In Absentia

Thanks For Asking

Feelings & Co.

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Olivia is 7 years old when her dad moves out of state to take a new job … and is never heard from again. In high school, a manilla envelope appears in Olivia’s mailbox letting her know the reason she never heard from him is because he died by suicide. But when Olivia learns as a young journalist that her father might have faked his own death all those years ago, she decides to investigate. - Did you know we’re on TikTok? Yep, it’s true. Follow Nora. You can catch up with TTFA on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook using @ttfapodcast. Nora's Instagram is @noraborealis. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Nora McNeerney and this is Terrible Thanks for Asking.
0:08.8	And today's episode is a bit of a mystery.
0:12.7	Now today's guest is a child of the 90s, much like me, much like many listeners of this
0:18.4	podcast, but if you were of any age in the 90s, you might remember a little TV show called
0:26.4	Unsolved Mysteries.
0:35.6	Now I have no idea how I was allowed to watch this.
0:38.3	I was not allowed to watch it.
0:39.3	I guarantee you I was not allowed to watch most things.
0:42.3	This was definitely not a TV show meant for kids, but nearly every millennial I know
0:47.6	remembers watching this show and being scarred for life.
0:51.9	Staying up in bad just shivering, shaking because the mysteries were always, obviously
0:56.2	it's right in the title, they were unsolved.
0:59.1	And episodes ended with zero resolution and sometimes one of those, if you have any information
1:04.8	as to the whereabouts of So-and-So call this number, which felt frightening like where
1:09.3	was so-and-so.
1:11.4	Is he under my bed?
1:13.9	The only thing scarier than watching Unsolved Mysteries would have been living in one.
1:24.0	Growing up, Olivia, again a child of the 90s, she didn't know her world would eventually
1:29.0	turn into a real life Unsolved mystery.
1:33.5	Olivia was just a kid, enjoying any time she could spend with her dad, Albert.
1:39.2	Olivia's parents divorced when she was two, so Olivia only saw her dad on holidays
1:44.0	and every other weekend.
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