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[Applause] break up violence is something that can happen anywhere you might hear one
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relationship violence case on the news but it's happening in your school whether you know it or not
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breakup violence we weren't really even sure if that was a real thing but i mean now going through this we
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definitely know it is a real thing and like everyone was just in shock it ruins not just
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one person's life or one family it's such a domino effect i mean the ripples are like outrageous
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i mean it changed my entire life [Applause] nate was a football star popular attractive seemed like he had a perfect
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relationship with a beautiful girl [Applause] lauren was a very sparkly bubbly sassy girl
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i'm sure a lot of students were jealous of their relationship but they just would fight
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a lot i came home from work and she was sobbing that's when she broke up with him
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our group of friends was really really close i think we all love each other like sisters
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we had a plan to like go out and like hang out with a bunch of friends and lauren
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never responded and we got a call from another one of our friends saying have you seen lauren
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like i just saw her car parked at the beach her car was there and it was open and
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her computer was in there and her purse was in there and the windows were down she would not
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leave the car like that willingly malcolm ran out on the beach trying to scream her name trying to call for her
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and i went into the water thinking that if by some chance she were there i'd have to find her really quickly
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i was texting everybody calling all of our friends frantically asking if they'd seen lauren
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the whole town was looking for lauren her friends began showing up and ended up camping out there through the
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night it was a beautiful night and we were facing this horror and i was thinking that some abductor
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had somehow persuaded lauren to get out of her car and the policemen were talking to me and they were like
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saying like what about her ex-boyfriend like this i was like no like no no definitely not
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the police had already been to nate's house and nate was there you know he's got an alibi his parents are there
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we stayed there like all night until the morning i called lauren when i got home and
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texted her and said lauren please respond please tell me if you're okay i just need to know you're
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okay i remember kind of like shaking with like a really sick feeling because i was just so confused and sad and
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scared [Music] you