368: What if you were the only one left to grieve?
This Is Actually Happening
Wondery
4.6 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
A young girl's world shatters when one night, her mother’s stalker, who has threatened to annihilate her family, walks into her home with a loaded gun.
Today’s episode featured Fallon Farinacci. You can reach out to her via email at [email protected].
Find Fallon on Instagram and TikTok @fallonfarinacci
Find out more about Fallon at www.fallonfarinacci.com. A proud Red River Métis, Fallon is a Speaker, Survivor, & Advocate for MMIWG (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls). Fallon has cultivated an incredible community and uses her online platform to share her story, give back to the Indigenous community, and raise awareness for causes and organizations close to her heart. Fallon testified in the National Inquiry for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, sharing her story of loss and trauma. Later, Fallon joined The National Family Advisory Circle, where she worked closely with other MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ family members and the Commissioners for the National Inquiry. Fallon continues to share her family’s story & bring awareness to the ongoing Genocide Indigenous women, girls 2S+ folx face in hopes of bringing change & awareness across Turtle Island.
A special thanks to Maya Samuels for bringing our attention to this devastating story.
Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Cathy Sitzes
Content/Trigger Warnings: stalking, home invasion, death by gun, suicide by gun, suicide, racism, colonization, genocide, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, explicit language
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| 0:00.0 | Wondry Plus subscribers can listen to exclusive episodes of This Is Actually Happening |
| 0:05.0 | by joining Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:09.6 | This Is Actually Happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events. |
| 0:13.9 | Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode and for more information about support services. |
| 0:34.0 | I want to bring justice and healing to my inner nine-year-old. |
| 0:40.5 | I want to acknowledge everything that she lost, the childhood that could have been the person, the adult that I could have been as well. |
| 0:51.6 | From Wondery, I'm Whitmyssledine. |
| 0:55.3 | You're listening to This Is Actually Happening. |
| 1:01.8 | Episode 368. |
| 1:05.2 | What if you were the only one left to grieve. |
| 1:18.2 | My name is T.J. Raphael. |
| 1:24.6 | I'm the host of Liberty Lost, a new podcast about who gets to be a mother and the control of young women hidden behind the veil of faith. |
| 1:28.1 | Binge all episodes of Liberty Lost, ad-free right now on Wondery Plus. |
| 1:33.7 | Hey, I'm Cassie Depeckel, host of Wonderry's podcast Against the Odds. |
| 1:37.1 | In our new season, it's August 3, 1991. |
| 1:39.6 | A cruise ship sails into a brutal storm off South Africa's wild coast and soon starts flooding. |
| 1:44.4 | But with no leadership in sight, the ship's entertainers take charge, leading a desperate |
| 1:48.0 | evacuation before Oceanos sinks. Listen to Against the Odds on the Wondery app or wherever you |
| 1:52.7 | get your podcasts. My dad grew up in rural Manitoba in a tiny predominantly Métis communities. |
| 2:14.9 | Métis are indigenous here in Canada. He was Métis himself. This was the community |
| 2:21.6 | that my grandparents grew up in as well. My mother was born and raised in St. Catherine's, |
| 2:29.1 | Ontario. This is where she lived with her parents and siblings as well. |
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