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eerie music

Oh

You tell me the truth

And then you tell me lies

First you say hello

And then you say goodbye

Oh

I never know

I never know just what you're thinking of

But I don't want no

No, I don't want no

Part-time love

No

Sleep tight, baby boy.

hypnotic music

Where are you guys going for dinner?

We are going to Cheddar's, I think.

Do they serve drinks at...

- Yes, they do. -...Cheddar's?

So, you guys are cool with me dating?

-Yeah. -Yeah.

As long as you...

take it easy.

-Take it slow. -Mm-hmm.

Take it easy.

What should I talk about?

-With him? -Yeah.

Normal things.

Yeah?

-Real estate. -Real estate?

Okay. Boom.

Boom. Slam, bam, thank you, ma'am.

You look beautiful, Mom.

Thanks, guys.

slow, intriguing music

Dating in your 40s sucks.

It seems like your only choice is to go online

to meet anybody, but it's hard.

You know, you look at a picture of someone and think,

"Wow, he's got kind eyes,"

or "Oh, wow, he looks like he'd be really fun,"

and you get there and they don't have teeth.

And you're like, "What the hell?"

I, like, literally had to tell someone, "Where's your teeth?"

You're a grown man, there's dentists.

There's no excuse not to have teeth these days, you know?

So, one day, you know, I was kind of just swiping through...

...and I saw this nice guy in a suit

that was in real estate.

He was the owner of his own company...

...and he was a pilot.

He was also very religious.

So, yeah, of course I was interested.

I think you, like, swipe right or something

and we must have both swiped right.

He picked me up on his motorcycle.

We went on a motorcycle ride.

So that was our first date.

And we went-- drove around the lake

and... we had a great time.

gentle music

You know, I live a very specific life

where I work and I take care of my children.

I work and I pay the bills. That's what I do.

And this was so different.

It was freedom.

It was just fun.

I was having fun.

All right, let's just see what hat hair looks like.

Oh, my gosh. This isn't gonna work.

Not for this Arkansas chick.

The first night that we talked,

we talked, like, three hours.

And we hit on all cylinders.

We went out to eat

every night.

YaYas or Applebee's or Olive Gard--

it was all these-- Cheddar's.

Oh, not Cheddar's, I'm sorry.

Chester's, or something like that.

"Hey, baby, want me to get you a glass of wine?"

"Sure. Well, that's sweet." You know?

Uh, "Well, here, go ahead and put your feet up here,

you know," uh, or "Sit bes-- lay beside me on the couch

and-and let's just look at this together."

T-There were times that he would-- was like

the perfect partner.

I'd come home from work

and there'd be gifts on the bed.

He would text me and say, "Hey, how-- What are you doing?

How's work? I miss you.

Do you want to do this tonight? Hey, I'm gonna fix dinner."

I was in love with him.

He made me feel like number one.

And I've never had a guy do any of that for me before.

Honestly, it was like a golden ticket for me.

I just was like, "God does love me.

Finally loves me. He sent me someone that...

everything I've been asking for."

hypnotic music

So after we started dating,

we were inseparable.

He'd be like, "I don't want to be away from you.

I can't stand not sleeping next to you."

So, one minute we were dating and the next minute,

he was staying over and then the next minute,

his stuff had moved in.

Two of my good friends were talking and one of them said,

"Don't you think she's moving a little fast?"

and the other one said, "She's 47 years old.

You know? Things go at a different pace at that age."

I remember her saying that.

Things were moving quickly.

But they just seemed like they were perfect for each other,

like, the things they did together

and the way that they talked to each other.

So it just seemed to-- like, maybe she had finally found

who she was supposed to be with.

So after probably a month,

he says, "I want to get a tattoo with your name."

So we go to this tattoo parlor,

and he had, like, an anchor on his shoulder.

And then he wrote my name above it.

And we were sitting there, and I just watched

"Sabrina," he tattooed on the back.

I thought, "Oh. Wow, this guy really does like me."

We were at, um...

I think we were at the YaYa Club.

And we were eating-- and I love to dress up--

and we were all dressed up, and he says,

"This is as good a time as any." I said, "For what?"

He goes, "Well..."

"Let's just go ahead and get married."

"You're just the one, I'm gonna be with your forever."

And he goes, "Well, you're everything.

You're everything I've wanted."

intriguing music

So he took me to Zales,

and he goes, "Well, what about this one?"

Which was beautiful. It was the prettiest ring I'd ever seen.

Simple. Band with just some diamonds on it.

Two-carat diamond. It was beautiful.

Everything was-- I said, "Mickey, how are you--

how are you gonna pay for this?"

He told me that he was,

he had been in a lawsuit about his face.

And that the doctor had cut the nerve

and then lied about it on medical records.

He just said, "You know, I have

a medical malpractice. I'm gonna be getting

$12-point-something million dollars.

After the attorneys are paid, it'll be-be $7.8."

So, everything we were doing was revolving

around the seventh of November,

'cause that's when the money was gonna hit.

And he-he'd say to me, he'd be like,

"We're gonna wake up millionaires in a couple days."

suspenseful music

All of a sudden, he wanted

to combine checking accounts.

And I was like, "Oh, okay, 'cause we're getting married."

And then he goes, "I want to buy a sports car.

I want to get this for us."

And he just wrote a check for it.

Like, I didn't even know

you could take a check for a-a Porsche.

He said, "I'll take care of the payments,

just put the car in your name."

And he says, "I want to buy a house for us."

And then, "Well, I want to buy a condo in Florida."

Furnished, on the beach.

We had a virtual-- we went through it with, uh, Dennis,

I think his name was-- a virtual tour of this house

and he got paperwork sent.

And we signed pa-- I-I signed them, too.

I signed them, too. He was first, I was second.

And then he said, "We also want to be sure

that we're using this money for the good.

And we want to help people."

So, at night he would pray with me.

He would pray that we would do

what God wanted us to do with the money.

And then, after we got engaged...

...he started acting very, very strange.

suspenseful music

He didn't sleep at night.

He would get up and watch hours and hours of TV shows.

This con man convinces woman

that he's a wildly successful stockbroker.