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🗓️ 15 February 2015
⏱️ 23 minutes
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0:00.0 | Dallas met her husband in 1978 when she was 24 years old. |
0:04.6 | He was the head of the local Frisbee Club and she loved ultimate Frisbee. |
0:08.4 | They got married, they had kids, they turned 60 together. |
0:12.0 | And then this past September, he had a mild stroke. |
0:15.9 | As they were getting ready to leave for the hospital, Dallas saw a tech show up on his phone. |
0:20.4 | And it said, I hope you're enjoying this nice fall day, I wish we were biking together. |
0:26.4 | She didn't know who the tech was from, but it didn't really worry her. |
0:30.0 | They were both serious bike people, they'd spend a month that you're biking the Pacific coast. |
0:33.8 | And her husband rode to work every day. |
0:36.1 | So it wasn't suspicious that he might have a friend who he commuted with. |
0:39.8 | But days later when they were back at home, she found herself still wondering about that text. |
0:44.8 | Who was this person? |
0:46.3 | I decided to grab his phone and I kept scrolling back on the phone and realized that he was texting her from the hospital. |
0:56.6 | And said the doctor told me I can't exercise for a month. |
1:01.1 | And she wrote back and said, is love making aerobic. |
1:05.6 | So then I kept scrolling back and I realized who it was. |
1:09.9 | She was an old friend of mine. |
1:12.1 | I just felt all alone. |
1:13.6 | My heart started racing and I was out in my studio at the time. |
1:20.0 | And I came back towards the house and he was outside at the time just sitting on a chair. |
1:25.3 | And he said in a very sing-songing way, what you doing? |
1:28.9 | Oh, no. |
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