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Look for the Jesus Calling app in both the Apple and Google Play Stores. Welcome to Jesus Listen, Stories of Prayer. I'm Susie McIntyre and I just want to

welcome you to our episode this week.

Patrina Pacheco is a lady who is a singer-songwriter.

Sit back and relax, we're going to have a wonderful conversation with her and you are going to love her.

Hey, Patrina, it's so good to have you on Jesus Listen's stories of prayer.

I feel like that my story parallels yours so much and we're from basically the south and my grandma came

out of Mississippi and as a girl and so and came to Oklahoma. So I think there's a lot of parallel in our stories

after we got raised up and we're not here to hear about mine,

but I just want to tell you that I can relate to you so much and

know kind of what you went through in your life and you were born and raised in Mississippi.

Mm-hmm. In the kill, that's where I grew up. Basically the same place in my mom, my dad was raised.

So, and it's a real small town and everybody knows everybody

basically everybody's related to everybody and if you're not related to you

know everybody then you're friends with them you're close with them and everybody knows everybody

so yeah it's a it's an amazing place to to raise children you know whenever I

grew up and I went out in the world I was I knew that I wanted to come back when I had a child and

raise him, you know, in the in the kill because of it's like family. I mean it's awesome.

We're the hospitality state so.

So when you got out of high school and you did you move away to college did you

just move to the next town? Where did you go?

No, I actually went to college. I stayed. It wasn't too far from home, but the junior college.

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