Welcome to Storyworthy. My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm coming to you from Los Angeles, California.

Whether you're a longtime fan of Storyworthy of over 14 years or you're a brand new listener, welcome to Storyworthy.

I want to thank you guys so much for all the messages and letters I got from the last show.

That was two weeks ago.

I talked about my upcoming cochlear implant surgery and also about being kicked out of my friend's will after she passed away.

And that resonated.

Let me tell you. I actually felt better after reading

a lot of the letters that I received because this happens to a lot of people. You know,

you think things are going one way and then it doesn't go that way. And I don't know about you guys, but in life, I find that it's what you don't see coming

that hurts the most.

Do you know what I mean?

It's when you don't see it coming.

And, you know, that is really relative to, like, if you get sick and you don't see that coming,

or if somebody breaks up with you, or somebody cheats on you, or somebody lies to you,

or you're left out of a will.

Those sorts of things, man, it just cuts.

It just hurts because it leaves you with no options, you know, it leaves you just feeling

shitty. And like from my experience, my friend cut me out of her will and she gave all of her

money to two other people, not family members, and she wasn't married, no children, but to two other people,

she gave all the money. And, you know, it was just like, wait a minute, what? And there's plenty of

money to go around. You know, that's the other thing. It wasn't like, oh, this was only $100,000.

This was like $700 or $800,000. So, you know, at the end of the day,

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