Everybody talked about it since I first moved to Oregon.

The big one, the earthquake that trashed the whole West Coast, total destruction.

Officially calling it the largest natural disaster in American history.

I just didn't know what would help me next.

So I took it all.

Even the gun.

It was time.

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Do you think most relationships have at least one dark secret that they never reveal in the relationship.

Now, this might be a little bit darker than most.

This person who sent us an email said that when they're in their early 20s,

they were desperate for money and they were robbing people to get by.

I said, I was what a lot of my friends were doing in my home country,

and I kind of fell into their bad behavior as well and joined the

club. Well, one night, one of my targets actually fought back with me. We got into a little bit

of a fight. He had a knife. I turned it on him and he took a couple stabs of the chest and I found out

later that he did not make it. Oh, no. It was then that I knew I needed a big time change in my life. I was not heading in the right direction and I was eventually going to die if I didn't get out of there. So I got sober. I got the United States and almost 15 years later I'm doing very well. I'm still clean. I now have a career and I've been dating an amazing woman. But as we're getting closer, we're kind of revealing more and more about each other. And I've been holding on to this, this very dark secret. And I just wonder, is this something I should ever reveal to her? Let's say we talk about marriage one day. Do you need to reveal something like this? Oh, the next time you guys get into a fight, she is going to bring that out. that time you kill that guy i'm going to tell on

you everyone's going to know stabby stabber you like oh i shouldn't have said anything yeah this is very

tough because there's nothing good that will come out of you talking about this i don't think you can't bring

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