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Speaker 1: Thirteen Days of Halloween Penance, a co production of iHeart

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Speaker 1: three D Audio Blumhouse Television and Grim and Mild from

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Speaker 1: Aaron Nankey. Headphones recommended, Listener discretion advised.

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Speaker 2: What is there to say about prison life that hasn't

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Speaker 2: been said a million times before? It is so boring,

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Speaker 2: likes up on your feet, the same shit every.

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Speaker 3: Day you again, move along.

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Speaker 2: I imagine some people thrive on that routine.

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Speaker 3: Checkmate.

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Speaker 1: Not if I move here, checkmate, still know.

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Speaker 2: And that it beats down those who fight back.

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Speaker 4: Checkmate.

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Speaker 5: No, that's oh dark.

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Speaker 2: They say. The pen gets everyone eventually, either by force

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Speaker 2: or attrition. What's nuke all? My question is what are

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Speaker 2: they after?

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Speaker 1: It's your turn to share today, sireen.

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Speaker 2: But I don't have anything to say.

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Speaker 4: How does that make you feel?

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Speaker 2: If they can keep us physically detained, I'm going if

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Speaker 2: they have ways to enter our minds. Any side effects

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Speaker 2: from the medication makes me sick to my stomach.

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Speaker 1: Maybe time to up your dosage.

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Speaker 2: What's left but the soul?

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Speaker 6: Take and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding,

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Speaker 6: and my entire will. All I have and all my

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Speaker 6: own you have given all to me.

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Speaker 2: I swear no matter what, I refuse to submit choice.

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Speaker 2: But I also wonder how long can I hold out?

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Speaker 2: Already I'm starting to lose track of time, identical days

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Speaker 2: turning into identical weeks, filling identical months against a clock

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Speaker 2: and calendar that I have no reason to trust. I

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Speaker 2: wonder what is all this time doing to me? How

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Speaker 2: is it changing me?

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Speaker 4: Has something changed about you?

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Speaker 2: Well, I've practically quit smoking.

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Speaker 4: Good for you.

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Speaker 2: I've started going to church at least more regularly. I noticed,

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Speaker 2: and well, I was just so angry when I got here.

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Speaker 2: I'm still angry, furious. Actually, if I could, I'd trample

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Speaker 2: those guards, break straight through the wall, burn this whole

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Speaker 2: place of the ground, and never look back.

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Speaker 4: But something's changed.

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Speaker 2: Well, that kind of rage was hurting more than it

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Speaker 2: was helping me specifically, And if the anger isn't gone,

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Speaker 2: maybe it's a little more contained.

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Speaker 6: If you were to give it a word, would it

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Speaker 6: be fair to say patience?

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Speaker 2: I hate to think that I'm just waiting around. That

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Speaker 2: makes me feel so weak.

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Speaker 6: I would say it demonstrates tremendous strength. Whoever is patient

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Speaker 6: has great understanding, But one who is quick tempered displays folly.

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Speaker 2: But understanding about what how to marchin a line, what

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Speaker 2: not to eat in the cafeteria, who to avoid contact

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Speaker 2: with if you don't want a knight stick to the gut.

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Speaker 6: Maybe a more personal understanding. Humans have an innate desire

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Speaker 6: for control over their own lives. It's a fallacy, really,

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Speaker 6: but even the sense of control can be powerful. The

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Speaker 6: freedom to make your own choices, to set your own

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Speaker 6: goals can come to define your very identity. So what

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Speaker 6: happens when that illusion of control vanishes?

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Speaker 2: You lose your mind or you grow Ah crap, do

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Speaker 2: you know what time it is?

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Speaker 4: About twelve thirty?

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Speaker 2: I think, well, I gotta get to the rec center.

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Speaker 4: Exercise can be good for the soul.

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Speaker 2: Well, maybe it's just uh, I'm supposed to meet.

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Speaker 6: Someone, meet someone.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, don't keep them waiting. Thank you, chaplain.

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Speaker 4: I hope to see you tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Why what's tomorrow?

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Speaker 4: Christmas? Eve?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Snap, I gotta find a gift. Okay. Leaving the

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Speaker 2: chapel means libraries on my left, TV rooms on my room.

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Speaker 2: Here's a weight room, the art room. I just need

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Speaker 2: to go down these stairs. Rodriguez, I'm never gonna get

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Speaker 2: used to that.

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Speaker 3: What do you think you're doing? Uh?

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Speaker 2: Recreation.

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Speaker 3: Not like that.

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Speaker 2: You're not, but I'm sure this is the right door.

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Speaker 3: That hair, my hair.

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Speaker 2: What's the last time you had a cut? Hmmm, well

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Speaker 2: I came in before Easter.

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Speaker 3: Weekend, so right, Captain has strict policies.

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Speaker 2: Mm okay, I'll get right on that.

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Speaker 3: Now with me, let go, I said I could walk, Lorena.

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Speaker 2: You got space for one more.

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Speaker 3: This one here has never seen a brush in your life.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry, didn't know I was here to impress Nina.

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Speaker 3: Your hair is like a nest birds or spiders. I'm

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Speaker 3: afraid to look.

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Speaker 2: Then don't go go.

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Speaker 3: I'll take care of this one. Don't be afraid to

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Speaker 3: use a little force.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I do need a trim.

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Speaker 3: No, you needed a trim three months ago. Now, Mirena,

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Speaker 3: what you need is a miracle good thing. I'm mean. Come,

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Speaker 3: I wash first, then we gleam. So what's your style?

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Speaker 3: Are you more a pixie cot or maybe a little framing?

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Speaker 3: Give some shape to that pretty face.

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Speaker 2: No, you're not listening. I don't want you to do anything,

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Speaker 2: just a trem.

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Speaker 3: Oh, but indulge me. There must be something you want.

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Speaker 3: Come on, you can tell me.

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Speaker 2: Don't fight it. She'll get it at it.

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Speaker 3: You always does do what I wanted before I did.

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Speaker 3: She's always right. By the time I'm done, I'll have

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Speaker 3: you a feeling all new.

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Speaker 2: Look. It's nothing personal. I just don't spend a lot

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Speaker 2: of time thinking about how I look.

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Speaker 3: Oh, Jerre one of those?

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Speaker 2: Aren't you one of those?

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Speaker 3: Here? Sit? Lean back?

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Speaker 2: What is that supposed to mean?

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Speaker 3: I'll change you if you sit, let me guess you

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Speaker 3: turn away makeup and hair styling, and she close, saying

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Speaker 3: you're not into fashion? But nonina, no service. Is that

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Speaker 3: that's a fashion statement in itself?

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Speaker 2: No, that's not I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Deny, then I deny, but I seen you.

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Speaker 2: Oh and what because you cut someone's hair gives you

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Speaker 2: license to judge them.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot you learn when you shape someone's look.

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Speaker 3: I mean, how we present is a mask. No one

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Speaker 3: is exactly what they look like. How painfully boring. So

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Speaker 3: while they're in my chair letting me chop away at

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Speaker 3: little pieces of them, you get to drop the mask

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Speaker 3: and I listen. Like a therapist, I use me or

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Speaker 3: no therapist. They want to fix you. I prefer to

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Speaker 3: enable better dips twenty years at the same overpriced salunge.

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Speaker 3: You hear every entitled complaint convertible in a shop AND's

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Speaker 3: in the lakehouse. And now I'm as sources out of

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Speaker 3: town and my husband is canoodling with the maid. Oh,

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Speaker 3: I always hope for something with more substance. Maybe I

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Speaker 3: hope too hard. One day I had this woman come

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Speaker 3: in sunset of her life, glory, silver hair down.

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Speaker 2: To her chest. I loved it.

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Speaker 3: I wanted it, oh, to age like that, But she

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Speaker 3: said it made her look witchy. Now who could have

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Speaker 3: put that idea in her head? Turns out kids were

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Speaker 3: shattering her windows with rocks. They riding on their bikes,

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Speaker 3: dark of night and no one awake.

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Speaker 7: Then crash, kill the witch, they yelled, and then they

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Speaker 7: were gone just as fast because acido, poor woman.

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Speaker 3: I could hear it in her voice. No not chop

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Speaker 3: it off, chop it all off.

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Speaker 5: I don't want it anymore.

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Speaker 3: How it heard her to lie about, let's get you

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Speaker 3: in a chair. Did you cut it off? No, that

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Speaker 3: would have been a crime. Instead, I listened to what

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Speaker 3: she really wanted here sit?

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Speaker 2: What did she say?

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Speaker 3: Nothing at first.

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Speaker 2: But I pushed.

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Speaker 3: I always had that gift, you know, getting people to

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Speaker 3: open up. Usually it's a lot of cheesemay. By this

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Speaker 3: time this was different. Something in her eyes and how

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Speaker 3: her lips scrunched like she was chewing on her words.

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Speaker 3: Benures and all lone and all.

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Speaker 2: I want to take those rocks.

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Speaker 3: I want to find her houses and I want to

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Speaker 3: break their bones. Alo rinkled little thing. And then she left,

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Speaker 3: Lift your hair, got wrap fist around your neck.

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Speaker 2: Do you think she did it?

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Speaker 3: How could she? No? That would have been insane. At

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Speaker 3: least that's what I thought, And it's what got me

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Speaker 3: through the night, because as soon as I got home,

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Speaker 3: there was a stamped in my brain. Horrible, horrible headache

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Speaker 3: that whole week, actually my last week on the outside

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Speaker 3: of horrible.

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Speaker 2: Oh careful, what the scalp?

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Speaker 3: This is nothing? They after another woman came rolled out

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Speaker 3: a magazine and pointed at a model wanted her seventies

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Speaker 3: disconneon prom emitra. I'm divine at what I do, but

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Speaker 3: my conscience wouldn't let me, so I tried to wear

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Speaker 3: her somewhere safe. And you know what she said to me.

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Speaker 3: If I wanted safe, I wouldn't put nails in my salad.

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Speaker 2: What I can't believe she met that literally.

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Speaker 3: I didn't either until she smiled, teas cracked and chipped

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Speaker 3: gums blead. She needed a dentist, not a PERM. I

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Speaker 3: don't know why she told me, But then the nasia

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Speaker 3: hit and I spent the rest of my shift head

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Speaker 3: first in a toilet, feeling like there was a hole

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Speaker 3: in my gut. I think one of the other girls

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Speaker 3: ended up giving her a PERM. I didn't care anymore.

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Speaker 3: I'd swear there was something in the air that week,

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Speaker 3: but all the crazy seemed to ask for me, And

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Speaker 3: the next one was even.

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Speaker 2: Worse, worse than eating nails.

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Speaker 3: There's always worse, Melinda, and it's never who you expect.

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Speaker 3: Tilt your head for me?

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't you wait? How about are you taking off?

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Speaker 3: Had to get either? Don't you want to know who

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Speaker 3: came next?

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Speaker 2: Just a trim, got it?

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Speaker 3: M now? This girl so thin and twiggy, it was

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Speaker 3: for a trim, just like Ju. She didn't make so

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Speaker 3: much as a sweek. For the full hour, I could

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Speaker 3: tell it was something heavy, something ugly, building up. But

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Speaker 3: who am I to pry? If a client wants silence.

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Speaker 3: I gave them silence. I was nearly done styling her

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Speaker 3: before she finally spoke, turned to me with her dull

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Speaker 3: eyes and asked if I was married. No, no, no,

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Speaker 3: I said, I love myself too much to share. She

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Speaker 3: liked that. She was jealous. What about you, I asked,

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Speaker 3: and she went quiet again. She jammed me in and whispered,

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Speaker 3: I'm going to kill my husband. I just haven't figured

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Speaker 3: out how I was frozen. I mean, what do you

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Speaker 3: say back? Don't do it? Good luck? I couldn't tell

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Speaker 3: if she was kidding, Or maybe I could, and I

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Speaker 3: didn't want to admit it. It's not like she waited

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Speaker 3: for me to react. She just got up, dropped a

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Speaker 3: tip on the counter and left.

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Speaker 2: Or was it a good tip?

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Speaker 3: Best of my life? But not even close to worth it?

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Speaker 3: My fever that night was like a caulduring fluids, boiling skin,

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Speaker 3: melting every nerve on fire, or at least it felt

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Speaker 3: that way, pinned me down to a bed for two

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Speaker 3: days now.

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Speaker 2: Still, am I expected to tip? I mean I would, but.

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Speaker 3: Will you kin me? Chris? Good luck, Si, you're gonna

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Speaker 3: Let's get you dried up.

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Speaker 2: There'd you go?

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Speaker 3: Clado ruined my upholstery and pushed the absolute limit on

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Speaker 5: Sometimes when there's a body, and I'm supposed to call

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Speaker 3: He just kept going, unloading repulsive details after details. Even

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Speaker 3: Nothing? I regret. I just wish they hadn't caught me,

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Speaker 2: How long were you there?

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Speaker 3: Not long? Grass, sadios. I suppose eventually somebody listened to

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Speaker 2: Showed up from the Pendleton. What gave it? The way

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Speaker 3: Dragged me? No, they offered the help, said they could

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Speaker 2: Why would you choose to come here? We can't leave?

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Speaker 3: What makes you think I want to free meals, free

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Speaker 3: for tips Nina, But it's not Tahiti. But it'll do.

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Speaker 2: Did they help you?

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Speaker 5: Then?

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Speaker 3: You mean? Though I still hear people's secrets sometimes, but

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Speaker 2: So then you have heard things while you've been here.

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Speaker 3: Of course, stranger and stranger every day.

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Speaker 2: Strange?

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Speaker 3: How oh no, no, no, I do what you're doing?

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Speaker 3: Do you think knowing more is always better? But you're

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Speaker 2: What do you mean hurt me?

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Speaker 3: What I mean, Sayuri, is how will you handle the

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Speaker 2: Wait? While I was here? Were you? Is she ready yet?

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Speaker 3: Almost? There's no Rushian beauty. Take a look in the mirror.

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Speaker 2: Do you like who you see? That's not me?

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Speaker 3: Clad O? You see? Like I said, when it comes

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Speaker 3: to my work, I'm divine don't worry your secrets safe

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Speaker 3: Now? Are you done? Yes? I'm done? But out you

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Speaker 3: What's up?

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Speaker 5: Three far?

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Speaker 3: Nighty night? O?

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Speaker 2: Leamsa same shit every day? Wait? Did she leave a

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Speaker 3: Hey? You?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Hey?

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Speaker 2: I thought we had a date. I know, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 2: I got caught out for looking up haggard was the implication,

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Speaker 2: I tried, but I couldn't get out. It looks nice, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I guess I've never liked to be fussed over, and

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Speaker 1: care written by Alessandra Hara del Castillo and Alexander Williams.

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Speaker 1: Editing and sound designed by Trevor Young, featuring the voices

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