Meet the 3-year-old who got discriminatory abortions banned in Mississippi
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In Mississippi, a new law banning abortion based on sex, based on gender, and based on disability has been passed. And the person behind it is here with us today to talk about the most incredible thing going on in Mississippi right now.
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In Mississippi, the most incredible thing has happened.
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A pro-life law has passed banning abortion based on sex, based on gender, and based on
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And the person behind it is here with us today.
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We are going to be talking about this most incredible thing going on.
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It's an existing pro-life law in Mississippi today.
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Let's begin as we always do with the sign of the cross.
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
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In the pro-life movement, we very seldom hear good news.
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So let's learn a little bit, first of all, about yourself and what caused you to get into
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Absolutely every single bit of it from start to being right here right now.
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Um, we actually, our little guy was born in Colorado.
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And, um, and so we, um, knew that we would always come back here at some point.
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When he was born, his little heart, um, needed an open heart surgery.
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And, um, the altitude was just too hard on him.
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So fast forward to after his open heart surgery, which was at three and a half months of life,
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And then when we drove into the mountains, it was just worse.
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He, he just plummeted with his oxygen and needed to, to come back to sea level.
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But actually before we bought this house, we bought three other houses and each one, God
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And just so happened, our neighbor across the street was running for Senator.
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And, um, and so I got to meet his family and, um, share our story.
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And some of his workers loved our story so much.
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They called me and asked if I would be willing to go to the Capitol and talk about, um, pro
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And, um, that's where I met Susan B. Anthony list.
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I am just so thankful for their friendship and their support.
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And, um, we were told it would be two to three years before the house bill 1295 would actually
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And with Hudson's little face, it passed the first year and it's already been in law for
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And we've even passed another pro-life, um, Hudson has his own law.
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Now we even have Hudson's law here in Mississippi that was just signed last Thursday by our governor,
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which requires doctors to give up to date information for down syndrome diagnosis and other trisomy
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Now let's go back a little bit to your own pregnancy with Hudson, what you found out, how
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you reacted to the news and, uh, what happened there?
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I have a daughter that is 13 and Hudson will be three in April.
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So to have our official boost 10 years later was just a shock beyond shock.
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But, um, so, you know, just ecstatic, just total, just over the moon giddy.
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Um, you know, had a nursery already in my head, you know, the day we got, you know, took the
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And, um, I, I think that my first doctor saw some soft markers.
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And so she went ahead and referred me because of my age.
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I have a left bundle branch block, if that means anything to anyone, but, um, but they
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And, um, at 13 weeks, they, um, said that they saw some soft markers on Hudson that they
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And, um, the room went from giggles and laughter to just very sad and almost a panic.
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And, um, what they noticed on Hudson was the little bridge of his nose.
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He had a little extra skin, little fat pad back here on the back of his neck.
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All of his oxygenated blood and non-oxygenated were mixing together.
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So, um, my husband and I, you know, just wanted to know more information.
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The room went very somber and they said, well, you have options.
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My husband and I immediately looked at each other and said, we don't have options.
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That's not even like, let's, please don't mention that again.
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What we need to know is gather our information so we can prepare our hearts and prepare for
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And so they did the amnio at that time and we waited 48 hours and my husband, I can remember
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him just sitting at the computer, just frantically putting every photo in because he wasn't sure
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if we were going to get more photos of Hudson that this, you know, we may not get any more
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And, um, and so we, we waited our 48 hours and we got the beautiful news that Hudson had
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We had a great chance for bringing him, um, into this world and loving on him.
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And so I went, um, into the doctor and they said, we're keeping you and we're delivering
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And I knew Hudson already had a mountain to climb.
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I was trying to make the mountain, not as steep.
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I was trying to plateau it the best I could for him.
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And so I begged to stay pregnant and luckily my doctor listened to me.
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She heard that I wanted to, the team was 50, 50.
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It depended on who was on shift, if I was going to get to stay pregnant or not.
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And, um, and so they put me in an ambulance and got me out of that hospital and sent me
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I'm actually Aurora, but, um, but anyway, I was next door to the children's hospital.
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I went in for my heart path, um, with a little bit of hesitation, but just trying to gather
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Well, when I was in my heart path and the probe hit perfectly and threw me into complete
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heart block, um, I was beating at 13 beats per minute and, um, they shocked me four times.
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And, um, they weren't sure if they were going to be able to save me.
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And they were at this point just trying to save Hudson.
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And at that moment in time, God just said, Oh, wait, hold on and slowed everything down.
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And, um, I, I woke up with a pacemaker in my neck and I see you, um, I was propped up
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I didn't know I was still pregnant because of the way that I was sitting.
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And all I could do is just cry and say how sorry I was to everyone in the room thinking
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And that was the opposite of why I traveled to Denver.
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I was trying to stay pregnant and, um, my nurse leaned down, one of my most favorite
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Um, she leaned down nurse Nicole and said, um, you're still pregnant.
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I mean, the, the amazing side of that and knowing that, that, um, that we, we pulled
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Not only did I survive and husband stayed in my belly, but he grew, he went from the
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32nd percentile to the 65th percentile in the same week.
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Because I was providing him with what he needed to grow.
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And we were able to stay pregnant until 37 weeks.
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And it wasn't my heart that delivered me at 37 weeks.
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It was actually, I created him a really nice luxury swimming pool that, um, it was about
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And, um, and so we had to, to go in and, and go ahead and induce and get Hudson here and
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praise the Lord because the day Hudson was born, not only was he born with in heart failure,
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And, um, and so getting that news at day one of life, had he been born at 30 weeks versus
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37, it may have been a lot harder for him to fight it.
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He fought it all on his own with no treatment, no medication.
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God certainly had a plan, a plan for you, a plan for Hudson.
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And, um, I want to get into this incredible story about your lobbying efforts.
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And I should say Senator Hudson's lobbying efforts.
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Um, tell us, tell us a story of how he gets called Senator Hudson and why is that?
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So Senator Hudson, um, has a very nice ring to it, right?
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I see politics in our total future here, but, um, yeah.
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But so when House Bill 1295, when we were, were brought in as the family for that, um,
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I mean, it was really just a beautiful, um, everyone wanted to take their picture.
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They were popping up all over social media from him being in the Capitol.
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We put him in Senator England's chair and took his photo and people just gravitated towards
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And, um, so when the vote finally came, you know, it was right going into COVID time.
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We had gone to the Capitol as much as we could.
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And then now we're starting to talk about locking things down and things.
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And, um, so I was watching the vote on the, um, on the phone in the background.
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There's no one standing at the podium, but in the background, after the votes were all
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in, someone stood up and said, well, is Senator Hudson here and how is he voting?
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And the whole galley just busted into laughter.
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I mean, Senator Hudson, um, you know, he's just, um, changing the world.
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Now, what did, what was the vote exactly on which, which piece of legislation?
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So, um, so Senator Hudson came, came from, from that, that vote there.
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And, um, then when we introduced Hudson's law, everybody already knew him as Senator Hudson.
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Um, our big thing in Mississippi recently, we changed our flag and, um, in our flag, we
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now have in God, we trust written on it, bringing Hudson back.
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Um, we need to love all of God's children and provide everything that they need.
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And we are saying in God, we trust in our state and, and we need to hold true to that.
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So, um, so the, the vote for Hudson's law in the Senate was unanimous.
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The vote in the House was, um, I believe it was, there were only two nays.
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They did try to change some of the language on it to be a little bit, um, broader, but it
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So they brought it back to the trisemies only, which, um, you know, I appreciated from
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that standpoint and, and then it, it sailed right through again.
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So when it went in for concurrence, it, it was unanimous again.
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It was voted on a Wednesday and we were there at the Capitol signing on Thursday.
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I mean, it was, and, and, and the reason for that, our governor is extremely pro-life.
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Our governor will choose life every single second of every day.
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And, um, and he said that, you know, he wanted this done before world down syndrome day, that
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this was, um, you know, his way of showing how, how he chooses life.
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So, Senator Hudson, would he be in the building?
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I don't know how long he's going to stay, but he is in the building.
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He just had a big surgery a couple of weeks ago.
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We actually, um, stacked eight procedures during one anesthesia run.
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And, um, so he's, yeah, he's the, he's a trooper.
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Maika, can you tell us a little bit about what you've got behind you there?
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It was Easter about 30 minutes ago and now it is all Hudson.
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So, um, it was World Down Syndrome Day on Sunday.
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And this was a bouquet of flowers that we shared with our church.
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The picture is where Hudson was in Times Square with NDSS.
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Um, above is our other photo that was used for the buddy walk here on the Gulf Coast.
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And our proclamation from our mayor in Ocean Springs declaring World Down Syndrome Day a perfect day.
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A lot of parents, when they go into having children in the first place, are really intimidated by your very situation.
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They are, you know, they dread hearing anything of the sort.
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Talking to a mom that has been given a diagnosis.
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I was given the best advice that I could possibly share.
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Um, you know, just, just learn what you need to.
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Um, one mom walked into my hospital room when I was there with my heart failure.
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And, um, she gave me a book about Down Syndrome.
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And, um, she said, no, seriously, take it home.
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Your child will not have everything that is in that book.
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Don't scare yourself with everything that won't even apply.
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My 23-year-old and my 13-year-old and my 3-year-old are all different.
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They have different tastes, different styles, different music, and different abilities.
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And my daughter is, has stacks of books and loves homework.
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So I just would say that, you know, your, your child, just because a diagnosis has been given,
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just because you're fearing the unknown, no different than COVID, we've all been living
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in a fear so we can all understand that and we can relate to what that fear has brought.
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But embracing life, choosing life, loving life in all of God's forms, he makes no mistakes.
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Your child is nothing but a beautiful gift from God.
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And, and, and if your baby has an extra chromosome, you're so lucky.
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I mean, at the end of the day, we are a beautiful family and I'm so thankful for this opportunity
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It's, I'm going to start crying, but it really is one of the most beautiful experiences.
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When Hudson was the Grand Marshal for the Buddy Walk in New York two years ago, I stood on
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that stage and I looked out at 2,000 faces that I'd never met before.
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And I was asking them to please call me Aunt Micah.
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I just want, I just want so badly to be in their family and want them to know I'm here
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Thank you so very much for being with us on this episode of the John Henry Weston show.
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May God bless you and little Hudson and all your family.
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