If you’ve ever had a loved one pass away, you know what a stressful time it can be.
When people get old to the extent of not being able to take care of themselves, their family often makes a decision to send them to a nursing home. Unfortunately, if they get sick or terminally ill, these people can easily end up in a hospice where they are supposed to be provided with quality care during the final months or days of their life.
The thing is that not many people have good words to say about hospice. Very often, we stumble upon stories of elderly people who are neglected and treated poorly at these facilities. The truth is, however, that we shouldn’t generalize based on isolated cases, and the video below shows exactly that.
A dying woman who used to work as a voice teacher had one last wish. She wanted the nurse, who happened to be her former student, sing for her one last time. She truly enjoys his beautiful voice, and so are we.
We are glad people as compassionate and as caring as this nurse still exist. They surely restore our faith in humanity.
“What a beautiful voice! She must have been one heck of a teacher! God bless! ” one person commented.
“This man is a blessing. A perfect example of using a God given gift to comfort those around him. Selfless and beautiful!” another person added.
This will definitely help change people’s position on hospice care.
Make sure you watch the video below. It’s so touching!
Sadly Maria is no longer with us, which makes this whole clip even more moving.
Make sure you share this beautiful clip with all your friends on Facebook to honour all the staff working tirelessly to take care of our elderly loved ones.
Handsome, successful, famous, and loved by millions, it looks like Tom Brady has it all. He’s a truly talented man who many consider to be the greatest player in the NFL History, something we can’t argue against.
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Tom was born in a family of sports people and his three sisters excelled in different sports. As the youngest child out of four, he had three role models to look up to while growing up. What is very special about Tom is that he never settled for less than being number one. And if you think his talent was enough for him to reach the stars, you might be wrong.
At the age of 14, he and friend John Kirby became parts of the Junupero Serra High School team, but ended up sitting on the bench. In order for that to change, they worked out on their own for three days a week besides the regular training sessions they had with the team.
His hard work paid off the following year when he threw the game-winning touchdown during his first game.
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“He wanted to be THE man and wanted to be the leader. After all these years, he lived up to everything he was dreaming for,” his high school coach Bob Vinal said speaking to The Athletic.
Tom attended the University of Michigan because his parents wanted him to be part of the sports team and get a great education at the same time. In 2000, he was drafted in the sixth round by the New England Patriots and that is probably the best deal they have ever made.
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In July 2020, Tom had an interview with Forbes in which he spoke of his beginnings and his career. “Both personally and professionally, I have faced challenges and sought out people who had better professional insights where I could use their experiences to learn from,” he said. “In my young career I doubted myself a lot. When I saw things that weren’t going my way, I thought I was the victim of circumstance. But when I changed, shifted my view and my mind to say ‘I am not a victim, why don’t I empower myself.’ I could grow in ways I was struggling. Through working with psychologists and others, I learned you have to face the challenges and look at them as opportunities for growth. It was a lot of work, but it really paid off in my life.
“My wife uses a great line: ‘The teacher appears when the student is ready.’ You can’t force something to happen in your life. You have to just be open and embrace them when the time is right.”
If someone tells you Tom Brady isn’t the best, just remind them that he won seven Super Bowls in ten championship appearances.
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At the time he was a rising star, Tom dated actress Bridget Moynahan, the I Robot star, who was at the start of her career herself. The two dated for two years, from 2004 to 2006. After they split, Tom started dating Brazilian model Gisele Bündchen, but just a couple of months into their relationship, his ex told Tom she was carrying his child.
“Certainly, a lot of people make sacrifices for their family, and I’m dealing with a certain situation, a very joyous, happy situation”, Tom said at the time. “And some people have dealt with death in the past and that’s incredibly difficult.”
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Things looked complicated for both Tom and Bridget, but they decided to raise their son Jack together.
Speaking to Harper’s Bazaar in 2008, Bridget said, “Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that. It’s golden and it’s tough and it was f***ked up. But now I have a child, and it’s the best thing in the world.”
Gisele was also confused at the beginning as she didn’t know what to expect, but today, she says, “Jack, my bonus child, has been a huge gift and blessing in my life.”
Jack is 14 and lives with his mom and her husband Andrew Frankel, who has three children from a previous marriage. He is very close with his father, Gisele, and their kids, his brother Benjamin and sister Vivian.
Jack’s mom told People, “Tom and I made a decision to raise a child together and we both found partners that not only supported us in raising that child, but also loved our child as if he was their own. I don’t think you can ask for more than that. My son is surrounded by love.”
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When it comes to the Brady family, sports runs in their genes, so you won’t get surprised when we tell you that young Jack wants to follow into his father’s footsteps. He’s not really into football, however, but loves soccer instead. “Though after the Olympics he’s like, ‘I think I’m going to win a gold in swimming.’ Then it was Michael Phelps. So I think he just likes awards,” his mom said.
No matter what he chooses to be, his parents will always be there for him to support him, just like they have so far.
Kids are so adorable, sometimes they just know how to say the truth of a situation, when us adults would normally bite our lip. Savannah, who is five years old is equally hilarious in what she does, so much so that it has gone viral!
She discovers her father, daddy, in distress, she knows exactly what to do and gets right to it, it all starts when her father feels pain and thinks the worse…
The conversation that Savannah has with dispatcher is so incredibly funny, her dad thinks is is having a heart attack but is in too much pain to speak, Savannah steps in!!
So little Savannah takes the phone from dad and she reassures him that he will be alright and manages to keep amazingly calm for the whole duration of the 911 telephone conversation.
Little Savannah competently tells the 911 dispatcher that her dad “can hardly breathe” she tells him that he needs help and to hurry up and get to their home. The dispatcher reassures little Savannah that help is on the way and it won’t be too long.
She turns and tells her pop that he will be alright and help is coming soon. The dispatcher asks if the front door is locked, Savannah doesn’t know, so she asks her dad…
When she finds out that the door is actually locked, the dispatcher asks her to unlock it ready for the emergency workers…
When Savannah realizes that strangers will be coming into her house she realizes that she and her dad are still wearing their pajamas.
She makes a decision that she needs to get changed before the rescuers arrive, so she say to the dispatcher that since she’s in a tank top, she must go to her room to get dressed.
The dispatcher gently intervenes and says that she really needs to stay there with her dad, to look after him and watch him, the dispatcher continually checks if her dad is awake and how he is doing.
Former President and magnate Donald Trump has had quite a love life. Between his marriages, he was dating beautiful women and tied the knot three times. He met his first wife Ivana in 1976 at a flamboyant New York restaurant called Maxwell’s Plum. Ivana was working as a model and was attending dinner with her friends when Donald paid for their meal. When she left the place, she saw him standing outside in his limousine, and that’s how the two started dating.
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While he was still married, Trump got into a romantic relationship with Marla Maples. She claimed she didn’t want to stand in the middle of him and Ivana, but eventually, she decided she wanted to be with Donald and the two started dating and later got married and welcomed daughter Tiffany Trump.
“I loved this man. Yes, I was young, but it was my choice. I was romanced, I had Mister Charm all over me, and it was very hard to say no. When that man wants something, he’ll stop at nothing to get it. And I also believed in the good of him,” Maples said when speaking of her relationship with Donald, who was by that point one of the most powerful men in business.
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During the United Cerebral Palsy charity gala in New York City in 1995, which Donald attended with Maples, he met Princess Diana for the first time.
Diana was named Humanitarian of the Year at that charity event, in recognition of her work with sick and underprivileged children. At the time, she was dating American billionaire Theodore Forstmann.
Donald Trump allegedly approached her and offered her a free membership to his famous Mar-a-Lago Florida golf club, but Diana declined. In the period that followed, Trump became sort of obsessed with her and bombarded her with flowers, according to British television journalist Selina Scott – who hosted a documentary about Trump for British TV network ITV in 1995.
“Trump clearly saw Diana as the ultimate trophy wife, and launched a ‘floral bombardment’ of orchids and roses on Kensington Palace from across the Atlantic,” Selina Scott said, as quoted by NY Post.
“As the roses and orchids piled up at her apartment she became increasingly concerned about what she should do. It had begun to feel as if Trump was stalking her.” She added that the excessive attention Diana received from Trump gave her “the creeps.”
Just weeks after Princess Diana’s death, Trump was a guest on The Howard Stern Show where he said that the late Princess had a “supermodel beauty.” Stern then asked: “You could’ve nailed her, right?” to what Trump replied: “I think I could’ve.”
In his 1997 book The Art of the Comeback, Trump wrote: “I only have one regret in the women department—that I never had the opportunity to court Lady Diana Spencer.”
Years later, in 2016, Trump gave an interview to Pierce Morgan during which he denied that he wanted to have a romantic relationship with Diana, adding he thought she was lovely when they met in New York.
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Princess Diana left this world way too early and left her sons and the entire world mourning her loss.
Jon Bon Jovi is one of the best musicians there are, but at the same time, he’s also a man with a heart of gold who is doing so much for the most vulnerable members of the community.
Ever since he was a young boy, he somehow knew that music was his calling. His parents were always by his side and supported his dreams.
“What I got from my parents was the ability to make the dream reality,” he said in The Big Issue’s Letter To My Younger Self. “They always instilled that confidence in their kids, which, in retrospect, I realize was so incredibly valuable. Because even if you truly weren’t any good at your craft, if you believed you were, you could work on it.”
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In 1980, at the age of 18, Bon Jovi released the first single, Runaway, with the band Atlantic City Expressway he formed with keyboardist David Bryan. The song attracted the attention of many and he knew there was no going back.
“There was no plan B for me, ever. I can remember walking the two-mile walk to school with the guy who became my first band’s bass player. And I would just conspire as to how I was going to get a band together, how I was going to play in bars and eventually make it,” Bon Jovi said. “Which to me at that time just meant keep on playing in a bar – the measurements of success change throughout the course of your life.”
Around 1983, the band was renamed Bon Jovi. Their first album was released in 1984, and some two years later, they released their third album, Slippery When Wet, which helped the band raise to stardom. It went platinum within six weeks of its release. Well, the rest is history.
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Besides being an icon in the world of music, Bon Jovi is also a devoted husband and a father of four. He and his wife of 33 years, Dorothea Hurley, have known each other since high-school. They attended the same school, Sayreville War Memorial High School in Parlin, New Jersey. He got interested in her the moment he saw her, but at the time, she was dating someone else. That other person joined the service and left town and Bon Jovi saw that as a chance to get close to her.
One thing led to another and the two started dating.
Speaking of how they decided to tie the knot, Bon Jovi shared: “It was 1989, and our album New Jersey was out. We had the No. 1 album, the No. 1 single, and we were playing three nights at the Forum in L.A. We were staying at the St. James’s Club, which is that beautiful art deco hotel on the Sunset Strip across from the old Hyatt House. I pulled the curtain back in my room, and there’s a billboard of me staring right back.
“I turned to Dorothea and said, ‘I got an idea. Why don’t we go right now?’ She said, ‘You’re out of your mind.’ I said, ‘Come on. What’s better than this, right now, this moment?’ And so we ran off to Las Vegas. Didn’t tell a soul. We took a little shuttle plane, jumped in a cab, and didn’t even stay the night. The cab driver was the witness.”
The two welcomed four children together, Stephanie, 28, Jesse, 26, Jacob, 19, and Romeo, 17.
The singer says his family always comes first no matter what. Despite his tours and hectic schedule, he always makes sure he spends enough time with them. When asked about the key to a long and happy marriage, he once shared with People that the secret was that the two grew up together and grown together.
“And we really like each other. We want to hang out,” he said, as his wife added, “I always said I was good at spotting potential too. I have a gift.”
“We work hard at it, but we enjoy each other, and we never fell for the trappings of what celebrity can do,” he continued. “We’ve witnessed that happen over the years to people that were close to us and people that we knew from afar. It’s just what I do; it’s not who I am. I write songs. I happen to be very good at performing them. That’s it.”
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There was one incident in the past involving their daughter Stephanie which brought the family even closer together.
One night in 2012, Stephanie called her father and told him she was rushed to the hospital after taking controlled substances.
“The first thing she said, ‘I’m all right,’ but then she said this is what happened,” Bon Jovi recalled. “You wake up, you shake it off and put your shoes on and say, ‘OK, I am on the way home.’”
According to him, his daughter was lucky to be alive.
That incident changed him forever. “It was horrible, a horrible moment. It was my worst moment as a father,” he confessed in an interview with Daily Mirror.
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In 2002, he wrote the song I Got The Girl for Stephanie. “Everybody’s got a little girl in their life — their daughter, their girlfriend, their wife, their momma,” the musician said of the piece of music devoted to his girl. “But it all goes by so fast. And they start out as little bitty babies, and their future’s looking bright. And I wrote this song for that little baby, who’s now not such a little baby anymore.”
Stephanie graduated from the New School in New York in 2017 and according to some magazines, she’s pursuing a career in modeling.
Reality shows become more and more popular with each passing year and dominate the TV screens during the last two decades. From looking for new talents, to weight loss and dating, these shows cover pretty much everything.
One of the reality shows which is extremely popular is The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills which started as The Real Housewives of Orange County and expanded to Atlanta, New York, Miami and New Jersey.
One of the people who marked it is definitely one and only Kim Richards.
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This incredible woman started her TV career when she was just a baby. According to a 1975 article published in the in the Great Falls Tribune, family and friends of her parents though Kim was an overly cute baby so they encouraged them to put her in commercials and TV shows.
Kim’s mother, Kathleen Dugan, who is also the mother of Kathy Hilton, Paris and Nicky Hilton’s mom, had been accused over the years that she pushed her three daughters into acting, but she denied that, saying that the girls did what they wanted to do. “I want everything for my daughters that I never had,” she claimed.
Besides Kathy Hilton, Kim Richards also has another sister, Kyle Richards, who is also part of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
Once the family moved to Los Angeles, where Kathleen Dugan believed her daughters would have bigger chances of entering the world of film, Kim landed a role in the ABC comedy series The Nanny and The Professor in which she starred alongside Juliet Mills and Richard Long. Although she was pretty young back then, she remembers the period of filming the series as a happy part of her life.
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What followed were some great projects, including the fantasy science-fiction film Escape to Witch Mountain, Assault on Precinct 13, and the television show James at 15.
“I always wanted to be a witch,” then 10-year-old Kim said. “Then I wanted to be a movie star, a mommy, and have children. And I want to meet Santy Claus.”
At the age of mere 15, Kim already made a name for herself and became a well-known face.
“I love the business, though. And I plan to stay in it the rest of my life,” she told Austin American-Statesman in 1979. “Once you’re established, you’ll probably work right through. Somehow, I skipped the awkward period in my life. I’m really too old now to play kids.”
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Despite being on a way to even more successful career, Kim decided to take a break and raise her children.
She met her first husband, Monty Brinson, when she was just 19. His family owned a supermarket chain in the South and the marriage was a result of pregnancy.
According to the book House of Hilton written by Jerry Oppenheimer, Kim’s mother was described as a “gold-digger” who forced her daughters to marry rich man. She believed that would help with their careers.
“We found out [Kim was pregnant], and we did the right thing. It was Kim’s choice to have the baby,” Brinson said, as reported by Daily Mail. “They [Rick and Kathy Hilton, and Kim and Kathy’s mother] didn’t believe in abortion because they were Catholic. It wasn’t even an option.”
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Kim and Brinson divorced three years later, and in 1988, Kim married her second husband, Gregg Davis, with whom she has 2 children. After the split, she started a long-time relationship with businessman John Jackson, with whom she welcomed her fourth child.
After returning to her career, Kim is mostly involved in The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. She was a regular in the first five seasons and them made guest appearances in seasons 6, 7, 9, and 10. She, however, wasn’t part of seasons 11 and 12 but said she could return in the future.
Speaking to Dr. Phil, she said, “Living through this season on a show, sometimes it’s hard enough just to get through it. The fans are very hard on me. I went on Twitter first to see what people were saying. And it was just horrible, calling me all kinds of names.”
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Today, Kim devotes most of her time to her grandsons Hucksley and Hunter and enjoys the role of a grandmother.
“He’s super outgoing, animated, super lovable, calls me Nana,” she said of Hucksley when he was born in 2016. “I bought him a set of Safari animals, like 72 Safari animals. I can say, ‘Where’s the platypus,’ and he’ll know where the platypus is at. He knows every animal, and I’m not just saying this because he’s my grandson, but he’s so smart.”
“He sings, and he loves to dance,” Kim Richards added. “We put him in the car seat, and he immediately wants the radio [on]. He makes these faces, and he loves music. He’s just extremely loving, and a happy baby doesn’t cry a lot.”
Brandie, a young mom of twin boys named Blaine and Rylie, decided to do an experiment in order to see what happens when she decides to spend time on her phone instead of watching her kids play and how that affects her relationship with them. What she discovered was the sad truth about the role of technology and the internet within the family dynamic.
This California mom shared the results on Facebook with her friends not assuming that her post would spread on the social media like a wildfire.
“Today I did an experiment, I watched my boys play,” she wrote. “As I sat quietly in the corner of the room I tallied how many times they looked at me for various reasons: to see if I saw their cool tricks, to seek approval or disapproval for what they were doing, and to watch my reactions.”
“I couldn’t help but wonder if I was on some sort of technology what message would I have been sending?”
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“28 times my angels would have wondered if the World Wide Web was more important than them. 28 times my boys would have not received the attention most adults are searching for.
“28 times my loves would have questioned if they were alone emotionally. 28 times my kids would have been reassured that who you are online is what really matters.”
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“In a world where we are accepted as who people perceive us to be and not who we really are, in a world where validation comes from how many followers or likes we have, in a world where quality time with loved ones is being replaced by isolation and text messages from the other room, I beg you to be different.”
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“Please put down your technology and spend some time with your family & loved ones. The next generation of children is counting on us to teach them how to be adults, don’t be too busy on social media, you never know who is watching and what message you are sending.”
Brandie’s message serves as a powerful reminder to put down your phone and spend more fact time with the ones you love. Please SHARE this with your friends on Facebook!
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Kelly Clarkson rose to fame thanks to one of the most prominent talent shows there are, American Idol. The moment she first took the stage, she became America’s sweetheart. And why wouldn’t she? Besides her impeccable singing talent, Kelly is also a very grounded person who has worked hard for everything she has.
When she started dating her now ex-husband Brandon Blackstock, everyone agreed that she met just the right person for her. Brandon has always appeared as loving and invested in the marriage.
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Speaking of how their fairytale started, Kelly once told presenter Ryan Seacrest, “[Brandon and I] met years ago when I was working with Rascal Flatts, and he used to tour manage with him. I didn’t really know he was [my manager’s] son, and it was kind of weird. I was like, ‘Dude, I gotta know that guy.’”
This happened back in 2006, some 6 years before they became a thing.
“We were just in a room together, and then he came up and said he was from the same hometown as me. And I was like, ‘Oh, we’re so getting married,’ I was so that girl. When he became single, I was on the prowl,” Kelly added.
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Shortly after tying the knot, the couple welcomed their first child, daughter River Rose. In 2016, they welcomed son Remington. Together with Brandon’s two children from a previous relationship, they made a cute blended family.
“Brandon is not my other half. He’s a whole, and I’m a whole. I’ve never believed in someone taking care of me, and that’s probably because I grew up poor and without a lot of family stability,” Kelly said of Brandon back in the day.
Everything seemed perfect and Kelly and Brandon were considered one of the best celeb couples, but that all changed in 2020 when Kelly filled for divorce. The news came as huge shock to many, especially her fans. Nothing spoke trouble, so it didn’t come as a surprise that people started wondering what was going on behind closed door throughout the years.
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Days before she filed the papers, Kelly shared in an interview with Glamour Magazine that since the pandemic struck, things haven’t been easy for her. “Honestly, I have been on an emotional roller coaster. This has been really hard as a working parent, because I’m still doing all the same jobs. It’s been exhausting, honestly, cooking every meal and cleaning nonstop after toddlers and teenagers! Everybody’s learning from home now, and the teaching! So, everything has been crazy,” she said.
She also shared how she felt when she got abandoned by her father at the age of 6.
“I don’t think you get rid of that. I have people in my life that suffer from addiction to certain things, and that doesn’t go away. It’s always there. It’s just navigating your life around that existence in your life,” she said.
“You don’t ever one day wake up and are like, ‘Okay, I’m totally cool with the fact that I have major abandonment issues,’ because horrible things happened.”
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During an occasion, Kelly told Entertainment Tonight that she and Brandon forgot two out of four of their anniversaries. ”But the great thing about us is we collectively do it. It’s not like one of us forgets and one of us remembers. We both epically fail. We’re always very busy. The only times we’ve remembered our anniversary is when we had [it] off. If we’re working, we forget what day it is,” she added.
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While Kelly cited “irreconcilable differences” as the legal grounds for divorce, people close to her and Brandon believe the reasons were many. Apparently, one of them was the hearing problem their son faced when he was still very young. The stress did its part in moving them apart. Their careers were also a big thing that kept them from spending enough time together.
“Things had changed in their marriage and the split was a while coming,” source told People. “They both work so hard. It’s nearly impossible to enjoy each other, especially with the children needing constant attention.”
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The couple signed prenup before the wedding, but they still ended up suing each other. Namely, Starstruck Management Group, where Brandon works as a talent agent, sued Kelly. In December 2020, she counter-sued.
The prenup gives Kelly proprietary rights to the Montana ranch where Brandon is currently living. He tried to challenge the prenup and claimed that he worked full-time on the ranch and had huge business plans for the establishment.
Kelly got primary custody of the children and is obliged to pay Brandon $195,601 per month in spousal and child support.
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During a conversation with Gwyneth Paltrow on the Kelly Clarkson Show, the singer/ songwriter said she’s not planning on marrying ever again.
“Coming from someone who’s literally amidst a divorce, I can’t even imagine doing it again,” she said.
“I’m actually in that place where I think a lot of people, I’ve heard, that go through divorce, it’s almost like you start dating yourself again, like you actually make time for you again, and I love dating me.”
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“I couldn’t help but wonder if I was on some sort of technology what message would I have been sending?”
