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Sean of the South

The Woman Who Tried to Die

Sean of the South

Sean Dietrich

Personal Journals, S-town, Music, Alabama, Garrison Keillor, Storytelling, Story, Garden And Gun, Southern Living, Serial, Southern Culture, S Town, Old Radio, Lake Wobegon, Stories, Prairie Home Companion, Arts, Society & Culture, Live From Here, Story Podcast

5.0546 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Contains story of suicide attempt. To subscribe to Sean's daily blog, https://seandietrich.com/subscribe/ For information on events or other Sean of the South news, visit https://seandietrich.com/ To sponsor an episode, email LauraBeth@SeanDietrich.com Sean Dietrich is a columnist, humorist, multi-instrumentalist, and stand-up storyteller known for his commentary on life in the American South. His work has appeared in Newsweek, Southern Living, Reader's Digest, Garden and Gun, and hi...

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Sean South starts now.

0:57.8

Music South starts now. This story was sent to me.

1:00.4

I'm not going to do it justice, but I will try.

1:04.2

It happened in Washington, the ever-range state.

1:08.3

It was late, and there was a woman who was about to kill herself.

1:12.4

She was young, standing on a ledge of an overpass.

1:16.9

She was holding a stuffed animal with hair blowing in all directions.

1:19.8

She was really going to do it this time.

1:29.7

Traffic whizzed by, roaring engines, red taillights, endless rivers of Detroit engineering, and the weeping woman gazed at the long chain of speeding cars, and she set a simple prayer into the den of the traffic

1:35.5

boom.

1:37.1

She said, Jesus, I'm going to kill myself.

1:40.7

So if you're real, you'll stop me.

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And I'm giving you five minutes to prove that you care about me.

1:48.0

Meantime, across town, Officer Rob Kearney was involved in another call.

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