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Hi, I survived listeners.

I'm Marissa Pinson.

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This episode contains subject matter that may be disturbing to some listeners. Listener discretion is advised. I can see the gun barrel come right

across my eye. Real people. I just had blood shooting out both sides of me and then I knew that

I had no arms at all.

Who faced death.

I stood there shaken. I had no clothes on, and I could just feel a gun pointing at my back.

And lived to tell how.

The emotion I felt was fear. There was no rush of adrenaline. It was strictly fear.

This is I survived.

It's September 1987 in St. Louis, Missouri. Harold is managing a grocery store and is working late.

The store had at all times two armed guards while the store was open.

At 10 o'clock when the store closed, one of the armed guards went home.

The other security guard locked up after the customers left.

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