Yeah.

And I ended up leaving my job at the time, that was with the museum, so in the nonprofit world, and staying home with my daughter for a couple years with everything that happened.

And then once we were all coming out of that kind of COVID bubble, I was like, "All right.

I'm ready to get back, like, full force into the workforce." And I asked myself, "What do you really wanna do?" And my answer to myself was, "I wanna be back in the nonprofit industry, and I want to do something with dogs." And so I was looking for different opportunities, and Therapy Dogs of Santa Barbara was hiring, um, like a development kinda coordinator at the time.

And so I applied, got it.

I mean, it's just absolute kismet.

It has just been the best experience ever, and I'm so grateful every day.

So can you walk us through what a typical visit looks like, whether that's in a clinic setting or somewhere more unconventional?

What, what, what can you tell us?

Well, that ties into the system that started in, in the last 10 years.

There's been this system, like I said, that's infiltrated law enforcement.

It's infiltrated into social services.

Things have changed.

They have seriously dramatically changed, and it's created a system, in my opinion, built to protect the sex traffickers.

Um, it shut us out, and not just me.

Right.

Right.

Um, but like I said, I could see the darkness coming when, you know, they built up this relationship with us where we seemed comfortable with them, you know, making these introductions and, um, they would ask us to, say, send girls over to see senators.

No problem.

You know, we got very comfortable.

But then came that day when they were asking us to find the women to disappear, um, pe- women that had no family, and we were not cool with that.

None of us.

None of us were cool with that.

How does that connect to Sheldon Adelson?