Jared has much to do and little time to do it.

He intends to get the donation money back to anyone who wants it.

He intends to.

Get a lawyer to help him get out of his marriage with Christy, all the while he believes Christy may have his missing pistol.

But then another twist enters the story.

Jared's mother in law, Sheila, wants to confront her daughter to check if Christy indeed has a C section scar or if it's all a lot.

But Sheila wants a psychologist present.

Knowing her daughter's fractured state, Jared, kind hearted to a fault, agrees.

To meet a psychologist.

Long story short, We're in a car for it's a couple hours.

I'm sitting in a car with her.

I'm like, how did I get roped into this?

Still, the whole story, go through the whole nine yards, so every little detail, because she's kind of doing what we're doing and going through, hey, what happened here exactly?

And I'm giving her the whole entire kicking kaboodle.

There the psychologist who was originally on board to help confront and talk to Christy, who now knows Jared is missing a firearm, who now knows the entire truth of what Jared has endured at the hands of his wife, gives Jared the following advice.

She basically said, your wife's batshit crazy.

You need to run as fast as you fucking can and never look back.

Monday morning, go drain your bank accounts and go get a lawyer.

At the end of the day, the psychologist was like, I'm not going down there.

I'm going to get my car and leave without even talking to she to her husband.

The psychologist decided, after talking to Jared, going with Sheila to confront Christy was not going to be therapeutic.

In fact, it could have been flat out dangerous.

But how did she enter the picture in the first place.

Here's Jared, So Saturday night, I actually ended up going back to the rental house.

She's sitting on the couch watching some movies.

I'm only there maybe fifteen minutes.

I get to call from my father, Hey, come meet me up the bar up the road, maybe two miles.

Jared's dad, David, didn't tell him.

Why he wanted to meet because he was afraid if Jared had him on speakerphone that Christy would hear what he was about to say, which was that Sheila had told him that Christy had faked.

A miscarriage in the past.

Meanwhile, David had no idea that Jared already knew there were no children.

From what I can tell, David really.

Just wanted Sheila to go down to the house and check to see if Christy had had a C section.

That's what he wanted Sheila to do.

She had a sea section, she should be caught, she should still be in the hospital.

Sheila apparently wanted the psychologist to be with her when she confronted Christy, and Sheila asked David if Jared would be willing to meet with her first.

My father actually called me and said, Hey, your wife's mother and stepfather there with a psychologist.

They're going to go down and confront Christy about all the lies, check for a CEA section, and long story short ends up, this psychologist gets in my car and wants to talk to me before she goes down and sees Christy.

Yeah, and it was Hey, I'm sorry to hear what happened.

We just want to make sure she's okay.

I'm like, be careful going down there.

At this point I actually tell her, hey, I'm missing a firearm too, and through this entire episode, I haven't told anyone.

I'm it's in the back of my mind.

Hey, what happens if she has that gun?

She's already suicidal.

I'm worried about it, and I'm like, don't go down there unless you feel safe.

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The psychologist obviously didn't feel safe, and neither did Jared.

We tried to get an interview with this psychologist, who was initially responsive, but went radio silent after several attempts on our part to make a plan to meet.

Jared has now told someone all that he knew how he was feeling, and although initially he went home to the rental and spent fifteen minutes with Christy, he was now having second thoughts about staying the night with Christy.

He made an excuse to go to his parents.

Saturday was the first time I didn't stay with her.

I ended up telling her I'm sorry.

I was drinking and fell asleep on the couch, which was flat out lot.

I was not drinking.

I didn't sleep, but it was now his turn out of necessity to lie.

Of course, my mind's running a hundred mile an hour.

Hey, what's going to happen?

How do I keep this up?

How can I keep these lies without her finding out?

I mean that's just the pressure was kind of on.

So Sunday is kind of when things start going south with her.

I know, baby, it's going to be hard, but we're going to get through this.

I find a therapist that specializes in infant loss.

I will be going.

That's good, baby.

Are you coming home to stay tonight?

I don't think I can tonight.

I'm going to find someone to talk to and get an appointment.

Okay, I hope you can sleep.

I love you.

I love you too.

I told them not to worry about staying.

My brothers should be here soon.

Understand that you don't want to be around me, right now or won't do anything stupid.

I just need time to cry and hurt, and I can't let people here.

Give Ada a hook for me, good night.

Sunday ended up going helping my dad.

We were cleaning up the house, so I had to keep up.

Hey, I'm trying to get a house on here, still trying to work toward that.

Hey, here's what I'm doing.

I'm not gonna have my phone.

Jared's lies and his distance from Christy continues as he plodded through the weekend.

Monday couldn't come soon enough.

Jared, please answer my call.

Please answer your phone.

It's important.

AD is chasing deer in the woods.

Please answer, Jared.

She ran up over the hill and needs you to answer.

But Jared's distance only raised her suspicions further.

Doesn't seem like you care.

But we finally got her after thirty minutes.

Dropping hur at your parents, and then I'm leaving.

I have therapy and stuff later.

I hope you get whatever you need, because I'm highly upset now and pissed off because I just had to chase her and I thought I was going to lose her.

I been worried about your ass for the last twelve hours.

And at that point I stopped replying so often.

I did set my phone down every half hour so I check it, say one word.

Answers back like hey, I'm fine.

She's going on and on like hey, you need to pay attention to me.

I'm like, listen, I need my space.

Just like you have your way of coping.

This is mine.

I need a little bit of space.

And she kind of understood it, but you could tell there was like a something was nagging at her.

Jared has spent the bulk of two days away from his wife.

Her suspicions now an overdrive, and Monday has finally come.

Monday, the wheels fall off the wagon.

I mean, it just goes completely haywire because I know I have to make it to the lawyers.

I have to make it to the bank, and before she finds out what's.

Going on, Jared, please think about it.

We both lost our kids, not just you.

I mean, it's like a whole new person was born and she's losing her mind.

Here is where I find out.

She's driving around looking for me, She's calling my brothers and sisters.

She shows up at my parents' shop.

She's threatening to pack up everything, that she owns at this rental house.

She's going to let my dog out, and I didn't really know what was going to happen.

I'm getting phone calls out the wahoo.

I can't even talk to my lawyer on the phone by the time.

It's just beep, beep, beep, And you can't hear a conversation when you're getting a call like that.

And it was insane, and it was about to get worse.

We made several attempts to reach out to people in Christie's camp.

We wanted to see the story through the lens of someone who knew Christy intimately.

Was everything Jared told us the truth?

Were there things he missed?

No one from Christie's world was willing to talk to us until we found Jenny, a hairstylist who at the time was Christie's best friend.

So Christie's ex fiancee would come in with his son, and Christie would come in with them occasionally and get their hair cut.

And then one day she just appeared and came in and got her hair colored and cut, and she started crying and I asked her what was wrong, and she said that they were no longer together.

She said that they broke up and she was pregnant with his child, and I was like, oh, okay, and then I guess that's where our friendship began.

There was a time where she was having a miscarriage and I do remember going to her apartment because we lived apartments away from each other, all of the same building type thing.

Very weird, I know.

I remember going to her house after she said that she was getting the DNC and she I saw one.

I did see one, but I never she never showed me like any proof of ultrasounds or anything like that, just the one that she had put on Facebook.

Christy had posted a sonogram photograph of the baby she was expecting with her ex, but when Jenny went back to look for it on Facebook, it was gone.

Jenny was very candid about her initial impressions of CHRISTI can.

I cuss, You can cuss.

This bitch is crazy.

There were sometimes where I was like, what is happening?

What is going on?

Like it just seemed like she was go, go go, go, go, go go go go twenty four seven like twenty four seven.

It was good.

But it wasn't just Christie's excessive energy that struck Jenny.

She was warned not to be friends with Christy.

Yeah, there was.

I obviously did my Facebook's talking before I became friends, and there was people telling me don't be friends with her, and I ignored it because she didn't seem that way towards me.

Jenny and Christy had a fast friendship and Jenny genuinely loved Christy as a friend, but that didn't stop the warnings from coming in.

People telling Jenny that Christy's crazy and a liar, Like.

She's crazy, like she lies, she lies about like the like being pregnant, and I'm like there's no way, Like I saw an ultrasound and I'm like, now I'm thinking back when I asked to see that ultrasoung again, she wouldn't show me.

The person who was filling Jenny's head with reasons not to be friends with Christy was Christie's ex fiance's brother's girlfriend, that same ex fiance who was the reason that Christy and Jenny met.

The same ex fiance.

Christy said she was pregnant by when the two became friends.

A girl that dated her ex fiancees brother, so she knew the family pretty well and she was like no, like, don't at first, I was thinking like, Okay, I'll see how this could because she seemed nice, and I thought other girl was just like not wanting me to be friends with her because she didn't want me to be friends with her any and.

That wasn't the case.

She really was telling me the truth.

Everything Jenny tells me about how Christy and Jared met and started hanging out didn't have any new revelations.

It was everything we already knew.

But then something interesting came up out of her retelling.

COVID hit We're having a party and I was making drinks, Christy was drinking and she started getting sick and she was starting up all day, it seemed like, and close to the end where was leaving and stuff.

Me and Jared's mom were sitting there saying like, oh, like, what's going on.

Maybe she go to the hospital.

And then Christy comes out and Jared's mom says, maybe you're pregnant.

I was making the joke and I said, yeah, it was twins, and I think that's where it started, if I'm being honest, and she just went with it.

The next morning, I get a phone call.

Probably she always called me so early in the morning, like seven o'clock somewhere in there, and she called me and she said, you're never gonna guess this, And I was like, what.

Christy was pregnant this time by Jared.

Then it seemed like a couple of weeks went by and she called me again real early in the morning and she goes, I'm going to kill you.

And I'm like why, and she goes, because I found out what I'm having.

Like how many?

I go, Are you having one?

She goes, now, I'm having two.

I said, you're joking.

She said, She's gonna kill you as if you were the Jinx.

It was the Jinx for sure.

Next thing that happened they got engaged.

Not only was I in the wedding, she had asked me to be her maid of honor and I said no because I don't like being in the spot like like that, not.

Me at all.

I don't even like wearing dresses.

But I sucked it up and I did it.

It was beautiful.

It was a dream.

It was a dream wedding.

It was everything anyone should have asked for.

I know, Jared's mom and family and friends worked so hard.

I myself worked very hard on helping and doing and preparing for that wedding.

There were days where I would literally just go after whatever I was doing.

Jenny doesn't like to be the center of attention.

She doesn't like a lot of pictures taken of her.

She doesn't post a lot to social media.

Something she and her former best friend did not have in common.

Everything, and I mean everything was social media.

Anything that they did, anything that she was thinking share, she was constantly sharing.

She's constantly posting pictures anytime they'd go out, or any family functioning, pitcher picture, anything about the babies picture.

Jared and Jenny aren't the only ones who thought Christie's obsession with social media was excessive.

Gretchen did too, as.

A like as a person, even like I know, parents, if you have a kid that goes into the niku and you don't take those pictures and posts them right away, you want to make sure things, you know, said of down go smoothly.

I see it all the time, and she was just posting up.

Technically, Jared was posting the photo, but he was more like the other parents.

Gretchen describes.

His instinct was to not post the photos of his newborn twins.

He didn't want to.

He initially said no, but Christy wanted those photos up on social media, and she would not relent, regardless of the fact that they weren't her babies and she had no twins of her own.

And I remember this one game night, she said, I just got a text from my mom saying she's moving tomorrow and she's not going to ever see our baby.

It was just odd timing, which I guess, you know, sometimes families happen like that.

But yeah, just rivery dramatic.

Christy didn't have a real relationship with her dad as far as we were aware.

We knew that he doesn't live too far away, and that Jared's father, David, and he were friends growing up, but he did not attend Jared and Christie's wedding.

I never asked about history of Christie like I never asked about her father.

I knew she'd have a relationship with him.

I never asked about him, and I never asked why.

I never asked about her mom.

If she were to tell me yes, that would have been fine, but I'm not one to cry.

Henry, of course, had a strong opinion of Sheila, and it wasn't a positive one.

Like if, like if somebody said to their kids an asshole.

I always say, if you plant Corny, get court, So the parent must be an assault.

Jenny also felt pretty strongly that Christie experienced trauma in her childhood.

That trauma helped shape the woman Christie became.

We were driving the walmart to get supplised for the rental house, and we were passing a hospital, but on that where there's like a bunch of houses that you can rent, and she goes that house was the house that our mom pulled Christie by her hair and wouldn't let her go to the hospital to tell her to tell the hospital what was going on in her house.

It was Christie's younger sister that was telling Jenny the story as they drove past their old rent of house.

I'm assuming because of mental abuse, physical abuse, all the above.

I think that was the little sister's way of telling me that she wasn't up there like right because of her past.

The story is unsettling and sad.

Christy was trying to get help.

And I think the closest thing that she could communicate with was the hospital.

Whether she got the help she was seeking, we'll never know.

But this was not the only story of abuse and trauma that we heard Christie experienced as a child.

Henry recounts an extremely disturbing story of something young Christie witnessed at the hands of her mother, Sheila.

Her old man.

They got back together and they tried to work things out, and then she went fast shit crazy and run off the reservation and shot and killed all the farmers, tried to burn her house down.

Oh yeah, she's certifiable.

The mother is like slaughtered them in front of the kids.

Yeah, it was pretty crazy.

Henry claims Sheila got into a fight with her partner, was so enraged that she shot and killed her animals in front of her children and then tried to set their house on fire.

Another coincidence or a family pattern.

Jenny also noticed an odd relationship between Christy and her mom, Sheila, specifically, when they went.

Wedding dress shopping together.

It was Jenny Christie, her mom, and her grandmother that participated.

I don't remember the exact conversation that I had with Kirsty about her mother, but I knew her mom was not the best mom.

I think it was whenever we want wedding dress shopping.

That was the first time I think I met her mom and it was a little off.

Everything was off that day.

If I'm gonna be honest, I think the mom wanted it to be her way, like everything you need to be about.

Like the mom, I feel like me and myself, I'm, I guess the protective friend, so like I will voice my opinion if I feel like it's needed.

Jenny's opinion was that Sheila was too focused on what she would like to wear rather than what Christy would feel good in that she was being insensitive about the fact that Christy was a pregnant bride with a growing belly.

And I did have a conversation with Christy and I was like, you know, like this is your stuff.

You like, do what you want to do, wear what you want to wear.

You know, like you need to be comfortable that day, because however far along she was, she could have been bigger, you know.

And I just want to her to feel comfortable with her.

Grandma on her dad's side was there, and she I feel like she felt more comfortable with her there versus her mom being there.

It's Monday morning and Jared has a lot to get done.

So Monday morning rolls up seven point thirty in the morning.

I'm sitting at the parking lot waiting to go through the drive through because during all this you couldn't go into banks because of COVID, So I'm sitting in the bank waiting for this bank to open up.

Christy wasn't awake yet, so I'm not getting these phone calls.

At this point, I had already went and called a lawyer, was waiting on a phone call back.

I would say he was sad.

He was sad and disappointed and maybe a little embarrassed.

This is Jared's lawyer again.

Melissa, when she first met with Jared, she could not believe what he was telling her.

I would say, disbelief and sad.

I had heard of Phantom pregnant.

Let's see, but I had seen the photos and I was shocked.

Melissa actually knew Jared, though she had not seen him in over a decade.

Before Melissa decided to go to law school, she worked at a preschool with Jared's mom, a preschool that Jared himself attended, and even though she liked Jared's mom very much, once she left to attend law school, they did not stay in touch.

And the fire that occurred with the home I'm not friends with his family on Facebook because I hadn't seen them in so long, but I saw the GoFundMe on Facebook days before he came in.

So when he came in, I started putting at least the fire and him together, and I was like, that's a lot to handle.

And then my feeling was, I am going to do everything I can to protect him, and I am going to try to resolve this for him with the least amount of paying postule that.

I can on the legal end.

So I end up eight thirty rolls around on first one in line and the problems begin.

We get into we have this new license as you got because my old license burned up in the fire.

Oh dar, So the only picture they have on file is from when I was sixteen years old.

There was eight year difference there.

So they have to call my main bank.

My main bank didn't note until nine o'clock, so I have to sit there for a half hour.

Jared, please answer my call.

Please answer your phone.

It's important.

So of course, now Christy's awake, I'm getting phone calls.

So it ends up.

I'm like, hey, I want to withdraw all my money.

They're like, it's Monday morning.

We don't have enough money in the bank to give this to you.

It's my money.

Why can't I get it?

Jared is set on a course of getting back the money from the donations, but Christy has not been served, and she's threatened to leave.

Jared had never been involved in a lawsuit, which is what an annulment is.

Melissa had to impress upon him that in order for service of process to be effective, they need to serve her in person, and neither one of them can do it.

The time for ignoring Christy ends now.

I told him I'm afraid she's going to run.

We're not going to get her shirt, and this is going to take a long time, and I wanted this.

To be done for him.

They're like, hey, we can give you this much money, but you'll have to go to another branch.

Ends up.

I go to a second branch.

Now they're already open.

I get line phones blowing up still because she's getting alerts that there's money coming out of these accounts.

I saw, are you draining the bank account?

I don't know what's going on, but you need to talk to me.

My bank calls, but they're like, what are you doing?

I'm like, I'm draining my accounts.

They're like, well why, I have no idea what's going on.

I'm a mess and you are too.

I need you to talk to me.

It's fine if you don't care about me, or want to be around me, or love me, or can't even look at me.

My paycheck goes into our account, not much because maternityly, but it feels like you have run away and led me with nothing.

I'm warned about you.

Please just answer me.

They can get the sense of something's wrong because I mean I go to my I walk in my bank every Friday, so they know my name.

It's a small town.

They're like, has your account been compromised.

I say yes, I think my account's been jeopardized.

They're like, okay, go to this bank next.

They'll have as much money as they can give you set aside, and then you come here and we should have the rest for you.

But Jared wasn't the only one at the bank.

Contrary to what she.

Was saying in her text messages, Christy wasn't just sitting at home getting alerts that Jared was taking money out of their bank accounts, or driving to his parents' shop.

Looking for him.

Christy was at the bank too.

When that happened.

She was at my apartment that morning, and that morning we went to the bank and she wanted to take all this money out from all the donations and all that stuff, and come to find out in the morning Jared already wants and left her with four thousand dollars.

I just need some time.

I will meet you at some point today.

You took everything and I have no money.

What are your plans?

Are we done?

Are you leaving me with nothing?

I will talk to you later.

I just need to think.

Melissa prepared the paperwork for an emergency annulment based on fraud.

Annulments are rarely filed, and emergency annulments are even more rare.

That's because in an annulment, unlike a divorce, there are very high standards to prove to the state that the foundation of the marriage was so flawed that they don't even have to acknowledge that it ever existed.

So she goes, Okay, give me a couple of minutes and now we'll call you back.

So I'm driving around ten minutes, go by, Hey, come up to my office.

We need to go over to the courthouse.

I have these emergency annoynment papers drawn up for you.

You need to bring this much money in cash.

We can't do a check because they put a.

Hold on it.

So I've run up there, me and her.

We run over to the courthouse, get these papers signed.

Then I'm like, okay, what do I do now?

She goes we have to get someone who can go and serve her.

She says, hey, I can't do it.

You can't do it.

Let me call my daughter.

In case you're wondering, Jared grew up with Melissa's daughter as well.

Did you go to pre school with Harry?

I didn't, Actually I think I probably did.

It is at the rental house.

I have her water and the last food packet there was.

I love you always.

I'm left and.

I'm out of your left.

So as we're driving, Christy's blowing up my phone and still say hey, I'm done with you.

I'm tired of you not answering me.

You won't tell me where you are.

I've been worried, sick, you're withdrawing money.

What's going on?

The lawyer then tells me, hey, you need to answer the phone.

I don't know why I had sticky notes in my car, but my lawyer's writing on sticky notes.

Jared was frantic and they needed to be covert.

The sticky notes were Melissa's way to guide Jared into getting Christy to come meet.

And of course I'm still trying to drive while I'm having this conversation, and Christy can't know that someone else is a car.

Please, Christy, I do want to meet.

I knew how to get her there because if I were a female reaching out to my spouse or significant other and they had not been responding and I became suspicious, I knew what would bring me to.

Come and meet them.

I knew what I would listen to.

No, you've left me with nothing and scared me to death today.

I have no idea where you are or what you're doing.

I'm just driving around, you know, That's what I do to think.

I don't know if you remember, but I can't drive.

I don't have a car, or house or any of my stuff.

You also drained over twenty thousand.

Christy has told Jared that she is packed ready to go, and she is leaving as he sits in his truck at the bank drive through, waiting for the last of the donation money.

Jared and Christy have a phone call while Melissa continues to essentially help him woo a livid Christy into meeting.

This is all why I'm sitting in a drive through, so that this bank is hearing my entire conversation.

I don't know what gossip was going on in that bank lead us will say.

I end up answering phone, telling her all these things.

Hey, I just needed some time.

I love you.

Let's meet at the parking ride.

At this point, she also has my dog.

I mean, that's about the only thing left that I have that's mine.

It's it's my dog.

Christy told Jared she's going to let his dog aid A loose the emotions.

I'm furious.

I'm afraid my dog's not going to be around.

Is she is she gonna shoot my dog because I mean that that gun is still missing.

She goes, okay, i'll meet you.

So we go to the parking ride.

I pull up right next to the car.

I'm probably four spaces away.

I pull up, there's no cars in between us.

I get out.

I'm walking toward the car.

It was under it was under an overpass.

It was it very much could be a movie like setting.

She opens the car door and up pulls my lawyer's daughter.

Christy goes, who's that?

I go, I don't know.

Why don't you ask him?

So the lawyer's daughter goes, hey, are you Christy Akron?

She goes, yeah, why you have been served?

I run the car.

I never shut the car.

If I run to the car, shut the door and drive off.

I don't say a word.

I'm headed straight to the rental house to go check on my dog.

Get the dog, and get out of there as fast as I can, because to get in there it's only one way.

The end of the road is blocked off.

As I'm driving too, I call.

My lawyer alert.

She's like, hey, as soon as you do it block her.

These last three messages I get and then this is verbatim, And this was two minutes after I served her.

I'm driving running paper.

She knows that she has the annoyment papers.

The three texts I got are an unquote, are you serious?

What did I do to you?

I have no words to say to you.

I really wanted to respond, but I knew better see you later never And I and I have not spoken a word to her since.

As for Jared's beloved dog, Ada Dog.

Ends up being fine.

I get her in a car and I just drive.

I don't know where I can go.

I don't know what Christy's going to do.

And as far as that missing gun goes, Christy never had it, Jared did.

I did end up finding the gun, so that was that was huge.

It was.

It was a couple of weeks after and I'm cleaning out my car.

I reach under the seat and grab trash out from under the air.

I feel the gun.

I'm like, oh my goodness, all that worry for nothing, and then I start retracing my steps.

It just it was always in the back of my mind, where's that gun?

And I don't know if it was because she was in this mental instability.

She had that mental instability and suicidal and I didn't know it was.

It set in my mind, and I just want to make sure everyone else knew about it too, before they were put in danger.

In the aftermath of Monday's events, Jared sat down to write a letter.

It was nearly three thousand words.

In it, he pours his heart out, his way of trying to make things right with the community to whom.

It may concern.

I had Jared read me the entire letter.

Here he is reading some excerpts from the donations he and Christie received after the fire.

First, I'd like to thank everyone for the help, prayers, and donations for my family and the fire on Sunday, December sixth.

I'm trying to contact everyone individually who donated in a timely fashion to thank them and see if they have questions.

To the night of the berths, she told me.

They couldn't find a heartbeat and she had to have an emergency sea section and I wasn't allowed in.

I sat in the car waiting until I received a phone call from her saying that both children were born and both are healthy, and they had some fluid in their lungs and they were on oxygen.

I got all the dates, waits for the Facebook.

Post to Christy's arrest At the hospital.

Two officers walked her out of the car and told me that she was no longer allowed on property unless she has an appointment.

And finally, the moment when he uncovered the truth.

A doctor who calls me back and explains that Christy was never pregnant.

There is a.

Condition called a fantom pregnancy and a woman can trick her body into looking and acting pregnant.

He ended the letter with a heartfelt plea and apology to all that were affected by the tragedy.

I want everyone to know that I am very sorry and I had no idea about any of this.

One day, I was going to have a family.

In the next I have no family or home.

I want to apologize to all that have been hurt or fiel with trade, but I want to set the record straight and at least try to give some relief to the rumors and that the children did not pass away.

I would appreciate it if you could please respect my family and my privacy at this time as we warn all of the losses that we have incurred.

Sincerely, Jared Ackron.

As much as Jared was bothered by Christie's obsession with social media during their marriage, he saw it as a useful tool in this moment.

He would post this letter to Facebook.

That may have been the hardest I've ever had to write, and it was even harder to click that send button to put that out there into the world for everyone to see.

And once I saw how many people actually saw it and share it, it was even more than the fire itself.

Really the post about that and it then knows and all that it was.

I don't know what words can really describe how I feel, other than that was the hardest thing I've done.

I wish i'd kind of know we were going to do that, And I don't know if I would have said yes to doing this, because that's how strongly it still hits me, like I feel myself sinking into my chair and it's a tough thing for me to sit here and still talk to you.

Do you want to take a minute?

I think we can.

Actually, I think I would okay with the donation money safely now in Jared's possession.

He wanted everyone who donated to have an opportunity to get their donations back.

Any donations he was still receiving by check.

He immediately mount back.

So I guess jumping back into the donations and what I decided to do there, I felt it was appropriate and I want I I didn't want all this money if it wasn't meant for me.

So I started the process of sending these checks that were still coming into mail to my address and being dropped off to me.

I decided that I'm going to send them back.

I just put a return posts on there, put a stamp on, send them back to these people, and to my surprise, it kind of left me flabbergacid.

About a week and a half later, I start getting the same donation sent back to me.

Dear Jared, Dear Jared.

But instead of being in Christy and I's name, it's just written in my name, which and it was.

People that were closer than to me.

It was.

It was a weird thing.

Now, some people did keep their money, which by all means that it's your money.

I didn't expect it back or anything like that.

But it was very heartwarming and it was a funky feeling.

Dear Jared, you got your letter, thank you, but we cannot accept our check back.

Keep your head up, dear Jared.

I hope this helps after all you've been through.

And it wasn't just checks that Jared was getting.

It was people's thoughts and well wishes.

And I think the other big thing was that I actually put that letter.

I printed it out and put it in there with that check.

The little notes I got back, I still have them all.

Honestly, they I don't want to say I want to look at them because I don't know how.

I'll react again, but something made me keep it.

But something made me keep them in it.

I don't no one.

And while Jared was starting to see a path forward, he was still picking up the pieces of being lied to for nine months and the question that kept rattling around in my head.

Had Christie lied about anything else?

I've really been waiting for you to ask these questions.

I mean, it's I could go on the rest of the time we have here.

I don't even know where to start next time.

On the unborn.

The money.

I think she was trying to steal obaby and sell it for the money.

And I had said to her multiple times, you need to stop that, like you need to block him, delete him, do whatever, like just be done.

Just think what she could have done if she was left a.

Good That car they bought was brand new and somehow it has twenty some thousand miles on it and they've only had it for four months.

So how did that happen?

It could be that it could be the money.

It could have been the faking everything.

It could have been because they faked it in the donations of the Fire of the Babies.

It could have been it could.

Have been all of that.

It's just like a snowball effect that the lies that continue to come out in I didn't see any of that.

That's next time, The Unborn.

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