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This episode deals with suicide.
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There's also some spicy language in here.
Okay, here we go.
When we left Helen Shores Peters, she was contemplating suicide.
She had driven through a snowstorm to return an iPhone she says her husband objected to.
She was barreling down a steep, windy road.
Like, I could just push the gas instead of the brake here and no one would know that I did it on purpose.
Fortunately, Helen didn't do it, but the.
Thought, like, came and I was like, holy shit.
Like, what is happening?
Helen says her ex husband, Jason Shibey had put her in this dangerous position, telling her to return the phone immediately.
She says she listened.
The Christchurch commandment to obey your husband was still strong inside her.
So then I got down to Lewiston and I'm going to return the phone and I get a call from him and he's like, you know, I just talked to Sprint and it's financially not going to make any sense at this point for you to return the phone, so why don't you just go ahead and keep it?
But, you know, I know you went, you drove all the way down there, so why don't you go to TJ Maxx and just get yourself a little, a little something and then just come back home.