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that’s a great story uh and the story is
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simply this it’s kind of multifaceted I
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and I’ll try to tell you as quickly as
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possible when I was a kid my mother used
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to say boy you argue with a sign post
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okay what she meant is that I I I would
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Stand My Ground I guess no matter what I
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would Stand My Ground um and that lady
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became a really uh a true thing for me
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because my brother got in trouble while
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in high school fighting over a girl if
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you believe it okay and um he decided to
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go home and find a gun and take it back
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to school and of course gratefully he
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they stopped him uh my mother they were
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separated from my father so we couldn’t
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afford an attorney at the time so she
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said son I can’t help you you need to go
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to court by yourself take you take your
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brother with you I was I was a younger
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brother okay uh we got the court I saw
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the attorneys up you know up at the
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bench arguing for you know the case
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whatever so they called my brother’s
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name I stepped up with him and I said
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you hna I moved to dismiss this
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case the judge looked down over his over
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the over the bench at me and said are
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you a lawyer I said no sir but I’m going
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to be that judge dismissed the case for
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me and from that day on I was kind of
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known as The Family Guy that would can
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answer questions a whole bit now not
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yours but I realize that the reason I
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became a lawyer is that I love helping
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people even if they’re in trouble or
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even if there’s something to do do when
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people come into my office they always
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come in with a little bit of a burden
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that’s why they come into a law office
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there’s a little bit of a burden there
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and you can kind of see that effect on
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them when they come in and my joy is
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when they leave my office it’s gone you
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know at least they seem lighter they
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seem more educated about it and that to
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me it makes me feel real good at the end
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of the day that perhaps they said
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something or did something or gave them
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an insight to something that really
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helped them and that that idea of
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helping someone really turns me on