Terrie Ware Join Me At The Table Today In This Interview

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today in the studio y'all so you know
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today we know what today is
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have a guest today who's gonna be
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talking about some very good things but
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horoscope time we're gonna do the
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astrologer Micah thousand and we're
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gonna kick it off today for August 215
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do you realize we are in the middle of
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this month like literally we are so
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close to fall it is unbelievable we are
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where we 3/4 through the year we are 3/4
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through the year I mean time is flying
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it's not waiting for anybody and it's
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not waiting for us but listen let's go
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ahead and see what the Stars got for you
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today we're gonna kick it off with Aries
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you'll be drawn to individuals who
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provide you with both intellectual
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conversation and physical passion go out
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shopping today I like that whoo Aries
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take me with you
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difficulty difficulties will result if
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you have to deal with controversial
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controversial goose okay listen so y'all
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know I went to dinner yesterday to get
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my braces off right guess what I didn't
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get them off two more weeks so yes I'm
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still someone yes I am Taurus you should
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put your efforts into creative projects
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throw yourself into your work throw
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yourself into your work I like creative
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projects I'm not that creative when it
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comes to like making things but actually
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how to write a book and I could tell you
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Jim and I ferret ferret out information
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that will hold them responsible avoid
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disputes with family their complaints
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can't change anything anyway it may not
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be the best day to confront your
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employer's not if you want your job be
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careful about that
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Jim nah don't go trying to talk to the
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employees they would some crap could
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cost you your job can't sir you're
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passionate mood will be well received by
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your mate hmm
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nice you can do well on stage or behind
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the scenes the choice is yours you may
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have difficulties with someone close to
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you all right watch out for that person
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close to you be careful with that cancer
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Leo you could meet an interesting
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individual who want to get to know you
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better
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it could be love you never know could be
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money you never know
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don't push limitations on yourself don't
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put limitations on yourself if you
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address those in a position to grant you
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favors you should get the support you
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require you got a X though that's the
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one thing we don't do if you don't act
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somebody knows you need it
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Virgo residential moves are evident your
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words will be taken out of context if
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you eat if you're evasive with
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co-workers or employers home-improvement
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project could run smoothly all right go
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ahead do something for the home fix it
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up today they gonna run smoothly today
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is your day so have you been thinking
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about doing some good stuff it's your
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time all right I'm going to the song and
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I bring you the rest of the harvest
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hey hey hey welcome back to the morning
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when that shows a girl are you Brenda
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give me the daily horoscopes brought to
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you by astrology or microfiber that's a
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songs in my in my playlists that I play
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I've never even played that one before
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I'm like that so really my song I'm
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saying about my hair my guests can hear
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it if you listen in live you could have
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heard it but you have to leave hear it
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later
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eisah listen gonna pick up with Libra so
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we're gonna stop it pick it up right
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here trips educational pursuits or
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projects that could lead to new outlooks
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should be on your agenda expect to pay
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more than you anticipated for
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entertainment or other purchases okay so
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listen expect to spend some money today
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cuz that's what's gonna happen
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Libra just expect it if you can include
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them and your plans do so I don't know
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who they are but if you can include them
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go ahead and include them Scorpio
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some important someone important maybe
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watching you from afar hmm people are
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always watching trust me when I tell you
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that you don't even know it's so funny
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I'm gonna tell you a quick story so I
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was on his girl's show last year she had
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a podcast too and um and I I'm not a big
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Facebook person like I'm not a big
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Facebook person cuz I feel like people
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are stalking you and I was like okay I'm
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gonna go her show and she said to me I
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gotta be honest I was stalking you and I
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was like I knew it
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so people are watching you you just
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don't know and I was freaking out like
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see that's what I don't like Facebook
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people are stalking you anyway discover
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you someone important may be watching
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from afar you may have difficulties
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while traveling or problems deal with
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close friends or relatives your flair
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for dramatic appeal will unleash itself
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at social functions listen don't let it
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listen it's a social function don't let
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too much get unleashed
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remember people are watching you
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Sagittarius on handiness will affect
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your reputation okay underhandedness try
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to stay calm and do the best you can
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don't be too eager to start your debates
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watch out now you care for their and
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don't be underhanded you're right later
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your rep is all you got
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I tell you a lot of time my story about
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Greece - I love grease to grease - and
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Saturday Night Fever or the two movies I
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watch over and over but when Johnny and
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gluten are lows
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I was gonna say hey they go to Michael
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to do their paper they like don't tell
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anybody we got a rep to protect
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that's my one of my favorite lines so
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listen you got a rep to protect
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secretary so watch it Capricorn you can
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expect to feel confused about your
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personal prospects you may not make
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unnecessary changes today perhaps due to
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preoccupy preoccupation will be upset
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mishaps I'm just messin up mishaps do
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the preoccupation will be upsetting be
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careful be careful loading this haps
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today
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Aquarius romantic opportunities are
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evident if you get involved in large
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group or organization so you looking for
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love romance you got to get out of
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network today think about starting your
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own small business think about it but
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think real hard it's a lot of fun it's a
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lot of work there might be a problem
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with a will or with an insurance policy
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get your papers in order
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get your assets in order to protect your
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stuff watch out now my fellow fish
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Pisces you will be unusual charming
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you'll be your unusual charming self
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today really okay and the partners you
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attract may be the adventurous type
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that's what I am I asked my husband last
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night I said why did you marry me he
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said because you were adventurous oh
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really is that why does the only reason
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that's what he says obviously he think
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I'm adventurous someone you care about
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um may not be too well they've dealt in
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two worthwhile causes that would show
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results if he put in the effort listen
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that's all I got for you today for my
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advice and I noticed I strive to here on
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the good morning with national I'll be
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back on Thursday with more to tell you
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what your stars have in store for you
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but now we're gonna start the interview
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process nope I got one last thing we're
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not gonna start just yet almost
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so Primerica those of you who don't know
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what Primerica is Primerica is a
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financial services company I'm actually
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I am actually a Primerica rep that's on
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my that's on my second third fourth been
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my seventh business learning businesses
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anyway they have done something really
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cool they have donated advance to the
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Red Cross
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I'm the American Red Cross and that is a
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wonderful
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wonderful thing and you got to think
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about this for a second the American Red
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Cross does a great job of providing us
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with blood so those in and and and and
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also when there is a problem when is
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Katrina hits and floods and you know
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they're first responders whenever there
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is a disaster so not only do they do
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blood but they are there to help out
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when there's a disaster and so because
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of the work that they do Primerica which
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is a financial need services right here
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in Duluth Georgia have gifted them a
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then a Dodge Ram Promaster City then and
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that's a great thing so I just wanted to
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give a shout out to Primerica for doing
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such a great thing they did that on
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yesterday so I'm gonna give them a round
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of applause because you know I like to
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show people give them a hand when they
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do something wonderful
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all right so listen there is a young
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woman in the studio with me this morning
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at the table cuz you know this is our
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segment to sit at the table Thursday and
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she represents an organization that
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helps a group of people who are very
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special and she has someone her family
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who's very special that's why this is a
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cause that's near and dear to her heart
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so my guest today is Terry where she is
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the director of y'alls group so y'all
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had me said the end of show every time
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bye y'all
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well y'all actually means something
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other than my southern drag for y'all it
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means something imma let Terry tell you
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what meanings in a few second but
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Terry's a director she also sits on the
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board of special needs schools here in
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Gwinnett County and that organization
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has been around for 30 years so Terry
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thank you so much for being my guest
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today thank you for having me Audrey
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listen so they in the very show I said
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make it a great day
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bye y'all now today you're gonna tell us
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that y'all really means something what
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do you what does y'all mean okay y'all's
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means the meaning of y'all's as young
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adults learning life skills so you guys
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see it doesn't mean just y'all cuz I'm
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not I don't know how to say you all you
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know what's funny is I you know I was
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raised in Jersey I was I went to Jersey
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when I was 12 and I spent the last
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little so many years there a long time
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and um even though I had spent most of
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my life in Jersey people always knew I
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was from somewhere else and I spent
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pretty much my whole I sitting on half
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my childhood mostly on my childhood and
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all of my adult life pretty much
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something too now injuries but any time
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I open my mouth they're like where you
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from and I was like my brother they
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couldn't tell but me they can always
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tell because I still had a sudden thing
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I mean it's okay cuz I'm a southern
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peach for real I'm original so it's
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alright now I'm proud of that let's
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shout out to my people on the bricks in
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Newark
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all right so Terry tell us about we're
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gonna we're gonna talk about these
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special needs schools first and we're
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gonna talk about the yas group because I
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know both of those are very important to
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you tell us about the special needs
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school okay so as Audrey mentioned
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special needs schools of Gwinnett is a
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private we are a nonprofit a 501c3
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nonprofit so a private school so we
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serve individuals from pre-k all the way
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up to high school which
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the adult basically so what what's
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unique is that we are one of the only
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organization that serves pre-k through
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adults because now we have well we've
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had the y'all's division but we've just
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the past two years really really
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revamped it and made it a division of
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the school so as far as you know serving
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someone from pre-k all the way to
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adulthood that takes out a lot of
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stresses a lot of darkness for the
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families because right now individuals
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you know with special needs age out at
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22 on their 22nd birthday we have any
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public school sector doesn't matter if
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it's February March whenever they're
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they are done right so now with the
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special needs school so you said you
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started pre-k all the way all the way up
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to adult someone with the special needs
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child what what classifiers what what
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what determines of your child is special
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needs learning disabilities processing
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all the way you know in to autism Down
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syndrome things of that nature
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and so a staff that's there they're very
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you know I know a couple people who have
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children who are autistic and there are
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different levels of participants do you
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say okay any kid with autism can come in
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or or they're like you know now we're
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open to all over in special needs we we
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have to watch obviously for aggressive
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behaviors but we you know have gone
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through programming and things of that
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nature to be able to handle that as well
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how many was the capacity for the kids
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how many how many students did it does
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at school we currently are capacity at
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about how 55 so which brings me to the
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point that we actually are finally going
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to do a ground breaking where our school
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building hmm so on August 27th at 1:30
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we are holding the groundbreaking and
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that way we can serve probably 40-plus
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more additional oh yes so now when you
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when you think about bringing on people
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to
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assist you teachers and administrators
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what are you looking for because I talk
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about teachers are good net has some of
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the best teachers in the country right
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what are you looking for what I you have
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to have you have to be a special person
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you do you do I know that my brother
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time you should teach us like I don't
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think I'd be a good teacher because you
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need a lot of patience I don't have a
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lot of that but what are you looking for
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what are you looking for in a person
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that wants to come in and help you guys
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with with the kids that you serve any
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young adults you know I think and I kind
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of will relate it to what I look for in
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a caregiver for my daughter is um you
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know you want somebody that this is not
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just a job this is a passion for them
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because you want this to be in their
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heart you have no idea what each day
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each hour it's gonna be like when you
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are in the special needs you know
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community so you just want some money to
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have you know they need to have
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leadership skills they need to obviously
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have a lot a lot of patience something I
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don't think I could do right but just be
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willing to change be willing to you know
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think outside of the box and what's
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gonna work for each individual because
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everyone that's different
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everyone let me ask you this cuz this
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just came to mind I know you talked
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about your daughter who's 24 24 24 when
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you have a young baby how do is there a
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way to is there something that a parent
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can look out for to see if there could
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possibly something going on there like
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are there like identifiers so that is
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something I do not know it's an organ is
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actually my stepdaughter okay so I'm her
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legal guardian so um you know I know
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from listening to my husband I think it
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was just the slower developing you know
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she wasn't crawling she wasn't making
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the sounds you know that he had seen you
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know with his previous children right um
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so that I really can't answer well that
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was a good there's a lot of people may
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not know that like I know that and some
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people aren't some parents aren't denial
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yeah I know someone very close to me who
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has a I think he's five now but we knew
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like when you know we were seeing like
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hey he's three he's not talking right
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and they're like all he's just you know
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it's gonna take a minute but I think a
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lot of parents deal with denial because
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of course we all want perfect children
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and not saying that a child with special
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needs is not perfect they're perfect in
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your own way but I think for parents a
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lot of times we look at perfect as being
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you know they can do everything that the
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next screen do it and realistically even
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if they don't have a specialty chances
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already won't do everything the nickel
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can do right so how do you when you're
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talking to parents how do you kind of
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get them to be comfortable knowing that
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when they bring their child to special
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needs or to y'all's to special needs
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school y'alls that they're in good hands
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and that the people they're
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understanding because how do you talk to
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like how do you get them to like
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understand that this we're here for you
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we're here for you we have services for
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you you can relax a second how do you
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get them to that point it's real hard I
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mean because the you know to trust your
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children but when you have someone that
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has special needs and on the adult side
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of it kind of what we see as to where
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the parents have done everything for
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years or they've been in a very isolated
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classroom situation in private school to
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where your teachers and peer pros we're
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doing everything for them as well so we
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like to you know just we have a very
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open door you know come in talk to us
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communicate with us you know we're gonna
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do all that we can to get them to their
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full level of Independence that's not in
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a harsh way at all it's miraculous - you
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know day to day see individuals how much
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they change from when they've started
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coming to now they're speaking you know
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they're reaching out to other
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individuals and they're you know they're
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telling us what their needs are so it's
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it's just it's that comfort level and
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it's that structure for them I'm sure
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you got do you guys have a waiting list
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because I could believe that the school
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has a waiting list for school aides
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everything we have the hardest part of
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my job with the y'alls is we right now
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do not have transportation as far as you
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know picking up like a bus route
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Primerica American we're calling you
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Primerica we saw what you did yesterday
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sorry that's okay we need so it's hard
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you know it kind of my thing I have been
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thinking lately and it's you know these
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special needs children turn into special
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needs adults they don't grow out of
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their disability they don't grow out of
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those special needs you know they don't
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have the same liberties the same choices
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as you or I do right it is um you know
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it's it's hard to get the community to
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kind of see that really um yes it is
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because and I say that because there is
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a lack of programming once they age out
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okay of that you know school system
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right
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there's there is a lack of programming
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there's a lack of support for that and
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there is no telling how many individuals
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are just left to sit at home because
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their parents have to work their parents
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are also aging right all right so you
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know our our goal and our mission is to
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provide resources to families whether
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they come to us or not so but you know
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what as I sit here and listen to that
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you said there is not a lot of
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programming and not a lot of help but I
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think that may be because I know we live
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in a really great community and they're
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always doing something
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um and I hope hopefully this show in
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this episode will let people know listen
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they need your help you know that's why
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I do these shoutouts they need your help
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because there are people out there who
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are aging out they are young adults
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listen we have young adults who don't
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have special needs that need your help
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but Terri is talking about those who do
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and I think one of the things that we
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have to be open to is lending a hand and
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I think we live in a great community
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where that so that's that we get a lot
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of that but if someone does want to lend
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a hand what are you looking for what are
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you looking what type of help are you
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looking for I know money is always a
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great thing right yes financial support
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is always great and that you know what I
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mentioned to you and in the email is
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that you know outside of providing
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scholarships you know because we don't
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well
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do get government funding by way of each
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individual okay but most of our
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individuals do not know that path
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tonight one one of the things that we're
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doing is trying to provide that resource
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to them so we need volunteers we're out
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currently in the community five days a
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week I will say we have some amazing
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community partners that we go and do
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jobs for them okay I'm which in turn
23:45
they get back to us whether they do you
23:47
know Taekwondo with us Venis lunch
23:49
okay whatever so that's been amazing so
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you know we don't have a waiting list
23:54
but it's kind of because we haven't
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really been like pushing hey we need
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more individuals we currently have 17 16
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or full-time with three facilitators
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okay we really need more responsible
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adults hmm on hand when we're out in the
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community just to keep them safe okay um
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and it's a day a day that you won't
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forget I mean it's to be around them
24:22
it's just heartwarming so what does the
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scholarship and tell so if someone wants
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to give the scholarship to a student a
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young adult what does that mean so right
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now we are current these are there are
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20 it's $25 a day mm-hmm yeah as a we we
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want to be able just reach and support
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you know as many individuals that we can
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okay um so that's $500 a month okay so
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if somebody you know any any little bit
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helps
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um you know a lot of these families like
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I said their parents are aging they're
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kidding retirement age you know so their
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funds are not there as they used to be
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oh wow so that's that's pretty doable
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twenty-five dollars listen you can give
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$25 a day it takes take a young adult to
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do some great things so now I know that
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the special needs school has been around
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for thirty thirty something I years and
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y'all's is a new program how did you
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guys decided to spin-off that program
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the young girl's group so the the Oscar
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it was actually established probably
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fifteen years ago
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okay and it was established because we
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had an individual that went through
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to be at pre-k to high school and the
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family had no outlet had nowhere for
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that individual to go at that time so
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the director at the time you know just
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said well we'll just start an adult
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program hmm so the last two or three
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years we've really worked hard to make
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it a division and to make it a true
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adult program to where they have
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community inclusion
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okay I'm to where they're learning
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skills you know to where they have a
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program that supports them as an adult
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okay so now you talked about Morgan how
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long have had how can I say this so
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don't sound crazy how long have you been
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Morgan stepmother I know you're gonna
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get me in trouble so I've been Morgan
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stepmom for seven years my husband and I
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dated we have a little little chuckle
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about that so we dated for quite a while
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okay so now you came into a marriage
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with the with the daughter with special
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needs how was that when you were not
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that used to handling a situation like
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that our parenting it was tough at times
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it was tough at times but um you know
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we've we've we've learned to deal with
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each other you know the the hard thing
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is you know she's 24 mm-hmm she she has
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the feelings that we do as adults and
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doesn't want to be told what to do
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doesn't you know doesn't want to be
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complete you know nag that all the time
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don't want to be told no hmm
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so that's why programs like this are
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great for these individuals because it
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gets them away from their parents that
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are next
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you know that division during the day
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gives them an outlet but also gives
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their parents that respect and that's
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that's nice because I you know I don't
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have a special needs child at home but I
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have two seniors my mom and my uncle and
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it's so funny because I'm running two
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doctors you know they go into their
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moods where they want to argue with each
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other they're brother and sister
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right and they want to argue with each
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other and so my my daughter says maybe
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you should put cameras in the house and
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stand your own reality TV show because
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they are hilarious and so I get it but I
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sometimes I just need to you know yep
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just take a break take a break and you
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know and I'll go to Barnes & Noble which
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is one of my favorite places and oh I
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just my husband I go to Lake Oconee and
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just relax
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right and but you need that sometimes
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and so I know for we have a special
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needs child they you have to have a lot
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of patience and it's a lot of work
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sometimes it's depending on the level of
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you know need your child has I know I
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had my cousin she had a special-needs
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child but she gave him up she gave him
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to another cousin she couldn't do it
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right and my that cousin she was a lot
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like older never had children he's very
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loving she even took care of me my mom
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was working two or three jobs much
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because she was a single parent and she
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passed away in November we love her and
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miss her so much
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but she had my cousin since he was a
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baby and I knew when I when I saw him he
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was calling it but he was he was
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crawling and then he was walking like
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the next year I saw but he was reading
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and I said she didn't know cuz she was a
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lot older she was in her in her 60s and
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she didn't know and so I was playing
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that baby's reading and she's like yeah
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he does it all the time and I was like
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there's something special about this kid
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right and as he got older we realized
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okay he is a special-needs child but
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he's a hot he's on the high intelligent
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in right but you could tell there's a
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little something different yeah right he
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reads very well he's very helpful with
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very loving but he's very hyper
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sometimes he has a hyper thing going on
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but when it comes to like I was like oh
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my god so I said to her you have to
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really watch him and nurture that
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because he is very special he has a
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little bit of something going on there
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but he's very smart and so she started
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to watch it they got him test he does
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amazing in school right but you can tell
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us a little bit something different and
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I think what made me pay attention to
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that a lot my daughter went to college
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and she said to me and she called me
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when I said oh my god you have got to
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watch the Temple Grandin story she said
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you will love it and I did and if any of
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you have never watched a Temple Grandin
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story you got to watch it it's gonna
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change your if you've never been around
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anyone with special needs and you want
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to kind of understand it just a little
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bit she was extremely smart but she had
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special needs she didn't like walking
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through doors like that was a thing for
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her like she would freak out yet that
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she didn't want you to touch her but she
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liked being hugged you gotta watch it
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it's a great movie it's called a temper
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Temple Grandin story and it's a great
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movie she had special needs but she was
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so smart and when I saw she's still
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living by the way but you can if you
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watch that story you're gonna understand
30:32
how she changed the cattle the cattle um
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what do you call a branding system it
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was a great story but anyway so tell us
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about some of the programs that if I had
30:44
a special-needs child and I wanted to
30:46
put an enroll them in a special needs
30:47
school or the arts program what are some
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of the programs that you guys offer
30:50
there on a daily basis program its
30:53
meaning and services well I mean the the
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y'alls group believe the young adults is
30:59
that is the day program so it's a
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community access group as far as you
31:04
know the pre-k through high school and
31:07
they are scho at a school they are
31:10
learning they have a curriculum okay
31:12
okay
31:13
so I cuz you know I'm thinking they're
31:15
like you're not I'm thinking about like
31:16
a adult daycare kind of situation is it
31:19
not like that or is it you're not a take
31:21
care okay no they care yeah okay no they
31:27
they are you know it like I said it's
31:29
amazing to see you know we we are kind
31:32
of refusing to split up into more
31:35
independent less independent you know
31:36
when we go out onto jobs because and I
31:39
just read a study about this the other
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day it's you know when you play someone
31:44
that is less independent with someone
31:46
that's higher independent they kind of
31:48
feed off of each other and so we have
31:51
seen growth in individuals that you know
31:54
again we're nonverbal you know wouldn't
31:58
do anything would just sit in the chair
31:59
but with us taking them out you know
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they're now starting to take part in
32:06
activities so you know one of the great
32:10
things I think I'm into more working
32:11
with dog with assisted living and
32:13
Grayson right two days a week and just
32:16
you know we're working in their dining
32:17
hall rolling silverware and that's great
32:20
for them you know it's um fine motor
32:22
skills as well as just you know learning
32:24
tasks and helping out right but also you
32:27
know talking to residents playing games
32:29
with the residents I'm just kind of
32:30
filling that void for them as well see
32:32
that's nice and I think that's really
32:34
important because like you said like if
32:35
they're sitting home with their parents
32:36
parents don't really have a lot of time
32:38
to pay attention so they kind of just
32:39
let them do put them there and kind of
32:42
said you kind of look like anything with
32:43
any child yet parent is busy the parent
32:45
is busy the kid is sitting in front of
32:47
television and they're learning from the
32:48
TV so the fact that they're out there
32:51
and what's interesting about what you
32:52
said in that study we put them with
32:54
people that a little bit different or
32:56
higher at a higher level in there and
32:58
they kind of start to mimic that that's
33:00
what anybody yes
33:02
that's what anybody that's what I that's
33:09
right right so that's that's amazing I
33:13
never thought about that so now I know
33:16
you guys have some events coming up we
33:19
do let's talk about them again special
33:22
needs schools of Gwinnett our
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groundbreaking is on August 27th at 1:30
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we invite anyone in the community to
33:28
come we'd be excited to see you it's a
33:30
great monument is day for us and then
33:33
for the yas group we are actually
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partnering with two other Adult Day
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programs that are phenomenal
33:39
organizations about the same size as us
33:41
the exceptional foundation of Atlanta
33:44
and friends you need are also known as
33:46
the fun Club I think I talked about them
33:50
one color yes I have bring you neat I
33:52
did talk about okay great individuals so
33:55
we you know I kind of thought
33:57
you know it's not a competition right
34:00
now we all have the same mission we all
34:02
have the same focus we you know if if I
34:05
can't help an individual they don't fit
34:07
in with our group then I'm gonna pass
34:08
them on to these guys you know and I
34:11
feel like we need more of that you know
34:12
we need we want to reach as many
34:14
individuals that we possibly can support
34:16
mm-hmm all three of our organizations
34:19
you know depend heavily on community
34:23
support financial support you know to
34:25
continue to grow so our 5k charity run
34:29
walk or roll probably roll or you can
34:34
just you can virtually ghost walk what
34:39
is that that's not why I just get a
34:41
t-shirt and you pay the entry fee okay
34:43
so how much is the entry fee $30 $30 yes
34:46
so you can ghosts walk which means you
34:48
could pay the $30 for the entry fee oh
34:50
you can come out and run I'll play a
34:52
walk yeah I don't know about running I
34:53
have these really bad knees so I don't
34:56
know about that you know you said
34:57
something very interesting you said we
35:00
work together we're not it's not a
35:01
competition for us and that's what I
35:04
think a lot of businesses only need to
35:06
start to look at like strategic
35:07
partnerships and collaborations because
35:09
if you're strong in one area and you
35:12
have a you have a part in they're strong
35:13
in another area you guys can help each
35:14
other out so now what do you look are
35:16
you looking for more collaborative
35:17
partners in this in this space we are
35:20
yes so when you look for a clowder
35:22
partner what exactly are you looking for
35:24
in a partnership your time out for the
35:26
all yes so we you know any anything that
35:31
we can do that teaches them a skill that
35:34
gives them something different to do
35:35
during the day from paper shredding you
35:38
know we we go and we clean all of the
35:41
windows at Rose Jordan Park you know we
35:44
work with Dacula family sports just you
35:49
know we just we just want to be able to
35:50
help we just want to feel welcome you
35:54
know we would you know love you know to
35:57
build volunteers from that as well in
36:01
which you know our partners have been
36:02
great to where we can send a group with
36:04
you know one individual that works there
36:06
and they they're fine you know they do
36:09
great with them
36:10
there's an organization and I talk about
36:12
them way early on I must have been
36:15
episode 2 it was way early on boat she
36:18
had an organization and she did these
36:20
paintings sips mobile parties and you
36:23
could you could actually pay for her to
36:27
go out and do a paint and sip mobile
36:32
party and I thought that was really cool
36:35
and but it was it had a non-profit piece
36:37
too and I can't remember I want I think
36:40
I think what it was if if you held a
36:43
party the paintings were donated it
36:46
canvases for a cause yes Melissa yeah
36:51
Melissa and I talked about Melissa I
36:53
can't remember that's what it was
36:54
canvases for calls so I'm I think that's
36:58
a nicely done and that's what that was
37:01
like that was my question like had
37:03
you've done something like that okay oh
37:06
my light actually used to work with
37:08
Melissa and stopping oh nice guys okay I
37:12
didn't know that yeah yeah and being in
37:14
this you know being the director and
37:17
just kind of you know reaching out the
37:18
individuals and showing me that there
37:21
are still good people out yes there are
37:22
so people that would give their time and
37:24
their resources yeah to where day to day
37:27
you really could kind of not think that
37:30
yeah there are I talk to a lot of them
37:32
and some people they just don't know
37:35
where to give and how to give that's why
37:37
I'm always when I do the shout out sorry
37:39
I give the website there's a telephone
37:40
number I get back like listen if you
37:42
can't get on the internet call them
37:44
right here's a telephone number you know
37:46
here's an email for somebody because I
37:48
know that there are people who are
37:49
listening who want to give they just
37:51
don't know how to give right I don't
37:53
know if they can't give I think the more
37:54
I expand this show especially when it
37:57
comes to putting mobile apps on people
37:58
phone and I said hey listen today my
38:00
guest is gonna be that goes directly to
38:02
somebody's phone they're listening to
38:04
the show and they'll be able to say you
38:05
know what I want to give and hopefully
38:07
what I could probably do nothing I'm
38:08
thinking about it is included giving
38:10
link inside that episode right when I
38:13
doin every you know when I started to
38:14
get more people to download the apps not
38:16
this is me thinking right now like I'm
38:18
just thinking how can I be of more help
38:20
to organizations like by y'all's and
38:22
special needs schools and canvasses for
38:24
purpose and all these grateful calls and
38:27
all these great organizations that I
38:28
shout out so that's something I'm gonna
38:30
have to think about right I can add a
38:32
link to that episode inside the episode
38:34
inside the app okay all right the bridge
38:38
the gap I'm sorry is October 19th at
38:41
swanee Town Center now what is that the
38:44
bridge get bridge the gap is the 5k run
38:46
okay okay that's with the three
38:48
organizations and it's October October
38:50
19th okay October the 19th so they got a
38:53
lot of lot of events that that are going
38:55
on if you want to know more about those
38:57
event they can contact you Harrell okay
39:01
they can't okay so my email address is
39:04
yall's y al LS at special needs schools
39:08
org all right there's y'all's listen not
39:12
my y'all so if you want to go out of
39:15
support Terry and yaws and special needs
39:17
school please do they got great events
39:19
coming up so make sure if you want to
39:21
come out and support them with the
39:22
groundbreaking that's gonna be September
39:24
I mean August 1 7:30 august 27 at 1:30
39:28
and where's it gonna be located 660
39:31
Davis Road in Lawrenceville go out show
39:33
some support and if you want to support
39:36
the organization by making a donation
39:37
being a volunteer or if you have an
39:40
organization you want to bring doing the
39:42
young adults over to help you do some
39:44
things go to y'all's group org and and
39:47
fill out the information there or send
39:49
their email they're always loved to be
39:52
able to shout out and spotlight
39:54
organization if you know of any more
39:55
back you know that in Winnetka county
39:58
please let them know that to contact me
39:59
and i'll do the same things that i'm a
40:02
shadow and let people know what they're
40:04
doing the great work listen these people
40:05
giver themselves this is it's not easy
40:08
work all the time but it's rewarding and
40:11
they need your support you can do a
40:12
scholarship $500 a month or just $25 for
40:16
a day I'm gonna do mine so you should do
40:18
yours too
40:19
listen it's Thursday you know what it is
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it's all I got play today I'll be back
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again on Monday God willing but before I
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go I'm gonna play one last song
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come back and give you the inspiration
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stay tuned y'all hi sound like I'm bite
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it's the end of the week for some of you
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