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Happy Monday. Welcome back to another episode.

Part two today of the escape Ashley's story and intense, right? If you didn't, just fair warning,

if you did not listen to the last week's episode, this is a part two. So go back and listen to it and then

listen to this one because if you don't, then you'll be like, wait, what? And you'll find yourself

going back anyways. So we'll do a quick recap for those who listened and want to refresh. And for

everybody, this is a story with definite physical abuse and domestic violence. And it awful. It's really awful. Very abusive and

scary, really scary. It's really can be very, yeah, triggering. So take your time or if you want to

we've had people reach out to us before and be like, this story was too much for me, but I would

like to know what happens. And we'll like just let you know. We can DM you. Like, we get it. Some things are really hard to

hear and we get that. But thank you for being here. And we as always, you guys, don't forget to send

us your own stories. You can just email them to us straight to the show and we'll either talk about them on Patreon, which, by the way, is only

$5 a month. So if you haven't joined Patreon yet, do it. It's so cool. We have a great community

of Patreoners there and we appreciate you guys so much. But we do two bonus episodes a month.

So things that don't, that you don't hear on the main feed, you'll hear on Patreon. So send us your stories. Let's recap really quick. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. I said I was going to recap and then I

never did. Sorry. Squirrel. Okay. So Ashley, yes. She meets a guy on TikTok and the relationship

goes very quickly. They are long distance, but within about a month or two,

because she sees some definite work opportunities and also is smitten with him, I think,

moves to his state and moves in with them. They move a little quick, but there was opportunities for both of them. So. Yeah, but they've definitely been fighting a lot and they've just gone on a trip and he

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