Matjames and Tyler: Flee, Flood, Float
STORIES by Lea Thau
Lea Thau
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2013
⏱️ 42 minutes
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A story about the places we go and the people we find. (Sorry we don’t want to give it away, just listen, please.)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Stranger |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to Strangers from KCW's independent producer project and StoryCentral.org. |
| 0:30.4 | My name is Leah Tau. |
| 0:34.7 | Today's story has many facets, many chapters, many strangers aspects. |
| 0:40.3 | And I think I just want to play it for you and ask you to go with the flow. |
| 0:47.3 | Here's Matt James Metzen. |
| 0:49.3 | When I was 15 or 16, we moved to a small town in Ohio, and that's how I met my first girlfriend. |
| 0:57.0 | And it was typical teenage love at first sight. I saw her and I was like, holy cow. |
| 1:03.0 | I'd never really liked girls yet much. |
| 1:07.0 | I basically moved in with her. We lived in her parents' cellar. |
| 1:12.6 | We did that for a long time. |
| 1:14.6 | A couple years. |
| 1:16.6 | And then we broke up, you're teenagers. |
| 1:19.6 | And Envoy is kind of immature, so it was probably my fault. |
| 1:25.6 | Then I moved out and moved into this guy's apartment. He had a spare |
| 1:29.6 | room. And we sort of had like a little one-night stand thing. After the breakup, she got pregnant. |
| 1:38.1 | And I didn't know how to deal with it at all. She was keeping the baby and she had the baby and I met the baby. It was very |
| 1:47.6 | briefly in the woods and I couldn't handle it. I didn't know how to do it. It wasn't a father. |
| 1:55.6 | I was 17 years old, I think. It was a very small town. It was a very small school. It was a very small |
| 2:03.4 | baby. And I had to get away from it. So I split. Got in a bus and went to New Orleans. |
| 2:11.9 | But I quickly went straight into a mental hospital because I knew this kid happened and I had the guilt |
| 2:20.3 | and the shame and it was too much and it put me in the hospital. So it's not like I was one of those |
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