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[seagulls squawking]

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This kid. We're never gonna
get him out of the water now.

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This is what I miss,
being a kid.

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[girl] Right?

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[woman]I love those little moments
where the kids are laughing.

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Where one kid opens up

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because we're all together
and shares something
they wouldn't have

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if we had just been...

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going about our normal day.

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That's what I want
this house to be.

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A place where we're together.

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It's the moments
that you have,

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like hanging out together,

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telling stories,
playing a game.

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That are the things
I remember the most.

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And I hope our kids do, too.

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[waves splashing]

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I met my husband, Jeff,
in Georgia.

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We actually went
to high school together.

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I kind of thought I would
stay in Georgia forever.

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But when he took this job,
he-he called me.

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He was like,
"Yeah, we're going to LA."

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And I was like,
"We're going to Louisiana?"

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He was like,
"No. Los Angeles."
He was like, "Come on, Kim."

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California just became home.

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We bought a house
in Santa Clarita.

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We would go on the weekends

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out to Carpinteria
or Ventura

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'cause it was
the closest beach.

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So we were always packing up.

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And that's kind of how
we discovered Hollywood Beach.

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We were constantly
looking for houses up
and down the beach.

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This was the cheapest house.

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When you looked up
the entire coast
of California,

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this was the cheapest house.

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We just kind of knew,

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"Okay, this is where we're
going to retire together."

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The Shug Shack...

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is our home away from home.

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I've got three kids.

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Ella, Harry, who is away
at college right now,
and Hollis.

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And the reason we named it
the Shug Shack

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is after
my late husband, Jeff.

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His mother
is a true Southern belle,

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and she would
call him Jeffrey Sugar.

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It's kind of evolved
from Jeffrey Sugar
to Shug.

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Like, I always
called him Shug.

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The minute we walked in,

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we were, like,
already imagining what
we were gonna do to it.

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[Jeff speaking]

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[Kim] We were like,
"Man, this really is small."

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I mean, we knew it was only
900 square feet,

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but then when you see
900 square feet, you're like,

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"Man, it really
is 900 square feet.
It's so tiny."

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Then we realized
how much we loved that.

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We called it
"forced family fun."

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The kids
had to hang out with us,

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and we actually
became closer as a family.

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After losing Jeff,

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it was hard renovating,

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but my heart was,
"Okay, I cannot let
this dream die."

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This little patio area

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is really unique for our house

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because most
of the homes around here
are a little bigger,

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if people have redone them.

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So they're--
They don't have
this outdoor space.

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Even though
our house is smaller,

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I love that we have
this outdoor space

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'cause it gives us
more of an area to
hang out outside.

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You enter the living room.

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To your left is the kitchen.

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Down the hallway on your left
is the guest bathroom.

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And bedroom.

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And on the right
is the primary bedroom

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with the primary bathroom.

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We wanted the house
to be calm.

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When we first walked in here,

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the first thing I remember

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is that it was dark. So dark.

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Everything was brown.

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One of the things
I knew I had to do

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was put in new windows
and doors.

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It let some sunlight in there.

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Now I feel like it just
brightened everything up.

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The kitchen was
this little bit of space

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that just blew my mind.

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I was like,
"This cannot be right."

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This could be so much better.

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So by getting rid of the door,

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closing that up,

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it really
opened the kitchen up.

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Jeff loved to cook.

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We called him Chef Jeff.

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If our friends were over here,

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he would be at the stove.

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And everyone was always
gathered around,

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at the bar.

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That was, like,
the greatest night ever.

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If I could, like, do one
of those nights over,

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I would give any amount
of money up for that.

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And now
he's passed it down to Ella.

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[Ella] And try to make a sauce
out of the avocado.

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We'll improvise.
We'll-we'll figure it out.

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[Kim]Jeff had been a little sick.

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He had been having
some stomach pains.

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The doctors told us
he had cancer.

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It was, like, super fast.

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The whole time, he was like,

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"Now there's just gonna be
a little blip in the road."

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The cancer spread,
and when it did,

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that was like,
"Okay, we gotta face this."

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And selfishly, I was, like,
having a really bad day

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'cause I couldn't stand
the thought of losing him.

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He just looked at me
and he was like,

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"You know what, Kim?
We're the lucky ones."

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We found each other.
We had a great life,

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and we love our kids.

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He was like,
"This is pretty amazing.

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If I could not have cancer
and have a different life,"

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he was like,
"There's no way
I would change it."

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A light bulb
went off in my head,

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and instead of being so sad
at what I was losing,

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I started becoming
more thankful.

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I think
it's what's kept me going.

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It's what made me
come to this house

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and redo it.
Like, I just was like,

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"I'm not giving up
on this dream.

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I'm not throwing in the towel

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just because
things have taken a turn."

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Like, this can still
be beautiful.

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The man loved to relax
at the beach.

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Like, he did.
Like, when we come here,

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we all feel it.

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It's funny.
We all look around
at each other and we know.

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We're all thinking about him.

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The thing that
reminds me of Jeff
more than anything else

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is, honestly, the bathrooms.

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Jeff always said,
"When we have
our forever home,

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love those plaster bathrooms,

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and I want that Spanish feel."

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So this,
I just designed on my own.

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I saw stuff online.

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I had no idea
what I was doing,
redoing this house.

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It was hard renovating

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to not try
to make things be perfect.

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But one thing that I found
after losing Jeff is...

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perfect is way overrated.

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Okay, This is
the guest bedroom.

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This is the smallest
of the rooms.

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We went with
a custom built bed in here,

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and the reason
I chose to do it

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is because all three
of my kids can come here.

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It kind of makes it fun
because everyone just bunks
in there together.

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So this
is the primary bedroom.

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Jeff and I, on Sundays,

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used to walk around
the swap meet,

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and this was my first piece

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that I bought
when I was in California.

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I mean, I think
I probably paid $5 for it,

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but it's just special.

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I got into antique furniture,

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something of which
I've always loved.

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You can tell when
you walk through the house,
like, I love old stuff.

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I love antiques.

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And Jeff encouraged me
to start my own business.

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You buy what you love
and you kind of hold onto it

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and it'll find a special spot.

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This bathroom
was not even here.

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This was actually
the living room.

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I really wanted to add
that second bathroom,

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so I knocked down

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the wall in the living room

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and we pulled it up a little.

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If it had just been me,
I would have just done
something regular

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because I knew
it was gonna be
a pain with the plaster.

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But that was
his favorite thing,

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and that's why
I had to make that happen.

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So the doors, we added in.

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We kind of just keep
the doors open all the time,
and that's,

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like one of the great things
about living at the beach.

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We come out here
and eat a lot.

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This is where
we'll have dinner

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and listen to the ocean
while you eat.

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-[bicycle bell rings]
-And there he goes.

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[laughing]

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If Jeff hadn't have
wanted this so much,

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I wouldn't be
sitting here right now.

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I do it because he loved this.

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He loved coming to the beach.

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He loved coming to the beach
with the kids and me.

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We always say this was,
like, his happy place.

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I always feel him
when I'm here.

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And I can't be out
near the ocean

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and near all this
without thinking of him.

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Yeah?

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[Hollis speaking]

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-[Kim] Yeah?
-[Hollis speaking]

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[Kim] I want a place

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that creates moments
for me and for my kids

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because at the end of the day,

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that's all you have.

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I care about us coming in here

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and hanging out,

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and having these memories

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'cause it's really all you
take with you to the end.