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His eyes were literally popping out of his head.

His face was red.

He had a gun in one hand pointed at me and a crowbar in the other.

Real people. Then I realized I wasbar in the other. Real people.

Then I realized I was covered in aviation gas,

and that's when the fear of dying really hit me.

Who faced death?

The next thing I know, there was another man also wearing a ski mask,

pointing at 9mm clock at my head like this.

And lived to tell how.

He then told me that my other daughter, seven years old, was dead and that my parents were dead.

He had already killed them.

This is I survived.

It's December 1989 in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Terry is divorced and has two young daughters.

She starts dating Dawn, a policeman. And he began pushing for marriage

immediately within weeks. I was hesitant due to my previous divorce and my family and friends

kept saying, you're just gun-shy. Get married. He's a great guy. Six months after they met,

Terry married Dawn. The night we got married, he played baseball for the police team and didn't

invite me. He left my daughters and I at home and I was hurt.

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