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For people who have no idea what a saturation diver is, what do you actually do?
We work on underwater oil and gas infrastructure. We live in a pressurized chamber on a ship and every day we’re transferred to the seafloor in a diving bell. Most of my work involves connecting pipelines and heavy construction underwater.
I used to be very hot.
Now, I’m 61. I’m not hot. I’ve had two babies. I’ve been sleep-deprived for most of my life. My hair is a mess—maybe an unspoken symptom of something I never got diagnosed. I’ve never been legally married, which feels ironic, because back when I was young and beautiful, I used to wonder how those girls were ever going to find husbands, looking like that.
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I went to prison in Sweden when I was thirty‑five. On paper it says “aggravated assault, aggravated unlawful threat, and threat against a public official.” In real life it was simpler and uglier: I’d been pushed for a long time, lied about, baited at work, my relationship picked apart. I was depressed, angry, and tired of feeling cornered. One day I snapped—smashed up property with an iron pipe, threatened people, threatened the cops when they arrived. I got tased three times and wrestled to the ground by four officers. I was a few seconds away from being shot. I’m not proud of any of it. I think the sentence I got was fair.
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For most of my life, I assumed everyone experienced memory the way I did.
When teachers gave us tests in elementary school, I genuinely didn’t understand the point. Why not just remember the textbook? Why not pull up the page in your head and read the answer?
I wasn’t trying to be smart. I thought that was how memory worked.
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1. A girlfriend is someone with whom you enjoy the present. With someone who is wife material, you can see the future.
2. She decreases my stress instead of increasing it. It’s incredible the amount of women who add drama and stress into a man’s life, and the expect him to stay
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For two years, there was a stranger living at the edges of my life.
He wasn’t someone I knew. I never dated him. I never had a friendship with him. To this day, I don’t even know for certain where he first saw me. The police believed he probably followed me home from somewhere—a work event, a social gathering, a night out—but nobody was ever able to determine exactly when I first entered his orbit.
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How old were you when you realized you were different?
I kind of started to realize in high school, and that was during the early 90’s. I wound up seeing a Hustler or Swank or something and was horrified at the difference between me and guys in there. I started noticing bulges on guys at school and I had none.
If you’d asked me a few years ago if I could ever see myself marrying someone in prison, I would’ve said no way. But honestly, life has a way of throwing you curveballs, and sometimes you end up exactly where you never thought you’d be. I didn’t go looking for this. In fact, when it all started, I was actually with his brother. Yeah, it’s weird to say out loud, but his brother was the one who asked me to start writing to him. At first, I only agreed because I figured it would make someone’s day a little less lonely. I wasn’t searching for a soulmate, and I sure as hell wasn’t looking for a husband behind bars.
How long were you a cult member, and what was the organization like?
I was brainwashed for a little under a decade. It was a small but fervent, insular organization led by a very charismatic, psychologically imbalanced “prophet.” His message was simple, but convincing: That our only responsibility was to love each other and the rest would fall into place. Not a difficult mantra to embrace! Contact with the outside world was prohibited, but once I was fully indoctrinated I wasn’t even interested in the outside world. I wanted to stay pure and radiate love like my brothers and sisters.
There’s something uniquely unsettling about realizing a place can give you almost everything you thought you wanted while somehow making you feel less alive over time.
That’s the feeling I couldn’t shake after living in Sweden for years.
On paper, it looked perfect. Clean cities. Beautiful nature. Public transportation. Universal healthcare. Stability. The kind of country people speak about like it’s the final evolved form of civilization.
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