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EPISODE · Dec 7, 2015 · 13 MIN

"You're going to be a lonely old man"

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"I've always felt weird saying this, but I never really liked Allen. Going to see him wasn't fun. It was boring and depressing. But after you spend enough time with someone, you start to feel responsibility for them." Tim was just 13 years old, and doing tech support to make spending money, when he met Allen, a 70 year old retiree with no money who needed help getting his computer set up. What Allen needed more than tech support was, though, was someone to talk to. Tim found himself in a one-way relationship with a very lonely, sad man who taught him an unexpected emotional lesson that was 15 years in the making. Music: Podington Bear, "Serenity" and "Grebe" Kai Engel, "Mist and Clouds" Nick Jaina, "Mississippi Turn-Around" and "I'll Become Everything"

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