Welcome to other people's lives. The podcast where each week we speak with an anonymous stranger that we found on the internet who we think is interesting.

I'm your host, Joe Santa Gata with my co-host Greg Dybeck and this week we got an email from someone.

I'm not going to say anything. Greg, can you just tell us what this email is about?

Well, the subject line didn't really give it away. This is one that we had to click on because the subject said,

my story.

Mysterious.

Very mysterious.

It could be anything.

We love mysterious.

Oh, yeah. So we click into this email and it's long.

There's there's several paragraphs here.

So I'm not even going to read the full email this time. I'm going to summarize it.

I'll pull out some parts. But basically this guy reaches out to us and he starts by telling the story about how he loves Halloween and great holiday.

Great holiday. This would make a great Halloween episode.

But

because he loves the aspect of wearing masks, like I think most of us do or have done it younger.

And he goes on to say how he became a little bit obsessed with wearing masks.

Okay.

And even when he was younger every time his family was out of the house, he rushed to his mask collection.

He'd pick one out to wear and just kind of go about his day.

Just do the normal things that he would do at home, but wearing a mask.

So what ended up happening?

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