Trigger Warning: This episode contains themes of emotional abuse, control, and abandonment. Please take care while listening.

She thought she was safe. A fiancé. A ring. A camping trip in the California woods. But when she woke up, the tent was empty. Everyone was gone. No fire. No footsteps. No note. Just silence.

The signs had been there all along - the uninvited appearances, the glare in the cafeteria when she was grieving, the constant reminders she was never really safe. She married him anyway. But she didn’t stay. July 4th - Independence Day - the day she chose herself.

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