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Storytime. Oh, you're going to be. Welcome to Stories with Sapphire, Small Tales and E-mails, where I read your responses to the

podcast in between regular episodes.

As always, if you'd like to submit an email or story, you can send it to stories with sapphire at gmail.com.

This week I'll be sharing email responses from the Close Calls episode a few weeks ago.

Chapter 1, Dear, submitted by Sarah.

Hi, Sapphire.

I've been listening to your show for three years now after discovering you through the

Monsters Among Us podcast.

I absolutely love your show. In your most recent episode,

Close Calls, you shared the story, We Should Have Died, about the person and their father

surviving a crash due to them receiving messages of what to do to protect themselves and how to find their father.

I thought your explanation of intercepting timelines was really fascinating,

and it reminded me of an experience I had with my own father

when I was a child.

I grew up in a large town in the Appalachian Mountains

with many narrow, twisty mountain roads and an abundance of deer.

It was a gray afternoon in early spring and my dad was driving me to softball practice. I was sitting in the front

passenger seat next to him and was turned towards the window just watching the

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