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🗓️ 28 August 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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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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