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Alright, here we go. I'm Melissa Swayze.

And I'm Nate Reisman and this is you can see me in the dark.

You can see me in the dark. Sarah came to Los Angeles with a dream, like so many.

And like so many, she needed a temporary place to crash while she explored the city

But this safe haven started feeling like anything but you can see me in the dark presents Sarah I wanted to tell you guys a story that has stuck with me and it's a bit frustrating because

the other person that this happened to doesn't really want to talk about it. They don't want to tell the story to anyone.

So it often feels like I'm a little alone in this, but it's fine.

I completely understand.

And I don't blame her.

You're about to hear the story because it is pretty traumatizing.

I'm going to change her name to Nikki, I'll call her Nikki.

I lived in Northern California in a very small cow town and I wanted to move to Los Angeles to pursue screenwriting and

filmmaking. My grandfather was a bank robber in San Francisco in the 60s and I

wanted to sell that script, that future script. So Los Angeles was very lowering,

and when I was 20,

I decided to drive down to Los Angeles,

which was a six hour drive.

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