Kicker: DTR and quicksand

MARY REICHARD, HOST: It all started out as a hunt for pretty rocks, and then Mitchell O’Brien took a wrong step on a Lake Michigan beach.

Sound from NBC:

MITCHELL: The sand was just getting put back almost faster than I could get it out of the way.

Whoa! Stuck up to his waist in what felt like quicksand. His best friend Bree Siga was nearby. They separately called 9R11:

MITCHELL: I referred to her as my girlfriend that’s trying to call as well. At the exact same time, she got through to another operator and said, “My boyfriend is stuck in the sand.”

Girlfriend, boyfriend: not terms they’d used before.

Firefighters saved Mitchell. And Bree?

BREE: Two years of this guy being my best friend and just trying to hide everything, how I felt.

Turns out, nothing brings feelings to the surface like sinking sand.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

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