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Yeah. You mentioned your mom before. Is she still alive? Do you have a relationship with her?
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>> No. So, not at all. When I was uh maybe 13 or 14, something like that. I
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actually hitchhiked from Rourura cuz I knew she was in Christ Church. Stowed away on the ferry, got on a train, like
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I didn't have any money, but that was my attempt [music] was my fantasy, my dream, you know, when I was when I was
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finding life really difficult as [music] a kid, of which I did many times. Like I
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had lots of challenges like like everybody. [music] Yeah. Yeah, that was like my silver lining. That was the that
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was the calm in the storm. The day I get to meet her, I thought everything would
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be perfect. Completely transparent. It was it like it was disastrous. [music] I went there and introduced myself. And
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then I was told, you know, you [music] can't stay here. Like there's no room
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for you here. And I remember making an excuse like, oh, it's okay. I'm going to
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go and check out Deneden. That'll [music] be pretty cool. And like even now I sit and think I was 13, 14 like
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and just walked back out the door. And that was pretty much one of the [music] last times I ever saw