By Beleaf In Fatherhood
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If you’ve been following along, you know we spent the last month in an RV. During that time, we learned how to be present, how to maximize the potential for family bonding, and, above all else, that we are not going to be transitioning to full time rv living 😂 On a serious note though, a lot of people thought we were crazy for taking this trip on. In many ways, we were. But some of the best moves you’ll ever make in life are the crazy risky ones. This was a legacy move; it moves beyond time or cost because it’s affects are what stays on when both money and time run out. We wanted to really be together with our children during this trip and introduce them to the extended members of our family, and in recent weeks, we are more glad than ever that we did.
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welcome black
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what’s going down hello hello don’t look
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at me i’ve been fresh i’ve been walking
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with myself yes i’m trying to do my
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blessing look i’m getting back
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trying to shake up my complex when you
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see me
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will you see me see me you say hello
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all right we finally home
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pulling up
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came a long way
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we
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look at this look at the fix look at
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this
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[Music]
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okay i’m gonna turn this off
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come on let’s go
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yeah
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who’s the most excited to be here
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you’re not going to miss this trip yeah
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my name is uriah and i’m dramatic
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oh
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we made it
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welcome black
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what’s going down
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oh my god
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[Music]
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i’m just loving
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[Music]
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are another planet outside they went
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straight outside
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they look so clean in here
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just help me
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i mean that was
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and it’s crazy it’s like six and a half
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hours
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drive to get
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it still wasn’t as long as like the
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longest drive you know what i’m saying
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glenn was driving though y’all
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he was driving i’m so car sick from that
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drive this now yes dude you was driving
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and you know it
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no i wasn’t i i was driving normally
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that was not normal driving
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you were speeding did you go 65 uh-huh
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see
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he was like
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shut up it was a straight shot did you
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really go 80. i was going 80. yeah
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because it was it was it was 331 miles
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straight on the 15th nice awesome
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do you know what i love about my room
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it has a fan and it has my closet queen
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and
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it has this walker baby i can’t believe
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we’re here man this is crazy
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this place is so perfect
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i mean definitely a lot of thought and
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attention and stuff and like
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i definitely think that was a good
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legacy move but as far as like just
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basic decision making i don’t think that
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was wise
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like we didn’t really like the point of
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rv and we were watching everybody else
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at the campsites because we stayed at
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like several campsites
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people were like living there for like a
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week and then like spending time getting
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to know the area
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and we
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were just sleeping and dipping you know
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what i’m saying
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and so
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it’s just a whole different lifestyle
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and so
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i don’t know if that was the wisest
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decision
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after thousands of miles driven
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three national parks
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[Music]
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it’s really hot
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this guy stopped along and said
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ah hey it’s hot on the ladder child
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malfunctions
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[Music]
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[Music]
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lack of sleep
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[Music]
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a one-sided romance
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you love him
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yeah why do you love him
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because
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his hair
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his hair
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[Music]
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[Music]
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stop doing that okay that’s not smart
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hey guys
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yeah and it’s always gonna be up to us
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and a freaking tornado
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was it worth it
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this was a legacy move
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a legacy move isn’t defined by the money
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it cost or the time it takes
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but what will be remembered when both
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those things
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run out
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one of the big lessons i of the concepts
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i was thinking about this entire road
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trip
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was um you know
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cost versus worth
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i think that we often have this
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conversation about what something costs
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um the amount of time it’s going to take
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the amount of money and resources and
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research and
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you know how like
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how much it it costs to do something
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and then
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the the initial amount of time research
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and and money that something
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costs
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right usually determines the value of
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that particular thing
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but something like this last road trip
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that we went on
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the worth will continue to
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outperform and prove itself over the
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value or the cost monetarily or
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time-wise
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what we are experiencing is
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a
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weird sense of time travel
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to where we are producing
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actual memories for ourselves for the
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future for us to appreciate
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you know what i’m saying like
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we are
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we were collecting memories
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this entire time with every single stop
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we were collecting
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uh these valuable pieces of you know um
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non-fungible tokens you know what i’m
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saying of
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stuff that we would only be able to
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experience if we actually went out and
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did it uh you can’t put a value on a
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smile you can’t put a value on a a
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person
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um but we know what a smile is worth we
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know what a person is worth you know
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what i’m saying just how much they mean
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to us
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and we really got to go out and and
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create some
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amazing memories and i’m going to tell
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you
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that as soon as we got home
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all the stuff the kids they said they
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were going to do they want to be left
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alone they want to do this they want to
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do that they don’t want to be talked to
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please you know what i’m saying ignore
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me
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they
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were back together again just at home
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you know what i’m saying
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and that is just it’s just good you know
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the fact that they would choose
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each other again
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you know what i mean like it’s just so
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valuable to me
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uh
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to see that
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um
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i
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finally got to lay in my own bed
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i finally got to
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use my own toilet and take my own shower
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and that
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those things i missed like those
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conveniences and luxuries that we have
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but
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the question remains like will we do
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this again
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you know what i’m saying
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and i think some of us want to do it
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again some of us don’t theo is
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definitely like i’m out everybody else
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is for it i think
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um
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but the question is like are we gonna do
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it again
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and i think the jury’s still out i think
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we we would do it again under different
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circumstances with a different rv
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um we would do it with more time
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maybe less of a you know less of a trip
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um
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but
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one thing that
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you know
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really tripped me out you know what i’m
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saying and
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we’ll talk about this a little later but
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yvette’s
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grandfather passed away
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he passed away
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like a week ago
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[Music]
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and we had no idea that was going to
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happen but we made the trip
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and we actually got to see and spend
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time with yvette’s grandfather and that
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was the thing that i was i said to you
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guys at white sands i was like yo people
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are dying and we’re missing people
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and
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we actually got to see yvette’s
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grandfather before he passed away which
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is something that only god could
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orchestrate that you know what i mean
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that we would
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have this time with him
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before he passes and he gets to meet his
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grandchildren his great-grandchildren
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and that’s something that unfortunately
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i didn’t do for my grandfather before he
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passed you know what i’m saying and so i
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was i’m so glad that we were able to
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kind of like
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you know meet that need and and um
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you know allow this man to see his
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legacy you know before he
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he went to see the father
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and so
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yeah
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um
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i appreciate you i appreciate you guys
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for watching and being part of this
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journey with us i know you guys enjoyed
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it but i want to know in the comment
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section below what was your favorite
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part like the one thing that was like
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dang man i love this part i want to see
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you guys you know um do this again or
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let us know what you thought about the
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road trip in general like i want all the
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things in the comment section below
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we’re going to be looking at it taking
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an inventory and figuring out where
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we’re gonna go next or if we’re gonna go
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and when and how and all the things so
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um yeah man thank you guys so much for
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watching protect your life keeping
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network popping if you’re fortunate
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enough to be doing life with someone
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else make sure you watch this video with
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them and if they’re not around
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round and round
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