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My kid's name is Elena . She's three

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years old . Uh She's currently staying

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with my mom in Chicago while I'm here .

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And yeah , she's , she's an amazing

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little girl . I think Elena

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doesn't fully grasp me being away . I

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call her every day and she tells me she

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misses me and she wants me to come home

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and she teaches , she teaches me a lot

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of things like how to be patient and be

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more open and loving and how to be more

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empathetic towards my soldiers and be

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more understanding and more motherly .

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I feel like I'm missing nine months of

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her life . I feel like it's on

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me to raise her and I'm thankful for my

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mom because she's doing it right now .

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You know , I can provide for my kid a

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life that would be harder to provide as

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a civilian . I feel like there's

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sacrifices but there's also like it

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pays off at the end is her .