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The Hoarder Who Can鈥檛 Get Into His Own House | BRITAIN鈥橲 HIDDEN HOARDERS - YouTube
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compulsive hoarding is a growing hidden
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problem he's hoarding in both his homes
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in his cars in his garden it's estimated
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to affect 6% of Americans
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it just looks like everything that's
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supposed to be in the kitchen cupboards
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are all in the garden and up to 3
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million people in the UK is in denial
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and it's really really not good but when
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things get this serious the experts need
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to take action I've had to bow down to
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that I need help
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it upsets me that I can't do it
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this suburban house looks ordinary
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enough from the street but inside and in
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the garden it's a very different story
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tea and casts from NGOs cleaning
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services are in the process of clearing
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it there currently seven days into the
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job when we first came you couldn't see
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it you couldn't see anything from here
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she had made a little path without
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Stumpy's through here by cutting my way
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through so now from here literally was
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pure greenery it was all bushes from
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here so we've had to cut our way through
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watch your step this is a lovely
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conservatory which is not able to use
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because it's absolutely full width is
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bits and bobs
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there's old curtains old suitcase old TV
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empty paint buckets empty land shades
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old newspapers old printer just things
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that he actually doesn't need to use
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there's a lot of broken crockery in here
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carrier bugs that have disintegrated so
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you can see how long they've been here
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it's such a shame because he really
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needs to use his property there's holes
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in the kitchen floor it doesn't actually
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have a kitchen here
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there's not even a sink I don't know
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what happened I don't know why it's like
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this but he spends most of his time in
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his car and it's really really not good
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right now one of the lads is stepping on
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a sink which we didn't know was there
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this is the problem that we're facing
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we don't know things are there until we
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actually start to cut and uncover and
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how ironic there's one in the garden but
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there's not one in the house the more
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the chart the more they find it just
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looks like everything that's supposed to
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be in the kitchen cupboard ie plates
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casserole dishes saucers are all in the
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garden this house and another two doors
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down on the same street are owned by
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Michael Saunders a 74 year old who shows
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no signs of retiring now I work in a
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luxury hotel I play the piano at night
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for the guests I cook the breakfasts and
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I'm the duty manager of a 69 bedroom
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Hotel my days in the last few years have
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been helping people who have been less
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fortunate than myself what was family
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and sit and associated friends I lead a
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very very busy life during the cleanup
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mr. Saunders has been happy chirpy
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cheerful but he's in denial
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severely we've given him a task to do
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yeah
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which yet actually hasn't completed
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which is to clear some of the rubbish
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from his car and also for us to gain
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access to the garage the state of mr.
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Saunders his properties
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pretty bad he's had foxes living inside
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his home they've been gaining access
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through underground cellar hole he has
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always shaved so I think he may be going
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to his place of work
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we've able to scrub off yeah I know he
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goes to a calf up the road to have a
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meal in terms of helping us with the
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hoard he's not actually participating at
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the menu I went into hospital with
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cancer I was in hospital for six months
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I had the loss of the loss of salary for
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six months and then I was asked not to
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lift anything for about 11 weeks after
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coming into hospital imagine that and
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trying to pay your bills but we got
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through but obviously things got into a
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dilapidated State t and cars are not
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just cleaners they are trained in mental
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health care and unlike many cleaning
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firms they know that hoarding is a
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mental health condition mr. Saunders
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hoardings on a level 5 isn't it level 5
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which she's really actually yeah really
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extreme for the fact that he's hoarding
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in both his homes in his cars and in his
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garden and he's actually hoarding in the
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car so it's really really bad he just
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over spills into everything mr. Saunders
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doesn't admit to having a problem he
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doesn't think he's got a problem yeah
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he's in complete denial yeah all his
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possessions they're there for something
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for some reason or they've got value but
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really and truly not all of this stuff
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have value even all of his stuff he
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needs
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how long have you have things in the car
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well
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would probably two years the kitchen
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equipment right this is flooring for the
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kitchen flooring tiles right tiles here
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for around the around the washbasin
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which is going to be in the utility it
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was the only place I could store things
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I imagine you can't go in no you can't
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might at the moment I wouldn't have
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anybody in anyway
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mr. Saunders hasn't allowed the same
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series property one of his houses you
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can't actually get into it and the other
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property when we asked he said he
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couldn't find the key so sensitive and
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you know we don't want to push him away
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you know we're trying to gain his trust
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when he's ready to have that help then
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he'll let us know yeah with compulsive
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hoarders you have to build the trust and
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and take it a day at a time with them so
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basically so we'll deal with these
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gardens first then we'll deal with these
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cars and then we'll gain access to his
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home hopefully I haven't actually had a
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look in this shed to see what's in here
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could you see us when you first came no
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you couldn't see it not over all the
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shrubbery and the greenery you couldn't
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see the floor you couldn't see anything
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you couldn't see that bench it was
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really really bad
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right I think one of our labs has
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actually found the door behind this
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creepy Nighy thing is it a door yep
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so I think it's a door with a glass
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window the glass windows broken but I
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think we've actually uncovered the door
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to get through to the front so he's just
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going to keep snipping away until he
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uncovers it completely the beginning was
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a very hard test to go and didn't know
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what to expect with my team
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smashed it don't see this much do ya I
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looked upon buying my equipment for my
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home as an investment and I was still
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regarded as an investment but obviously
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things got into a deal a dilapidated
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state I became what you call probably
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people might say a hoarder so I'm
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grateful for this company that came
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along who were going to come and help me
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without them I know that I would have
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been in some dire trouble eventually
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I've always wanted to do things myself
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I'm not a lazy so and so I've had to bow
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down to that I need help
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and sometimes that is hard to ask for
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help when you've always given help I've
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only just learning that it's not to be
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ashamed to ask for help
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although that upsets me it upsets me
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emotionally that I can't do it I do what
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I can
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so thanks thanks very much for giving me
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the opportunity I know it's honest
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bounine or and we finish the job we
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offer an aftercare service and so
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basically we will still maintain contact
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with mr. Saunders so we're not just
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going to clean and leaving we'll be back
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once a month to check up on him and so
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forth but I've been talking to him all
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week and I say people don't live like
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this
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hence or saying that he was in denial
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yeah but now if I can retract what I
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said I would after hearing him speak to
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you
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you know he's realized that all this
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time he's a hoarder yeah so he's no
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longer in denial because he's openly
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admitted it now and that's what's really
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shocked us but we were proud of him and
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the part that he said that so we now we
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know that we'll be able to move forward
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yeah yeah so I'm looking forward to that
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it's still a little bit of work left to
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do
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but I'm very very pleased how far we've
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come was in seven days I mean it was
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like an Amazon jungle in here so yeah
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yeah we could be standing here seven
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days about no a lot of all just have a
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thing that we're just going to go in
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there and throw away their prized
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possessions when that's not the case not
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a House Clearance no and the next step
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would be to sort out the cars will you
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drive and encouraging to let us go into
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the house of the house and you start
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from there
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bit by bit
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