212. His Name Was Trouble
The Secret Room | True Stories
Ben Hamm
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2024
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Angela crossed ethical lines when she fell in love with a patient. Complicating matters, she was a woman of color and he was a white supremacist facing 20 years in prison.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Ben, my name is Angela, and my secret is the dark double life I led with a criminal. |
| 0:07.0 | I hear whispers that tell me some have figured out my secret shame. |
| 0:11.0 | But here I am, just a girl who fell in love with her patient, ready to tell all. |
| 0:16.0 | Today the secret room presents. His name was Trouble. I'm Ben Han. been here. When I first visited him, he was in a cage. |
| 0:27.0 | When I first visited him, he was in a cage, handcuffed. |
| 0:37.3 | And that was because he was a confirmed gang member. |
| 0:42.8 | Thanks to Dixie for supporting the secret room. |
| 0:47.8 | Dixie Stories is your passport to a world of adventures and unforgettable |
| 0:51.8 | encounters this year. Get an extended 30-day |
| 0:54.6 | free trial when you go to dipsy stories.com slash secret. When we think of forbidden love we think of a coupling that defies societal norms, |
| 1:11.0 | one that could bring shame upon oneself or one's family. |
| 1:14.5 | But what if that toll could also be potentially deadly or cost decades of loneliness to obtain? |
| 1:20.1 | When my guest Angela fell in love, she confronted these perils |
| 1:23.5 | and a certain professional ethical dilemma. |
| 1:26.0 | She joins me now to tell her secret. |
| 1:35.0 | Hi Angela, and welcome to the secret room. Hi. |
| 1:37.0 | Great to have you here. |
| 1:38.0 | Your secret at his heart is about a nurse and her patient, |
| 1:42.0 | but the surprises and the twists, my gosh, it's so much more than that, right? |
| 1:46.0 | It is. It ended up changing my entire life, yes. |
| 1:49.0 | And you're the nurse in the story, right? |
| 1:51.0 | Yes, I am. |
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