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Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too, And this is stuff you should know about mail order marriages, the murky waters. I already know how you feel about it, and I feel like it's coming through clearly. Yeah, I mean, it's just it's very It's one of those really murky things where sometimes you hear these really great stories about people that do find are looking for love : and find love with someone from another country and it works out for everybody, And then sometimes you hear about stories where it's sort of what the National Organization for Women's Sonya Sario calls a softer version of human trafficking, or even worse, occasionally someone turns up murdered.
Yeah, that's : I mean, that's the truest dark side. So uh, that's just me level setting and we can talk about the good, the bad, and ugly. I think that was a great level saying. I generally agree with it, But for me, the jury is still out in thinking about it as a whole because there's so little hard data on this stuff.
