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date so we don't forget it. He messages me and says, Hey, I really like your profile picture. I actually have the same book, what are the odds? I responded and said well, considering the fact that we are both on a dating app that charges us beans to call. bagels between them I would get pretty high, yeah I didn't get a response from him, I burned that bagel it's true, so the dating scene was a very long road for me, I'm very lucky, although I've always had friends and family who They have supported me. During the process, I remember one time, after a particularly difficult breakup, I went home to see my family and I saw my little cousin and she ran up to me and crawled into my lap and was touching my face and playing with my hair. , said.

You look like Cinderella I was like, oh Lauren, thank you, then she leaned back and left before the ball, yeah, I thought, that's pretty clever, but let me, bless her heart, yeah, no, that's right, it's been a long way, but it's a joke for her, um, maybe not. Being Cinderella, but last year I met someone and I knew as soon as I met him that he was the one I was dating last year. Yes, I applaud. No, I'm just playing, but I used to hate it when he asked people questions. Like, how do you know when you meet someone and they all say the same thing? oh, when you know, yeah, well, I'm like, but I've known it five times, no, I don't know, it turns out to me six times more charming, it's like a punch card, ladies, you get there, eventually you keep coming back, you work, you watch if you're working well yes in April of this year he proposed to me and yes this summer we got married so I'm officially a newlywed it's pretty funny he's actually from Alaska.

Yes, God has a sense of humor. Yeah, so I got to spend time there this summer. It is a beautiful country. It is not a country. An example of this is a beautiful state. I didn't see Hawaii, but I did see Russia from his house. I gotta see where my snl people are, yeah, I didn't write that joke for the record, nevermind, okay, I'm trying to get in trouble, um, no, but yeah, it's awesome, I love being married, marriage married is awesome, um, so far I get it. I'm new, I said that on a show recently, I thought marriage is awesome and this old lady yelled, just wait, I'm sorry, I get it so far, but I think marriage is awesome and people say that, I mean the people.

Saying that marriage is the best is going to bring out the best and the worst in you is going to be like a mirror reflecting things about you that you didn't even know were there and it's true as if I didn't know the level of madness I was capable of doing it. until I got married, yeah, because I realized for myself, I'm not the kind of woman that, if something ever happened to me and I died, it would be like this: I just want my man to be happy and I hope he moves on. and meet someone new no I said it in our vows till death do us part but if I die before you get in the coffin we have to go yeah we meet Jesus at the same time oh I'm saying it's True, it's crazy, but it's true.

I feel blessed to love someone that way and I feel blessed to be loved that way and it was worth it, it was worth the wait, I waited 35 years, it's my first marriage and I want to say, now that I'm going to have more, It just took me a second, um, but it was worth it and that's what I would say to people who want to get married or who are younger or older, it's worth the wait to be with the right person, yeah, whether the marriage whether or not it's part of your story you're worthy and you're loved that's what I want people to know about themselves even on a comedy show you're worthy you're loved amen yeah I'm so interested in that because I didn't know that about myself during a long time and I made very bad decisions because of it, e

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ly with men, and yes, I was the type of girl who saw all the red flags and warning signs well in advance and moved on.

I can help you, yes, I know. They're not mushy brown apples right there, yeah, my mom always told me, honey, love is blind, but the neighbors don't get you good neighborhoods, that's okay, yeah, 'cause they'll see what you don't see when you're in love. so last example and I'm going to get out of here um so I dated this guy at one point and he was like you know you should consider yourself lucky because I usually only date pageant girls and you're not one yeah he says things Yo all the time like I can't believe I like you but I know so I shot him.

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, you don't even know the license and apparently in Utah you have gunshots everywhere. I tried to get coffee yesterday and it was at the gun store. I was like having a coffee. He's like he has something stronger. I like it, although no, I didn't shoot him, but I would actually like to pray about it because he was very. I was confused I was like I love him I hate what I do and I'll be like God give me a sign what do I stay with him God give me a sign what do I do one night we went out to go out I had dinner and he took me to Chili's because we were fancy I want them to take me back to my baby, you know, I have a theme song that was fancy and, uh, no, so we went to dinner and on the way we stopped in front of a big red sign that said stop.

I was like, "Oh my God, sometimes the Lord works in obvious ways, no, so we go to dinner and I get into the breakup conversation and he notices and he's like, whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa, are you breaking up with me?" me too?". It was like yes and he said you're going to break up with me I said yes, at that moment the waitress came over to see how we were doing and she said: hey, how is everyone?, how's everything going here?, he goes, in Actually she just broke up with me with the waitress without missing a beat, the waitress looked at us both and said oh I'm sorry, did you want me to split the bill?

I didn't want my baby back. I have to tell everyone real quick. After shows, people used to come up to me and say, "I'm so sorry that someone said that to you. I'm so sorry that someone talked to you like that like you're amazing, you're wonderful and I used to be." like tell me more I love myself but now I'm like you know what don't even worry about it life is so good god it's so good I'm a

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time artist I'm a happily married woman and all I do is doodle all day yeah