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Hello! And welcome to My Favorite Murder, the mini-sode, where we read you your stories.
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It's the same every time, but it's fun to have things explained to you. You want to go first? Sure. This one's funny. I'm not going to read you the title.
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Hey, ladies. Hope you are well. Thank you for your podcast. It's great, and I love it.
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Nice. So I used to live in a small town right outside of Toledo, Ohio. I lived in the same house since birth and nothing really crazy would happen in this town.
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Here and there, you'd get a drunk, wandering soul from one of the four bars in town coming to knock on your door because they are confused that you aren't their mistress looking for a one night stand.
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Or the carnival workers that came into town once a year that would fist fight in your front yard.
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But that's no harm. When I was 12, my parents started to let me walk the town with friends and ride my bike wherever.
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We had a 7-Eleven down the block from us, and I would almost daily go and get myself a half-and-half Arnold Palmer after school.
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That's mature for a 12-year-old, right? Yeah, it's very, very refined tastes. Yeah.
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It was cheap, and my parents had me on a tight budget of no dollars a week. So that 99-cent tea changed my life.
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So I'm trotting my happy 12-year-old ass to 7-Eleven after school one day. When I get to the door, I didn't fuck politeness because, let's be for real, I'm 12.
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I held the door open for this man who walked in, but he had more important things to do than say
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thank you. I won't lie. I was a little offended that he didn't say thank you or anything,
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but that wasn't going to screw up my attitude because I go and grab my tea and go to the
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counter to pay for my drink. Of course, I pay in quarters and dimes. I had my money ready to go
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and counted it out. I noticed the guy I let in was pacing the store and looking like he didn't
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know what he needed, but I didn't care because I had one thing on my mind, my tea. I paid,
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I said my thank you and headed out. Sure enough, on my little walk home, I hear sirens and I see
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police rushing down the road. The guy who was in the 7-Eleven with me robbed the place at gunpoint
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after I left. And then he decided to run. So when the story hit the news, the only picture they had
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of this man was him entering the store, which conveniently had me in the background holding the
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door for the suspect at hand. Yes, just a surveillance picture of me and a robber was
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plastered on a six o'clock news. They ended up finding the guy and arresting him. I won't lie.
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It traumatized me just a little bit, but not too much. Yeah, just a little. It would. That's how
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you get funny. It's just a little bit, but not too much. Keep making a change like you do on a daily
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XOXO, the girl who held the door for the 7-Eleven robber. Yeah, you'd be so excited to see yourself
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on TV and then it looks like you're an accomplice. Yeah, you're like the most popular kid at school
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for fucking sure, right? Until people are like, wait a second, I can't trust you because you're
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accomplice. They should have blurred their face out, but they didn't. I mean, you would think also
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because it's a minor. Yeah. No, no. Just this polite child will also be featured. Okay. So the
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subject line of this email is that classic hometown and it says, hello, Karen, Georgia,
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pets and producers. I've been a listener since my cousin told me about you guys in 2016. Hey,
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Shelby. Shelby. My next album will be called Hey, Shelby. I love listening to you
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guys, when I need a good pick-me-up from my boring everyday life or when I'm trying to lull my five
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month old daughter to sleep, she's truly a day one murderino. Oh yeah, from her life.
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Your mini-sodes contain so many fun stories, but I have a classic hometown for you guys.
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All names have been changed for privacy. Sometime in the 1980s, in a very small West Texas town,
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my dad was in high school and had his group of guy friends. One of his friends, we'll call him Sam,
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went on a ski trip with his parents to Colorado where they had their own cottage in the mountains down the street
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Sam's aunt and uncle had their own cottage one night while on their trip Sam went to his cousin's cabin to hang out and play games with the
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Family it started to get late So Sam said he would just walk back home to his cabin with his dog That night Sam mom calls Sam aunt and asks if he going to stay the night over there since it was almost midnight and he hadn returned
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His aunt told them that he had left hours ago. Oh, no. Sam was missing. A search party was underway,
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but all they found was Sam's dog, who was alive. The family never gave up hope and continued to hold search parties for Sam every other month.
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Two years after searching, they found the body of a boy who had been beaten to death.
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that resembled the age Sam was when he went missing. They sent the body in for forensics, sure that this was Sam,
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but the dental records came back and showed that it was another boy who had gone missing around the same time.
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To this day, the family still holds search parties every two months, looking for anything that could possibly give insight to what really happened to Sam.
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My dad still really hasn't gotten over losing one of his closest friends so suddenly.
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Thank you for reading My True Hometown. I love everything y'all do for the mental health community and for allowing hometowns like my own to have their stories be heard.
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SSDGM, Bella, she, her. Oh, my God. Why can't they find the person who did that?
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That's like bananas. Well, can't find even any evidence. It reminds me, even though it's a movie, not true, but it's it reminds me of the lovely bones where she just gets taken.
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in in this way where there's nothing to find. Totally. So horrible. How much do you weigh, Wanda?
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Right now, I'm about 130. I'm at 183. We should race. No, I want to leave here with my original hips.
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He thought up Willy Wonka and the BFG. But did you know he was a spy? Neither did I.
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Now on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Safe boxes and contents.
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Greetings. I've enjoyed the podcast for a long while now. Thank you for providing great entertainment, storytelling, and the laughs.
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On a fairly recent episode I heard, I recall you asking, what do people put in their safe deposit boxes?
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So I thought I would give you some insight. I've worked in the branch banking industry for two decades.
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I'm sorry to say that most safety deposit boxes' contents are very boring. Think deeds of trust for properties, car titles, etc.
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Employees at the bank are not supposed to know or get involved with clients' safe box contents.
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However, that does not always stop the rare client from showing employees some of their treasures.
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I've seen a collection of large colored diamonds a client would buy from Switzerland.
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they would that's just like someone putting them away and being like i want i need to show these to
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someone hey yeah bank employee who's got your back to me come fucking look at this you have to come
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because i can't keep them in my house they're making me paranoid it's totally like the trap of
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the trap of greed or whatever it's like i need to have them but i have to hide them but you need to
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know they're here but i need someone to acknowledge their beauty yeah they would fly the diamond over
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to the USA and an armored car would deliver them to his house. My favorite was the yellow diamond.
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Another client kept her historical candelabras in her box. Like, can I hang out with that
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fucking person, please? How did they fit in there? That's insane. I don't know. I've got a big,
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there's probably, it's probably like PO boxes where you can get different sizes. Oh, yeah.
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I'm always only thinking of the little slighty one with the teeth in it. Yeah. Listen to this.
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And would retrieve them for dinner parties and return them the next day. Fucking Bacchanal.
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and you know it. So smart. Craziest fucking parties. Some folks put rare coins or silver dollars,
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expensive jewelry they do not wear often, and sometimes it's a way to hide tangible assets from family.
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I can imagine that the banks in large banking cities have safe boxes that contain large amounts of diamonds and gold,
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but that's not usually found on Main Street banks. Cash, ammunition, and weapons are not permitted in safe boxes,
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but like how would they fucking know, right? Well, they're there when they put them in.
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yeah but they can't watch them put anything in there they would have they couldn't bring a weapon
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into a bank i don't know we need more answers clearly yeah well also i think it's like here's
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the rule are you gonna break the rule at this place that has security guards and probably cops
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on the like everywhere possible like but the thing that they said about we're not supposed to know or
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get involved with the client's safe contents like then so that they leave them alone with it right
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So you could just fucking stick a guy. I don't know. It sounds like I'm planning something, but I'm not.
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Although we suspect a fair amount of people do store some cash in them, most people do not realize that safe boxes and their contents are not insured by the bank.
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A storm can flood the bank and your box and ruin your cash. Ooh, I know. If a safe box goes five years without payment of rent,
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we are required by law to drill the box with two people watching, inventory the box, and then guess what they do with them?
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This is like, you'd want it to be storage wars. Throw it in the air. Just throw it as high as they can.
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And then whoever catches it gets it. Yeah, that's right. And send the contents to the state.
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I believe it remains in the state's possession for a certain time before it's liquidated
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and turned into cash for the state. Pay your safety deposit box rent. And then it just says Ali I mean thank you so much Ali for giving us that insight Anything I just want to know anything that going on in there Because also the idea the story that begins to tell itself
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of like, you're hiding cash and not depositing cash. Oh, yeah. You're choosing the way less
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safe choice to be secretive. What is this cash from? What are you doing? Your ex-husband to get his fucking grimy paws on it.
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Because you were a bank robber and you robbed that very bank and you brought the cash back.
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That's weird. They can tell it was theirs. They know their own cash. They get the vibe, the cash vibe.
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Okay, the subject line of this email is Halifax Explosion Ghost Story slash Classic Hometown.
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Hi, Karen in Georgia. I was embarrassingly excited when I heard my hometown of Halifax, Nova Scotia,
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mentioned on a recent mini episode covering the Halifax Explosion. You were so excited that you didn't realize it was a main episode that I covered the Halifax explosion.
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But that's okay. Nearly every Haligonian, as we're referred to, it's either Haligonian or Haligonian, but I think it's Haligonian.
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Haligonian does sound better. Has their own ghost story to tell. Perhaps a sighting of two Victorian ladies wandering the staircase of the now restaurant which once served as the Titanic's morgue.
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Wow. Ooh. or that of the gray lady whose spirit roams the Halifax Citadel, a former British military fort, mourning her lost love.
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As you can imagine, there's also a fair share of folklore surrounding the tragic Halifax explosion.
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Some tales are much too outrageous to be true, but the story I have today, which takes place in one of Halifax's oldest buildings,
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bears the scars to prove it. This is the mysterious story of the face in the window at St. Paul's Church.
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Despite being several miles away from the narrows, the windows of the church were blown out at the time of the explosion.
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To this day, a piece of original window frame remains in the entryway with a plaque that reads,
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A Relic of the Explosion. The most curious relic, though, is the profile of a man's face that appears in the window.
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As the story goes, at the exact moment of the explosion, the deacon was standing parallel to a window facing the narrows.
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The intense heat of the explosion etched his profile on the glass to be seen for all of time.
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There's no earthly reason for why, despite several attempts at replacing and cleaning the glass, the shadowy silhouette reappears time and time again, almost as if the old building refuses to allow the city to forget the tragic events of that day.
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There are many photos online where the mysterious profile can clearly be seen. What?
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I actually saw it. I looked it up. It's big. It's weird. Or if you take a walk down Argyle Street, it's very likely you'll catch a glimpse of the figure staring down at you from the upper window of this national historic site.
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And that's from Ali Sheher. That's creepy. I'm going to look it up. Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers. And guess what? We have some big news.
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And then I wrote down on my little notepad, hey, Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast.
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Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. How much do you weigh, Wanda? Right now, I'm about 130.
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My last one's called Trash Dad, Merry-Go-Round Incident. Hi, ladies. I've been a listener since 2018. Written and before, no avail. Love you both.
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Let's get into it. Half of my life growing up was spent with my dad a few hours outside of
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Portland, Oregon. Yay, divorced parents. Every autumn, he'd take me and my siblings to this
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farm stand and pumpkin patch called Lone Pine Farms. They had everything. Livestock, petting
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zoos, playgrounds, pumpkin patches, apple picking, et cetera. One of our favorite parts of this event
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as children was the playground, of course, particularly the little dinky merry-go-round.
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One particular day, there were a bunch of older kids on the merry-go-round, but they couldn't get
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it going as fast as they wanted. My dad stepped up. He was just a silly guy who wanted to be liked
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by the kids. They all climbed on and my dad, the guy that he is, pushed it with all his might until
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they were spinning uncontrollably. It was all good and innocent fun until I decided I wanted to join
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in. I was probably five or six at the time and stepped up beside my dad with pride at how popular
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he had become among the other kids. It all looked like so much fun. How hard could it be? Just hold
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on and don't let go, right? But that's not how it went because I was six and my dad was a little bit
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imperceptive. So the communication aspect of it was a little bit skewed. Daddy, can I get on too?
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I asked hopefully. My dad laughed like it was the funniest joke he'd ever heard from his baby
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daughter. Ha, yeah, sure thing. Just grab right on. Not sure if it was obvious to you guys, but
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sarcasm isn't best used on first graders. No, it doesn't work. I did not find this to be a joke,
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believe it or not. Without a second thought, I reached out and grabbed the first bar on the
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insanely fast moving merry-go-round, which all the other kids had secured their position on before it
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started moving. I did not have this luxury. One way or another, my grip must have been pretty strong
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because one second I was on the ground and the next I had flown at least 10 to 15 feet,
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according to my dad Oh I ended up being fine And I think I just had some scrapes and bruises on my knees and elbows I don have much memory of this thankfully and mostly just associate it with a funny story my dad
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tells sometimes. Truly, I'm the one who always brings it up because he still feels terrible to
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this day. Love my dad and he has learned a lot since this time when he was undoubtedly very
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stoned and in his late 20s. So funny to me. Yeah, your parents were stoned sometimes.
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yeah oftentimes they were like just had stopped being teenagers and suddenly we're parents
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stay sexy and don't expect your six-year-old to understand sarcasm lucy lucy i have done that multiple times with children we're just like there's no adjustment
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from me to like making sure that this child understands what i'm talking about right i think
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maybe we should ask for like sarcasm stories when like sarcasm went wrong. Absolutely. All right.
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My last story is, uh, I won't read you the subject line. It just starts. This is the part where Karen
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or Georgia says, I'm not going to read the subject line. That's hilarious. I actually didn't pre-read
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that just so everybody knows that was, that was maximum impact on a road trip from Western Canada
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to my home on the prairies with my grandma. We were on a classic grandma, quote unquote,
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shortcut. Oh no. We were hours behind schedule and I fell asleep in the back seat. I woke up
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in the dark. There was a strange man driving the car and dear old Grahams was not moving with her
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head against the window in the passenger seat. My grandma was an original spiritual guru who led
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our family of strong women down a spiritual path in a time where everyone called her crazy for
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believing in crystals, incense, manifesting. You get the picture. She danced to her own tune and
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taught it to all of us. Her loving and trusting nature made it impossible for her to leave a
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person on the side of the road. And then in parentheses, it says besides her ex, but that's
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a story for another time. There are many badass stories I could share about this woman, like her
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love story that was sabotaged by her first cousin or how she picked up her life over and over, but
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you'll have to wait for the book. Back to the story of our chauffeur, Gary. I started screaming
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and crying because I'm nine and I watch CSI like a religion. So of course I thought she was dead.
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My grandma woke up and had to get Gary to pull over so she could console me. We got back in the
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car and Gary continued to drive up to Saskatoon, Saskatoon, SK, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He gets out
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and says, lady, please don't pick up hitchhikers and definitely don't let them drive your car.
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Wise words indeed. Right. We often teased my grandma about that. And even through losing her
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through dementia, she usually remembered Gary and that adventure. Stay sexy and just embrace
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your grandma's antics before she's gone. Stay even sexier and don't pick up hitchhikers and
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definitely don't let them drive. Love, love, love, Kate. I love that, that even the hitchhiker
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himself was like, why did you do this? Even nine-year-old in the backseat and then he fell
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asleep and let me drive. Like what the fuck? Yeah. Everything about this was the wrong decision.
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And also I'm fully benefiting from it. Okay. Right. It just so happens that I'm not a murderer
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or at least not tonight. So I'm going to give you this advice in case someone is.
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that'd be incredible if it was so ridiculous that she actually got a murderer to say that to her
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or it's like you know what this is so out of pocket yeah and then years later we saw his face flash on
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tv it was gary ridgeway or something like that that's right yeah some other horrible gary if you
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have a hitchhiking story shame on you but you better fucking send it in that's the only thing
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you can do with it at this point is tell us and thanks everybody for sharing your stories
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and stay sexy. And don't get murdered. Goodbye. Elvis, do you want a cookie? Bye.
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I'll be exploring on the 14th season of Family Secrets. He kind of shoved me out of the way and said,
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move, and he went out the front door and he jumped in a car and drove off, and that was the last time I saw him.
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