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When we hear the phrase love triangle, it conjures up all kinds of romantic imagery.

It's as old as Greek mythology, gaining momentum during the exaggerated lyricism of Shakespeare.

Opros, novels, movies, soap operas, they all give us the idea that a love triangle is the epitome of romance.

Where a beautiful woman is so desired, she can hardly choose between her two lovers.

Even in more current pop culture, the trope of the love triangle was explored ad nauseam in the popular Twilight series of books and movies.

It usually involves a good, safe man, and of course, the bad boy.

But is it a love triangle if one of the suitors is unaware he has competition?

Life is often stranger than fiction, but usually, it's depressingly mundane.

Michelle Thier found herself in what is often described as a love triangle.

But in reality, she was simply a cheater.

Her husband, just the cuckold, a trope just is old, but much more sad than the romantic notion of a love triangle.

And did Michelle really love her other suitor or was he just a means to an end for her?

A life where she chooses neither me, but instead rises from the ashes like a phoenix, starting her life over,

without the constraints of metal bonds or the obsessive love of her other suitor, a man who had served his purpose.

But Michelle Thier was no phoenix, she was a black widow.

ensnaring more than just two men in her web of lies before her ultimate downfall.

Welcome to episode 71, the tangled web of Dr. Michelle Thier.

Fayetteville, North Carolina is home of the 82nd Airborne and the US Army Special Operations Command.

Fayetteville is also home to several museums of military art and history, and is famous for being the first American city, named for the Marquis de Lafayette,

the French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the Revolutionary War.

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