1 00:00:00,300 --> 00:00:04,470 This podcast is intended for mature audiences only and may contain 2 00:00:04,470 --> 00:00:06,120 content that could be triggering. 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:08,250 Please listen with discretion. 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:13,710 Welcome to just one person, a podcast where I dedicate each season 5 00:00:13,770 --> 00:00:15,930 sharing a remarkable true story. 6 00:00:16,260 --> 00:00:21,390 Together we're gonna discover how just one person can shape us, inspire, 7 00:00:21,390 --> 00:00:24,570 hope, and sometimes even save us. 8 00:00:25,050 --> 00:00:26,910 I'm your host, Lisa Bloom. 9 00:00:28,994 --> 00:00:32,775 The season's story begins in the fall of 2022 when I was 10 00:00:32,775 --> 00:00:34,725 searching for a new hairstylist. 11 00:00:35,070 --> 00:00:37,470 I got Stephanie's number from a close friend. 12 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:42,480 Sent her a quick text and she responded instantly with, of course, beautiful. 13 00:00:42,570 --> 00:00:44,010 I would love to cut your hair. 14 00:00:44,610 --> 00:00:48,060 That one message gave me a glimpse into who Stephanie is. 15 00:00:48,270 --> 00:00:51,120 She's kind, generous, and welcoming. 16 00:00:51,510 --> 00:00:56,550 And over the next three years, Stephanie and I became very close friends, openly 17 00:00:56,550 --> 00:01:01,890 sharing stories about our parents relationships, and interestingly religion. 18 00:01:02,355 --> 00:01:06,225 I was consistently surprised by the memories Stephanie would share with 19 00:01:06,225 --> 00:01:08,235 me about her childhood and adulthood. 20 00:01:08,715 --> 00:01:12,315 Her stories were heart wrenching, and yet her demeanor and spirit 21 00:01:12,705 --> 00:01:15,015 were always upbeat and positive. 22 00:01:15,645 --> 00:01:20,615 Then in the fall of 2023, I. I walked into Stephanie's salon expecting a 23 00:01:20,615 --> 00:01:25,775 normal appointment, but she had a sad and serious look that wasn't familiar. 24 00:01:26,105 --> 00:01:30,664 What happened next would unfold into a story of resilience and the extraordinary 25 00:01:30,664 --> 00:01:32,585 strength of a remarkable woman. 26 00:01:33,215 --> 00:01:36,965 Stephanie's life was forever changed by the love of two people. 27 00:01:37,589 --> 00:01:42,899 Each simply one person who inspired hope and ultimately saved her. 28 00:01:43,530 --> 00:01:47,250 This is Stephanie's story, and it starts with this voicemail. 29 00:01:47,250 --> 00:01:56,340 Uh, Stephanie, uh, it's bad and uh, I hate to leave you voicemail 30 00:01:56,345 --> 00:02:00,955 on this, but I. I want you to realize the importance of the call. 31 00:02:04,295 --> 00:02:06,355 I'm the preacher's 32 00:02:10,465 --> 00:02:11,885 an empty shell 33 00:02:13,955 --> 00:02:14,245 lost. 34 00:02:17,405 --> 00:02:21,240 I was born a Texan, um, born in Houston, Texas. 35 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:23,880 I am pretty sure we lived in a suburb outside of Houston 36 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:24,900 for like the first two years. 37 00:02:25,740 --> 00:02:30,049 I. Yeah, and then we moved shortly after that to whole Texas, which 38 00:02:30,049 --> 00:02:31,160 I'm sure everyone's heard of. 39 00:02:31,700 --> 00:02:34,195 Um, uh, yeah, Texas. 40 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:36,859 It's currently where one of the biggest sinkhole are, um, that made 41 00:02:36,859 --> 00:02:38,600 the National Union News years ago. 42 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:39,799 So huge. 43 00:02:39,890 --> 00:02:41,750 Um, it's a lake now, I'm pretty sure What. 44 00:02:42,595 --> 00:02:45,864 But I haven't actually done the research to know if it's the largest thing called. 45 00:02:45,864 --> 00:02:46,315 Got you. 46 00:02:46,465 --> 00:02:51,535 I do remember, like, you know, of course I was a kid that was always 47 00:02:51,535 --> 00:02:53,424 interested and curious in things. 48 00:02:54,445 --> 00:02:58,075 I really felt like at one point I was probably a daddy's girl almost, 49 00:02:58,075 --> 00:03:02,394 you know, like he really genuinely just doted over me when I was young. 50 00:03:02,755 --> 00:03:03,114 I remember. 51 00:03:03,775 --> 00:03:07,225 Go into the bank and my dad had a little office and I sat on Santa's lap. 52 00:03:07,225 --> 00:03:09,655 So what did your mom do during that time? 53 00:03:09,835 --> 00:03:11,185 That's what I can't remember. 54 00:03:11,185 --> 00:03:16,674 Um, because like I said, she was a nurse by trade, but once we moved 55 00:03:16,674 --> 00:03:22,825 to, um, Hull, Texas where, you know, all the relatives were, I, I don't 56 00:03:22,825 --> 00:03:24,505 know if she was working or not. 57 00:03:24,805 --> 00:03:27,325 I knew my dad worked at the bank, but I don't know if my mom was working. 58 00:03:27,325 --> 00:03:28,315 I cannot remember. 59 00:03:28,734 --> 00:03:29,815 She was an rn, right? 60 00:03:29,875 --> 00:03:30,175 Yeah. 61 00:03:30,295 --> 00:03:31,675 She might've been a stay at home mom. 62 00:03:31,734 --> 00:03:32,365 I'm not sure. 63 00:03:32,394 --> 00:03:32,454 Yeah. 64 00:03:32,454 --> 00:03:32,995 Interesting. 65 00:03:36,015 --> 00:03:40,845 Stephanie has taught me that trauma impacts our memories, and we often 66 00:03:40,845 --> 00:03:43,665 use our emotions over the facts. 67 00:03:43,875 --> 00:03:48,674 I read the book called The Body Keeps the Score, and it explains that when it 68 00:03:48,674 --> 00:03:54,105 comes to trauma, we remember the emotions of feeling, fear and powerlessness. 69 00:03:54,540 --> 00:03:59,790 Instead of remembering the painful facts of what took place to help Stephanie 70 00:03:59,790 --> 00:04:04,380 remember her trauma timeline, we, along with our partners, decided to 71 00:04:04,380 --> 00:04:06,780 take a trip to Texas and Louisiana. 72 00:04:07,260 --> 00:04:13,770 We visited many of the 11 places where she lived between the ages of one and 17. 73 00:04:14,610 --> 00:04:19,709 Our group, now known as the pod, hit the back roads with equipment Intel. 74 00:04:20,370 --> 00:04:21,780 Stephanie's bravery. 75 00:04:21,815 --> 00:04:23,525 Was incredible. 76 00:04:23,825 --> 00:04:28,985 It was an emotional journey filled with tears and laughter by each of us. 77 00:04:29,344 --> 00:04:34,865 And by the end of those four days, we knew our friendship was cemented in stone. 78 00:04:36,840 --> 00:04:39,480 My mom is still, this is something I'm still working on. 79 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:42,780 Actually, my mom is still a big question mark in my life, but I 80 00:04:42,780 --> 00:04:46,740 don't remember her lovingly like loving, like my dad loved me. 81 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:50,190 I mean, even all my old pictures, you know, it's like my dad's on 82 00:04:50,190 --> 00:04:53,430 the bed with my Easter basket, you know, my dad's with my Christmas 83 00:04:53,430 --> 00:04:55,020 and you know, whatever I have. 84 00:04:55,830 --> 00:04:58,530 We didn't have, um, costumes that weren't homemade. 85 00:04:58,530 --> 00:05:03,060 So, um, I ended up having the foil arms and I just remember thinking I was 86 00:05:03,060 --> 00:05:07,320 the coolest thing ever, like, standing there in my big foil, arms, superwoman, 87 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:09,840 costume, and we were out in the country. 88 00:05:09,844 --> 00:05:13,080 Uhhuh, I mean, so it, it was just different being raised out in the country. 89 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:13,169 Yes. 90 00:05:13,169 --> 00:05:17,340 I mean, so I, I, you know, I did get spanked as a normal southern child did. 91 00:05:17,490 --> 00:05:17,580 Mm-hmm. 92 00:05:17,849 --> 00:05:18,419 Um. 93 00:05:18,450 --> 00:05:21,390 Don't fault my parents for that at the time because they were normal. 94 00:05:21,390 --> 00:05:23,070 Pick a switch parents at that point. 95 00:05:23,280 --> 00:05:26,099 And um, wait, let's pause for a minute for our listeners. 96 00:05:26,099 --> 00:05:28,229 What does it mean to pick a switch? 97 00:05:28,409 --> 00:05:29,460 Oh my goodness. 98 00:05:29,460 --> 00:05:30,780 So you go out. 99 00:05:31,230 --> 00:05:37,290 To a bush in the front of your yard and you literally find your own stick to pull 100 00:05:37,290 --> 00:05:39,210 off of that bush to get spanked with. 101 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:40,470 Wow. 102 00:05:40,740 --> 00:05:42,300 It's the worst thing possible. 103 00:05:42,300 --> 00:05:45,660 It's like, um, a walk down death lane, basically. 104 00:05:45,990 --> 00:05:45,991 Yeah. 105 00:05:46,140 --> 00:05:48,840 Like you're walking to pick your own beating basically. 106 00:05:49,170 --> 00:05:49,740 It's true. 107 00:05:49,980 --> 00:05:52,050 I had a southern mama, so I know what you're talking about. 108 00:05:52,050 --> 00:05:52,140 Mm-hmm. 109 00:05:52,380 --> 00:05:54,300 But those who don't have a southern. 110 00:05:54,420 --> 00:05:55,260 Background. 111 00:05:55,590 --> 00:05:57,570 It is always a shocker when I share that. 112 00:05:57,570 --> 00:05:57,870 Yeah. 113 00:05:58,170 --> 00:05:58,980 It's like, what? 114 00:05:58,980 --> 00:06:00,090 That's child abuse. 115 00:06:00,090 --> 00:06:02,850 And it's like, well that happens back then, that's all they knew. 116 00:06:02,910 --> 00:06:03,090 Yeah. 117 00:06:03,090 --> 00:06:07,020 I will be honest, they weren't doing it to be abusive or anything. 118 00:06:07,020 --> 00:06:11,340 It was just the way of disciplining your child in the south at 119 00:06:11,340 --> 00:06:12,660 that point in the country. 120 00:06:12,660 --> 00:06:14,340 And you know, this was years ago. 121 00:06:14,340 --> 00:06:16,080 So we've learned a lot, thank goodness. 122 00:06:16,290 --> 00:06:19,830 And your mama's parents, how did they fall into play your. 123 00:06:20,045 --> 00:06:20,705 In your life? 124 00:06:20,765 --> 00:06:25,745 Well, my mom's mom is the one that we live closest to, um, distance wise. 125 00:06:26,135 --> 00:06:31,955 And then, like my cousins were actually closer in age with us, and, 126 00:06:31,955 --> 00:06:33,665 and they lived nearby too by her. 127 00:06:33,935 --> 00:06:36,125 And so with her, she was the kind of grandma that. 128 00:06:37,169 --> 00:06:39,885 We just all get dropped off at her house on the weekends and 129 00:06:40,155 --> 00:06:41,885 just, you know, roll the forest. 130 00:06:42,510 --> 00:06:43,890 And she was also deaf. 131 00:06:43,890 --> 00:06:48,359 And so a hundred percent, well, I mean, I thought it was a hundred percent, 132 00:06:48,359 --> 00:06:51,989 but obviously she could hear some, because we could talk to her, but you 133 00:06:51,989 --> 00:06:56,729 could hear her hearing aids squealing all the time because she would, you 134 00:06:56,729 --> 00:06:58,125 know, kind of tune us out, you know? 135 00:06:58,664 --> 00:06:59,044 Oh my gosh. 136 00:06:59,145 --> 00:07:01,799 She could like keep her silencer on and we'd just hear her hearing 137 00:07:01,799 --> 00:07:03,510 aids squealing and she wouldn't, so. 138 00:07:04,020 --> 00:07:08,039 I think there were like 7, 8, 9, 9 of us total. 139 00:07:08,070 --> 00:07:08,460 Okay. 140 00:07:08,549 --> 00:07:08,700 Yeah. 141 00:07:08,700 --> 00:07:11,010 That's not all of us would be there at the same time, but most of the 142 00:07:11,010 --> 00:07:12,690 time it was six to seven of us. 143 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:13,830 We had a blast out there. 144 00:07:13,830 --> 00:07:17,370 We had this place, we called it the a hundred acre woods, although it was not. 145 00:07:19,469 --> 00:07:24,240 And then my cousin, the one that was like six months-ish, uh, older than I was. 146 00:07:24,719 --> 00:07:28,620 They went to the Baptist church, but it wasn't like the type of Baptist 147 00:07:28,620 --> 00:07:30,299 church that's like the wild ones. 148 00:07:30,299 --> 00:07:32,250 Theirs was also very, very calm. 149 00:07:32,700 --> 00:07:36,419 And so we went to like the little Bible study for kids, and I remember 150 00:07:36,419 --> 00:07:40,710 we got to make ceramic cats and paint them one time and I just was like, I. 151 00:07:41,290 --> 00:07:42,490 This is so cool. 152 00:07:42,490 --> 00:07:42,670 Like, 153 00:07:48,220 --> 00:07:52,060 um, my parents were, oh, you know, it's got all kinds of names. 154 00:07:52,060 --> 00:07:55,420 They were non-denominational, charismatic, evangelical, 155 00:07:55,420 --> 00:07:57,550 fundamentalists, that kind of category. 156 00:07:57,610 --> 00:08:02,470 So they believed in, of course, the Trinity Salvation. 157 00:08:03,095 --> 00:08:03,665 Things like that. 158 00:08:03,665 --> 00:08:06,095 But they also believed in like speaking in tongues. 159 00:08:06,215 --> 00:08:09,335 Um, they, you know, were the type that were dancing all over the 160 00:08:09,335 --> 00:08:11,375 church, you know, things like that. 161 00:08:11,375 --> 00:08:11,555 Yeah. 162 00:08:11,615 --> 00:08:13,175 Did you have a traditional hymns? 163 00:08:13,175 --> 00:08:13,775 Music? 164 00:08:13,775 --> 00:08:16,295 We had more of a praise and we called it Praise and Worship. 165 00:08:16,445 --> 00:08:16,535 Mm-hmm. 166 00:08:16,775 --> 00:08:21,365 And those were like, you know, you could have a band, you know, backing you up. 167 00:08:21,425 --> 00:08:27,665 It was just like an emotional upheaval basically, like of people just started 168 00:08:27,665 --> 00:08:29,285 feeling, I think all kinds of things. 169 00:08:29,285 --> 00:08:29,675 And these. 170 00:08:29,854 --> 00:08:34,204 These praise and worship services like would just go on and on. 171 00:08:34,204 --> 00:08:34,684 Sometimes. 172 00:08:34,954 --> 00:08:37,865 Sometimes the pastor would start preaching and the music would 173 00:08:37,865 --> 00:08:39,095 still be playing behind him. 174 00:08:39,515 --> 00:08:43,145 My dad's parents' church, my Mimi and Pop pop, they went to this tiny 175 00:08:43,145 --> 00:08:45,785 Methodist church in Saratoga, Texas. 176 00:08:45,785 --> 00:08:48,135 I. Which once again, I'm sure we've all heard of. 177 00:08:48,525 --> 00:08:52,935 Um, and I think they had maybe five people in their congregation and they 178 00:08:52,935 --> 00:08:56,325 were all in the brink of, you know, being, you know, in the grounds. 179 00:08:56,325 --> 00:08:57,015 Let's be honest. 180 00:08:57,015 --> 00:09:00,345 Um, there was an old, old church and, but I just loved it. 181 00:09:00,375 --> 00:09:01,125 Oh my gosh. 182 00:09:01,125 --> 00:09:01,485 It was. 183 00:09:02,095 --> 00:09:05,965 I mean, maybe a 30 minute service, we'd have cake afterwards. 184 00:09:05,995 --> 00:09:07,975 These little old people were just so sweet. 185 00:09:08,365 --> 00:09:11,365 And so it was like the most calm thing and I, I always remember thinking 186 00:09:11,365 --> 00:09:12,895 like, oh, I just love this so much. 187 00:09:12,895 --> 00:09:14,485 It's so calm and peaceful. 188 00:09:14,845 --> 00:09:18,625 How did my dad end up from that to like this, you know, 189 00:09:19,075 --> 00:09:21,175 crazy, wild evangelical thing. 190 00:09:21,505 --> 00:09:23,155 So, typical childhood. 191 00:09:23,245 --> 00:09:24,115 Typical childhood. 192 00:09:26,575 --> 00:09:31,135 When we were on our travels in Texas, the stop that sticks out the most for me. 193 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:34,150 Was when we went to Mimi and Pop Pop's house. 194 00:09:34,689 --> 00:09:38,380 Stephanie was so happy when we pulled up to their house. 195 00:09:39,930 --> 00:09:40,800 This driveway. 196 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:42,720 Go ahead and pull in the, this. 197 00:09:42,900 --> 00:09:47,160 None of this existed you guys, this property was clear. 198 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:50,040 There was like a beautiful sun porch on the front. 199 00:09:50,100 --> 00:09:51,000 The garage is right there. 200 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:52,230 Some porches on the right. 201 00:09:52,500 --> 00:09:53,400 I have my own bedroom. 202 00:09:53,430 --> 00:09:55,890 My Mimi though, she's fucking feisty. 203 00:09:55,890 --> 00:09:56,939 You guys shut up this house. 204 00:09:57,090 --> 00:09:59,340 He, she just. 205 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:01,310 Made me feel very loved. 206 00:10:02,030 --> 00:10:04,010 There was a pond, trees. 207 00:10:04,010 --> 00:10:05,360 He had a green house. 208 00:10:05,540 --> 00:10:07,370 Oh my god, you guys, he had gardens. 209 00:10:07,550 --> 00:10:07,580 Aw. 210 00:10:08,060 --> 00:10:09,710 But I spent a lot of time with him. 211 00:10:10,250 --> 00:10:13,880 You know, it was still great to like go out there 'cause it was so far out. 212 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:17,720 But there was a sadness, realizing it's like the house didn't 213 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:19,190 exist, it just disappeared. 214 00:10:21,329 --> 00:10:25,469 Stephanie's parents begin building their family on the belief that 215 00:10:25,469 --> 00:10:30,569 discipline was used as a sign of love, and the Bible was their roadmap 216 00:10:30,569 --> 00:10:36,089 for how to live a godly life and to raise their children to also be godly. 217 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:40,680 So I'd have been about seven years old. 218 00:10:40,710 --> 00:10:43,350 They probably sat us down and tried to explain it in the best way they knew 219 00:10:43,350 --> 00:10:46,140 how, but I don't remember that at all. 220 00:10:46,290 --> 00:10:46,590 Okay. 221 00:10:46,830 --> 00:10:50,670 Um, I just, it's like I remember being in Texas and then I remember being in 222 00:10:50,670 --> 00:10:52,710 Louisiana and my dad having a church. 223 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:59,700 I just felt immediate stress and so yeah, we moved to Homer, Louisiana and um, 224 00:11:00,300 --> 00:11:03,060 that was my dad's first church and we. 225 00:11:03,350 --> 00:11:07,700 My sister, brother and I officially became pks, which are preacher's kids. 226 00:11:07,820 --> 00:11:14,030 As soon as my dad was a pastor, or it did feel performative where we had to 227 00:11:14,030 --> 00:11:20,360 be good children that were well behaved and sat on the front row and wanted 228 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:22,910 to praise God more than anyone else. 229 00:11:22,915 --> 00:11:23,195 You know? 230 00:11:23,270 --> 00:11:25,880 I mean, it was, it was a lot of pressure. 231 00:11:26,450 --> 00:11:29,420 I first of all hated living in Louisiana. 232 00:11:30,020 --> 00:11:31,040 I missed. 233 00:11:31,905 --> 00:11:36,255 Our life in Texas, um, because that is where our family was and where 234 00:11:36,255 --> 00:11:41,385 I felt that love and that safety, like our lives became different. 235 00:11:41,834 --> 00:11:48,525 I started feeling the stress of their pastor life. 236 00:11:48,615 --> 00:11:51,255 Uh, you could tell when things weren't going quite well in 237 00:11:51,255 --> 00:11:54,405 the church or who knows, they probably had financial problems. 238 00:11:54,405 --> 00:11:55,995 I'm, I'm sure there was a whole. 239 00:11:56,805 --> 00:12:00,525 A plethora of things that were adding up to the stress they were 240 00:12:00,525 --> 00:12:02,595 feeling outside of just the church. 241 00:12:02,595 --> 00:12:06,885 I'm sure there were other things, but as a child I could feel that 242 00:12:06,975 --> 00:12:09,345 you could, I could feel that they weren't that happy any longer. 243 00:12:09,345 --> 00:12:10,875 I could feel that they were stressed. 244 00:12:11,385 --> 00:12:15,075 My dad was becoming, I guess, more of a Christian as time went by. 245 00:12:15,075 --> 00:12:20,175 But yeah, it, um, it just, I don't know, it just changed things. 246 00:12:20,175 --> 00:12:27,375 I and I, it changed our family dynamic and I, I. I really just 247 00:12:27,375 --> 00:12:29,775 did not like being there either. 248 00:12:30,555 --> 00:12:36,704 If you could have a conversation with him and ask him a question about that time, 249 00:12:37,095 --> 00:12:40,905 like when he became a minister and you felt the stress in that first year or 250 00:12:40,905 --> 00:12:44,265 two, three years, what would you ask him? 251 00:12:45,795 --> 00:12:50,480 I, I would just wanna know like, what was, what was the. 252 00:12:51,165 --> 00:12:55,994 The switch for him, like why did we go from being normal to all of 253 00:12:55,994 --> 00:13:00,135 a sudden he, he just didn't feel. 254 00:13:01,589 --> 00:13:06,420 Like the same dad anymore, like what happened in that timeframe 255 00:13:07,199 --> 00:13:08,670 that changed everything? 256 00:13:09,270 --> 00:13:11,010 What do you think he would say? 257 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:15,089 I think he would, he would tell me about his calling from God. 258 00:13:15,180 --> 00:13:15,689 You do. 259 00:13:16,030 --> 00:13:16,570 I do, 260 00:13:20,620 --> 00:13:23,920 my Mimi and my pop pop, they were my person. 261 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:28,480 Aw, they were my people and I dearly love them still with all my 262 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:29,620 heart, even though they're gone. 263 00:13:30,100 --> 00:13:32,230 Um, they helped me understand what love is. 264 00:13:32,655 --> 00:13:35,795 I. This season on just one person. 265 00:13:36,185 --> 00:13:39,155 I ended up in a room. 266 00:13:39,395 --> 00:13:41,494 He said, don't move. 267 00:13:41,494 --> 00:13:42,875 Complete silent treatment. 268 00:13:42,875 --> 00:13:45,305 Made me hold a pistol to my head. 269 00:13:45,305 --> 00:13:46,655 Kept telling me to pull the trigger. 270 00:13:46,775 --> 00:13:49,084 Told me to kill myself Over and over again. 271 00:13:49,564 --> 00:13:51,094 I had a client in the chair. 272 00:13:51,395 --> 00:13:55,474 I was weeping and then trying to gather myself together enough to 273 00:13:55,834 --> 00:14:00,244 deal with what I just heard, and I just had to swallows so hard. 274 00:14:00,795 --> 00:14:06,255 And just get myself together to calm down enough to have this conversation 275 00:14:06,974 --> 00:14:09,525 because I knew he was a ticking time bomb. 276 00:14:10,395 --> 00:14:13,724 If you or someone you know is affected by abuse or is in need of 277 00:14:13,724 --> 00:14:16,515 support, resources are available. 278 00:14:16,780 --> 00:14:21,340 And we have them listed in the episode notes, or you can call the Child 279 00:14:21,340 --> 00:14:23,560 Help National Child Abuse Hotline. 280 00:14:23,860 --> 00:14:28,630 It's 1 804 a child available 24 7. 281 00:14:29,050 --> 00:14:32,860 You can also text four Hope 2 7 4 1. 282 00:14:32,930 --> 00:14:38,030 7 4 1. 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