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It was a life-changing moment. I really
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can't put into words. Um,
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the reason why I was called to the morg,
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because a few of you are probably like,
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well, if you didn't see your mother for
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20ome years, how did this happen? Um, I
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had reached out, like I said, to find my
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birth parents. And I reached out and I
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found my birth father first, who I
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really didn't want to speak to, but in
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doing so, he was able to give me
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information about my birth mother. And
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unfortunately, she passed away like two
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weeks before I actually would have been
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able to meet her. But her parents were a
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piece of work. And to whatever word you
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want to call it, to go to the mor to
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identify their own daughter's body. They
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had just given up on her. And so there
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was no one else left to do it. And they
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asked me if I would do it. And so I
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said, "Okay." So I went with the picture
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that they had given me to try to
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identify her face and all this. And just
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I didn't give them the story. I just
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said I was her daughter and they gave me
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her belongings. And so I'm going through
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it and there's like aa there's all these
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like pamphlets try to get clean and she
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was trying she was trying really hard to
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get her life straightened out. And then
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that's when I found the drawing and at
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first I was like there's no freaking way
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like this is a joke or something. But
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instantly I recognized
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you you you recognize your stuff even as
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a child. you know that you know it's
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something that you made and it it
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knocked the wind out of my the sail out
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of my wind like whatever I'm trying to
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say I can't even put it into words it
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I literally had thought you know one
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thing like she didn't care she gave up
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it was just easier or whatever and then
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to be given this gift from this woman
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that I didn't even know to know the
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I mean I knew that I was loved. I knew
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that I had been wanted. I knew that I
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had been fought for. And for me that was
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everything. It changed the trajectory of
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my whole life. You know, now I'm I'm not
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so quick to judge people when I see
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people on drugs or when I see homeless
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people or when I see people that are
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struggling. I think back in my mind, you
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know, like there's obviously they have a
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story. There's more than what meets the
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eye. You know, everybody's going through
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something, so to say. It just Yeah, it
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I want to greatest moment of my life all
