Chapter 64: Murdered for Who She Loved-The Murder of Jaswinder Sidhu

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Hi guys. I'm Courtney and I'm
Lisa, and welcome to the next chapter

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in the Book of the Dead.
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Podcasts with a Twist. Hello,
Hello, Welcome to the next chapter of

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the Book of the Dead. It
is just me today. Lisa's not feeling

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well, so we're gonna take this
ride together without Lisa, but that's okay.

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She'll be in the next one.
Today, I have for you a

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different kind of story, one unlike
others that I've covered before. The story

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that I have for you today is
about an honor killing. And just to

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give you some general background information on
honor killings. According to Britannica dot com,

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they are most often the murder of
a woman or girl by a male

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family member, and a lot of
times their actions are justified in their own

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minds by claiming that the victim has
brought dishonor upon the family or done something

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to affect the prestige of the family. And in societies where honor killings are

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more prevalent, women and girls are
more closely monitored their virginity their sexual purity

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are really monitored by male relatives,
fathers, brothers, inevitably, husbands and

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victims are usually alleged to have engaged
in sexually immoral acts, either talking to

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men who are not related to them
in public or having sexual relationships with men

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outside of marriage, regardless of whether
or not these sexual acts were consensual or

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not. However, a woman can
be targeted for an honor killing for other

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reasons, including to not engage in
an arranged marriage or wanting to get or

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getting a divorce from their husband,
whether for a valid reason, well,

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any reason is valid to want a
divorce, but whether it be abuse related

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or any sort of reason, you
know, you want a divorce. Within

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this society, they justify that as
a reason or they use that as a

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justification for an honor killing. And
it's really all about maintaining the family's reputation,

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maintaining their honor, their class,
their level of distinction within the society

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that they are in. So there's
a lot of justifications for honor killings,

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and it's not something that's talked about
a lot because it's in the name honor

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killing. You know, they believe
that this murder has happened for an honorable

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reason to uphold the family honor.
When that is really not the case.

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There is nothing honorable about murder.
There's nothing justifiable about murder, and today's

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case is about just that. So
everyone knows the story of Romeo and Juliet,

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the story of starcross lovers from rival
families, and how they died for

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their love. Now this isn't quite
that story in the sense that the Romeo

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and Juliet of the story did not
take their own lives. But the case

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plays out in a very similar way. This is the murder of Jess Finder

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Sidhu. And as little disclaimer,
if I pronounce anything incorrectly, I apologize.

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I am trying very hard. Joss
Spinder Sidou, otherwise known as Jossi,

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was born to malchaiat Kauer and bucktar
Seeing in a very prominent family in

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Maple Ridge, Canada, on October
four, nineteen seventy five. Her family

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had immigrated from Punjab, India to
Canada before she was born in around nineteen

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seventy, and she was born in
a very traditional Sikh family where quote men

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are in charge of family honor and
women are blamed for tarnishing it. According

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to an article written for The Vancouver
Sun by Fabian Dawson. Now before we

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really get into this story, I
just want to kind of go over the

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caste system in India so you guys
kind of understand where I'm coming from in

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terms of the familial dynamic. According
to sefre Alliance dot Org, the origin

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of the cast system in India dates
back to more than three thousand years and

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it divides Hindus, and I say
Hindus, but it's really been adopted all

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over India. This caste system,
it did start originally in Hinduism. It's

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divided into forming categories, the Brahmins, the Kshatriyas, the Vaishiyas, and

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the Shodras, based on who they
were in their past life, their karma,

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what family line they come from.
And it is believed that this system

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originated from Brahma, the Hindu god
of creation. Now, the breakdown of

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the forming casts are the Brahmins are
the highest and most esteemed cast They often

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hold the job of priest or teacher. Then you have the Kashatriyas, which

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is the people often known traditionally as
warriors and they hold jobs like farmer,

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trader or merchant. You have the
Vashiyas could also hold the job of farmer,

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trader or merchant, and then the
Shodras, which are often those that

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do manual labor. But then there's
a fifth cast which is separate from the

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others who quote society believes to be
so viled that they aren't considered part of

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the system at all, And they
are the untouchables or the dalits, and

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they are from society forbidden to live
amongst those of high casts. And they

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have jobs like litterne cleaners and street
sweepers, and just like the jobs that

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no one who believes themselves to be
a distinguished member of society would want to

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have, because they are above something
so menial and dirty quote unquote. So

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Jossy is born into a family of
a higher cast, very very wealthy family.

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The family lived in a massive compound
on a blueberry field in Maple Ridge,

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which is an area rich in farm
life and had a prominent Sikh population.

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In her family, Jossi was not
encouraged to learn or further her education.

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And when I say massive, I
mean this house was more of a

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castle that has three generations of this
family. The home had over twenty rooms

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in it, with six kitchens and
nineteen bathrooms, and was valued at over

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two million dollars with a view of
mountains. And again, the ree I'm

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even mentioning the home is because it
really drives home the power this family had

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and the esteem that they had,
like they were mind bogglingly wealthy. Now,

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when the family moved to Canada,
they pulled their resources to buy nine

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anchors of blueberry fields that turned them
into millionaires. Now, before we can

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really get into Jossy's story, I
wanted to give you a little information in

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Sikhism because I don't want anyone to
misunderstand the story. As I'm telling it,

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Jossi's family could be considered very extreme
in their beliefs, when Sikhism,

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at its core, from what I
have read, is very beautiful religion.

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And I don't want anyone to hear
this story and take it as anyone who

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is a part of Sikhism or is
a specific cast within this culture is bad.

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Like, that's not what this story
is about. There are, as

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I've said when we've covered other topics
when Satanism is involved. You know,

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just because someone believes in a specific
thing or follows a specific religion doesn't mean

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that they are inherently bad. You
know, there are exceptions to every rule,

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and this story is an exception because, according to sikhnt dot com,

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Seekh means disciple or learner and was
founded in northern India in the fifteenth century

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by Guru Nanakdev g Contrary to popular
Western belief, it is nothing like Islam

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or Hinduism. It is monotheistic and
has a mean emphasis on equality between men

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and women. There are three basic
principles of this faith, meditating on God's

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name or praying, earning a living
by honest means, and sharing the fruits

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of your labor. It rejects cast
in class systems and believes in serving humanity.

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Turbans are worn to cover the hair
in respect to God, much like

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many faiths cover the hair for the
same reason. Sikhism views life not as

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a fall from grace, but a
unique opportunity to discover and develop the divinity

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in each of us. Human rights
and justice form a cornerstone of Seek belief

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and Seek history features countless examples of
Sekh gurus and their followers making tremendous sacrifices

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for the cause of religious freedom and
justice. So again, seems like a

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very beautiful religion, a very beautiful
faith to have, So just because this

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story is about a particular person or
people doing something terrible, does not mean

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that anyone or everyone that follows this
belief system is the same way. And

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it's something that I really like to
stress. When you talk about different religions

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and different beliefs and different faiths,
you're always going to have bad apples regardless

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of the faith that you're in.
I mean, I'm Catholic, and look

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at I could go down a rabbit
hole on Catholicism and the bad things that

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happen in regards to Catholicism. So
it really just depends on the person.

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It has nothing to do with the
faith. And I just really want to

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stress that now. According to mediums
dot com, Jasse, being a young

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girl in this traditional Fai family,
was expected to become a wife and mother

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and uphold the family's values. She
spent most of her free time in the

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house doing chores or saying her prayers, and her education was not a priority

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for her family, unlike her brother, who was encouraged to learn and succeed

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financially. She attended school at pitt
Metos Secondary School, and her younger brother

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and cousins would in essence follow her
around school to make sure she was behaving

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herself and acting appropriately. She after
school was expected to come right home and

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do her chores, and she was
rarely permitted to leave the home. So

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I'm sure she was very lonely,
this little girl who couldn't go out and

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play with her friends. It's a
very lonely existence to have, especially for

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a small child. Now, when
Jossi is still very young, her father

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dies. According to medium dot com, he suffered from schizophrenia, but I

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couldn't corroborate that in other articles,
so I'm not one hundred percent sure.

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But either way, he does pass
and Jossi's uncle, Sergeit Singh Badessha,

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takes over as the patriarch of the
family. Her uncle was even more strict

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in his beliefs about women, and
Jossie's life became even more controlled after her

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father's passing. As the years passed, Jossi grew up into a beautiful young

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woman, and after graduating high school, she enrolled in beauty school to become

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a beautician, which was a huge
step for a very sheltered young woman.

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She was doing something on her own
and it was a taste of independence for

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her. She became very close with
her instructor, deb Devoce while at the

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school and confided in her about her
strict family life. According to The Vancouver's

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Son, after Jossy got a job
following her graduation from beauty school, she

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was driven to and from work by
her brother and her paychecks were deposited into

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a common account, so she didn't
have control over her money and will see

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why that's an issue or more of
an issue later on in nineteen ninety five,

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on a family trip to Punjab,
she meets Sukfinder Singh Sidou, who

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went by the nickname Mitu. Mitu
was born in nineteen seventy seven in Punjab,

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India and he grew up lower class. In nineteen ninety one, according

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to NRI in ournet dot com,
the village he lived in, Konke,

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became a stronghold for the Sikh militancy
and he was one of eight boys picked

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up on suspicion of being involved.
He was brutally interrogated for a week before

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being released. According to the Department
of Justice, this was a terrorism group

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in India and the catalyst for the
militancy was the attack on the Golden Temple

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in Armourstar in June of nineteen eighty
four. This was a small group of

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extremist Sikh separatists fighting for an independent
Punjab named Kalistan. According to Hindu American

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dot Org quote started in the early
nineteen eighties, radical separatists spearheaded a bloody

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campaign to carve out an independent theocratic
Sikh state known as Kalistan, which means

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land of Pure in Punjab and other
parts of northern India. So they suspected

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him of being part of this terrorist
group, which he wasn't, And in

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fact, he was very very young
when this happened. So I don't know

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why they thought he was part of
it. Maybe there were very young members

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of this extremist group. I don't
know, but they thought he was part

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of it. But they ultimately released
him a week later. Now, in

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nineteen ninety two, Metso starts playing
kabati, which is basically a combetitive form

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of team tag from what I understand, and he does pretty well. He

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wins a few tournaments with his team
and becomes sort of a local star,

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but he doesn't receive much money from
these tournaments. Now, that same year,

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he's arrested again and severely beaten over
his suspected involvement with this Sikh terrorist

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group, which again he was not, and it forces him to stop competing

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for a while. So he becomes
a rickshaw driver in nineteen ninety three,

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which is a very low paying job. Then he meets Jossi. According to

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an article for the Washington Post,
week To first saw Jossi in December of

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nineteen ninety four, and it is
love at first sight, he told the

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Post. We passed each other and
we looked at each other for a moment.

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She had her cousin with her.
I was alone. It was love

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at first sight. Not a word
was said. Then I mustered enough courage

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and went up to her cousin,
who I had seen in the village before.

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And this cousin told him that Jossie
was staying at her maternal uncle's house,

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and he said, I didn't know
she was from Canada. That now

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it turned out that the home of
Joss's uncle was right next door to Mitu's

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home, and that same night,
completely besote it. He went outside and

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just looked up at the house.
According to me too, that night,

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she came out onto the terras of
her uncle's home and looked back at him

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before leaving and getting on her cousin's
scooter. She rode past his home and

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her scooter stalled, so she called
for help, and Mitu's mother called him

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out to help Jossi, he said, I went up to her and said

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hello. I asked, what has
happened? She said, the scooter won't

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start. I took my time to
figure it, although I knew there was

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nothing wrong with it, so she
obviously thought he was like cute enough and

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interesting enough that she faked something being
wrong with the scooter so he would come

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out and talk to her, which
is freakly really cute. Me too,

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was eighteen at the time, and
said he had never spoken to a girl

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before, so he was really nervous
and tongue tied. But Jossie didn't seem

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to mine. So for three days
they looked at each other from their homes

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until they were finally able to spend
time together at a mutual friend's house.

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There's a tiny bit of a language
barrier, as Jossie's Punjabi was not very

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good, but they made it work
and they were completely head over heels with

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each other. He said. Quote
we sat in the living room and talked.

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She said she didn't want to go
back to Canada. She said she

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liked me and now she had made
up her mind that I would be everything

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for her. I also wanted to
confess my feelings to her, but she

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beat me to it. So obviously
this is very quick. You know,

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they don't know each other very long. It's been a few days. But

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it was one of those when you
know, you know kind of situations,

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And in that moment, Jossy knew
that Mitu was the one for her and

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vice versa. But obviously they have
plenty of obstacles and we're going to talk

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about those obstacles in a moment.
But he told her that he was poor.

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You know, obviously she comes from
a wealthy family. But he said,

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quote, whatever I have, this
is it. But I will love

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you a lot. I said,
this is no match. You were in

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Canada, I am in India.
You are rich. I am poor.

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Our parents would also oppose, and
Jossi knew her family wouldn't approve. Mitu

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was from a poor family and had
a low paying job, something that Jossi's

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family would not like. In addition
to the fact that Mitu's last name was

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also Malkiot's maiden name. Now,
according to that same Washington Post article,

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many families believe that marrying someone with
the same family name was equivalent to marrying

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a family member, which I guess
I kind of understand that mindset because of

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just the connotation it could hold,
Like if someone on from the outside looking

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and didn't know that they just happened
to have the same name, it was

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like, what do you mean you
married a relative like kind of thing.

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So I kind of understand that.
But because of these reasons, Jossi decided

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to keep her relationship with me to
his secret. So they write letters to

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each other for the next two years, mailed out by friends to cover their

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tracks, and had secret phone calls. Mityo said how they would cry on

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the phone about wanting to be together
and how he wanted to sell his lands

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and move to Canada to be with
Jossi. Now, by the time Jossi

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had turned twenty four, her family
had started planning to find a suitable husband

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for her. They threw huge parties
and dressed her up in an effort to

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find a match, and her mother
and aunts would appraise possible suitors to find

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the perfect match that would bring honor
to the family. And increase its influence

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in the community. The family was
settling on an arranged marriage to a business

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partner of Sirjeep that would bring more
financial power to the family, but Jossi

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came up with a plan to get
out of this and begged her mother to

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take her to India to find a
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nine, Jossi and her mother,
Malchia, her aunt, and Sir Ji

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go to Punjab to find a potential
husband for Jossi. Now, when Jossi

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arrives in Punjab with her mother and
uncle, she again started meeting with Mitu

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in secret and begged him to take
her away and marry her, otherwise her

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family was going to marry her off
to a stranger. According to the Washington

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Post, and aunts of Jossie's felt
badly for the young couple and decided to

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help them. Mitu would bring this
aunt sleeping pills and she would mix it

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into the family's food and drink to
make sure they were all sound asleep,

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so that Mitu could sneak into the
house late at night and visit Jossi.

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They eventually decided the only way to
be together indefinitely was to marry in secret.

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Jossi snuck out of the house in
March nineteen ninety nine under the guise

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of staying at a relative's home and
with Mitu's friends as witnesses. They were

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married in a very small, quick
ceremony on March fifteenth. Then they spend

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the night together in a hotel in
a different city to cover their tracks.

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After their marriage, for the next
couple of weeks, Jossy would go out

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a lot to meet with her new
husband, and her mother and uncle grew

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very suspicious and their suspicion was placed
on me too, who they saw a

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lot near their home. Now,
Jossy would kind of try and hide what

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she was doing by saying she was
going to go out with relatives, she

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was going to go see friends.
But obviously her family, who's been keeping

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a close eye on her since she
was an infant, knows that she's lying,

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or at least has a feeling or
sneaking suspicion that she's lying. Besides

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the fact that they keep seeing this
young man hanging out near their home all

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the time, so they threatened me
too. Mitu said he was threatened to

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stay away from Jossy told not to
talk to her, not to go near

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her. And obviously Jossh and Me
Too are not having it. They're in

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love, they're married, and they
want to find a way to be together

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forever now. When Jossy returned to
Canada, it seemed like there was only

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one person she trusted enough to tell
about her marriage to Me Too, and

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that was Jodie Wright, who was
Jossy's coworker. According to NRI Internet,

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on April nineteenth, Jossy registered the
marriage in India, prompting word to get

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to Jossie's family that she had married
someone quote unquote unfit, but she denied

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it. However, after returning to
America, Jossie's family grows more and more

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suspicious because money starts coming out of
Jossy's bank account and it's being sent to

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India. Again, she did not
have her own bank account. She was

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sharing it with someone in the family. Maybe it was a family bank account.

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Maybe she had her mom or her
uncle on the account with her,

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her names on the account with her
so they could kind of see her transaction.

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Either way, they were saying that
a lot of money was leaving the

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account and being sent to India,
and they know that she doesn't know a

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lot of people in India. She
didn't grow up in India. She knows

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her relatives and they've seen the strange
boy hanging around, so they're starting to

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connect the dots how Jody told CBC
that Josse's family eventually found out about the

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marriage because a former boss had called, saying Jossi had left some personal belongings

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behind when she left, so a
family member went to pick them up,

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and in those belongings were letters from
Me Too, as well as her marriage

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certificate, which she had hidden at
this job. Jody said that Jossi had

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been threatened by her family as well
as Me Too to end the marriage,

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saying quote, she was fearful of
her life. She told me she didn't

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know what they were capable of.
They allegedly beat her and demanded that she

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have the marriage annulled, but Jossi
refused, so her uncle coerced her into

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signing documents, saying that she was
forced into a marriage with me too.

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Now I did see in one source
that she was coerced by being given a

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document to signs saying that they were
going to buy her a car and they

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needed her signature to buy her this
car. I saw another Shore say that

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she was just given a blank piece
of paper and told to sign it.

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So I'm not one hundred percent shore
which is which or which is true?

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But either way, Sergei does get
the signature from Jossi. According to Jody,

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even before they had found out about
the marriage, her family would sit

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outside the salon Jossy worked out to
keep an eye on her, but when

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the news came out, they were
there even more and Jossy was being treated

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like a prisoner in her own home, to the point that Jody and Jossi

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had a code word. The code
word was I'm sick or I have the

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flu. That was my trigger to
call the cops because she was locked in

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her bedroom. Jody said she had
to call the police twice. On February

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two thousand, Jossi's trying to get
Me Too to Canada and she sends a

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letter to Ottawa to Warren immigration officials
that her uncle will try and give them

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false information about Me Too, and
the following day serge does just that.

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He files an affidavit that says Mito
and his friends forced Jossi to marry Me

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Too at gunpoint and uses the signature
that he tricked Jossi into gibbing as validation

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that she was the one making the
complaint. The Affidavid is sent to India

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and Meto and his two friends Binjuri
and surrender Kamar end up under police investigation.

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Now, Metwo goes into hiding after
his two friends are arrested, and

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he calls Jossi begging for help.
Now, allegedly he speaks to Sergi and

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Sergei tells him all of this can
go away if you divorce Jossi and all

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the marriage and be done with it, and this will all go away,

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but Meto refuses, so Meto is
ultimately found and arrested. Now, Jossi

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sends a letter to the police and
in saying that the whole thing was a

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lie and she was not forced to
marry me too, but the police tell

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her in order to withdraw the complaint, she has to do it in person.

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At this point, Jossy has been
locked in the basement of her family's

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home, but she manages to make
a call to the RCMP and they get

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her out of the home. She
knows she has to get to India,

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so since her account is frozen,
she borrows money in order to book a

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flight to India. Jody Wright told
CBC she spoke to Jossi on her way

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to the airport and said, quote
she said she was going to go to

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India and bring her husband back and
they were going to start their life together

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to get an apartment Accrdingtomedium dot com. Upon arriving in India, Jossy went

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to the police station and told the
whole story to an inspector Joskaran Singh.

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He had her make a sworn testimony
and Mito is subsequently released and all charges

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dismissed. Me too brought Jossy back
to his home and properly introduced her to

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his mother, but fearing for their
safety, they moved to a town nearby

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to stay with Mitu's relatives. In
early June, according to The Hindustan Times,

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Jossi had filed an affidavit in the
office the Jaggaron Senior Superintendent of Police

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that they faced threat to their life
from her mother and uncle. She had

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also allegedly filed one in Ludiana,
the town they were living in now.

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On June eighth, two thousand,
Mito and Jossy receive a call from Malkia

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saying that they have her blessing and
that they can put this whole ordeal behind

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them, and how they should return
to Canada to start their family and put

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everything in the past. Of course, Jossi is overjoyed and informs her mother

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about their plans for the next few
days so that they can make arrangements to

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come home. And I don't blame
her for being immediately overjoyed by her mom

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calling and giving her blessing. You
know, I'm sure this is what Jossi

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has been praying for, that her
mother would approve of Jossi marrying the person

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that she loves and doing something that
she wants to do that in her heart

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she knows is the right thing for
her. She knows that Meto is the

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right man for her, She's so
in love with him. And to have

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her mother's blessing, I'm sure just
took a huge weight off of her shoulder.

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But Jossi would never make it back
to Canada that evening. As they

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rode down the street and Punjab on
a scooter, they were ambushed and attacked.

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Mito was beaten and left for dead, and Jossi was kidnapped and taken

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to a farmhouse. One of the
kidnappers calls Jossy's mother and Jossie begs her

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to help her. The following day, Jossi's body was found in a canal

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near the farmhouse. She had been
beaten, tortured and her throat had been

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cut. Mito was also found and
taken to the hospital, suffering bruises,

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dab wounds and his head had been
split open, but he survived. He

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survived and was able to tell police
what happened the night of June eighth,

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which it was amazing that he survived
first of all, but he was able

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to tell police what happened and give
them the number of Sir Geed informing the

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police about the threats he and Jossy
had received. So the police look at

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the call logs and according to the
investigating officers Huaran Singh Khana, they found

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over two hundred calls made by Sir
Jeed over four days before Joss's murder,

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including the day of the same numbers. Over the course of the investigation,

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eleven people were arrested in connection with
Jossy's murder, including according to CBC,

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Joss's uncle Darshan Singh I will say, though according to other sources, Darshan

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is named as being a close friend
of Serjeait's, so it kind of depends

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on the source. He may be
an uncle, he may be just a

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friend of serje Now, these men
that were arrested confess to being involved in

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Joss's murder, but that they were
paid fifty thousand dollars to do so now

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paid by who, malchiod and swered. In fact, these men said that

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after Jossi had been kidnapped and Malkiat
had been called, when Jossi refused to

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leave Me Too, even under threat
of her life, Malkiat gave the final

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order for Jossi to be killed.
According to CBC, four individuals were convicted

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in India of murder, attempted murder
and conspiracy to commit murder in regards to

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the attack on Me Too and the
murder of Jossi. According to Niai Internet,

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seven men are convicted in plotting and
killing Jossi, including Darshan Singh and

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former police officer Joe Jinder Singh,
who, according to The Washington Post,

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negotiated payments on behalf of Sergeit for
the killing of Jossi. Amarti Singhrai,

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senior Superintendent of police in Punjab's Sangurj
district, says the inspector Quote was approached

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by the family. He put them
in touch with the contract killers. He

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also provided them with a vehicle and
Ashwani Kamar, who was the one to

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kill Jossu, was given a life
sentence for Jossi's murder and the attempted murder

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of me too, although Darshan appealed
his case and he was actually released.

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They also charged Malkiat and Sergeid,
who are in Canada at this point,

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with conspiracy to commit murder, demanding
they be extradited to India to face these

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charges, but the RCMP initially refused
to get involved on their end, basically

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saying that a murder that happened in
India had nothing to do with Canada.

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It seems, based on my research, that the RCMP finally got involved in

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Joss's murder in two thousand and four, two thousand and five, and in

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two thousand and seven, according to
the South Asian Post, they visited me

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to and Ludiana to get a statement
from him. Mitiu is actually in jail

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at this point due to an allegation
of rape from a girl in his village,

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which he his family, and his
lawyer vehemently deny. The girl,

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who was allegedly the daughter of Darshan, which led people to believe the fact

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that this allegation's fault due to that
coincidence, eventually recanceed her statement and it

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said that the allegation was employed to
discredit When Mito was saying in regards to

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Melchiot and Sergey being involved in Jossi's
murder, but they are sam pego and

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speak to me too and get a
statement from him about the events that transpired

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that night, and he tells them
how he and Jossy were coming back from

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having dinner after a day of shopping
for their wedding reception when they were attacked.

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They were riding along on the scooter
when they saw car parked ahead.

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It appeared at first to be broken
down. Two men began to walk toward

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Jossi and me too, hiding swords
and hockey sticks behind them. They swung

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in Mito, who ducked. The
blow struck Jossi's head. Mito fell off

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the scooter. Then he says four
or five men attacked him with swords and

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sticks. One man was holding her
and she was screaming help help. Meto

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said he couldn't see clearly. He
tried to rise but couldn't. The men

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throw Jossi in a car and left
him on the road, and then he

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told them about the threats that they
had both received from Josse's family, some

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of which were in writing in the
forms of letters that had been sent there.

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Sampee also spoke to deb Devots and
she told them of how Jossy was

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afraid of her family. Twelve years
after Jossy was murdered, Malchiat and Sergeit

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are arrested by the RCMP after the
British Columbia Supreme Court issued warrants for their

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arrest under the Extradition Act. During
the extradition hearing, Jody testified about what

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Jossi had gone through after her family
found out about the marriage, and how

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Mitu would call Jossy and tell her
how he had been beaten and he and

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his family had been threatened. Jody
said, quote Jossy knew that the uncle

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had arranged people to go after Mitu
and his family so that this marriage would

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break up. And in twenty fourteen, Malchiot and Sergeed are ordered to be

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extradited to India to face the conspiracy
charges as well as murder charges. However,

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in twenty sixteen, this decision was
set aside over concerns from Malchiat and

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Sergey safety in India and the concern
that they would not have a fair trial.

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In twenty sixteen, the Attorney General
of Canada appealed on behalf of the

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Indian courts the decision to not extradite
the two, and in twenty seventeen,

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according to CBC, the Supreme Court
ruled that the original extradition order was justified.

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The judgment said quote in this case, it was reasonable for the Minister

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to conclude that, on the basis
of the assurances he received from India,

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there was no substantial risk of torture
or mistreatment of b and S that would

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offend the principles of fundamental justice protected
by Section seven of the Charter, and

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that their surrenders were not otherwise unjust
or oppressive. But following that, there

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was a stay of extradition filed by
Malchiat and Surjit because they were apparently not

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formally told of the decision to extradite
them. That December, the appeal is

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rejected and in January of twenty nineteen, Malchiat and Serjit are sent to India,

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almost twenty years after Jossi was murdered. Due to their age both are

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in their seventies, they were released
on bail and so far they are just

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living their lives in India as they
still have not gone to trial. Meanwhile,

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Mito has been in and out of
jail for various random charges that seem

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to have no weight to them,
such as being involved in drug trafficking,

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and his brother Rona was arrested for
an accusation of rate by the same woman

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that recanted the same accusation against me
too. In a hearing in two thousand

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and one, Mito testified about the
threats he and Jossy had received and how

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he believed that her mother and uncle
were behind Jossy's murder. While they admitted

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on the stand that they disapproved of
the marriage, Malchiot and Serjit denied any

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involvement in Jossy's murder and that is
unfortunately the last update in this case.

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As far as I know, Malchiot
and Serjed are currently walking free, even

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though there is more than enough proof
that they had Jossy murdered for who she

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decided to love and believing she brought
dishonor on the family. Like I said

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in the beginning, honor taillings are
almost like a silent crime because they are

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in the regions where they happen,
almost considered a consequence of primarily a woman's

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actions. According to an article written
about honor killings by Sachi Kol for Hazlid

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Times, the class systems in South
Asian culture are far more dominant and influential

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than they are in North America.
By defining joss Finder's death as an honor

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killing rather than a murder, gives
it a kind of exotic connotation, as

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if to say this is something they
do, it can never happen here.

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We don't do that. The honor
killing classification makes it seem as if domestic

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violence, when committed in Judeo Christian
holmes is a frightening rarity. When done

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in South Asian homes, it's an
intrinsic part of the culture. Jossi was

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murdered almost twenty four years ago,
and she still has not gotten justice,

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nor has me too, because the
people that orchestrated this attack have not been

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held accountable. Mitu's family are the
ones fighting for justice for them. They

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are the ones that claim Jossi's body
after her murder, and they are the

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ones bearing the financial burden of twenty
four years worth of trials with no real

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results. Actually, considering that only
three of the eleven people arrested that physically

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committed the attack and murder were incarcerated
for it, it's disgusting to me that

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it's been so long. They know
who was behind her murder, they know

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who is behind the attack on me
too, and yet there is still no

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trial. How I read something saying
that Sergide has a lot of power,

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that his and Malchiot's family are very
powerful in India, and that could be

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the reason for all these delays.
And it's very possible. It's a political

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game, it's a monetary game.
I'm sure that there's bribery involved. I'm

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not saying there is, but I
wouldn't be surprised that there was bribery.

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And you know that political power being
held over someone's head in order to stall

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the trials, in order to have
these countless charges be brought up against me

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too, even though like I said, they have no way to them.

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It's devastating that he has to go
through this continuously. It's devastating that his

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family has to go through it continuously, and it's devastating that Jessvender has never

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gotten justice. And there seems to
be no remorse for Malchiat or Surgy for

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Jasse being murdered. The only people
that seem to be heartbroken over it are

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a Meto's family and Jody and deb
and I think it's evidence enough that they

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had a hand in this, because
they just don't seem to care. But

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that was the murder of Jess findersy
do and I apologize if this was a

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little weird for you. It was
weird for me. I probably talked a

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little too fast because I had no
one to bounce off of. But hopefully

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you guys liked this. You know. If you do, maybe I'll sprinkle

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in some solo episodes here and there
see what happens. But that's about it.

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As always, we will see you
in the next one. I hope

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you have a wonderful week. Make
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remember, please be kind and don't
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