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I Survived

The Hardest Twenty Yards I Have Ever Walked

I Survived

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Talk Radio

3.25.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

When Amanda, a school teacher, is carjacked and abducted by an escaped inmate, she quickly forms a game plan: play along and stay alive. In order to convince her abductor that they are friends and get out alive, she is forced to make decisions she never thought she would face.  Angi: Download the free Angi mobile app today or visit Angi.com   AMCN: Visit airmedcarenetwork.com and use offer CODE: ISURVIVED when you join. That's ISURVIVED, with no spaces  

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Caitlin Van Mall, host of I survived.

0:02.6

As you may have heard in the past few weeks, we are relaunching season one.

0:06.0

We love these stories and are excited for them to reach new audiences.

0:09.4

Episode 3 is Amanda, a teacher just minding her own business on her lunch break, but bad luck put her in the path of a man who would change her life.

0:16.6

Amanda is a great example of someone who kept their wits about them in a very stressful situation and made it out alive. But this is also a story of forgiveness and

0:24.8

empathy, which you'll hear in episode 3 of I survived, the hardest 20 yards I have ever walked.

0:31.6

This episode contains sensitive content.

0:34.0

Listener discretion is advised.

0:37.0

I didn't mind telling people what happened,

0:40.0

but I realized really quickly that people were really nervous when I told them.

0:44.0

In 2008, Amanda was working as an ESL teacher at a high school in Charlotte, North Carolina.

0:50.0

I was not actually really intended to move to Charlotte. I just thought I would go somewhere outside of North Carolina actually

0:57.3

But I got this internship and then my aunt and uncle actually lived in Charlotte. I lived with them at the beginning,

1:03.7

but at that time I had a roommate who was my best friend.

1:08.2

She was 24 years old and hadn't been teaching for long,

1:11.4

but she loved it.

1:12.6

I worked in working with kids for a really long time,

1:15.4

so I taught some lessons when I was a kid,

1:18.2

and I worked as a tutor in college,

1:19.9

and I really liked it, and I really loved my job. I was teaching at a very high poverty school and I mean we were like

1:26.8

90% of the students were below the poverty level. So basically all my kids were from different countries at a lot of

1:35.3

kids who had limited formal education in the past so they hadn't been in a formal

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