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Speaker 1: iHeart three d are the.

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Speaker 3: Listen with headphones.

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Speaker 5: Jim Hello, this is missus Horn.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 5: What do you mean he's missing?

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Speaker 6: How is he missing?

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Speaker 7: He's dead in the morgue? Did you misplace him? Well,

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Speaker 7: I'm sorry. I just don't understand.

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Speaker 5: How he could.

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Speaker 2: But how can you?

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Speaker 7: Look? I appreciate the call, but what exactly are you

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Speaker 7: going to do to rectify this. You've already told me

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Speaker 7: that I can't have him back until after the autopsy.

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Speaker 7: Now you're telling me.

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Speaker 6: He's he's what up and run off? Now you listen

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Speaker 6: to me? Hello, Hello, God, damn it, I'm coming. Hold on.

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Speaker 2: Corne, who's there? Hello? No, No, Hello, it's you're dead.

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Speaker 2: They said you were dead.

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Speaker 3: I was.

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Speaker 2: I'm not now Jesus, Jimbo, can I come in in

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Speaker 2: the shadows? He looked normal, like himself, like my dad's buddy,

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Speaker 2: good old Jimbo. Jimbo, the steady, the kind, the regular

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Speaker 2: Joe Jimbo who liked fishing and fiddling around the garage

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Speaker 2: and war movies and a million other things that men

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Speaker 2: of his generation turned to in late middle age. His

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Speaker 2: voice and his presence were well worn grooves in my life.

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Speaker 2: But this was all wrong. This Jim stepping closer so

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Speaker 2: that the street light fell across his face, his normal face,

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Speaker 2: with his normal smile, wearing his slacks and a button

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Speaker 2: up shirt, his loafers on my porch like he'd been

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Speaker 2: a million times?

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Speaker 3: Can I.

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Speaker 2: This sweet, normal Jimbo horn with his normal dead man smile.

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Speaker 2: It was the eyes. There was something in the eyes,

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Speaker 2: something off that I couldn't quite place, something that set

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Speaker 2: every nerve in my body on edge, something that made

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Speaker 2: my brain scream no, no, no, over and over. But

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Speaker 2: then that thing in me, that lifelong practice of being polite,

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Speaker 2: so much of a habit that I just spoke without thinking. Uh,

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Speaker 2: of course, Jimbo.

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Speaker 3: Shit, after you thanks.

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Speaker 2: That the kitchen you know where it is all put

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Speaker 2: on coffee.

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Speaker 3: Coffee isn't necessary.

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Speaker 2: Sit Sit, Jim, I'll stand, Jim. I'm going to be honest.

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Speaker 2: This is this is scarying the shit out of me,

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Speaker 2: Like I wish you'd just at least sit so I

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Speaker 2: could stand on the far side of the kitchen island

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Speaker 2: while we spoke.

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Speaker 3: Okay, fair enough, I don't want to scare you. What's

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Speaker 3: that on the counter.

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Speaker 2: It's just an old keepsake box. What's inside keepsakes?

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Speaker 3: Huh? Place feels different, doesn't Yeah? With your dad going

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Speaker 3: it feels bigger, emptier.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it does. What the fuck is going on, Jimbo?

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Speaker 2: You're dead.

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Speaker 3: And yet here you are. I was as surprised as

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Speaker 3: you are, kid.

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Speaker 2: So talk what happened.

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Speaker 3: It's a long story.

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Speaker 2: Well, I can make the time to listen to a

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Speaker 2: story about a man coming back from the dead.

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Speaker 3: Fair enough. I don't remember a lot after I went

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Speaker 3: into the hospital. The illness, it blurs everything. It was

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Speaker 3: like having a hot knife in the middle of your skull,

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Speaker 3: and I couldn't focus a hole of thought. It was

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Speaker 3: just pain and a howl and sort of rage. I

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Speaker 3: don't know. I was never a violent man, Karen, but

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Speaker 3: I wanted to hurt, to destroy, to kill that street preacher.

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Speaker 3: I remember getting my hands on him. I wanted to

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Speaker 3: press my fingers through him. Remember, want to feel his

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Speaker 3: skin give way, this strong need to press through his

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Speaker 3: muscle and his veins, and get my hands into his

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Speaker 3: visra to tear him apart and sell by self, and

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Speaker 3: then well, it just flashes. After that, I had moments

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Speaker 3: of clarity, of course, fear, remorse, sadness, the rage, eating

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Speaker 3: it all, pressing against the insights of my skull, hot, feverish.

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Speaker 3: And then there is a light, like everyone says, I

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Speaker 3: could see it coming from far above me, so far

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Speaker 3: up above the hospital ceiling, above the clouds, out beyond

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Speaker 3: the sun. Even was overtaken everything. It was warm, it

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Speaker 3: was beautiful, everything they tell you, all of it. I

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Speaker 3: could feel myself begin to float, could feel the warmth

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Speaker 3: overtake me. I don't know, like I was back in

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Speaker 3: the womb. It sounds crazy, but I was pulled back high.

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Speaker 3: The light retreated a pinprick, and then it was extinguished,

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Speaker 3: and all of the warmth and goodness went with it,

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Speaker 3: and I was alone in this icy darkness, sized Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 3: I was a lone Karin, more alone than I've ever been.

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Speaker 3: And I've been alone when I was a little kid.

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Speaker 3: My mom died, and it felt like being ripped from

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Speaker 3: the world, like nothing could reach me, like I'd never

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Speaker 3: feel love again.

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Speaker 2: This was so much worse, Jesus Jim.

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Speaker 3: And then I found myself back in the body. I

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Speaker 3: was in the cabinet in the morgue. That feeling was

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Speaker 3: still there with me, but I recognized it now, really

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Speaker 2: When was it?

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Speaker 3: It was a terrible, terrible thirst, deep painful, like every

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Speaker 3: cell in my body was screaming with it. I had

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Speaker 3: crossed an infinite desert and was parched.

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Speaker 1: And so I went looking to quench it. I managed

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Speaker 1: to push my way out of the Morguel locker. I

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Speaker 1: wasn't alone. There was a body laid out covered in

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Speaker 1: a sheet. That preacher, the one I heard dead on

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Speaker 1: the table. I never thought about him in life.

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Speaker 3: You know, besides a couple of noise complaints here and

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Speaker 3: there when he was on a tear, But besides being batshitt,

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Speaker 3: you know, he was harmless. So I left him alone

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Speaker 3: But there was something sad and kind about him that

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Speaker 3: I guess I always sort of admired, so I always

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Speaker 3: just let him be. But here he was dead like

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Speaker 3: me because of me. Any guilt I felt was cut

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Speaker 3: short by the cutting thirst. And there was a water

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Speaker 3: cooler in the room, and at first I moved toward it,

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Speaker 3: but the thought of drinking it repulsed me, confused me.

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Speaker 3: Even that confusion was shot lived, because before I had

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Speaker 3: a chance to react, someone walked in. He was way

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Speaker 3: But I registered him even halfway across the room. I

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Speaker 3: could smell him, feel the heat of his body. I

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Speaker 3: could sense to the flutter of the pulse of blood

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Speaker 3: burned my gums as if they were shop and I

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Speaker 3: understood the thirst. What are you doing stretching? How are you?

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Speaker 1: I flew at him, knocking him over. Finally I was

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Speaker 1: able to grab a hold of his hair, and with

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Speaker 3: I didn't have time to be horrified. I didn't even think.

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Speaker 1: I just scrambled at his mask and collar.

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Speaker 3: And sank my teeth into his neck. I can't fully

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Speaker 3: describe it, the relief, the warmth of him entering me

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Speaker 3: and spreading outward, tingling in my fingers and toes, and

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Speaker 3: the world well just became God again, and I felt

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Speaker 3: like me for the first time since Bachmann came to town

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Speaker 3: with his axe. Don't look at me in that way, Corin,

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Speaker 3: Did you kill him?

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Speaker 2: Jimbo?

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Speaker 3: I did, well, there was nothing else I could do.

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Speaker 3: The thirst korn when it takes you, it takes all

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Speaker 3: of you, replaces every impulse you have, and makes you

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Speaker 3: a starven animal, makes you insane. When I was young,

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Speaker 3: I used to read stories about people who survived disasters

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Speaker 3: or war. Couldn't get enough of it. Crazy stuff. A

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Speaker 3: went down in the Second World War and how he

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Speaker 3: managed to live for two weeks on a piece of scrap,

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Speaker 3: the ocean. His small supply of water ran out, and

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Speaker 3: so he drank his piss, and then when he got desperate,

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Speaker 3: finally drank sea water, which just dehydrate you more. See,

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Speaker 3: flush it out. You lose more water than you drink,

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Speaker 3: so you vomit. You get delirious. Eventually, if you don't

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Speaker 3: get enough regular water to balance it out, you die.

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Speaker 3: This sailor he got saved before he died, but he

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Speaker 3: went insane, literally insane with thirst. I can't tell you

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Speaker 3: how I know, but this was worse. But when I

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Speaker 2: What happened next, Jimbo.

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Speaker 3: Next, I cleaned myself up and found a pair of

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Speaker 3: So I walked right out the door and I made

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Speaker 3: But I wasn't cold, never got tired. I felt impervious

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Speaker 8: And with each step I could feel it return, the hunger,

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Speaker 8: just a little whisper in my ear at first. By

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Speaker 6: Hello, God, damn it, I'm coming.

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Speaker 3: Hold on, hello, han Uh, I'm really standing here. Uh,

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Speaker 3: your dad, rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.

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Speaker 2: Jim, Jim, is it really you?

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Speaker 4: Jim, Jim Jim, Oh my god, you're icy cold.

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Speaker 3: It's freezing out. Can we go in?

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Speaker 5: Uh?

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Speaker 7: Of course, Oh my god, Jim, Oh my god, go

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Speaker 7: get some warm clothes on. I'll put on coffee. Oh oh,

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Speaker 7: we need to call the hospital. They called just now

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Speaker 7: to tell me that you're missing. Oh God, They're going

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Speaker 7: to be so embarrassed. Jesus, how could they have pronounced

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Speaker 7: you dead?

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Speaker 3: Well? Why don't we hold off on, Colin. It will

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Speaker 3: take a while to untangle all of this.

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Speaker 7: Of course, get warm, Oh my god, jem my gym,

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Speaker 7: Oh my gim, Oh my gym, God, how good this is.

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Speaker 5: Thank God.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna get dressed. Of course.

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Speaker 7: Go I'll be in the kitchen. I'm going to get

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Speaker 7: the coffee and the warm fire.

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Speaker 3: I can't quite describe the strange feeling I got walking

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Speaker 3: through my house. It didn't feel like mine anymore. It

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Speaker 3: felt like a perfect reproduction of my house, or perhaps

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Speaker 3: a museum of a dead man's time on earth. But

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Speaker 3: but the James walker Horn who owned this home and

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Speaker 6: Ah, you scared me.

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Speaker 7: Oh, jim My, jim My sweet husband.

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Speaker 7: I didn't know if you'd want a beer or coffee

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Speaker 7: I just can't believe it. I mean, they said you died.

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Speaker 7: We're gonna have words with those doctors. I'll call my brother.

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Speaker 7: I'll bet there's a malpractice lawsuit in all of this.

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Speaker 5: Are you okay, Jim? I am great, Bob, you just

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Speaker 3: Well, I did just come back from the dead.

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Speaker 7: I suppose that would change a man. Are you sure

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Speaker 5: It's a little chili. You want me to turn up

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Speaker 3: It doesn't matter, you're so cold.

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Speaker 3: There was a moment there when old Jimbo came rushing

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Speaker 3: No, Bob, I'd better go.

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Speaker 7: No, no, don't go, Jim.

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Speaker 1: I think I'm having trouble being close to you. I'm

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Speaker 2: What do you mean hurt me?

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Speaker 2: I think, Honey, why don't you go lie down. I

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Speaker 3: No, I should just get out of here, Jim, Jim,

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Speaker 2: Jim, bow, did you did you kill Barbara?

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Speaker 3: No? But I came awful close. She's still alive, I think, so,

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Speaker 3: No, don't reach for the phone, even to call an

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Speaker 2: It's insurance against what I don't quite know.

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Speaker 2: Jim, I'm just so thirsty.

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Speaker 2: And then chaos. It happened so quickly, faster than a

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Speaker 2: His mouth twisted in hatred, two sharp fangs bared at me,

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Speaker 2: It's truly incredible how quickly the numbness sets in when

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Speaker 2: I didn't even think to close the door. No Jesus,

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Speaker 2: tastes like shit. Corin. Who's there, Marie? Oh my god,

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Speaker 2: I'm so sorry. I oh, oh no? What uh are you?

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Speaker 2: Is that blood there was? Are you hurt?

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Speaker 9: No?

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Speaker 2: Here, let me see Marie. No, no, no, it's not

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Speaker 2: It's not me.

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Speaker 9: Is there is there someone else here in your house?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Yeah, okay? Can I go in and check?

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Speaker 9: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, okay. I waited for the telltale scream. It

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Speaker 1: Karen?

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Speaker 2: I need you to think no, uh uh no, he

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Speaker 2: didn't hurt me at all. I mean probably bruised my

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Speaker 2: you're Okay, then, Marie, there's a dead fucking body in

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Speaker 2: I am very, very goddamn far from fucking Okay.

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Speaker 9: Okay, okay, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry. You're right.

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Speaker 9: That is a lot to process. What are you?

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Speaker 2: What are you even doing here?

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Speaker 7: Well?

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Speaker 2: I had a message for you, of what a message? Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 2: what's that?

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Speaker 9: Well, it's not gonna make any sense.

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Speaker 2: What is it? Who's it from?

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Speaker 9: It's from Ken McLean who he was. He was an

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Speaker 9: indigent that was brought in last week. I think he

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Speaker 9: was attacked by the dead man in your kitchen.

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Speaker 2: Brother Ken the street preacher.

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Speaker 9: Yes, yes, he uh well, he did scream a few

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Speaker 9: Bible verses when he came back. Came back, yeah, Kreen,

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Speaker 9: like the man on your floor came back from the dead.

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Speaker 2: He sat up and walked out of.

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Speaker 9: The morgue and happened on my floor, where he was

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, well, at least he seemed relieved to be tied down,

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Speaker 9: but he was suffering. I was sent into checking vitals

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Speaker 9: and his heart was beating, but he was as cold

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Speaker 2: Only was chattering Bible verses.

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Speaker 9: He said your name?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 9: When I pressed him, he said that you'd.

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Speaker 2: Know what to do, that it was in your blood.

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Speaker 2: What was the Holy spirit? I don't know.

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Speaker 9: He said your family killed vampires. Okay, sorry, that is

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Speaker 9: absolutely not funny given the circumstances.

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Speaker 2: You mean, the dead vampire in my kitchen. Yeah? What

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Speaker 2: are they gonna do to Ken?

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Speaker 9: I don't know. They'll probably take him somewhere more secure,

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Speaker 9: but I think that things are getting ready to get

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure about you, but I'm already scared as shit. Jesus,

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Speaker 2: What the fuck am I gonna do? Do you have

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Speaker 9: Family, a close friend?

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Speaker 2: What about oh God, Sylvie? Yeah? Uh huh? I mean

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Speaker 7: Well?

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Speaker 2: I don't know the CDC.

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Speaker 9: I can call the contact person. They'll send someone over,

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Speaker 9: but they're gonna want to bring you in. Look. If

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Speaker 9: I was you, i'd get in your car and drive

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Speaker 2: Check in with me tomorrow. I'll give you any news.

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Speaker 2: That's incredibly nice of you. Won't you get in trouble.

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Speaker 9: I'll say I was checking in on you and found

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Speaker 2: No, no, I need to be here, No, no, listen

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Speaker 9: I've been at the hospital for a while and I

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Speaker 2: They're scared.

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Speaker 9: Look, something is happening here, something big and sudden that

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Speaker 9: I have a job to do here, so I can't leave.

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Speaker 9: But you can so get the hell out of town,

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Speaker 2: All right. Now, Wash yourself.

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Speaker 9: You're gonna avoid check points and you don't stop until

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Speaker 2: Copy move. I did as I was told, quick rints

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Speaker 2: I would drive to Maine. Had an old friend who

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Speaker 4: Havoctown was created by me Aaron Mankey. The show was

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Speaker 4: and sound designed by Rima lk Ali. Starring Jewels State

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Speaker 4: as Coreyne Abbys, Chrystal Lee as Demeris, Robin Bloodworth as Jimbo'horn,

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