the truth about the beautiful apartment he bought her: she has been living in the garage. What her own daughter did with those keys is the story of fourteen cold months.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/vPaIsxuR78Xc/1784879141/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=-1Fw8tE5QZu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>1499</video:duration>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/my-family-found-out-i-was-still-alive-from-a-tv-in-a-waiting-room-2</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>My family found out I was still alive from a TV in a waiting room</video:title>
      <video:description>They called June the soft one, the spare chair, the one who helps out. So when the family booked a two-week cruise, they left her behind to mind their ninety-one-year-old grandmother, never once asking what June was quietly about to give up. The night they finally found out she was still alive, it was from a television set in a waiting room.</video:description>
      <video:thumbnail_loc>https://video-meta.open.video/poster/3nuEkbSA3KZI/t1784879740_poster.005.jpg</video:thumbnail_loc>
      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/3nuEkbSA3KZI/1784879813/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=xnE3DZFzRtu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>1311</video:duration>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/my-daughter-called-me-at-three-in-the-morning</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>My daughter called me at three in the morning.</video:title>
      <video:description>My daughter called me at three in the morning. Five words. Dad, please come get me. Then the line went dead.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/JPCoxtuW76_G/1784923176/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=-nFp9B_5QIu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>2022</video:duration>
    </video:video>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/the-smell-of-hickory-smoke-filled-my-backyard</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>The smell of hickory smoke filled my backyard</video:title>
      <video:description>The smell of hickory smoke filled my backyard the way it had every Sunday for thirty years</video:description>
      <video:thumbnail_loc>https://video-meta.open.video/poster/hCysxrjqsMLQ/t1784923599_poster.005.jpg</video:thumbnail_loc>
      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/hCysxrjqsMLQ/1784923919/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=xu231J2aclu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>2043</video:duration>
    </video:video>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/this-isnt-a-shelter-its-a-house-i-pay-for-2</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>This Isnt a Shelter, Its a House I Pay For</video:title>
      <video:description>This isnt a shelter, its a house I pay for. Thats what my daughter-in-law told me when I said Id lost my job, eight days after I buried my husband. My son looked down at his plate. What neither of them knew was that the lie was a test and that a winning ticket worth eighteen million dollars had been in my name for three weeks. I stayed quiet for ninety days and let every one of them show me who they were. In the end, the ones who gave me a room only had two the one who charged me for mine sleeps tonight where I decided.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/eIDEUvLc2KLd/1785026693/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=x92M1BEXIku</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>2070</video:duration>
    </video:video>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/my-son-gave-me-10-for-my-70th-birthday-2</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>My Son Gave Me 10 for My 70th Birthday</video:title>
      <video:description>My Son Gave Me 10 for My 70th Birthday His Wife Got a Brand New Car. Then I Won the Lottery With His 10</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/bDmc_dmq6Y4k/1785047176/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=wm-x9k_bcku</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>1426</video:duration>
    </video:video>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/the-neighbor-ran-across</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>The Neighbor Ran Across</video:title>
      <video:description>The Neighbor Ran Across the Wet Lawn and Said Dont Knock.</video:description>
      <video:thumbnail_loc>https://video-meta.open.video/poster/XqD0kfiPZOCW/t1785144184_poster.005.jpg</video:thumbnail_loc>
      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/XqD0kfiPZOCW/1785144325/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=2Cx28J-4c7u</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>2624</video:duration>
    </video:video>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/the-best-wedding-gift-you-could-give-me</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>The Best Wedding Gift You Could Give Me</video:title>
      <video:description>The best wedding gift you could give me is not showing up, my stepson said on the dock that Saturday morning, with the deposit envelope still in my hand. I raised that boy from six years old, packed his lunches, taught him to run a boat, and I was paying for every piece of the wedding he was about to have without me. His mother stood four feet away holding the seating charts and never said one word. So I did exactly what he asked me to do.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/HJDO_tr7Y056/1785291950/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=xTFUCs-rRQu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>2577</video:duration>
    </video:video>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/my-son-unpinned-my-mothers-emerald</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>My Son Unpinned My Mothers Emerald</video:title>
      <video:description>My son unpinned my mothers emerald brooch off my collar at my own birthday table and put it on his wife - Shell actually wear it, Ma. Youd lose it inside a week. My brother had just driven eleven hours from Montana to give me that pin, and he started to stand up. I put my hand over his and stopped him, and everyone at that table thought they were watching an old woman get run over and take it. Three weeks earlier a certified letter had come to my house, and I had signed for it myself.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/Kuq4Zr5JE-rz/1785364373/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=xL_huRw4RAu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>2194</video:duration>
    </video:video>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/i-found-my-granddaughters-christening-gown</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>I Found My Granddaughters Christening Gown</video:title>
      <video:description>I found my granddaughters christening gown in the church donation bin - the one I sewed by hand, and I knew my own stitching the second I touched it. For nine years my daughter-in-law swore that gown was wrapped in tissue in her cedar chest. I took it home, ran my thumb along the hem, and felt the small hard shape still sewn in there. So I opened my own seam with the scissors I have owned since 1974, and what fell into my lap was in my husbands handwriting. He had been dead nine years.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/HteqYDLsxMWA/1785365255/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=EvFg0Q25RAu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>2089</video:duration>
    </video:video>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/i-drove-two-hours-with-a-cooler</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>I Drove Two Hours With A Cooler</video:title>
      <video:description>I Drove Two Hours With A Cooler To My Sons House. A Stranger Answered The Door: Are You The Woman About The Washer? For six years I made that same drive every other Sunday, with butter beans and cornbread riding on the passenger seat, to the house where my son, his wife, and the two grandchildren I raised were waiting for me. That October the porch swing my husband built was gone, the curtains were gone, and the house had sold eleven days before. They had been gone nineteen days.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/gnbSNBbcsUrs/1785365797/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=-fEguB2PkQu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>1913</video:duration>
    </video:video>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/at-my-daughters-rehearsal-dinner-her-fiance</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>At My Daughters Rehearsal Dinner Her Fiance</video:title>
      <video:description>At my daughters rehearsal dinner her fiance raised his glass and toasted our family, and I was laughing right along with everybody else. I am seventy-one years old and I drove freight for thirty-four years. Then my daughter crossed that barn floor, put her hand flat on my sleeve so the shaking would not show, and said nine words against my ear that nobody else in that room heard. I had eleven hours before the wedding, and everything I found out started with one phone call at midnight.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/GhzaUzzlEMAA/1785367844/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=ED_gv7xiRRu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>2366</video:duration>
    </video:video>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/my-daughter-in-law-kissed-another-man-at-the-anniversary</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>My Daughter In Law Kissed Another Man At The Anniversary</video:title>
      <video:description>My daughter-in-law texted my son Stuck at work, happy tenth anniversary, babe while I sat two tables away on the marina deck and watched her kiss another man. I booked that lunch six weeks ahead and paid for it myself, because my son deserved one hour of somebody being generous to him. When I stood up to end it, a stranger caught my arm and told me to sit back down, because the real show had not started yet, and what she laid out on the linen was far worse than an affair.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/JEjCUDGtw-xB/1785383438/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=28-h8B2jQQu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>2390</video:duration>
    </video:video>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/my-son-called-from-a-police-station-crying</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>My Son Called From A Police Station Crying</video:title>
      <video:description>I was holding my paddle at a charity art auction, in a gallery full of morning light, when my son called me from a police station, crying, and told me his wife had just had him arrested. I set the paddle down, walked to the tall window, and made one phone call: freeze every account they touch, call in the note, and clear out their offices before noon. Her father sat two rows in front of me in a good grey suit, smiling at me over his shoulder, with no idea what had just happened to him.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/gEqW_zHkEU96/1785383651/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=2T_h9Qx5R6u</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>2486</video:duration>
    </video:video>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/she-thanked-me-for-signing-my-house-over-to-them</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>She Thanked Me For Signing My House Over To Them.</video:title>
      <video:description>At my sons wedding reception my new daughter-in-law raised her glass and thanked me, in front of two hundred guests, for signing my house over to them that morning. I had signed nothing. The whole barn stood and applauded while the videographer filmed my face, so I smiled, set down my champagne, and walked out into the field to make one phone call, not to my lawyer, but to a stranger forty minutes away whose family had already lost everything to the same signature.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/aBDOZjnt3If4/1785385602/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=-S_gD7x4Q6u</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>2564</video:duration>
    </video:video>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/she-said-i-couldnt-stay-the-next-morning-a-butler-was</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>She Said I Couldnt Stay. The Next Morning A Butler Was...</video:title>
      <video:description>I lost my company and my house in the same week, and on the church steps after the Sunday service I asked my son if I could stay a few days, and his wife answered for him in front of the whole congregation: that wouldnt be comfortable for us. Nobody said another word to me. I slept in my car behind the fellowship hall with my coat over me. And the next morning, on those same steps, a butler in white gloves was standing there waiting for me with an envelope, sent by a dying man whose name meant nothing to me at all.</video:description>
      <video:thumbnail_loc>https://video-meta.open.video/poster/c7rO_pTkw23z/t1785385658_poster.005.jpg</video:thumbnail_loc>
      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/c7rO_pTkw23z/1785385800/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=_S-g9Ax4R7u</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>2814</video:duration>
    </video:video>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/stay-in-the-back-he-hissed</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>Stay In The Back, He Hissed</video:title>
      <video:description>Stay in the back your dress is embarrassing, my husband hissed at the glass conservatory gala. He had dragged me there to impress the billionaire who had just bought his firm, so I did what I had done for twenty-five years of marriage I made myself invisible behind the orchids. Then the most powerful man in the room ignored my husbands outstretched hand, crossed the entire golden ballroom, and stopped in front of me with tears in his eyes. What he said next tore my entire life open.</video:description>
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      <video:duration>2010</video:duration>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/a-stranger-crossed-my-airstrip-and-asked-youre-still-carrying-that-photo</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>A Stranger Crossed My Airstrip and Asked, Youre Still Carrying That Photo</video:title>
      <video:description>Youre still carrying that photo? the stranger asked me, and then he laid a folder on the wing of my fathers old airplane and told me he was the boy in the picture. For thirty-five years I opened the hangar on the first Saturday of August, pulled the plane into the sun and set my missing sons photograph on the wing, the way a man does when he is still waiting. My wife died believing a stranger took our boy off the county road. That morning I found out what was really inside that folder.</video:description>
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      <video:duration>2538</video:duration>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/one-week-each-mom-four-signatures</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>One Week Each, Mom Four Signatures</video:title>
      <video:description>One Week Each, Mom Four Signatures, Four Colors Of Ink, And Not One Of Them Walked Through My Door</video:description>
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      <video:duration>2437</video:duration>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/open-her-bag-my-mothers-brooch-is-in-there</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>Open Her Bag. My Mothers Brooch Is In There</video:title>
      <video:description>Open Her Bag. My Mothers Brooch Is In There, My Husband Said In Front Of The Whole Hotel</video:description>
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      <video:duration>2601</video:duration>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/youre-retired-now-mom-full-here</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>Youre Retired Now, Mom. FULL HERE</video:title>
      <video:description>Youre Retired Now, Mom. You Dont Do Anything Anyway The Children Stay With You Until September</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/G7zkIxXXwWdZ/1785538565/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
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      <video:duration>2456</video:duration>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/my-husband-left-our-son-the-house-he-left-me-a-locked-garage-and-a-brass-key</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>My Husband Left Our Son the House. He Left Me a Locked Garage and a Brass Key</video:title>
      <video:description>My husband left our son the house and both bank accounts, and he left me a locked-up garage on Rowan Street with a brass key on a paper tag in his handwriting. At the reading of the will my son laughed so hard the lawyer stopped mid-sentence, then followed me out to the sidewalk to tell me a useless old woman had been handed a shed and had until the end of the month to be gone. The next morning I rode the bus across town, slid that green door open, and finally understood what forty-one years of grease under his fingernails had really been for.</video:description>
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      <video:duration>2305</video:duration>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/a-supervisor-threw-my-grandson-and-me-out-of-the-lobby-for-looking-poor</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>A supervisor threw my grandson and me out of the lobby for looking poor</video:title>
      <video:description>A supervisor threw my grandson and me out of the lobby for looking poor not knowing the hotel was his</video:description>
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      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=tXtRW_FXIIu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>514</video:duration>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/my-son-said-he-couldnt-come-to-our-anniversary-lunch-2</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>My Son Said He Couldnt Come to Our Anniversary Lunch.</video:title>
      <video:description>My son said he couldnt come to our anniversary lunch. I found him at my table, toasting his wifes mother. For fifty years my husband and I kept that corner table in the rose garden tea pavilion. A year after I buried him I went alone in my blue silk dress, expecting two chairs and a lemon cake with our names on it. I walked into twenty guests, a raised glass, and a party billed to what my daughter-in-law called the family account. By the second toast I knew whose name that account was in.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/YPm--tC4--q5/1785620255/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=YaYQ4hxOcIu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>2725</video:duration>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/two-days-before-my-wedding-his-mother-moved-in</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>Two Days Before My Wedding His Mother Moved In</video:title>
      <video:description>Two days before our wedding, my mother-in-law showed up unannounced with four suitcases and moved herself into our guest room Im moving in with you, son. Ive already decided. My fiance carried her bags up the stairs smiling while I watched from the foyer of the house everyone believed HE bought. She had no idea what I do for a living, or whose name is the only one on that deed. The note I left by the coffee maker the next morning ended far more than a wedding.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/wSqYQDzQ3M64/1785659501/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
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      <video:duration>1910</video:duration>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/its-7-am-and-youre-still-in-bed-my-mother-in-law-slapped-me-in</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>Its 7 AM And Youre Still In Bed My Mother In Law Slapped Me In...</video:title>
      <video:description>Its 7 AM and youre still in bed? Get up and make me breakfast! My mother-in-law screamed those words in my own bedroom, then slapped me across the face while my husband watched and said nothing. She moved into our Chicago apartment for two weeks four months ago and treats me like the live-in maid, because a nurse who works nights is lazy to her. She never asked what I do on those shifts, or what Ive been writing down for months. The morning it all came due, she got the wake-up call.</video:description>
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      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=tzB6zpw5Idu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>1935</video:duration>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/my-mother-in-law-banned-me-from-the-vip-section-of-the-ballroom</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>My Mother in Law Banned Me From the VIP Section of the Ballroom</video:title>
      <video:description>At her lavish birthday party, my mother-in-law grabbed the microphone and announced, My sons trophy wife isnt invited to the VIP section! Eighty guests laughed, and my husband laughed with them. I smiled, said No problem, and called security but the manager didnt come to walk me out. He stopped in front of me and asked, Maam... youre the CEO. Whats the order? What happened to her 68,000 party in the next 41 minutes, no one in that ballroom will ever forget.</video:description>
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      <video:duration>1939</video:duration>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/for-my-31st-birthday-my-mother-in-law-handed-me-divorce-papers-at-the-army-ball-so-i-signed-them</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>For My 31st Birthday, My Mother in Law Handed Me Divorce Papers at the Army Ball So I Signed Them</video:title>
      <video:description>For my 31st birthday, my mother-in-law handed me divorce papers in front of my entire unit at the army ball, and my husband filmed my face for the family group chat. Im a decorated Army logistics captain, and for three years my paycheck covered every bill that man ever had. I read those papers the way I read everything, signed them calmly on a waiters tray, and raised my glass in front of two hundred officers. What I announced next, his elegant mother never saw coming.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/cmr-VhK7xYKX/1785661582/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=7OBl5_xyJZu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>2246</video:duration>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/i-saw-my-mother-in-law-slip-something-into-my-glass</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>I Saw My Mother in Law Slip Something Into My Glass</video:title>
      <video:description>At my wedding, I saw my mother-in-law slip something into my champagne glass, so I switched our glasses and smiled while she raised the toast. For a year that woman told everyone in Charleston I was unstable, and she picked our 60,000 reception, in front of 180 guests, to finally prove it. What she forgot is that I have been a hospital pharmacist for seven years: I knew exactly what she poured, and I knew exactly what to do next. By the end of the night, one of us left in an ambulance, and it was not me.</video:description>
      <video:thumbnail_loc>https://video-meta.open.video/poster/Vyf4wv0RsCoG/t1785731760_poster.005.jpg</video:thumbnail_loc>
      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/Vyf4wv0RsCoG/1785731854/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=ZissrN3bQYu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>1863</video:duration>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/my-daughters-future-in-laws-spoke-french-the-whole-dinner-thinking-i-wouldnt-understand</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>My daughters future in laws spoke French the whole dinner thinking I wouldnt understand</video:title>
      <video:description>My daughters future in-laws flew in from Europe to meet us, and they spoke French the entire dinner thinking I wouldnt understand a single word. What none of them knew is that I taught high school French for thirty-one years in the same town they were laughing at. I sat there with my hands in my lap and listened to that woman explain, in front of my daughters face, exactly what her sons wedding was really for and how long my girl was expected to last. Then I heard what she said about my daughter, and I set down my fork, and I answered her in her own language.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/AzfWBzHssm1a/1785744120/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
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      <video:duration>2136</video:duration>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/i-was-eating-alone-when-the-pregnant-waitress-whispered</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>I Was Eating Alone When The Pregnant Waitress Whispered ...</video:title>
      <video:description>I was having tea alone in a glass pavilion in Savannah when the pregnant waitress refilled my pot, leaned down to my ear, and whispered four words that stopped my heart: dont tell him Im alive. She was my daughter-in-law - the one my son buried behind a closed casket in March, no viewing, because he said she would not have wanted people staring. He was sitting three tables away with his back to us, laughing over coffee, and he had already filed a 750,000 life insurance claim on her. What he forgot was who filled out the original policy.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/QbuaofjGwAaj/1785751150/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
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      <video:duration>2026</video:duration>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/i-came-to-the-memorial-day-cookout-to-see-my-son</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>I Came to the Memorial Day Cookout to See My Son</video:title>
      <video:description>I came to the Memorial Day cookout to see my son. I found him on his knees on a rooftop in a white shirt, picking ribs off the concrete while his father-in-law stood over him laughing. Its all hes good for, Harlan said in front of thirty guests, and not one person moved. I am fifty-nine years old and I have spent twenty-nine years reading other peoples balance sheets for a living, so I said nothing on that roof. I waited until Tuesday morning, and then I opened a file Harlan had forgotten anyone could open.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/RFDWppqi3cbb/1785752789/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=tz7tygxHlYu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>2334</video:duration>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/they-demanded-my-husbands-entire-estate-i-said-give-it-all-to-them</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>They Demanded My Husbands Entire Estate I Said Give It All to Them</video:title>
      <video:description>They demanded my husbands entire estate and I said Give it all to them. For twenty years his children called me the nurse who got lucky, and nine days after his funeral they stood in my kitchen demanding the house, the company, every account he ever opened. My own lawyer begged me to fight. Everyone in town said grief had finally broken me. But at the final signing, their expensive attorney turned one page, read one sentence my husband wrote years ago, and every drop of color drained from his face.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/pliathWJ-w2j/1785802587/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=tzBdrx-qQsu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>1853</video:duration>
    </video:video>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/i-came-to-ask-what-to-wear-to-my-sons-wedding-she-laughed</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>I Came To Ask What To Wear To My Sons Wedding. She Laughed</video:title>
      <video:description>I came to ask what to wear to my sons wedding, and my daughter-in-law laughed in front of the whole ballroom: Oh, we got married last month. We only invite people who matter. My son was standing six feet away with his back to me, and he never turned around. None of those hundred and eighteen guests knew my name was on the three hundred forty thousand dollar guaranty that built their company, or that my house was the collateral. That afternoon I found the page they never meant for me to see.</video:description>
      <video:thumbnail_loc>https://video-meta.open.video/poster/nLbGhdPI_o0i/t1785804271_poster.005.jpg</video:thumbnail_loc>
      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/nLbGhdPI_o0i/1785804362/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
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      <video:duration>1799</video:duration>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/my-son-handed-me-a-34700-full-stories</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>My Son Handed Me a 34,700 - Full STORIES</video:title>
      <video:description>My son handed me a 34,700 bill at Thanksgiving dinner - the cost of taking care of you, Mom - itemized down to the slice of pie, in front of twenty relatives. Im a 74-year-old widow living in the annex behind his house, and I didnt cry and I didnt argue. I folded the paper, thanked them for dinner, and walked out. That night I paid him every single penny. The next morning I sent one photograph to the family group chat - and the old piece of paper in that photo, hidden for twelve years, made every relative at that table turn their back on him.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/42vSIfbzBeBI/1785827518/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
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      <video:duration>2118</video:duration>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/after-my-husband-died-my-children-said-we-want-the-house-the-company-everything</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>After My Husband Died My Children Said We Want The House The Company Everything</video:title>
      <video:description>After my husband died, my children said We want the house, the company, everything. My lawyer begged me to fight them. I said, Let them take it all and at the final hearing I signed every page while my son and daughter smiled across the table. They left me one thing they didnt want: sixty acres of condemned Kentucky dirt with 11,000 in back taxes. What they never asked was why my father padlocked exactly one door his entire life and why their own lawyer went pale reading a document dated 1971.</video:description>
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      <video:duration>1919</video:duration>
    </video:video>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/on-my-birthday-my-daughter-whispered-go-change-the-locks-at-her-house-2</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>On My Birthday My Daughter Whispered Go Change The Locks At Her House</video:title>
      <video:description>On my birthday, my daughter whispered to her husband, While I keep her distracted, go change the locks at her house, and he nodded and walked out of the restaurant while she ordered me dessert and asked about the grandchildren. I am seventy-four years old, widowed three years, and I have lived in that house since 1974. Nearly an hour later he came back with his face gone white and his hands shaking, and the first two words out of his mouth told me that something at my house had gone very, very wrong.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/kpyy_zPs-q-I/1785878484/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
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      <video:duration>2261</video:duration>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/my-daughter-in-law-laughed-we-only-invite-people-who-matter</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>My Daughter in Law Laughed We Only Invite People Who Matter</video:title>
      <video:description>My daughter-in-law laughed we only invite people who matter she didnt know I was the one holding up their entire future. I raised my son alone for twenty-eight years, working double shifts so hed never go without, and I was ready to hand them the savings of my whole life as a wedding gift. Then one phone call showed me exactly where I stood. I didnt cry. I didnt scream. I made one quiet appointment and two days later my son was on my porch, pale as a ghost, begging me to undo it. What I discovered next about their secret wedding changed everything.</video:description>
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      <video:content_loc>https://streaming.open.video/contents/BKqyYvuJAySI/1785881282/index.m3u8</video:content_loc>
      <video:player_loc>https://open.video/embed?contentId=BqYI4NxORsu</video:player_loc>
      <video:duration>1999</video:duration>
    </video:video>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/my-sons-wife-canceled-my-flight-after-my-husbands-funeral</loc>
    <video:video>
      <video:title>My Sons Wife Canceled My Flight After My Husbands Funeral</video:title>
      <video:description>My sons wife canceled my flight home after my husbands funeral she had no idea I was secretly worth 50 billion. I stood in that first-class terminal, seventy-three years old, holding my husbands ashes, while she smiled and told me the free rides were over and I could find my own way home. I said two words: Thats fine. What happened next, right there at the gate, made her face turn white in front of everyone and that was only the first move in a game she never knew she was losing.</video:description>
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      <video:title>Get Out Of My House, Everything Yours Is Mine Now My Daughter In Law Screamed On The Lawn</video:title>
      <video:description>Get out of my house, everything thats yours is mine now, my daughter-in-law screamed at me on the front lawn while she threw forty-two years of my life into cardboard boxes on the wet grass. I did not argue with her. I am seventy-four years old, I have buried a husband, and I have learned that certain people will hand you everything you need if you simply let them keep talking.</video:description>
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      <video:title>My Daughter Called Two Days Before Christmas And Told Me Not To Come Dads</video:title>
      <video:description>My daughter called two days before Christmas and told me not to come, because my ex-husbands new wife would be there and the family was trying to make her feel like family, and then she added that I always find somewhere else to be at Christmas anyway. She was right about that last part. For twenty-two years I have disappeared every holiday, and in all that time not one of my children ever asked me where I go. That week an ice storm took the power out of four thousand homes in this county, and at first light on Christmas morning my phone rang, and my daughter could barely get the words out.</video:description>
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      <video:title>My Mother In Law Demanded My Jewelry At Dinner Then My Security Team Stepped In And...</video:title>
      <video:description>My mother-in-law demanded my jewelry at dinner, thinking I would comply without question. But just as she reached for it, my security team stepped in - and the entire room fell silent. She had spent a whole year telling Chicago society that my grandmothers 240,000 emerald necklace was a loan from her family vault. What she never counted on was that I am a certified gemologist - and eleven weeks earlier, her own family jewels had passed under my loupe.</video:description>
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      <video:title>One Month After My Daughters Wedding The Photographer Called Me And Said Come Right Now And Dont Tel</video:title>
      <video:description>One month after my daughters wedding, the photographer walked into the party I was paying for, still wearing her coat, and said, Maam, I noticed something terrible. Come right now, and dont say a word to your daughter. I had just spent sixty-five thousand dollars on that wedding, and eleven thousand more on that night. What she showed me on the terrace was taken two hours before the ceremony, and it was still not the worst thing I would find out about the man my daughter married.</video:description>
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      <video:title>If you wont go to a nursing home, pack a bag and leave my house</video:title>
      <video:description>If you wont go to a nursing home, pack a bag and leave my house now! my son yelled at me in his own living room, in front of his wife and two of their friends, on a Sunday afternoon in March. I was sixty-four years old, I had four hundred and eighty thousand dollars of my money inside that family, and I did not own one square foot of anything. I didnt cry and I didnt beg. I thanked him, I packed a suitcase, and I made one phone call I had been saving for thirteen years. One hour later a long black car stopped at his curb, and when he opened the front door expecting a delivery and saw who got out of the back seat, the smile came off his face.</video:description>
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    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/my-daughter-sold-my-late-husbands-locket-for-800-then-the-pawn-shop-told-me-it-opened</loc>
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      <video:title>My Daughter Sold My Late Husbands Locket for 800 Then the Pawn Shop Told Me It Opened</video:title>
      <video:description>My late husbands locket was the only thing I had left of him, and on the third anniversary of his death I opened the velvet box and found it empty. My daughter said she sold it for eight hundred dollars because she needed the money for a vacation, and she said it in my own living room, in the house she had lived in rent-free for three years. I called eighteen pawn shops that morning before a man on Thomas Road told me the pendant opened. In forty-two years, I never knew it opened.</video:description>
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      <video:title>My DIL Threw My Hand Knitted Blanket in the Trash at Her Baby Shower and the Whole Room</video:title>
      <video:description>At my daughter-in-laws baby shower she held my hand-knitted blanket out over the trash can, looked into her friends camera and said, We only use designer things here. Eighty guests laughed. My son stood against the wall with a beer in his hand, opened his mouth, and closed it again. I took my blanket back out of the garbage, folded it into my purse, thanked her for the invitation and drove home without raising my voice one time. What nobody in that room knew was what my husband spent twenty years sewing into the lining of that blanket before he died in February, and why I waited until the baby was two weeks old to open the seam in front of every single one of them.</video:description>
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  <url>
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      <video:title>My Daughter In Law Pointed At The Door Your Role Is To Take Care Of My Kids.</video:title>
      <video:description>Your role is to take care of my kids while I enjoy my life with my husband. If you have a problem, the door is right there. My daughter-in-law said that to my face in her own front hall on a Sunday afternoon, with her mother and her sister walking in behind me and my son standing four feet away looking at the carpet. What she did not know was that I had sold my own house to put them in that one, that I had spent fourteen months sleeping in the room with the water heater, and that eleven days earlier I had walked into a bank and asked for something in writing. It was already in the canvas bag at my feet.</video:description>
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      <video:duration>2011</video:duration>
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      <video:title>I found my granddaughter asleep in a hospital waiting room.</video:title>
      <video:description>I found my granddaughter and my six-year-old great-granddaughter asleep in a hospital waiting room at six twenty in the morning, and when I asked her why she wasnt living in the house on Hawthorne Street, she looked up at me and said, What house? I bought that house in cash fifteen months earlier and put it in the family trust with her name on it, and then I left the country. Everyone had already been paid, and everyone had a story ready.</video:description>
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  <url>
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      <video:title>My Daughter In Law Slept With My Husband A Week Before...</video:title>
      <video:description>My daughter-in-law slept with my husband a week before we signed the divorce papers, and I pretended to know nothing. Her own sister knocked on my door on a Tuesday morning with eleven printed photographs and the dates written on the back, nine days before I was supposed to sign away half of my own house for four hundred dollars a month. For twenty-nine years I audited freight claims for a living and found the one line on the page that does not belong, and my husband never once asked what I actually did all day.</video:description>
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  <url>
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      <video:title>My Son Thought Id Blown Through the Lottery Money</video:title>
      <video:description>My son thought Id blown through the lottery money, and a week later his wife stood in my own front hall and gave me seven days to get out. She had already boxed up my mothers china by the fireplace and typed the notice on my own printer, and my son stood at the bottom of my staircase and never said one word. What neither of them ever bothered to read was the blue folder they both signed seven years ago, the day I handed them the keys to a house on the river. I spent thirty-one years writing down what people say out loud. They should have asked me why.</video:description>
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    <loc>https://open.video/@seasstories/v/mom-forgive-us-my-3-children-cried-at-my-locked-gate</loc>
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      <video:title>Mom, Forgive Us! My 3 Children Cried at My Locked Gate...</video:title>
      <video:description>Mom, forgive us! After two years of total silence, my three children showed up crying at my locked iron gate with white roses and a brand-new car, swearing they only wanted to take care of us. The same children who shipped their sick father and me off to a nursing home and never called once. But my husband walked to that gate, leaned on his cane, and asked them one question that turned our oldest son white as chalk. The silence that followed told me everything I needed to know.</video:description>
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    <video:video>
      <video:title>My son married in secret because he was ashamed of my clothes.</video:title>
      <video:description>My son married in secret because he was ashamed of my clothes. He forgot who owned the apartment. I spent thirty-five years on hospital night shifts so he could wear a bankers suit and I found out about his courthouse wedding from a neighbors phone, the same day it happened. He said they did it to spare me. But the lakefront condo where his shiny new life was waiting carried one name on the deed: mine. And I document everything.</video:description>
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