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“I work for The Family Centre, and I’m a youth liaison in south...
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“I work for The Family Centre, and I’m a youth liaison in south...
“I work for The Family Centre, and I’m a youth liaison in south west Edmonton … I was born in India and being in India you are exposed to poverty. I was in India for eight years and then moved to Australia and basically grew up in Australia. And my father is a single father and he raised us, so f...
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“When I was six, my father stabbed my mother to death in front...
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“When I was six, my father stabbed my mother to death in front...
“When I was six, my father stabbed my mother to death in front of me in the middle of the night and so, he went to prison and she died. And I was stuck in foster care for the rest of my youth … a lot of people think, ‘Maybe it was so horrifying that you blocked it out.’ I’m glad that I didn’t blo...
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“When I was six, my father stabbed my mother to death in front...
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“When I was six, my father stabbed my mother to death in front...
“When I was six, my father stabbed my mother to death in front of me in the middle of the night and so, he went to prison and she died. And I was stuck in foster care for the rest of my youth … a lot of people think, ‘Maybe it was so horrifying that you blocked it out.’ I’m glad that I didn’t blo...
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“I wrecked July 25, 1998. I was paralyzed from my neck down for...
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“I wrecked July 25, 1998. I was paralyzed from my neck down for three and a half months before I could even get a twitch … When I wrecked, I got hit in the head with a duck. I was riding my Harley Davidson. I looked down and I was doing 100 k. Then when I looked up, all I could do was hold on tig...
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“I wrecked July 25, 1998. I was paralyzed from my neck down for...
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“I wrecked July 25, 1998. I was paralyzed from my neck down for...
“I wrecked July 25, 1998. I was paralyzed from my neck down for three and a half months before I could even get a twitch … When I wrecked, I got hit in the head with a duck. I was riding my Harley Davidson. I looked down and I was doing 100 k. Then when I looked up, all I could do was hold on tig...
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“Playing some basketball after work, I’ve played since I was a...
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“Playing some basketball after work, I’ve played since I was a kid back home, in the Philippines … If I go back home, everybody is playing basketball in the streets, everywhere you can see boxing, basketball. I play with my community here. We’re all Filipino playing together so we can meet other ...
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“Playing some basketball after work, I’ve played since I was a...
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“Playing some basketball after work, I’ve played since I was a...
“Playing some basketball after work, I’ve played since I was a kid back home, in the Philippines … If I go back home, everybody is playing basketball in the streets, everywhere you can see boxing, basketball. I play with my community here. We’re all Filipino playing together so we can meet other ...
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“This is my second fiddle and I’ve had her for, let’s say,...
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“This is my second fiddle and I’ve had her for, let’s say, twelve years. My husband helped me get her when we were first dating, and she’s been with me ever since … I realized it was helping me heal when I was taking the course at The Family Centre, talking about building new neural pathways and ...
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“This is my second fiddle and I’ve had her for, let’s say,...
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“This is my second fiddle and I’ve had her for, let’s say,...
“This is my second fiddle and I’ve had her for, let’s say, twelve years. My husband helped me get her when we were first dating, and she’s been with me ever since … I realized it was helping me heal when I was taking the course at The Family Centre, talking about building new neural pathways and ...
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“It was scary. There was like a denial phase. I was like, ‘No...
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“It was scary. There was like a denial phase. I was like, ‘No...
“It was scary. There was like a denial phase. I was like, ‘No way am I pregnant. I can’t be pregnant.’ I mean, yeah, I was doing everything that you can do to get pregnant. But I can’t be pregnant right? It was hard when I found out. I didn’t even want to go tell my mom. Like this was unreal. Plu...
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“It was scary. There was like a denial phase. I was like, ‘No...
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“It was scary. There was like a denial phase. I was like, ‘No...
“It was scary. There was like a denial phase. I was like, ‘No way am I pregnant. I can’t be pregnant.’ I mean, yeah, I was doing everything that you can do to get pregnant. But I can’t be pregnant right? It was hard when I found out. I didn’t even want to go tell my mom. Like this was unreal. Plu...
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“I’ve been playing since July last year. It was a couple weeks...
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“I’ve been playing since July last year. It was a couple weeks...
“I’ve been playing since July last year. It was a couple weeks after it came out … This is a gym. So right now I’m battling a gym and I just took out this guy. Right now the blue team owns the gym and I’m going to take it for the red team.”“I’ve made a lot of friends, a lot of real life friends d...
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“I’ve been playing since July last year. It was a couple weeks...
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“I’ve been playing since July last year. It was a couple weeks...
“I’ve been playing since July last year. It was a couple weeks after it came out … This is a gym. So right now I’m battling a gym and I just took out this guy. Right now the blue team owns the gym and I’m going to take it for the red team.”“I’ve made a lot of friends, a lot of real life friends d...
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“I just picked him up and thought he looked like a Steve … I was...
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“I just picked him up and thought he looked like a Steve … I was driving home from my best friend’s house at midnight, and she lives out in St. Albert. He was slinking in the gutter. So I pulled over, and he came running over and he was half scared and half purring. And he was in pretty rough sha...
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“I just picked him up and thought he looked like a Steve … I was...
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“I just picked him up and thought he looked like a Steve … I was...
“I just picked him up and thought he looked like a Steve … I was driving home from my best friend’s house at midnight, and she lives out in St. Albert. He was slinking in the gutter. So I pulled over, and he came running over and he was half scared and half purring. And he was in pretty rough sha...
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