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I married the train driver who saved my life (www.bbc.com)

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On a summer afternoon in 2019, nurse Charlotte Lay got ready for her night shift as normal but "wasn't feeling quite right".

Within a short space of time she had decided to end her own life close to a West Yorkshire railway station.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"He approached me and said 'Hi, my name is Dave, are you having a bad day?'"

We so often fail to understand that it's the simplest things we say that change our lives. It's not the rehearsed shit; most dramatic life changes I made before then van stem from five words or fewer. Here, it's as simple as "are you having a bad day?" The intro's nice and all but not germane.