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Dustin Brown

👤 Person
44 appearances

Podcast Appearances

Radiolab
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

In Minnesota, there were communities where there were no children.

Radiolab
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

In Alaska, there were communities where there were no children.

Radiolab
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

So please, please do keep baby Veronica and her family in your prayers.

Radiolab
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

And it always nagged me.

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Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

I'm Dustin Brown.

Radiolab
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

We're in Nowatt, Oklahoma.

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Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

This is my house.

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Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

I'm part of the Wolf Clan.

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Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

And my name, Dustin, means brave warrior in Cherokee.

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Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

And actually, you know, join the army up and go over to Iraq.

Radiolab
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

I'm like, wow, I'm here for the Cherokees.

Radiolab
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

I'm the brave warrior out in, you know, deserts.

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Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

She said, okay, that's just great.

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Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

And almost a month later, she sent me a message saying that she was pregnant, and I was excited.

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Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

I mean, to have children with her was one of the things I wanted at that time.

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Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

Told her, I can move you and your kids up to the base.

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Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

Housing was going to be free on base.

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Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

There was schools for her kids.

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Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

She could get a job right there on base, you know.

Radiolab
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

Texting her up, trying to call her, still no answer.

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Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

There's a couple times that I've went back to the bar zone, went to her house.

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Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

Knocked on her door.

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Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

I could hear, you know, voices in the house.

Radiolab
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

You know, if there was one of them chances I wasn't going to come back, I wanted to make the right choice and let the mother be that sole parent.

Radiolab
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

Uh, the whole time I thought it was just, you know, the paperwork for me signing custody rights to her.

Radiolab
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

But when I got done signing, the guy said, you just signed your rights away.

Radiolab
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

And so did the biological mother.

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Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

The baby's been up for adoption.

Radiolab
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

She's been living in South Carolina for four months.

Radiolab
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

I should have had a lawyer there with me.

Radiolab
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

At that point in time, I grabbed the paper.

Radiolab
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

I mean, I never, never once did I want to give up on my daughter.

Radiolab
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

Never once did I want to give her up.

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Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

I mean, everybody says that I gave her up.

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Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

Never wanted to.

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Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

Daddy.

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Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

Don't mess with that water.

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Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

Thomas.

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Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

Thomas the train.

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Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

Thomas the train?

Radiolab
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

Yes.

Radiolab
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

Yep.

Radiolab
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

Are they eating?