345: What if nine bullets shattered your dreams? [Rebroadcast #240]
This Is Actually Happening
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🗓️ 24 December 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Growing up with a single mother and a father in jail, a dancer’s life is forever changed when one night, while doing a favor for a friend, two unknown shooters open fire.
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Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Jason Blalock
Content/Trigger Warnings: domestic violence, mention of sexual assault, drug use, gun violence, car crash, graphic bodily injury, suicidal ideation, attempted suicide, explicit language
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| 0:00.0 | Wondry Plus subscribers can listen to exclusive episodes of This Is Actually Happening |
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| 0:09.7 | This Is Actually Happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:14.0 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode |
| 0:17.0 | and for more information about support services. |
| 0:26.1 | Hi listeners. |
| 0:30.7 | Today we begin our annual three-week winter rebroadcast series. |
| 0:37.3 | We'll be on hiatus starting today and we'll return with all new episodes starting January 14th. Today's rebroadcast episode, |
| 0:39.3 | What If Nine Bullets Shattered Your Dreams, |
| 0:41.3 | originally aired as Episode 240 on June 21st, 2022. |
| 0:47.3 | I got shot. Well, why did you get shot? |
| 0:51.3 | I don't know. Well, who shot you? |
| 0:55.2 | I don't know. |
| 0:57.4 | These are unanswered questions. |
| 0:59.9 | These are open-ended wounds. |
| 1:04.0 | These are open-ended things that you have to patch up, but how do you patch them up? |
| 1:05.7 | How do you make it okay? From LBin. From Wondery, I'm Witt Misseldine. |
| 1:17.8 | You're listening to This Is Actually Happening. |
| 1:30.9 | Episode 240. Episode 240 What if nine bullets shattered your dreams? |
| 1:38.5 | Who can I talk to? |
| 1:40.9 | Can anyone relate to what I'm going through? |
| 1:47.1 | Who else understands what it's like to have cancer? |
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