This is what you read when you open the book. "You are holding not only a tribute to a beloved dog but also a story of love, loss, grief, and healing. Our beloved dog, Boris, tragically perished while saving our family from a devastating house fire. We were transformed by this experience and honored him by naming our son after him. After a time of reflection and growth, I wanted to use my talents to pay tribute to him, honor all dogs, and create something worthy of a dog's love.” This is written by Jacqueline Lemieux-Bokor, the photographer & artist behind the beautiful tribute book, Remember Me As Sunshine. WARNING: This interview is raw, filled with emotion, some tears and a lot of love. This book was given to me by a mutual friend of ours, when my beloved Sophie passed away. I sobbed over it and have done so many times since. Meeting and then interviewing Jacqueline, who is not only an very talented artist but an incredible human, and sharing her story and this book is a tribute to all pet parents who’ve loved deeply and lost and it is an inspired way to find solace and celebrate these beautiful beings we loved so much. I hope you enjoy.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is Pet Life Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Let's talk pets.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Every once in a while, because it doesn't happen often.
You meet someone or you come across something that strikes
you deeply. And my guest today is that person I
(00:44):
first learned about, Jacqueline Lemoux Bocoor. And I'm hoping I'm
pronouncing that correctly because a friend of mine, who is
becoming a very good friend, UH sent me a book
to honor the passing of my beloved Sophie, my doggie,
(01:05):
last October. And the book struck me so deeply in
its thoughtfulness, its beauty, its care and it's artistry that
I just wanted to know more about the woman who
(01:25):
put this together. And Jacqueline, no surprise certainly when you
see this book, is an artist and she has a
powerful story of her own that inspired this book. And
this book is called Remember Me as sun Oh God Crying.
(01:46):
It's an interview I'm sorry, Remember Me as Sunshine Love
Notes from My Dog. So I want you to meet Jacqueline.
We're going to have a conversation with her about this book,
how this book is intrinsically interwoven with her life, and
(02:08):
we're going to do it all as soon as we
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Let's talk pets on Petlife Radio dot com.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Welcome back.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
You're listening to Bark and Swagger on pet Life Radio.
I'm Jody Teischer host. We're here today with a very
special guest. Her name is Jacqueline Lemieux Focoor, and she
is the author and artist behind a remembrance book called
(03:47):
Remember Me a Sunshine Love Notes from my Dog, which
was probably the most beautiful gift I got when my
beloved dog, Sophie passed almost a year ago. I am
so excited for you to meet Jacqueline and hear about
her story, her inspiration for this book. More about this book.
(04:09):
So welcome Jacqueline.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Oh, thank you so much, Jody. I am truly honored.
What a gift. Truly thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for being
here today. I think that because there are so many
people around the world who love our animals so profoundly
and so deeply like you and I, this is such
a beautiful, beautiful gift, not only for if sadly a
(04:46):
dog passes or it it's yours or friends, but really
just as an honor and remembrance to an animal that
you love. So I'm very, very excited for you to
share more about it it. Tell my listeners how this
book came about, because the incident that sparked it was
(05:09):
about twenty four years ago, So tell everybody how this happened.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
So, my husband and I had bought an old rambling
salt marsh bar in New England in Massachusetts and we
were fixing up this old house. We had a little
girl who was just turned five. It was just this
beautiful time in our life. And we had our dog, Boris,
who we adored. Oh my goodness, so we had he
(05:35):
had come into our life when we were newly married.
You know, that beautiful time where everything is just pure
and simple, and here's this puppy. Oh my gosh. Our
lives were transformed. We loved this dog so much that
we used to have Boris Appreciation days. You know, we
would like make his favorite food and take him to places.
(05:55):
It was just pure love. And then our daughter's born.
It just builds on all of this. So we're restoring
this old house in Massachusetts, this rambling old house, and
it was a four year restoration. And the very last
bit of the restoration we were having the kitchen painted.
We hired some workers. We didn't know it. They shut
(06:18):
off the smoke alarms, which were hardwired, and put newspaper
into a recess light fixture. The newspaper smoldered, fell onto
their drop cloths, which were covered with solvents. Created a
bomb exploded, and our dog was sleeping by our bed.
He usually slept in the kitchen and he stood up
in the middle of the night, cold New England, February
(06:41):
night and barked like we had never heard him bark before.
It was a growling bark, like my goodness, it just
it was unlike anything. And my husband jumped up and
grabbed our daughter, ran down the staircase first, I'm sorry.
And when he went into the first level of the
(07:02):
house and opened the kitchen door, lord of ceiling flames
that just were fueled now by the oxygen in the
room became a backdraft and the whole house was engulfed.
He grabbed our daughter. I ran back to grab our
dog and everything had changed. My husband ran out the door,
(07:24):
and I was in a hallway thinking I was going
to die, my dog by my side, Boris. Every step
felt like five hundred and I made it to the
nwell post and the flames are whipping around the staircase.
There's paintings, there's chairs in the wave of fire. I mean,
(07:46):
it's just extraordinary. And I made it to the door.
Boris was by me, and the flames were whipping around
the end of the frame of the door, and as
I stepped out onto the porch, windows exploded and Boris
went back. It was just a second, my god, and
(08:09):
we stood there and watched our bed catch on fire
and fall through the livery room floor bar and the
whole house wasn't gone.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Oh my goodness, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Thanked. As artists, we had created everything in that house.
It was a labor of love and it was filled
with love, I mean everything, everything, but to lose your dog,
your best friend, was unbelievable. And that night I ran
from firemen to firemen, Please my dog. Please. There was
(08:39):
nothing they could do. I mean, you could not enter
the house. It was it was gone, and it my goodness. Yeah,
so my husband runs to our next door neighbor's house.
I'm standing there and disbelief, watching everything burn, my books,
my portfolios, everything, everything lives and our de la just
(09:01):
unclely won. Then, in this one moment, with all those
down comforters and pillows and all that New England stuff
that you have, out of this burst of fire as
high into the sky as you could see, all these
white feathers exploded into the sky, thousands and thousands and
thousands of them and just fell all over me. It
(09:25):
was one of the most beautiful, heartbreaking experiences. That moment
I just knew in my heart we were going to
be okay. I don't know something was okay, there was
a bigger picture. And shortly after we had had two
missed carriages right before the fire, and then went after
(09:47):
the fire, and out of the blue, we get pregnant
with twins, and there's a little boy girl, and we
name our son, Colin Boris Boucour after our child. So
this book came out of this desire to use my
talents to make something that really felt worthy of this experience,
(10:08):
because for me, everything changed when my perspective changed.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
It.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
So when at first it was my house burnt down,
my dog died, it was now I survived a fire
and my dog sacked my life, and so I wanted
to honor him. An all talks who are with us
(10:36):
during all these moments in our lives, who hold us,
who are confidants, our best friends are soul nets, right,
And so we moved to California, and this is a beautiful,
beautiful place to be. But I was missing New England
and we still have our home there. We're renting here
(10:57):
transitional time. And as I was going back and north
across this country, visiting my family, back in New England
and checking around the house things like that. I always
sat by the window and just was in awe that
I'm here on this earth because of my dog. Started
thinking about him and I just started writing down all
(11:21):
these little sentiments from him to me, and I just
filled these little notebooks with them, and it turned into
something that I wanted to capture, and so I took
those love notes. So sweet.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
She has to insert herself in everything, continued Jacqueline.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
That's made me so happy. Okay, oh, beautiful Succhi.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
My cat has entered the studio and she's made herself known.
Please continue, Jacqueline.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
So I as I started writing these notes, and during them,
I started formulating them into this bigger picture where I
started meeting these dogs in our neighborhood that all had stories.
And somehow these love notes and poems matched personalities or
(12:18):
matched a story. Something connected. So I started photographing all
these older dogs or soulful dogs, but most of them,
most of them were in their golden years. And then
I started planting the flowers our dog would have seen
on a walk. I started making everything or naturally and
(12:43):
collecting things that made sense to our lives and different
times in our lives with our dog, and from him
speaking to me, I wrote back to him visually. So
then I used all these big sheets of hand painted
paper and rephotographed everything exactly as you see it in
the book, because it was so important that everything be real,
(13:05):
like the love of the dog, everything be exact. I mean,
the butterflies are certified by the US government that they
died a natural life cycle. To the extent everything, everything
in this book is love and honesty and purity, like
the love of the doll. The stars on one page
in this room where I'm sitting right now is where
(13:27):
I photographed everything because the light was just lovely at
a certain time day, just on the floor, and I
took glassing paper and cut out stars and placed them
all over these windows and waited till the light came
down on low levels and photographed it and just just
lost myself in wanting to make something as beautiful as
(13:50):
I could, and something that I would give as a gift.
That was also important that it be something that I
was feeling was worse the boris of me being on
this earth, of using my talents on the receiving end.
Someone who opens this book knowing that someone really cares
(14:12):
about the experience and about your journey and honoring that.
So everything symbolic, every single thing.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yes, I mean to hear you talk about it, Jacqueline.
I know for me and I'm sure I won't be alone.
The thoughtfulness and the deep meaning, the spirit, the attention
to detail, all of it artistry that when into this book,
(14:42):
it just jumps off of every page, and I want
to bring it to life a little bit for our listeners.
There will be some photos. I definitely want to include
some photos and actually what you're going to see too,
if you go onto the Bark and Swagger page of
the Pet Life radio site, you're going to see one
(15:03):
or two photos of what that house looked like when
the fire went out, and it is a disaster area.
And the thought that this is just what our dogs do. Yes,
they save our lives in so many profound ways, from
(15:24):
literally like what Boris did for you and your husband
and your daughter too emotionally when it allows us to
get through another day. That love so's I want people
to understand the immensity in this book and hearing you
(15:44):
describe it is very very helpful, and you will see
some pictures of it. But just to sort of give
listeners an idea. So every page has a little poem
that was inspired by I guess downloads from Boris thoughts
of Boris.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yes, I channeled him, I actually sloads. I love it.
Every morning I wake up and say thank you, just
unsearth because of you and the photo on the cover
of the book, the house to work to the ground.
This photo we found it in the woods behind the libs.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
I just got chills.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
There are so many stories, and then I have to
share one other thing because I think, please, I.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Mean, this is incredible, incredible stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Our daughter was just married and we just mad ask congratulations,
thank you. And the reason why I am saying that
is because in the back of the book is one
of the last photos is a little bouquet of dog bolls. Yes,
after Boris passed, I planted a hill on the land
(17:01):
where the house was of dog ilets to remember him.
And this little girl that my husband had in his arms,
and we ran out of the house was just married
last weekend and I had gone to the house back
in Massachusetts and I had spoken to her about this,
and I picked hundreds of those dog violets and pressed them,
(17:23):
and they were in her wedding invitation. That just so
when I say everything in this book has meaning, yes,
but I didn't want it to be about me. I
wanted it to be about love, and that if everything
is done from the heart, and the experience that you
(17:44):
have with your animals, is that experience of love. I
wanted this to be that reflection of it. That that
was my design.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
You know, absolutely. And the fact that animals, especially because
we're out and about with our dogs more than people
with cats, are such a door opener bridge too, and
between us and others. Everybody has a story of someone
(18:16):
they've met because of their dogs. Right, So these animals
and that love is such an icebreaker and a beeline
to authenticity because when you start talking about your dogs
with each other, you know, it goes straight to the heart.
(18:37):
And so it's that authenticity too, that you have so
beautifully tapped into with this book and with all of
these life incidents are just Boris coming in again and
again and again and again.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
There are so many gifts that I've received from him.
I've been going into schools and reading my book and
showing the children how I honored our dog by making
some photos with the children, and then we write love
notes to our pets. And the stories that the children
(19:19):
have been sharing about someone who lived next door and
they moved and their dog moved as well, and how
sad they were, not only for the loss of a
friend who might have been an adult, but because they
had said hello to that dog every day. And how
connected we are through animals constantly, and men that older men,
(19:44):
how beautiful wanting to share a story about a dog
that they loved, who they said was everything to them,
and opening up that portal to sharing, to love, to honor, wondering,
and it's just this constant holding of each other through
(20:06):
our animals.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Right absolutely, we're going to take a short break for
a sponsor, but before we do, I want people to
picture this. Every page that you turn to in this
book has a beautifully photographed because you are a photographer,
you're an artist, a beautifully photographed dog with some wonderful, natural,
(20:36):
meaningful flower on the page, sort of juxtaposed with that
dog in some really artistic, beautiful way, or you know,
alongside something pops out at you. And a poem, a
short poem that is tapping into our profound love for
(20:57):
our dogs and the downloads Boris. I recommend this book
for everyone who has ever loved a dog and who
may know someone who has lost a dog.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
And with that, we are going to be right back.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
We're going to take a short break from our sponsors,
but don't go away, because when we come back, I'm
going to ask Jacqueline to share some stories about some
of the beautiful dogs that she photographed in this book,
that she met in that neighborhood, and we'll hear some
stories about the dogs that are now immortalized in Remember
(21:34):
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Welcome back if you've just joined, We're here today with
Jacqueline Lemieux Beaucour, the very, very gifted artist and heart
behind Remember Me as Sunshine Love Notes, Love Notes from
My Dog, an absolutely beautiful remembrance book that I received
(23:38):
as a gift when my Sophie passed. Jacqueline, you have
such beautiful photographs in this book of dogs that you
said you met in the neighborhood that you moved to
in California, and you told a beautiful story of a
young girl who was feeling sad because one of the
(24:00):
dogs that she met as her neighbor that she had
said hi to every day, had moved away with the family.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Every dog he has a story.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
And I'm just wondering if there are a couple that
stand out for you from the dogs that you photographed,
and if you chair them that.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Would be honored to So I think I'll start with Pearl.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Oh, she's beautiful. We'll have a picture of Pearl. Can
we get a picture of Pearl to put up on
the page? Great, so you'll be able to see Pearl
when you listen to the show.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I'm a pearl in our local car repair place, the
loveliest people, truly loveliest, And there was Pearl. She has
green legs and she has a scar around her body
where when they adopted her, they think she was possibly
caught in a chain, and she was the She is
(24:51):
the loveliest soul, the gentlest, most just beautiful spear. And
so I asked if I could photograph her, but it
was it's important to me that I just photographed her
her essence and not her disabilities. So they had named
her a pearl for that string that scar around her body,
and for me, I wanted to also honor her strength.
(25:16):
And so that's why she's on this page with these
rocks that are from my collection that have a line
around them. And I don't know if you know in
when you find one that has a line completely around
you make a wish and that sort of little tradition.
So those are from my collection of rocks with little
(25:39):
line around them, because every time I found one rock
with a line around it, my strength was restored and
I made a wish. And when I met Pearl, I
felt this connection to her of her strength as well.
So what a gift.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
And it's beautiful. You know where that comes from? Making
a wish when you find a rock with a line
around it, I have to look that up because that
is a really beautiful thing.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I'd never heard, Well where I should I heard that either,
And then someone shared it with me. I'm like, well, yeah,
so I've always and I've always picked up a rock
and then made a wish just and put it in
my pocket. And then oh, there's so many let me
let me quickly. Well it's impossible to go quickly. But
here's this beautiful dog. When this dog.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Is baby, you'll see baby. We'll get a picture of
baby too, So you can see baby.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
When baby was adopted, baby had leech stripes all over
its body to make it look like a zebra. Oh
my goodness, and leech marks had turned into burns in
those body. I mean, it was just heartbreak.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Do something like that. Oh my God.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
And the owner, the new woman who adopted her, just
adored him and brought held back to his essence of
So when I photographed him, I turned those lines into
rays of sunflowers. So that's what's in the sun, because
(27:26):
those had to be the spirit of the sun and
of the beauty of that wonderful Oh and this big
great dane puts his head on my shoulder and just
leans into me, and most soulful spirited. So and then
this is Heather. When I met Heather, she was walking
(27:47):
with her owner and she was behind her owner's leg
and I was just down the street with a conversation.
Said hello, you know, how are you today, And didn't
even realize that Heather was there. And we started talking
and I said, oh, my goodness, I didn't even see
your lovely talk. She said, Oh, she's quite shy, and
she's feeling a little sad because my mother just passed
(28:10):
away who was one hundred and one. Wow, what she
just missed her?
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Oh wow?
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Oh? May I photograph her? And she said, well, I'm
not sure. You know, she's very shod, and I said,
let me, let me try if it's okay with you.
So she lives nearby. I had never met this woman before,
and I went over and I just said the woman's
name over and over again, and Heather looked at me,
(28:37):
and it's one of my favorite photos with her little
ear up.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Oh my goodness, family.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Good listen. And so these are all forget me nots
on this page. And what I did was I made
these tiny little mounts just around a toothpick and cut
them and placed them all over the paper. And then
quickly had to cut all these forget me nots and
put them down because that's the only way it would
(29:07):
look natural on these pages. It couldn't be all photoshopped,
and you know.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
It needed to be really authentic.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
And so when I look at her and how lovely
she is, I just remember her that moment of her
looking at me and just feeling this connection.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I mean, every every dog is special here, every single
every single dog. And I could go on and on
and on. Yeah, and then the other thing that happens
with this book is when you turn the pages. I
wanted to have a modern take on the rainbow bridge,
so it also has So the whole idea is that
(29:51):
it feels like a rainbow.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
That is fabulous. Meaning we got to tell people because
they're not seeing this that the colors of the pages
were also very carefully.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Very carefully. But it's a modern thing.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
So it's like it's and the colors are so beautiful,
so it's like a modern rainbow when you flip.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Yes, and then at the beginning of the book are
the are the love notes that are tied together with
a little blue ribbon. And then the end of the book,
the very last page is the ribbon that symbolically you've
read you've read blood notes.
Speaker 8 (30:31):
Yes, oh, I love that.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
I didn't know that that piece. I didn't think of that.
So what's left is the ribbon, the.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Ribbon, right, Yeah, and you had your memories because there's
pages tad yeah, with the reflections. Bolically, take that ribbon
and tie it around and place in here your room
you're in love, and then you can write your dog's
name on the front page, Yes, which I did, and
(30:59):
there's pleased to put their photo if you'd like. That's
why this is blank too.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Yeah. Yeah, you've thought of everything. And you also included
something I remember when I got this as a gift
that I thought was really beautiful and different, which was
this little square that you're able to plant. Can you
tell my audience about that.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
I include a little seated paper seated heart. They're made
in North America and they're natural, all handmade, and they're
North American wildflower seeds that attract butterflies. The whole idea
is that you write your dog's name or not, it
doesn't matter, but it is nice to just say thank you,
(31:46):
even to your pet who's in your life right now,
if you don't thank you for being in my life.
And something in the ground and watch it, watch you
come to life and see this beautiful little flower up
here and then a butterfly I connected to it and spirit.
So everything is just a cycle going back again and
(32:06):
again to give back, to have an awareness and appreciation.
There is a moment of celebrating and honoring in every day,
right because absolutely when you're present in your day and
you have your dog with you or you see something
differently because of that walk that you've had with your dog.
(32:26):
What a gift that is right, and so to really
take time and hold.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
That, be present, Be present. What is so striking to
me is that in the tragedy and sadness of the
fire and losing boris how many beautiful, beautiful things gifts
you call them and they are have come out of this.
And how many lives you are touching Instagram Dogs of
(32:56):
Instagram just featured your book. I mean that's a lot
of followers. How many lives you are touching.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Thank you. I feel to make.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
A profound difference in that life. And it's just such
a beautiful ripples in a pond that go on and
on kind of thing. Where can people find you, Jacqueline?
Speaker 2 (33:19):
So the best place is through my website because then
I handwrap everything for you and I do a good
heart and I box it beautifully.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
I can attest to all of this everyone. It comes
as a really beautiful, beautiful gift.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I wanted the experience to be worthy of that love
of the dog. You can buy it on Amazon, which
I don't know is there, but when you buy it
from me, I'm able to do more for the experience so.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Absolutely, and tell everyone your.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Website, remember me at Sunshine dot com.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
Bear you have it.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
What about on social are there any social channels you'd
like people to know about?
Speaker 2 (34:01):
On Instagram remember me of Sunshine And on Facebook? I'm
you know, I'm so busy. It's just me here doing this,
and I'm so busy in my community doing things, working
for the San Diego Humane Society, volunteering, volunteering in schools,
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you know, going into school speaking, being part of community.
That I'm not as much on social media as I
probably should be.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
You're living life. You're out in the world, which is
something that ties beautifully and makes so much sense in
with all the authenticity and realness of what you've done.
So I think that we need more of that today.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Yeah, I do. When you're present, everything changes. After the
fire of my yoga teacher used to say to me,
the earth will hold you, and I would go to
the land. The house was burnt down, was winter, and
I would take off my shoes and stand in the
snow and just say old me, old me. I felt untethered,
(35:08):
you know, everything was just so big and so uncertain.
But I am so grateful to be on this earth,
to be present with you, to have this connection with
other people. Because of Boris, my heart is full and
this is my opportunity to use my talents to give back.
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Then that's what I'm utful.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
And then it's beautiful. Thank you so much for spending
this time with us today, Jacqueline.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Thank you, Amna truly, thank you.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Oh please, I'm honored to have you here.
Speaker 8 (35:41):
And Gina, thank you for introducing me to Jacqueline. Thank you, Gina,
and thank all of you for listening. Thanks to our producer,
Mark winter Mark, you make us sound so good and
we love you for it.
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Every once in a while, because it doesn't happen often.
You meet someone or you come across something that strikes
you deeply. And my guest today is that person I
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first learned about, Jacqueline Lemoux Bocoor. And I'm hoping I'm
pronouncing that correctly because a friend of mine, who is
becoming a very good friend, UH sent me a book
to honor the passing of my beloved Sophie, my doggie,
(01:05):
last October. And the book struck me so deeply in
its thoughtfulness, its beauty, its care and it's artistry that
I just wanted to know more about the woman who
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put this together. And Jacqueline, no surprise certainly when you
see this book, is an artist and she has a
powerful story of her own that inspired this book. And
this book is called Remember Me as sun Oh God Crying.
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It's an interview I'm sorry, Remember Me as Sunshine Love
Notes from My Dog. So I want you to meet Jacqueline.
We're going to have a conversation with her about this book,
how this book is intrinsically interwoven with her life, and
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You're listening to Bark and Swagger on pet Life Radio.
I'm Jody Teischer host. We're here today with a very
special guest. Her name is Jacqueline Lemieux Focoor, and she
is the author and artist behind a remembrance book called
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Remember Me a Sunshine Love Notes from my Dog, which
was probably the most beautiful gift I got when my
beloved dog, Sophie passed almost a year ago. I am
so excited for you to meet Jacqueline and hear about
her story, her inspiration for this book. More about this book.
(04:09):
So welcome Jacqueline.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Oh, thank you so much, Jody. I am truly honored.
What a gift. Truly thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for being
here today. I think that because there are so many
people around the world who love our animals so profoundly
and so deeply like you and I, this is such
a beautiful, beautiful gift, not only for if sadly a
(04:46):
dog passes or it it's yours or friends, but really
just as an honor and remembrance to an animal that
you love. So I'm very, very excited for you to
share more about it it. Tell my listeners how this
book came about, because the incident that sparked it was
(05:09):
about twenty four years ago, So tell everybody how this happened.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
So, my husband and I had bought an old rambling
salt marsh bar in New England in Massachusetts and we
were fixing up this old house. We had a little
girl who was just turned five. It was just this
beautiful time in our life. And we had our dog, Boris,
who we adored. Oh my goodness, so we had he
(05:35):
had come into our life when we were newly married.
You know, that beautiful time where everything is just pure
and simple, and here's this puppy. Oh my gosh. Our
lives were transformed. We loved this dog so much that
we used to have Boris Appreciation days. You know, we
would like make his favorite food and take him to places.
(05:55):
It was just pure love. And then our daughter's born.
It just builds on all of this. So we're restoring
this old house in Massachusetts, this rambling old house, and
it was a four year restoration. And the very last
bit of the restoration we were having the kitchen painted.
We hired some workers. We didn't know it. They shut
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off the smoke alarms, which were hardwired, and put newspaper
into a recess light fixture. The newspaper smoldered, fell onto
their drop cloths, which were covered with solvents. Created a
bomb exploded, and our dog was sleeping by our bed.
He usually slept in the kitchen and he stood up
in the middle of the night, cold New England, February
(06:41):
night and barked like we had never heard him bark before.
It was a growling bark, like my goodness, it just
it was unlike anything. And my husband jumped up and
grabbed our daughter, ran down the staircase first, I'm sorry.
And when he went into the first level of the
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house and opened the kitchen door, lord of ceiling flames
that just were fueled now by the oxygen in the
room became a backdraft and the whole house was engulfed.
He grabbed our daughter. I ran back to grab our
dog and everything had changed. My husband ran out the door,
(07:24):
and I was in a hallway thinking I was going
to die, my dog by my side, Boris. Every step
felt like five hundred and I made it to the
nwell post and the flames are whipping around the staircase.
There's paintings, there's chairs in the wave of fire. I mean,
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it's just extraordinary. And I made it to the door.
Boris was by me, and the flames were whipping around
the end of the frame of the door, and as
I stepped out onto the porch, windows exploded and Boris
went back. It was just a second, my god, and
(08:09):
we stood there and watched our bed catch on fire
and fall through the livery room floor bar and the
whole house wasn't gone.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Oh my goodness, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Thanked. As artists, we had created everything in that house.
It was a labor of love and it was filled
with love, I mean everything, everything, but to lose your dog,
your best friend, was unbelievable. And that night I ran
from firemen to firemen, Please my dog. Please. There was
(08:39):
nothing they could do. I mean, you could not enter
the house. It was it was gone, and it my goodness. Yeah,
so my husband runs to our next door neighbor's house.
I'm standing there and disbelief, watching everything burn, my books,
my portfolios, everything, everything lives and our de la just
(09:01):
unclely won. Then, in this one moment, with all those
down comforters and pillows and all that New England stuff
that you have, out of this burst of fire as
high into the sky as you could see, all these
white feathers exploded into the sky, thousands and thousands and
thousands of them and just fell all over me. It
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was one of the most beautiful, heartbreaking experiences. That moment
I just knew in my heart we were going to
be okay. I don't know something was okay, there was
a bigger picture. And shortly after we had had two
missed carriages right before the fire, and then went after
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the fire, and out of the blue, we get pregnant
with twins, and there's a little boy girl, and we
name our son, Colin Boris Boucour after our child. So
this book came out of this desire to use my
talents to make something that really felt worthy of this experience,
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because for me, everything changed when my perspective changed.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
It.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
So when at first it was my house burnt down,
my dog died, it was now I survived a fire
and my dog sacked my life, and so I wanted
to honor him. An all talks who are with us
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during all these moments in our lives, who hold us,
who are confidants, our best friends are soul nets, right,
And so we moved to California, and this is a beautiful,
beautiful place to be. But I was missing New England
and we still have our home there. We're renting here
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transitional time. And as I was going back and north
across this country, visiting my family, back in New England
and checking around the house things like that. I always
sat by the window and just was in awe that
I'm here on this earth because of my dog. Started
thinking about him and I just started writing down all
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these little sentiments from him to me, and I just
filled these little notebooks with them, and it turned into
something that I wanted to capture, and so I took
those love notes. So sweet.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
She has to insert herself in everything, continued Jacqueline.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
That's made me so happy. Okay, oh, beautiful Succhi.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
My cat has entered the studio and she's made herself known.
Please continue, Jacqueline.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
So I as I started writing these notes, and during them,
I started formulating them into this bigger picture where I
started meeting these dogs in our neighborhood that all had stories.
And somehow these love notes and poems matched personalities or
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matched a story. Something connected. So I started photographing all
these older dogs or soulful dogs, but most of them,
most of them were in their golden years. And then
I started planting the flowers our dog would have seen
on a walk. I started making everything or naturally and
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collecting things that made sense to our lives and different
times in our lives with our dog, and from him
speaking to me, I wrote back to him visually. So
then I used all these big sheets of hand painted
paper and rephotographed everything exactly as you see it in
the book, because it was so important that everything be real,
(13:05):
like the love of the dog, everything be exact. I mean,
the butterflies are certified by the US government that they
died a natural life cycle. To the extent everything, everything
in this book is love and honesty and purity, like
the love of the doll. The stars on one page
in this room where I'm sitting right now is where
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I photographed everything because the light was just lovely at
a certain time day, just on the floor, and I
took glassing paper and cut out stars and placed them
all over these windows and waited till the light came
down on low levels and photographed it and just just
lost myself in wanting to make something as beautiful as
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I could, and something that I would give as a gift.
That was also important that it be something that I
was feeling was worse the boris of me being on
this earth, of using my talents on the receiving end.
Someone who opens this book knowing that someone really cares
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about the experience and about your journey and honoring that.
So everything symbolic, every single thing.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yes, I mean to hear you talk about it, Jacqueline.
I know for me and I'm sure I won't be alone.
The thoughtfulness and the deep meaning, the spirit, the attention
to detail, all of it artistry that when into this book,
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it just jumps off of every page, and I want
to bring it to life a little bit for our listeners.
There will be some photos. I definitely want to include
some photos and actually what you're going to see too,
if you go onto the Bark and Swagger page of
the Pet Life radio site, you're going to see one
(15:03):
or two photos of what that house looked like when
the fire went out, and it is a disaster area.
And the thought that this is just what our dogs do. Yes,
they save our lives in so many profound ways, from
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literally like what Boris did for you and your husband
and your daughter too emotionally when it allows us to
get through another day. That love so's I want people
to understand the immensity in this book and hearing you
(15:44):
describe it is very very helpful, and you will see
some pictures of it. But just to sort of give
listeners an idea. So every page has a little poem
that was inspired by I guess downloads from Boris thoughts
of Boris.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yes, I channeled him, I actually sloads. I love it.
Every morning I wake up and say thank you, just
unsearth because of you and the photo on the cover
of the book, the house to work to the ground.
This photo we found it in the woods behind the libs.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
I just got chills.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
There are so many stories, and then I have to
share one other thing because I think, please, I.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Mean, this is incredible, incredible stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Our daughter was just married and we just mad ask congratulations,
thank you. And the reason why I am saying that
is because in the back of the book is one
of the last photos is a little bouquet of dog bolls. Yes,
after Boris passed, I planted a hill on the land
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where the house was of dog ilets to remember him.
And this little girl that my husband had in his arms,
and we ran out of the house was just married
last weekend and I had gone to the house back
in Massachusetts and I had spoken to her about this,
and I picked hundreds of those dog violets and pressed them,
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and they were in her wedding invitation. That just so
when I say everything in this book has meaning, yes,
but I didn't want it to be about me. I
wanted it to be about love, and that if everything
is done from the heart, and the experience that you
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have with your animals, is that experience of love. I
wanted this to be that reflection of it. That that
was my design.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
You know, absolutely. And the fact that animals, especially because
we're out and about with our dogs more than people
with cats, are such a door opener bridge too, and
between us and others. Everybody has a story of someone
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they've met because of their dogs. Right, So these animals
and that love is such an icebreaker and a beeline
to authenticity because when you start talking about your dogs
with each other, you know, it goes straight to the heart.
(18:37):
And so it's that authenticity too, that you have so
beautifully tapped into with this book and with all of
these life incidents are just Boris coming in again and
again and again and again.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
There are so many gifts that I've received from him.
I've been going into schools and reading my book and
showing the children how I honored our dog by making
some photos with the children, and then we write love
notes to our pets. And the stories that the children
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have been sharing about someone who lived next door and
they moved and their dog moved as well, and how
sad they were, not only for the loss of a
friend who might have been an adult, but because they
had said hello to that dog every day. And how
connected we are through animals constantly, and men that older men,
(19:44):
how beautiful wanting to share a story about a dog
that they loved, who they said was everything to them,
and opening up that portal to sharing, to love, to honor, wondering,
and it's just this constant holding of each other through
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our animals.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Right absolutely, we're going to take a short break for
a sponsor, but before we do, I want people to
picture this. Every page that you turn to in this
book has a beautifully photographed because you are a photographer,
you're an artist, a beautifully photographed dog with some wonderful, natural,
(20:36):
meaningful flower on the page, sort of juxtaposed with that
dog in some really artistic, beautiful way, or you know,
alongside something pops out at you. And a poem, a
short poem that is tapping into our profound love for
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our dogs and the downloads Boris. I recommend this book
for everyone who has ever loved a dog and who
may know someone who has lost a dog.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
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but don't go away, because when we come back, I'm
going to ask Jacqueline to share some stories about some
of the beautiful dogs that she photographed in this book,
that she met in that neighborhood, and we'll hear some
stories about the dogs that are now immortalized in Remember
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Welcome back if you've just joined, We're here today with
Jacqueline Lemieux Beaucour, the very, very gifted artist and heart
behind Remember Me as Sunshine Love Notes, Love Notes from
My Dog, an absolutely beautiful remembrance book that I received
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as a gift when my Sophie passed. Jacqueline, you have
such beautiful photographs in this book of dogs that you
said you met in the neighborhood that you moved to
in California, and you told a beautiful story of a
young girl who was feeling sad because one of the
(24:00):
dogs that she met as her neighbor that she had
said hi to every day, had moved away with the family.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Every dog he has a story.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
And I'm just wondering if there are a couple that
stand out for you from the dogs that you photographed,
and if you chair them that.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Would be honored to So I think I'll start with Pearl.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Oh, she's beautiful. We'll have a picture of Pearl. Can
we get a picture of Pearl to put up on
the page? Great, so you'll be able to see Pearl
when you listen to the show.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I'm a pearl in our local car repair place, the
loveliest people, truly loveliest, And there was Pearl. She has
green legs and she has a scar around her body
where when they adopted her, they think she was possibly
caught in a chain, and she was the She is
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the loveliest soul, the gentlest, most just beautiful spear. And
so I asked if I could photograph her, but it
was it's important to me that I just photographed her
her essence and not her disabilities. So they had named
her a pearl for that string that scar around her body,
and for me, I wanted to also honor her strength.
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And so that's why she's on this page with these
rocks that are from my collection that have a line
around them. And I don't know if you know in
when you find one that has a line completely around
you make a wish and that sort of little tradition.
So those are from my collection of rocks with little
(25:39):
line around them, because every time I found one rock
with a line around it, my strength was restored and
I made a wish. And when I met Pearl, I
felt this connection to her of her strength as well.
So what a gift.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
And it's beautiful. You know where that comes from? Making
a wish when you find a rock with a line
around it, I have to look that up because that
is a really beautiful thing.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I'd never heard, Well where I should I heard that either,
And then someone shared it with me. I'm like, well, yeah,
so I've always and I've always picked up a rock
and then made a wish just and put it in
my pocket. And then oh, there's so many let me
let me quickly. Well it's impossible to go quickly. But
here's this beautiful dog. When this dog.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Is baby, you'll see baby. We'll get a picture of
baby too, So you can see baby.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
When baby was adopted, baby had leech stripes all over
its body to make it look like a zebra. Oh
my goodness, and leech marks had turned into burns in
those body. I mean, it was just heartbreak.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Do something like that. Oh my God.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
And the owner, the new woman who adopted her, just
adored him and brought held back to his essence of
So when I photographed him, I turned those lines into
rays of sunflowers. So that's what's in the sun, because
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those had to be the spirit of the sun and
of the beauty of that wonderful Oh and this big
great dane puts his head on my shoulder and just
leans into me, and most soulful spirited. So and then
this is Heather. When I met Heather, she was walking
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with her owner and she was behind her owner's leg
and I was just down the street with a conversation.
Said hello, you know, how are you today, And didn't
even realize that Heather was there. And we started talking
and I said, oh, my goodness, I didn't even see
your lovely talk. She said, Oh, she's quite shy, and
she's feeling a little sad because my mother just passed
(28:10):
away who was one hundred and one. Wow, what she
just missed her?
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Oh wow?
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Oh? May I photograph her? And she said, well, I'm
not sure. You know, she's very shod, and I said,
let me, let me try if it's okay with you.
So she lives nearby. I had never met this woman before,
and I went over and I just said the woman's
name over and over again, and Heather looked at me,
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and it's one of my favorite photos with her little
ear up.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Oh my goodness, family.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Good listen. And so these are all forget me nots
on this page. And what I did was I made
these tiny little mounts just around a toothpick and cut
them and placed them all over the paper. And then
quickly had to cut all these forget me nots and
put them down because that's the only way it would
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look natural on these pages. It couldn't be all photoshopped,
and you know.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
It needed to be really authentic.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
And so when I look at her and how lovely
she is, I just remember her that moment of her
looking at me and just feeling this connection.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
I mean, every every dog is special here, every single
every single dog. And I could go on and on
and on. Yeah, and then the other thing that happens
with this book is when you turn the pages. I
wanted to have a modern take on the rainbow bridge,
so it also has So the whole idea is that
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it feels like a rainbow.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
That is fabulous. Meaning we got to tell people because
they're not seeing this that the colors of the pages
were also very carefully.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Very carefully. But it's a modern thing.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
So it's like it's and the colors are so beautiful,
so it's like a modern rainbow when you flip.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Yes, and then at the beginning of the book are
the are the love notes that are tied together with
a little blue ribbon. And then the end of the book,
the very last page is the ribbon that symbolically you've
read you've read blood notes.
Speaker 8 (30:31):
Yes, oh, I love that.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
I didn't know that that piece. I didn't think of that.
So what's left is the ribbon, the.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Ribbon, right, Yeah, and you had your memories because there's
pages tad yeah, with the reflections. Bolically, take that ribbon
and tie it around and place in here your room
you're in love, and then you can write your dog's
name on the front page, Yes, which I did, and
(30:59):
there's pleased to put their photo if you'd like. That's
why this is blank too.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Yeah. Yeah, you've thought of everything. And you also included
something I remember when I got this as a gift
that I thought was really beautiful and different, which was
this little square that you're able to plant. Can you
tell my audience about that.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
I include a little seated paper seated heart. They're made
in North America and they're natural, all handmade, and they're
North American wildflower seeds that attract butterflies. The whole idea
is that you write your dog's name or not, it
doesn't matter, but it is nice to just say thank you,
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even to your pet who's in your life right now,
if you don't thank you for being in my life.
And something in the ground and watch it, watch you
come to life and see this beautiful little flower up
here and then a butterfly I connected to it and spirit.
So everything is just a cycle going back again and
(32:06):
again to give back, to have an awareness and appreciation.
There is a moment of celebrating and honoring in every day,
right because absolutely when you're present in your day and
you have your dog with you or you see something
differently because of that walk that you've had with your dog.
(32:26):
What a gift that is right, and so to really
take time and hold.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
That, be present, Be present. What is so striking to
me is that in the tragedy and sadness of the
fire and losing boris how many beautiful, beautiful things gifts
you call them and they are have come out of this.
And how many lives you are touching Instagram Dogs of
(32:56):
Instagram just featured your book. I mean that's a lot
of followers. How many lives you are touching.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Thank you. I feel to make.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
A profound difference in that life. And it's just such
a beautiful ripples in a pond that go on and
on kind of thing. Where can people find you, Jacqueline?
Speaker 2 (33:19):
So the best place is through my website because then
I handwrap everything for you and I do a good
heart and I box it beautifully.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
I can attest to all of this everyone. It comes
as a really beautiful, beautiful gift.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I wanted the experience to be worthy of that love
of the dog. You can buy it on Amazon, which
I don't know is there, but when you buy it
from me, I'm able to do more for the experience so.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Absolutely, and tell everyone your.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Website, remember me at Sunshine dot com.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
Bear you have it.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
What about on social are there any social channels you'd
like people to know about?
Speaker 2 (34:01):
On Instagram remember me of Sunshine And on Facebook? I'm
you know, I'm so busy. It's just me here doing this,
and I'm so busy in my community doing things, working
for the San Diego Humane Society, volunteering, volunteering in schools,
(34:22):
you know, going into school speaking, being part of community.
That I'm not as much on social media as I
probably should be.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
You're living life. You're out in the world, which is
something that ties beautifully and makes so much sense in
with all the authenticity and realness of what you've done.
So I think that we need more of that today.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Yeah, I do. When you're present, everything changes. After the
fire of my yoga teacher used to say to me,
the earth will hold you, and I would go to
the land. The house was burnt down, was winter, and
I would take off my shoes and stand in the
snow and just say old me, old me. I felt untethered,
(35:08):
you know, everything was just so big and so uncertain.
But I am so grateful to be on this earth,
to be present with you, to have this connection with
other people. Because of Boris, my heart is full and
this is my opportunity to use my talents to give back.
(35:28):
Then that's what I'm utful.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
And then it's beautiful. Thank you so much for spending
this time with us today, Jacqueline.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Thank you, Amna truly, thank you.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Oh please, I'm honored to have you here.
Speaker 8 (35:41):
And Gina, thank you for introducing me to Jacqueline. Thank you, Gina,
and thank all of you for listening. Thanks to our producer,
Mark winter Mark, you make us sound so good and
we love you for it.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
My passion is help, definitely natural healing and living stylishly,
which is why we're here because this is a very
stylish book. Also animal rescue, So tune in next time
to discover the designers, home, the core artists rescue stories.
I love. So until next time, when Fierce Fashion calls,
(36:21):
bark and
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Swagger, Let's talk Bets every week on demand only on
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