Hi, I'm Caitlin Van Moll, 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

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 as Brad Pitt, he never writes, he never calls, he never,

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, you know, please her.

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

They weren't as easy as the previous year.

Had a tough freshman year, I guess kind of your typical depression.

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