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[Dianna speaking]
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[Gilbert speaking]
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[Dianna speaking]
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I feel like that we were like
a, you know, regular,
normal family.
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-[Erica speaking]
-[Dianna speaking]
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-[Erica speaking]
-[Dianna speaking]
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We were very close,
and there was always laughter.
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[Gilbert speaking]
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My dad was always
the life of the party.
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-[Erica speaking]
-[Gilbert speaking]
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-[Erica speaking]
-[Gilbert speaking]
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I really didn't see
any problems ahead.
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I didn't...
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[Evansville 911
operator speaking]
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[Erica speaking]
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At that point, I knew
something had happened.
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[Erica speaking]
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[Evansville 911
operator speaking]
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I was deceived.
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The person that you think
is nice and well-meaning
can be so evil.
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That was a lesson
I learned from this.
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[music playing]
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[narrator]
It's New Year's Day, 1986,
in Evansville, Indiana...
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[baby crying]
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[narrator] ...Charlie
and Florence Dossett
host their family
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for a late
Christmas celebration.
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Their 39-year-old son,
Gilbert, and his wife,
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37-year-old Dianna,
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drove the two hours
from Cadiz, Kentucky,
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to join in the festivities.
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[woman speaking]
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[narrator] Gilbert
and Dianna's daughters,
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14-year-old Erica,
and 11-year-old Mendy,
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made the trip
with their parents.
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Oh!
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[Erica] New Year's Eve was
always a big deal at Grandm
and Grandpa Dossett's house
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So, we would have
a very simple Christmas
at home.
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And then, we would
head down to Evansville
and spend time with them.
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-[man 1 speaking]
-[man 2 speaking]
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All of our families
were very close.
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[grandma speaking]
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We always just enjoyed
that time together.
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They always took
a little extra attention to us
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since we did live far away.
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[Dianna]
We always got together
with his family,
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sharing gifts and memories.
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And it was just a,
just a fun, wonderful time.
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[Erica] Oh, and the best tim
grandma was handing out
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the envelopes
to the grandkids.
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That always means money.
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[grandma speaking]
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Dad has his hand out.
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-[grandma speaking]
-[Gilbert laughing]
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It really didn't matter to h
if he received a gift or not
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but he always liked
to razz people
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and, you know, joke around
and... and have a good time
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[Gilbert speaking]
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He was a hoot.
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[music]
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[narrator] Gil and Dianna
own a bait store
on the shore of Lake Barkley
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[Dianna] It was a different
kind of life, but it was
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the most beautiful place
I've ever been.
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We rented boats and we had
people who came and camped.
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That was our life
for like 13 years.
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[Erica] It was an adventure
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We didn't know
what we were getting into
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with having a store
and, you know,
it was exciting.
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We liked the idea of
doing something together
as a family.
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[Gilbert speaking]
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[Erica] My dad
just really enjoyed
being out on the water.
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He just loved everything
about fishing.
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I never could catch a fish,
but every time Gil would
bait my hook
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we would catch a fish,
so I think it's something
to do with chemistry.
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[Dianna chuckles]
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[woman speaking]
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[narrator]
The Dossett family spends
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the final hours of
New Year's Day, 1986,
playing games.
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Playing games was
definitely something
that we did as a family.
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[woman speaking]
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[man speaking]
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[man laughing]
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[woman speaking]
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Yeah! Yeah!
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Scattergories was
a lot of fun,
very competitive.
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Of course, there was
making up of words
that didn't really fit.
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[woman speaking]
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[all laughing]
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[Dianna] Gilbert, well,
he was hot-blooded.
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He was always
hot and sweating.
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And yeah, that's the way
he dressed in the wintertime
or the summer.
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-[man speaking]
-[man speaking]
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-[woman speaking]
-[woman speaking]
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[man speaking]
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[woman speaking]
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[Dianna] When Gil won any
game, he would just rub
it in and was just awful.
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[laughing]
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So that's why
we'd try to beat him
every chance we got.
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[narrator] Dianna and Gilber
met in Evansville in 1969.
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[Dianna] I used to work
at a restaurant with
his mother, Florence.
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She was going to go
to a Christmas party
at Nativity Church.
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She said she was gonna
send her son over
to pick me up.
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And I thought, well,
she didn't tell me that.
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But anyway,
he came over and he was
a perfect gentleman,
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dressed very nice,
and he was very handsome.
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So we have a few drinks
and we dance
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and dance and dance
and kind of hit it off.
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And then he said,
"Would you like to go out?"
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He and I were only dating
for four months,
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which is not very long.
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And he says,
"Can I put my claims on you?
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And he brought out
the little box
with the ring in it.
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And I said, "Yes."
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[narrator] Dianna and Gil
married on May 9, 1970.
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[man speaking]
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Erica was born in 1971,
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and Mendy was born
2.5 years later,
on January 14, 1974.
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[Dianna speaking]
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[laughing]
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This is a hilarious moment,
I think at my 40th birthday.
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He always gave me nice gifts.
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[Erica speaking]
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Here, he gave me
a box of candy,
and he's so sweet.
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[Gilbert speaking]
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And a sweet kiss.
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-[Gilbert speaking]
-[Dianna speaking]
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[laughing]
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It still makes me smile
when I see it.
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Mmm, good old days.
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[Dianna speaking]
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[Erica]
Dad was never on a diet.
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He ate whatever
he wanted when he wanted.
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[Dianna speaking]
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-[Erica speaking]
-[Gilbert speaking]
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[Erica speaking]
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[narrator]
Fast forward to 1990,
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the family celebrates
Gil's 44th birthday
with a lakeside cookout.
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[Erica speaking]
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[man speaking]
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[Dianna] I would let the
campers know we're gonna
celebrate Gil's birthday.
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So we had a big fish fry
and a gathering
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and there was cake
and presents
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and we just really had
a good birthday party.
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[man singing]
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[all singing]
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[Gilbert speaking]
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[man speaking]
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[Gilbert speaking]
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[Erica] Dad loved being
the center of attention.
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It's just so funny to me
how he's making wisecracks,
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and people enjoyed it too.
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[woman speaking]
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The campers were all having
a good time, cutting up
and carrying on,
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just happy to be part of
his special day.
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[Gilbert speaking]
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[Dianna] We did a lot of
things and... and shared
a lot of fun together.
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[laughing]
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He was just a good
person to be around.
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-[Gilbert speaking]
-[woman speaking]
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[Dianna]
And so it was a good life.
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What happened after that?
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There's just good memories
and broken hearts.
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[Gilbert speaking]
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Christmas of 1990,
we were still at the lake.
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-[woman speaking]
-[Gilbert speaking]
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This was the best Christmas
I ever had.
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Our family was there.
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The girls were there.
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[Dianna speaking]
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We got dad a gift
for his Christmas present.
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[Gilbert speaking]
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[Dianna laughing]
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He loved it 'cause, you know,
he loved fishing
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more than anything.
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[Erica] Thank Mendy, Dad.
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[Gilbert speaking]
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He's always funny
when he opens gifts.
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He always has something cute
or funny to say.
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He was cute and funny.
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[laughing]
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[narrator] But the best
present of all is yet to com
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[Erica speaking]
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[narrator]
Eighteen-year-old Erica
is three months' pregnant.
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[Erica] We were very excite
to be having a baby.
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Mom and Dad were excited
to become grandparents.
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They thought I made them
grandparents too young.
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Of course,
they weren't really ready,
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but they were excited about
his arrival.
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[Dianna speaking]
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[Erica] I was
nine months' pregnant.
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[Dianna speaking]
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And I get a phone call
that my dad had been
in an accident.
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[Dianna] It was on a Monday
and there was no traffic
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or boats or anything
out on the lake.
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And Gil was taking
the boat out.
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And he let go
of the steering wheel
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and the boat threw him out.
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[water gurgling]
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Then, he slid
to the rear of the boat,
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where the motor was
and the motor got tangled
in between his legs.
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And it just so happened
that our milkman,
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he goes to investigate
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and there he sees Gil
in the water floating.
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He was able to
pull Gil into his boat,
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and he said he'd never seen
anything like it.
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Not since the war.
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[Erica] Dad broke
his leg in 13 places
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and he had lost a lot of
blood and a lot of skin.
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So they were having him
life-flighted.
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I had my delivery induced,
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so that I could get
to be with him
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because we really didn't think
he was gonna make it.
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So when we were able to be
discharged from the hospital,
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we went directly to
Vanderbilt Hospital
from Fort Leonard Wood,
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and his eyes lit up.
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Dad told me when he was
in the water
waiting to be rescued,
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he just said, "God,
let me see my grandson.
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That's all I ask for is
let me see my grandson."
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He was so excited
to see his grandson
for the first time
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and they just laid there
in the bed together.
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He enjoyed holding on
to him and being close to hi
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Alex and my dad really bonded,
so it was very special,
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special time during a tragedy.
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[Dianna speaking]
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[Gilbert speaking]
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[Dianna speaking]
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[narrator] Gil's injuries
respond well to treatment,
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but it's almost three month
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before he's walking
around at home.
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[Dianna]
Alex called Gil his pappa.
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Yeah, he thought his
pappa hung the moon.
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Gil was crazy about
the little thing.
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[Erica] It was very special
as a mother
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and as a daughter
to see that bond
that they had together.
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I honestly believe that
if Alex had not arrived,
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that my dad wouldn't be alive.
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[engine revving]
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[Erica speaking]
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[Dianna]
I think that the pain
that he had to endure,
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you know,
that always affects people.
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And if you're in
a lot of pain, you just
don't feel like talking.
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[Dianna speaking]
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[Gilbert speaking]
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I think he was changing,
of course, I probably was too.
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I think the stress, it
took its toll on both of us
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trying to keep
the store going
and him needing
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all the medical attention
that he needed.
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It was just a very,
very difficult time.
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[Gilbert speaking]
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[Dianna speaking]
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So we ended up selling the
store because we couldn't...
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we just couldn't keep up,
we couldn't keep it going.
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We just kind of separated.
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We kept trying to work it ou
but not really.
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We know that it was...
it was coming to a close.
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And so, yeah, it was in '93
that we got our divorce.
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[Erica] So after the divorce
he moved to Evansville.
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He wanted to be close
to all of us.
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I think it was very difficul
for him to sell the store
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because that was
so much of his identity
and who he was as a person.
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And to walk away from that,
I think it was nice to be
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able to fall back on family
and to know that the family
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still was there for him,
still loved him,
and still wanted to be aroun
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He got a job
as a taxi cab driver.
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He didn't have to be on
his feet all day
with the injury to his leg.
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It was his way of connectin
with people,
making his riders laugh.
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He really enjoyed that job.
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[Gilbert speaking]
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[Dianna speaking]
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[Erica] We all knew
that he changed.
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He wasn't that same
super-outgoing, super-happy
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super-engaged person
that he was,
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but he was making
the best of what he had.
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No one could see
what was going to happen.
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[narrator] In 2001,
Gilbert Dossett meets
Brenda Moore.
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Brenda is 34 years old
to Gilbert's 55.
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[Erica] She was also
a cab driver for
River City Taxi.
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And so that is where they me
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I think it was pretty instan
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Them being together
made him feel needed.
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She had
two very young children
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and so they started dating
pretty quickly
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and they moved in together
pretty quickly as well.
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I thought she was nice.
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Gil has met this
wonderful person,
and I was happy for him.
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I said, well, things must be
going pretty good.
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I mean, she brought food
and she sat around
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and talked with everybody
that was at the house.
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[Erica] My dad doted on her
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So, you know, I thought
if she's special to my dad,
then she must be special.
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And if he was happy,
that's all that mattered
to me.
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[Dianna] I found out that
both of her husbands,
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which were older,
like Gil, died.
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[narrator]
One of Brenda's husbands
died from cancer.
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The other died unexpectedly
at just 39.
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Brenda raises her
two young children alone.
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Her daughter,
Nikki and son, Nicholas.
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Dad spent a lot of time
playing with them
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and being a father figure
to the kids,
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especially since
they did not have
fathers in their lives.
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[narrator] Gilbert and Brend
date for almost two years.
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They marry in 2002.
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[Charles] I thought to mysel
"Oh, my God,
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why did you get married
to Brenda?"
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I mean, "You could have
just lived with her."
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00:19:52,225 --> 00:19:56,561
But evidently, he loved her
enough to get married to her.
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[Erica] I thought
it was kind of quick.
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But she did love my dad
and it seemed to me like
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she was taking care of him,
which was important to me.
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[narrator] Erica and Dianna
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slowly adapt to Gil
being increasingly absent
in their lives.
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Christmas, that was
one of my favorite holidays
with the family.
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But it... it definitely was
not the same without my dad.
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You know, we didn't see them
as much as
we would have liked.
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Dad would work all day
and then have to come home
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and, you know, tend to
the children and, you know,
tend to his new bride.
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And so there wasn't a lot of
extra time to spend time
with the grandkids.
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He spent his time
with that family.
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And so I think
it was kind of hurtful.
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[Gilbert speaking]
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But I understood
he, he had a commitment
to his new family,
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and I understood that
that's what he needed to do.
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[narrator] Six years later,
Brenda falls ill.
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She was diagnosed
with cancer.
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[Erica]
They spent a lot of time
in and out of doctors
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making sure she got
the treatment
that was best suited for he
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to give her
the best quality of life.
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He was there by her side,
but you got to have income
to live on.
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[Erica]
Dad was able to get a job
with a manufacturing company
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He worked 10, 12 hours a day
sometimes 6 days a week.
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But it was able
to give the benefits
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that Brenda needed
for her care.
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[Rhonda]
When Gil got hired on,
he was an excellent worker.
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His wife was sick.
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And he wanted to make sure
he took care of her
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and he would work every bit of
overtime that he could.
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[Erica] It was hard on him.
337
00:22:17,303 --> 00:22:18,803
[Gilbert speaking]
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00:22:20,306 --> 00:22:23,107
[Erica] It was excruciating
pain for him
339
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with the injury to his leg
as well as
it just wore him out.
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He wasn't a young man anymore.
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[Rhonda]
You try to tell him,
you know,
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00:22:32,819 --> 00:22:35,353
"Hey, Gil, you don't have
to volunteer for overtime."
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"Oh, yeah, I do. I do."
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He had to take care of
his family first.
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[all]
♪ Happy birthday, dear Mendy ♪
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[all singing]
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Whoo!
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[Erica] We planned
a surprise party
for my sister's 40th birthda
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Gil and Brenda were there,
and they were sitting in
a booth by themselves.
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[Erica] It was
a happy occasion, so
everybody was just,
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you know, happy to be there
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We didn't realize that was
going to be
the last family function
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that he was going to be
a part of.
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[narrator] Three months late
Brenda's 18-year-old daughte
Nikki,
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meets 19-year-old
Mason Hughes online.
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Mason lives 100 miles away
in Paoli.
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[Erica] Brenda was
taking Nikki to Paoli
to spend time with him,
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and then she was also
picking him up
and bringing him
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back to their house
to spend time together.
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00:23:47,994 --> 00:23:51,328
Dad had called me
a couple times
and he was like,
361
00:23:51,330 --> 00:23:53,631
"Brenda's letting him drive
the car.
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00:23:53,633 --> 00:23:54,932
He's wanting to stay
the night.
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00:23:55,034 --> 00:23:57,501
And I don't know
how to tell him not to."
364
00:23:59,505 --> 00:24:04,508
But the thing that really
did it for him is Brenda said,
she didn't ask,
365
00:24:04,643 --> 00:24:07,945
she said "Mason's moving in."
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00:24:07,980 --> 00:24:13,717
And my dad said, "Well, no,
where is he going to stay?"
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00:24:13,719 --> 00:24:15,619
Brenda said "In Nikki's room
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00:24:15,621 --> 00:24:18,722
"Now, remember,
she's still in high school.
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00:24:18,724 --> 00:24:22,560
So my dad said,
"Absolutely not,
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00:24:22,661 --> 00:24:25,529
and that's not acceptable
and that's not happening."
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00:24:25,531 --> 00:24:29,033
And Brenda was adamant
that it was going to happen
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So they got
into a really big fight.
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And then Dad just
called and said,
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"Hey, we... we have decided
to go our own ways.
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Brenda has moved out.
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00:24:42,648 --> 00:24:46,450
I'm sure we're gonna be
filing for divorce soon."
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00:24:46,552 --> 00:24:49,453
The last I heard,
Brenda and the kids were
staying in a motel,
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00:24:51,657 --> 00:24:53,057
but I... I don't know where.
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[Rhonda]
We started at 6:30 a.m.
in the mornings
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and he would get out of there
about 5:30 p.m. that evening.
381
00:25:08,140 --> 00:25:12,710
But that day Gil had
a headache and he said,
382
00:25:12,712 --> 00:25:16,413
"I think I just need
to lay down
and get rid of this headache."
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00:25:16,415 --> 00:25:18,215
Okay,
he'd see us all tomorrow.
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00:25:19,852 --> 00:25:22,920
Well, you didn't think
too much about that because
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00:25:22,922 --> 00:25:25,823
you know, okay,
your friend's there
and they've got a headache.
386
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:32,329
But the next day,
he didn't show up.
387
00:25:35,134 --> 00:25:39,803
Mendy called me and she said,
"Mama, something's not right.
388
00:25:42,942 --> 00:25:46,043
Brenda wants me to go
over there
and check on Dad.
389
00:25:46,078 --> 00:25:48,012
She hadn't seen Dad
in two days."
390
00:25:51,651 --> 00:25:55,819
So she called me and she said,
"We need to go check on Dad."
391
00:25:57,623 --> 00:26:03,460
I was not feeling good about
none of it, and I was scared.
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00:26:12,338 --> 00:26:14,605
[phone ringing]
393
00:26:14,607 --> 00:26:17,441
[Evansville
911 operator speaking]
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00:26:17,543 --> 00:26:22,413
[Erica speaking]
395
00:26:25,751 --> 00:26:29,653
[Erica]
We knocked on the door.
He didn't come to the door.
396
00:26:31,057 --> 00:26:37,061
So I walked around
to the back door,
wasn't closed all the way.
397
00:26:37,063 --> 00:26:39,830
I was very concerned.
398
00:26:39,832 --> 00:26:41,165
[Evansville 911
operator speaking]
399
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:43,233
[Erica speaking]
400
00:26:43,335 --> 00:26:45,302
[Evansville 911
operator speaking]
401
00:26:45,404 --> 00:26:48,706
[Erica speaking]
402
00:26:51,811 --> 00:26:53,410
[Evansville 911
operator speaking]
403
00:26:53,412 --> 00:26:57,748
I definitely knew that
when Sean came downstairs,
it was not good news.
404
00:26:57,850 --> 00:27:01,719
And I could just tell
by the way that he was acting.
405
00:27:01,721 --> 00:27:02,920
[Erica speaking]
406
00:27:02,922 --> 00:27:04,121
[Evansville 911
operator speaking]
407
00:27:04,123 --> 00:27:05,756
-[Erica speaking]
-[Sean speaking]
408
00:27:05,858 --> 00:27:08,058
[Evansville 911
operator speaking]
409
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,327
[Erica speaking]
410
00:27:15,401 --> 00:27:16,600
[Sean speaking]
411
00:27:16,602 --> 00:27:18,402
-[Evansville 911
operator speaking]
-[Sean speaking]
412
00:27:20,106 --> 00:27:22,606
[Evansville 911
operator speaking]
413
00:27:22,608 --> 00:27:28,045
My sister and I went outside
and I was hysterical
at this point.
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00:27:31,717 --> 00:27:33,317
[Keith]
Myself and a couple of
other detectives,
415
00:27:33,319 --> 00:27:36,253
we arrive on scene
a few minutes after the call
416
00:27:36,322 --> 00:27:38,288
[sirens wailing]
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00:27:38,290 --> 00:27:41,325
I entered the house
and I immediately noticed that
418
00:27:41,327 --> 00:27:45,029
there was furniture
turned over, moved, disturbed.
419
00:27:45,031 --> 00:27:50,634
There might have been somebody
in this house searching,
stealing, whatever.
420
00:27:50,636 --> 00:27:53,504
Obviously looking for
something.
421
00:27:53,506 --> 00:27:56,607
I noticed there were
some small blood spots
on the floor.
422
00:27:58,611 --> 00:28:04,415
I proceeded up the steps to
the bedroom and I observed
Mr. Dossett on his bed.
423
00:28:06,285 --> 00:28:09,319
I could tell that
he was deceased.
424
00:28:09,321 --> 00:28:14,224
I also observed what I thought
was a gunshot wound
to Mr. Dossett's head.
425
00:28:15,561 --> 00:28:19,329
So it appeared that... that
he had been shot
while he was asleep.
426
00:28:22,902 --> 00:28:26,403
Talking to
Gilbert's biological kids,
427
00:28:26,405 --> 00:28:29,039
they had said, "Hey,
Gilbert's got a wife
428
00:28:29,041 --> 00:28:30,207
that's estranged.
429
00:28:31,410 --> 00:28:34,311
She's out of the house
with her kids."
430
00:28:34,313 --> 00:28:36,213
I made a phone call.
431
00:28:36,215 --> 00:28:38,749
I said, "Brenda,
your husband's deceased.
432
00:28:38,818 --> 00:28:40,117
I need to talk to you."
433
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:43,821
[sirens wailing]
434
00:28:46,058 --> 00:28:49,426
We went out to the apartmen
where Brenda
and the kids were staying.
435
00:28:51,897 --> 00:28:56,433
I knocked on the door,
and Brenda was right there,
and she was crying.
436
00:28:56,535 --> 00:29:00,304
She was visibly upset,
437
00:29:00,306 --> 00:29:02,339
which would be
a normal reaction
438
00:29:02,408 --> 00:29:05,042
for a spouse,
to lose a spouse.
439
00:29:07,413 --> 00:29:09,446
I asked Brenda
to come to the station.
440
00:29:09,515 --> 00:29:11,749
She willingly agreed to come
441
00:29:14,420 --> 00:29:18,956
[Keith speaking]
442
00:29:25,865 --> 00:29:30,100
During the interview process,
Brenda said that it had been
a couple of weeks
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00:29:30,102 --> 00:29:33,403
since she had actually seen
Mr. Dossett,
444
00:29:33,405 --> 00:29:36,240
but she did put herself
at the house.
445
00:29:36,308 --> 00:29:39,743
She told me that she had moved
some stuff out of the garage.
446
00:29:39,812 --> 00:29:45,749
[Brenda speaking]
447
00:29:45,818 --> 00:29:47,251
[Keith speaking]
448
00:29:47,352 --> 00:29:49,753
[Brenda speaking]
449
00:29:49,822 --> 00:29:52,589
[Keith] Brenda brings up
a name that... that
I had... didn't know
450
00:29:52,591 --> 00:29:55,325
at that time,
and that's Mason Hughes.
451
00:29:55,327 --> 00:29:58,629
She said that Mason
was... was her
daughter's boyfriend.
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00:29:58,631 --> 00:30:02,232
[Keith speaking]
453
00:30:03,602 --> 00:30:07,037
[Brenda speaking]
454
00:30:14,446 --> 00:30:19,249
[Keith speaking]
455
00:30:19,318 --> 00:30:24,321
[Brenda speaking]
456
00:30:24,323 --> 00:30:28,725
[Keith speaking]
457
00:30:30,763 --> 00:30:33,864
[Brenda speaking]
458
00:30:38,003 --> 00:30:40,537
[Keith speaking]
459
00:30:40,639 --> 00:30:44,741
[Brenda speaking]
460
00:30:48,714 --> 00:30:51,114
[Keith] She's talking
and she's giving us a timeli
461
00:30:51,116 --> 00:30:53,450
and she's giving us
information.
462
00:30:53,552 --> 00:30:55,819
All the while,
we're picking up
everybody she's bringing in.
463
00:31:00,626 --> 00:31:01,959
We pick up Mason Hughes.
464
00:31:04,330 --> 00:31:06,230
We pick up her daughter,
Nikki Moore,
465
00:31:07,499 --> 00:31:10,200
and we pick up her
juvenile son, Nicholas.
466
00:31:12,004 --> 00:31:15,038
Also, grabbing the car that
they said they were driving
467
00:31:16,942 --> 00:31:20,244
And we get them all on station
and she doesn't know this.
468
00:31:23,415 --> 00:31:25,549
[Keith speaking]
469
00:31:25,618 --> 00:31:26,783
[Brenda speaking]
470
00:31:26,785 --> 00:31:30,254
I finished interviewing Brenda
471
00:31:30,322 --> 00:31:32,823
and put her with Nicholas
for the second interview.
472
00:31:34,026 --> 00:31:39,029
When I step out,
Brenda and Nicholas
473
00:31:39,031 --> 00:31:41,131
get real close together
and they start whispering.
474
00:31:42,234 --> 00:31:44,635
[Brenda speaking]
475
00:31:49,708 --> 00:31:52,142
Detectives hear this
on the monitors.
476
00:31:52,211 --> 00:31:55,812
Even though she's whispering,
but we hear it.
477
00:31:55,814 --> 00:31:58,882
[Brenda speaking]
478
00:31:58,884 --> 00:32:00,851
[Nicholas speaking]
479
00:32:02,855 --> 00:32:08,225
[Keith] Well, then I knew,
and everybody in, in
the detective office knew
480
00:32:08,227 --> 00:32:09,726
we're heading
in the right direction here.
481
00:32:11,230 --> 00:32:13,964
[Keith speaking]
482
00:32:14,066 --> 00:32:18,902
Then we sort of abandoned he
and left her with Nicholas,
483
00:32:18,904 --> 00:32:20,304
so they could just talk.
484
00:32:20,306 --> 00:32:22,906
And while detectives are
watching there,
485
00:32:22,908 --> 00:32:27,311
we start with Nikki
as the next interview.
486
00:32:27,313 --> 00:32:30,614
[Keith speaking]
487
00:32:35,054 --> 00:32:38,722
[Nikki speaking]
488
00:32:38,724 --> 00:32:42,426
[Keith speaking]
489
00:32:42,428 --> 00:32:48,231
[Nikki speaking]
490
00:32:49,702 --> 00:32:52,436
-[Keith speaking]
-[Nikki speaking]
491
00:32:52,504 --> 00:32:54,137
There's no way
she could have known that.
492
00:32:55,407 --> 00:32:57,941
[Keith]
I hadn't told anybody that.
493
00:32:58,010 --> 00:32:59,810
Nobody had.
494
00:32:59,812 --> 00:33:02,412
So that completely changed
the direction
495
00:33:02,414 --> 00:33:05,816
by her making that statement
about Gilbert being shot
in the head.
496
00:33:07,052 --> 00:33:09,753
And then
we start pressuring her
497
00:33:09,821 --> 00:33:12,322
and we start hitting her
with questions.
498
00:33:12,324 --> 00:33:14,624
[Detective Mayhew speaking]
499
00:33:14,626 --> 00:33:16,059
[Nikki speaking]
500
00:33:16,061 --> 00:33:17,527
[Detective Mayhew speaking]
501
00:33:17,529 --> 00:33:18,729
[Nikki speaking]
502
00:33:18,731 --> 00:33:22,399
[Detective Mayhew speaking]
503
00:33:22,401 --> 00:33:24,101
[Nikki speaking]
504
00:33:24,103 --> 00:33:27,104
-[Detective Mayhew speaking]
-[Nikki speaking]
505
00:33:27,106 --> 00:33:29,606
She's a soft person.
506
00:33:29,608 --> 00:33:32,442
She's not streetwise.
She's not hard.
507
00:33:32,544 --> 00:33:33,643
[Keith speaking]
508
00:33:38,584 --> 00:33:41,218
[Nikki speaking]
509
00:33:41,220 --> 00:33:43,520
[Keith speaking]
510
00:33:43,522 --> 00:33:45,689
[Nikki speaking]
511
00:33:45,691 --> 00:33:48,458
[Keith speaking]
512
00:33:57,436 --> 00:34:03,006
[Keith] I don't think
that Nikki had planned on
cooperating and talking,
513
00:34:03,008 --> 00:34:05,409
but she made
a couple... couple statements
514
00:34:05,411 --> 00:34:07,844
that implicated her
that she did know.
515
00:34:09,214 --> 00:34:12,649
[Keith speaking]
516
00:34:15,454 --> 00:34:16,720
[Nikki speaking]
517
00:34:18,457 --> 00:34:21,024
She said her boyfriend,
Mason, shot Gilbert.
518
00:34:24,530 --> 00:34:28,532
[Keith speaking]
519
00:34:37,509 --> 00:34:41,745
I was trying to get Mason
to collaborate
what that story was
520
00:34:41,814 --> 00:34:46,650
and... and ultimately try
to get him to admit to
what had happened.
521
00:34:46,718 --> 00:34:51,054
[Detective Mayhew speaking]
522
00:34:51,056 --> 00:34:52,956
[Keith] Mason's tough.
523
00:34:52,958 --> 00:34:56,526
He's young,
but he's sort of street toug
524
00:34:56,528 --> 00:34:58,595
He's very gullible, though.
525
00:34:58,597 --> 00:35:00,730
I don't think he'd had
much life experience
526
00:35:00,732 --> 00:35:04,701
other than just being probably
an adolescent teenager.
527
00:35:06,605 --> 00:35:09,206
He's visibly shaking
in his chair.
528
00:35:10,242 --> 00:35:15,045
He was spooked about
what we were asking him.
529
00:35:15,147 --> 00:35:20,750
[Keith speaking]
530
00:35:26,158 --> 00:35:31,228
[Mason speaking]
531
00:35:31,230 --> 00:35:34,731
[Keith speaking]
532
00:35:34,733 --> 00:35:38,735
[Mason speaking]
533
00:35:38,804 --> 00:35:40,804
[Keith speaking]
534
00:35:40,806 --> 00:35:42,439
[Keith] He was
digging himself in a hole
535
00:35:42,541 --> 00:35:45,609
that he wasn't going to
get out very easily.
536
00:35:45,611 --> 00:35:50,747
So Mason starts putting
the blame a little bit
on Brenda.
537
00:35:52,117 --> 00:35:56,720
[Mason speaking]
538
00:36:00,826 --> 00:36:03,160
[Keith speaking]
539
00:36:03,228 --> 00:36:04,961
[Mason speaking]
540
00:36:04,963 --> 00:36:07,230
[Keith] And that was
a big piece of evidence.
541
00:36:07,232 --> 00:36:09,199
He puts himself there
at the scene.
542
00:36:09,201 --> 00:36:15,105
[Keith speaking]
543
00:36:15,107 --> 00:36:16,806
[Mason speaking]
544
00:36:16,808 --> 00:36:21,611
Mason is fighting off
the questions about
we know what happened,
545
00:36:21,613 --> 00:36:24,514
and then Mayhew comes up
with a great idea.
546
00:36:24,516 --> 00:36:26,216
[Keith speaking]
547
00:36:29,221 --> 00:36:33,557
[Keith] We go grab
Nikki and put her back
in the interview room.
548
00:36:35,827 --> 00:36:38,728
I'm with Mason
and Mayhew's with Nikki.
549
00:36:45,604 --> 00:36:49,139
Mayhew is talking to Nikki.
550
00:36:49,241 --> 00:36:51,841
[Detective Mayhew speaking]
551
00:36:55,314 --> 00:36:58,615
[Keith] I've got Mason
and we're watching
the monitor.
552
00:36:58,617 --> 00:37:01,218
[Detective Mayhew speaking]
553
00:37:03,522 --> 00:37:04,621
[Nikki speaking]
554
00:37:06,858 --> 00:37:08,858
[Detective Mayhew speaking]
555
00:37:08,927 --> 00:37:11,728
[Keith] Mason knows
at that time that we know.
556
00:37:13,232 --> 00:37:15,999
And then I put him back
into the interview room.
557
00:37:16,001 --> 00:37:17,133
[Detective Mayhew speaking]
558
00:37:18,303 --> 00:37:19,502
[Mason speaking]
559
00:37:19,504 --> 00:37:20,604
[Detective Mayhew speaking]
560
00:37:20,606 --> 00:37:22,806
[Mason speaking]
561
00:37:22,808 --> 00:37:24,541
[Detective Mayhew speaking]
562
00:37:24,643 --> 00:37:26,643
[Mason speaking]
563
00:37:29,748 --> 00:37:32,048
[Detective Mayhew speaking]
564
00:37:32,050 --> 00:37:34,918
He's still denying it.
565
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:40,724
And I reach over, and I had
a hand-held recorder
566
00:37:40,726 --> 00:37:43,159
and I said,
"How about I turn this off?
567
00:37:43,228 --> 00:37:44,728
And we just start over?
568
00:37:45,831 --> 00:37:49,699
I think that was the trigger
that Mason said, "Okay,
569
00:37:49,701 --> 00:37:52,736
it's time for me
to... to tell the story."
570
00:37:52,804 --> 00:37:54,804
And he tells the story.
571
00:37:54,806 --> 00:37:59,409
[Mason speaking]
572
00:37:59,411 --> 00:38:01,144
[Detective Mayhew speaking]
573
00:38:01,213 --> 00:38:02,245
[Mason speaking]
574
00:38:02,314 --> 00:38:05,415
[Detective Mayhew speaking]
575
00:38:05,417 --> 00:38:06,950
[Mason speaking]
576
00:38:07,052 --> 00:38:11,755
[Detective Mayhew speaking]
577
00:38:11,856 --> 00:38:13,690
[Mason speaking]
578
00:38:17,062 --> 00:38:22,532
[Keith] He says that him
and Brenda drove from the
apartment on the west side,
579
00:38:22,601 --> 00:38:24,934
drove down to Gilbert's hous
580
00:38:24,936 --> 00:38:26,636
They knew that
Gilbert would be in bed.
581
00:38:29,408 --> 00:38:31,207
Brenda had a key.
582
00:38:31,209 --> 00:38:32,975
She unlocks the back door.
583
00:38:34,713 --> 00:38:37,614
They move some furniture
to stage it, make it
look like it's a robbery.
584
00:38:39,518 --> 00:38:42,619
[Mason speaking]
585
00:38:45,057 --> 00:38:47,824
[Keith] Mason says he goes u
to the bedroom.
586
00:38:51,196 --> 00:38:52,862
[Mason speaking]
587
00:38:59,104 --> 00:39:04,341
So Mason put... put a shotgun
to his head
and pulled the trigger.
588
00:39:08,814 --> 00:39:11,114
He told me that Brenda
was standing on the steps
589
00:39:11,116 --> 00:39:15,218
outside the bedroom door
when he shot Gilbert.
590
00:39:17,222 --> 00:39:21,825
Mason tells us that Brenda
is going to buy him a vehicle
591
00:39:21,827 --> 00:39:24,160
off the insurance settlemen
592
00:39:24,229 --> 00:39:25,762
of Gilbert's
life insurance policy.
593
00:39:27,632 --> 00:39:31,134
That's why she wanted
Gilbert dead, for insurance.
594
00:39:32,504 --> 00:39:36,039
[Erica]
The life insurance money
was only $48,000 in total.
595
00:39:37,609 --> 00:39:40,410
No one's life is worth
$48,000.
596
00:39:42,914 --> 00:39:47,617
[Keith] She believed that
she was the beneficiary
of this policy,
597
00:39:47,619 --> 00:39:50,019
when in fact she wasn't.
598
00:39:50,021 --> 00:39:52,122
[Keith speaking]
599
00:39:52,124 --> 00:39:54,557
[Mason speaking]
600
00:39:54,659 --> 00:39:59,329
[Keith speaking]
601
00:39:59,331 --> 00:40:02,031
[Mason speaking]
602
00:40:02,033 --> 00:40:03,433
[Keith speaking]
603
00:40:03,502 --> 00:40:06,603
One of the biggest pieces o
evidence in this case
604
00:40:06,605 --> 00:40:09,439
was finding the murder weapon
in Brenda's trunk of her car.
605
00:40:11,610 --> 00:40:16,112
And the murder weapon was
exactly how Mason
said it would be.
606
00:40:16,114 --> 00:40:18,715
It would have one spent shel
in the chamber
607
00:40:18,717 --> 00:40:20,650
and one unspent shell
in the magazine.
608
00:40:24,556 --> 00:40:28,625
[detective speaking]
609
00:40:33,064 --> 00:40:37,033
[Keith] One of the best
feelings I've ever had was
looking straight at her
610
00:40:37,102 --> 00:40:39,335
and advising her
she's under arrest for murde
611
00:40:45,944 --> 00:40:50,146
Approximately six months aft
Gilbert Dossett was murdered
612
00:40:50,215 --> 00:40:53,716
Brenda Dossett
pled guilty in court.
613
00:40:56,121 --> 00:40:58,521
It saved the family from
having to go through a trial
614
00:41:00,225 --> 00:41:04,828
And on December 17, 2014,
Judge Pigman sentenced
615
00:41:04,830 --> 00:41:07,130
Brenda Dossett
to 60 years for murder.
616
00:41:10,101 --> 00:41:12,101
[Dianna] I think she deserve
the death penalty.
617
00:41:13,305 --> 00:41:16,239
She's a mother
and she still has her kids.
618
00:41:16,341 --> 00:41:17,807
And Gil's no longer here.
619
00:41:19,044 --> 00:41:20,410
There's no justice.
620
00:41:22,414 --> 00:41:25,515
[Keith] On April 24, 2015,
621
00:41:25,517 --> 00:41:30,620
Mason Hughes pleads guilty
to murder
and is sentenced to 60 years
622
00:41:33,525 --> 00:41:36,826
[narrator]
Police do not charge
Brenda's daughter, Nikki
623
00:41:36,828 --> 00:41:41,731
nor her son, Nicholas
with any crimes in relation
to Gil's murder.
624
00:41:44,836 --> 00:41:46,302
[Erica speaking]
625
00:41:46,304 --> 00:41:48,071
-[Gilbert speaking]
-[Erica speaking]
626
00:41:48,073 --> 00:41:49,405
[Gilbert speaking]
627
00:41:49,407 --> 00:41:51,941
[Erica] Dad was the glue
that held us all together.
628
00:41:55,313 --> 00:41:58,014
It makes me sad
to think about...
629
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:04,220
what he's missed
and what he will miss.
630
00:42:06,458 --> 00:42:08,191
[kissing]
631
00:42:08,193 --> 00:42:09,459
[Erica] Hey, Dad.
632
00:42:09,461 --> 00:42:12,462
-Give me this piece
right here.
-That's my favorite.
633
00:42:12,530 --> 00:42:15,899
But I also know he is here
for us and looking over us
634
00:42:15,901 --> 00:42:21,304
and... and still a part of
our world.
635
00:42:21,306 --> 00:42:22,906
[Erica] You and Pappa go
for a ride?
636
00:42:25,110 --> 00:42:26,609
He's missed so much.