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Hello! And welcome. To my favorite murder. The minisode. That's right. That's it.
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We're going to tell you stories. Yeah, we are. It's 2024 right now. Happy 2024, everybody.
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We're not there yet. So if the apocalypse started and then I don't tell us. Listen, we're pre-recording for the holiday.
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Yeah. But just the idea of saying it's 2024, I like the numerology. I like the vibe.
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I like the fact that it's an even year again. I feel like there's a lot of potential and great things can happen.
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I never thought about the numerology of it and the evenness of it, but that's a good number.
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I really tend toward even numbers myself. Cool. Should I go first? Yeah. Grandpa's lost ring.
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Hello, my loves. Long-time listener, third-time writer. Georgia just called out for treasure in Couch's story.
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Yes. And it says, present time for me, four months ago for you. Thank you. And it brought up a repressed
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memory from when I was like 13. Let's get into it. My grandpa died in 2005 of Alzheimer's. I was
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five. When the disease really progressed, he lost a lot of weight and his ring started to fall off.
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He eventually lost his university class ring from 1960, and my grandmother never found it.
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They were super bummed. Fast forward about eight years, I'm 13 years old, and it's family game night.
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As we're playing Monopoly, we get a knock at the door and look at each other, all very confused.
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Why would someone be knocking at the door at seven o'clock at night while we're playing Monopoly?
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Rude. My mom answers, and it's this random lady. She says, I know this is super odd, but do you have a moment?
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I have your father's ring. What? My mom, very intrigued, lets her in. So she tells us her story.
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She bought my grandparents' couch at a garage sale about 15 years earlier. As her son was moving out years later, they turned the couch on its side and a ring fell out.
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Obviously, she could tell it's a special ring. It's a Western Michigan University 1960s class ring.
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So she knew she had to find the owner. She finds the house where the garage sale was at.
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She fucking remembered where she bought it 15 years later. I love the story so much already.
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But my grandma had since moved. She doesn't give up hope and keeps looking. She searches public records to find their name and hopefully track them down.
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Like this woman is an angel. Godass. One day she was telling her treasure hunt to her friend and her friend, what I would like to think she says something along the lines of,
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What the fuck, Joy and Tom Higgins? That's my next door neighbor's parents. Yes, this lady's friend was literally our next door neighbor from the time we moved into that house 25 years ago to present.
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Holy shit. In absolute disbelief, she immediately comes over to our house and lo and behold, it's my grandpa's ring.
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We never did finish that Monopoly game. My grandma ended up gifting it to my uncle TJ and he holds it dearly.
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My mom, Katie, passed away four months ago and my grandma back in 2020. So you guys bringing up this memory for me is really awesome.
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It's a nice heartfelt moment of a stranger doing something amazing for my incredibly caring and loving mom.
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Hug your moms if you can. They don't live forever. Stay sexy and track down lost treasure if you can.
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Kate. God. I know. It's so good. I love those little connections to the past and to people that like just have so much meaning behind them.
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Yeah, it makes me think of like, the first like nursing home my grandma had to go into when she had Alzheimer's was more like they tried to make it like a house where just older people were living or whatever. And she was there for six months or maybe something like that. And then suddenly her wedding ring and engagement band were gone.
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And my mom is just like, picks up her hand one day and is like, where's your rings?
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And she's like, I don't know. And someone that worked there fucking stole her rings off her hand.
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And it's that kind of thing where you're like, you can go, yep, this happens. And, you know, this is life and whatever.
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And she was more than just that. But the idea of somebody right now was like, hey, we figured out this belong to your grandma
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and you suddenly get it back. Yeah. That humongous That really weird because my grandma Thelma when I was little so it was her and four of our little old ladies going to their poker game got held up at gunpoint in their car
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What? And they took my grandma's wedding ring. Oh, my God. No, I forgot about that.
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So she had this other ring that she always wore, but it wasn't her wedding. Like, she didn't have her husband anymore.
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She didn't have her wedding ring. It was, like, so fucking awful. It was L.A. in the, like, 90s.
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I feel like that kind of happened. Could you imagine if someone was like, ring, ring.
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Hi there. You don't know me. I have Grandma Thelma's wedding ring. Right. And I'm sure it wasn't worth a lot.
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They didn't have a lot of money, but it's like. No, it's entirely just the symbol.
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Just relevant to this one family. These very specific people. Like it isn't worth anything.
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No. Really at the pawn shop or whatever. It's just like, yeah, it's that. But also it's that kind of thing where it's like when you're little, it's like I would
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just stare at my grandma's hand because it was a big old diamond and I was like, oh,
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whatever. I don't know. That's crazy. Oh, this one's good. Paris Catacombs Proposal Gone Wrong,
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three-minute read. Yes, proposal gone wrong. I'm hooked already. Right. Hi, you asked for
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disaster vacation stories, and one of my favorite stories of my husband and I is how he wanted to
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propose to me while on vacation. In 2017, my boyfriend and I were spending a couple days of
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our trip in Paris. I had made a long list of things I wanted to do, like art museums, antique
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flea markets, restaurants, and bakeries. But I guess I must have talked the most about the Paris
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catacombs. The catacombs had a chipped white metal spiral staircase that goes down for what
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feels like an eternity. We didn't realize how claustrophobic my husband was at the time.
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We went down the spiral staircase and got all the way to the bottom with this man mildly
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hyperventilating. And I kept telling him the whole time that it would open up, the rooms would be
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bigger and not to think about being underground. To absolutely no one's surprise, that did not calm
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him down. He ended up deciding to turn around and walk back up the staircase against all the people
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coming down in Paris. That's like probably one of the biggest tourist attractions, like top five.
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But because we paid for the tour and he knew I wanted to go, he begged me to finish the walkthrough.
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So against my better judgment, I speed walked through skulls and bones and uneven flooring and honestly very tiny rooms that never did open up, looking for the exit, which was over a mile away.
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The tour popped me out in a weird residential area. I had no service and the only map I had was the paper one provided by the hotel, which had their logo covering parts of the map.
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Oh, no. eventually i made my way back to the catacomb entrance and found my sweet boyfriend sitting
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on the grassy area looking around nervously like out of a movie we ran towards each other
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embracing each other and starting to cry i thought he had a full-blown panic attack on the steps and
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he thought i'd get totally lost because i'm that bad at directions which i really am at this moment
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he very shakily tried to pull out the engagement box and as soon as i saw what he was doing i clamped
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my hands over his and the box and told him, not right now. Not while we're sweaty and thinking we
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almost died in Paris. Hours later, we'd finally had a moment to relax and we were sitting at
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L'Arc de Triomphe and we shared a long look at each other. And at the same time, he started to
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say, will you marry me? I said, you can ask me now. He later revealed that it was his plan to
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propose to me down in the catacombs. Yeah. Even if you're goth, I feel like let's not do that.
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No. It's like, oh, is that your favorite thing? Then I'll ask you down there and put all my own needs aside of like, please don't make me go down there. It's so great.
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He later revealed to me that it was his plan to propose to me down in the catacombs next to all
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the skulls next to the plague. I really hadn't thought I'd talked about the catacombs this much,
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but he knows how much I love your guys podcast and true crime. He actually cited my favorite
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murder as a reason he thought I'd be impressed by his proposal, by his proposal location.
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Love you guys in your podcast. Shout out to my best friend, Kate, for recommending it way back
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self-sacrifice totally theme out your proposal that reminds me of kurt braunler of bananas fame
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proposing to lauren the plan was to do it in a hot air balloon because she had joked constantly
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about wanting to like that was a good inside joke between them and so he took her up on one and she
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was having such a bad panic attack that he had to wait till they got to the ground
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listener. And because of that, I gloriously get to binge old episodes in between new ones with no
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rhyme or reason to the order in which they're listened. Perfect. The joy of it is never knowing
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what year I'm in as I listen to your present day commentary and recently listened to one about the
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Ouija board. But what is time? The spirits of the Ouija. It is arbitrary. And I've got a little
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spooky story for you all that took place in an abandoned house in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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The town in which I spent some of my formative years and the reason why I never look in windows
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or mirrors at night. Like all the good late 80s, early 90s kids, a summer spent breaking into
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abandon houses at night with your friends was the norm. Sure. On one particular night,
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an older female neighbor of mine decided to make it even scarier by bringing a Ouija board and
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candles. None of us knew what it was and fully fearful of ghosts, having not habituated to the
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town's normalcy. I played anyway, knowing if I didn't, I'd be banished from further middle of
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the night cool kid hangs. And being the new kid in town, you just got to suck it up. I mean,
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And you really do. It sucks because no one actually likes the idea of doing a Ouija board.
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No one likes it. Everyone's scared of it except for maybe the one girl who brought it. But everyone
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else is like, we don't want to conjure the devil, but you have to like, you're 12. So you have to
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be cool. Totally. Despite believing in ghosts, I am a skeptic of all things. And even at 10,
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decided to challenge the shit out of this board. When it was my turn, I asked, quote,
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what is my grandfather on my mom's side's name? Nice. So she's getting specific right away. Yes,
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she is. As the planchette made its way around the board, it spelled out B-Y-R-O-N. Now remember,
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I was the new kid in town. I didn't even know if they knew my name. My grandfather Byron died when
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my mom was seven. What? A major traumatic event in our family and not something I was going around
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talking about, but the only dead person I knew at the time said that's what I went with.
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Let's just say I made some excuse and got the fuck out of that house and away from that board
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stat after that correct answer. What if you're playing with the Ouija board and the new girl in
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town asks the question all confident and then her face turns white as a ghost when you get your
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answer and she just fucking leaves. I'd be like, hey, new girl, what was your last school like?
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and I would run out after her as if we were going to socialize and then be like, bye.
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I'm going to make sure she gets home. Okay. Yeah. Goodbye. Goodbye. I never played again until I found a board from the 1960s in my parents' basement. I made my
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friends and I all play a couple of years ago on New Year's Eve, but it was short lived because
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I dropped the board behind our built in bookshelf where it can't be reached. I can't wait for whoever
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buys our home after us to eventually renovate and find it. She should drop a note back there that says this isn't supposed to be creepy.
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It was an accident. Or this was supposed to be creepy. You're being haunted. This is the devil's work.
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That's right. Over the years, I've done some really reckless and stupid things that confirm I am a cat and likely on life seven or eight.
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However, my mother's suffering from serious loss has me convinced that her parents and brothers are protecting me in the earthly realm so that she doesn't suffer another loss.
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I'm going to be 40 this year and thankfully have matured a little bit, but nevertheless,
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I'm still a believer in ghosts and the spiritual realm. As a social worker and therapist, I thank you for bringing me joy when I'm all out of
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energy for my own dark humor on the tough days. And thank you for advocating for those voices who can't slash won't be heard.
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Stay sexy, believe in ghosts and don't get murdered. But if you do make sure to haunt the shit out of them and keep the Ouija spirits alive.
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Allison. Man, Allison. Good one. Byron Byron showed up and was like what up What do you need I literally standing behind you at all times I always been here Learn it Know it Got your back Yeah Byron is up in her face helping out
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Okay. The subject line of this email is the story I would have told at my sister's wedding.
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Hey, frienderinos, have I got a story for you? It has all the things. Older sisters sacrificing
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younger, old motorhomes, sleeves of Oreo cookies, and loud high-pitched girl screams.
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is that not what you want well you're getting it i promise it's worth it we'll take it
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do it make the beginning of your email exactly what you want it to be convey yourself the way
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this person is so excellently doing do it you're getting it i promise it's worth it and i should
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have shared it at my sister's wedding i was never asked to talk but i was also never asked not to
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talk. I should have done it. Here goes. Not asked not to talk is such a great approach.
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My family used to go camping all the time. We had a junky old RV that we took everywhere.
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One particular occasion when I was nine, my sister must have been 11. We went to a campground
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adjacent to Yosemite called Crane Flat. One day, my mom and I were sitting in a hammock eating a
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sleeve of Oreos. Our campsite was next to a little meadow, which could be accessed by a step down.
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We were looking at the meadow, not saying much, when it looked like the step moved.
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The texture looked a little different too, maybe even a little fuzzy. Weird. Anyway, we just kept eating the Oreos.
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The fuzzy step stood up and revealed that it was not a step, but actually a bear.
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I don't think anyone has ever gotten out of a hammock as quickly as my mom and I did.
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Oreos flying, me screaming in girl terror. my mom ran to get some pots and pans to clang loudly telling me to get inside i proceeded to
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scream and run towards the rv shouting at my sister to let me in there was a bear outside and
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please please let me in her head popped up by the window next to the door she opened the window just
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a crack looked directly at me and said no if i let you in the bear will come in too
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and then she closed the window and just stood there looking at me the bear was now fully in our campsite searching for food oreos gone and i ran in a circle around
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the fire pit and just screamed such a high loud scream that only little girls can do while my
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sister just watched oh my god the bear must have gotten sick of this because he left to go visit
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the neighbor's campsite the neighbors had seen the commotion and were huddled in their camper
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looking out the window as the bear proceeded to eat the hot dogs they were grilling straight off
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the grill, bust open a bag of Ruffles potato chips like a bomb, and then parentheses it says,
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clearly the bear knew this routine, and ate all the hot dog buns. I was still screaming when the
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bear finally left. My mom came around holding pots and pans, and then in parentheses it says,
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why did that take so long, mom? Where were these pans? And she made my sister open the RV and let
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me in. And then in parentheses, in all caps, it says too late. In the story I would have shared at
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the wedding, I would have rightfully shamed her, of course, but also I would let her husband know
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that she found her person that she'd open the door for, even at risk of inviting the bear inside as
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well. My sister and I are best friends now. She's the one who recommended your podcast to me. Hi,
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Alice. Thanks for sticking with this email and I hope it was worth it. SSDGM and don't sacrifice
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your little sister to the bear, Lucy. I love that because that's hilarious. What a sweet twist at the
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end. She absolutely should have spoken at her wedding. Yes. And I love that it's like a fake
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story that she delivered. That's like what this has become is like stories I didn't tell.
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Yes, stories I should still tell stories I want to tell, but there's not enough weddings or
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Uncle Tony accidentally went to Woodstock. Hi, MFM team. A couple weeks ago, Karen mentioned her dad jokingly confessing to having gone to Woodstock.
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Do you remember that? Yeah. But it's completely untrue. Okay. I thought you would want to hear about the time my family thought my Uncle Tony was pulling the same joke on us, but it turned out to be the truth.
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According to my cousins, there was a day in recent years when Woodstock somehow came up in conversation.
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For context, my family immigrated from Italy in the 60s, but originally lived in Quebec for a couple of years before ending up in Queens.
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Due to there being a huge language barrier, Tony didn't get a lot of details before agreeing.
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They piled onto a bus and drove down to New York only to get off in a cornfield and walk for hours
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This is I love this one because it totally me at a thing that everyone else fucking had a great time and loved it Yeah According to Uncle Tony quote it was so hot We were miles away from the stage
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and all there was to eat was corn. In my country, corn is for the chickens, unquote.
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He found it to be such a miserable time that he felt no need to mention his attendance. And it
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wasn't until decades later that he realized that he had accidentally attended a historic event.
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even then he still didn't care brady they them brady legendary your uncle tony is the uncle tony
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yeah that's a classic uncle tony situation story and attitude only uncle tony could have a bad time
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at woodstock it's similar to my uncle john who went to burning man because he was the contractor
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that provided the toilets. No way. My Uncle John, may he rest in peace, was one of the greatest, John Kilgariff,
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one of the greatest people, one of the funniest fucking people of all time. And he was like, yeah, we got this order.
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They need some toilets up there. We bring them up. We pull up. There's girls on bikes with no shirts.
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I'm like, this sounds good to me. We'll stay here for a week. He went to Burning Man more than once.
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Oh my God. as like the toilet guy fully just being there to observe and people watch and laugh his ass off and
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drink beer i love that isn't that the greatest yeah wow oh i think it's my turn this is a nice
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holiday story it says dad ruined christmas and new year's light-hearted dad fuck up
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and then the first line of this is i give up on intros hi my youngest sister was born in mid
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December in the 80s, and the process was not kind to my mother. When Christmas rolled around,
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my brother, sister, and I, four, two, and six respectively, ran downstairs excited to see the
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magic left by Santa, but there was nothing. No gifts, no toys, no stuffed stockings.
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We screamed in collective anguish That so fucking funny That so sad My dad blurry and sleep stumbled down the stairs to find out what the fuck He gaped at my siblings and I clutching our empty stockings and sobbing
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While taking care of my mother and sister, dad had neglected to not traumatize his children.
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So there he was, Christmas morning, trying to explain about Santa. I had pictured like nothing being there, but there were actual stockings that were just fucking empty.
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Yeah. It was all set up like, here he comes. It's happening now. And it's like, no, he skipped us.
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Fast forward a week or so later. And then in parentheses, it says, what is time?
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Math? Which made me laugh really hard. So fast forward a week or so later to New Year's Eve.
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Dad tucked us all into bed, kissed us goodnight, and announced, that's the last kiss you're getting all year.
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Cue three sobbing children and one panicked man trying to explain about calendars.
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To this day, my dad has never lived this down. And I can assure you all of us were extra grateful when mom resumed her parenting duties.
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I mean, 80s dads, sorry to say, literally didn't expect to do any Christmas shopping.
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You know what I mean? That's kind of a given was mom does literally fucking everything.
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And it would have had to have said, you have to be sure. You have to be sure as like she's literally having her fourth child.
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Right, right. Okay, sorry. Now I've taken over this email. Okay. Stay sexy and know you'll be the reason someone's in therapy.
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Bronwyn. P.S. My parents' names are Alan and Ella. Dad always says he wished his name had been Sam so they could have opened a restaurant.
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Salmonella. Salmonella. Salmonella. I didn't get it at first. A perfect dad joke. It's a thinker. It's perfect. And then in parentheses, it says that wordplay is
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for Karen. I know how she loves it. And then it just says Bronwyn again. Great job. Good one.
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Real good email Happy 2024 everyone Welcome to the new age Yeah I hope your New Year is going better than Bronwyn and her siblings were that fateful year that her dad dropped every ball possible when their youngest sibling was born
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That's right. Oh, stay sexy. And don't get murdered. Goodbye. Elvis, do you want a cookie?
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