Dec. 8, 2025

Father-Daughter Dance | Bloody Angola Podcast

Father-Daughter Dance | Bloody Angola Podcast

Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola recently hosted its first-ever father-daughter dance in partnership with the nonprofit organization God Behind Bars. The event allowed incarcerated fathers to reunite with their daughters, some after years of separation, for an emotional and special bonding experience.

Chapters
01:39 APositive Story
02:44 The Dance at Angola Prison
06:11 The Importance of Father-Daughter Bonds
09:50 Preparing for the Event 11:09 Anticipation and Excitement
14:15 Moments of Reflection
16:06 The Impact of Absence
18:01 Emotional Reunion
19:16 Brotherhood 

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Hm, I walk straight line shackle change, Oh weesome gird

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it's calling my name. There is no mercy and it's

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been a tentery juice as the huge stream game Rango three.

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Come here, be.

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By me to die inside these walls, inside the wild,

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hadn't when the girls as.

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I'm hey everyone, and welcome back to Bloody Angola, a

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podcast and forty two years of making the complete story

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of America's bloodiest present. I'm Jim Chapman, and today I'm

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going to bring you a more positive story than what

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you may be used to from this podcast. And when

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I came across this particular story, I was blind away.

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I'm going to tell you, as a father of two daughters,

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it absolutely moved me. And you know, it's rare, at

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least for me to come across these nonprofits that function

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around prisons that don't appear to be somewhat self serving.

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Now that's not to say all of them are like that,

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but at least for me, I've seen a lot out

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there that it just seems a lot about the money

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and a little about the actual convict. But this one's different.

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And today I'm going to tell you a little bit

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about a nonprofit known as God Behind Bars and what

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they did for the very first time inside of Louisiana

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State Penitentiary. Adding goal and this is one of those

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things that I believe may actually make a difference. So

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to start this thing off, I'm going to actually quote

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an article by Presley bo Tyler of the Shreveport Times

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and it reads, for the first time ever, a daddy

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daughter dance was hosted at Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known

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as the Infamous in Gola Prison. The fathers, who had

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not seen their daughters in years, stood and fitted tuxedos

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as they waited to be reunited, with many of them

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wearing formal wear for the first time. The very first

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time ever, the daughters were able to walk into a

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space that had been transformed into a ballroom and share

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a special dance, one which many had been waiting their

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entire childhood to experience. Guid Behind Bars, which is an

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organization that works to introduce inmates to Christianity and connect

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them with a local church, partnered with the leadership at

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Angola in order to put on a father daughter dance.

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Prior to the dance, professional makeup artists tended to the daughters.

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Volunteers packed gift bags with donated beauty products and monique

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from a more suits designed custom tuxedos for each father.

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At the beginning of the event, each father presented his

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daughter with flowers, a Bible, and a handwritten letter. More

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than just a dance, families were able to share a

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Thanksgiving meal prepared by volunteers, and a local artist from

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Battonerage painted live portraits of the fathers and daughters. The

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night ended with the grand finale as the fathers performed

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a choreographed routine they had been practicing for weeks prior,

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with many hugs, shared, dances, and memories made. The experience

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was centered on dignity, connection and restoration that from God

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behind bars and a press release quote, I watched a

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group of men stand with pride and dignity, shredding every

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label the world had ever put on them. For one night.

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They were not inmates. They were dad. The night was

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filled with a plethora of emotions for both fathers and daughters. Quote.

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When I turned around and saw my baby in that dress,

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and she busted out crying. I sobbed. I'm not a crier.

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We slow danced and she started crying again. I asked

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her why and she said, quote, Dad, I finally get

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a chance to dance with you for the first time.

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I told my brothers, look, this will make you want

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to do right. If you are not doing right, you have.

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To do right.

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That from Leslie Harris assistant Warden and Marie easily remarked

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on how important the experience was for the inmate and

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their families. Quote, I'm so thankful to God behind bars

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for all they did to make this event possible and

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such a success. This provided our inmates with an opportunity

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to restore and build healthy relationships with their daughters despite

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the circumstances. Just a really nice article, and it kind

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of gives you an idea of what it was like.

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But I wanted to give you a much better idea.

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So after I came across this article and accomplish just

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what you would think the goal is of these articles,

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and that is to get you digging deeper, right, And

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I did some digging, and I came across something you

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really have to hear now. Bloody and Goal is primarily

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an audio podcast, and the clip I'm about to play

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you was in video form. I'm going to play it

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here for you in audio form. You can still follow

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it very easily by just listening to the audio version.

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And it is so important y'all that I feel that

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people need to hear this. You want to know what

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changes hearts inside prism when you're a male especially. Nothing

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can do that more than your daughter. So I hope

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you enjoy it. And here's that clip.

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My first time in giving my daughter flowers, be the

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first man to give her floppers.

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Let her know I love you. You're my angel, You're

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my first born. Daddy's always got your bad. She's seventeen

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and I've been gone for fifteen years. See me and everything?

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She mean my world? Man, I ever put my life

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on the line for my daughter. Man, Hey, this moment

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right here today, soak it in.

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I pray that we get many more of these moments,

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but we don't know how many we have.

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There's my work there mean everything.

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The reason I keep going every day in this place.

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It reason I fight to get out of here. It

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won't make up for the past time, but heaven all future.

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I missed every single event in my little girl's life.

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I mean missed her first step, her first words, when

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she was younger. I love you, daddy, is something that

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I just I rarely hardly ever heard wait, I love you,

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not right? Missing all of that affected me little. It

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affected most is her. And to have this day and

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be able to share this moment to together, it's just

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it's it's gonna be magic or it's just want her

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feel the love and just have a little good time

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and smile.

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Well, it's gonna be a memory that we can hold

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on for life.

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Man.

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The last time I saw Shabraino was probably seven years ago.

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To definitely be a a a beautiful reunion.

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I mean it means that I've able to get to

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see my daughter and extras sharing experience with her, and

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I get to, you know, brid just have a conversation

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one on one with her. She's my world. I have two.

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They're my world that mean everything to me.

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They the reason, They the reason I keep going.

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They the reason, you know, I push to be a

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better person, you know, to learn to grow.

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Oh.

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I love what I love about my daughter's is uh.

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I love these spirit, the the energetic, They like to play,

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they like to dance, they like to have fun. This

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is gonna be something outside of like a prison visitor.

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So it's gonna be a experienced you know, it's feel

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like it's weed together outside.

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Man, gotta get ready tu see the looks fly. I

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gotta look fly.

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I hadn't seen my daughter since she was six months old,

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so she's seventeen now, so.

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She finally gets to spend time with dad, and I'm

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I'm gonna spoiler. Let her know. Man, I miss so

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much time with you. I ain't missing another minute with you.

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Then my first time putting on a text you, Oh

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it was nice, real fire. You know what I'm saying.

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I felt real good. I felt professional.

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I might need a box of tissue, might crack man,

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especially seeing my baby.

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You know what I'm saying.

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In that room, you guys are gonna have the opportunity

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to sit down. I mentioned the bibles. Right, you can

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write a note in side there, get your suit on,

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gather your thoughts, bring over the Bible.

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Or two onsp here. So I'm in this case, I'm

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the dad. Okay, I'm on this side, and then.

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Talk to your left, Yeah, to your last. So you

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put your arm out.

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First and then she's in. Then she'll put her.

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On and you can she'll have her bouquet.

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Right.

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You can also if you want to take her hands,

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you know her rock like.

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You know she didn't have her something.

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Dude, say you feel like you probably feel good.

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I'll be sitting in front of him, put.

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Him on this. I'm feeling excellent, excited, pum fucking that's

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all right.

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Yeah, I'm ready.

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You know you're looking for it to be a great time,

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great moment. You know, memories, memories that I can just

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hold on to for a lifetime and enjoy.

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You know, we're setting up, we're sitting up everything, make

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sure everything set up for tomorrow. We got all We

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got all first flowers in thanks to God behind boss

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got the decorations are amazing.

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Everything's amazing.

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We did.

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We did a lot of decorating the day we.

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Went over all dance.

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It's gonna be amazing.

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What.

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I come over here and almost got tears in mind,

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I'm telling you.

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And I walked in, I was like, wow.

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That's all I can tell him is wow, y'all.

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But being here, man, were nowhere in the world, will

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be right here and right here. When we walk in there,

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you feel free. And then when outside the black gate

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and you're not walking outside that black gate unless you're

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going home, you.

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Know what I'm saying, So alliver like, man, You're like,

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we're free right now. I'm like, yeah, God, just give

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us a taste to us to come. We walk round,

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hit y'all so much, go behind boss, and it's easy

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as it's a blessing. I'm excited to dance with my daughter.

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You never sent me in the text, so I'm excited

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to see what they gonna see when uh they see

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me walk out of that fresh and fly.

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So what are your thoughts after trying on your texas?

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It's awesome?

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Like I feel like we could just end up saying

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that we done have some good times in life, but

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this is more likely probably gonna be the one one

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of the best ones.

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Right I'm saying that.

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I ain't never had it like this.

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You wanna be nice, I'll go to the nice people.

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I feel free right now. I feel I'm not in prison.

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This is just a chance to build memories and show

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love to my babies.

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Tell me what you guys are feeling right now?

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Oh, I'm emotional? Will what's going on with that?

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I don't know what you wor? So? Have you ever

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worn over one?

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I like this? I use this, I used it? How

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you feel good, so I do money. Release date, release day.

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I'm nervous.

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I'm nervous about what why I'm seeing my daughter.

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I'm nervous.

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This is the first time man, five years.

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How you feeling brain good?

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Because this is this is the first time I get

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to hold my baby girl ten years.

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The last time I keep five years old camping and

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so you sit. It gonna be a big, big boy.

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I rolle Chloyd, my baby girl.

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Love you for infinity, Dad, dance with dark.

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I'm just telling her my favorite scripture is a first

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correct means ten or thirteen, but I want her to

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start off by reading Philippians full thirteen because I believe

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she could do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthened us.

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All Right, fuck perfect looking, We.

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Let the know this today is our new beginning for

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our relationship with God.

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We're gonna go on this journey together. To me that

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I love you, Loriat, Yeah, love you see love you see.

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It means a lot. It's it's a moment that I'll

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never to bond with my daughter and create a memory.

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She means the world to me. More than the world.

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The words couldn't even express.

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But I ain't even the girls that she was six

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years six years old or so, he returned the heart.

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Since she's sixteen now being the boy to college. You know,

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so this, this this dance is very important to me.

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You know so for me, you know, this was a

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blessing mind that I needed and I needed this time.

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This is a picture of my daughter, my beautiful baby.

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I put this picture on my tablet because when I

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look at it, it gives me a reality check on

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what I have to do to get back to the

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things that I enjoy, the reason I love.

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Her, and it just you know how wonderful it is

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to be a father.

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Just looking at her, beautiful fee very excited I get

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to see my daughter.

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I ain't see her in three years. This is my

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first time putting on the tucks. Make me feel like

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a gentleman, my first time giving my daughter flowers.

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I'll be the.

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First man to give her flowers.

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Let her know I love you, your mind, angel, You're

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my first born.

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Daddy's always got your back.

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Oh you know, I got your favorite girl.

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I've been incncrated fifteen years with my daughter. Man, she

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just motivated me so much, like every time I call her,

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Like when I'm going through dog Mama. She always lift

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me up and tell me that you coming home soon,

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and just keep your head up.

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And just keep praying and God go make away.

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I just tell how much I love him until how

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apologize for all the years I missed him the luck

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and uh she forgive me and I'll make it up

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to which this d's seventeen and I've been gone fifteen years.

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See me and everything that she mean my world. Man,

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I ever put my life on the line from my daughter.

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Man, some of the moments I'm s I'm sad I

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missed since I've been incarcerated.

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It's like the first day.

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Of school, you man, it's uh dance reside the spans

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of that nature.

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Man, It's just like I'm supposed to beat. I'm supposed

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to support the supposing. I understand when they look up

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and see everybody in the crowd.

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You support to see that it sitting there maybe with

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a two tune on and support them so you know,

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for I missed those stuff. I mean everything mean both

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of 'em uh down via antigue, and both of 'em

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be around me.

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Man.

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They they real energetic.

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I'm ry about them, gonna tell this place down or

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worry about how much energy they have.

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Yeah, so yeah, they mean everything. I mean, I've been

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locked up seven ten years.

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What I love about my daughter is she got a

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pretty smile. She's part of me.

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She me smart four point on student.

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She's graduating this year.

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So I'm I'm happy that, uh she made the right

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decisions in life uh to this point, and I'm so

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proud of her.

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That's the moment ever, that's wing when my uh TC

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daughter and my my nine year old daughter did do

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you rem my nine year old remember me since she

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was stree years old? That coulda been the best thing

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ever happened to me in here. God, bless y'all, and

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thank y'all.

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I love y'all. Ain't go lo y'all. I ain't gonna

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cry like that, but I cried. I came on here

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walking and see my little girl.

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In a long time.

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I ain't shed a tears like that in a long time.

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And so for me to get that moment and not

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re finish realize that I'm finna break down like that

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in front of all y'all. It wasn't even by by

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no of y'all, just me seeing her and I hadn't

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seen her since she was nine months and that's when

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I had to see the moment after that moment, because

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that's the realization that she never had a memory of me,

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and know physically into the night when we.

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Had to turn around. Man, just seeing my baby ain't

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the address and she c s bust out crying. Man,

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it just made me just ain't no crime. Man.

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I was sloughed.

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Man, it was amazing. Then we slow dance and she

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crying again and I'm like, baby, why you crying? She

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was just like that, I'm trying to get a chance

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to dance with you for the first time, so real

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hearty made me feel good. And I'm telling all the

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rest of my brother like, look, brother, what we got.

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I said, you got this?

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This he'll make you wanna do right. If you ain't

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doing right, brother, I don't get right, you know what

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I'm saying. So I wanna say thank y'all.

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Man to love y'all.

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Honestly, my daughter's nine years old. You know I miss

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him that you was going. Yeah, she's still I still

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treat it like.

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A baby and she don't really go for there.

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But uh, I'm pretty sure that I you know, I

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see some of you guys, how you interact with your daughter.

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You know, it plays a me in the park to

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be in their lives at the herd these age. Uh

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cause I see the difference with mine.

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Though she loves me and everything like that, I still

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need that time where her to put more time in it.

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And you got really like encouraged me to like, you know,

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be more.

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Involved in our life. We move without this whole difference,

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And I'm thankful that everybody had the chance.

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To take part in this home event. You know why,

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I even learned how to.

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Do the QB chef right in the whole name you

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brother's Dave YouTube. Then where I did not global right,

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we had the state penitentiary.

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You know, we're supposed to be the worst of the

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worst and the hardest of the hardest.

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Time we walk around like that sometimes even when we

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don't do it intentionally.

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Right to be able to see all of this together

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with our kids, man, the loves of our lives.

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And with no masks, that was cool though, that was

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really cool.

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And all know some name.

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Your daughter's eyes when they saw you in your tuxes

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were amazing, And I just want to tell you all

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how proud I am.

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I know we spent some days in.

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Here, and I got to preach in and all that,

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but the way you all supported each other and the

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way that you all because, like you said, a lot

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of these a lot of y'all didn't know each other

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before this event got organized and y'all became a brotherhood

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really really fast. So I'm gonna put some really hard

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on you right now. Some of you have said this too,

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but I'm gonna say it to all of you. When

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you go look in the mirror, are you looking at

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the type of God that you want your daughters to

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end up with? The type of man? The god there

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and man, because you know what, you're her model or

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you're their model, and you're going to be the one

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that instills in them the type of guy that they deserve.

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I know, I just put a heavy burden on you,

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but with God, it's all possible, and despite where you are,

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it can happen and you can be a dad from here.

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So there you have it a little bit more positive

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ending if you will to today's episode talk about life

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changing for some of these guys. I mean, if that

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didn't move you, you.

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Don't have a heart.

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As far as I'm concerned, I really hope it does

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the good that I think it will. And until next time,

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I'm Jim Chapman for Bloody and Gola, a podcast one

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and forty two years and making the complete story of

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America's bloody is present.

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Peace, a Wall Street line, shackle change, Bosome Gurdie, it's

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calling my name.

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There is no.

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Mercy and this been a tentery juice as the hugestream

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game Wrangle three.

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I'm in.

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Fun me to die inside these walls, inside the wild

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and when you walk, as I know, it's oul. Body

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