Hello kids, this is Risk, the show where people tell true stories they never thought they

dare to share.

I'm Kevin Allison, and every Thursday we release these special episodes where we look

back at content from our earlier years.

Sometimes single stories, sometimes whole episodes, keep in mind that years ago people might

have awarded things differently than they would today.

As always, the title of the whole series, Risk, is itself a content warning.

This week a story that Tao Madsen for shared on the show in May of 2016, here is Tao

Madsen with a story we call The One That Got Away.

So my family and I were immigrants who moved from Vietnam to Seattle when I was about two

years old.

And before I get into the story, I just want to give you guys a little bit of a background

on my parents who are basically the subjects of the story.

So my mom and dad are both the oldest of their siblings.

And a little bit about my dad, he was born to a mom who basically for lack of better term

slept around a lot and had kids from various different men.

She was also a gambling addict and didn't really work a day in her life though if you consider

fortune telling a job then she had a job.

And she never really changed a diaper either because she grew up with rich parents who owned

a company in Vietnam.

And so they had maids or either that her parents changed her kid's diapers for her.

But during the Vietnam War my dad's family lost their company to the Vietnam Kong.

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