Nicole Carr
Appearances
What Happened to Talina Zar
Alone Time —Talina Zar E1
I just didn't feel like she would leave that many people worried about her.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Alone Time —Talina Zar E1
It wouldn't be strange for her to go off because if she was sick, she wouldn't have wanted to make anyone else sick. But for her to just leave people with no way of contacting her and knowing if she was alive or dead was strange to me.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Alone Time —Talina Zar E1
It was love at first, get together. She was the kind of friend that you could call at 3 a.m., knowing that she would answer with equal part concern and humor to cheer you up. Her kitchen was her happy place, and she always had the aroma of something simmering or cooking or frying. And if not, she was planning something to simmer, cook or fry.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Alone Time —Talina Zar E1
Sharing a meal with her was really like being wrapped up in love. She lived with her heart wide open, and you couldn't help but just feel lucky that she was in your life.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Alone Time —Talina Zar E1
We did text a lot and talked on the phone and then also through Facebook a lot, sharing memes. trying to make each other laugh.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Alone Time —Talina Zar E1
She came and spent three days with me. We, of course, cooked and played video games and watched TV and talked and cried and laughed. And we really had a great visit. And it was right before they asked everybody, you know, to go home and stay.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Alone Time —Talina Zar E1
She wanted me to come visit her, and I really wasn't comfortable in traveling at that point. All of my family, we have... Stuff wrong with us, you know, they were really concerned about people like us having COVID. So I declined the offer. And, you know, I'll never know what would have happened if I'd gone.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Alone Time —Talina Zar E1
Talena would occasionally, about once a year, go on a sabbatical where she didn't talk to anybody and she's pretty strict about it. She would let everybody know if I don't answer my phone, this is why. And I'm just going to go off somewhere for a couple of days and be with myself. It was just a spiritual time for her to get herself together and kind of reconnect with herself.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Alone Time —Talina Zar E1
She's a very giving person. So I think people that give to a lot of people need that little bit of downtime.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Alone Time —Talina Zar E1
At the time, I was laid off from work, so I didn't have that much to preoccupy myself with. I wasn't leaving the house because of COVID. Every morning, I would wake up and check Facebook and check the phone and text her and call her, and I didn't hear anything.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Alone Time —Talina Zar E1
I kept just kind of asking everybody, anyone else think this is strange? And everybody's like, no, no, this is, you know, this is how she acts. You know, that experiment where they show people that are in a room and there's smoke coming out of the grate and nobody does anything because they're all kind of looking around to see if someone else is going to do something. That was where we were.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Alone Time —Talina Zar E1
People were just worrying in their own space. We're all just waiting for someone else to do something or for word from Talena. But the more time that went on, it just didn't, her story didn't make sense. Nicole wasn't sure what to do, but she felt compelled to at least do something. And so one night out of desperation, I just, you know, I listened to this little podcast.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Alone Time —Talina Zar E1
I had no idea how popular it was. I just knew that I liked listening to it. And so I thought I would go on there and see if anybody else thought it was strange. So I typed out a little message and posted it, went to sleep. And I woke up to thousands of replies. Some of them were from my friends. People I actually knew that I didn't know also listened to this podcast.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Alone Time —Talina Zar E1
And then some of them were from strangers. And none of them were strange than Jess.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Alone Time —Talina Zar E1
I had a friend that her niece had also shown up missing in Georgia. And I didn't really know the niece. But if someone you know is missing someone they love, you share it. So I had shared that. And I guess Jess had gone back and looked at my history. And she kind of thought that maybe I was the one responsible and had no qualm in telling me so. She said that she was going to be my worst nightmare.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Alone Time —Talina Zar E1
She called me back and she said, I wanted to apologize. And, you know, I appreciate that so much about her that she was just so ready to apologize.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Alone Time —Talina Zar E1
I have to say, Jess is a force to be reckoned with. She's a woman of unwavering determination, and that intensity can catch you off guard. She was unwilling to let anyone or anything get in her way. It made us a very good pair, because she could be very direct and very Not cold, but just determined. And I have a more gentle, kind approach to people.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Alone Time —Talina Zar E1
She's always willing to help somebody. And that was her downfall as well as one of her greatest strengths.
What Happened to Talina Zar
Alone Time —Talina Zar E1
This little group of women that came together to look for Talena will always have my heart. I just had to know, how did this happen?