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376: What if a car crash shattered your world?

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:54:25
Publish Date: 2025-09-23 07:00:00
Description:

When a sudden car crash shatters her world, a woman’s grief and struggle to keep living leads her to an unexpected rebirth of love.

Today’s episode featured Polly Vickery. If you’d like to contact Polly, you can email her at pollyvickery81@gmail.com

Polly is on Instagram and Facebook @PollyVickery    

Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Ellen (Elly) Westberg, Aviva Lipkowitz

Content/Trigger Warnings: Child death, Spousal death, Graphic accident details, 

Medical trauma, Grief and bereavement, Suicidal ideation, Survivor’s guilt, Anxiety/PTSD, explicit language


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Intro Music: “Sleep Paralysis” - Scott Velasquez

Music Bed: Cylinder Four 

 

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