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🗓️ 26 August 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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0:00.0 | This podcast contains adult language and content. |
0:04.0 | Listen or discretion is advised. |
0:05.6 | If you have a story to share, send it to Let's Not Meet Stories at gmail.com. |
0:10.0 | Enjoy the show. Oh, This all started when I was probably around nine years old. My family and I lived in a small town in the Midwest where my mom worked at a pizza king until 9 p.m. every weeknight. |
0:53.6 | My dad worked until midnight at the electronic store called Johnson Controls. |
0:59.2 | My brother was a year younger than me, which left our older sister, a 13-year-old, to supervise, but she was always |
1:07.0 | doing God knows what. |
1:10.4 | Because of these circumstances, I realized later, my brother and I were perfect targets. |
1:17.1 | We had predictable schedules and a lack of supervision. We were comfortable in our tight-knit Midwestern neighborhood. |
1:26.4 | One day, during the summertime, my brother convinced me to go look for some kittens that |
1:31.1 | he had seen. So, I put my shoes on and I followed my little brother out the door. |
1:36.8 | We walked the streets in search of the kittens completely unsupervised. |
1:42.0 | My brother led me about six blocks away from our house when |
1:45.8 | someone called out to us. I turned my head to find four young men leaning up |
1:51.5 | against an old gray two-door car. They were standing outside of a known |
1:57.2 | drug house smoking cigarettes, seemingly minding their own business. |
2:03.0 | The guy who called out to us was closest to the passenger side door, and he asked, |
2:08.0 | Do you guys want some gum? |
2:11.0 | I stopped dead in my tracks, and my brother looked confused. |
2:15.0 | They're offering us gum, I thought. |
2:18.0 | It was eerily reminiscent of our early stranger danger assemblies in the school auditorium. |
2:25.0 | My brother and I looked at them for a second, but then turned around and started walking back the way that we came without saying anything. |
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