Feels Good: Grandma Of Juneteenth; Prince Charming

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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So this year Juneteenth is even even more meaningful for
Ople Lee, affectionately known as the Grandmother of Juneteenth. The
ninety seven year old received the keys to her new
house this week, built where her family's Fort Worth, Texas
home was burned down by a racist mob eighty five
years ago. Courtesy of various local Texas organizations, including a

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Trinity Habitat for Humanity and Texas Capital, she was given
the property for just ten dollars. The house was built
by history Maker Homes and furnished by J. C. Penny
And while talking about the home and the historic meeting
behind it, Trinity Habitat for Humanity CEO Gage Jaeger, a
friend of Lee's, said, with tears of sadness for past
atrocities and tears of joy for this momentous occasion. We

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are humbled and honored to welcome our friend Ople home.
There truly is no place like home.

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Wow. So the beigest person named Ben ben Clark, a
Disney super fan. He was so big that he couldn't
fit on the theme park rides Win and lost two
hundred and thirty pounds, and now not only can he
ride the Rise, but he plays Prince Charming on stage
at Disney What he weighed four hundred and twenty pounds,

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had a fifty inch waist before traveling to Poland for
gastric sleeve surgery in October of twenty twenty two. The
guy realized the need to take action when he was
denied boarding at some rides at Disney World after flying
all the way to Florida. So he had the procedure done,
lost all this weight, and now he's actually playing the
role of Prince Charming. That's cool. God. Yeah, talk about

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that for a transformation.