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The DINKWAP Show. Dual income. No kids.

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With a podcast.

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Rem: Hello guys and welcome to another

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Rem: episode of the DINKWAP Show.

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Rem: I almost said "Weekend Winedown Podcast"

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Rem: Welcome to the DINKWAP Show

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Rem: And this is your host, Rem.

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Alvia: And Alvia.

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Rem: So we left a hanging question last episode

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Rem: So we were discussing that we are DINKs.

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Rem: Dual income. No kids. So we decided to

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Rem: not have kids

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Rem: and have, you know, build our lives with

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Rem: a couple of incomes. Income streams.

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Alvia: I got confused, who's the couple?

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Alvia: Obviously, this is not scripted. Poetic.

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Rem: I am the Jose Rizal of podcasts

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Rem: So we decided not to have children. We

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Rem: decided not to have biological children.

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Rem: So that's, 

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Rem: we should put an emphasis on that. But

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Rem: in the future, if we're settled,

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Rem: and we feel like we want to have kids,

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Rem: are you open or are we open to adopting

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Rem: children?

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Alvia: I thought we were going to...

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Alvia: The topic is serious...

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Alvia: but we're so out of it.

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Rem: No, so that's it's lighthearted. For

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Rem: example, this is good. These techniques.

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Rem: For example, the listener is about to get angry.

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Rem: Then, it will be cringey.

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Alvia: It will be cringey. They will get

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Alvia: angrier. But anyway, to answer your

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Alvia: question before we go to another topic.

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Alvia: I think yes. Probably. Because we've

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Alvia: talked about it before. That's always an

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Alvia: option.

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Alvia: Because with biological clock and

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Alvia: everything. And I also have PCOS. And I

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Alvia: have a history of

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Alvia: fertility issues with my mom. So

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Alvia: probably, me too. Or whatever. With PCOS

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Alvia: and everything.

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Rem: Explain that. Let's explain PCOS.

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Alvia: I haven't answered the question yet, you

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Alvia: already have another question.

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Rem: Okay, after this. There's a follow-up

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Rem: question. Of course, we're like that.

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Alvia: Anyway, let's go to PCOS. So, it's polycystic

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Alvia: ovary syndrome. But it's kind of a misnomer

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Alvia: because there's no cyst.

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Rem: That's why other people are afraid.

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Alvia: Although, some people have a different

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Alvia: condition. But for me, it's like,

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Alvia: imagine you have an ovary and it's

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Alvia: like an asteroid cloud.

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Rem: Asteroid cloud? Wait.

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Alvia: There's like bits on the side.

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Rem: I will imagine. Wait. I don't know what

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Alvia: You don't know how an ovary looks and an asteroid

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Rem: No, I don't know what an asteroid cloud is

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Alvia: It's like, there's clouds. I don't know.

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Alvia: There's something. When you ultrasound

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Alvia: So basically, it's different in severity

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Alvia: and different in women. But basically,

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Alvia: it wacks up your hormones.

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Alvia: So for me, thankfully, it's mild. But it's

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Alvia: both ovaries. So it's very common. Like

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Alvia: 80 plus percent of women have it to some

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Alvia: So for others, the extreme cases, it's

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Alvia: like they have their periods only twice a year.

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Alvia: Because it's my first time having dysmenorrhea.

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Alvia: Which never happened to me before.

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Alvia: Yeah. The stomach hurts. It hurts a lot.

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Alvia: But anyway, that's the thing. I'm not a

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Rem: But if 80 percent of women have it...

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Alvia: Have it to some degree.

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Alvia: To sidebar, the reason I discovered I had PCOS

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Alvia: I accompanied our "only friend" to get

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Alvia: Yeah, because she has PCOS.

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Alvia: And I got checked up too.

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Alvia: Our friendship is amazing, guys. We went

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Rem: That's how they date.

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Alvia: That's how our friendship is.

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Rem: OB Date.

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Alvia: It's not common to get checked up

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Alvia: because it's a different process. It's

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Alvia: For me, it's not very extreme. But they

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Alvia: my lifestyle, be active.

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Alvia: So I'm not prediabetic.

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Alvia: But almost. I'm just there when I'm at

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Alvia: the level where I'm already very near the

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Alvia: I'm almost there.

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Rem: You're almost there.

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Alvia: So anyway, what was the question?

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Alvia: The one about the biographical...

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Rem: Biographical child.

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Rem: Is that okay?

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Alvia: I'm stupid. So anyway, one of my

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Alvia: So I won't say anything about the

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Alvia: sibling favoritism ranking because they

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Alvia: They all know. So I don't love

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Alvia: So I thought, if there is a chance that

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Alvia: There is a child who needs a home and we're

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Alvia: Why not? Because she's already there. We just

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Alvia: world as much as possible.

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Alvia: But she's already here.

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Alvia: But I hope she's not too baby.

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Rem: So for me, it's the same. I don't know

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Rem: why I'm a weirdo kid.

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Rem: But I've thought about it. If ever,

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Rem: Why not instead of having my own child

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Rem: coming from my own blood.

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Rem: I almost said something bad.

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Alvia: I thought so.

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Rem: I dodged a bullet there.

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Alvia: Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

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Rem: The demon and the angel are talking.

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Rem: "Say it."

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Alvia: I read it in your eyes.

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Rem: "Say it."

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Alvia: "Go."

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Rem: Look what's going to happen.

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Rem: The angel won.

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Alvia: I knew what you were going to say.

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Alvia: But anyway.

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Rem: This podcast is already R18.

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Rem: It's ok to slip.

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Alvia: Don't do it. Let's keep it PG.

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Rem: Instead of coming from me,

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Rem: I'm still laughing.

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Alvia: I think they get it.

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Rem: There's already someone here

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Rem: There's a child here

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Rem: What's wrong...?

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Alvia: J-Riz of podcasts.

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Rem: What's wrong with me?

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Alvia: We just went on vacation and you lost

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Alvia: English, Tagalog.

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Rem: ...New Me." This is the new me.

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Rem: I have no words.

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Rem: If I have the capacity to help this

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Rem: I have that opportunity to change the

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Alvia: What if you don't make the child's

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Alvia: life better after you adopt them?

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Rem: That's my fault.

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Alvia: So you didn't really help?

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Rem: If I ever feel like I can do it, I will.

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Alvia: We're like...

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Alvia: I'm going to say it again.

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Alvia: DepEd.

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Alvia: I'm so stupid.

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Alvia: So annoying.

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Alvia: We're smart.

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Alvia: Is it DPWH?

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Rem: What?

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Alvia: DSWD!

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Alvia: So stupid!

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Alvia: Are we going to adopt a highway?!

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Alvia: So senseless.

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Alvia: Let's stop this.

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Alvia: Let's sleep.

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Alvia: DSWD!

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Alvia: So stupid.

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Alvia: I don't want to do podcasts anymore.

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Rem: My tummy is hurting from laughing.

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Alvia: Going to adopt a highway!

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Alvia: So senseless.

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Rem: Going to build a flyover.

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Alvia: You also didn't know!

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Alvia: You were looking at me when I said,

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Alvia: "DPWH." You were agreeing.

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Rem: No.

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Alvia: I'm crying.

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Rem: I said, "Did I hear that right?"

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Alvia: I'm crying.

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Rem: This episode is so messy.

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Alvia: We're running out of time.

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Alvia: Anyway, DSWD!

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Alvia: So, DSWD came to us.

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Alvia: They interviewed all the members of the

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Alvia: Get over it. We won't adopt

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Alvia: a highway.

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Alvia: They'll assess your financial and

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Alvia: emotional capacity.

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Alvia: We were all interviewed.

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Alvia: They'll check your house.

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Alvia: If it's livable.

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Alvia: Of course everyone should

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Alvia: all agree.

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Alvia: That's how it was.

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Rem: Has to be unanimous?

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Alvia: I was in college.

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Alvia: I have younger siblings.

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Alvia: They're in high school.

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Alvia: They were also interviewed.

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Alvia: Get over it!

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Alvia: Move on. We're running out of

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Alvia: time.

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Alvia: That's the process I know.

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Alvia: I don't know if it changed

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Alvia: or if the circumstances in my family

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Alvia: were different.

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Alvia: That's what I know.

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Alvia: I know in our case...

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Alvia: I won't dive into it.

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Alvia: Usually, they match you up with an orphan.

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Alvia: They choose.

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Rem: You can't choose.

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Rem: It's not like in the movies.

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Alvia: We fostered first.

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Alvia: We fostered before we adopted.

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Rem: What's the difference between fostering

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Rem: and adoption?

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Alvia: In my understanding...

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Alvia: Fostering is temporary.

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Alvia: It's for a limited time.

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Rem: What's the purpose of that?

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Alvia: I don't know for sure.

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Alvia: I'm not a psychologist or a community

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Alvia: worker.

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Alvia: I don't know about kids, but I know

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Alvia: in the case of dogs,

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Alvia: they do it that way too.

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Alvia: For example, the dog was just taken off the street.

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Alvia: Some has to take care of it temporarily

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Alvia: until it gets better.

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Alvia: Or until it adjusts to a home

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Alvia: environment.

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Alvia: It's like that.

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Rem: Don't you think it's confusing for kids?

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Alvia: I'm not sure.

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Rem: Well we're not experts.

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Rem: I hope we can talk to them.

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Alvia: I even said mistakenly it's DPWH is the one

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Alvia: who talked to us.

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Rem: Don't listen to us.

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Rem: We're so wrong.

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Alvia: We're so worthless.

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Alvia: I know it's not the norm for people.

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Alvia: Of course, there's stigma around it, but

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Alvia: that's their belief.

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Rem: Let's dive into the stigma.

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Rem: My mother always urged me to have kids.

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Rem: Even before I got married.

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Rem: I was really set on being single for the

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Rem: rest of my life.

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Rem: But that's what happened.

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Rem: I am so handsome.

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Rem: I'm sorry.

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Rem: I feel bad for the people who are

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Rem: listening to this.

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Rem: No, actully, they're lucky they don't see

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Rem: what's happening.

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Rem: But she urged me.

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Rem: I told her, "why would I want to have my own kids,

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Rem: I can always adopt."

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Rem: She told me, "It's still different if the child is yours."

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Rem: There's another one.

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Alvia: She's not from your blood.

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Rem: "It's different if.."

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Rem: No, not like that.

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Rem: It's a bit harsh...

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Rem: "You don't know where the child came from."

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Rem: And all the connotations around it.

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Rem: "The child might grow up as a bad person."

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Rem: "It might harm you."

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Rem: I mean, that's a child.

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Alvia: No matter where it came from, that's

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Alvia: still a child.

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Rem: That's a child!

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Rem: Why are you judging the child that way?

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Alvia: It's because of the TV dramas.

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Alvia: And the movies.

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Alvia: They watched those.

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Rem: We should do an episode about it.

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Rem: Although we've talked about it before.

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Rem: About nature and nurture.

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Rem: For me, what's the difference?

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Rem: First, is your spouse a blood relative?

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Rem: You loved him, but he's not your blood.

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Rem: What's the difference with a child?

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Rem: Right?

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Rem: What's the difference with a child?

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Rem: And it was a beautiful thing for me.

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Rem: Because your family, you had an adopted

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Rem: sister.

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Rem: So now, when people tell me that,

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Rem: "it's still different".

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Rem: Why?

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Rem: Is Alvia's adopted sister different?

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Rem: Right?

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Rem: That shuts them up.

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Alvia: Because it's more concrete.

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Rem: This is the real deal.

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Rem: Because there's actually a family member

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Rem: here

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Rem: that we all love.

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Alvia: And she looks like us.

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Alvia: It's not obvious.

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Rem: So when I first came to your house,

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Rem: I didn't notice that she was adopted.

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Alvia: Just the age gap.

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Rem: And it's okay that the child knows.

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Alvia: Yes, she knows.

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Alvia: And we don't treat her differently.

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Rem: There's nothing.

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Alvia: There's nothing.

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Alvia: In fairness, even in our extended family,

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Alvia: when we decided to adopt,

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Alvia: she was already 4 years old.

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Alvia: She was already old enough.

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Alvia: And they really welcomed her.

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Alvia: She has gifts for Christmas.

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Alvia: So she's not treated any different

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Alvia: than any other family member.

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Alvia: She's also not treated more special.

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Alvia: Because sometimes,

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Alvia: it's also damaging.

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Alvia: We treat her just enough.

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Alvia: Like a normal sister.

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Rem: Like a real sister.

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Rem: Bullied like the others...

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Alvia: Ordered to fetch water.

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Rem: Right?

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Rem: However you treat your child...

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Alvia: It's hard.

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Alvia: Because if you don't know,

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Alvia: for people who don't know,

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Alvia: haven't experienced it,

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Alvia: what's their basis?

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Rem: That's why.

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Alvia: Let's say.

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Rem: Like they say,

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Rem: we saw on TikTok before.

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Rem: It's like,

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Rem: she was being teased.

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Alvia: That she's adopted.

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Rem: "Your just adopted!"

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Rem: But she had a good comeback.

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Rem: She said,

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Rem: "I, you,

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Rem: oh, it's me."

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Rem: Let's start over.

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Alvia: So we can make a soundbite.

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Rem: Yes.

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Alvia: Okay, let's do it again.

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Alvia: Okay, back to start.

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Rem: "I, was chosen by my mom.

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Rem: You,

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Rem: she had no choice."

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Alvia: "You could be an accident."

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Rem: Something like that.

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Rem: So, right?

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Rem: So, I feel,

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Rem: I believe that

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Rem: the love that you choose,

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Rem: in spite of you not being blood related,

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Rem: for me, that's the purest form of love.

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Rem: You don't have any obligation

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Rem: to love that person.

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Rem: But you choose to.

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Alvia: Isn't that the video before,

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Alvia: Jimmy Alapag and his wife?

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Rem: Yes.

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Alvia: Their story is beautiful.

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Alvia: But they also felt,

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Alvia: their eldest is adopted,

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Alvia: they felt,

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Alvia: when they saw the child in the orphanage,

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Alvia: they felt he was their son.

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Alvia: Something like that.

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Rem: So,

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Alvia: maybe there's something like that.

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Rem: Yeah.

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Rem: So guys,

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Rem: I hope,

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Rem: to the viewers,

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Rem: you get a different view on adoption.

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Rem: And if ever,

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Rem: you have the capacity to,

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Rem: actually,

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Rem: adopt another person,

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Rem: another, a child.

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Alvia: Another person.

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Rem: Another person.

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Alvia: 20 years old.

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Rem: I'm so confused.

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Rem: I have so many things to say.

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Alvia: It's annoying.

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Alvia: You know,

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Alvia: if you have the chance to

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Alvia: open up your home,

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Alvia: open up your heart,

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Alvia: to a child,

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Alvia: who needs a family,

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Alvia: who needs parents,

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Alvia: maybe it's something you can think about.

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Rem: Especially to the,

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Rem: let's continue this in the next episode.

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Rem: Because we're running out of time.

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Rem: Anyway,

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Rem: thank you again for tuning in

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Rem: to the DINKWAP show.

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Rem: And we'll see you on the next episode.

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Alvia: Bye.

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You were listening to the Dinkwap show.

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