I hate to dampen the mood already.

But today I'm going to be sharing with you two absolutely horrific stories.

These events happened to me a few years ago.

And I've hesitated to tell these stories because I wasn't sure up until now if they would be useful to people.

But I've come to the conclusion recently that I think they can be

useful for people, for a few reasons. Number one, because these events could have been prevented

if I had been a bit smarter about some of my choices. And I hope that you can learn from my mistakes. Number two, a lot of times we think

that certain things won't happen to us. And so we can live naively in a way. And I think it's a good

reminder that we need to keep our eyes peeled and we need to be aware of the dangers of the

world. It's obviously not good to consume yourself with them,

but it's important to acknowledge that they're out there and they can happen to you and they can

happen to anyone. And last but not least, there's something beautiful about knowing that other

people have been through similar challenges to you.

There's just something inherently comforting about it.

And so hopefully one of these three, or maybe all three, if I'm lucky,

will make this episode and these stories worth hearing for you.

These are two party horror stories.

And I don't know exactly how to describe them because I'm still sort of unsure about what happened.

It'll make more sense as I tell the stories,

but these are two stories about me going to parties

and it ending really badly

because I accidentally consumed something that

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