In Part 2 of Hannah’s story, we explore what happens to shared memories. You can find Hannah’s latest books here: We Are Too Many: A Memoir If You Love It, Let It Kill You: A Novel If you would like to reach out to the Betrayal Team, email us at [email protected] and follow us on Instagram at @betrayalpod See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What led to Hannah's shocking discovery?
And in the story, there's very clearly a me character.
There were scenes from their real life, down to the details of his trip to New York and the phone call confrontation about their affair. There were also details that mirrored Hannah's career, the guy Hannah was dating, and even weird details, like how she slept with a can of pepper spray under her mattress, which the real Hannah did during her marriage to Patrick.
In the story, the narrator is in the hospital with his new wife. Their 10-month-old baby is extremely ill. While he's at the hospital, he's thinking about his ex-wife, who's just died.
The me character gets knifed to death by a homeless person.
The scene is pretty violent.
She pulls over and she tries to help this homeless guy who's on a bridge. She had had a couple of glasses of wine and he kills her, knifes her to death. And that's sort of how the story ends, that he's in the hospital thinking about his dead ex-wife.
and about to go be reunited with his new wife and their new baby, and how he never got the chance to tell the me of the story that they had a baby in the first place.
Hannah was at a loss for words. She was sitting at her kitchen table, reading about her imagined death.
It is a pretty surreal experience to read about yourself in third person, something that has been written by a former lover in which you're murdered. I was both amused, terrified, outraged, and flummoxed that this story had been in the world for three years without me knowing.
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