7 True Scary Obsessed Ex Lover Horror Stories

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not the<font color="#CCCCCC"> greatest storyteller but</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I'll</font> try my<font color="#CCCCCC"> best</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to tell you what happened</font> even<font color="#CCCCCC"> after five years</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> remembering this</font> part of my life makes<font color="#E5E5E5"> me sick to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> my</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">stomach when we fall in love</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the last</font> thing we think<font color="#CCCCCC"> our partner</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> is capable of</font> is wanting us dead<font color="#CCCCCC"> in the normal</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">relationship we</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> believe that to be</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">exact opposite of love as time goes on</font> and<font color="#E5E5E5"> the relationship grows stronger</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> will</font> become more<font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> more comfortable</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> with</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">each</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> other often</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to the point of</font> revealing our biggest<font color="#E5E5E5"> secrets however</font> and<font color="#E5E5E5"> there sometimes comes a moment</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> at</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the end of that relationship when we</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">regret revealing those secrets because</font> love rarely ends happily<font color="#E5E5E5"> in that</font> situation<font color="#E5E5E5"> a former partner may feel</font> unveiling that<font color="#E5E5E5"> secret is a way to take</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">revenge over the one that spurned them</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">although we</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> all may fear that our former</font> mates may use what they know against us <font color="#E5E5E5">I've only known one person who was</font> willing<font color="#CCCCCC"> to kill another human</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to ensure</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> never happened soon after</font> completing college I ran into<font color="#E5E5E5"> a girl I</font> had once briefly<font color="#CCCCCC"> work with for</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the sake</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> privacy will call her Mandy</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I've been</font> a<font color="#CCCCCC"> manager at</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> GameStop located in my</font> hometown<font color="#CCCCCC"> the place you've never heard of</font> so I'll leave off the name since I was a manager having a relationship<font color="#E5E5E5"> with</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">another employee was frowned upon</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> so</font> despite our<font color="#E5E5E5"> obvious attraction for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> each</font> other<font color="#CCCCCC"> we kept things professional</font> however knowing<font color="#CCCCCC"> that there was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> no such</font> barrier to us<font color="#CCCCCC"> now we soon started seeing</font> each other<font color="#E5E5E5"> and it quickly became</font> physical looking back I<font color="#CCCCCC"> think we were</font> rushing<font color="#E5E5E5"> things because we felt we had</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font> lot<font color="#E5E5E5"> to make up for and the amazing thing</font> about<font color="#E5E5E5"> relationships that are so</font> passionate is they are exciting but unfortunately<font color="#E5E5E5"> burn out quickly and all</font> that passion<font color="#E5E5E5"> can turn</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> into hate this</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was</font> the case with<font color="#CCCCCC"> us and it was all from her</font> side<font color="#E5E5E5"> she was unable to accept that I</font> would move for my new<font color="#CCCCCC"> job and not stay</font> in<font color="#CCCCCC"> our little</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> hick town with her</font> we managed<font color="#E5E5E5"> to go our separate ways</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font> agreed not to see<font color="#E5E5E5"> each other again my</font> life went ahead and I moved<font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Dallas to</font> take a new job<font color="#E5E5E5"> my memory of my time with</font> Mandy was fading<font color="#E5E5E5"> away this was all</font> changed when<font color="#E5E5E5"> I received a phone</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> call</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">from a police</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> detective from back home</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">he said that he needed me</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to come</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> into</font> the station<font color="#CCCCCC"> and speak to him he</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was</font> quick to<font color="#E5E5E5"> assure me that I was not being</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">investigated but it was an important</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">situation involving my relationship with</font> Mandy I'll admit right now I was freaking out<font color="#E5E5E5"> but also puzzled</font> considering it had been several<font color="#CCCCCC"> months</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">since we had even spoken</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to each other</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">when I arrived at the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> police station I</font> was led into an<font color="#E5E5E5"> empty</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> room</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and asked to</font> sit and wait<font color="#CCCCCC"> for the detective this</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> did</font> little to<font color="#CCCCCC"> help my</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> feelings of dread</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">after waiting for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> what seemed like hours</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the detective came into the room and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> sat</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">across from me what he said to me next</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">would change my life</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> forever</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we received</font> a<font color="#E5E5E5"> tip</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> from one of our confidential</font> informants that<font color="#E5E5E5"> your</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> ex-girlfriend was</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">looking to hire a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> hitman after a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">two-month long investigation we sent in</font> one of our Undercovers to meet with her to discover her<font color="#CCCCCC"> true</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> intentions</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> at the</font> end of<font color="#E5E5E5"> that meeting we felt we had</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">enough evidence to take miss Lawrence</font> into custody after several<font color="#CCCCCC"> hours of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">interrogation she confirmed that you</font> were<font color="#CCCCCC"> indeed</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the target my jaw</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> dropped</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I asked the detective to repeat what</font> he had<font color="#CCCCCC"> just said there was no way Mandy</font> would do something like<font color="#E5E5E5"> this for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">moment I thought it was all a cruel joke</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">this</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> kind of thing doesn't</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> happen in</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">real life just in movies once I saw the</font> file and heard the recording of her admitting to<font color="#E5E5E5"> it I had no other</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> choice</font> but<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> accept it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the detective and I</font> spent the<font color="#CCCCCC"> next three or so hours</font> discussing<font color="#E5E5E5"> my history with Mandy from</font> beginning to<font color="#CCCCCC"> end</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and were still left</font> with<font color="#E5E5E5"> no motive she refused</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to give a</font> reason and I was at a loss myself<font color="#CCCCCC"> okay</font> the aftermath of our breakup<font color="#CCCCCC"> was rather</font> rocky but nowhere near<font color="#E5E5E5"> the point of</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">having me</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> terminated so to speak hiring</font> a<font color="#E5E5E5"> hitman is an extreme answer to any</font> problem and I couldn't think<font color="#E5E5E5"> of any</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font> severe between us we had to wait almost a year for the trial<font color="#E5E5E5"> to start but when it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> finally did</font> we got the answer to<font color="#CCCCCC"> our</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> number one</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">question</font> it appeared that<font color="#E5E5E5"> one night Mandy</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> had</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">let's slip to me a story pertaining to</font> an ex-boyfriend that<font color="#E5E5E5"> she was mortified I</font> would repeat<font color="#E5E5E5"> she had woken up with</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> this</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">guy</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and when she discovered he was</font> engaged a<font color="#CCCCCC"> few months</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> later to a new girl</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">she contacted the girl and told her all</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">sorts</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of lies about</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> him the lies scared</font> the new<font color="#E5E5E5"> girlfriend so much that she</font> canceled the<font color="#CCCCCC"> wedding</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and dumped him she</font> had<font color="#CCCCCC"> apparently agreed to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> not tell the</font> guy the source of the stories or even exactly<font color="#E5E5E5"> what was said she just bailed to</font> make the story even more<font color="#E5E5E5"> crazy</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Mandy was</font> now going<font color="#E5E5E5"> out with the same guy again</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">from what she said in her testimony</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> she</font> was<font color="#E5E5E5"> afraid that I would tell the guy</font> that<font color="#CCCCCC"> she was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> person that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> destroyed</font> his impending<font color="#CCCCCC"> marriage and the funniest</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">thing about this whole</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> situation is that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">I didn't even</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> remember that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> story until</font> she repeated it in court I guess the relationship was<font color="#CCCCCC"> that important</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to her</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">so</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> important that she would attempt to</font> take the<font color="#CCCCCC"> life of another she once</font> claimed to also love well anyway<font color="#CCCCCC"> mandy was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> found guilty</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">sentenced</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 10 years hmm I imagine</font> she'll probably be out in about<font color="#CCCCCC"> seven</font> some Mandy if you ever do read this and <font color="#CCCCCC">manage to get</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> out of jail I have a great</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">idea let's never meet again</font> [Music] in my 20s and<font color="#E5E5E5"> 30s I live in an</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> apartment</font> complex<font color="#E5E5E5"> and upscale section of the large</font> Dallas suburb<font color="#CCCCCC"> I had moved there with my</font> longtime<font color="#E5E5E5"> girlfriend but within two years</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">we went</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> our separate ways</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> despite</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> split<font color="#E5E5E5"> I decided to stay</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> apartment</font> because<font color="#CCCCCC"> it was a great neighborhood and</font> I never<font color="#E5E5E5"> liked moving if I didn't have to</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I was able</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to make friends on occasion</font> with the<font color="#E5E5E5"> tenants nearby but for most of</font> my<font color="#E5E5E5"> time living there I spent alone this</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">wasn't really a problem</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> as I</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> worked long</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">days during</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> week</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> so</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I was usually</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">too tired in the evenings to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> want to</font> socialize the weekends were spent cleaning<font color="#E5E5E5"> and completing the chores that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">had remained undone from days or weeks</font> before<font color="#E5E5E5"> however when I did find myself at</font> loose ends on the occasional Saturday evening<font color="#CCCCCC"> I would</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> invariably find</font> amusement at one of the coffee shops<font color="#E5E5E5"> at</font> bars that were densely scattered throughout the<font color="#E5E5E5"> neighborhood my hangout</font> of choice<font color="#E5E5E5"> soon became a small English</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">style pub conveniently located across</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> street</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> from my block of apartments</font> the quiet laid-back tone of the bar was what I liked most<font color="#CCCCCC"> about it but soon I</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">would also make</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> friends</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> with several of</font> the employees<font color="#E5E5E5"> generally the same group</font> of people<font color="#E5E5E5"> worked every Saturday night</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> so</font> we quickly got<font color="#CCCCCC"> to know each</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> other well</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Lisa</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a tall and curvy redhead caught my</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">eye almost immediately</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> she had been the</font> first girl in God knows<font color="#E5E5E5"> how long I had</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">been truly interested in luckily I</font> discovered she<font color="#E5E5E5"> felt the same</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> way about</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">me and we started seeing</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> each</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> other</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> on</font> our<font color="#E5E5E5"> corresponding days off we did our</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">best to take things slowly considering</font> we had both just ended<font color="#E5E5E5"> our long-term</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">relationships hers said the only ended</font> just<font color="#E5E5E5"> recently</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and her</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> ex had been very</font> jealous and<font color="#E5E5E5"> possessive I liked her a lot</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">so</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I was willing to give her as</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> much</font> space<font color="#CCCCCC"> as she needed the following</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> couple</font> of weeks went by smoothly<font color="#E5E5E5"> especially</font> when it came<font color="#E5E5E5"> to Lisa and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I we</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> continued</font> to see<font color="#CCCCCC"> each other on</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> our nights off and</font> would occasionally meet at the coffee shop next door<font color="#E5E5E5"> to the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Bardon chat on</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> our</font> breaks on Saturday nights I would hang <font color="#E5E5E5">out</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> at the pub I would generally be met</font> with friendly faces but there was one<font color="#E5E5E5"> bartender that used to</font> give me<font color="#E5E5E5"> dirty looks and</font> ignore me if<font color="#E5E5E5"> I asked him for help one</font> night soon after I<font color="#E5E5E5"> started dating her</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> asked Lisa if she knew what<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> guys</font> deal was with me<font color="#E5E5E5"> and she</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> told me</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">something I wasn't</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> expecting</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the rude</font> bartender was her<font color="#CCCCCC"> axe the possessive one</font> she had<font color="#E5E5E5"> just broken up</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> with</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I naturally</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">was a bit confused and asked her why she</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> still working</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> on the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> same</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> night's</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">assem</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I didn't expect her to just quit</font> her job because<font color="#E5E5E5"> she</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> had broken</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> up</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> with a</font> fellow<font color="#CCCCCC"> employee but surely she</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> could</font> have asked her boss to change her schedule<font color="#CCCCCC"> so the two</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of them wouldn't</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">have to work together bringing this up I</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">I tried to show enough concern while not</font> seeming too controlling since I knew that had been one<font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> problems<font color="#CCCCCC"> in their relationship after all</font> we were<font color="#E5E5E5"> just casually dating we had</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">agreed that we were still free to see</font> other<font color="#CCCCCC"> people if we wanted the last thing</font> I wanted<font color="#E5E5E5"> was to make her think I was</font> just like him she<font color="#E5E5E5"> assured</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> me that they</font> had<font color="#CCCCCC"> agreed to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> not let it affect their</font> working relationship<font color="#CCCCCC"> and besides the bar</font> owners frowned on employees dating each other<font color="#E5E5E5"> she was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> afraid that if she</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> had</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">mentioned the situation to her boss he</font> would punish her in<font color="#E5E5E5"> some</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> way or even</font> fire her so<font color="#CCCCCC"> she just kept it to herself</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">despite my</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> concerns I figured that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> she</font> knew her ex better than I did<font color="#E5E5E5"> and if she</font> didn't foresee any problems<font color="#E5E5E5"> I'd had to</font> take her<font color="#E5E5E5"> word for it besides if the most</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">I got from the guy was the evil eye once</font> in<font color="#CCCCCC"> a while I probably didn't have</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> much</font> to worry<font color="#E5E5E5"> about him either</font> at least that's what<font color="#E5E5E5"> I thought things</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">between Lisa and I</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> continued to progress</font> well so well in<font color="#CCCCCC"> fact she started staying</font> over Saturdays and<font color="#E5E5E5"> the idea of her still</font> working with her ex-boyfriend had slipped completely out of<font color="#CCCCCC"> my mind I</font> would meet her after<font color="#E5E5E5"> work and walk with</font> her back to my place this was our<font color="#CCCCCC"> weekly routine until</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">winner started to really</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> kick in by</font> December<font color="#E5E5E5"> and it become too cold to walk</font> so I started<font color="#E5E5E5"> picking her up in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> my car</font> one late Saturday nights I met her at <font color="#E5E5E5">the back door of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the bar like I did</font> every week<font color="#E5E5E5"> as she walked toward the car</font> I could tell she<font color="#E5E5E5"> was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> upset about</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">something</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> when she got to the car I</font> asked her if she was okay she<font color="#CCCCCC"> cut me off</font> and coldly assured me<font color="#CCCCCC"> she was only tired</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and asked if I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> could take</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> her to</font> the gas stations so<font color="#CCCCCC"> she could get some</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">coffee since I had no</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> reason to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> think</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">she was anything</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> other than worn out</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">from work</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I agreed now she came</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> back to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the car from</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the store the bright lights</font> lit up<font color="#E5E5E5"> her face I could tell</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> she had</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">been</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> crying her face still held that</font> deep red<font color="#E5E5E5"> tone when she got back</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">car she said she just</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> wanted</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> go</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">straight</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to bed</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the urge to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> ask her</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> what</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the matter was consume me but her icy</font> demeanor stopped me<font color="#E5E5E5"> I hadn't seen her</font> like this<font color="#CCCCCC"> before so I didn't know</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> how</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">persistence</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I could be before it sparked</font> an argument<font color="#E5E5E5"> after all maybe she was just</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">tired like she said and her nerves were</font> frayed<font color="#E5E5E5"> when we arrived at my place she</font> continued to say nothing I didn't<font color="#CCCCCC"> notice she</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> stayed back near the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">passenger</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> side</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of my car she hadn't</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">followed me to my front</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> door like usual</font> noticing this<font color="#CCCCCC"> I turned</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> back to her to</font> see<font color="#E5E5E5"> if I could see what</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was holding her</font> attention but<font color="#E5E5E5"> as soon as I began</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> walking</font> back to the car<font color="#E5E5E5"> she snapped out of her</font> days and<font color="#CCCCCC"> followed me</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to the door once we</font> finally made it<font color="#E5E5E5"> inside she went straight</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to my bed to lie down I was confused by</font> her<font color="#CCCCCC"> behavior</font> she seemed severely exhausted but wired at the same time I glanced at her and <font color="#CCCCCC">notice she was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> looking through the</font> blinds next to my bed outside the window <font color="#CCCCCC">the bright headlights from a car lit up</font> her face and the bedroom she was<font color="#E5E5E5"> in upon</font> seeing the lights she rolled off the<font color="#E5E5E5"> bed</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> onto the floor and started screaming</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">no</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> before one word could leave my mouth</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to loud bangs</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and the crashing of glass</font> filled the bright little<font color="#CCCCCC"> bedroom my</font> instincts must have<font color="#CCCCCC"> taken over</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> because I</font> found myself lying flat on<font color="#E5E5E5"> the floor</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">with my hands on</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> my head</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the screeching</font> of car tires quickly came and went and <font color="#E5E5E5">just as quickly the room went dark and</font> silent as it had been moments<font color="#CCCCCC"> before</font> looking<font color="#E5E5E5"> up from my hands I saw Lisa's</font> motionless form curled into the fetal position at the foot of<font color="#E5E5E5"> the bed I felt</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">fear</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> creep over me not</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> because of the</font> bedlam that had just<font color="#E5E5E5"> occurred I was</font> still unsure if<font color="#E5E5E5"> it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was real I was afraid</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Lisa was dead just as I started</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> lunge to her place<font color="#E5E5E5"> on</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the floor she</font> sprung out<font color="#E5E5E5"> of her ball</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and began way</font> her eyes darted<font color="#CCCCCC"> around the room</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> as did</font> her hands reaching<font color="#E5E5E5"> out as if though she</font> had<font color="#E5E5E5"> been blinded pity overwhelmed me the</font> sight of her panic<font color="#E5E5E5"> and fear tore at my</font> heart grabbing out to her<font color="#E5E5E5"> she took my</font> hand<font color="#E5E5E5"> and pulled me to her she continued</font> her muffled wail as she rocked slowly in the dark cold<font color="#E5E5E5"> room the police</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> arrived</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">sometime that morning not sure when</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">although it was likely within a few</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">minutes of the gunshots I did my best to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">tell the detectives</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> wood had occurred</font> but<font color="#E5E5E5"> it was Lisa</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that had seen</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the attack</font> firsthand<font color="#CCCCCC"> it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> took a week or more before</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">she</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was able to fill in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the gaps</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">apparently things had</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> not been going as</font> smoothly as she had led me<font color="#CCCCCC"> to believe</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and the ex had been harassing her</font> leaving violent messages on her phone <font color="#CCCCCC">threatening her and myself she had done</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">her best to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> keep him at arm's length but</font> everything had come to a head that<font color="#E5E5E5"> night</font> he had<font color="#E5E5E5"> shown up at the bar around</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">closing time ranting about</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> how he was</font> gonna<font color="#E5E5E5"> blow us away and then end himself</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">he had driven away</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> before I had arrived</font> so she hoped he had went home but it seems he followed my car back to my <font color="#CCCCCC">apartment and the rest of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> course you</font> already know the Highway Patrol managed to catch up to<font color="#E5E5E5"> him a few days later he</font> never said what exactly<font color="#E5E5E5"> he had intended</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">to do with us but in the end I guess</font> that<font color="#E5E5E5"> doesn't really matter the damage</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">was done</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> regardless of course</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">relationship would</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> have</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to be</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> rock-solid</font> to make it through such a harrowing situation like that and I guess ours wasn't Lisa contacted me just once<font color="#E5E5E5"> more</font> to tell<font color="#E5E5E5"> me goodbye she was moving</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> West</font> to stay with some friends<font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we agreed</font> it was probably best that<font color="#E5E5E5"> I didn't know</font> where she<font color="#CCCCCC"> was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> moving</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to just in case I</font> moved back<font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> my hometown that spring</font> and<font color="#E5E5E5"> I hope to this day</font> Lisa will find the peace<font color="#CCCCCC"> she deserves</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I the sister about</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> five years older than</font> me she<font color="#CCCCCC"> always had addiction issues at</font> least as long<font color="#E5E5E5"> as I can remember on top</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of that her choice of men had been just</font> as bad if not worse<font color="#E5E5E5"> she moved out at 17</font> and straight<font color="#E5E5E5"> into an apartment with</font> three other addicts<font color="#E5E5E5"> one of them was a 30</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">something</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> year</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> old Tweaker with a long</font> history<font color="#CCCCCC"> of dating</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> barely legal girls of</font> course my<font color="#E5E5E5"> sister fell head-over-heels</font> for him and ended<font color="#E5E5E5"> up moving in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> with him</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and his mother</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> within a month of meeting</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">him this relationship followed the usual</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">pattern most of her others had in the</font> past they'd<font color="#E5E5E5"> score dope together</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he beat her</font> up<font color="#E5E5E5"> for taking more than</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> her share and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">then beg her forgiveness</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> she would move</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">back</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in with our family</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> but his</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> begging</font> and crying always drew her back to him <font color="#E5E5E5">over time the apologies came less and</font> less until<font color="#CCCCCC"> she believed it was her</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> fault</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">for his actions and gave herself over to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">him completely it didn't take long</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">before the drugs take their toll and she</font> was unable<font color="#CCCCCC"> to hold</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> down a job for more</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">than a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> few days naturally he couldn't be</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">expected to work</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> because</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of some phantom</font> ailment or condition he suffered from <font color="#E5E5E5">his only</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> solution for their problem was</font> to turn her<font color="#CCCCCC"> onto the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> streets to sell her</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">body for the substances they so badly</font> craved it took a near-death beating from him to get her to see<font color="#E5E5E5"> him for the</font> garbage<font color="#E5E5E5"> he was she ran home</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to my</font> parents<font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they took her in with</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> open</font> arms thankfully the horror of<font color="#E5E5E5"> almost losing</font> her life<font color="#E5E5E5"> brought her to the clarity she</font> had lacked in the past<font color="#E5E5E5"> her determination</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">to get clean</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and change her life for the</font> better was finally strong enough<font color="#CCCCCC"> for her</font> to<font color="#E5E5E5"> pull it off my parents once again fun</font> to the 90<font color="#CCCCCC"> days</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> stint in a rehab program</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the fourth time</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in fact we were all</font> pleased to see her<font color="#E5E5E5"> taking it seriously</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and even after leaving the treatment</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">facility</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> she continued</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to attend</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> NA</font> meetings and keep clean<font color="#E5E5E5"> she took a job</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">as a secretary at a local doctors office</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and stayed there for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> several years</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> until</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">she</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> left to raise her first child</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">perhaps</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the biggest</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> change in her life</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">was finding God she had begun attending</font> small Baptist<font color="#E5E5E5"> Church in the area and was</font> soon volunteering there and that<font color="#E5E5E5"> other</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">church run organizations on her days off</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">since</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> our</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> family had never been the</font> church-going<font color="#E5E5E5"> type this choice it seemed</font> the strangest to us but I was unhappy she<font color="#CCCCCC"> had found a source of Solace and</font> security after all she had suffered <font color="#E5E5E5">about six months</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> after her release from</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">rehab my sister met a handsome</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> young man</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">when</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> she was volunteering</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> at the church</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">food kitchen</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he was also a volunteer</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">there in addition</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to a leader of another</font> local<font color="#E5E5E5"> churches choir despite her</font> attraction to<font color="#E5E5E5"> him she had learned from</font> her past<font color="#E5E5E5"> bad decisions to take things</font> slow even though she had<font color="#E5E5E5"> found</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">everything about him wonderful this</font> courtship lasted two years<font color="#CCCCCC"> and in that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">time</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> needed as best as show her how much</font> he was unlike the other men<font color="#CCCCCC"> that had</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">been in her past when the time came</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">he asked for</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> her to marry him</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he made</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">sure to get the father's approval of</font> course<font color="#E5E5E5"> my father and the rest of the</font> family approved of the kind and respectful young man we couldn't<font color="#CCCCCC"> be</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">happier</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that she had finally</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> found a</font> loving<font color="#E5E5E5"> partner the wedding was beautiful</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and couldn't have went more smoothly</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">however</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> when they came</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> back</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> from</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">honeymoon a week later what it occurred</font> shocked us all the first night after <font color="#E5E5E5">they had reached the hotel</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> they had an</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">argument over her tipping the man who</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">brought the food to their room he said</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">she had made him look unmanly</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> because</font> she had not let him be the one<font color="#E5E5E5"> who</font> tipped the man she saw this is no big <font color="#E5E5E5">deal and in an attempt to cool the</font> situation she apologized this only<font color="#E5E5E5"> served</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> make him even</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> more</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">angry</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and the fight escalated to the</font> point<font color="#E5E5E5"> of him slapping her almost as soon</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">as it happened</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he began apologizing</font> profusely and blamed his outburst on <font color="#E5E5E5">jetlag thinking it the most wise choice</font> of the<font color="#CCCCCC"> time she accepted his apology</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">in her</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> mind she knew that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> when they got</font> back<font color="#E5E5E5"> home the marriage was over it broke</font> her<font color="#CCCCCC"> heart that it had ended this way but</font> she had made a pledge to<font color="#E5E5E5"> herself all</font> those years<font color="#E5E5E5"> ago in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that hospital bed</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that she would never let a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> man take</font> advantage of her love again<font color="#E5E5E5"> just as she</font> promised<font color="#E5E5E5"> the divorce was filed the</font> following week<font color="#CCCCCC"> as usual with men like</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">him he spent all</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> his</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> waking moments</font> on the phone for forgiveness and asking her to<font color="#CCCCCC"> come home to him</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> sometimes even</font> breaking down in sobs my sister did her best<font color="#E5E5E5"> to ignore his</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> groveling and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> turn</font> her life<font color="#CCCCCC"> fall into a new and better path</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">for the most part she managed to achieve</font> this at least<font color="#E5E5E5"> until</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we took the choice</font> away from<font color="#CCCCCC"> her one Monday</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> morning</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> about</font> two months after the divorce<font color="#E5E5E5"> was</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">finalized</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> my</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> sister left for work like</font> usual<font color="#E5E5E5"> however</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> around noon the office</font> called her home to find out<font color="#E5E5E5"> that there</font> was a reason she<font color="#CCCCCC"> wasn't coming</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to work</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">we assured her boss</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that she had</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> left</font> for<font color="#CCCCCC"> work at 7:30 like she did every day</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">an unanswered call to her</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> cellphone</font> freaked us out<font color="#E5E5E5"> and we alerted</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the police</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">right away the only conclusion we could</font> come up<font color="#CCCCCC"> with was that her ex-husband had</font> abducted<font color="#E5E5E5"> her</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> or something much worse we</font> gave the cops all the information we <font color="#E5E5E5">could think of all was left was to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> just</font> sit<font color="#E5E5E5"> and wait the next</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> two days moved at</font> a snail's pace<font color="#E5E5E5"> until we received a phone</font> call<font color="#E5E5E5"> from the police</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that my sister had</font> been found and she was still alive<font color="#E5E5E5"> they</font> tracked them down to a ramshackle<font color="#E5E5E5"> cabin</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">a passing motorist saw her ex-husband's</font> car and called in with<font color="#E5E5E5"> the location the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">State Police</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> managed to storm the cabin</font> early in the<font color="#E5E5E5"> morning catching him off</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">guard we could see when we reached the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">hospital that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> had beaten her pretty</font> badly<font color="#E5E5E5"> my intuition tells me he did much</font> more but I would never<font color="#E5E5E5"> dream of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> asking</font> her to relive<font color="#CCCCCC"> it we were all just</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">overjoyed to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> have her back the trial</font> didn't happen for<font color="#CCCCCC"> another</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> year and when</font> it did<font color="#CCCCCC"> my sister</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> showed her strength by</font> testifying<font color="#E5E5E5"> against that monster</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the jury</font> found him guilty<font color="#CCCCCC"> and he was sentenced to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">20 years believe it or not my sister</font> managed to move ahead<font color="#E5E5E5"> she was even able</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> find</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> lasting and loving marriage</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">I've been blessed with two</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> beautiful</font> nieces and<font color="#E5E5E5"> hope</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> be blessed with more</font> her new husband is the finest man I've ever<font color="#E5E5E5"> known</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and would give his life for</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">my sister and his</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> daughters she has</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">finally found that stable life she had</font> been searching for for<font color="#CCCCCC"> so long</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">there is however a cloud hanging over</font> this idyllic<font color="#E5E5E5"> family they were just</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">notified that her ex-husband is</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> being</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">released on parole after serving only 12</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">years of a sentence</font> he is<font color="#CCCCCC"> Conn the parole board into</font> believing he<font color="#E5E5E5"> was a new man</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> for the sake</font> of my<font color="#CCCCCC"> family and my sisters I hope he</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">really has</font> [Music] <font color="#CCCCCC">I'm what</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> people like to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> call old</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> school</font> which means I like<font color="#E5E5E5"> to do things the old</font> way and<font color="#CCCCCC"> I want coffee I make</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it in a</font> coffee maker<font color="#E5E5E5"> in my kitchen if I need a</font> new<font color="#CCCCCC"> piece of clothing I go to a men's</font> store<font color="#E5E5E5"> and buy it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and when I want to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> read</font> a new book<font color="#E5E5E5"> I go to a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> library and borrow</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">it if that's not</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> an option I visit my</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">local book store and buy it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of course I</font> know it would likely be cheaper<font color="#CCCCCC"> to order</font> from Amazon<font color="#CCCCCC"> but I prefer</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to spend</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> my</font> money<font color="#E5E5E5"> locally with people from my</font> community<font color="#CCCCCC"> on a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> recent visit to my</font> favorite book store I was<font color="#E5E5E5"> unable to find</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> title I was interested in I was</font> pleasantly surprised to<font color="#CCCCCC"> be helped by a</font> hot<font color="#CCCCCC"> little item we'll call Rhonda</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> she</font> notified me<font color="#CCCCCC"> that the book was only</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">available by special order</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I gave her my information so the book</font> could be shipped to<font color="#E5E5E5"> the store and I</font> could pick it<font color="#E5E5E5"> up when it arrived we</font> flirted<font color="#CCCCCC"> back and forth</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> until before</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> knew it<font color="#CCCCCC"> we decided to go</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> on a date</font> together<font color="#E5E5E5"> we said it for that Saturday</font> and I went on<font color="#CCCCCC"> my way</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Saturday arrived</font> and I decided<font color="#E5E5E5"> to take her to dinner at</font> one of those big chain family style restaurants<font color="#CCCCCC"> she struck me as a</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">meat-and-potatoes kind of girl and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I</font> knew this<font color="#E5E5E5"> place made both well she was</font> pleased with the<font color="#E5E5E5"> place says I had hoped</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">despite</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> being a petite and thin girl she</font> managed to<font color="#E5E5E5"> put away her massive entree</font> easily<font color="#CCCCCC"> I was pleased to see she felt</font> comfortable<font color="#CCCCCC"> enough around me to be</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">herself</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> after</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> dinner and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we enjoyed our</font> desserts and coffee and<font color="#E5E5E5"> chatted about</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">her lives</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> when the subject of her last</font> boyfriend came up she<font color="#E5E5E5"> told me the basics</font> of<font color="#E5E5E5"> how they met</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and how the relationship</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">ultimately</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> ended from what she said they</font> didn't<font color="#E5E5E5"> have much in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> common and had only</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">spent a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> few weeks</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> together that was</font> until<font color="#CCCCCC"> the fool decided to break up</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> with</font> her through a text<font color="#E5E5E5"> even though we agreed</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">that this was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a low thing to do she</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">easily laughed it off and told me how</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">she</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> had poisoned</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> his dog for revenge I</font> froze in place<font color="#E5E5E5"> as</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> she contained a</font> chuckle<font color="#CCCCCC"> or way through her horrid tale</font> the look on her face<font color="#CCCCCC"> as she told</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">proved that the idea</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that this was a</font> psycho reaction never entered her<font color="#E5E5E5"> warped</font> mind <font color="#CCCCCC">I quietly choke down the rest of my</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">desert</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> trying not to betray the outright</font> fear<font color="#E5E5E5"> coursing through me</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I had met some</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">crazy girls in my time</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> but she was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> definition<font color="#CCCCCC"> of overreaction I after days</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">normally as I could on</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the drive</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to her</font> house and as she left my car<font color="#E5E5E5"> oblivious</font> to the<font color="#CCCCCC"> fact that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we'd surely never see</font> one<font color="#CCCCCC"> another again I counted myself lucky</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I would hate to see how she would react</font> if I dumped her after<font color="#CCCCCC"> a short</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">relationship</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> at least I didn't have a</font> dog<font color="#CCCCCC"> I happily</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> went back to my normal</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">life and tried to put</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Rhonda</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> out of my</font> mind there wasn't a peep from<font color="#E5E5E5"> her until that</font> next<font color="#CCCCCC"> Saturday came</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> around</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> she called</font> three<font color="#CCCCCC"> times and left</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> as many messages</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">through the course of the day but I did</font> my<font color="#E5E5E5"> best to ignore her fortunately the</font> rest<font color="#E5E5E5"> of the weekend was quiet things</font> remain that way until<font color="#E5E5E5"> Monday when</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> she</font> began blitzing my phone with confused messages each one was more and<font color="#E5E5E5"> more</font> frantic the last was left Friday evening with just the desperate statement<font color="#CCCCCC"> I thought</font> we had<font color="#E5E5E5"> made a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> connection you broken my</font> heart<font color="#CCCCCC"> I know I may sound</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> heartless but</font> I'd had my share of<font color="#E5E5E5"> crazy relationships</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and some turning violent the last thing</font> I wanted was<font color="#CCCCCC"> to get</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> into another</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I was</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">pleasantly surprised not to hear from</font> her<font color="#CCCCCC"> again after that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> last message things</font> went back<font color="#CCCCCC"> to normal and I had reassured</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">myself</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that regardless of how crazy she</font> could become she'd never be able<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> come</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">to my house and stab</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> me to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> death in my</font> sleep or<font color="#E5E5E5"> something insane like that as</font> if she could<font color="#E5E5E5"> hear my thoughts</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> attacks</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">popped up in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> my phone a couple</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of weeks</font> later it was from Rhonda and it simply said you<font color="#CCCCCC"> forgot something my heart</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> sank</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that's when I remembered the book the</font> book<font color="#E5E5E5"> I had ordered from her and had</font> given<font color="#E5E5E5"> her my</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> address to do it that's why</font> I'm writing<font color="#CCCCCC"> this crazy story I need</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> help</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">from all of you out</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> there reading</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> this</font> what should<font color="#E5E5E5"> I do</font> I don't care about some<font color="#E5E5E5"> stupid book</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">there is something much more</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> serious</font> going<font color="#E5E5E5"> on here please help me</font> [Music] I'm purposely<font color="#E5E5E5"> going to leave out names</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and certain details of the story</font> my main reason<font color="#CCCCCC"> is to respect</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> my aunts</font> privacy and none<font color="#CCCCCC"> of the other families</font> involved<font color="#CCCCCC"> I wouldn't have</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> told it all but</font> I<font color="#CCCCCC"> feel a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> certain responsibility to</font> remind<font color="#E5E5E5"> people that the police are not</font> always<font color="#E5E5E5"> right my mother's sister had been</font> in and out<font color="#E5E5E5"> of our life throughout my</font> childhood<font color="#CCCCCC"> once she had been</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> able to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">conquer her addiction problems she</font> became a much more<font color="#E5E5E5"> important</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> part of our</font> family<font color="#E5E5E5"> however before she could get</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">herself together she was the victim of a</font> hideous<font color="#E5E5E5"> crime one late night she was</font> helping a friend find the motel<font color="#E5E5E5"> room when they were</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">kidnapped</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> left for dead</font> thankfully my aunt was able to crawl to a main road for help but despite this her friend didn't survive<font color="#CCCCCC"> she</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> managed</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">identify one of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the men involved and the</font> police caught up<font color="#E5E5E5"> with</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> him quickly but</font> since she<font color="#E5E5E5"> was unable to give them many</font> details on the other killer the police doubted his existence considering the extent<font color="#E5E5E5"> of her injuries they assumed</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> she</font> had just imagined him although<font color="#CCCCCC"> it was</font> obvious that<font color="#E5E5E5"> it would have been much</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">harder for</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> one man to abduct two young</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">women they wrote off her claims is just</font> another irrational female she did her best to<font color="#CCCCCC"> return to the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> drug free path she</font> had set herself<font color="#E5E5E5"> upon before the whole</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">thing happened</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> her days were filled with</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">work and her free time</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was spent</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> doing</font> her best to<font color="#E5E5E5"> prevent the police from</font> closing<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> case despite the fact the</font> cops<font color="#E5E5E5"> continued to believe that her</font> attacker<font color="#CCCCCC"> acted alone</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> she was continually</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">providing them with similar crimes where</font> the witnesses identified two young men regardless<font color="#E5E5E5"> of the evidence her claims</font> fell on deaf<font color="#E5E5E5"> ears</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> as the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> months dragged</font> on she<font color="#E5E5E5"> became more convinced that the</font> second killer would<font color="#E5E5E5"> never be found after</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Thanksgiving the family focused more on</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> coming Christmas holiday and all the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">goodies that come with it whether we</font> wanted to<font color="#CCCCCC"> or</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> not my aunt and I were</font> nominated<font color="#CCCCCC"> by my</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> dad to pick up a present</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">for my</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> mom he would be working out of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">town</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> until the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> last week of the month</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> so</font> he gave<font color="#E5E5E5"> us the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> job</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I don't</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> have to tell you how chaotic the</font> Christmas shopping season is but we managed<font color="#E5E5E5"> to achieve our goal a few days</font> early<font color="#CCCCCC"> to celebrate our triumph we</font> decided to stop off and get<font color="#CCCCCC"> some fancy</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">coffee the traffic was light</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> so we saw</font> no reason<font color="#E5E5E5"> the car behind us should be</font> riding<font color="#E5E5E5"> our bumper he soon started</font> flashing<font color="#E5E5E5"> his lights and when we came to</font> an empty stretch of road he pulled to the lane<font color="#CCCCCC"> next to us</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and began ramming</font> the side of the car it was obvious at this point<font color="#E5E5E5"> he</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">trying to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> run us off the road</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I freaked</font> out of course<font color="#E5E5E5"> being</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> only</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> 19 at this</font> point I had never been<font color="#E5E5E5"> in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> this</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> situation</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">like this and how I didn't crash right</font> away is beyond me the second time<font color="#CCCCCC"> he rammed his car into</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">mine my aunt started</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> yelling out</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that's</font> him that's<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> guy that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> killed and she</font> mentioned her friend she immediately dialed 911<font color="#CCCCCC"> told</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> them what was happening</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> took a couple of minutes before the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Highway Patrol came into sight</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> behind us</font> when we were<font color="#CCCCCC"> about fifty yards from the</font> roadblock the man ramming us slowed down and tried to turn<font color="#E5E5E5"> around</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> but another cop</font> car behind<font color="#CCCCCC"> us blocked him in realizing</font> he had nowhere<font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> go he gave up</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Christmas was the best our family had</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">ever had the second killer eventually</font> took a plea<font color="#E5E5E5"> deal so he could avoid the</font> death penalty<font color="#CCCCCC"> it wasn't until much</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> later</font> that<font color="#E5E5E5"> the detectives told him he could</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">have got away</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> with</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> this crime and he not</font> try<font color="#CCCCCC"> to come</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> after us my aunt has yet to</font> get an apology<font color="#CCCCCC"> from the police</font> department but she's<font color="#E5E5E5"> happy</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in the</font> knowledge<font color="#E5E5E5"> she was right when everyone</font> else doubted her [Music] despite my many<font color="#E5E5E5"> misgivings</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I'm</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> writing</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the story down because my</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> counselors</font> agree that doing so could be a positive <font color="#E5E5E5">step</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in my therapy since I've been</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> here</font> for almost<font color="#E5E5E5"> a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> year I assume that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> some of</font> those involved<font color="#E5E5E5"> and getting me better</font> think it's time for<font color="#CCCCCC"> me to move on</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> with</font> my life<font color="#E5E5E5"> I'm not so sure</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> but here we go</font> I was shy and bookish in high school because<font color="#E5E5E5"> of that I guess I failed to</font> attract the attention<font color="#CCCCCC"> of boys I didn't</font> really<font color="#E5E5E5"> mind most of the boys I knew in</font> school<font color="#CCCCCC"> were jocks or immature gamer</font> types<font color="#E5E5E5"> besides the last thing I had in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> my</font> mind<font color="#CCCCCC"> was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> dating my focus was on school</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and I was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> determined</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to get into the</font> best college I<font color="#E5E5E5"> could then maybe I would</font> be<font color="#CCCCCC"> able</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to cut out a small bit of time</font> to meet<font color="#E5E5E5"> someone at least that was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> my</font> plan <font color="#E5E5E5">I've been reading my greatest love is</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">music all the best moments in my life</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">are connected to a song my best friend</font> and I would go to<font color="#E5E5E5"> every concert</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that we</font> could one year I counted and figured out <font color="#E5E5E5">we had been to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 10 shows so yeah when I</font> say greatest<font color="#E5E5E5"> love I mean it in May of</font> 2016<font color="#CCCCCC"> the Cure was playing the ball so we</font> went and that night<font color="#CCCCCC"> ii met adam he</font> looked like your average goth emo type guy<font color="#E5E5E5"> somehow we had made eye contact</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in</font> that mass of thousands of people<font color="#E5E5E5"> and I</font> guess this<font color="#E5E5E5"> gave him the okay to come</font> talk to<font color="#CCCCCC"> me</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> normally I would have</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> blown a</font> mob since I'm not interested in<font color="#E5E5E5"> guys</font> that<font color="#CCCCCC"> look like they're</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> trying to be cool</font> look I may be shy<font color="#E5E5E5"> but I have no problem</font> telling people what I think of them before I could do the same<font color="#CCCCCC"> to him Adam</font> flashed a smile so beautiful<font color="#CCCCCC"> that melted</font> my heart<font color="#E5E5E5"> once he had gotten my attention</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I began</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> listening to what he was saying</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and to my surprise</font> he<font color="#CCCCCC"> was the smartest person</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I'd ever met</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">usually I'm the smartest person in the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">room</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> wherever I go but everything that</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">came out of his mouth floored me and</font> that's all it took<font color="#E5E5E5"> I was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in love</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we</font> spent<font color="#CCCCCC"> the rest</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of the show talking about</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">everything</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> under</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the Sun I'm not even</font> sure what songs<font color="#E5E5E5"> the Cure played for the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">first time in my life music took a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">backseat to a boy when I spoke he</font> actually listened and when he did<font color="#E5E5E5"> he</font> made the<font color="#E5E5E5"> most mundane</font> sexy<font color="#E5E5E5"> when the concert ended we exchanged</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">numbers and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> made plans to get together</font> as soon<font color="#E5E5E5"> as possible since he lived in</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> next city over and had his own car</font> he promised to pick me up the<font color="#E5E5E5"> next</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Saturday and take me somewhere I'd love</font> that<font color="#CCCCCC"> we drug by so slowly that I was</font> unable to<font color="#E5E5E5"> focus on anything else when</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Saturday finally arrived I started</font> getting<font color="#E5E5E5"> ready almost as soon as I woke</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">up</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> who was my first date and I wanted to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">be ready as</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> soon as he called pretty sad</font> I know but Adam<font color="#E5E5E5"> was special when he</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">finally called I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> told him to pick</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> me up</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">at the end of the block</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I didn't want to</font> have to introduce Adam to my grandparents<font color="#E5E5E5"> don't get me wrong</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> they</font> were great people<font color="#CCCCCC"> but traditional Adam</font> wouldn't<font color="#E5E5E5"> have met up to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> their</font> expectations<font color="#E5E5E5"> regardless of how smart</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">was our date turned out to be and a</font> local upscale Bistro coffee shop<font color="#CCCCCC"> he was</font> by<font color="#CCCCCC"> far the nicest place I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> had ever been</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and I loved it we shared a set of</font> appetizers and finished the meal with coffee and<font color="#CCCCCC"> dessert most of the boys I</font> knew couldn't<font color="#E5E5E5"> even say biscotti</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> let</font> alone<font color="#E5E5E5"> know what a bistro was so I was</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">impressed</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and the real</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> surprise was</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">after</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> dinner when he took me to the</font> large park on the edge<font color="#CCCCCC"> of the city we</font> got there after<font color="#CCCCCC"> 10:00</font> so we had the place<font color="#CCCCCC"> to ourselves we sat</font> in a bench next to the lake<font color="#E5E5E5"> and told</font> each<font color="#E5E5E5"> other the story of our lives</font> once we were<font color="#E5E5E5"> huddled together Adam</font> looked over to<font color="#E5E5E5"> me and placed a clumsy</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">but tender kiss on my lips</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it was the</font> epitome of romantic<font color="#CCCCCC"> I always thought</font> that I was<font color="#E5E5E5"> above such</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> tribe</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but I</font> discovered<font color="#CCCCCC"> that when you fall in love</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">things such as this lose their</font> cheesiness<font color="#E5E5E5"> we sat in silence for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> many</font> minutes<font color="#E5E5E5"> just talking</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in the beautiful</font> scene then<font color="#E5E5E5"> Adam began to speak in a</font> quiet but concise voice that was the first time I've ever<font color="#E5E5E5"> kissed a girl</font> latonans his voice was so cute<font color="#E5E5E5"> I wasn't</font> able to<font color="#E5E5E5"> stop myself from letting out a</font> small laugh<font color="#E5E5E5"> I told</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> him I wasn't laughing</font> at him I just<font color="#CCCCCC"> found the honesty of his</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">confession so sweet</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I couldn't help</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">myself</font> about the time I<font color="#E5E5E5"> got the last word from</font> my<font color="#E5E5E5"> mouth</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">I felt the sudden stinging sensation of</font> a slap<font color="#CCCCCC"> across my mouth</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and chin</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a warm</font> throbbing feeling<font color="#E5E5E5"> continued to grow just</font> below<font color="#CCCCCC"> my nose and the salty taste</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font> blood filled my mouth<font color="#E5E5E5"> I don't think no I</font> can't do this right<font color="#CCCCCC"> now</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it's still too</font> painful<font color="#E5E5E5"> everything</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that happened is my</font> fault<font color="#CCCCCC"> anyway here we are again it looks</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">as if I've</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> lost the battle against my</font> masters I had hoped that<font color="#E5E5E5"> if I</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> managed to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">put off finishing this story</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the doctors</font> would let it slide for<font color="#CCCCCC"> at least the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">remainder of the year unfortunately</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> was warned that<font color="#CCCCCC"> have continued to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> put</font> off what<font color="#E5E5E5"> they called the inevitable</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> they</font> would be forced to drug me and<font color="#E5E5E5"> make me</font> relive it in my<font color="#E5E5E5"> personal sessions</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I'm</font> not sure at this<font color="#CCCCCC"> point which choice is</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">worse but I know by choosing to tell it</font> here I have some control<font color="#CCCCCC"> on how the</font> story is<font color="#CCCCCC"> told so this is the option I've</font> chosen once<font color="#E5E5E5"> I'd realized I had been hit</font> I was frozen<font color="#E5E5E5"> even though I could taste</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> blood in my</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> mouth the shock of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> being</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">slapped by someone I loved was confusing</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I know I was mortified to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> look at him in</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the face the wait for another strike was</font> agonizing<font color="#E5E5E5"> but it never came at first I</font> thought he<font color="#E5E5E5"> had ran away but</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> when I</font> turned to look<font color="#CCCCCC"> at him his face was a</font> frozen<font color="#E5E5E5"> mask of shock he looked as if</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">though he'd</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> been the one who had been</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">slapped but once he realized I was</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">facing him</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the mass changed to one of</font> fear and<font color="#CCCCCC"> regret</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I was at once</font> overwhelmed by a blast of apologies and excuses<font color="#E5E5E5"> despite all that was going</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> on</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">around me all I could do</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was tell him</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font> take me home<font color="#E5E5E5"> the apologies continued but</font> once he surrendered to<font color="#CCCCCC"> the fact that his</font> words were hopeless<font color="#E5E5E5"> he could only say OK</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">on the walk</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the long drive to my</font> house neither<font color="#CCCCCC"> of us spoke I don't know</font> his<font color="#CCCCCC"> thoughts but when it came to me I</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">was still in a level of shock almost</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> the point<font color="#E5E5E5"> of catatonic as I walked to my</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">front</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> door I could hear a string of</font> muffled<font color="#E5E5E5"> words coming from the car but I</font> was in<font color="#E5E5E5"> no state to hear them or even</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">care what they were he slowly drove away</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and that was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the beginning of the end</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I was unable to even comprehend what had</font> happened for<font color="#CCCCCC"> two days</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> my phone had been</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">assaulted by calls from</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Adams since at</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">least Sunday morning</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I made no effort to</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">listen to the messages he left</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and once</font> my box was full<font color="#E5E5E5"> the calls increased I'm</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">unaware</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of what occurred at school</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that</font> Monday and<font color="#E5E5E5"> honestly don't know when I</font> got home it<font color="#CCCCCC"> wasn't</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> until that night that</font> I began slipping<font color="#CCCCCC"> from my stupor the fact</font> that<font color="#E5E5E5"> the guy loved more than</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> life itself</font> had slapped me hit me far harder than he ever could<font color="#CCCCCC"> the dam broke free and I</font> cried myself to sleep<font color="#E5E5E5"> that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> night I had</font> no<font color="#E5E5E5"> desire to go</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to school the next day</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">so I didn't</font> besides<font color="#E5E5E5"> being psychologically destroyed</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the idea of explaining to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> my friends</font> what had happened made me<font color="#E5E5E5"> physically ill</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">-</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I returned to school Thursday but</font> refused<font color="#E5E5E5"> to answer my friends questions</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">until they decided to let</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> go and stop</font> asking <font color="#E5E5E5">Adams calls continued but became less</font> frequent<font color="#CCCCCC"> as the week's dragged on until</font> they all<font color="#E5E5E5"> but stopped</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I had decided</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that</font> if he<font color="#CCCCCC"> did call again that I would</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> answer</font> the time had finally<font color="#E5E5E5"> arrived for me to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">confront him about hitting me and</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">explained in clear terms that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> our</font> relationship was over<font color="#E5E5E5"> regardless of how</font> sad it made me I knew I would never<font color="#E5E5E5"> be</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">able</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to respect myself again it wasn't</font> long before<font color="#E5E5E5"> he did call and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I answered</font> just as I had planned his voice was filled with<font color="#CCCCCC"> joy and a</font> tinge of surprise<font color="#CCCCCC"> before he could say</font> much I interrupted him<font color="#CCCCCC"> and let him know</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">that any sort</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of relationship</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">had had been ruined by his behavior</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font> hung up<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> phone the rest of the week</font> was quiet<font color="#E5E5E5"> and my courage to tell him</font> everything<font color="#E5E5E5"> was over</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> gave me a new hope</font> that I may possibly survive this breakup unfortunately Adam<font color="#E5E5E5"> wasn't going to let</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">that happen he left me alone for a few</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">days</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> before he decided to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> take things</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> a new<font color="#E5E5E5"> level</font> I felt<font color="#E5E5E5"> that if he called</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was strong</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">enough to deal with</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> anything he had to</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">say to me but I was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> wrong look I know I</font> made a<font color="#CCCCCC"> mistake but it's your fault</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I did</font> it<font color="#CCCCCC"> he shouldn't have</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> laughed at me</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I've</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">given you plenty</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of time to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> get</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> over it</font> so<font color="#E5E5E5"> let it go so we can</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> move on</font> his voice<font color="#E5E5E5"> was so cold and when I could</font> best<font color="#E5E5E5"> describe as commanding had sent a</font> chill down<font color="#CCCCCC"> my spine I was so shocked at</font> his<font color="#CCCCCC"> inability to accept the situation</font> the best I could<font color="#E5E5E5"> say was no I'm sorry</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">we're done and I hung up</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the phone still</font> somewhat confused<font color="#E5E5E5"> his ability to push</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> blame onto me</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> so easily</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> had me</font> honestly bewildered<font color="#CCCCCC"> I couldn't fathom</font> how someone so<font color="#CCCCCC"> intelligent could be so</font> sensitive<font color="#E5E5E5"> actually caught</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> myself asking</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">if I was indeed at fault for his actions</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">but</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> blew that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> from my mind quickly</font> things went back<font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> radio silence for a</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">few days</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> until he called with</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> his</font> ultimatum<font color="#E5E5E5"> to me look I'm sick of this</font> either we<font color="#E5E5E5"> get back together I'll be</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">forced to do something terrible to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you</font> and everyone you love without you<font color="#CCCCCC"> I have</font> nothing<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> live for anyway</font> I could tell he<font color="#CCCCCC"> had been</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> crying</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he tried</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to hide it but the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> wavering and his</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">voice gave it away yeah sure was all I</font> could say<font color="#E5E5E5"> before I broke out and</font> laughter and<font color="#E5E5E5"> hung up that was an off Hal</font> someone could know<font color="#E5E5E5"> someone such a short</font> time<font color="#CCCCCC"> and be so obsessed with</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> them that</font> was the<font color="#E5E5E5"> moment I</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> realized I was over him</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and I could smile for the first time in</font> a long time life luckily returned to what it was before<font color="#E5E5E5"> and Adam faded away each year</font> around<font color="#E5E5E5"> my birthday</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> my mother</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> would come</font> into<font color="#E5E5E5"> town</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and take</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> me</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> out to dinner to</font> celebrate<font color="#E5E5E5"> my relationship with my mother</font> is<font color="#E5E5E5"> somewhat complex</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I have you heard</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">just like a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> normal child view as a</font> parent despite only seeing her at the holidays<font color="#E5E5E5"> it was decided when I was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> much</font> younger that I would live with my grandparents because<font color="#E5E5E5"> of the nature</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of my</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">mom's job she worked for an insurance</font> company assessing damage claims made by policyholders therefore she was only <font color="#E5E5E5">around home a few days a month put this</font> together with a deadbeat<font color="#E5E5E5"> dad</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I hadn't</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">seen since I was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> 2</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and it only seemed</font> natural<font color="#E5E5E5"> I lived with my mom's parents my</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">mom showed</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> up the night before my actual</font> birthday and slept over the next evening <font color="#E5E5E5">we went to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> our favorite restaurant</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in LA</font> we spent her evening catching up and that meant I told her about<font color="#E5E5E5"> my brief</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> but</font> whirlwind romance with Adam<font color="#CCCCCC"> she was</font> supportive of my<font color="#CCCCCC"> decision to walk</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> away</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and reminded me of my plans for my</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">future</font> none of<font color="#E5E5E5"> which had room for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">relationship our evening was great as</font> usual<font color="#E5E5E5"> and after dessert we made our way</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">back to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> my grandparents house</font> my mom's plan was to<font color="#E5E5E5"> spend the night and</font> give me my present<font color="#CCCCCC"> in the morning</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I was</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">perhaps</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the happiest and most excited I</font> had been in a long<font color="#E5E5E5"> time when we entered</font> the house it was oddly silent<font color="#CCCCCC"> it was a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Sunday so my grandfather was usually</font> parked in<font color="#CCCCCC"> front</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of the TV</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> watching</font> football<font color="#E5E5E5"> until 10:00</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and my grandmother</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">was either</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> sitting with him or doing</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">something in the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> kitchen</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> none of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">this was happening</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the lights were off</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">in the living room which made my mom and</font> I<font color="#E5E5E5"> even more nervous</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">so as we entered it I switched them on</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and that's when we saw it now from this</font> point you'll have<font color="#CCCCCC"> to rely on what others</font> had told me because when I saw what had been done well it all stopped there apparently Adam tied both my grandparents hands up and shot them as if<font color="#CCCCCC"> this</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> wasn't horrible enough he</font> scrawled<font color="#E5E5E5"> who's laughing now in the</font> living room wall in<font color="#E5E5E5"> their blood my</font> mother informed<font color="#CCCCCC"> the police of my</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> history</font> with Adam<font color="#CCCCCC"> and the threats he had made</font> and was unable to<font color="#CCCCCC"> answer any other</font> questions they may<font color="#CCCCCC"> have had</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> after a</font> three-day<font color="#E5E5E5"> search the police</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> got a call</font> about a young man's<font color="#E5E5E5"> body being found</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in</font> a bench<font color="#CCCCCC"> near the lake at</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the park it was</font> Adam<font color="#E5E5E5"> and he had shot himself</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in his</font> warped mind<font color="#E5E5E5"> it was probably a way to</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">ruin a special moment for</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> me or maybe he</font> wanted<font color="#E5E5E5"> to die at the last place he</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was</font> happy<font color="#CCCCCC"> I can't even begin to imagine</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> what</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">was going on in his shattered psyche</font> that<font color="#E5E5E5"> awful night I'm still not</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> sure if</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">should</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> be happy</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I was out that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> night or</font> not that was it Adam was dead<font color="#E5E5E5"> so there was no one</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to try</font> for<font color="#E5E5E5"> the crime so the police and everyone</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">else involved moved on well that is</font> everyone else but me<font color="#E5E5E5"> my mom admitted me</font> a few<font color="#E5E5E5"> days after the murders it was</font> obvious that I wasn't handling the whole situation<font color="#E5E5E5"> well in</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">I've been here ever since it's been</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">almost a year since the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> death of my</font> grandparents<font color="#CCCCCC"> and Adam if there is one</font> thing<font color="#E5E5E5"> I have come to learn here is that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">these doctors these people in charge</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">don't know anything running</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> down all the</font> wretched things that happened and what led<font color="#E5E5E5"> them to happening has made me feel</font> worse<font color="#CCCCCC"> also it has</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> just reinforced what I</font> have always believed all<font color="#E5E5E5"> the way back to</font> the night at all unfolded<font color="#E5E5E5"> all this</font> everything<font color="#CCCCCC"> that happened is and was my</font> fault [Music] the following<font color="#E5E5E5"> incidents occurred in the</font> late 90s when<font color="#E5E5E5"> I was living in the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> states</font> attending<font color="#CCCCCC"> uni</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I was about 19 at the time</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and like most</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> girls of my age</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> thought</font> that nothing<font color="#CCCCCC"> bad</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> would ever happen to me</font> to be fair I had managed to<font color="#E5E5E5"> grow up</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">without experiencing any real problems</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that I couldn't handle looking back I</font> guess I had been sheltered from<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> world and thus it made me somewhat spoiled<font color="#E5E5E5"> carrying this mindset with me to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">university did me no</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> good</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and caused me</font> to put myself in<font color="#E5E5E5"> a situation</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> could</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">have ruined my</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> life</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> forever</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> like most</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font> the other<font color="#E5E5E5"> girls</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in my dorm I enjoyed</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">having a good time</font> studies had their place<font color="#E5E5E5"> and some focused</font> on them more<font color="#E5E5E5"> than others</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> but almost all</font> of<font color="#E5E5E5"> us living</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> there</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> liked to party now</font> and<font color="#E5E5E5"> then</font> New Orleans is known all over the<font color="#E5E5E5"> world</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">for</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> its party</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> atmosphere and its many</font> bars and<font color="#CCCCCC"> clubs play a large part in that</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">atmosphere it's a heaven</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> on earth</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> for</font> young people looking<font color="#CCCCCC"> for somewhere to</font> have a good<font color="#E5E5E5"> time and blow off steam a</font> group of us girls<font color="#E5E5E5"> had the goal of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> going</font> to every barn club in<font color="#E5E5E5"> town or as many</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> as</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">would be possible in the four years we</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">would</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> be there it was a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> little lofty</font> goal<font color="#CCCCCC"> in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in a university town but in New</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Orleans it was more of a quest the</font> weekend after<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Christmas New Year's</font> holiday had ended and the term was<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> begin<font color="#CCCCCC"> a small group of us made plans to</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">go out</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and party</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> before school began</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> at</font> Monday when that<font color="#CCCCCC"> Saturday came around I</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">was the only one of the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> girls that</font> wasn't ill not being one to let other sicknesses<font color="#E5E5E5"> get in my way</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of having a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">good time</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I decided to go out</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> anyway we</font> had planned<font color="#E5E5E5"> to check out a small</font> neighborhood bar<font color="#E5E5E5"> just off</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of Bourbon</font> Street<font color="#E5E5E5"> so that was where I started</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">night it had the usual comfortable</font> atmosphere<font color="#E5E5E5"> you get from a neighborhood</font> bar<font color="#CCCCCC"> I met a couple</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of the usual</font> customers mostly folks who lived or worked<font color="#E5E5E5"> in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the area but the best part of</font> the place had<font color="#CCCCCC"> to be the cute bartender</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that poured me my first</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> drink</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I was invited to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> sit at the table</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> with a</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">couple</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of the other students I knew and</font> we began catching<font color="#E5E5E5"> up on how our holidays</font> had worked<font color="#E5E5E5"> out</font> they left<font color="#E5E5E5"> the table a couple</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of minutes</font> after<font color="#CCCCCC"> I sat down because</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the couple they</font> were supposed to meet there<font color="#E5E5E5"> showed up</font> and waved them over to join them at their table realizing I had yet to<font color="#CCCCCC"> even</font> take<font color="#E5E5E5"> a drink of my pint</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I took a long</font> slug leaving only<font color="#E5E5E5"> the last quarter it</font> didn't take long<font color="#E5E5E5"> before I</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> started</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">feeling very dizzy</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> my tolerance had</font> certainly decreased over the holidays but I knew it would<font color="#CCCCCC"> certainly take more</font> than<font color="#E5E5E5"> half</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a pint to put me under</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> table<font color="#E5E5E5"> there had to be something wrong</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">but in my state I was unable to even</font> form lucid thoughts<font color="#CCCCCC"> a pair of older men</font> I didn't<font color="#E5E5E5"> recognize join me at the table</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">instead of asking if I was okay</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> they</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">claimed to be friends of my roommates</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">when I stated that I felt ill they</font> quickly volunteered to escort<font color="#E5E5E5"> me back to</font> my dorm<font color="#CCCCCC"> before I could even react the</font> other two men whisked me out of the door of<font color="#E5E5E5"> the bar and down the street through</font> my glassy eyes I attempted<font color="#CCCCCC"> to focus on</font> the sidewalk and where they were<font color="#E5E5E5"> leading</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">me despite</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> being at the point of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> near</font> unconsciousness I had the clarity<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> realize we were</font> going<font color="#CCCCCC"> in the opposite</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> direction of my</font> dorm that realization filled my body <font color="#E5E5E5">with fear and caused me to panic</font> I began<font color="#E5E5E5"> yelling in a slurred tone no no</font> not this way men quickly attempted to quiet me down and assure me they knew the way the fear<font color="#CCCCCC"> that I have may fall</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">completely unconscious must have given</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">me</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a shot of adrenaline there was no way</font> I was gonna<font color="#E5E5E5"> let these</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> guys take me to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">god-knows-where</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and do what else are</font> worse<font color="#CCCCCC"> BL sounded more like screams this</font> time<font color="#E5E5E5"> a group of college-age men walked</font> past us and I took<font color="#CCCCCC"> my chance</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> help me</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">help me it was the best I</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> could muster</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">but it did its job the group approached</font> us<font color="#E5E5E5"> and began asking</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> if I was okay</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in</font> what was<font color="#CCCCCC"> going on</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the two men with me</font> try to convince<font color="#CCCCCC"> the group that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I was</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">just acting</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> crazy but the college guys</font> didn't buy it <font color="#E5E5E5">hey how about we call the cops and you</font> can explain the situation to<font color="#E5E5E5"> them</font> upon hearing this<font color="#E5E5E5"> the two men ran away</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">without another word the college guys</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">stayed with me until the police and</font> ambulance arrived they explained what <font color="#E5E5E5">had happened to the officers and I was</font> taken away<font color="#E5E5E5"> to spend the night at the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">hospital when the police followed</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> up</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">told them what I could piece together</font> for my still murky memory unfortunately I was<font color="#E5E5E5"> unable</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to give them any idea of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">who had drugged me</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> oh we could be</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">certain of was that my drink had been</font> the source<font color="#E5E5E5"> of the drugs but who had</font> actually<font color="#E5E5E5"> done the spiking</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> no one could</font> say<font color="#CCCCCC"> the investigation ended up going</font> nowhere since there was no clear suspects or information I was forced to <font color="#E5E5E5">continue with school uncertain if those</font> two men would come after<font color="#E5E5E5"> me</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> again or try</font> to victimize other unsuspecting women <font color="#E5E5E5">the semester ended and I flew home</font> unsure if I would return in<font color="#E5E5E5"> a spring</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> made the<font color="#E5E5E5"> decision to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> return and I'm glad</font> I did considering I would go on<font color="#CCCCCC"> to meet</font> my<font color="#CCCCCC"> future husband</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Jerry in my final</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> year</font> of<font color="#CCCCCC"> university the two gentlemen that</font> attempted<font color="#E5E5E5"> to abduct me were never</font> arrested as far as I know but<font color="#CCCCCC"> it did</font> come to light later that the cute bartender<font color="#CCCCCC"> that poured my beer that night</font> was being paid by<font color="#E5E5E5"> the two unnamed men to</font> drunk the drinks of women that<font color="#CCCCCC"> they</font> pointed<font color="#E5E5E5"> out to him all these years later</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">I am still</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> very aware of how lucky I was</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">that night</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and how bad things could have</font> went<font color="#E5E5E5"> if I'm ever blessed with a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> daughter</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I will be sure to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> tell her that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> story</font> when the time is<font color="#E5E5E5"> right to ensure</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> she</font> does her best<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> never put herself in</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">any</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> position or she could come across</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">any man like those two I met that night</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I want to make it clear that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I'm not</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">posting this story here to scare anyone</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">it's one and only purpose is to remind</font> you all<font color="#CCCCCC"> that you are not Almighty</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> you</font> can be hurt and there are men out there <font color="#E5E5E5">just sitting and waiting for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a chance</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">take advantage</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of the smallest mistake</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">if you want to go out and have</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> fun</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> blow off some steam please do and enjoy 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