Eris Howell
Appearances
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
He would go out in the yard and, you know, play with the dog. They would go on car rides together and just take the dogs out to the lake.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
Selena was never one to let anything do. She would face it head on and address it because, you know, sitting in silence is uncomfortable. Let's figure out what went wrong and how we can avoid it in the future.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
There were a lot of parts of her life that she kept private, and we respected that. Like, we loved the person that she gave us every time we got to see her. It did seem out of character, but considering the fact that she had lost her husband not so long ago, People can be consumed with grief at different times. It would make sense to me.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
She was going to gift that bed to us. Our son is like six foot one now, so like big bed are worth that for him.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
Three or four days a week, I would buy two cups of banana pudding.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
She was a part of the reason why we were able to get utilities turned on, new lock, new light. She had been saving up a hashtag for us ever since I told her that we were starting a process to buy a house. I can't even put a name to all the kitchen appliances and trinkets and items that she's put in our house and added to our lives the way she did.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
She was checking to see if we were coming to get to bed this weekend. The next morning, the 28th, I got a message that said, Abort mission.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
On the 3rd, I messaged her that I hope you're feeling better. I was wanting to know if I could drop by at GISS.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
I said, okay, maybe another time.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
She could be exactly the person that she was here. And that was a little weird, a lot silly, a little queer. Oklahoma had all the people who brought out the best of those aspects of her.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
She always left you kind of enraptured by what she was saying because she had a unique way of telling stories. She had a very dry wit.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
I grabbed a bottle of dill weed and I said, oh, look, it's a bottle of my husband, the dill weed. And we laughed really hard about it. And then she snatched the bottle away from me and landed in the other room. She had a label maker. She typed in that label, said the bottle of Jason, and slapped it on the bottle of dill weed and handed it back.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
The look of absolute joy and mischief in her face when she handed me that bottle, it was like sharing the best secret. And we both fell apart and laughed at her.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
You could see, you could just look at them at a glance, the way they looked at each other. They were young fool anytime they looked at each other.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
They both moved here, and then, like, not even, I don't even think it was a year later, Tom had a stroke while she was away on work. And when she came back from work, you know, they had found it on the floor. He was still alive. He had hung on long enough for her to say goodbye.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
I remember after Tom had passed, and we went over to her house for the memorial. It was an intimate gathering with probably about 20 of us. And we all kind of said a word for Tom. And you could see around the house where she left tickets that they do not move, do not touch. The general assumption was those were the last items that he had cut. And she wasn't ready for those to move.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
Talena was shattered by the loss. They were deeply connected, and while she was able to regain her joy and find life again, it wasn't the same if she couldn't share it with him.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
Her and I actually spend a lot of phone calls together afterward because whenever you spend an amount of your life with somebody bouncing decisions off of them or, you know, looking for validation for a decision, you get kind of lost. And there were a lot of times where she would call me and ask me, hey, what do you think about this? That happened a lot more after Tom had passed.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
I had her come afterwards and I was a little nervous.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
I had my mom, who is a widow as well, come sit and be with us so that I'd have like some backup in case it got too sad. I don't like to handle that stuff, and I'm not good at saying the right word. But we got through it. There was just a few, you know, tears that were shed.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
Talena, she had even asked if my mom would maybe be her roommate for a while after, you know, because my dad had passed and she was living alone too. And she had been talking about finding a roommate to share in the bills and stuff.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
After they had moved in together, every time I cut Talena's hair, the first thing I would say was, how's your roommate going? And she always answered the best I've ever had.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Small Town, Big Secrets — Talina Zar E2
We'd go short on that, you know, straight across top of the ears and a little bit longer in the back. It wasn't anything that I wanted to do to her, but that's what she wanted.