233: What if they invaded your home?
This Is Actually Happening
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4.6 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
“It honestly felt like my whole life had just gone from this amazing color filled motion picture to just going into something so black and white…just feeling so alone all of the time.”
Today’s episode featured Evelyn. You can reach out to her through email at [email protected]
Producers: Whit Missildine, Sara Marinelli
Episode Summary: Growing up in a loving Mexican immigrant family in the US, everything changes in a young girl’s life when a home invasion, abandonment and unprocessed losses mount, leading to a dramatic wake up call.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is actually happening, features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:04.2 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode |
| 0:07.6 | and for more information about support services. |
| 0:16.9 | It was almost like there was a color in a black and white contrast between |
| 0:20.8 | feeling alone and feeling so loved. It honestly felt like my whole life had just gone |
| 0:26.6 | from this amazing color-filled motion picture to just going into something so black and white, |
| 0:33.2 | just feeling so alone all of the time. |
| 0:36.5 | From laundry, I'm Whitney Sildine. You are listening to this is actually happening. |
| 0:51.2 | Episode 233. What if they invaded your home? |
| 1:09.6 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to this is actually happening. |
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| 1:29.2 | I grew up in a very traditional Mexican household. My dad had a couple of different labor-intensive |
| 1:35.6 | jobs within construction, landscaping. However, in Mexico, my dad's actually got licensure of an |
| 1:42.9 | architect. But moving into the US and us over staying our visa, my dad could only find job as |
| 1:50.6 | some sort of contractor. My mom started her own business. She would deal 14-carat gold, |
| 1:58.2 | and that's usually where our main source of income came from. My mom was pretty much like the glue |
| 2:06.4 | of the entire family, and I mean like extended family. We had a lot of different family members |
| 2:14.3 | who would come down to Atlanta where we grew up, and my mom would actually kind of provide |
| 2:20.6 | like a safe home for a lot of these nephews that were coming over to work with my dad as an |
| 2:26.9 | electrician. They would just come and my mom would just always tell them it's okay, you can stay |
| 2:33.2 | here while you get on your feet. We pretty much had this open door policy. In the evening times, |
| 2:40.8 | we would all sit together as a family and have these big traditional Hispanic dinners. |
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