Their eyes met in a busy grocery aisle at Costco.

She was handing out tasty samples, maybe some crackers with a new savory spread.

She did not know when he approached that this stranger wearing a firefighter's t-shirt

was also walking into her private life. And he? Well, he never

suspected the oversized role she would soon be playing in his. It was a routine encounter like

thousands of others, unremarkable in every way, except for this.

That fleeting moment in the grocery aisle and the events that followed

had lifelong ramifications for both of them and for everyone who knew them.

It was devastating.

Absolutely devastating.

I don't know. I couldn't, couldn't believe it.

So was this fixed or fated, ordered, and ordained? If she'd been off that day, if he'd turned down a different aisle, would any of this have happened? That is unknowable. What is known

is that the lives they led leading up to that moment gave no hint of what would come after it.

I'm fascinated in relationships that end in the ultimate worst possible way. And I'm also fascinated by the secrets

that lurk underneath. In this episode, you'll hear about the lives of that misaligned

pair in the Costco aisle from those who knew them best and loved them most.

Brena is such a positive, amazing person.

Jonathan was always so thoughtful.

We were best friends.

You'll hear the bedroom secrets of a bedroom community on the high desert.

You know, if that's what a couple agrees with in their marriage, then that's their business.

He'd shown pictures, naked pictures of the women out in Silver Lakes on his phone.

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