Everything Must Go

You Had Me at Black

Society & Culture, Black Stories, Personal Journals, Arts, Performing Arts, Black Storytelling, Storytelling Podcast, Documentary, Black History Month, Black Podcast, Black Voices

4.0 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Krystal puts the pieces of her life back together after a painful divorce.

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to You Had Me at Black. I'm Martina Abraham Zalunga.
0:04.8	Listen to our latest story, Everything Must Go. It comes from Crystal, a young woman who put her life
0:10.8	back together after a painful divorce.
0:13.0	I want you to breathe all this
0:15.0	and I'm gonna You're listening to you had me at black
0:28.3	black light in the heart of the city black man listen man Black. This is you have me at Black and we live baby
0:45.0	At the age of 19 I met a guy who I felt head over he was in love with
0:50.2	By the time I turned 25, he proposed to me.
0:54.0	We had two beautiful children.
0:56.0	He gave me my first call.
0:58.0	And about us a five bedroom house.
1:01.0	I felt like I finally had the family always wanted.
1:04.0	Months before our wedding date, our relationship started to get sour.
1:10.0	And I could tell you, she was cheating on me, but I didn't have any proof.
1:14.0	I wasn't surprised though because he got caught cheating
1:18.0	plenty of times before but I ignored it.
1:21.0	Even though I was unhappy, I didn't want to leave because I depended on his family for everything and I distanced myself for my own family.
1:30.0	I had a fear starting over with nothing.
1:33.0	One day, the young lady he was sleeping with decided to get in my inbox.
1:37.0	She did, let me know she was sleep with my man and I asked him about it and for the
1:51.0	first time he met him he was cheating on me.
1:53.0	Hell, I ain't know how to respond to that.
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