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Speaker 1: Welcome to the ten Minute Storyteller. That's me Bill Simpson,

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Speaker 1: your host, narrator and author. We hear at the ten

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Speaker 1: minute Storyteller endeavor to entertain you with tall tales or

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Speaker 1: rendered swiftly and with the utmost empathy. We pledge to

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Speaker 1: pack as much entertainment, emotion, and exploration into the human

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Speaker 1: condition as ten minutes will permit. Mini novels on steroids.

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Speaker 1: After the wedding, look over there. Look there's a motel.

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Speaker 1: We got to stop a way too drunk to drive.

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Speaker 1: She doesn't respond, she's passed out. The wedding had been

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Speaker 1: a doozy booze bong hits, pills and lines of God

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Speaker 1: knows what. The bride six or seven months gone, with

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Speaker 1: Bambino and groom up in the hayloft with their guru

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Speaker 1: muttering in various languages and dialects, and finally a big

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Speaker 1: wet smooch with deep tongue and a couple firecrackers blasted,

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Speaker 1: and the party started and went on and on from

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Speaker 1: like noon till midnight, when the cops whirled in like

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Speaker 1: yellowjackets to a late summer picnic, and everybody flew the

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Speaker 1: coop like grasshoppers from a fisherman's jar. I'm blind, drunk,

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Speaker 1: I gotta stop. The motel is on the old abandoned

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Speaker 1: East West Highway, closed up since the Interstate Spur opened

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Speaker 1: some years ago. Once called the Happy Valley Motel. She

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Speaker 1: hasn't welcomed a guest in years. He doesn't care, doesn't

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Speaker 1: even notice the place looks like something out of Psycho.

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Speaker 1: He just sees the broken down sign for Valley Motel.

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Speaker 1: He pulls into the potholed parking lot in his eleven

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Speaker 1: year old two hundred and ten thousand miles civic like

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Speaker 1: he and his girl who's not his girl, just a

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Speaker 1: girl who jumped into his car when the cops whirled

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Speaker 1: in and broke up the wedding are pulling up to

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Speaker 1: the Ritz Carlton, Miami Beach. She sleeps and snores in

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Speaker 1: long nasal pulls when he checks into room six by

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Speaker 1: putting his shoulder to the door and giving it a

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Speaker 1: hard shove. Then back to the civic he goes, gathers

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Speaker 1: up his love in his arms and carries her across

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Speaker 1: the threshold, whilst thinking he could probably have his way

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Speaker 1: with her and she wouldn't even notice. Your castle. Keep

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Speaker 1: for the night me late, and he deposits her on

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Speaker 1: a sheetless mattress stained with sex and damp with a

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Speaker 1: variety of living organisms. This matters not one whit to milady,

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Speaker 1: as she earlier consumed copious amounts of beer, gin, bourbon,

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Speaker 1: pot and pills of various hues, including some oxy she

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Speaker 1: crushed and snorted. She is, for all intent and purpose, inert, unconscious,

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Speaker 1: close to comatose, though still snoring like a long shoreman

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Speaker 1: sleeping off a bender. He grabs the sleeping bags from

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Speaker 1: the civic trunk, proud of himself for setting off yesterday

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Speaker 1: morning so well prepared. The idea had been to have

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Speaker 1: this shotgun wedding of his old buddy and his prego

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Speaker 1: girlfriend at that old, abandoned, run down farm in the country,

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Speaker 1: and after one everyone would party hardy and then crash

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Speaker 1: in the barn. Too bad, The cops whirled in and

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Speaker 1: chased everybody off. No big thing. He's got the sleeping bags.

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Speaker 1: Way to go, bro way to be prepared. He's stumbling

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Speaker 1: and dizzy, and twice he pukes in the weeds coming

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Speaker 1: up through the busted up asphalt of the parking lot.

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Speaker 1: The puking clears his head enough that he can totally

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Speaker 1: assure himself he has his shit totally together, totally. He's cool.

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Speaker 1: Back in the room, he thinks about pulling down his

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Speaker 1: lovely panties and having a quick go at her. Too bad,

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Speaker 1: his member droops in his camort briefs like a rose

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Speaker 1: out of water too long on a long, hot summer afternoon.

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Speaker 1: He crawls into his sleeping bag and seconds later passes out.

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Speaker 1: Her screams wake him up. She's off the mattress, jumping

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Speaker 1: around on the floor, screaming and vomiting and tearing at

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Speaker 1: her hair. She shakes violently and clenches her stomach. He

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Speaker 1: pops up. What the hell?

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Speaker 2: She grabs her throat him Breathe can't get in the air. Jesus,

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Speaker 2: in my bag? Where's my bag? He looks around for

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Speaker 2: her bag. A bag, any bag? I don't see any bag.

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Speaker 2: The car out in the car, the back seat. Hurry

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Speaker 2: the brown bag in the back seat. She screams and convulses,

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Speaker 2: grabs her stomach and gasps for air. He runs out

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Speaker 2: to the civic, finds the bag, races back to the room.

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Speaker 2: She grabs the bag, dumps the contents onto the filthy floor,

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Speaker 2: rifles through the pile of crapola till she finds a

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Speaker 2: small plastic bottle of advil. Only the advil is long gone.

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Speaker 2: She spills out two pills, the last two pills round

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Speaker 2: and pink, with the number twenty printed on the face,

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Speaker 2: twenty milligrams oxy cotton. She crushes the pills between her fingers.

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Speaker 2: The dust and granules fall to the floor. She leans

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Speaker 2: down and snorts the contents of her nose. She then

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Speaker 2: moistens a fingertip, collects the last remnants, and licks her

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Speaker 2: fingers clean. Almost immediately, her body relaxes, she stops screaming,

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Speaker 2: Her breathing slowly returns to something close to normal, and

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Speaker 2: she falls back to sleep right there on the floor.

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Speaker 2: He mutters Jesus and thinks the wise move here would

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Speaker 2: be to pack up and get the hell out of Dodge.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't know this bitch anything. She's just some crazy

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Speaker 2: broad he met at the wedding. But his conscience says, dude,

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Speaker 2: you can't just abandon her ear. She ain't just some

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Speaker 2: mangy cat. She's a human being, for Christ's sake. He's

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Speaker 2: still drunk and stoned and muddled in the head from

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Speaker 2: one or more of the pills he consumed. He climbs

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Speaker 2: back onto the mattress and very quickly falls back to sleep,

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Speaker 2: and then again, what feels like just seconds later, she's

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Speaker 2: up and at it, screaming and freaking out and puking

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Speaker 2: and barely breathing. One part of him wants to kick

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Speaker 2: her in the head to shut her up, but another

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Speaker 2: part wants to pick her up and rock her in

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Speaker 2: his arms, like he does with his older brother's baby girl.

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Speaker 2: Her eyes have rolled back in her head. He can't

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Speaker 2: see her eyes. She stammers, I need no, no, no,

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Speaker 2: no no. Narcan, huh you need what Narchan? You fucking imbcile?

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Speaker 1: Narcan?

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Speaker 2: Go to the right aid and get it kind of Narkhan,

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Speaker 2: and do it before I die.

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Speaker 1: He's up now, Jazz, moving around the moldy, filthy room.

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Speaker 1: Narcn Okay, narkn I got it, I got it, get

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Speaker 1: it kind of Narcan. What is this is this? Narcan

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Speaker 1: snorted too much oxy shit? Right okay, right aid, Narkhan,

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Speaker 1: right aid, go already. He bolts for the door. Hurry up.

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Speaker 1: Half a mile down the old potholed East West Highway,

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Speaker 1: he has that old civic screaming along at over ninety

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Speaker 1: miles per hour to bed. He's still drunk and stoned.

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Speaker 1: With the reflexes of a sloth, A raccoon scurries across

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Speaker 1: the highway. He spots that coon at the last possible

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Speaker 1: second and gives the wheel a hard jerk. A second later,

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Speaker 1: he buries the civics front end into a telephone pole,

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Speaker 1: smashes his head on the steering wheel, and knocks himself cold.

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Speaker 1: He'll wind up in the hospital with a concussion, a

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Speaker 1: few less teeth, a broken pelvis, and no doubt an

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Speaker 1: assortment of other nasties. But eventually he'll heel up and

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Speaker 1: be fit as a fiddle, lead a fairly mundane, utterly

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Speaker 1: useless life, and tell this story of the Happy Valley

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Speaker 1: Motel a thousand times. But not so his fair lady.

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Speaker 1: Back at the Happy Valley, she started to choke on

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Speaker 1: her own vomit before that civic left the parking lot,

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Speaker 1: and now she can't breathe at all, not even a

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Speaker 1: wisp of air getting through the windpipes, just a lot

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Speaker 1: of wheezing and gasping, total blockage between the world and

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Speaker 1: this little gal's lungs. She lasts long enough to think

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Speaker 1: about the pretty Halloween princess costume she made with her

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Speaker 1: mom back when she was a little girl. And then

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Speaker 1: one more thought about the first time she took oxy

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Speaker 1: cotton for the pain after she tore her acl playing

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Speaker 1: field hockey in high school, but then suffering from complete

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Speaker 1: respiratory system failure, she fades into a coma, and not

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Speaker 1: long after she passes back to her maker, one more

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Speaker 1: victim of the legal drug trade. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: this original audio presentation of After the Wedding narrated by

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Speaker 1: the author. If you enjoyed today's story, please take a

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Speaker 1: The Ten Minute Storyteller is produced by Andrew Pleglici and

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Speaker 1: Josh Colodney and as part of the Elvis Duran Podcast

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Speaker 1: Network in partnership with iHeart Productions. Until next time, this

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Speaker 1: is Bill Simpson, your ten Minute Storyteller,