310: What if your mother disappeared?
This Is Actually Happening
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4.6 • 10.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
After being kidnapped by her mother in a custody battle, a woman finds herself cut off and under the thumb of an abusive stepmother, but after years of chaos and yearning, she finally learns the devastating truth.
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Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Sara Marinelli
Content/Trigger Warnings: domestic violence, suicidal ideation, graphic bodily injury, alcohol abuse, murder, death, explicit language
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| 0:00.0 | This is actually happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:04.1 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode and for more information about support services. When people experience really extreme trauma, it's too much for the human heart. It's too much for the human brain. |
| 0:25.0 | It was just all so surreal and there was just nothing else to do with the pain. |
| 0:35.0 | From Wundery, I'm Witt Misledyne. You are listening to this is actually happening. Episode 310. |
| 0:57.0 | What if your mother disappeared? |
| 1:01.0 | What if your mother disappeared? Hiring? |
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