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- When people ask me,

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"How do you find positivity
in every single day?"

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or, "How did you manage
to pick yourself up?"

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And my answer to that is,

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what choice did I have?

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I...

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was in the throws of a nasty divorce and

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to make a long story short

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my ex-husband got joint custody.

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And no matter how hard
I fought to keep custody

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or to keep her away from him

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I was ordered by the
judge to let him have her.

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He drove to the hospital

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and parked on the other
side of the hospital

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when Michelle was coming out

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he knew what time she would
be coming out of a meeting

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and he parked on the
other side of hospital

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and left Miranda sitting alone in the car

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and he got out of the car

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and as Michelle is exiting the hospital

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he approaches her and he says,

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"I just want to talk to
you, please just talk to me,

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"just give me two minutes of your time."

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And she said, "No."

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He pulled out a gun

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and shot Michelle point blank
in the face three times.

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And then he ever so calmly
walked to the vehicle

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carried Miranda to Michelle's dead body

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and he holds her on his lap

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and he whispers something in her ear

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and then he shoots Miranda in the head

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and then he turns her
over and shoots her again.

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It feels like it just happened yesterday.

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When something so terrible happens

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and you are left picking up the pieces

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you can make a choice to
make something good out of it

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or you can make a choice to
go down a different path.

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And I chose to

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figure out a way

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to bring positivity to this tragedy.

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It never goes away,

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but each day over the past
twenty years it gets easier.

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And you learn to

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rejoice in her life.

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What is Miranda's story?

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Miranda was so incredibly loved,

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but the one person who
should have loved her,

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and the one person in her life
who should have protected her

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was the man who killed her.

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To me Miranda is this
beautiful little butterfly

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who has left behind a
little legacy of her own

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and I'm here to share
her legacy with others.