Abby Ellin
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100 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
Abby Ellin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I wanted to do international reporting, and even if possible, I wanted to do war correspondence.
I said, well, tell me about it. You know, keep me posted on how this goes. This is right up my alley. And... He did. He kept keeping me posted. He kept telling me what was going on.
Apparently he had been divorced since I met him. His two kids lived in California and he was living in Jacksonville and he was going to move to Washington. And I thought, well, isn't that ironic? Because I was going to move to Washington too to go to grad school.
It seemed almost, you know, there's a word in Hebrew, beshert, which means meant to be. And I thought, OK, this is meant to be.
And he called when he said he would and he sent flowers and he wasn't like a suffering artist in paint splattered jeans. You know, he was really a good guy.
I was 42, so I wasn't a kid. And he was 58, so he wasn't a kid. But it didn't matter because he was nice to me and he was good to me.
I'm going to read it. It's very short. This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams. I had eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast. Forgive me. They were delicious, so sweet, and so cold. When I sent it to him, he wrote me back three words. I love you. And I thought, all right, it's a little fast, but okay.
He said, I've got to be in New York to give his talk at the UN. So I'm going to be wearing my outfit, my Navy uniform. And he said, let's go somewhere celebratory.
It was a very CNBC-ing kind of place. There was a giant pool in the middle of it. And it was just very expensive and swanky and ritzy. And it was just kind of the place to be.
He brings what is called a cover, but it's a navy cap. You know, it's the hat. I brought you one, he said.
He was so funny and he was charming and he was good to me and he was charismatic and, you know, he kind of wooed me. He was wooing me. And I liked that. It was after dating all sorts of shitheads, it was nice to be with somebody who, you know, seemed to be who they said they were.
He comes to visit for a weekend or maybe overnight. I mean, he always greeted me with a big kiss and he'd tell me how beautiful I was.
He cared about people. He cared about the world. He was always picking up tabs. He was always doing things that made people really like him.
It was very close to his son, so that was nice, and daughter. He talked to his kid, his son, all the time.
He always said that he had certain things that he did that he wouldn't be able to tell me about, and that he would often go off on these sort of secret missions, and he couldn't tell me what he was doing. And I was kind of intrigued by that.
It kind of drove me mad that I didn't know what he was doing. And a friend of mine said, well, that's obviously a lesson you need to learn that you can't know everything.
I felt badly and I thought something must have happened. But I didn't know. I didn't know what it was.
Anytime he broke any plan, which we began to do pretty regularly, it was, it's a secret mission. I can't tell you anything more about it. That's it.
The Commander told me that we were being followed by the Secret Service.
He said that he had been a doctor at Guantanamo.
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