From Hidden Brain Media, I'm Shankar Vedantam. This is my unsung hero.

Stories where one person reached out to help another in a time of need.

Hi Shanker, my Unsank Hero is a Frenchman.

She had given me exactly what I needed in that time.

I was fortunate enough to survive with the help of this man, this doctor,

who went out of his way to help save my life.

Today's story comes from Leah Bathe. to help save my life.

Today's story comes from Leah Bartel.

It was 1994 and I was 20 years old. I had stayed for the summer at my college campus in Connecticut just to work in the library and earn some money.

And a few of my friends had stayed as well.

So one night, I was over at a friend's house

and decided to walk home.

It was about 2.30 in the morning and I had to walk

quite a distance from one end of the campus to the other. I was walking down a

very dark street and two men approached me.

They were both really tall and I'm about five feet tall and small and they were clearly drunk.

One of them was standing in front of me and the other one was standing behind me.

And I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what was going to happen but I knew it was going to be bad. And all of a sudden a car pulled over and two people got out of the car, a man and a woman.

And the man asked me, are you okay?

And I said no.

And he immediately engaged with the two men

to try to get them away from me and I don't know what happened next because I just ran.

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