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🗓️ 13 December 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi Nora, I had to share a awful, terrible, no good, very bad holiday experience. |
0:15.0 | So my first Christmas Eve without my husband, I went to a bar. |
0:20.6 | My last Christmas was terrible. |
0:25.8 | If the holidays are hard for you, you're not alone. |
0:30.0 | But isn't this the most wonderful time of the year? |
0:34.0 | A time of wonder and amazement, a time of giving? |
0:37.8 | Of course it is, but like any good infomercial will tell you, wait, there's more. |
0:46.0 | For a lot of people, this isn't the happiest time of year. |
0:49.8 | It's a time of the year or at best it's a happy-ish time of year. |
0:56.2 | A time that is tinged with sadness, rusted with lingering trauma stained with the tears of |
1:02.0 | yesterday, you get it. |
1:04.7 | About six years ago on Christmas, my, I think I was visiting home and it was first Christmas |
1:18.8 | that my mom, new boyfriend, was going to send us, she'd ask if it was a case, she'd |
1:26.5 | come tonight, we said yes, we were awkward but we were looking forward to it. |
1:33.8 | I wake up Christmas morning and in my mid-20s, my brothers in high school, just the two |
1:41.0 | of us wake up and my mom is not there. |
1:45.9 | My, her, my friend is not there and we get a little note on the kitchen table that says, |
1:52.9 | went to ER, text me, love, mom, and in the middle of the night, my mom, my friend had a green, |
2:04.9 | bleeds, horrible, horrible headache, they went to ER and then I'm just sitting, a life |
2:12.5 | of flight ed out to a bigger hospital and spent lovely, lovely Christmas in the stroke |
2:21.4 | ward. |
2:22.4 | My brother and I were kind of like, what are we doing now? |
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