Hi, I'm Caitlin Van Mall, host of I survived.

We're re-releasing season one to hopefully reach new listeners,

because we think as many people as possible should hear these stories.

This episode is Maggie, and as you'll hear,

life has knocked Maggie down so many times but when I

talked to her I was struck by her hopefulness and her positivity. Maggie ran

cross-country in high school and in college so maybe that's where she learned to just keep

going or maybe it's her faith, or some

combination of the two. But when we were talking about the bad things that happened to her, she just

described it as, yeah, that really sucked, but you just get up and you keep going and you'll hear Maggie in

episode six I just saw evil. This episode contains descriptions of sexual assault and violence.

Listener discretion is advised.

I'll be 40 this month.

December 18th, the same day is Brad Pitt, he never writes, he never calls, he never sends any love, but that's all right.

Maggie Malloy was born the youngest of three in a small Ohio town.

I'm the youngest and then Michael is the middle.

He was two years older, so when I was a sophomore he was a senior.

And then Keith, the oldest was he's nine years older.

Really, I was just your happy-go-lucky kid raised by a single mom and

mom was always my inspiration. Mom was my world, my rock, my everything, I did my best to please her.

During her freshman year of high school, Maggie found that things had changed.

They weren't as easy as the previous year.

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