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Speaker 1: You were listening to Strawberry Spring, based on a short

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Speaker 1: story by Stephen King. Wusk again in the money. Good morning,

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Speaker 1: Rise and shine, New Sharon nights. It's cold and foggy

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Speaker 1: sit around and talk about Strawberry Spring. Well, here we

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Speaker 1: are in the March nineteen seventy six, and we are

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Speaker 1: knee deep in it in honor of the dog out there.

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Speaker 1: Here's a new I got it. Hello, Henry, I'd like

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Speaker 1: And Brad just arrived, and I want to talk to

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Speaker 1: the both of you about spring Hill. Jack went Ant's

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Speaker 1: in town. Yes, I asked her to come. Do of

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Speaker 1: you know this guy better than anyone. How soon can

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Speaker 1: you be here? How about ten? Wow? I can't believe

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Speaker 1: he called Anne. He must be pretty desperate to rely

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Speaker 1: of last time, None of us can. I haven't seen

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Speaker 1: an since we graduated. Meeting at the police station seems

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Speaker 1: and pregnant. It was on the phone, Chief Spencer, and

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Speaker 1: he asked me to come to the station. I said, yes,

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Speaker 1: what do you think i'd say? But your wife didn't

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Speaker 1: want you involved. I don't want to be involved. But

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Speaker 1: it's not like I have a choice. You've never deal.

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Speaker 1: There's something else you should know what? He called Anne Pray. Yes,

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Speaker 1: she's in town. She's going to meet me there too.

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Speaker 1: You know what, I don't don't even care one more thing.

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Speaker 1: I need your car today. Mine won't start perfect way

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Speaker 1: to start the day. I'm gonna go finish cutting all

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Speaker 1: be right back. Now that it's light out, it's easier

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Speaker 1: to see the car. As much as I was expecting

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Speaker 1: a bloody murder scene, it's not as bad as I thought.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I should clean off the blood. But what if

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Speaker 1: there's evidence. If Rachel finds out Springley old Jack was

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Speaker 1: this close, she'll lose her mind. Fuck, she's right, he's

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Speaker 1: already taken over my life. Where is it? Ah, there

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Speaker 1: it is. I'll cover up for now with a moon blanket,

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Speaker 1: I'd hate to know there was a fingerprint I messed up.

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Speaker 1: be driving the murder sing across the Tanna, and that

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Speaker 1: would buy me suitime to think, at least until I

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Speaker 1: M the entire way to her office, Rachel has instead

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Speaker 1: of were I know she's angry. I still look glance

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Speaker 1: staring straight ahead. I don't blame her. She doesn't have

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Speaker 1: to be psychic to know. Going to the police station

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Speaker 1: is only going to give me in deeper. We have

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Speaker 1: you can't have a shadow without light. Rachel provides that

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Speaker 1: for me. Yeah, you never learned mistakes. That's not true.

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Speaker 1: You ever learned from me? That might be true. Pulling

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Speaker 1: here since the last go around. Thank god. I haven't

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Speaker 1: bad taste they left in my mouth, and its sixties,

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Speaker 1: I'm grateful they don't seem to notice me. I don't

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Speaker 1: and tiny heels all wounds. I mean, hi, Henry, you

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to dance around this spring heel Jack

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Speaker 1: is back. We have at least one confirmed victim, and

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Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned, you two have blood on

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Speaker 1: your hands, especially you Henry. You took money for writing

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Speaker 1: your book blood money. Look, we didn't ask for him

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Speaker 1: to kill on our campus, but he did. All we

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Speaker 1: do is report on it. That's right. We were just

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Speaker 1: doing our jobs, following the story you made Spring heel

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Speaker 1: to play down. I was sure Spring heel Jack was back.

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Speaker 1: Who else would visit me last night? Do you have

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Speaker 1: any suspects? Take a look. Do you remember John Dancy,

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Speaker 1: the sophomore who found Gail Kerman. Didn't you investigate him

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Speaker 1: but also had a history of violence. But Spring Heeled Jack,

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Speaker 1: why the hell not. While he did his tour spring

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Speaker 1: Now he's out and Jack is back. The timing seems

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Speaker 1: plastic bag with half a torn letter inside, like familiar.

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Speaker 1: take a look, we will. But this seems unorthodox. Why

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Speaker 1: But this isn't just a case. It's person you You

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Speaker 1: chance to meet her. Yea, God, I haven't been to

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Speaker 1: the Grinders since I graduated. It's like a snapshot in time.

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Speaker 1: The place hasn't changed that how stood isn't as good

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Speaker 1: has changed is you now know the food and Boston.

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Speaker 1: It's better than we share it. You're probably right, so

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Speaker 1: how you being? I've been following your career some pretty

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Speaker 1: impressive journalism there. Thanks. I'm proud of the work I've done.

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Speaker 1: Married h No, I came close a couple of times,

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Speaker 1: both ways. The story always comes first. It's hard to

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Speaker 1: the night for you to make a deadline. Right, So

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Speaker 1: are we going to make bullshit small talk all night?

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Speaker 1: We're going to do this. We need to clear there.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean, Henry? We were in it together,

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Speaker 1: you and I we were a team, and you know what,

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Speaker 1: people who worked together the way we did don't screw

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Speaker 1: it all makes sense exactly, but it didn't. Didn't know

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Speaker 1: almost split. It left me with writer's block. So that's why. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's why I went into teaching new Sharon offered me

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Speaker 1: I'm taking They're going to be a father. That's amazing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: go wrong? That's what I thought? So are we good?

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Speaker 1: I we'll have to boiler makers just like old times.

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Speaker 1: I hate to change the subject, but can we talk

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Speaker 1: about cheef Spencer? He seemed a little unhinged today. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure this is hard for him to handle. Don't you

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Speaker 1: remember what it was like when she disappeared? It was

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Speaker 1: pretty awful. Two boiler makers? Anything else over good? Thanks?

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Speaker 1: I remember what happened to Chelsea like it was yesterday. Hey, Henry,

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Speaker 1: this just came for you. Thanks. Where did it come from?

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Speaker 1: blood that dripped onto my pants. Ship and get over here.

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Speaker 1: What is it? The two of us looked at each other.

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Speaker 1: We didn't know what to do at first. Is that

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Speaker 1: an envelope? On heard? Yeah, it's not all here. It's

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Speaker 1: been torn in half. It looks like I had the

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Speaker 1: left side. Half of the writing is missing. Can you

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Speaker 1: make out what it says? I'm not sure, Hope in

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Speaker 1: the box, it's a hand. It was the left hand

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Speaker 1: never stopped. Yeah, did it? Strawberry Spring is a production

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