Heather Thomas
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1,616 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 31 Aug
Heather Thomas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But it was only about an hour away from our home, and I practically grew up there.
There were literally trees with knife notches in the bark marking the height of my cousins and me as we grew.
We camped there at least a couple of times every year.
My aunt Lucy even got married on a mountaintop up there.
And it was all gone now.
After the fire, everybody told us not to go back, not to even look at the pictures.
But my mother couldn't resist.
When she got back that night, she sat at the kitchen table staring blankly ahead.
She tried to talk, but started coughing, and cracked open a beer and drained half of it before she tried again.
I could smell the smoke rolling off of her.
She'd kicked off her hiking boots and they lay crooked on the welcome mat, caked in ash and reeking mud.
Promise me you'll never go, she said.
It's not just that it'll break your heart.
It will make you despair.
So we obviously had to make backup plans for spring break.
I reluctantly agreed when my mom suggested camping at White Rock Mountain, a place we'd never been to before, or even heard much about.
We didn't have much time off between her job and mine, and if we spent it sitting around the house, we'd just end up sniping at each other the whole time.
Things didn't go great from the start.
It was going to be a longer drive than Glass River anyway, at least two or three hours, but we took a wrong turn somehow.
Our GPS wasn't working in the mountains, and my mom smugly said that she had written down the directions in case that happened.
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