247: What if you didn't see the signs?
This Is Actually Happening
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4.6 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Bill Mitchell built a successful career, marriage and family, but just as his bright and loving daughter graduates from college with big dreams, an unthinkable event irreversibly changes everything.
Today’s episode featured Bill Mitchell. Bill has a book and podcast, both called When Dating Hurts. You can find out more about Bill, his book and his podcast, all at whendatinghurts.com. You can also find his book on Amazon.
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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. |
| 0:17.7 | You spend a lot of times like, why did this happen? |
| 0:20.8 | You think that if you think about it long enough for talk with enough people |
| 0:24.5 | that you can make sense out of it and it's really, I think, impossible. |
| 0:39.8 | From Wondry, I'm Whit Missaldine. You are listening to this is actually happening. |
| 0:45.5 | Episode 247 |
| 0:56.4 | What if you didn't see the signs? |
| 1:04.3 | It's hard to imagine losing a loved one, a wife, a husband, a child. |
| 1:08.7 | For many, it's their biggest fear. |
| 1:10.7 | I'm Marissa Jones, host of The Vanished. A podcast that tells the stories of often overlooked |
| 1:15.8 | and unsolved missing persons cases in an effort to uncover the truth. |
| 1:20.0 | Listen to The Vanished on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:51.0 | My parents met during World War II in Florida. My father was a fighter pilot |
| 1:59.8 | training people to go off to war as he would eventually. |
| 2:04.4 | Love it first sight. They were married. That was 1946. |
| 2:09.9 | I came along in 1950. Very stable upbringing, nuclear family, |
| 2:16.5 | very positive environment. About 15 miles outside of Baltimore. We lived out in the country. |
| 2:24.4 | I got good grades, probably not as good as my brother who was a year ahead of me in school, |
| 2:28.4 | but I did just fine and I always felt like I could lead a successful life and even then look to head |
| 2:34.2 | and thought probably would have a family of my own one day. |
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