109. Mournful Return
The Secret Room | True Stories
Ben Hamm
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Something terrible happened to Sarah’s mom, and she doesn’t know what to do with what she’s learned.
In pictures: Sarah's mom standing in the front door of her house on a Google Street View image. Also, the last picture of her mom when she and Sarah said goodbye at the airport when she left for Japan. Also a picture of the compound where Sarah and her husband lived in Okinawa.
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks to Dipsy for supporting the secret room. |
| 0:02.8 | Dipsy is an audio app full of short audio stories designed to turn you on. |
| 0:09.4 | Get a 30 day free trial when you go to DipsyStories.com slash secret. |
| 0:15.5 | And thanks to BetterHelp. |
| 0:17.0 | For 10% off your first month, go to BetterHelp.com slash secret. |
| 0:22.8 | Hey, what's your secret? |
| 0:24.7 | I work at a library. |
| 0:26.5 | The other day I'm sitting at the desk at the circulation desk |
| 0:29.2 | and people come in to check out their books. |
| 0:31.2 | And we also have a self-checkout station, which is quite popular. |
| 0:34.7 | Up to the desk comes my old grade school teacher. |
| 0:38.6 | This woman literally taught me how to read, right? |
| 0:41.3 | She clearly was happy to see me. |
| 0:43.2 | I was happy to see her. |
| 0:44.2 | And she's saying, hey, self-checkout station |
| 0:47.1 | isn't really working with these books. |
| 0:48.7 | I don't know what's up. |
| 0:49.8 | So I do a little bit of checking. |
| 0:51.1 | I would check out the station. |
| 0:52.0 | It was a very simple problem. |
| 0:53.6 | The machine was out of paper for the receipts. |
| 0:55.7 | So I'm sitting at the desk and I'm like, well, |
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