What a pleasure it can be, how delicious the pretend terror, to sink into a dark, safe place and listen to a scary story, to revel in the shivers.

But to live at the center of such a story, the real thing, how different that is, And that difference is fear. You know, it's funny how

emotionally you kind of vacillate in and out of, oh my God, this is real. And then there are

moments where you just kind of compartmentalize it and feel like, well, it's happening to somebody

else.

Nassie Latham cycled through all those emotions in the hours after learning someone had paid to have her killed.

And you can almost turn it into something you're looking at like a third party.

Just like it's a great story.

And as long as I look at it like that, I don't have to deal with the hurt of it.

Yeah.

Because there's a lot of hurt.

A little bit.

The questions danced around in her brain like so many lottery balls.

Who, how, when?

But mostly, why?

She'd never dreamed.

She'd be the target of a murder plot.

And that idea of wanting me to completely be obliterated off the face of the earth.

What did I do?

What did I do to deserve it?

In this episode, you'll hear more about the people believed to be behind the plot to kill Nancy.

You'll learn about a beautiful

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