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\"He just said how healing it is to find somebody who could love him and bring out the parts of him that he wanted to work on,\" she said.

Mai and Jeezy tied the knot in an intimate ceremony on March 27, revealing they had to change their original plans because of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the February passing of Jeezy's mother, Denise Jenkins.

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