Hello kids, this is Risk, the show where people tell true stories they never thought they

dared to share.

I'm Kevin Allyson and every Thursday we release these special episodes that were calling

classic risk singles.

Each of these episodes features just one story from our earlier years.

If you're new to risk, you should know that the podcast can be very uncensored.

This week, a story by me.

Now I first shared this one on the podcast in September of 2011 and at that time it was

something very new for me.

I was telling a radio style story that is one of our stories that is told directly into

the mic rather than in front of a live audience for the very first time and I was sharing about

events that had happened just three days prior to when I was recording.

Now the last sentence in this story is about changing perceptions and that line is especially

poignant to me today because I listened to this story eight years later and there are

some sentences in this story that make me cringe.

I think, oh my god, no, I would not word that way nowadays.

Then there are other places in this story where I think, no, Kevin, you drew the wrong conclusion

about what was even happening in that situation.

I'm just at such a different place in my life now that I see some of the events described

in this story differently when I listen back to it.

At the time I was 41, I had just gotten divorced.

I was just starting to date again after nine years of no dating and now I realize I was

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