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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 Yankee. Headphones recommended. Listener discretion advised.

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Speaker 2: Were there steps there before? Okay?

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Speaker 3: So if the chapel's down there, I know I saw

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Speaker 3: somewhere around here, not here, not there.

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Speaker 4: Not there either, crazy, This place makes no sense.

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Speaker 5: I know that's somewhere in this nonsense nightmare labyrinth.

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Speaker 6: I saw a.

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Speaker 5: Lovely, little, good for nothing goddamn library.

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Speaker 2: It's so dark in here.

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Speaker 5: I wonder if they're hello, hello, ship.

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Speaker 6: Your voice down, but there's nobody in here? Are you

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Speaker 6: the librarian?

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Speaker 2: Mira?

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Speaker 3: Mira? Hi?

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Speaker 6: Do you have resources for UH residents?

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Speaker 2: Be more specific, like legal.

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Speaker 6: Guides, case law.

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Speaker 5: It would be great to cross reference everything by false imprisonment. Also,

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Speaker 5: anything you have about.

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Speaker 6: This building, where it is and who's running it. Are

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Speaker 6: we allowed to check out the books or do we

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Speaker 6: have to read them here? This is just so dark.

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Speaker 6: I'm not sure we.

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Speaker 7: Don't have anything like that, which part none of it?

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Speaker 2: Maybe in the law library.

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Speaker 6: Where's that?

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Speaker 2: Not here? What are you really looking for?

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Speaker 6: UH?

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Speaker 5: Answers answers about my case, your case, and what is

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Speaker 5: your case? Well, I don't know exactly, but when they

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Speaker 5: brought me in and read me my file, half the

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Speaker 5: information was.

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Speaker 6: Wrong, including my name. They arrested the wrong person. But

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Speaker 6: I can't seem to convince anyone or even get them

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Speaker 6: to tell me the reason. And I don't know how

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Speaker 6: to prove it.

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Speaker 7: Can't seem to convince anyone. You know, it doesn't matter

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Speaker 7: if you prove it. Whatever it is you're trying to prove, no.

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Speaker 2: One is going to believe you. No one. In the end.

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Speaker 7: You're not even going to believe yourself.

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Speaker 5: But I don't belong here, you and I both, So

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Speaker 5: are you gonna help me or not.

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Speaker 7: Follow me?

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Speaker 6: Why is it so dark in here?

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Speaker 8: Right?

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Speaker 2: That is bad for old books? It degrades them?

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Speaker 6: Is that really true?

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Speaker 2: Also? I'm sensitive to light here?

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Speaker 6: What does it say Those Without Shadow? Published eighteen eighty three.

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Speaker 6: What's this got to do with me?

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Speaker 2: Take these two?

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Speaker 5: The other self as an omen of death? The mirrorers?

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Speaker 5: What are these?

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Speaker 2: You said there was another you, the one that really

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Speaker 2: belongs here.

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Speaker 6: No, that's not what I never said.

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Speaker 2: The same thing happened to me. There's someone out there

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Speaker 2: that looks just like me.

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Speaker 7: Sounds just like me has my memories, lives, my life.

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Speaker 2: She took everything from me.

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Speaker 7: When I first got here, I looked up everything I

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Speaker 7: could about my case.

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Speaker 2: I can tell you your answers are here, but your

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Speaker 2: solution is not. I understand.

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Speaker 7: I understand everything now, but it doesn't change the fact that.

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Speaker 2: I'm in here and she's out there.

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Speaker 6: What happened?

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Speaker 2: What does it matter? You won't believe me.

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Speaker 5: Listen, If it's anything like what's happening to me, maybe

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Speaker 5: we can help each other find a way to prove

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Speaker 5: that neither of us should be here.

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Speaker 7: Hah, you remind me of me in the early days,

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Speaker 7: the differences. I had already met her, Ah, just like

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Speaker 7: every other day. I was waiting on the train. It

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Speaker 7: was cold, raining, the train was running late. I think

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Speaker 7: about that a lot if it hadn't been running late.

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Speaker 7: But no, it wouldn't have mattered. I was being hunted

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Speaker 7: when I first saw.

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Speaker 2: Her across the platform.

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Speaker 7: For a moment, I thought it was my own reflection

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Speaker 7: mirrored in the window glass, Only it.

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Speaker 2: Wasn't quite right.

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Speaker 7: Her eyes were shining like an animal in the darkness.

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Speaker 7: We got on the same train car. I tried to

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Speaker 7: stare without making it obvious, but there was something about

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Speaker 7: her that I couldn't quite make out, like a mirage

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Speaker 7: when you get too close. I tried to look at

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Speaker 7: her straight on. My eyes slid off like water. Then

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Speaker 7: she walked towards me. Her attention made my palm sweat,

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Speaker 7: my heart race. I thought it was attraction. Now I

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Speaker 7: wonder if it was some instinct picking up on a predator.

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Speaker 7: I don't remember who spoke first, but when we started talking,

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Speaker 7: it seemed like it would never stop.

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Speaker 2: She said her name was Jade, Jade like her emerald eyes.

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Speaker 2: Her voice was intriguing, strange, constantly making adjustment sleek.

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Speaker 7: She'd say false, false, false, that's FA's what they say.

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Speaker 7: But opposites attracting You and I are a lot alike may.

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Speaker 7: I liked her voice, I liked her looked.

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Speaker 2: Her so much. I missed my stuff.

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Speaker 7: I thought it was a sweet story, the story of

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Speaker 7: how we met, But it was fault. We decided to

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Speaker 7: start dating on the spot. Maybe a little fast, definitely

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Speaker 7: too fast. Things had started like a story book, I

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Speaker 7: guess I got swept up in the idea of it.

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Speaker 7: I didn't tell anyone at first. I didn't want to

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Speaker 7: deal with their questions. They were always pushing. You know.

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Speaker 7: They never approved of anything I did. They they yes,

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Speaker 7: my family, my mother. Especially At first, our relationship was perfect.

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Speaker 7: We were so happy. Jade listened, you know. She wanted

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Speaker 7: to know everything about me, wanted to share everything with me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, tell me again again again.

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Speaker 7: Other than pictures, she was shy about pictures.

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Speaker 2: Hold on, let me just gee, No, you're going to

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Speaker 2: ruin them.

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Speaker 7: We never fought. We were always in the mood for

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Speaker 7: the exact same thing. Whenever I was trying to remember something,

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Speaker 7: she had the answer.

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Speaker 2: That's what I was going to say.

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Speaker 7: When we played games together, she always anticipated my next

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Speaker 7: move as though she was reading my mind.

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Speaker 4: You she did.

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Speaker 7: She devoted all of her attention to me, laughed when

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Speaker 7: I laughed, smiled when I smiled, and she'd get this

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Speaker 7: look in her eye when she touched me.

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Speaker 2: I love you, I love you.

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Speaker 7: Sometimes when you're in love with someone, it's easy to

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Speaker 7: ignore the morning signs. But there were things with Jade

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Speaker 7: I just couldn't overlook. I'd wake up and she'd be

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Speaker 7: staring at me, good morning, good morning. She'd repeat things

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Speaker 7: I'd say multiple times, changing the tenor and tone until

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Speaker 7: she got it just right?

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Speaker 2: Say it again?

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Speaker 6: Why?

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Speaker 7: Because I like your voice at them?

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Speaker 2: Could you pass me that book? Eh?

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Speaker 8: Could you pass me that book? Could you please pass

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Speaker 8: me that book? Could you please pass me that book?

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Speaker 8: Could you please pass me that book?

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Speaker 6: What?

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Speaker 7: Oh?

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Speaker 4: Sure?

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Speaker 6: Here?

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Speaker 7: One of the only things we didn't agree on was food.

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Speaker 7: She never seemed to think anything I could was rich enough.

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Speaker 9: I doused salads and dressings, dredged vegetables and butter, drown

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Speaker 9: her dinner in oil and melted cheese and gravy, and she'd.

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Speaker 2: Just push it around her plate.

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Speaker 7: The meat, though, she'd devour the tendons, the fat, cartilage,

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Speaker 7: the marrow. She didn't care what kind of meat. Only

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Speaker 7: the rarer the better, I'd joke. Her teeth were like

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Speaker 7: a tiger's. By then she was practically living with me.

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Speaker 7: Even scraps and leftovers weren't safe. Sometimes I'd wander into

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Speaker 7: the kitchen at night to find Jade digging through the trash,

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Speaker 7: or with the refrigerator door wide open, smiling at me

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Speaker 7: with meat and her teeth, eyes shining like the day

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Speaker 7: we met. It would be hard to say exactly when

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Speaker 7: things escalated. Jade was like my shadow. When I would

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Speaker 7: turn around there. She was always smiling. I had to

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Speaker 7: fight to find any time alone.

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Speaker 2: Ah ha, you scared me, you scared me.

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Speaker 7: If I managed to catch her unawares, usually i'd find

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Speaker 7: her practicing things that people don't normally practice, staring into space,

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Speaker 7: shifting her face, trying on different types of smiles, using

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Speaker 7: her fingers to adjust.

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Speaker 2: The corners of her mouth, but never in front of

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Speaker 7: I'd hear her repeating things I'd said over and over,

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Speaker 2: You scared me, you scared me, You scared me, You

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Speaker 2: scare me, You scared me.

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Speaker 7: She'd audition different laughs, too small and polite, big and boisterous,

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Speaker 7: others I don't know. Sometimes I would look at Jade

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Speaker 7: and she would just be someone else, like there were

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Speaker 7: pieces of her that changed. I swear when I met her,

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Speaker 7: her eyes had been green, but now they were brown

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Speaker 2: I felt like I was losing my mind.

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Speaker 6: Your eyes aren't brown, they're green.

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Speaker 7: Oh, yes, of course they are. I get it mixed up.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes.

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Speaker 7: Haven't been able to stomach seeing my reflection for a while.

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Speaker 7: Around the same time my health started to deteriorate. I

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Speaker 7: woke up one morning choking on my own tooth, another

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Speaker 7: with clumps of hair, missing, nails ripped off, scratches and bruises.

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Speaker 2: Appeared out of nowhere.

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Speaker 7: I visited one doctor after another. No one could tell

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Speaker 7: me what was wrong with me. But I'd have these dreams,

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Speaker 7: dreams where I was staring at Jade, but she was

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Speaker 2: I'd reach up to pull the mask off, but it

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Speaker 9: I dig my nails in, clawing it away in shreds, and.

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Speaker 2: When the final piece.

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Speaker 7: Came off, behind all of it, there was emptiness, a

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Speaker 7: blank face, but it would smile Jade, smile my smile, and.

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Speaker 9: There she'd be, blank, smiling.

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Speaker 2: I was wasting away.

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Speaker 7: I didn't even recognize myself in the mirror, and I

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Speaker 7: was having trouble keeping things straight, like my memory was

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Speaker 7: being drained Jade, though Jade was glowing coming into focus.

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Speaker 7: One day, lying in bed, sick to my stomach, I

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Speaker 7: heard this sound from the other room, chop, chop chop.

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Speaker 7: I tried to ignore it, but it was insistent, giving

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Speaker 9: This chop chop chop, Can you stop?

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Speaker 4: Jade?

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Speaker 7: Jade was in the kitchen cutting carrots are too many

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Speaker 7: for any recipe, especially when she didn't even eat carrots

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Speaker 7: and she was still cutting the knife slid through like butter,

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Speaker 7: so close to her fingers.

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Speaker 6: That's enough.

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Speaker 10: Can you stop, Jade? Please stop? I swear, I swear.

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Speaker 10: She chopped her finger clean off. I screamed and screamed,

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Speaker 10: but she just smiled that damn smile.

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Speaker 2: I must have passed out.

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Speaker 7: When I woke up, she had laid me in bed,

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Speaker 7: got a nice back on my head where I had

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Speaker 7: bumped it, and her finger was back like it had

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Speaker 7: never happened.

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Speaker 2: But I know what I saw.

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Speaker 6: Are you sure that wasn't also a dream?

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Speaker 2: I know what I saw, all right. Then one day

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Speaker 2: I overheard Jade on the phone.

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Speaker 7: Sorry, it's been so long, I've just been so busy.

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Speaker 7: She was talking to my mom, pretending to be me.

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Speaker 2: She sounded just like me. But yes, happy.

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Speaker 2: Talking to me.

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Speaker 7: Yes, I will, I love you.

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Speaker 7: Mom used to say in a thousand years, there would

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Speaker 9: I remember, Oh, Mom, you always say that.

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Speaker 7: She'd said things on that call that she couldn't have that.

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Speaker 7: I never told her, I know what I you hadn't

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Speaker 7: How how.

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Speaker 2: Did she know me?

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Speaker 6: Hey, let go on my arm.

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Speaker 4: You're hurting me.

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Speaker 9: What was that?

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Speaker 4: What was that? Yeah?

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Speaker 6: What the hell was that?

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Speaker 7: I guess I just got carried away, carried away.

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Speaker 2: Since all this happened, I've.

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Speaker 7: I've become unwell. I I don't like people seeing me

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Speaker 9: My face feels.

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Speaker 6: I don't understand. How did you end up here?

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Speaker 2: I killed my mother? Mmm? I don't look at me

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Speaker 7: It was that things. It eroded my trust in everyone.

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Speaker 6: That's what they do, what they do?

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Speaker 2: Are you mocking me?

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Speaker 7: So you thought your mother was Yeah, I heard this sound, thunk, dunk, dunk.

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Speaker 2: I thought it was Jade.

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Speaker 2: But it was my mother.

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Speaker 7: Standing at the counter as if she'd been invited, wearing

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Speaker 7: an apron, using a meat tenderizer to pound these flank stakes.

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Speaker 2: One of Jade's favorites.

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Speaker 7: She seemed confused while I was there, almost like she

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Speaker 7: Nothing about that made sense, I thought, put this beech

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Speaker 2: I confronted her.

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Speaker 9: Tried to get her to show her true face.

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Speaker 2: But she pushed.

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Speaker 7: I told you how she always pushed, so I pushed

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Speaker 7: back hard. I'll never forget the sounder's skull made when

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Speaker 7: it cracked on the counter.

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Speaker 2: I didn't move.

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Speaker 7: I just stared at her body with a trickle of

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Speaker 7: blood on the tile. And when I looked up, Jade

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Speaker 7: was there, standing over my mother's dead body, smiling inhuman.

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Speaker 7: For a moment, a horrible, sickening moment, I actually believed

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Speaker 7: that she was me and I was the reflection the shadow.

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Speaker 7: Then I grabbed the hammer from the counter and I

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Speaker 7: swung it up her face. Blood spattered teeth skittered across

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Speaker 7: the floor, skin hung from the hammer and shreds.

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Speaker 9: Shade didn't move I just stared at me.

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Speaker 10: I swung again and again, determined to unearth the true

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Speaker 10: But she didn't move, didn't react.

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Speaker 7: The way she looked at me, I felt almost hypnotized.

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Speaker 2: I dropped the hammer and she laughed.

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Speaker 7: Under all the core I'd made of her face, of

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Speaker 7: my face, it was still my laugh. I tried to

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Speaker 7: ask her why, what had she wanted from all this

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Speaker 7: from me? But she just smiled, and the words came

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Speaker 7: spilling out of my mouth. Was it because I didn't

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Speaker 7: appreciate my life, didn't deserve it? Was it because she

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Speaker 7: could do it better, be a better version, or was

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Speaker 7: it just a matter of survival or.

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Speaker 2: That she was hungry?

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Speaker 7: She didn't answer, only smiled that blank, empty smile. I

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Speaker 7: She reached out tenderly to hold my hands, even though

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Speaker 7: they were covered in blood. She leaned in as if

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Speaker 7: to kiss them, and then bit my finger clean off. Suddenly,

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Speaker 7: her whole face changed and kneaded back together, rippled and

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Speaker 7: settled until it was mine and she lunched at me.

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Speaker 7: I tried to run, to fight, but every move she

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Speaker 7: mirrored as so she could anticipate my every thought, as

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Speaker 7: though she.

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Speaker 2: Was me, but so much stronger.

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Speaker 7: She left me there, bleeding on the floor, not sure

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Speaker 7: how long I laid there, but when they finally arrived,

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Speaker 7: they arrested me.

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Speaker 2: I told them what happened, but they didn't believe me.

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Speaker 7: A woman with my name had already reported my mother's murder,

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Speaker 7: alleging a stalker had been plotting to take over her life.

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Speaker 7: I tried to tell them, tell them that she was

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Speaker 7: the impostor, that it wasn't even human, but they wouldn't listen.

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Speaker 7: And then I was carted off here and they tell

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Speaker 7: me I'm not me.

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Speaker 2: But I know it's not true. I know what happened.

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Speaker 10: She's out there living my life and I'm still me.

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Speaker 10: I'm me, and she cannot take that away from me.

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Speaker 5: She bit off your finger? What, just like you said?

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Speaker 5: You saw her cut off her own finger, But then

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Speaker 5: it was back like it never happened. Yes, but you

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Speaker 5: still have.

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Speaker 10: I tell you that some monster out there took my life,

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Speaker 10: that one probably took yours too, And you want to.

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Speaker 2: Know about my fingers?

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Speaker 6: Yes, you don't believe me either. I knew you wouldn't

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Speaker 6: I'm not saying that.

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Speaker 7: At a certain point, what does it even matter? People

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Speaker 7: seem perfectly content to accept the reflection. Maybe she has

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Speaker 7: the better version. I killed my mother, and she would

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Speaker 7: to the funeral. She has my looks, my voice, my memories.

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Speaker 7: She may as well be me, and.

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Speaker 2: I'm the shadow.

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Speaker 7: I avoid my own reflection now because all I see

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Speaker 7: is her fantasies about ripping off my skin and what

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Speaker 7: I'll find underneath. I can't trust anyone anymore. I'll probably

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Speaker 7: die here and no one will even know or care.

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Speaker 2: While she thrives, I'll die a shadow.

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Speaker 7: As for your double, I warn you, the more you

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Speaker 7: look into this, the more your mistrust will grow in

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Speaker 7: who you are what you are. So maybe it's in

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Speaker 7: your best interest to let it go, or one day

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Speaker 7: you won't recognize what you see.

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Speaker 2: In the mirror.

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Speaker 5: Well that's the last time I'll be visiting our local library.

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Speaker 6: But wait, how do I TV room? Okay?

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Speaker 5: Wait room, art room?

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Speaker 3: Shit?

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Speaker 7: Library?

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Speaker 6: Okay? This should be the cell block, and of course

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Speaker 6: it's not.

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Speaker 4: A I hate this fucking place.

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Speaker 11: Trouble.

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Speaker 6: Oh hi, I was you know, just walking back to

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Speaker 6: my room.

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Speaker 11: I can show you if you don't mind waiting.

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Speaker 6: What is this place?

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Speaker 11: Space to get away? Cigarette?

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Speaker 6: Wow? You can smoke in here?

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Speaker 11: I do.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's so good.

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Speaker 11: It's easier to enjoy life simple pleasures when they're few

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Speaker 11: and far between. What's the book?

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Speaker 6: Ah, something from the library? The mirrors? A secret History

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Speaker 6: of the Life of Doubles.

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Speaker 11: Let me guess Jade gave you that?

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Speaker 6: You mean, Mirah?

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Speaker 11: What's the difference.

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Speaker 6: When they brought me in you know in my file

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Speaker 6: they had me under the wrong name.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, you've told me clerical era.

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Speaker 5: Well that's what I thought. But I'm starting to wonder,

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Speaker 5: wonder what if it could be more than that. I

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Speaker 5: figured it was all some big mistake. It is a senseless,

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Speaker 5: life destroying, devastating mistake. But why what's behind it? Could

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Speaker 5: there really be someone out there impersonating me?

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Speaker 6: Or I don't even know?

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Speaker 11: Most people think the hottest part of a flame is blue,

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Speaker 11: but it's not. There's a non luminous veil around the fire.

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Speaker 11: That's all most invisible. Look right there, don't turn your

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Speaker 11: eyes away, don't blink. What do you see? Nothing even

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Speaker 11: though you know something's there?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, sorry, Am I missing something I don't know?

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Speaker 11: Probably not? Seems like your experience is consistent with most

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Speaker 11: everyone else.

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Speaker 2: Do you see something else?

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Speaker 11: At first I wasn't sure. Seemed like a trick of

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Speaker 11: the light, the product of an overactive imagination that it

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Speaker 11: was gesturing, beckoning, making faces at me. But the more

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Speaker 11: I looked, the cleverer things God, the more familiar the

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Speaker 11: once I saw it, I couldn't not see it. It

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Speaker 11: was my face. It always had been.

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Speaker 6: FRep You are tripping me out, man? Is this an

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Speaker 6: allegory for something? Did the doctor slip you some of that?

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Speaker 6: I own a god drug shit.

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Speaker 8: You know.

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Speaker 11: The day I graduated high school, I enlisted.

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Speaker 6: You were in the military, Navy South Pacific.

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Speaker 11: All I'd bring back was a sun tan, these faded tattoos,

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Speaker 11: something out there, something few other people knew about, especially

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Speaker 11: in those days, what nuclear energy. By the early seventies,

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Speaker 11: I was the peak of my career, sought after for

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Speaker 11: whatever was the biggest new project on the market. My

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Speaker 11: last job was let's just say we were adjacent to

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Speaker 11: big city millions within the EPZ. I was the plant's

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Speaker 11: chief operator, EPZ the fallout zone. The thing with nuclear

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Speaker 11: is how it's regulated. It's not like all infrastructure. There's

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Speaker 11: big money to be spent, big money to be made.

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Speaker 11: The oversight committees that were ostensibly set up to keep

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Speaker 11: tabs on us cronies of the power company in their pockets,

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Speaker 11: every one of them. Anyway, One day I'm in the plant,

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Speaker 11: I'm the control room floor, and there's an anomaly, an anomaly,

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Speaker 11: a problem in our second reactor. For some reason, it's

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Speaker 11: struggling to dissipate heat quickly enough. There's something that occurs

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Speaker 11: in those reactors called a scram. It's a shutdown, happens

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Speaker 11: in seconds. I initiated it.

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Speaker 6: What was the problem hard to say.

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Speaker 11: My suspicion is that somebody cut corners and the concentration

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Speaker 11: of boron was too low, But the data didn't add up. Normally,

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Speaker 11: after a scram, there's some decay heat and it has

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Speaker 11: to be regulated. But this was more than normal, like

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Speaker 11: five times more. Even if the rods were bad. It

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Speaker 11: made no sense. Regardless, we needed time to assess. We

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Speaker 11: could keep the first reactor online while we repaired the second.

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Speaker 11: But half the reactors means half the power. But the

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Speaker 11: board accused me of overreacting, and so they did it

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Speaker 11: their way, got a technician to short the alarm and

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Speaker 11: create a bypass on the control board to suppress the error.

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Speaker 6: Sounds about right.

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Speaker 11: You want to know how many contamination events the world

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Speaker 11: has seen?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, so do I.

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Speaker 11: Someone here probably knows, and I can tell you it's

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Speaker 11: more than just three.

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Speaker 6: Mile Island, Fukushima, Chernobyl.

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Speaker 11: Sellafield, Gray's Wall, Frenchtown, like Homing. The number of times

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Speaker 11: we've come face to face with disastrous staggering, and almost

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Speaker 11: always it was due to someone's greed. A month after

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Speaker 11: the anomaly occurred, we were given a work order to

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Speaker 11: stall an experimental new condenser, told it would increase power

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Speaker 11: output in additional two point two percent. I knew the

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Speaker 11: system was unstable. I knew we didn't know enough to

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Speaker 11: go toying with untested tech. But I had seen the

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Speaker 11: guys who stood in the way of progress, and I

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Speaker 11: was thinking about my career, my pension, my legacy, my

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Speaker 11: own greed. So we got the condenser in line and

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Speaker 11: turn the system on. Piece by piece, water is led

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Speaker 11: into the containment building. Steamlines are clear, turbines are moving free,

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Speaker 11: all systems are go, So we dropped the control rods

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Speaker 11: and introduced the beryllium and boloonium. Immediate alpha decay from

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Speaker 11: the polonium hits the beryllium. Beryllium releases neutrons. Neutrons hit

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Speaker 11: the uranium, and we've got vision. And that's when it happens.

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Speaker 11: The anomaly.

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Speaker 6: It's back.

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Speaker 11: It never left, but now it's worse, so much worse.

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Speaker 11: Every panel of the control room lit up all at once.

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Speaker 11: We couldn't know if we could trust what we were seeing.

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Speaker 11: After they'd fucked around with the alarm, and I was

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Speaker 11: certain we were approaching a criticality failure. The RHR flooded

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Speaker 11: the containment with extra coolant, ramped up the vent fans,

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Speaker 11: had the new condenser, removing a ton of heat, but

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Speaker 11: to no avail. I tried to scram the reactor again,

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Speaker 11: but something was wrong. Half the control rods didn't move,

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Speaker 11: Something was stuck. Someone would have to go down there.

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Speaker 11: You me and a technician name of Harry Marx, twenty

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Speaker 11: year veteran, best in the biz. There was no time

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Speaker 11: to lose, so we suited up and headed into the

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Speaker 11: containment structure. Our handheld Geiger counters were saturated and said

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Speaker 11: it's completely useless. We could make it fifteen minutes at

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Speaker 11: the absolute maximum, even with the suits. One minute too

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Speaker 11: long was a death sentence. Harry went to work on

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Speaker 11: I had to deal with a control rod mechanism near

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Speaker 11: the side of the suppression pool tank. Through the window

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Speaker 11: of my hazmat, I looked into that abyss and saw

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Speaker 11: something I shouldn't have. As if my eyes could make

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Speaker 11: out the microscopic the heavens and the full electromagnetic spectrum

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Speaker 11: in between. The atom split, the energy surged, and in

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Speaker 11: the heat, the gesture, the beckoning, the face, my face.

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Speaker 11: I was in there. I had always been there, but

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Speaker 11: this time, for the first time, I was seeing myself

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Speaker 11: not from the outside in, but inside out. I had

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Speaker 11: been trapped all this time. I had been trapped inside

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Speaker 11: and now finally I could set myself free. I needed

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Speaker 11: to be free. As I saw it in the moment,

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Speaker 11: I had no other option.

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Speaker 8: What what are you doing?

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Speaker 11: Five seats That was my exposure. I should have been dead,

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Speaker 11: Burns all over my body, scarring in my lungs. Harry

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Speaker 11: was not so lucky. They escorted him out in a

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Speaker 11: lead body bag and I was hauled away. Here. I

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Speaker 11: spend the rest of eternity reflecting on what I had

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Speaker 11: done and what I had said.

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Speaker 6: But was there a breach? Did it contaminate the area?

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Speaker 11: I wouldn't know. I've been cut off from the outside

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Speaker 11: world ever since. But if you ever heard about it

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Speaker 11: in the news, I'd say they contained it or covered

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Speaker 11: it up. My point is none of us really know

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Speaker 11: what we are capable of when we are faced with

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Speaker 11: something extraordinary. I know there is more than one of me.

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Speaker 11: I believe there are reflections of all of us, and

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Speaker 11: if you find one, when those mirror images meet, the

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Speaker 11: results can be devastating. So you tell me you're wondering

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Speaker 11: if you have a double running around. That's what you're thinking,

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Speaker 11: isn't it. Maybe I'm saying they may be closer than

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Speaker 11: you think. The smarter, safer decision don't look at all.

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Speaker 6: Oh yea, I I'm sick.

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Speaker 1: Thirteen Days of Halloween penance starring Natalie Morales, Episode six

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Speaker 1: Defense written by Annie Reese, Alexander Williams, and Matthew Riddle.

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Speaker 1: Editing and sound design by Rima Ilkali, featuring the voices

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Speaker 1: of Rachel Rosenbloom, Wilber Fitzgerald and Wayne Bastra. Directed by

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Speaker 1: Alexander Williams. Executive producers Aaron Mankey, Noah Feinberg, Chris Dicky,

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Speaker 1: Matt Frederick and Alexander Williams. Supervising producers Trevor Young and

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Speaker 1: Josh Thain. Producers Jesse funk, Rima Ilkali, Noami Griffin, Chandler

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Speaker 1: Mays and Casby Bias. Script editing by Lauren Vogelbaum. Story

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Speaker 1: consultants Ben Bolan and Matthew Riddle. Casting by Sunday Bowling

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Speaker 1: CSA and Meg Mormon CSA. Production coordinator Wayna Calderon. Production

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Speaker 1: assistants Jenna Johnson and Winona Lowe. Theme music by Rose

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Speaker 1: Aserti with vocals by Anna Humbler, recorded at This Is

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Speaker 1: Sound Design Studios in Burbank, California. Engineered by Ross aeronos

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Speaker 1: Special thanks to Romelia Osorio, Nathan Rule, Glenn Nishida, and

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Speaker 1: Rob Mosca. Thirteen Days of Halloween was created by Matt

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Speaker 1: Frederick and Alexander Williams and is a production of iHeart Podcasts,

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Speaker 1: Blumhouse Television, and Grimm and Mild from Aaron Makey. Learn

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Speaker 1: more about the show at Grimm and Slash thirteen days

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Speaker 1: and find more podcasts from iHeartRadio by visiting the iHeartRadio app,

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Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

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Speaker 1: Happy Halloween,