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Hi, everyone, this is Joseyffi

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Rice. I wanted to give you some good news

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and ask you once more for your

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help if you would not mind. Okay,

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So first the good news. I am so excited

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to tell you that Unreformed has won

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a few very exciting awards

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lately. We won an AMBI

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Award for Best History Podcast of the Year,

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we won an International Women's Podcast

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Award, and we also won

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two Signal Listeners Choice Awards.

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Thanks to you all who came through for us

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with those votes. We are so

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unbelievably grateful for the recognition

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and the opportunity to tell this story and

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bring more light to this very

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dark chapter in our American history.

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The people we featured in this story, Lonnie

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and Jenny and Mary and both Johnny's

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and Denny, they've all been

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living with this for half a

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century. You know. Most

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of them were at Mount Meg's when they were kids

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nine or ten or eleven, and now

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they're in their seventies and they're talking about

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this for the very first time. It took

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an enormous amount of vulnerability and

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risk on their part. We really

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just wanted to make the hidden more

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visible and tell these stories so they weren't lost

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to history. But when we were creating this

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series, we wondered if people would even

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be able to bear this. We wanted to be

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honest about what happened to these kids

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and also be hopeful about their

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stories moving forward. And the response

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has been truly more than we could

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have ever imagined. Okay,

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so Unreformed has been nominated for a Webby

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Award. This is very exciting for all

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of us. It is up for best Writing and

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we really really, really really really hope that

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you will be willing to vote for us in the webb

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People's Voice Award. You can cast

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your vote before April eighteenth at vote dot

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Webby Awards dot com. So

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please vote for us and support us by going

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to vote dot Webby

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Awards dot com. Click

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on podcasts in the categories find

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us and Best Writing. There is a link

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in the show notes. The deadline is April

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eighteenth, so please get your votes in that's

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vote dot web Awards dot com.

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It has truly been the honor of a lifetime

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to be part of this project. Thank you so

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much for listening, and thank you for voting.