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Speaker 1: Welcome to the ten Minute Storyteller. That's me Bill Simpson,

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Speaker 1: your host, narrator and author. We hear at the ten

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Speaker 1: minute Storyteller endeavor to entertain you with tall tales or

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Speaker 1: rendered swiftly and with the utmost empathy. We pledge to

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Speaker 1: pack as much entertainment, emotion, and exploration into the human

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Speaker 1: condition as ten minutes will permit. Many novels on steroids.

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Speaker 1: This week we meet Sarah and her father, Judge Sammy Delito.

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Speaker 1: Sarah has been raped, or so she says, and the

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Speaker 1: Judge is aghast, appalled, angry, and even more so when

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Speaker 1: he finds out that the rapist was my God Black.

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Speaker 1: His anger turns to alarm when she tells him she's pregnant.

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Speaker 1: Good Lord, shouts the defender of the womb. This, this

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Speaker 1: cannot stand Judge Deleto's daughter or the United States of hypocrisy.

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Speaker 1: Judge Sammy Deleto and his daughter Sarah didn't often see

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Speaker 1: eye to eye. Peas in a pod, not a chance,

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Speaker 1: oil and vinegar. Since Sarah had been a wee lass.

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Speaker 1: Judge Deleto, you see, was old school. He believed children

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Speaker 1: should be seen and not heard, especially children of the

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Speaker 1: female variety. Their purpose in life was to learn how

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Speaker 1: to cook and so and when ready bear and rear children,

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Speaker 1: especially if that female child hwed white dinners more times

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Speaker 1: than anyone could count. Sarah, without irony, told her father

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Speaker 1: it might be best for all concerned if he time

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Speaker 1: traveled back to the eighteen fifties and then sick to

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Speaker 1: death of the judge and her depressed, browbeaten, wishy washy mother.

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Speaker 1: Sarah quit New Jersey after high school to attend the

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Speaker 1: University of Texas at Austin. There she earned a degree

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Speaker 1: in journalism, and soon after graduation landed a job at

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Speaker 1: the Austin American Statesman. She penned pieces on local sports.

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Speaker 1: But within a year, after scoring the right friends and lovers,

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Speaker 1: Sarah landed the much coveted assignment of covering the Dallas Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: an assignment she'd had now for the past few years,

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Speaker 1: a choice assignment and so much fun, attending practices and

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Speaker 1: press conferences, going to both home and away games, getting

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Speaker 1: invited to parties at Jerry Jones's mansion in Highland Park.

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Speaker 1: But now this insanity, this this wretchedness, definitely trouble in paradise,

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Speaker 1: and Sarah knows she knows that she needs to do something.

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Speaker 1: She can't just let it slide, can't just sit by

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Speaker 1: and watch it happen. And so what does she do?

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Speaker 1: What does she do? She calls her father, calls him

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Speaker 1: in his chambers. Hello, She doesn't beat around the bush.

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Speaker 1: I was raped, She tells him. What you heard me?

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Speaker 1: Good Christ's girl raped? Yes, father, I was raped. When

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Speaker 1: when did this happen? Five weeks ago? Five weeks yes?

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Speaker 1: And and well I'm pregnant. What Wait, for the love

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Speaker 1: of Jesus, Sarah slowed down. Why did it take you

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Speaker 1: so long to call me? I just had the second pregnant?

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Speaker 1: He tests today, father, and confirming the first. And I

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Speaker 1: am I am pregnant. So you're entirely sure. Sarah sighs

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Speaker 1: and rolls her eyes and wonders how it's possible she

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Speaker 1: could be related to this small, backward thinking idiot, despite

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Speaker 1: his lofty tenure on a court supreme Yes, daddy, I'm

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Speaker 1: sure the details, Sarah, give me the details. Seriously, you

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Speaker 1: want the details. I want to know what happened. I

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Speaker 1: was raped, father, That's what happened. But what does it matter?

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Speaker 1: What does it matter? What happened? Daddy? What does that

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Speaker 1: possibly matter? What do you mean? What does it matter?

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Speaker 1: It matters? Why tell me? Why? Oh? For Christ's sake, Sarah.

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Speaker 1: He came into my hotel room, Daddy up in Green Bay,

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Speaker 1: and he locked the door and told me not to

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Speaker 1: make a peep, and he tore my clothes off and

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Speaker 1: threw me onto the bed. Over the love of God,

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Speaker 1: I'll kill him. He's quite large and powerful. Father, you'd

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Speaker 1: need a gun to bring him down, preferably concealed. What

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Speaker 1: what did you say? Nothing? I didn't say anything. Do

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Speaker 1: you want the additional details? Do you? Who was it?

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Speaker 1: Did you call the police? Have you pressed charges? Why

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Speaker 1: did it take you so long to call me? Well? Really,

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to worry you, but well the pregnancy,

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Speaker 1: the pregnancy? Right? Did he did he hurt you? Did

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Speaker 1: he hurt you? No, Daddy, it felt good. What what

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Speaker 1: do you mean did it hurt what? Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 1: Did it hurt me? He raped me? Of course? I know,

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Speaker 1: I'm just I'm out of my mind. You're just what? Father? What? Sorry? Jesus,

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Speaker 1: we're going to need Jesus. Sarah has to laugh at that,

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Speaker 1: laughs her head off. What's so funny? Nothing? Everything? So

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Speaker 1: the judge asks, did you know him? They say, many

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Speaker 1: rapes are committed by men who know they're victims. Hmm,

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Speaker 1: says Sarah. Interesting, Yes, I did know him. A black man,

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Speaker 1: African American, a giant, so big, though not all black.

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Speaker 1: I think his mother's part Asian or something, maybe Mexican.

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Speaker 1: What are you talking about now, Sarah? Are you all right? Oh?

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Speaker 1: I'm good, only well mildly traumatized. The judge can feel

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Speaker 1: his hands shaking and his heart pounding. He hears himself say, well, well, well,

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Speaker 1: I'll take care of the sweetie. I will take care

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Speaker 1: of this, take care of what daddy? This, this situation.

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Speaker 1: Not here in Texas. We won't. If I could have,

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Speaker 1: I would have. This causes the judge some consternation, but

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Speaker 1: only briefly. You'll come here where to New Jersey? No,

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Speaker 1: says Sarah. That's impossible, Judge delto the great defender of

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Speaker 1: the womb, think of the uproar. Well, I'll figure something out,

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Speaker 1: I will, I'll figure something out. You're not, I mean,

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Speaker 1: for Christ's sake, Sarah, You're not carrying the feetus of

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Speaker 1: a black rapist. Sarah flies to Newark a few days later,

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Speaker 1: accompanied by a friend, actually her fiance, the same man

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Speaker 1: who in fact made love to her in Green Bay,

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Speaker 1: the man responsible for the male end of Sarah's pregnancy.

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Speaker 1: They take an uber out to the peaceful leafy suburbs

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Speaker 1: where the judge and the late Missus Delto raised their brood.

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Speaker 1: The judge answers the door, takes a long, chilly look

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Speaker 1: at the enormous black man standing next to his daughter

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Speaker 1: on the front stoop. Dad, says Sarah. This is Terence

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Speaker 1: Odum Terrence, Judge Delto. Terrence plays defensive end for the Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: six feet five inches two hundred and forty five pounds

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Speaker 1: of pure speed and muscle, all pro years running. Terence

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Speaker 1: does not shake the Judge's outstretched hand. So ask Sarah,

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Speaker 1: we're going to do this, We really are. I think

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Speaker 1: it's best, says the judge. Really ask Sarah. Despite everything,

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Speaker 1: everything that's happened, the overturning of row, these are very

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Speaker 1: special circumstances, sweetheart. So you are sure. I'm sure. Sarah

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Speaker 1: nods and asks. So everything's all set, yes, says the judge.

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Speaker 1: Like I explained on the phone. You have an appointment

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Speaker 1: this afternoon at a clinic in Flemington under an assumed name.

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Speaker 1: I even have a driver's license for you. Wow, daddy,

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Speaker 1: you've thought of everything. Hopefully, Yes, and you'll be with me?

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Speaker 1: What me, asked the judge. No, I couldn't possibly, daddy,

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Speaker 1: says Sarah. I need you with me. But Sarah, oh, right, daddie.

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Speaker 1: Of course, your reputation. I understand it's out of the question.

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Speaker 1: Terrence will go with me. The judge glances at the

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Speaker 1: enormous black dude and then back at his daughter. I

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Speaker 1: think it might be better if you go in alone,

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Speaker 1: what with nobody for support. I don't think I can

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Speaker 1: do it alone, daddy. The judge hems and haws, fidgets

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Speaker 1: and drums his finger on the wall. God, God, God, Okay,

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Speaker 1: let me think, let me think. Okay, I'll drive you,

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Speaker 1: but I'll wait in the car. In the car, says Sarah. Right,

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Speaker 1: you and Terrence can wait in the car together. I'll

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Speaker 1: go in with my fake driver's license. And what a

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Speaker 1: credit card? Damn? Says the judge. Payment. I didn't think

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Speaker 1: about payment. We can't use a credit card? Mmm, yes,

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Speaker 1: says Sarah. That would be risky. Maybe we could use

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Speaker 1: Terrence's credit card, you know, and reimburse him. The judge sighs,

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Speaker 1: or or we could stop at an ATM. I think

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Speaker 1: the ATM, says Sarah, Max is out at three hundred.

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Speaker 1: Pretty sure the procedure costs more than that. After some

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Speaker 1: additional discussion, they agree to use Terrence's credit card and

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Speaker 1: worry about reimbursement. Later. They drive to Flemington and the

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Speaker 1: Judge's Cadillac Escalade black with tinted windows. The judge parks

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Speaker 1: discreetly up the street and around the corner from the clinic.

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Speaker 1: Sammy D doesn't see the crowd gathering out front of

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Speaker 1: the clinic. He doesn't see the TV cameras or the

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Speaker 1: newspaper reporters his daughter contacted this morning. Before boarding the

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Speaker 1: flight from Austin, the Judge's daughter steps out of the

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Speaker 1: passenger door of the big Caddy. She opens the rear door,

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Speaker 1: leans in and gives Terence a big, loving kiss on

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Speaker 1: the lips. Wish me luck, big fellow Judge Delito sees

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Speaker 1: the smooch in his rear view mirror, A pool of

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Speaker 1: blood in his cold heart boils. You don't need luck,

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Speaker 1: Sarah says, the all pro defensive end You've got balls

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Speaker 1: the size of a North Atlantic right whale. Judge Deleto

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Speaker 1: hears what the black dude says about the right whale,

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Speaker 1: and a nano second later, a ripple of fear races

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Speaker 1: down the Judge's spine. Whole damn thing is a setup

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Speaker 1: and the old racist, sexist hypocrite is screwed up the wazoo.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to this original audio presentation of Judge

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Speaker 1: Deleto's daughter, narrated by the author. If you enjoyed today's story,

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Speaker 1: next time, this is Bill Simpson, your ten Minute Storyteller,