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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:12
#TellYourStory | When You Spent Good Times with Bad Company
What comes to mind for me about this is way back when I was in college, I went out and it was a late night and we got a little rowdy. And yes, these were some questionable people. And there was a public fountain by the port in Baltimore. And at some point we were dancing around that fountain with very little clothes on and we got arrested. Now that wouldn't have happened if I was alone. It happened because I was hanging out with people
Evelyn Phipps
@LadyFi · 1:29
It's. This is a very interesting subject. I remember when I was younger. I'm gonna say younger. I was, I don't know, maybe 21 ish. I remember I had some haitian friends, and they loved drinking gin. I mean, we love playing bones, which is dominoes. And we would just hang out and play dominoes all day in the bone, you know, and we would drink just constantly. But the thing about it is, they were drug dealers
Stephen Conrad
@agypsykid · 4:44
Yeah. I spend my time in bad relationships. Yes, I willingly admit I did not know how to function in the real world like normal people do. I had to learn how to do that. And it was trial and error, and it took a long time, and it was trial and error because I had nobody to teach me how to do that. But eventually I figured out what was good for me in my life
And they rode around in a hippie van that was decked out like the 60s, getting stoned, listening to Led Zeppelin, playing Yuker and doing donuts in the snow. I wasn't much of a drinker. I'd seen too much of it growing up and I wasn't one to let myself go or let my guard down. And when the group passed the join, I pretended like I was inhaling but didn't, which annoyed Peter
And the thing is that men get caught up in desire. We get caught up in lust and greed. It's a road. It's things that we. I don't know if you guys know this, but as soon as a young boy graduates from high school or college, the only thing that he has on his mind is women. So how many women and how quickly you can get them, and leads lots of men down very dark paths
Jennifer Besa
@PhillyJen · 1:59
I mean, I wasn't a victim, I wasn't drug along reluctantly, and even sometimes I was the instigator. So maybe there were points in my life when I could have been considered the bad company. And I guess I had a long relationship with someone who sold a lot of drugs. And we were together for nine years. We lived together for five years. And he loved me with every bit of his being, and he treated me like a queen
And of course, people try to tear apart everyone. They try to tear apart everyone that does good. There's always a hidden agenda. There's always something. But at the end of the day, Bill Gates was just a nerd and he got money and he was chasing women. And the guy that was throwing the party was Jeffrey Epstein and was doing some other crazy stuff on the side
Susi Lawson
@susisouljourney · 5:00
So the house got too expensive for us to afford, but we wanted to stay there. So we just put, like, need of a roommate, need somebody to share a house and, like, the local laundromat, because that's kind of how you did it back then. And so this guy calls us and guy named Rich and comes over the house. My boyfriend interviews him. Sure, go ahead and move in. So the guy literally moves in, like the next day
I'm glad I got to know you before you became wildly famous. Jeez Louise. That is one of the most. I love how that's probably, like, a boring story to bet. You've probably had some wild stuff happen. This is my friend Susi, everybody. She is. God damn, she's a gift. Love you, Susie
Susi Lawson
@susisouljourney · 4:51
Guy ended up apologizing to me when ten years later found out that Rich actually did the murder. And the FBI, whatever you call them, said to me, most women end up solving murders from intuition. He literally said that to me. He said that women have always been the best source to help solve crimes because they just especially around we just being around. Creepy man. I guess it's a survival instinct
I think his wife or somebody. It was one of these serial killers. I think it was BTK. He got away with it. He was off the radar for years. And then his wife found some stuff that was suspect and then. Yeah, that's what got him. There's a Stephen King book that was based on it. It's eerily similar to the story that you're talking about