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Speaker 1: story by Stephen King to Henry, I've missed you. Without you,

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Speaker 1: Some things considered this an invitation. It's time to get reacquainted.

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Speaker 1: Let's just keep this between us for now. Congratulations on

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Speaker 1: word of warning out there tonight. The fog is rolled

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Speaker 1: drive slow, walk fast, don't forget to listen this weekend

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Speaker 1: when we count down and congratulate the biggest hits of

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Speaker 1: the later from What am I gonna do? Why is

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Speaker 1: spring heel Jack targeting me? Now? Do I take this

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Speaker 1: Are you okay? Huh? Yeah? Sorry? I thought I heard you.

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Speaker 1: Ye Oh, I tripped over some boxes. I'll be right in.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry about before. It's just my hormones. I'm really

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Speaker 1: on edge. I get it. You're carrying our baby. Get

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Speaker 1: He knows where I live. Nose Reach is pregnant. How

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Speaker 1: long has he been watching? I can't let him getting

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Speaker 1: near Rachel or the baby. We must miss something eight

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Speaker 1: years ago and now I have to think about what

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Speaker 1: happened that could have led us to him. Good morning,

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Speaker 1: New Sharon. If you haven't looked outside yet, don't bother.

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Speaker 1: We're about to break in another record for rain on

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Speaker 1: because it's not every day we break records in New Sharon.

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Speaker 1: We mostly just break herds. I guess you could say

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Speaker 1: we're just a bunch of lady killers. And remember to

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Speaker 1: Stay safe, my friends, Stay safe. The rain hit hard

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Speaker 1: that week the quad filled with money run off. It

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Speaker 1: a state of perpetual lockdown. Curfew is still in effect,

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Speaker 1: and to make matters worse, Captain Spencer had a new idea,

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Speaker 1: one that wouldn't sit well with too many people. Spring

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Speaker 1: Break can't get here fast enough. I can barely find

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Speaker 1: time to study with everything that's going on. I have

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Speaker 1: of a journalist face or famine. You figure out what

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Speaker 1: you're doing after graduation. I'm not sure yet, still thinking

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Speaker 1: up with a plan. How about you? Same here depends

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Speaker 1: on if Rachel decides to go to grad school. I

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Speaker 1: just need one great story, and I will write my

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Speaker 1: ticket part in the pun. If I know you, you

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Speaker 1: think this could be that story. I don't think. That

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Speaker 1: make all the difference. One great story. The question is

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Speaker 1: how does it all end? Chelsea? Can you wait until

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Speaker 1: I say it's okay to come in? No, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: want to hear this. My dad, the captain of Pigs,

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Speaker 1: is about to do something big. What another curfew? No, curf,

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Speaker 1: you ain't got nothing on this. He's going to put

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Speaker 1: undercover pigs on campus. What do you mean, young old

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Speaker 1: undercover cops. We won't know who they are. He's going

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Speaker 1: do you name it? Walking around here hoping to catch

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Speaker 1: spring Hill Jack in the act. How's that going to work.

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Speaker 1: You don't know the half of it. The blue boys

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Speaker 1: this one, Henry, keep your ears open, Chelsea. Yeah, good work.

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Speaker 1: Now both of you get out. I have worked to

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Speaker 1: the New Sharon Police Department. She was nothing of not emphatic.

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Speaker 1: I wondered if it was all over. Two killing spreeze

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Speaker 1: want a beer? You got anything? Stronger. Not at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Light bounces off the clouds. The sky turns just a

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Speaker 1: little pink. Can you see it? I guess a little

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Speaker 1: I've never noticed before. You call it yourself a journalist.

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Speaker 1: Sailors used to say red skies at night, sailors delight

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Speaker 1: about that thing? You know? It's so strange, not a

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Speaker 1: It has a mind of its own. Hey, Henry, have

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Speaker 1: you ever heard of strawberry spring? I'm not sure? Maybe

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Speaker 1: a wive's tale. Strawberry spring is like Indian summer, only

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Speaker 1: a lying spring, like Indian summer is a false summer.

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Speaker 1: and the longer last the heart of the storm. Ah.

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Speaker 1: Folk tales never believe a word of it. But the

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Speaker 1: spring heeled Jack. What about him? It makes me nervous?

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Speaker 1: What about you? Doesn't it concern you? He could be anyone? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Mid terms are coming up. I'm gonna stay and go

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Speaker 1: over some notes. Suit yourself. Hey, Henry, you know what

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Speaker 1: they say, No, keV, I don't. What's that Those who

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Speaker 1: ignore the past are doomed to repeat it? Last chance? Sorry,

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Speaker 1: but not tonight. If I get done early enough, I

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Speaker 1: I watched Kevin out the window. The faint cherry red

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Speaker 1: didn't predict a significant snowfall. The pink sky turned gray

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Speaker 1: does it have a recurred to you? Call first? No?

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Speaker 1: to study? I do, but you know what? It can wait?

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Speaker 1: Come outside with me. It's snowing. I don't even have

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Speaker 1: one who knows how long this is gonna last. Ye,

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Speaker 1: I can hardly see a thing where everything I don't know,

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Speaker 1: but let's find a big enough place to make some snowing.

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Speaker 1: No angels, it's gone into you. You tell me you're

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Speaker 1: spread your arms in your legs. I've never done what

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Speaker 1: you've seriously never made a snow angel. Snake comes surprised you.

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Speaker 1: But you don't have a lot of snowstorms in the South. Okay, well,

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Speaker 1: no better time than the present. That should be good. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's get up. We'll see how we did here. Let

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Speaker 1: me help you. Oh no, come on, let's see where

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Speaker 1: it's coming from. I see the lights. Come on this way,

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Speaker 1: I'm coming. It looks worse than it is that the

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Speaker 1: lights are reflected on the fog. Totally ships aground six.

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Speaker 1: Pay move your flashlight. I can't see. Stay back, both

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Speaker 1: of you. This is an active crime scene. What happened

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Speaker 1: there was another murder? I need you both to back

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Speaker 1: off the way. Captain Spencer really missed this. Look how

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Speaker 1: a hard to see fog that I count? How do

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Speaker 1: these sucking cops. Yeah, and that one in uniform. That

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Speaker 1: It was crazy. All I could keep thinking was what

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Speaker 1: Kevin said to me. Strawberry spring was a false spring,

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Speaker 1: There was so much chaos, too many cops dressed like

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Speaker 1: that say? Dear Henry? I keep reading your stories about me.

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Speaker 1: It's very pointed. I hope it sticks. Get it? Ha

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