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A couple in love building their family, a tv joke that goes viral, and a murder that shocks a small town. So few clues, news, except a dim figure on a neighbor's video. Is it enough to point to a killer? Someone is playing a dangerous game. It begins with a crowbar, a fall of bullets.

I heard sirens. The siren sound just couldn't stop.

And a ghost on a bicycle caught on camera.

It just boggles your mind.

Your call cannot be completed as dialed.

That somebody could do that to another human being.

Someone planned this carefully, quietly.

Nobody had called the police to report via disturbance. Loud noises, screaming, gunshots. No one was able to explain what happened.

And I was thinking to myself, whatever happened, it's really bad. Like, somebody's very hurt.

You couldn't meet a couple with more going for them than Tim and Becky Bleifnik.

Becky were just so alive and bubbly. Tim was very charismatic.

Just very.

They looked like they had everything. Becky was blonde, bright blue eyes. When her face was just always lit up, she always looked happy. My sister Becky was a people person. She can walk into a room and talk to anybody, and they would be her best friend by the end of the night.

When I think of Tim Bleifnik, he's fun to be around. He can talk about anything. He can find humor in anything.

Tim is always very goofy and very fun. Every time you saw him, he would run up and hug you and like.

Hey, how's it going? He's a performer, likes to put himself out there.

He was in a play. It was Quincy community theater. I was very impressed with his skills, just thinking like, wow.

He applied for american gladiators in 2008 when they tried to bring that back.

Each week, two men and two women.

Will go head to head.

He made it all the way up to the final cut. Tim's social media, it's funny and it's silly, and I think that that is a really good snapshot of what life was like with Tim as a dad.

It's a picture of a family man.

Good job.

Tim was also an all around star athlete at his catholic high school, grabbing headlines.

Tim, well known in the community football standout, hall of Famer at Quincy University.

Becky's big sister, Sarah Riley. What was your sister like growing up?

We were very close we were 16 months apart. Our childhood was a lot of playing outside, catching toads and buckets, going fishing, riding bikes on a gravel road. She played tennis for Quincy University.

What did she study there? How did she do so?

She studied biology. Right after college, she went into the pharmaceutical world. He was a recycling broker, the great salesman.

Hardworking and well liked, Tim and Becky are also very practical. Did they go on a honeymoon or anything like that?

They did not go on a honeymoon. Tim did not give Becky a ring prior to getting married because he wanted to buy a house. And Becky is very practical, so she went along with that.

Rachel, who prefers we use just her first name, says Becky and Tim shared common goals like, oh, we could go.

Spend $15,000 on a wedding, or we could take that money and do something that will truly help us and get us further ahead. Being a mother was her number one goal in life. Even though she had very specific career goals for herself, they were always countered by this desire to be a mom.

So she wanted to put family first.

Absolutely. Family always came first. She always wanted four kids. She originally wanted to be a doctor, but she didn't want to delay her life as a mom through the seven to twelve years that it would take to be a doctor.

Tim was active in the CrossFit community in town. He competed in a lot of crossfit competitions. That was a huge part of their life as a couple. I mean, you want to talk about the american dream? They had it.

With two sons born, Becky decides to pursue a new career, going back to school to become a nurse. She's still working in pharmaceuticals, but as a nurse, she could bring in more money.

I don't even know if there's nights where she slept more than 4 hours. It was pedal to the metal, like, all the time.

It's during this hectic time in the Bleepnick household that Tim gets the idea to go on the game show Family Feud.

Tim was very excited to do it with his family, but Becky couldn't do it because of school.

Who went with him?

It was his two brothers, his mother and his father, him's family himself. They all, like the limelight. Family feud fit right into the mold of who they were. For a game show. They are looking for people that are going to be outlandish.

It's part of the show.

It's part of the show.

From decade to Illinois, it's the Bleep Nick family.

The point of Family feud, of course, is for families to answer a question and try to match how randomly surveyed people answer. And when host Steve Harvey asks, what was the biggest mistake you made at your wedding? Tim Blefnick's answer is unforgettable.

What's the biggest mistake you made at your wedding?

Honey, I love you, but said I do. To be fair, it was the second most popular answer.

I'm going to get in trouble for that, aren't I?

Yeah.

It's going to be a lot of hail to pay at your house.

And there will be hell at the Bleepnick house.

There was a struggle. The door was damaged. The window had been forced open from the outside.

But inside their quiet small town home, police will find no prints and no weapons. But one of the bleep nicks is dead.

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Inside Tim and Becky bleefed Nick's home. Something unspeakable has happened behind broken windows. A killer has left shell casings in the hall and a body upstairs. How could something like this happen here in Quincy? Quincy, Illinois, isn't known for its high crime rate.

Violent crime is very rare.

I grew up here in Quincy, and I can tell you that it was never a situation where you ever felt unsafe.

For many, Tim and Becky included, Quincy is an ideal place to build a life, raise a family. It's a small city, proud of its sense of community.

It's hard to not fall in love with Quincy.

It was home of one of the Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas debates.

This is one of the sites of the Underground Railroad.

It really is small town America. Most people in Quincy know everybody in.

The communities, and they know Tim and Becky Blefnik. Nice family, nice neighborhood, nice house.

It was a block from where the children went to school, which is a catholic school, has a church right there. Very nice area.

But little kids, the working dad and a mom who's now pregnant with their third child also has a job and is finishing her final year of nursing school. It's beyond exhausting.

You want to go, Nana? Things started to go downhill between her and Tim because with Becky having to dedicate herself to her studies, he had to pick up the slack.

Becky was a very faith filled person. Her faith encouraged her to stay married.

Becky was the one to make the sacrifices. She cut her hours to part time so she could, quote unquote, meet needs in the household. She was willing to sacrifice her own happiness, really, for the stability of the family.

And then comes the family feud appearance. Local family, national attention.

Tim Bleepnick and some of his family members travel to LA to be one.

Of the featured families on the popular game show. There is a watch party at revelry.

In Quincy Wednesday morning that was a really big deal around here in a positive way. You don't see many people from our area make it to the national stage on a show like that.

The station asks Tim about Steve Harvey, the show's host.

His suit line is very nice. He has a bunch of different ones that he wears for every episode, even though they tape several in a row. And so if he finds a snazzy dresser when people really want to dress to impress to be on the show, he relates to that.

Then the feud episode airs.

What's the biggest mistake you made with your wedding?

Honey, I love you, but said I do. As it turns out, Tim really means that answer. In just a matter of months, divorce is in the air. The Bleafnick family's three episode stint on Family feud earns them over 20 grand, which the five family members who competed will split. That doesn't include Becky.

It was the separation of this is mine and not yours, and we're not a team on this. I think that's the part that really got to her.

Tim is the one who files for divorce, not Becky.

Seemed like once he had decided that's what he wanted, it was just steadily moving towards that direction.

They finally separate in 2021. What did that mean for Becky?

I think she was relieved when he finally filed.

Tim moves out into a home just a few blocks away. Now on her own in the house that she and Tim used to share, Becky's trying to move on.

She had an acquaintance that she was.

Dating Becky and her new boyfriend, Ted Johnson. Well, they have a lot in common. He also works in healthcare, a director of cardiac services.

The last several years, she'd gone through so much, and Ted made her happy. Their relationship was never public because Becky was still in the process of the divorce and she didn't want to muddy the waters in any way.

Becky tells her friends that she's increasingly worried about Tim about the children.

I just remember her telling me over and over again, she's like, our kids are so young. What is this going to do to them?

There was a divorce proceeding, a contingent divorce proceeding that was taking place.

He was extremely resistant to any type of co parenting.

Maximizing his time with the boys was his ultimate goal. He wanted to spend as much time with his kids as he possibly could, as did Becky. As do most parents.

They can't agree on custody arrangements and then their legal filings. Both Tim and Becky ask for orders of protection.

Becky's document claims that Tim threw a tray of food across the room in front of their toddler, punched a hole in the wall, and even went into her yard to cut down her favorite maple tree.

When did she first communicate to you that she felt fear for her own safety?

Becky sent my husband and I a text stating that she was fearful of Tim, of what he would try to do.

Becky writes, if something ever happens to me, please make sure the number one person of interest is Tim. I'm putting this in writing that I'm fearful he will somehow harm me, come after me, or will try something to me that takes me away from the kids.

In Tim's request for an order of protection, he makes claims of his own.

He claimed that Becky was harassing him.

He says that Becky made a scene at their son's school during curriculum night, chasing him to grab a document, even pounding on the door of his car as he tried to drive away.

A judge denies both requests, Becky's and Tim's, because the court finds there isn't enough evidence and there are no physical threats.

When you grant a protective order or a restraining order, the court is limiting the rights of one of the parents in one of these things. They really infringe on the rights of parents, and judges are very reluctant to start granting those in bitter divorces.

The boys are going back and forth from Becky's house to Tim's house one weekday in February. They spend the night at their dad's while Becky's staying at her home alone. But oddly, Becky doesn't show up at the end of their day.

The fact that she didn't pick her children up from school was unprecedented. It just wouldn't happen.

That's when alarms start going off for everyone.

I instantly felt like something was wrong.

Tim just hadn't gotten any reply from Becky via text message that he had sent her.

When she didn't pick them up from school, Tim contacted her father.

Tim texts his father in law bill. Did he know where Becky was could he go over and look for her?

Becky's dad went to her house, and the door was open.

I was sitting on my couch at home. I heard sirens. About 315. The sound just kept, couldn't stop.

Quincy police are currently conducting investigation after.

Finding a dead body Thursday afternoon.

Becky Blefnik is dead, lying face up in the second floor bathroom. Such an ordinary place and such a disturbing picture of the last minutes of Becky's life. They find some bullet casings and no fingerprints and a murder weapon. But there is one strange detail from the night before on a neighbor's surveillance video. Almost a shadow, a ghost appearing in the long hours after midnight. Is it somehow connected? Is it Becky's killer? Under cover of darkness, Becky Bleepnick's killer managed to pull off a murder without attracting any attention.

Becky was home alone. Clearly, somebody had gone into this house and had done this and then had left, and nobody had called the police to report the disturbance. Loud noises, screaming, gunshots.

She had been shot 14 times through her hand in a lung and a paralyzing shot in her spine.

We learned that she didn't die right away, that after she was shot that she would have survived up to a couple of minutes. And to just be left in her bathroom like that, it just boggles your mind that somebody could do that to another human being. It was very clear that something significant had happened at this house, and immediately we went into major crimes mode. It really was an all hands on deck type of situation.

As they're piecing together the crime, police believe the intruder climbed up on the side of the house and onto the roof. They used something to pry a window open on the second floor. There's a footprint on the carpet inside.

If you go through the window, her bedroom is just a right, and then it's to the left. It's a very short walk down the hall. It appeared that the door was shut and she was trying to run and hide from whatever was coming in at her.

She had tried to do something to thwart the attack. I would imagine that she was absolutely terrified. Her cell phone was found behind the bedroom door.

Becky attempted to call 911 and miss dialed, and the call never went through. Call cannot be completed as dialed.

Records show Becky tried making that emergency call at 01:10 a.m. Barely 1 minute later, Becky's killer flees through the front door and vanishes into the night.

Quincy police Department continues to investigate the shooting death of Rebecca Blefnik.

We started to look back and try to find surveillance video of the area around Becky's house. We found surveillance video from the day of the murder.

We had found video that showed an individual riding a bike. The detail was very grainy.

There's no way to make an id. The figure just seems to dissolve away into thin air. But that video does show. Between one and 02:00 a.m. The night of the murder, someone is riding a bike through the streets surrounding Becky's home. Just hours before, on the same night, Becky is texting with her new boyfriend.

How's your evening going?

Fine. Just doing laundry and paying bills. Ted Johnson, he was one of the last people to have contact with her, last person to stay with her.

I just got back to my house.

We then talked to Ted. A nine millimeter handgun was what was used to kill Becky. We learned that he did not have access to a nine millimeter handgun, that he didn't own one.

We, obviously, as part of the investigation, downloaded Becky's entire phone and reviewed the messages that Becky had with everybody.

We found the text messages that she had sent to Ted that night. There was no indication in their messaging that there was anything going on. Ted Johnson was eliminated as a suspect because there was nothing there that would point in his direction. At that point, we're going to focus our investigation.

Police performed a search warrant at Tim's house, and Tim is Becky's estranged husband. They found some shell casings, a crowbar, and they took shoes. They also obtained his laptop computer and cellular phone.

Tim was compliant when they served the search warrants and was respectful and did exactly what he was told to do. He didn't talk to the police. He didn't have to talk to the police.

The initial investigation, I think, took longer than anybody wanted it to because the community wanted answers. Of course, we wanted to identify a suspect and make an arrest, but there's no rushing the initial investigation.

With no arrest yet for Becky's murder, Quincy is now in town, locking its windows and doors and asking one basic.

Question, is this going to happen to someone else? Our entire city was on edge because no one was able to explain what.

Happened.

After the murder of Becky Blefnik. The days go by slowly in Quincy, Illinois, and the police aren't talking until.

After about two and a half weeks of investigating the tragic death of Rebecca Blefnik, Quincy police arrested her estranged husband.

Tim's mugshot is a stark contrast to the clean cut man in family photos. He's put in jail, and that's right where investigators want him. They're afraid he'll run and take his sons.

Early on in the case, we decided we wanted him held without bond.

I was pushing Josh that we need to hold him without bond because I didn't want anything to happen to those boys. I didn't want them to be gone from Quincy.

Do you understand your rights in this case? Yes. Not guilty. Ms. Schnock?

Yes.

So, after pleading not guilty, Tim stays in jail. But prosecutors are now rushing to prepare their case because Illinois state law requires a trial within 90 days for any suspect denied bond, even in a murder case.

The idea that we're going to do a trial in 90 days was incredibly scary to me.

In my career, 17 years in homicide, I never even heard of a murder trial going from investigation to arrest to trial as quickly as this one. But for Tim Blefnick's defense attorney, this is great. Casey Schnock knows that prosecutors are now under a tremendous amount of pressure, and she's just fine with that.

Giving them any more time would only give them an opportunity to firm up their case, and we didn't want to give them the opportunity to do that.

Given the amount of complex evidence in this case and how they had to connect all the dots in that short amount of time was extraordinary.

Day one of the murder trial for Tim Bleifnik.

Tim and Becky's divorce, which, by the way, was never finalized, is a big part of the prosecution's case. Her divorce attorney testifies that when Tim moved out of their house, he took a handgun Becky owned.

What did she say about why she wanted that firearm? She wanted it for protection. Protection from who? Her husband, Tim Bleifney.

A judge had ordered Tim to return the gun to Becky. But just two weeks before the murder, Tim calls the Quincy police.

He said, my name is Tim Bleifnik.

Did he go on to say why he was calling the police? Because he had a gun that he needed to return to his vessel.

He did. He said that he did not want to give it to that crazy bitch.

Tim never returns that handgun to Becky. It's a nine millimeter, the same caliber as the gun that's used to kill her. But they can't find Becky's gun. In fact, they can't find any gun they can point to as a murder weapon. But they do have those two sets of shell casings, one from the murder scene and one from Tim's house.

You almost kind of heard a pin drop in the courtroom was when they were talking about how several shell casings found in his house were fired from the same gun. That shell casings from the crime scene that were discovered.

The defense says there's no way to prove it was Tim who fired those nine millimeter bullets. Since that gun is missing.

The only thing we know is these shell casings match these shell casings, but we don't know where they came from.

Then the focus turns to those neighborhood surveillance videos showing that ghostly figure, the one on the bike, in the middle of the night. We can't know from looking at the video if it's Tim Bleifnick, but here's the main point. That bike, that person, was seen on numerous surveillance cameras on a number of nights, which prosecutors say adds up to a disturbing pattern.

According to prosecutors, it all starts on Valentine's Day, February 14, and again on February 21, and then again on February 22. And the last time is February 23, which is the night that Becky is murdered. And they point out that those dates and times match up with something else.

Whenever you see a person on that bike, whenever you saw a person on video at Becky's house, every single time that person is seen on the bike or in her yard, Tim's computer is not being used. His cell phone is locked, and it's not being used. That's how you can tell it was Tim Bleifnik.

But Tim's attorney points out that nobody they questioned actually recognized Tim in the videos. Not in the yard, not anywhere. And prosecutors are just chasing phantoms.

We don't know if it's a man or a woman, if they're taller, they're short, if they're fat or they're skinny. We know that there's a person on a bike, and nobody can say anything beyond that. You were unable to recover any fingerprints that were able to be linked to Timothy Bleifnick. Correct?

I was unable to find any suitable prints at all.

The crowbar was not a match. The footprint impression was not a match. They did not recover any of Tim's DNA or fingerprints on any of the shell casings that were found at her house. And so, as far as the forensic evidence is concerned and the types of evidence that juries really like to hear, their case was really lacking in that regard.

So far, there may not be a ton of physical evidence against Tim, but this is where the trial really starts heating up. Prosecutors introduce evidence about Internet searches conducted on Tim's phone and Tim's laptop.

There were searches that were eerily similar to our crime scene. For example, he searched, can I open a door with a crowbar if I lock myself out?

And searches, like average police response time in Quincy and how to make a homemade pistol silencer.

The most chilling one was, can I just wash gunpowder residue off my hands?

Tim's attorney says, not so fast. Prosecutors can't even prove Tim made those searches.

He has kids at know. Are they getting curious? Are they looking up things? Know, guns on his phone? They couldn't tell us when these searches were made. We didn't have a day. We didn't have a year. We didn't have a time.

But the prosecution isn't done yet. There's one last piece of evidence, one more discovery from Tim's computer. Will this be enough evidence to convince the jury that Tim Blefnik is a killer?

A case like this, this obviously drew national attention.

A murder trial resumes today for a man who once appeared on the game.

Show Family Feud at local station KHQA. The story of Tim Blefnik dominates their website's traffic.

One of the most searched things in the search engine was Tim Bleefnick family feud. There's a lot of interest. So they brought in a lot of. There were a fair amount of people there.

With just 90 days to prepare and not much direct evidence, the prosecution's case against Tim Blefnick is not a sure thing.

Mr. Jones, you may perceive, and that's.

When the prosecution reveals a late stage smoking gun sorts. But in this case, it's not actually a gun, it's a bike.

A big talking point during Thursday's testimonies in the Bleepnick murder trial was centered around a bike and unknown.

Turns out Tim Bleifnik had a Facebook account under the name John Smith. And John Smith was looking to buy a bike. He found two.

The listed title was changed to sold his and her Schwinn mountain bike. Yes. Did you also find a blue Schwinn mountain bike about a half a block from the descendants home?

Yes, sir.

The bike purchased by that John Smith is just like the one on that ghostly surveillance video. And this becomes really clear when the prosecution shows that they have done their homework.

There's no rock reflector or rear reflector on that bike as well?

No, there's not.

On the video, you see the defendant riding a bike down the street. And when we looked at that bike, we noticed that the bike didn't have any reflectors on the wheels. And we were able to determine that because we had another detective ride a different bike down the street at the same time. And on that video, you could just see the wheels light up from the reflectors.

They really went deep with this bike. And to tie everything together. On February 23, 2023, the defendant rode a bike with no reflectors on it that he had bought on Facebook to Becky bleaching school. The defendant climbed up a chair at a pergola and onto Becky's roof. The defendant cried, open that window.

With a crowbar.

Just like he read on the Internet. He shot her with a gun with a homemade silencer that he read about on the Internet. When you go back and you look at all the pieces of evidence during this trial, the prosecution really did lay out everything of a timeline. After he executed Becky in cold blood and left her there on that bathroom, he went back to his house, where police would later find 27 shell casings that exactly matched the eight shell casings that were fired by the gun that shot and killed and executed Becky. And you may be thinking in your mind, well, circumstantial case. But the key word in circumstantial evidence isn't circumstantial.

It's evidence.

The defense argues that circumstantial evidence isn't direct evidence. Nobody saw Tim do anything. No prints, no weapon.

Now, we talked about DNA. They did not find any of Tim's DNA on the bike that they think he rode to commit this crime. They swapped his car for DNA evidence. They found nothing. It's not Tim's crowbar. It's not Tim's footprint, and we don't have a witness. They want you to take away the presumption of innocence that all defendants joy that Tim enjoys as he sits here right now. Look at Tim and ask yourself what hasn't been proven.

The defense wraps her closing argument on the 6th day of the trial, and Tim Bleifnik's fate now rests in the hands of the jury.

Prosecuting attorney Josh Jones says he was confident in the evidence presented, but he and Lord Keck were still unsure of what the jury would decide.

There's never been a moment in our life that had more writing on a decision than that one.

One thing I always do when we're waiting on a verdict, once we get into the room and we sit down, I. I have prayers that I say.

The defense counsel, of course, hopes they've planted enough seeds of doubt. One juror is all they need.

You hope for a not guilty verdict. You hope that one person is not going to be convinced by a reasonable doubt.

As the longest 4 hours of our life time went by impossibly slowly.

I was down in the basement, reliving every mistake I made. For example, we were going to have a photo of Becky on the screen behind me when we were doing the rebuttal, and I forgot to do it. So I sat down and thought, if they find him not guilty because I forgot to press a button on a PowerPoint slide, how am I going to feel?

And has the jury reached its verdict?

Okay.

And if you could hand that paperwork to the bailiff.

And that's it. That heart stopping moment. Which side convinced the jury, is somebody going to prison? Or is somebody walking out the door?

We are on the record on people versus Timothy Bleifnik.

When we were told there was a verdict, I looked at him. I'm like, we did our best. No matter what, we did our best to get justice for Becky.

Has the jury reached its verdict?

Take me through the moment where the decision is read.

I feel like I didn't breathe for the entire time. We, the jury, find the defendant, Timothy Beesnick, guilty of first degree murder. It was release. It was release.

Hearing the juror say that I crumbled. My husband actually physically lifted me up because I just sort of crumbled with the weight of it. What about all of it?

What I'll never forget is Bill, Becky's dad. He was so stoic and so strong. I had never seen an emotional response from him. After Mr. Blefnik was taken away, Bill came up to us, and he cried. I think he was holding it together for as long as he could.

They said he did it. And, I mean, I completely believe them. I just haven't been able to wrap my mind around it yet.

The trial lasted less than a week. His sentence, however, will last a lot longer, the heaviest sentence the court could impose.

Mr. Blefnik, you researched this murder. You planned this murder. You broke into her house, and you shot her. 1234-5678 910, 1112, 1314 times. The court believes that the appropriate sentence would be natural. Life in prison. Tonight, an Illinois man who once joked on tv about regretting his marriage has been given three life sentences for the murder of his wife.

It's three life sentences, one for home invasion and two for first degree murder with a firearm.

One of the most poignant parts of murder trials is during the sentencing, the friends and family of the victim are permitted to stand up and make a statement. It's really their last opportunity to say something that the murderer is going to have to listen to. And they are far and away the most heartfelt and emotional part of any trial.

Your children's future will be forever impacted by your crime. They are already suffering. Maybe you should have googled childhood PTSD in between your Internet searches for homemade silencers and VIN numbers.

Luckily for the boys, they will get glimpses of their mom from Sarah for the rest of their lives.

We should all hold ourselves accountable to a high expectation.

Friends and family want Becky remembered for who she was, not how she died. To remember her nursing school commencement speech.

Snuggle with your kids for ten extra minutes. Take time to hold someone's hands and let them know they are important. Even though she was murdered, like, Becky didn't live life that way. She was this incredible, capable, amazing mom and friend, and she was a whole person before that. You know your sister in one way. And since her death, so many people have reached out and they've shared how much Becky meant to them in their own lives.

At her son's school, children honor their friend's mom with a rock cart. Sarah hopes her legacy extends beyond the quincy community. She wants to be a reminder about verbal and emotional abuse, the kind of treatment she says Becky told her she lived through.

In some ways, that type of trauma can be just as bad, if not worse, than batteries and punches and kicks.

So much of this tragedy lies in what might have been the new chapter she was beginning, dating, maybe even falling in love.

I met Ted for the first time at the funeral, and I gave him a hug, and I'm glad that she was able to get a glimpse of what could have possibly been true love in her life. There's all those small reminders of these great plans, our dreams for the future, all of it. When you think you see Becky and she's not there.

Tim Blefnik is appealing his case, but if the appeal fails, he will spend the rest of his life in prison for Becky's murder.

That's the part I actually hope he lives with for a really long time, that he knows exactly what he has stolen from the world, not just her family and friends.

With their mom gone and their dad behind bars, where does that leave Becky's three boys? Right now, they're living with grandma and grandpa. Becky's parents have temporary custody.

My parents have dedicated their life to raise them in a way that Becky would want.

Becky's sister sometimes imagines talking to her one more time and what she'd say.

Mostly that I love her and I wish I could have done more, and I will take care of boys. Probably try to share a laugh with her. Come on, hear her laugh again would be the greatest treasure.

I want to do it.

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