Vault: He Needs Help Searching for His High School Sweetheart

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1:08Band played it with our song. Anytime that comes on, it just kills me. We broke up when I was 17. I'm 34 now. I don't think a day has gone by where I haven't. Think about it. I'm still in love. Oh. Oh. A million times on my space. They took all that stuff. And I can never ever find her. That was Craig a couple of weeks ago. We accidentally fell into that conversation with him. Then he sent us an email saying that for 17 years he's been thinking about the same girl for 17 years. Just in a different place than his life. I think he ended up dumping her, right? Yeah. And he moved on with this stuff. Yeah. Dumbest thing I ever did. Yeah. Dump her. 17 years he's been thinking about her. So we sort of latched on to the story and we gave all the information over to Blue Dog investigations that between them and Tracy. We've been trying to track her down. He had looked for her before on my space and Facebook and stuff like that and just couldn't find her.

2:10Craig, I'm here to tell you that we found her. Yeah, I hear that. And she's willing to come on with us tomorrow. Wow. I don't make you crap yourself on it. Are you prepared for the news either way? Like if she's married or taken or what? Yeah, I'm a big boy. I mean, I'm prepared for it either way. But, you know, I sure would like it to go in my favor. Now, when you say in my favor, what would that mean? Available and maybe willing to, you know, me or go out. Just see, you know, see where I just want to, you know, catch up and see where she's at. And if, you know, it may turn into something I don't know. Now, this is going to be a little different than how we normally do the one that got away because normally the person that we call and find doesn't know who he's been looking for them.

3:11Right, but she was a little bit skeptical. So I did tell her exactly who was looking for, for her. She did ask me what to expect when she comes on the air tomorrow. Oh, God. And I didn't exactly tell her the whole truth. She does know she heard, she wanted to hear Craig on the air. So I sent her the very first time we talked to Craig, which was when he was talking about the song that he couldn't listen to. So she kind of has a general idea. But I don't think she knows that you still might want to chance with her. Right. So I'm going to only assume that though. Wouldn't you, like, if you got this phone call from a radio, say, you know what I'm saying? Like, and there was some guy looking for you, wouldn't you sort of automatically think there was a romantic interest involved? Maybe except I just told her we just kind of want to know what she's up to. Got you. Especially with, you know, the basis of this relationship being extreme, more than words. Like, why would you do that to him? What? Dagger in the heart.

4:12Now, you did give us the 10 questions that you really would like answered from her tomorrow, right? I did. I did, yeah. And I did tell her that you would have a list of 10 questions. I didn't exactly tell her what type of 10 questions. Now, are these going to, well, this is more comfortable for him to ask her the 10 or for us to ask the 10? I don't know. Because didn't I see like one, do you have any regrets in your life, which would seem odd coming from it? I mean, I think, I think based on the list of 10 questions that it's pretty obvious that he still has feelings for her. So, I mean, because usually when we do this, they're kind of generic enough questions to where it could be anybody from your past looking for you. And in Craig's initial email, didn't you even send me like a whole message you wanted passed on to her? Yes, I did. I did. I mean, I just, you know, I just wanted to, you know, want her to know that, you know, even though I just wanted her to know that I wasn't that same person that, you know, when we broke up.

5:14And so... Well, let's see this. Let's go into it tomorrow with the 10 questions. And then I think you could sort of improvise your way around those and tell her the things you want to tell her. Right. And just to correct, she did break up with me, but it was my fault. The breakup was my fault. Okay. And you were how old at the time? I was 17. 17. So, I mean, you do a lot of stupid things at 17 years old. Yeah, I was really stupid. Are you going to work on a poem or something or... Look, are you going to have anything prepared to chair with her tomorrow? Are you just going to try to wing it? I'm just going to wing it. I'm just going to wing it. I'm curious about the breakup. Part of the whole thing. Did you end up like messing around on her with one of her 17-year-old friends? Um... Well... That's affirmative. Yes. Yeah, I did something stupid. I did something stupid. I'm just going to drown with one of her friends. Well... I will end that next turn.

6:16Sister? Sister? No, no, no. Oh. I thought you had some insight. Oh, no. Just trying to guess. Mom? Oh, the child milk. Brother? Tizen? I mean, obviously, it was something so bad that you're thinking that even 17 years later, she might still hold a grudge. Yeah, I don't know. I think maybe I'm making a bigger deal about it than she is, but then she would. I don't know. Can you tell us today? Yeah, let us be the judge of that. What is it? Um... I kissed another girl, and that was about it, but at the time it was really... I was devastating in the end. It was... Actually, my best friend's sister. Your best friend's sister? You kissed her? I think she's not going to think that. Did you... Did you confess... Did you confess to your girlfriend or did she find out somehow?

7:17Uh, she found out somehow. Oh, boy. Oh, yeah. You never forget the first time you got cheated on. It was awesome. Yeah, and it was... It was particularly bad because I was really her first boyfriend. I mean, she had a... She was actually dating a friend of mine, and they dated for a few weeks and broke up. But, you know, it was just... It wasn't... You know, I was her first long-term, you know, boyfriend. What... What is defined as long-term at 17 years old? Uh, I think we dated for probably a year and a half. Okay. That is pretty long-term. It is. For being that young. Yeah. High school. And then, um, do you have a current picture of yourself that you'd be willing to send to her? Sure. Because if anybody from my high school years reached out to me, I would want to know how they aged. Yeah. I'd say clothes. Uh-huh. Yes. Like in my mind... I don't know. In my mind, you've probably put on 30 pounds and... And your balls.

8:17You might not have air. Yeah. The Facebook is four. You know what I mean? I think I cleaned that much, actually. Okay. And none of us do. Which is... Yeah. Just for the record, I don't think I've changed that much. Either until I try to put on my graduation gown. All right. So, tomorrow morning, right around this time, about 8.45. We will get her on. We'll have the 10 questions that you want answered. And then we'll improvise our way around those. Also, we'll find out what happens tomorrow. Okay. I appreciate it, Bercho. Sure, but one way or another, you'll know. I mean, what's going on in her life? Yeah. If there's a shot, there's some closure. Yeah. Some closure. Maybe have some peace with it and be able to either bring her back into your life or let her go. Right. If not, I'll just have to fight to do it for the weekend. There you go. I don't think it's going to be much of a fight. It's the Bercho. Hi there. We are James Addan, two-fourth of the hit UK podcast. No such thing as a fish. Each week, we get around the microphones with our four favorite facts that we've learned over the last seven days

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