1: What if your boyfriend lit himself on fire? (1st episode)
This Is Actually Happening
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4.6 • 10.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2013
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
"We're still here. What part are we playing in all this?"
Producer: Whit Missildine
Episode Summary: After finally deciding to settle into a long term relationship, a woman becomes tangled in a web of confusion, guilt and grief as her partner self-destructs
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Content/Trigger Warnings: mental illness, suicide, explicit language
Intro Music: "Illabye" – Tipper
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| 1:57.0 | Episode 1. What if your boyfriend lit himself on fire? I remember having this moment in Asia I kind of laughed at something out loud to myself and I thought to myself I finally had this recognition of wanting |
| 2:26.9 | to do that to somebody else like wanting to laugh and tell somebody else. |
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