Interview · moment 9 of 19
Devin's Parents' Divorce: The Armenian Real Estate Agent Affair
from The Advocate · #143
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4 minGuest
Devin recounts his mother's mental breakdown, his father's affair with a young Armenian real estate agent, his dad sleeping in his car and building an illegal room in the basement, and his mom eventually moving to a missile silo in New Mexico.
- 37:00Devin's father had an affair with an Armenian real estate agent who was his student.
- 37:10Devin saw them driving together after school before learning what was actually happening.
- 37:45The affair emerged when Devin was 16 or 17, but his father refused to move out of the house.
- 37:58Instead, Devin's father slept in his car on the street and played the victim for two weeks.
- 38:39After a month and a half of staying out, Devin's father tried sneaking back into the house as if nothing happened.
- 38:59When confronted by Devin's mother, he asked "How much longer do I have?" as though he were dying.
- 39:22Devin's father made the situation toxic by building an unauthorized room in the basement with Mexican construction workers to live under his wife and son.
- 39:48Devin's mother eventually left for New Mexico and took acid in an old missile silo.
- 40:04Both Tim and Devin are only children from divorced parents.