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Speaker 1: Hm, I am the fairy man.

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Speaker 2: The human spirit is my business. Their madness, their passion,

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Speaker 2: the wonderful and monstrous ways they burn out their brief candle.

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Speaker 3: I regret to tell you that very many American lives

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Speaker 3: in love.

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Speaker 1: What's heard to shut from the car, he's dead. Whether

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Speaker 1: he rebird to president.

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Speaker 3: Or four hours, people must get up and google identification.

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Speaker 2: I am here in the in between, to collect their

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Speaker 2: spirits and carry them to what comes next. This road

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Speaker 2: is not on any map. It spans the thresholds between

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Speaker 2: their most forbidden desires and their greatest fear. All I

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Speaker 2: ask for in payment is a tale and accounting of

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Speaker 2: their lives and the great temporary that is the land

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Speaker 2: of the living. These are their stories. This is the

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Speaker 2: passage north brother Island. I visited this place often over

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Speaker 2: the years. This tiny little stone beside a hellgate, the

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Speaker 2: strait that's sunk a thousand ships. I've fished out many

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Speaker 2: a sailor from its depths, just as I have plucked

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Speaker 2: souls by the handful from this parcel of land. Just

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Speaker 2: up on the hill here sits Riverside Hospital, the place

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Speaker 2: of the very last resort for the plague ridden castaways

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Speaker 2: from the great Island of Manhattan, amidst the small pox

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Speaker 2: and consumption that spout a little bright, pinned prick, a

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Speaker 2: soul burning hotter than most eves. Picked up there at

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Speaker 2: the entrance to the hospital. She has risen from her

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Speaker 2: sick bed and has moved down the stairs and into

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Speaker 2: the pale November sunlight. Mary Mallin, But the world will

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Speaker 2: come to know her by a different name. Born so

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Speaker 2: far from here, in a land so much greener, she

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Speaker 2: made her first passage decades ago across the cold North

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Speaker 2: Atlantic into New York City, at a time when the

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Speaker 2: Irish were viewed as no better than the body lies

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Speaker 2: they picked up in steerage. She was fifteen and alone

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Speaker 2: in the hard, scrabble filth of New York City. Many

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Speaker 2: did not survive those first hard years, but she did.

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Speaker 2: She fought and scraped, and when she was told that

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Speaker 2: she carried Salmonella typhe which had killed so many before her,

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Speaker 2: she forged ahead anyway, taking the disease with her from

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Speaker 2: house to house, and finally earned the name Typhoid Mary.

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Speaker 4: Hello, Jesus Mary, and Joseph You Mary, Ah, I sensed

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Speaker 4: you before I even closed my eyes.

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Speaker 3: I knew You're a common far me, and somehow you

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Speaker 3: surprise me.

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Speaker 2: That is never my intention. And yet and yet it

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Speaker 2: is time walking me to the shore.

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Speaker 3: Ef I must.

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Speaker 4: It's not cold.

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Speaker 3: I always expected the cold.

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Speaker 2: None of that here.

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Speaker 3: Do you have a name?

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Speaker 2: You can call me the Ferryman if you wish.

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Speaker 3: Nah, sure, Ferryman. Feels like the whole of my life

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Speaker 3: has been packed to the gills with fairy man of

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Speaker 3: one sort or another. Whether I wanted to go with

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Speaker 3: him or not, I went. I don't suppose I have

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Speaker 3: a choice in this matter either.

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Speaker 2: Everyone must go eventually.

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Speaker 3: Sure, just another wheel turning. Eh, the great wheel of

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Speaker 3: life carries it to the great wheel of death, and

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Speaker 3: still it turns. What's next on the other shore?

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Speaker 2: That will all depend.

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Speaker 3: On what my accents in life, my morrows or your morals.

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Speaker 3: Who's fucking marls? Am I beholding to the churches? They

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Speaker 3: can all drain in now rever as far as I'm concerned. Nay,

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Speaker 3: I'll not be accepting their ATTARTI anymore. Jesus Christ himself

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Speaker 3: can get an air for from me on that account.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the church has very little to do with the afterlife.

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Speaker 3: Ah, God's a comforted least where I'll be. It's an

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Speaker 3: actual boat.

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Speaker 2: Well you surprised. I'm a I'm a ferryman.

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Speaker 3: I thought it'd be more of a what's this metaphor?

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Speaker 3: But here I am getting an honest to God bite

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Speaker 3: to carry me on. Oh you know, I didn't want

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Speaker 3: to make that first voyage. I loved my home, I'd

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Speaker 3: loved my mother, even my father drunkard. He was was

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Speaker 3: a good man. He just couldn't ever quite get it right.

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Speaker 3: Every opportunity dead in his hands. But that was almost

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Speaker 3: everyone in the Old Country in those days, struggle and

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Speaker 3: toile and come up short. There wasn't enough work, and

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Speaker 3: the work when it came didn't pay enough. So men drank,

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Speaker 3: women drank. Everyone drank. A shadow over everything, a shadow

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Speaker 3: that I would come to recognize. I was sent away

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Speaker 3: because my mother taught i'd follow in his path if

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Speaker 3: I stayed, And who knows, Sometimes I think I'd have

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Speaker 3: made a spectacular drunkard. I've the temperament for it, to

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Speaker 3: be sure. So they sent me to my aunt and uncle,

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Speaker 3: who made a go of it in New York. I

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Speaker 3: remember saying goodbye to my mother. She wept. She said

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Speaker 3: that one day she'd join me. Last I saw of her,

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Speaker 3: she was standing on the docks as me ship pulled off.

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Speaker 3: She didn't wave, she just stood there. Han Coultie's held

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Speaker 3: hip over her mind, as if she were trying to

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Speaker 3: stafle a scream. Ah. That was the last time I

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Speaker 3: saw her. The voyage was long and difficult, the carter's

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Speaker 3: stank up, shetting, vomiting, the sour stench of fear that

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Speaker 3: grew all the more potent when the seeds were rough,

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Speaker 3: which they were often, every face grain, everybody carrying a

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Speaker 3: shadow above it. I would often spend days walking the decks,

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Speaker 3: flirting with the sailors, just to avoid the animal felt below,

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Speaker 3: which permeated everything. Despite the conditions, though in every eye

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Speaker 3: there was hope, even in the oldest, the most din trodden,

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Speaker 3: there's perfoos clearly marked for death. That hope it trumped

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Speaker 3: through the storms and stench, beat out even the heart

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Speaker 3: sickness that comes with leaving home forever. Even I fell

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Speaker 3: prey to what, young and terrified as I was, it

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Speaker 3: is the vilest thing. Hope it survives until the better

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Speaker 3: end and is passed on to strangle the next generation.

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Speaker 3: Hell I carry it with me, even I, although I

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Speaker 3: think I know what waits for me on the other shore.

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Speaker 3: It was in the belly of that ship, on the

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Speaker 3: Great Voyage, that I first saw hem and illness had

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Speaker 3: passed through steerage, a fever, people emptying their guts into

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Speaker 3: the latrine's buckets, whatever was at hand. I had secured

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Speaker 3: a bunk in the corner, and there I lay, young

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Speaker 3: and a line sucker than i'd ever been believe in

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Speaker 3: that you were coming far me, And I thought, ferry Man,

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Speaker 3: that it was you, yourself, elf, that I saw standing

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Speaker 3: amidst the sick and dying on the voyage one night,

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Speaker 3: with hollow eyes gazing at me across the wedd of

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Speaker 3: the room. My eyes too blurred with exhaustion to see clearly.

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Speaker 3: But it wasn't, was it. It was a different specter

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Speaker 3: with different purposes. I blent to clear my vision and

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Speaker 3: he was gone, And after a few days Daonus left me.

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Speaker 3: We made it across, I remember saying it for the

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Speaker 3: first time, The skyline so vast, oh, so great. I

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Speaker 3: was terrified, the star of the rest of my life.

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Speaker 3: My aunt and uncle were kind, dacent people, but they

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Speaker 3: couldn't afford to keep me on their meager wages, and

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Speaker 3: so I was sent to work immediately in the immense

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Speaker 3: filth of New York City. It was the laundry first,

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Speaker 3: so many park girls boiling the flesh on their arms,

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Speaker 3: so many growing tain and frail, with too much labor

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Speaker 3: and too little food. It was hot, wet, miserable. We

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Speaker 3: worked in the closest of quarters. When the last girl

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Speaker 3: day's labor was done. At the time, I was concerned

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Speaker 3: mostly with the state in my hands, which were chopped

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Speaker 3: and sore, hot water and harsh soap, and the state

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Speaker 3: at night. I was concerned with the little rest I

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Speaker 3: got on the small cot in my aunt's catching. And

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Speaker 3: I was concerned with the shadow that I caught following

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Speaker 3: me all the way from the boat, who I caught

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Speaker 3: occasionally in the corner of my eyes, but you eluded

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Speaker 3: me when I turned to look him straight on. Somewhere

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Speaker 3: in my bones, I had a sense of what he was,

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Speaker 3: but I was young. I did not know its name,

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Speaker 3: but I saw him head on soon enough. It was

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Speaker 3: end of the afternoon. It was July, and we opened

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Speaker 3: hate that consumed us. In that sort of heat. It

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Speaker 3: wasn't unusual for a girl at you to drop to

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Speaker 3: need to be fanned and giving water and a sharp

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Speaker 3: rest before returning to the soup. I myself felt the

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Speaker 3: came from the heat exhaustion. I was stepping back from

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Speaker 3: went headlong into her top. The girls working beside her

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Speaker 3: stood for a moment, blinking stupidly, trying to make sense

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Speaker 3: of sally face dying and the scalding water. I had

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Speaker 3: tried to get her to cough up the water. Her

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Speaker 3: By this time our farm and mister Moses had come

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Speaker 3: then that I finally saw the shadow head on, hanging

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Speaker 3: you know. Though I toiled as hard as the next girl,

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Speaker 3: I had prospects. My aunt was a cook for a

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Speaker 3: she'd helped me find similar work. And so during the

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Speaker 3: he was in aid of a cook. And so I

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Speaker 3: and I moved up tying into the servant quarters of

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Speaker 3: with the housekeeper, Miss Evans. There was a fine job

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Speaker 3: that ended all too soon when the family fell ill.

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Speaker 3: Miss Nevans started influenza. But I knew different, you see,

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Speaker 3: I saw him and the kitchen one morning, the tin shadow,

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Speaker 3: was just looking at me with those hungry eyes. My

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Speaker 3: blood run cold as I stood to confront him, but

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Speaker 3: he was gone as quickly as he'd appeared. The next morning,

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Speaker 3: the family was ill, a terrible waste and sort of illness,

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Speaker 3: each of them with a terrible rash on their necks.

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Speaker 3: None of them able to keep dying, even the water

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Speaker 3: The maid was ill herself, so it was up to

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Speaker 3: me to bring the mistress her hot beef brought and

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Speaker 3: so the crackers that was to be her sore nourishment.

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Speaker 3: I would no longer be tormented by my lot. If

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Speaker 3: And after they've had all, they can eat simply hard

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Speaker 3: I don't regret doing what I did. What here already

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Speaker 2: At our destination?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Is it having our hell?

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Speaker 2: That is for you to find out alone?

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Speaker 3: Beautiful? And what if I don't go.

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Speaker 2: Well, you can stay on the dock if you wish,

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Speaker 3: Sorry, I've got at least not much control of the situation.

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Speaker 3: Ah. Oh, I don't know who will be there to

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Speaker 3: Very well, fairy Man, I pray you carry a million

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