When I did get away from him, I opened the top dresser and I pulled out my gun.

So block 43, he hangs up the phone and then he looks up at me and he's like, are you going to kill me?

And I said, if you get up and if you move, I'm going to shoot.

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Her name is Mary Forges.

She lives in Connecticut.

She is a emergency communications dispatcher and the Connecticut State Director for the DC Project,

which is something we'll talk about in a little bit so you know what that is. So Mary,

welcome and thank you so much for coming on. Thank you for having me on short notice. I just met

her last week down in D.C. and I've been anticipating this conversation. Looking forward to it.

Yeah. I think it's important for folks to know. This isn't easy for a lot of people to do to come on and talk to a bunch of strangers about a very intimate, unpleasant event that happened in their life. When I say intimate, I mean, when someone's trying to kill you, that's an intimate thing. They're trying to take your life or they're trying to harm you physically. That's as close as it gets.

And they're in a zone they shouldn't be in.

They're in a zone that's reserved for loved ones, for family and friends.

That's what I meant by that, just to clarify.

So I did mention that you're a dispatcher.

Can we just talk about maybe we can get rid of some dispatching myths really quick right

up front before we start talking about your story. So people call 911. Well, sometimes they call for silly reasons that don't warrant a 911 call, but generally,

if they call for an emergency, they're hearing you talk, you're sounding calm, and they're like, wait,

why isn't she getting the police here? Why isn't you getting the ambulance here? Just really quick,

walk us through what happens. I call 911, you answer and what are you doing? You ask what's your

emergency and then what? So typically there's a list of protocols. So we have to go through and

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