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Mikaela tells us about a woman who found an unexpected antique Mindy speaks about how a girl found her bio mom.

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Time now for our field better,say would because MICHAELA. Because good news
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So this thrift store find is priceless, literally, Mindy. There's a
woman named Laura Young. She's anantique stealer in Texas. She thought she'd

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found a steal when she came acrossa stunning statue at a good well store
in twenty eighteen for just under thirtyfive dollars. I'm gonna show Mindy this
this is what she buy. Iwould don't think I would pick this up
at a good will store. Whatyou're gonna tell me that this is like
worth a lot of money onto gosh, little did she know? Yes,
the piece would out to be apriceless Roman bust dating back two thousand years.

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Mindy, tens of thousands or moredollars price less. Actually, yeah,
so next time the store, keepyour eyes open, folks. You
never know what you're going to find. I should drift more. Someone's trash
is another person's treasure. You've gotit. That was like a treasure tenfold.
Yeah, all right, I wantyou, Mkayla, to look at

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this picture. What do you see? I'm sure, Mkayla, a picture
right now that's on my phone.I see. Well, this is such
a broad brush, but I thinkthis is a mom on the right and
a daughter on the left. Doyou think they look alike? I do
think they look a little bit alike. Yeah, and she's the mom who's
celebrating the daughter who graduated from Harvard. Okay, that's a good guess.
But no, I think they lookso much alike. This is a mother

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and a daughter that didn't really knowthat they existed. What do you mean?
Because this girl was adopted and onher eighteen birthday was given a letter
and it was from her biological momand said, I carried you for nine
months, but I never really gotto know you, but I will love
you forever and all through this girl'slife, she never really felt the urge

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to go and find her real biologicalmom. But then at thirty two,
thirty five years old, she decidedthrough ancestry dot com and through Facebook,
of all things, she found hermom because ancestry dot com connected her up
with her grandfather's obituary, which thenled to her mother's name. So she

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reached out on Facebook and sent hera message. The mom never got the
message sometimes you get buried yet ohand that other inbox exactly. But then
somehow on Christmas Day she responded tothis message and they met and they are
so glad that they are in eachother's lives. It doesn't at all replace
the mother and father who adopted her, because she had a wonderful life,

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but they got to meet, andthen they got to go to the grandmother's
house. Three days later that grandmadied, so at least she got to
know and meet her grandma. Butthey talked to each other all the time.
They get together. Because she wasthirty five years old when she made
the decision to reach out to hermom. Mom was fifty two years old

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and now they're together. But thatdoesn't at all, Like I said,
replace the adoption process, because theymade it possible when they handed her this
letter at eighteen years old, thatyour mom did leave you this with a
little gold ring and a letter.Sweet. It's a great Mother's Day story
and a great segue into what we'regoing to be talking about next. Yeah,

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I thought so too. Yeah,you know, there are so many
kids in need, and maybe someof you have thought about it or thought
about the need at least to befostered in the state of Ohio. So
it is National Foster Care mont andSaint Vincent Family Services is waiting outside the
studio. They're one of I wasleading providers of pediatric behavioral healthcare caregiver for
kids and Mindy. They want totalk to us about the possibilities of fostering

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and it's going to be a wonderfulconversation. And on another good news story,
I have to give my daughter ashout out because she made a conscious
decision. She had a pretty goodfreshman year. She was voted to the
All Freshman team on the Big ten, you know, for softball, but
you know it was a good wasa good year. But she did not
hit one home run. She hitfour doubles, she hit a triple.

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She decided in the off season,and this is a message to anybody listening
who decides to grind it out andwork, work, work. She spent
the offsetd e season trying to makeherself so much better than what she was
now. She was named the firstteam All Big Ten and All Defensive Team,
meaning they pick one defensive player inevery position, so she got it
shortstop. She went from four doublesto fifteen, no home runs to seven,

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and a batting average by about thirtyto forty points higher. So work
ethic pays off. I'm very proudof what she's accomplished as a sophomore,
So I was going to bring itup later, but I'm I'm sorry you
had to bring it up now.But it is good news. I'm crying.
I mean that when Mindy texted methis, and she is the only

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player and I have ten seconds,she's the only player in that position in
the entire Big Ten to be namedto that, Cammy. That is incredible
and it was a testament to yourwork. It was a testament and that's
why I wanted to bring it upbecause but I felt your joy this week.
If you put the work in,the results will come. This is
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