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The Secret Room | True Stories

92. Guilt Born of Innocence

The Secret Room | True Stories

Ben Hamm

Storytelling, Personal Journals, Story, Podcast, Stories, True, Society & Culture

4.42.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

“My secret is I feel ashamed about something my parents made me do when I was a kid. I'm really lucky my cousin survived it.”

See Mark and his brothers a couple of years after our story on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Search @secretroompod.

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PODCAST TEAM
Producer: Susie Lark
Social Media: Sachelle Brooks, Alessandro Nigro
Street Secrets: Lisa Ellex
The Sound Engineer: Chet
Music and Theme: Breakmaster Cylinder

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Thanks to Buffie for supporting the secret room.

0:02.8

For $20 off your Buffie Comforter, visit buffie.co and enter promo code secret.

0:09.1

Thanks to BetterHelp for supporting the secret room.

0:12.2

For 10% off your first month, go to BetterHelp.com slash secret.

0:18.6

What's your secret?

0:20.9

So I was at my parents' house and talking to my mom when I mentioned how much I love

0:26.4

these metal birds that have been in my mom's house for years.

0:30.9

I feel like she's always had these birds and she dropped her voice to a whisper and says to me,

0:39.4

I never told your father but my ex-boyfriend gave those to me 45 years ago.

0:47.6

Oh my god 45 years ago.

0:51.6

According to her, she liked them so much she just couldn't get rid of them.

0:58.3

And she made me promise to never tell my father.

1:01.4

Yeah, she shared that with me recently after all these years.

1:08.0

I'm gonna go with something.

1:22.5

Hi Ben.

1:24.0

Mark, how are you?

1:25.6

It's been nothing but a rain here but then that's typical Scotland.

1:28.8

Oh my gosh, the rain can be cozy.

1:31.2

Not when it happens, there's often no.

1:33.3

Okay, well I hope you're dry.

1:35.2

Yep.

1:36.1

Today Mark enters the secret room with a story from his childhood.

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