Natasha Tynes

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07/22/20 • 65 min

Cancelled with Rob Rosen and Desma Simon

Jordanian immigrant Natasha Tynes was sitting on top of the world. She was a happy mother of three, just four-weeks away from having her first novel published. But a confrontation with a DC Metro employee over of all things- a burrito- sent her world crashing down. Now cancelled, Natasha openly talks about her regrets, her anger and how this incident very nearly caused her to take her own life.

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