WEBVTT - Episode 9: THE PASSAGE OF KITTY GENOVESE

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<v Speaker 1>Hm, I am the fairy man.

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<v Speaker 2>The human spirit is my business. Their madness, their passion,

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<v Speaker 2>the wonderful and monstrous ways they burn out their brief candle.

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<v Speaker 3>I regret to tell you that very many American lives

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<v Speaker 3>in love.

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<v Speaker 1>What heard to shut from the car.

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<v Speaker 4>He's dead, whether he rebird to president.

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<v Speaker 2>For four hours, people must cut up and go.

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<v Speaker 5>If I am here in the in between, to collect

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<v Speaker 5>their spirits and carry them to what comes next.

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<v Speaker 4>This road is not on any map. It spans the

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<v Speaker 4>thresholds between their most forbidden desires and their greatest fear.

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<v Speaker 4>All I ask for in payment is a tale and

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<v Speaker 4>accounting of their lives and the great temporary that is

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<v Speaker 4>the land living.

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<v Speaker 2>These are their stories. This is.

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<v Speaker 6>The passage.

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<v Speaker 4>A survivor of unspeakable atrocities once said, the opposite of

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<v Speaker 4>life is not death, its indifference. But survivors are not

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<v Speaker 4>my business. It's March thirteenth, nineteen sixty four. A storm

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<v Speaker 4>is coming. Dark clouds enveloped this land, and the air

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<v Speaker 4>crackles with static smells of ozone and blood. And this

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<v Speaker 4>time everything America thinks it is suddenly. Its president has

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<v Speaker 4>been assassinated, Its children are being sent by its leaders

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<v Speaker 4>to foreign lands to kill and be killed. What little

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<v Speaker 4>unity held this nation together after the Great Wars, raveling.

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<v Speaker 4>It's fear that divides them. It's a storm that will

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<v Speaker 4>swell and rage for decades, uncovering the fair weather American dream,

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<v Speaker 4>pulling back the curtain, revealing it to be a nightmare.

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<v Speaker 4>In the intricate ugliness of the street, the alleys, the

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<v Speaker 4>towering apartment buildings, a singular tragedy becomes the cautionary tale

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<v Speaker 4>of a generation, whether or not the truth is told.

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<v Speaker 2>Here a soul hides from me. She's not ready.

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<v Speaker 4>Once such a vibrant light, she has been snuffed in

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<v Speaker 4>this alley right here. Her death by the hands of

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<v Speaker 4>another greedy and foul young man will become a cautionary

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<v Speaker 4>tale for the ages. No soul wishes to be a statistic,

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<v Speaker 4>So she has hidden the way from me in its

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<v Speaker 4>instant that stretches ever beyond and in between, and hide

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<v Speaker 4>still among the living. Kitty Genevie's was her name. Dozens

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<v Speaker 4>will be accused of locking their doors and cowardice, or worse,

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<v Speaker 4>slinking back from their windows and drowning out her screams

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<v Speaker 4>with their radios beneath them. Her body bleeds beneath them.

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<v Speaker 4>She stopped breathing. Oh here, giddy, giddy, hello, little one. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>two paws in your world and two balls of mine.

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<v Speaker 4>It isn't true that cats have nine lives, but the

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<v Speaker 4>one they do have. Oh, it's very flexible. Oh that's

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<v Speaker 4>a that's a good little feline. Yeah. Yeah, it's the

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<v Speaker 4>it's the vertical islets, the pupils. Vertical pupils. They see

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<v Speaker 4>through dimensions and stuff. Already, get out of here. You're

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<v Speaker 4>bothering me. There she is, It is time.

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<v Speaker 3>Jeez, you scared me, mister.

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<v Speaker 7>You'd think after what happened, nothing could possibly scare me anymore.

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<v Speaker 3>But I mean you've been looking for me.

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<v Speaker 7>Yeah, well here I am. You got a cigarette cabby, Yeah, that's.

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<v Speaker 2>Your brand too.

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<v Speaker 3>Well what do you know? Thanks?

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<v Speaker 4>Well, here happen. I'll take to where you need to go.

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<v Speaker 3>I got no cab, fair man, Oh yeah.

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<v Speaker 7>I know.

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<v Speaker 6>On me.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm here to provide you passage to the next place.

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<v Speaker 8>Fine, how long is the drive to.

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<v Speaker 3>Wherever you're taking me?

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<v Speaker 6>That's to be determined.

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<v Speaker 7>I mean, am I going to be like judged because

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<v Speaker 7>I don't think that's actually fair given my circumstances.

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<v Speaker 9>Hey, do you hear me, mister, because.

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<v Speaker 3>I want some damn answers?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 4>Sorry, I haven't any figures.

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<v Speaker 3>Why should you be any different? I want my mom.

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<v Speaker 7>I can't Oh my god, I can't remember what my

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<v Speaker 7>mom looks like. I can't see her face or anything,

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<v Speaker 7>and all I should remember is him.

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<v Speaker 3>God, damn it, this is bullshit. Jesus. I was just

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<v Speaker 3>coming home from work.

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<v Speaker 7>I pulled a double on a Friday, and I was

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<v Speaker 7>just looking forward to getting home and running a bath.

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<v Speaker 3>You know what a double is, mister. You get to

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<v Speaker 3>drive your damn cab all day.

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<v Speaker 7>I was on my feet, mixing cocktails and making sure

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<v Speaker 7>Carl was getting his damn Schaeffers.

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<v Speaker 3>Just one more for the road, sweetie.

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<v Speaker 7>I can remember Carl's stupid drink order, but I can't

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<v Speaker 7>remember my mother's face.

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<v Speaker 3>How do you like that? Well, I don't like it

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<v Speaker 3>at all. And then I get home.

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<v Speaker 7>And it's dark and I'm crossing the street, and then

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<v Speaker 7>this guy is fucking chasing me. My god, I remember

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<v Speaker 7>every single footstep.

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<v Speaker 3>I could see my door. I came down hard on

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<v Speaker 3>my right foot and he grabs me.

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<v Speaker 7>He'd been drinking cheap wine, and I could smell it

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<v Speaker 7>all over him, and his hand was gripping on my

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<v Speaker 7>elbow like he was trying to break it off, and

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<v Speaker 7>he punched me real hard twice.

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<v Speaker 3>In the back, like pop.

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<v Speaker 9>But my god, you ever been stabbed, mister?

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<v Speaker 3>It's funny. I don't know from funny. Most people wouldn't

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<v Speaker 3>say that.

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<v Speaker 7>It's not funny, but I mean, it don't feel like

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<v Speaker 7>you think it would. I never thought about it before

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<v Speaker 7>it happened, but it's pretty funny to mean anyway. I

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<v Speaker 7>didn't know I got stabbed when it happened. I kept thinking,

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<v Speaker 7>this guy's punching me real hard. Why does he keep

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<v Speaker 7>punching me? And then I felt all wet.

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<v Speaker 3>I didn't have time. I couldn't tell what was going on.

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<v Speaker 7>All I could think was I gotta get the hell

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<v Speaker 7>away from this crazy son of a bitch.

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<v Speaker 9>And then my blouse was all wet.

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<v Speaker 3>And I just.

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<v Speaker 7>Didn't know.

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<v Speaker 3>I didn't know he was trying to kill me. I

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<v Speaker 3>just didn't know. It's like it wasn't me. I could

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<v Speaker 3>hear my voice though. I just ran.

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<v Speaker 7>And then he stopped hitting me, and I didn't see

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<v Speaker 7>him after that, and that's when I fell down, And

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<v Speaker 7>that's when I knew the first breeze that blew through me.

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<v Speaker 7>That's when I knew, because I remembered that one time

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<v Speaker 7>I dropped the glass in the sink and I sliced

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<v Speaker 7>my hand open, real bad. That hurt worse than this,

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<v Speaker 7>at first it did, but I recognized the.

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<v Speaker 3>Feeling of air hitting me.

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<v Speaker 7>It was sharp, and I was lying on the grass

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<v Speaker 7>and I was all wet, and I touched my sides

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<v Speaker 7>and my hands came up all red, and I started screaming.

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<v Speaker 3>I didn't know what I was saying. I couldn't control it.

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<v Speaker 3>I was just stimming. He was killing me.

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<v Speaker 7>He was killing me. I'm sorry, mister, my god. Look,

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<v Speaker 7>I don't know why I'm telling you all this. I

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<v Speaker 7>just got to catch my breath. I thought I saw

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<v Speaker 7>a guy come to his window, but he ducked back

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<v Speaker 7>in and turned up the radio. So I crawled to

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<v Speaker 7>the nearest door and it was locked.

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<v Speaker 3>I was on the ground, crawling. Jesus Christ. There was

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<v Speaker 3>so much blood like an oil leaf behind me. And

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<v Speaker 3>then and then he was back.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 4>I came looking for you then, but I couldn't find you.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 7>Well, I wasn't done yet. I knew I was going

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<v Speaker 7>to be dead, but I didn't want to let go,

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<v Speaker 7>not like that. I stood up and I backed away

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<v Speaker 7>from myself and everything, and I watched over everything, and

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<v Speaker 7>watched him finish his business with me and run off again,

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<v Speaker 7>a coward, And I felt you, you know, the way

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<v Speaker 7>you feel lightning in the sky. So I slipped into

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<v Speaker 7>the cracks and I waited for you to pass.

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<v Speaker 3>And I waited.

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<v Speaker 7>I were cops everywhere talking to the neighbors. Poor Missus

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<v Speaker 7>Ferrara across the hall She was always real good to me.

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<v Speaker 7>She cried real hard, She never did anything wrong. And

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<v Speaker 7>those cops, they didn't write nothing down. They're supposed to

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<v Speaker 7>be taking statements. My damn blood was all over the hallway,

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<v Speaker 7>all over Missus Farrar's clothes, and she's trying to tell

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<v Speaker 7>them what happened, and they're not listening.

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<v Speaker 3>What's wrong with them? No good bums? What's the matter

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<v Speaker 3>with all of them?

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<v Speaker 7>And then things got confusing, like I was spread out

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<v Speaker 7>all across time.

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<v Speaker 9>I took a walk and found myself.

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<v Speaker 3>Back at the bar.

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<v Speaker 7>Where else would I go? I spent most of my

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<v Speaker 7>time there. They were like family, almost. There was Carl

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<v Speaker 7>and his damn Schaffers and he's reading the paper, and

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<v Speaker 7>then I saw it me in the paper. Looks like

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<v Speaker 7>they used a mugshot. Even then, I was upset about

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<v Speaker 7>my damn picture. And what's it say, thirty seven who

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<v Speaker 7>saw murder didn't call police? Now that couldn't be right. No,

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<v Speaker 7>that's Missus Ferrar was with me in the hall. She

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<v Speaker 7>got my damn blood all over. I know she got

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<v Speaker 7>one of her kids to call the cops. I mean,

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<v Speaker 7>how were the cops even there in the first place.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, the.

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<v Speaker 7>Nerve of that birdcage liner of a paper to say

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<v Speaker 7>that about her. Missus Ferrar was a saint God as

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<v Speaker 7>my witness, and you can't just make stuff up about her.

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<v Speaker 9>That ain't true.

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<v Speaker 3>She used to sit with me some nights.

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<v Speaker 7>She's got a place full of kids and laundry to do,

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<v Speaker 7>but she'd come sit at my table when my parents

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<v Speaker 7>couldn't make it into town for my birthday. God, they

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<v Speaker 7>didn't want me moving out here away from home. And

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<v Speaker 7>you know why, Oh jeez, it's all because my mom

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<v Speaker 7>saw some guy get stabbed to death outside our place

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<v Speaker 7>in Park Slope.

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<v Speaker 3>How do you like that?

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<v Speaker 7>Mom and dad dragged everyone up to Connecticut except me.

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<v Speaker 3>I told him, I'm a grown up now. I can

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<v Speaker 3>take care of myself, and.

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<v Speaker 9>You can go live in a Saturday evening post painting.

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<v Speaker 7>But that ain't for me. I wasn't gonna be some

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<v Speaker 7>housewife or secretary or damn bartender forever.

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<v Speaker 10>You know.

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<v Speaker 7>I was going to open up my own place. I

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<v Speaker 7>was going to make a place for myself. It talked

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<v Speaker 7>about me on the news. It was a strange feeling.

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<v Speaker 9>They showed my picture, that same terrible one from the paper.

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<v Speaker 7>My god, and he's mispronounced my name, Thank you very much.

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<v Speaker 3>Then he said the phrase, the one that just.

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<v Speaker 7>He said, no one did nothing, like people didn't care

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<v Speaker 7>to do nothing. He forgot to mention the guy who

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<v Speaker 7>stabbed me to dathy in the hallway. The story was

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<v Speaker 7>all about my goddamn neighbors and how they did nothing. Well,

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<v Speaker 7>I died right under their noses. And it was just

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<v Speaker 7>the same bullshit story over and over again. Everywhere I looked,

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<v Speaker 7>thirty seven neighbors, forty people, almost fifty.

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<v Speaker 3>Onlookers, they couldn't even get the number right.

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<v Speaker 7>Why are they so obsessed with these scared people at

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<v Speaker 7>home trying to sleep in the middle of the night.

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<v Speaker 7>What about the murderer and Jesus Christ in case they forgot,

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<v Speaker 7>what about me?

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<v Speaker 3>What about kitty? Mister? You ever get the feeling you've

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<v Speaker 3>been cheated?

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<v Speaker 7>I mean, I heard of people cheating death, but never

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<v Speaker 7>heard of death cheating them. Fifty years of news stories

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<v Speaker 7>using my face, saying my name, telling a story that

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<v Speaker 7>ain't my story. I mean, the one asshole with the radio,

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<v Speaker 7>but blaming people for doing nothing in it just ain't true.

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<v Speaker 7>It's weird knowing this now, Mister mosey your way up

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<v Speaker 7>on the seventh floor. He yelled at the bastard to

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<v Speaker 7>scram and that's why he ran away that first time

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<v Speaker 7>he did something. Missus grunt saw us on the street

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<v Speaker 7>and she called the cops. People cared, they did something.

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<v Speaker 7>The world didn't leave me there to die. But you know,

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<v Speaker 7>even if they did, I understand. If I went bleeding

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<v Speaker 7>into my own hallway and no one came to lift

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<v Speaker 7>a finger while I screamed my head off, I understand.

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<v Speaker 3>Dying is scary. I should know.

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<v Speaker 7>And as far as I'm concerned, every single one of

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<v Speaker 7>my neighbors did the right thing, whether they called the

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<v Speaker 7>cops or not. Those aren't nice people, good people, and

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<v Speaker 7>they aren't the ones who stuck me and left me

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<v Speaker 7>there like a dog.

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<v Speaker 3>And they're not the ones who sold.

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<v Speaker 7>Papers off some dead girl's story and got people all

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<v Speaker 7>scared to come to the city for fear they were

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<v Speaker 7>going to be next. My dad was afraid of me

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<v Speaker 7>living on my own there. He didn't want me to stay.

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<v Speaker 7>He told me the city was a big, scary place

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<v Speaker 7>and I had to watch my back wherever I went.

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<v Speaker 7>I can't imagine how he must have felt after that,

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<v Speaker 7>Like how can people be so right and so wrong

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<v Speaker 7>at the same time. The world didn't kill me, people

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<v Speaker 7>not caring enough didn't kill me.

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<v Speaker 3>One guy killed me. One person.

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<v Speaker 7>But nobody wants to fix that problem because it's too

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<v Speaker 7>hard and it's too scary, and it's easier to look

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<v Speaker 7>around at everybody else and go, why didn't you people

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<v Speaker 7>asleep in your beds?

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<v Speaker 3>Why didn't you do our job for us?

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<v Speaker 7>And you tell this story over and over again until

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<v Speaker 7>it just becomes the truth, and you scare people away

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<v Speaker 7>from these nice places, these good places, and instead of

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<v Speaker 7>fixing our problems, you get to sell papers.

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<v Speaker 3>Look, I know I wasn't.

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<v Speaker 7>No angel had to leave a husband behind because I

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<v Speaker 7>prefer for the Company of Women got busted for taking

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<v Speaker 7>bets on horses.

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<v Speaker 3>But all's I wanted was enough scratch to open my

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<v Speaker 3>own place.

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<v Speaker 7>Kiddies with nice tablecloths and classy wine, not that rot

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<v Speaker 7>gut I've been pouring, and the best goddamn carbon era

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<v Speaker 7>you've ever had in your life. Believe me, a place

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<v Speaker 7>where all my neighbors would feel at home. I'd greet

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<v Speaker 7>them at the door, wearing a fine tail coat like

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<v Speaker 7>a proper gentleman, and show.

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<v Speaker 9>Them to their regular tables.

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<v Speaker 7>Missus Farrar would be right by the window because she

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<v Speaker 7>loved watching all the neighborhood kids playing stickball. Hell, maybe

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<v Speaker 7>I could sponsor a team, you know, buy them kids

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<v Speaker 7>all proper uniforms and put the teen pictures up on

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<v Speaker 7>the wall. I got a pretty killer arm I could

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<v Speaker 7>toss out the first pitch of the season.

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<v Speaker 3>Just really bring the neighborhood.

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<v Speaker 7>Together, make everyone feel welcome like they did for me.

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<v Speaker 9>I had a path.

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<v Speaker 7>I knew where I was going. I knew I'd tell

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<v Speaker 7>you what if I'd have had my restaurant. I felt

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<v Speaker 7>you drive past a few times. Actually, you want to

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<v Speaker 7>know where I was hiding.

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<v Speaker 3>That old radio shop.

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<v Speaker 7>Closed down three years back, before this happened, I had

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<v Speaker 7>my eye on that place. I was going to start

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<v Speaker 7>my business. That's where Kitties was going to be. Just

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<v Speaker 7>needed the money to start. We really could have fixed

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<v Speaker 7>things up around here, you know, get enough folks coming

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<v Speaker 7>out to stickball games, and maybe we could have cleaned

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<v Speaker 7>up the park, put a proper field out there, got

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<v Speaker 7>them kids some gloves. No one makes trouble in a

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<v Speaker 7>place like that. I could have.

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<v Speaker 3>Done that me, Kitty Genevie's. I could have built something.

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<v Speaker 2>I was.

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<v Speaker 7>And now I'm riding in the back of your cab

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<v Speaker 7>with you, miss sir, on the way to nowhere.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm famous.

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<v Speaker 7>I never got the chance to prove myself to do

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<v Speaker 7>something big, something that mattered, to make a name.

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<v Speaker 3>I died real big, though.

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<v Speaker 7>I got the life stabbed out of me, and people

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<v Speaker 7>know my name all over this place, but it ain't

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<v Speaker 7>about me at all.

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<v Speaker 3>I got robbed, and the robbery was.

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<v Speaker 7>So much worse than the ninth because my death don't

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<v Speaker 7>belong to me no more. It belongs to all these

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<v Speaker 7>fantasy writers, folks who don't know me from Adam, and

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<v Speaker 7>they get to say what it all means, and I

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<v Speaker 7>get what a lousy.

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<v Speaker 3>Cab right and a shirt full of holes? How do

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<v Speaker 3>you like that?

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<v Speaker 9>What do you hear in the best of circles?

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<v Speaker 3>Shaefer all around?

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<v Speaker 7>Damned Carl, you know they really were the best of circles.

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<v Speaker 3>The whole world can be wrong about them.

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<v Speaker 7>Missus Ferrar, missus grind, mister Moser, even Carl, let them

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<v Speaker 7>be wrong. I know the truth, Ain't it just the

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<v Speaker 7>way the whole world lets you down? And the only

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<v Speaker 7>folks you can count on and are the folks you

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<v Speaker 7>chose to be your family, who.

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<v Speaker 3>Were there until the end.

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<v Speaker 7>Of course, the papers are gonna get us wrong, and

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<v Speaker 7>they ain't never gonna love you till you're bleeding.

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<v Speaker 3>But I know that truth.

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<v Speaker 10>What's this?

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<v Speaker 3>Is this a joke?

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<v Speaker 10>This is the old radio shop, This was my place,

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<v Speaker 10>This was kitties.

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<v Speaker 4>This door will lead you on.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, ain't you the trickster?

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<v Speaker 10>Let me ramble on and the whole time you know

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<v Speaker 10>that this is where I'd end up anyway, the place

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<v Speaker 10>I was hiding being the.

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<v Speaker 3>Place i'd end up.

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<v Speaker 10>Well, bravo for the theatrics. So what's next?

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<v Speaker 3>What now?

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<v Speaker 2>Now you walk through the door.

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<v Speaker 1>Or.

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<v Speaker 3>Maybe this time around I'll get where I'm going.

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<v Speaker 4>To those are newer, kind and decent soul, giving funny

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<v Speaker 4>good to those who didn't nobody statistic such as the

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<v Speaker 4>American Way. That's an unfortunate truth that in this vast

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<v Speaker 4>country you do not entirely own your own stories. In

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<v Speaker 4>a different times, I'm lye Kitty Geneviez could have been

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<v Speaker 4>that restaurant tour, the Little League sponsor, the woman who

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<v Speaker 4>fixed the park, the school, the city. She'd have gone

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<v Speaker 4>far but for the man who's stolen her life, leaving

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<v Speaker 4>history to assign her meaning. But now she finds her

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<v Speaker 4>own way forward on her passage.

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<v Speaker 11>The Passage stars Dan Fogler as the Ferryman. This episode

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<v Speaker 11>features Ali McDonald as Kitty Genevie's written by Michael Alder June,

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<v Speaker 11>with additional writing by Dan Bush and Nicholas Dakoski. Our

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<v Speaker 11>executive producers are Nicholas Dakoski, Matthew Frederick, and Alexander Williams.

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<v Speaker 11>First Assistant director, script's supervisor and production coordinator Sarah Klein.

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<v Speaker 11>Music by Ben Lovett, additional music by Alexander Rodriguez. Casting

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<v Speaker 11>by Sunday Bowling, Kennedy and Meg Mormon. Editing and sound

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<v Speaker 11>design by Dan Bush, dialogue editing and sound mixing by

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<v Speaker 11>Jan Campos, additional sound editing by Racket Sound. Our supervising

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<v Speaker 11>producer is Josh Than. Created by Dan Bush and Nicholas Dakowski.

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<v Speaker 11>Produced by Dan Bush. The Passage is a production of

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<v Speaker 11>iHeartRadio and Cycopia Pictures