Tora
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105 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
Tora’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This is an incredible story that sounds like it's made up. It sounds like a soap opera. It sounds like a drama movie. But it's so real and it's not the only one. There are things we might not know about somebody we live with. And there's so many stories like this.
And we grew up on a farm, so my life was kind of wild and crazy and great. Grew up super religious in the Seventh-day Adventist church.
Funny enough, I thought as a kid that 20 years old was being a grown-up. And 25-year-olds were old. And so I thought for sure that I would be married by 20. But I never really dated.
I finally went on one date with a guy and gave him like a little peck at the end of the night. and was just like, nope, that was not for me. I did not like that. I don't want a date.
I decided to go to college, and I studied history, which was really fun.
I was living in this really cute tiny apartment in the older section of Colorado Springs. So cute. And just loving my life. I felt like I had really kind of arrived. I had a job. I was teaching. I had friends. I was very happy.
It was so much fun. Keep this in mind. It's January of 2017, and I decided it would be a good time to teach conspiracy, culture, and elections in United States political history.
Dating and romantic relationships were not going to be part of my life, and I was sort of settled into that in a very comfortable way where it didn't bother me. It wasn't something I was seeking out. I wasn't on dating apps. I wasn't looking for it. And I certainly was not looking for him.
He had a service dog, this really cute English Mastiff named Osa. And she had the best underbite, and she would be in the back of class chomping on a bone. So I was always very aware of his presence, partially because of her. He would come up after class, and we would pet the dog and chat a little bit.
I knew that he had had an amputation to his leg. He talked about it fairly frequently. He had a handy cat parking pass.
He had a very slow way of speaking. There was no rush for anything in life. I always had the vibe that he was one of those people that would talk forever if you let them. And so I would start to gather my things and eventually he started walking me to my car because my class was from 7 to 10 p.m. And it was very surface level chat.
Throughout the whole time I was his teacher, usually about class and usually about some interesting fact, he was like a sponge for information.
He had kind of long hair that he kept tied back in this low knot on the back of his head, kind of slicked back, low hair. I hesitate to call it a man bun because I know that would hurt Aaron's feelings, but that's what it was. And he had a cowboy western vibe almost, not like costumey, but he wore a lot of very nice button-ups and jeans and leather boots. So that was pretty much his uniform.
I just had this confident air about him that he knew he was smart, he knew he was good looking, but he was also kind and respectful and interesting and funny and talented. And I was a fan very quickly, just of his entire aura.
At some point in those conversations, I brought up the fact that I had been a nanny. And a few months later, he came to me after class one day and said, we need to switch where my son is going to daycare. What do you know about maybe hiring a nanny? So we chatted a little bit about that. And that's how I found out he had a child. I didn't know that before.
He wore a ring, so I knew he was married, but I didn't know that he had a kid. He was a baby at the time, maybe four or five months old. So that was sort of our first foray into anything personal was just that bit of advice he was seeking about finding good childcare.
And then about a week later, he sent me a message about nine, 10 o'clock at night. I was already in bed and I thought, well, that's weird. What the heck? And so rolled over and checked the message. It was from him. And he just said, you know, something very casual. How are you? And I said, oh, I'm good. The whole time thinking like, what does this guy want?
Keep in mind, I am very single, very happy to be single, not looking for anything. I think he's great. Hadn't really given any thought. The man's married with a baby, right?
He said, do you know that I'm going through a pretty bad divorce? And I said, oh, no, I had no idea. So we chat a little bit about it. He said, yeah, actually, she was arrested last night. We got into an argument and she got physical. And I said, oh, that's terrible. I'm so sorry to hear that.
And then I did the nice thing, which I've since learned not to do, which is I said, is there anything I can do to help? And he said, well, I might need some help with my son.
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