JV Hampton-VanSant

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1,473 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 27 Aug

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Creepy · The Reader & The Shape in the Shadow · 27 Aug 2026 podcast

Because the thought comes in feeling exactly like your own.

You can fight off a man's fist.

You can't fight off your own idea.

There's no door to slam on that.

He was the one thing in this world you cannot lock out.

And Ad felt his hand on the knob, so believe me.

I knew.

And a man holdin' all that.

It's got to go somewhere.

You can't just keep filling a glass forever.

So he learned to pour it out and

Somebody got in his way, told him no, and he'd take everything he'd been carrying and pour the whole cold weight of it onto them.

There was a loan officer, turned him down on something.

And called him back two days later to say he'd reconsidered.

And the word around that was that the man had been found sitting in his car in the lot with the engine off, crying and couldn't tell anybody why.

That was Terrance.

That was some dead woman's grief and some stranger's panic going into a man at a red light, settling behind his ribs, feeling exactly like his own sadness.

And he'd carry it for the rest of his life and go to his grave, never knowing it was never his to begin with.

Now here's where it turns.

And this is the part I really think about.

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