Wade Robson Interview

New Accuser – Wade Robson
A brief story on Wade and Jackson
Wade Robson’s testimony from the 2005 molestation trial

Wade Robson brands Michael Jackson a pedophile and child sexual abuser.

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but this morning we begin this half hour with a new claim from Wade Robson,
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Michael Jackson’s former protege and long-time defender, a claim that the pop
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star molested him for years. trying to talk to wade in a moment exclusively but
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first a story
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for years dancer and fame choreographer wade robson spoke of his one-time friend
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and mentor michael jackson
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with only admiration
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peseta wonderful relationship i learned so much from him as an artist
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and as the kind you want to
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insight in two thousand five when jackson was acquitted of the only
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molestation charges ever faced in court
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robson was a star defense witness
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he was an adult he was intelligent he was articulate
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and he was adamant that nothing encore it had ever happened when he was with
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michael jackson
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but now robson is making a belated claim against jackson to state because his
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lawyers said jackson was a sexual predator
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and robson last year collapsed under the stress and sexual trauma of what
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happened to him for seven years as a child
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in my opinion this is all about greed and money
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but child-abuse experts say that way it’s belated accusation is not uncommon
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that sexually abuse children often take decades to with knowledge of peace
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tragically this is a very very common
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story study after study after study
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and child sexual abuse has shall
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their it takes adulthood for many victims to come forward
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and that it is it very possible that even kids in their twenties do not
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understand at a crime was committed against them
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jackson’s estate says rob since claims are outrageous and have no credibility
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good morning compared to see you you know that the things you’re going to say
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here this morning and perhaps in a court of law
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are going to get a lot of attention make a lot of headlines so before i ask you
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specifics what your mindset right now
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lets my mind set uh…
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i feel strong
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i feel
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like this is the right thing to do
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because this is my truth despite what some people may say after you say these
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things yeah
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we take you back to two thousand five waiting right the child molestation
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trial of michael jackson
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you were the first witness called by the defense in the attorney for michael
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jackson said he called you first
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because you’re so convincing and powerful asserting the innocence of
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michael jackson and here we are the issues later and you’re going to say
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just the opposite
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first of all one thing i want to clear up is that this is not a case of
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repressed memory
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and it has been reported in the u_s_ i’m i’m never forgot one moment of what
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michael did to me
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but i was
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psychologically and emotionally completely unable
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an unwilling
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to understand there was sexual abuse so what are you alleging that he actually
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did
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he sexually abused me from
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seven years old until fourteen and though it’s a it’s a
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it’s a difficult and personal question but can you be more specific because
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you’re accusing
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someone who’s deceased of criminal activity
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yet so i need you to be a little more specific it did he perform sexual acts
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on you did he force u to perform sexual acts on him what was the nature of the
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abuse
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exactly what he said he performs sexual acts on me
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unfortunate before sexual acts on it
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how old were you when it started
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and how long did it last so about fourteen
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deed when you testified in two thousand five
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and you took the stand you raise your right hand and he swore under oath that
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nothing
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sexual ever happened between you and michael jackson
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why did you lie
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you know i said
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what i understood and i said what i was able to say
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seven years old from day one of the abuse
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michael told me that we loved each other
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and that this was love that this was a an expression
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of our love
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and then you follow that up with
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you know but if you ever tell
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what we’re doing
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of our lives
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and our careers will be over
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uh… when i was eleven when the first
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uh… trials going on the criminal investigation in ninety three
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uh… he would call me every day in role play and and and tell me the same sort
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of things and also tell me then
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if anyone ever thought
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that we did these things any of the sexual things that both of us
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would go to jail
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for the rest of them when you testified in two thousand five did it did michael
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jackson or anyone working for him offer you money
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to say the things you said did they tell you you must lie on the stand at that
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time
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there’s no money there was no ps
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you must light michael
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when he would talk to me
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before these things were going on and he would call me
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everyday as these things were happening it was
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manipulation and brainwashing it was in any sense of the truth on the phone he
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would role play with me and training
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for these scenarios
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you know i i i usse it’s not repressed memories so u always knew and had in
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your mind what happened between you and michael jackson
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you also say that when you finally had a son of your own
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that it was looking at that son
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that made you think if anyone ever did to your son what michael jackson did
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to and with you
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you kill that person
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there during it and i i’m the father and i became a father two-and-a-half years
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ago six beautiful baby boy
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and um… during the first eighteen months of his life and collapsed into
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two members breakdowns
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terrifying their respect and at that point i have no idea what was wrong with
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it what was going on
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during the second one
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this thing happened when i started looking at him in a matching
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him being a victim of the sexual abuse that i was at the hands of michael
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and for the first time in my life began to realized that my completely num
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and unexplored feelings in relation to what michael good to me
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might be a problem and maybe i did speak to someone about it howard weitzman is a
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lawyer for the jackson st said this in a statement mister robson has adamantly
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denied under oath and in numerous interviews over the past twenty years
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that michael jackson ever did anything inappropriate to hunt now he wants us to
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believe that he committed perjury atleast twice and has been lying to
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anyone and everyone about mister jackson since the early nineteen nineties so we
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can file a claim for money mister robson strands parent lawsuit comes nearly four
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years after michael past his claim is outrageous and sat jermaine jackson
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michael’s brother said wade robson is full of
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and then used in expletive which a response
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understand completely
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how hard it is to understand this
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that being said
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the idea that i would
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all of this up and put myself
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my wife
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my son my entire family through this extremely stressful and painful
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experience
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all for the sake of money is completely because i was going to be accused of
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you’re going to be a kid you say you you defended michael jackson while he was
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alive
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because he was good for your career and now that he’s gone there’s an
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opportunity here to sue is a state he can’t defend himself and get money
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when you go to the lawyers into this quietly
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and try to to settle something some kind of a deal
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because
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outlived in silence
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and denial for twenty two years
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and i can’t
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spend another moment in that
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in order to truly feel
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i have to speak my truth and i have to speak the whole truth
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that’s one thing that you’ll never see for me i’m never going to go away with
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this
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sikka money i’m never going to be silenced
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that’s not going to happen with with all that you’ve been through all of your the
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work you did with michael jackson and what you know alleged was sexual abuse
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by michael jackson when i say his name for you
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this morning what do you think of
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anger
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and compassion
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there is um…
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there is no excuse
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for what he did to me
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and uh… i believe many others
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but um…
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but he was a troubled man
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and every effect as it’s calls
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the image that
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presents to the world
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is not the whole explanation of who someone else
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you know michael jackson was
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yes an incredibly talented artist
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and there was an incredible gift
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he was many things
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and it is also a pedophile
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the child sexual abuse
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his fans have been contacted me on twitter this morning
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record numbers for you
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and a lot of them are saying you’re a traitor
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we understand their emotions this morning
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understand how confusing it is to understand
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how hard it is to understand i get that
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but um… all it takes is a little bit of education
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into child sexual abuse and realizing how unfortunately typical
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my scenario is
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the trauma and the psychological effects of child sexual abuse last
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for so
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you know i had no understanding of this until
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up to just over a year ago
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and i’m just the beginning
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of my healing process i’m sure i’ll be dealing with this
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for the rest of my life
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i’m so thankful that this is happening
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because now
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i can get my life back
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you know in my son
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my son is going to save my life
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wade robson bight thanks very much for your time this morning i appreciate it