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[ Insects chirping ]

[Bleep] The shelter's on fire.

Narrator: One man and one woman...

- Aah! - Aah!

Narrator: ...Alone for 21 days...

Aah!

Cut myself up pretty good here.

Narrator: ...To face the most primal survival challenge

of their lives.

Mmm. Rat kebabs.

They have no clothes, no food, no water.

Only their skills...

Ow. God, that [bleep] hurt.

Narrator: ...And their will to survive...

Whoo-hoo!

Woman: Man, you failed at this, too.

I'm Joe Brandl of Dubois, Wyoming.

I'm a young 55 years old,

and I'm ready for this adventure.

Can't wait to see what my partner's like.

I really don't care age, race, shape, form, anything.

The only thing I really care about

is that he's trying to prepare just as much as I am.

I guess the best advice I could give myself

is just do what you do.

I'm Joe from Dubois, Wyoming, cowboy state.

Almost 10,000 feet here. God's country.

I'm a guy that's going 9-0 all the time.

When my father died when I was 10 years old,

I didn't have a mentor,

so I had a wrestling coach and I had a scout master

that came along and said,

you know, "we're gonna mentor you."

So, I vowed ever since that time to mentor kids.

When I learn the skills,

I don't learn them necessarily just for myself,

but I learn them to pass it on to the next generation.

Narrator: Joe's leadership qualities have been well honed

through his years as a scout leader,

but his survival skills have never been tested

in a marathon survival challenge.

He begins with a PSR of 7.1.

Joe: If she's as excited as I am,

then we're gonna have a great relationship.

Ooh, are we getting close? I'm getting nervous.

I'm Andrea.

I'm 29, and I am a personal trainer from Moab.

I've always grown up in the outdoors,

since I was little.

Hunting, fishing, camping ...I was out there doing it.

Up until about two years ago,

I spent five years in law enforcement.

I worked everything from patrol to undercover work

for Internet crimes against children and things like that.

I've had to work through

a multitude of child-homicide cases.

I actually was diagnosed with PTSD.

I've definitely seen things that I can't unsee,

experienced things that I never would wish on my worst enemy.

And so I hope this experience will help me heal

and get stronger.

Narrator: Andrea's primitive skills tested well,

but it remains to be seen

whether her experience as a crime-unit officer

gives her the mental toughness

to survive in the wild for 21 days.

Her initial PSR has been set at 6.6.

[ Sighs ]

It feels 150% real right now.

Wow, this is it.

It's a magic moment.

This is it.

Okay. Here we go.

All right, doesn't get any more real than this.

Here it is.

[ Groans ]

I am not a naked person.

Even though I used to be a cop, I don't have a lot of experience

being around men in close quarters.

Here we go.

Joe: I'm a conservative, republican,

cowboyish guy from Wyoming

looking for that hard-core mountain woman, you know?

Andrea: As far as there being any attraction

between me and my partner,

I definitely don't think that's gonna happen.

Number one, I'm gay.

Number two, we're out in the middle of the jungle

trying to survive,

so I think that's gonna be the last thing on our mind.

How's it going?

I've waited all my life to meet you.

- Hi. I'm Andrea. - Andrea, I'm Joe.

- It's nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.

I am so excited.

Joe: When I first see my partner,

and I know right away it's very positive.

I think this is my bag.

All right.

Narrator: In addition to a pot,

Joe and Andrea have each been allowed to bring

a single survival item.

I brought my fire starter.

I brought my survival knife.

Heck yeah. I was hoping for that.

- Do you have a map? - Yeah, I've got our map.

Okay, so it looks like we're right there at that big tree.

So, follow... we could follow the river up

and then up in this little peninsula.

Hopefully will be lots of resources there.

What do you think?

So, let's take off, actually, in that direction

and head towards camp.

All right, that sounds great.

Okay, let's do it.

I get to go camping 21 days with a naked woman.

Go figure.

Narrator: Joe and Andrea are embarking

on the ultimate survival safari

in the Zambezi region of Namibia.

Africa is the deadly domain of the big five...

cape buffalo, the African lion,

black rhino, nocturnal leopard,

and the African elephant.

But lurking in the swampy marshes

is Africa's most dangerous threat to humans...

the fiercely territorial hippopotamus.

Despite being a herbivore, this four-ton menace kills

by biting, crushing, or drowning its victims.

This is the place

where I'm not so stoked about being four feet tall.

[ Both laugh ]

And disappear.

Andrea: Out here, being this little,

the grass out here is taller than I am,

so I feel very vulnerable.

I wonder if this is just a hippo trail.

They tend to walk in a narrower trail.

Joe: We start wading through it, and it's deep,

and we're following hippo trails.

You know, that's how we're getting to there,

so we're following the trails

of an animal that people consider

one of the most dangerous in this area.

It's really deep here in the channel.

Okay.

Oh!

Yeah, this is thick.

All right, Andrea, here we are. Dry land.

Yes! Made it. Home, sweet home.

I really do like the overhang of the tree.

I feel like the backside's gonna give us a solid,

like, foundation to start from.

I think this is home. Let's do it.

It is perfect. It was a great place.

It was a great idea on her part.

We're kind of running out of daylight,

so hopefully we can get water started.

Oh, I think that's a great idea.

Holy crap. Oh, my gosh.

Whoo-whoo! Water.

Andrea: After we get water,

we decided that we need some fire

so that we can boil and purify it.

This fire starter, actually, my grandpa gave it to me.

Clearly I've used it a time or two.

Oh, yeah. We have fire.

My partner can build a fire. You're awesome.

Yes. [ Sighs ]

Honestly, I feel like we're killing it.

My partner's in good spirits. We've got fire day 1.

So far, I am so thankful that I got Joe as my partner.

He's so encouraging, he's patient,

he's really knowledgeable.

[ Laughs ] Fire! I feel so happy.

Boom!

I would chest-bump you, but kind of awkward naked, so...

[ Laughs ] Yes.

I feel so happy right now.

[ Animal grunting ]

We have heard some hippos tonight.

They've been really close.

So, first night so far is a little bit rough.

[ Grunting continues ]

There's a hippo in our camp.

I'm trying to get it.

It's right... Behind our shelter.

[ Hippo grunting ]

Hey, Joe.

It's like 10 feet away.

Maybe 20.

[ Hippo grunting ]

Andrea: It was a long, long night.

Last night was brutal.

Last night was our first break-in.

Narrator: During their first night in Namibia,

Andrea and Joe managed to stay off

a curious hippo's dinner menu,

but one of the security cameras wasn't as lucky.

[Bleep] From last night. Joe: That is really fresh hippo

you can see where they walked here.

So, you totally have to take this serious.

You're in a place that you don't know anything about.

Andrea: It's been hot. We haven't eaten anything.

So, it's definitely already starting to take its toll.

We decided that we're hunting

the little five instead of the big five.

So, the big five being, like, lion, hippo, cape buffalo,

all the, like, big five most dangerous animals.

And we decided, since we can't go after those,

we're going after the little five.

So we've got minnows, chameleon, grubs, snails, and bird.

The little five of Africa.

Watch out.

This actually looks pretty promising.

Oh.

Look at that.

Joe!

Yeah.

I found us a grub.

All right.

[ Chuckles ] Aah! It's wiggling.

Come on, little guy. Stay with me.

Got two in my tongs, but they're trying to spin out.

In there.

I was never any good at chopsticks,

especially when my food was moving.

Oh, I don't want to touch this, but I know we can eat this.

Fatty ones.

Oh, wow. Whoa.

Joe: All of a sudden,

here comes my partner with the treat of the day...

two huge grubs.

Ooh.

Andrea: Instantly, like, my heart is sinking

'cause I know that we have to eat these poor guys,

and they're, like, dying in front of me.

Joe: We do, like, prayer, like, bless us, our lord,

and these, thy gifts,

we are about to receive from thy bounty.

Through Christ, our lord. Amen.

- It's very catholic. - Amen.

Freak, it's, like, leaking out stuff.

Like, I'm down to eat some grub.

I think you just eat the whole thing.

But it's so big.

All right.

Okay.

That's really good.

Is it?

It's nutty.

That's really good.

I look, Joe's already eaten his.

Mine's still staring at me.

It really tastes good.

You'll be super surprised.

I've always heard they were nutty-tasting,

and they're exactly right.

Okay.

Ooh, I'm nervous. Okay.

You can do it.

Ooh, I can't look at it.

That's pretty good, isn't it?

Mm.

Delicious. That's grub-alicious.

Mm-hmm.

[ Laughs ]

The grub's so mushy.

It, like, crunches and explodes.

Ugh. Thank you, grub.

[ Laughs ]

Ahh. Yes.

There it was.

The first of the little five.

Would you eat another one?

On day 7.

[ Laughs ]

Oh, you rock.

It's not that our bed's uncomfortable,

'cause it's actually pretty nice.

It's the fact that it's completely inundated

with ants that want to crawl in every direction.

We're deciding to try to rub some ash on us

and hopefully get some of these bugs off of us.

Oh, that's great. Hot sand and ash on your body.

I'm not used to being around a lot of males...

at all. Hardly ever.

You know, even a naked guy.

Like, that's uncomfortable for me.

Okay, bend over.

It's too hot?

Nope, it's fine.

Joe's more of a touchy-feely guy.

I tend to not be as much as he is.

Not that I'm not, like, a warm person,

but that's just who Joe is.

All right.

It's so cold at night.

We know we're gonna spoon.

You just have to do it. That's survival.

She's so small, she fits perfectly.

And being so much older than her,

I feel really protective of her.

Andrea: I didn't sleep at all last night.

Maybe got an hour of sleep.

It was really hard to come out and say that I was a lesbian.

That was very, very hard for my parents,

very, very hard for my family.

So, for me, I'm really very careful

with who, like, I talk to and share with that.

I get the sense from Joe, based on his background,

like, he 100% believes marriage is death do us part.

And grew up very, very catholic

and talks about God all the time,

and so it's one of those things

like I don't even want to toy with or bring up

until I feel safe in doing so.

Oh, look.

Oh, my gosh.

We come in, we find a sausage tree.

Narrator: The sausage tree, also known as Kigelia Africana,

gets its name from its long, sausage-like fruit,

which is eaten by elephants and hippos,

but poisonous to people.

Whoa, look at this baby.

All right, what do you think?

[ Laughs ] Yeah. I don't think it's long enough.

Guys make a lot of penis-reference jokes,

and not that it, like, offends me.

It's just new.

And so I don't really know how to react

because I don't know what the normal reaction would be

because I'm just not around that.

All right. That's so cool.

Plan for today for me is definitely clothes.

The real thin ones, you can really get it tight.

It's just so not worth working with those thicker bottoms.

Yep.

I don't feel comfortable

just being naked walking around at all.

Like, I hate it, actually.

Clothes! Yay!

Yes!

I feel a million times better having something on.

All right.

Turn my back so you don't get to see

the rest of the opening act.

[ Chuckles ]

- Ready? - Yep.

- Oh, nice. - There you go.

And it won't rub on your legs or anything.

- Nope. That works good. - Yeah.

Much better.

This is the petite model, so yeah, this is good.

In a weird way, I feel like I have this little secret,

which I don't like having.

Like, I don't like keeping secrets.

I don't... I don't really do that well.

I guess that is, like, the benefit

of having your partner be a lesbian.

She doesn't care

if it's the giant model or the petite model.

[ Chuckles ] There you go.

- Right? - Sure.

I just let Joe know about the whole lesbian thing.

It's one of my own demons.

There's always that little fear

in the back of my mind of rejection.

To each their own, you know?

It doesn't make any difference to me.

Doesn't make or break you as a partner.

Doesn't make or break you as a person.

It makes absolutely zero difference to me.

As far as I'm concerned, her sexual orientation

has nothing to do with what we're doing here.

Her being a lesbian has no more implication

than me being straight.

My fiance was going, "Yes! She's a lesbian."

[ Both laugh ]

- I bet. - Yeah.

Andrea: This challenge is all about,

that was just as hard for me as eating a grub.

Joe: You know, I think when a person

comes out to a person, it builds a trust.

Every time we encounter something difficult,

we build another brick in our foundation.

And hopefully at the end of 21 days,

we've got a heck of a foundation built,

complete trust with one another.

You have to have that.

When I was getting out of law enforcement,

it was really, really hard.

Like, I had so many child-death cases.

Everything about it just was horrible.

And when I got out of law enforcement,

I felt like I failed.

I felt like it wasn't my plan to get out.

[ Voice breaking ] And I was so upset at myself

that I felt like such a failure,

like I wasn't strong enough or, you know, whatever.

Or like I should've been able to save

all these babies and stuff in some weird way.

At that moment in my life, like, I was so devastated,

like, in so much pain, like, I just hurt so bad.

But I've learned that by sharing

my struggles, maybe, you know,

it will give somebody else strength and give them hope.

I just like to take every day being thankful for everything.

Thankful that I'm here,

thankful that I have this opportunity,

thankful that maybe I can help somebody,

and that's, you know, what I'm trying to do.

You just want to reach out and touch the person, you know,

because you let them know that you're there.

We're only at day 4 and we've gotten all this off the table.

It's like, whoa.

[ Chuckles ]

If anything, it just brings us closer together as a team.

You're so awesome. I'm so glad you told me that.

Mm-hmm.

I'm gonna try and go over to the water,

see if I can't find some snails.

Okay. Be safe.

Narrator: During Joe and Andrea's first

the intense survival situation

has triggered traumas in Andrea's past.

I wanted to die that bad 'cause I just hurt so bad.

Entering week 2, securing more food

is their number-one priority.

Andrea: It's been a week.

The only protein that we've had is a grub.

I really want to get something in the water.

Hopefully we can catch something.

I think the fish trap's gonna be more efficient than snares.

So, I want to try to work on a fish trap today.

So, right now, I'm just sharpening the tips

so that I can get them stuck into the ground

and start building the shape that I want.

It might be a lot of work to build a fish basket

to find no fish.

Man, if we can have six or a dozen snails,

that would be great.

[ Hippo grunts ]

Oh, man.

Protein would be monumental right now.

Oh, my God.

[ Laughs ]

Oh, my God.

Andrea's gonna be so pumped.

Oh. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

How we doing, Joe? What'd you get?

You like snails?

Holy crap, are you serious?

Yeah.

[ Gasps ] Oh, my gosh!

[ Chuckles ] Thank you.

Now it's sizzling.

Oh, yeah, you can see it bubbling.

Hm.

You know, it's the closest thing to meat that we've had.

It's mushy. It's not even like...

no, it's good. No, it's really good.

We've eaten snail, we've eaten grub.

We're just working our way up this food chain.

Joe: Was there any water left in that bowl?

Andrea: Unh-unh. No. We finished it off.

Oh, yeah, let's go get some water.

We need water.

Yeah.

It's a little risky at night

going down to the hippo pond, but...

Yeah.

We'll just have to be really quiet when we go down there.

Okay.

I'm gonna stay here and keep my eyes peeled.

[ Growling ]

Andrea. What?

Did you hear that?

Yeah. Listen.

[ Grunting ]

[ Clanging ]

Right over there, there's a hippo.

It's right over there. You can see the moonlight on it.

It's right there.

We got to go.

All right, Joe.

We'll just back up...

[Bleep] Way slow.

Okay.

Oh, my God.

[Bleep]

Holy crap, that was close.

Too risky for my blood.

I know, but we got water.

Yeah. We almost got eaten, too.

One of the more glamorous parts of our camp is our latrine.

This is our digging hole.

So when we need to go to the bathroom,

we just come over here, do our business,

and then bury it.

That way, lions don't come.

But I haven't pooped for eight days.

Probably a lot of it is 'cause I haven't eaten much.

I haven't gone once since we've been out here.

Eight days. Joe: Eight days.

Not one time in eight days.

Yeah, that's a record.

I don't think that's healthy.

Yes! Attaboy, Joe!

Yes.

We decided to eat chameleon for lunch.

We're working our way through the little five.

That's the best chameleon I've ever eaten.

Andrea: There isn't a lot of meat on a chameleon,

but it's more protein than we've seen in eight days.

Yep.

I don't know, Joe.

Just... it's freaky.

You need it. You've got to eat it.

Here's to survival.

[ Laughs ]

Maybe I can finally poop and not feel like crap.

And I still haven't gone.

Are you holding back?

Heck, yes. My body's like, "uh, no."

Maybe I'll poop today.

We are hoping for that.

It's day 11. Still hasn't happened.

Day 12. Still haven't pooped.

It is day 13.

I am a little concerned that I haven't pooped.

I think anybody would be.

Oh [bleep]

Oh, my God.

That is an egg.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, holy crap.

Hey, can we find enough food to make Andrea poop?

Yeah.

Joe: Look at that little thing.

Looks awesome.

It does.

Mmm, smells like egg.

Oh, that's so freaking good.

[ Laughs ] It tastes like an egg.

I tried so hard. Didn't happen.

Pfft. No luck.

[ Crackling ]

What the [bleep] shelter is on fire!

Andrea: I have PTSD bad, and it sucks.

And it pisses me off sometimes.

Narrator: Over the next 40 minutes,

the fire burns itself out,

and Joe builds a second fire nearby

to provide warmth and get them through the night.

Joe: I wanted to make light of the situation,

and that's how I do things.

Um, it bothered her.

When she's sitting there by the fire,

and her eyes are just red, you know, she's tearing up,

then you know there's more to it.

What's left of our shelter.

Andrea: I had an incident a while ago

and I ran into this house that was on fire.

And there was a guy inside, and me and my buddy,

we ran into this house,

and this guy is sitting cross-legged on the floor.

And we've got flames all around us,

and you can't breathe 'cause there's so much smoke.

I'm upset.

Not because, like, I have these memories.

It bothers me that I feel like sometimes,

it controls me when I want to control it.

Got to be kind of careful.

Those ashes are probably still a little warm.

I'm gonna build a new shelter today to keep us warm.

I just felt all night that, you know, she's so little.

I just felt that I just needed to,

you know, just stand over her.

Oh, my gosh, this is fantastic.

See you in the morning.

All right. I'm glad you like it.

I do like it.

We have just under a week till our extraction day comes up.

Both of us are exhausted.

Both of our bodies are exhausted.

We've gone days now

with only eating, like, these little things.

Physically, we're wearing down.

We need to catch some birds or some sort of bigger animal

that we could eat.

We have some kind of ground birds here.

They call them Franklins.

They're kind of a ground-feeder bird.

This is the trap that was used in South America.

It's just a cage. We're building a cage.

You know, all [bleep] aside, this is tough.

Not overwhelming, but a huge obstacle,

bigger than I thought.

I mean, we haven't had [bleep] to eat.

Andrea: It gets frustrating

where we're not having any calories incoming,

but we're exporting, like, a ton of calories

just to set stuff up that possibly might work.

It's kind of mushy, but maybe it will give it some fragrance.

Joe: Africa's not giving us anything.

It's so harsh out here.

All right.

Nothing is safe from the brutal conditions.

[ Vultures cawing ]

As you can tell, we are losing weight.

Yeah, I'm getting a lot thinner than I was coming in here.

Thin, thin.

I am feeling rough today.

Oh.

Check our bird snares.

No, it's empty.

I don't know who has or hasn't gone days without eating,

but what it does is, you just feel like you're in slow motion.

Like, mentally, you break down a little bit.

And I think this is the part of the challenge

where it gets tough for everybody,

and we're forced to keep going.

We're forced to keep building stuff

and do the best that we can

with the little energy we have left.

Oh, man.

Protein would be monumental right now.

It's hard to do much of anything,

because I'm hot, I'm worn out, and I'm hungry.

Andrea, I'm gonna walk over and check my trap again.

Andrea: Okay.

Joe: I'm hungry.

I don't give a [bleep] how good you think you are.

I think I'm as tough as they come,

but I now know what toughness is.

This is tough.

Looks like it's still up.

Oh, my God. [Bleep]

[Bleep] Bird, bird, bird, bird, bird!

Narrator: 19 days ago, Andrea and Joe entered

the Zambezi region of Namibia

with primitive survival ratings of 6.6 and 7.1.

The stress of survival is threatening to break

Andrea's strong mental resolve.

Andrea: I have PTSD bad, and it sucks.

Narrator: While a severe lack of food

has her on track to record a first

in "Naked and Afraid" history...

Still haven't pooped.

Narrator: ...Joe has remained strong for his partner,

but the harshness of the challenge

has left his nerves raw and exposed.

Their PSRS will be re-evaluated

if and when they can make it through extraction.

Oh, my God. [Bleep]

[Bleep] Bird, bird, bird, bird, bird!

Andrea!

Yeah?

Come quick!

Coming, coming, coming!

Heck yeah!

For the record, this is my "incredibly happy,

unbelievable, we did it" face.

Oh, my gosh! We get to have dinner!

That's a huge bird!

Just do it quick.

Thank you so much, bird.

That completes our little five.

We did it.

I feel so successful right now.

I'm so thankful right now.

I could seriously, like, cry.

[ Sobs ] But they're tears of joy.

[ Sniffles ]

Couldn't happen to two better people.

[ Voice breaking ] I know.

I'm so thankful.

Joe: It's just an incredible amount of work

you have to go through to catch a bird.

And I will tell you right now,

that Franklin is the ultimate catch.

We're gonna be eating in the dark, but that's okay.

Like, I feel overwhelmingly, unbelievably happy.

Maybe I'll poop.

Oh.

Oh, my gosh.

I had, like, one bite and swallowed it,

and my stomach just is thanking me right now.

I haven't had, like, a mouthful of anything

in my mouth for two weeks.

This is definitely the champion of the little five.

[ Laughs ]

Joe: Today is "E" day.

It's nothing like I imagined.

Watching that sun come up this morning

is a religious moment.

It's a great feeling.

Do you want to just start tying these together?

Andrea: Yep.

Narrator: For Andrea's and Joe's extraction,

they'll need to journey through the swamps

in water of unpredictable depths,

so they spend the next few hours assembling a reed raft.

Yeah, it's looking solid.

Should we check our little map?

Joe: Yeah.

At this point, all we really know

is we're heading the way the sun rose.

Joe and Andrea face an exhausting

mile-and-a-half raft ride through the swamps,

whose waters attract many of Africa's

highly dangerous big five.

They will then need to hike along

a razor-sharp grassy game trail to reach the main river,

where they'll be rescued.

Ready? Yep.

Headed home!

It's our ride home.

Cold ride home.

This goes back a long ways, doesn't it?

Andrea: Yes, it does.

Oh, man, this is gonna be a mess to get through.

I know.

What was that?

I don't know. I have no idea.

Let's just be really quiet.

The channel's getting pretty narrow now.

I don't see much of an opening up there.

Me either.

We may be hoofing it from here on out.

Yeah, we may be abandoning ship now.

Uh-huh.

It's just nasty going into this crappy swamp.

[ Gasps ]

Whoo-hoo-hoo!

Oh, I haven't touched yet.

Oh!

That is cold and deep.

I hate not being able to see underneath me.

Yeah.

Man, you expend a lot of energy going out through here.

Man, I don't see the river anywhere.

It is so freaking hot, I can't even explain.

[ Groans ] Oh, this sucks.

It's getting hotter out, too.

There's a little bit of a trail here.

Maybe we just need to listen now.

I know.

See if we can hear anything.

Listen.

Shh. Nothing.

You think this is it?

No.

[ Rumbling ]

The boat!

Yeah! Yeah!

Oh, my God! Hey!

Yeah! Hey, hey, hey!

Joe: For me, this has been the ultimate challenge.

Whoo!

I asked for two things in a partner...

someone who could work hard, and someone with a soul.

Thank you for being my partner.

Thank you for putting up with me for 21 days.

I'm pretty lucky.

Yeah!

Andrea: We made it! We freaking made it.

Wow.

I am so thankful that I did this.

I feel like that little bit of confidence that I lost

when I got out of law enforcement

has been restored.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

And I feel like this gifted it to me,

and I will treasure that always.

Yeah! Yeah!

Farewell, Namibia!

Farewell!

Whoo! Whoo-hoo!

Narrator: Surviving three weeks in the wilds of Namibia

took its toll on Joe,

and he lost a total of 21 pounds.

Overcoming adversity and limited resources,

Joe's strength of character was revealed by the way

he bonded with his partner when she needed him most.

As a result, his PSR rises from 7.1 to 8.0.

In spite of an extreme lack of calories,

Andrea's internal plumbing problems

limited her weight loss to only seven-and-a-half pounds.

Andrea struggled with past demons,

but showed great resilience, successfully completing

one of the most extreme challenges of her life.

This increases her PSR from 6.6 to 7.5.

An odd couple created a formidable team

and lived to tell about it... "Naked and Afraid."

In me, going through "Naked and Afraid"

and having PTSD, I think personally,

it's so rewarding to say,

"you know what? No, I'm not weak.

I am strong, and look how strong I am."

And coming home with that gift

has changed my world in a way that I can't even explain.

And I finally pooped!