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the morning of Carol's Death Steve picked me up for coffee as he often did when we got to the coffee house I I
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noted that his bicycle was in the car and I had never seen it in the car before and he saw me glance at the bike
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and he said he said uh I decided to go for a bike ride tonight and I I said okay I didn't really think a whole lot
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of it it was unusual for him to go for a bike ride he usually went for a run or a
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hike he dropped me off off at my house he went to work and I didn't see him or hear from him all day around 8:00 that
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night I got a call from Charlotte and she was looking for her dad and she asked if he was with me and
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I said no he's not with me and if he was you'd be able to reach him because he always has his phone with him and she
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said okay that's weird we were supposed to have dinner together and he's not here I said well well you know he said
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he was going on this bike ride and maybe he's out somewhere so she said okay I called Steve's phone left a message said
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Charlotte's looking for you where are you and then about 10:00 at night the phone rang and um and
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it was Steve and he was apologizing he said I'm sorry I worried everybody it was this crazy ride I'm I'm just done
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with the ride I think he said his his battery had died and he' just put a new battery in his phone the next thing I
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knew the phone was ringing it was about midnight I was sound asleep and he he said um sorry to call you so
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late I just found out Carol is dead I think those were his words Carol is dead