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Goodbye. Goodbye. Hello. Hello. And welcome to my favorite murder. The mini-sode.
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That's right. This is our first recording back from break. Will we be able to read emails?
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Probably not. I can barely function. It's a big difference between working brain and vacation brain.
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Absolutely. Do you want to go first? Sure. I really like this email. It's the subject line is a small town Australian murder.
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Hello, my queens. I'm now to my third listen through of your entire episode catalog.
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And I follow sleep to your voices every single night. I've tried many other podcasts,
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including ones actually designed for sleep. But for some reason, your voices are the only ones I
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can listen to. Is saying your voices put me to sleep an insult? Perhaps. Certainly not intended.
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I don't mind. It's fine. If you ever make your way back to Australia for a tour,
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Here's hoping I just don't pass out right there in the audience as soon as you start chatting away.
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Some nights I forget to set the Spotify sleep timer and wake up at 2 a.m. to something ungodly morbid or drunk Karen whispering in my ear.
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Anyways, enough of my sleep schedule, I suppose. Here's a hometown story. Love it.
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That's how to do it. This is one of the great lines of any email that we've read.
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I'm from a small country town in Australia. Think the everyone knows everyone vibe of Pentaluma that Karen talks about.
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Pentaluma. Then divide the population by six. Truly, everyone knows everyone. In 2016, a man died in a house fire and news spread quickly, especially when it was revealed
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that he was murdered prior to the house being deliberately set alight. It was the first local murder in my 19 years of growing up there and the town went mad.
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Streets were closed down as the police used drones to search for the murder weapon.
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It was like they finally got to use 19 years of murder-solving budget at once and went big.
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And everyone was pretty nervous. I was freshly graduated and enjoying the two months of fucking around rent-free at my parents
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before I moved off to college when this neighbor came over and asked to speak to my mom.
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We didn't have much to do with this neighbor, so this was pretty odd. But I told her my mom was at work.
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She asked me to get my mom to come see her as soon as she got home. Of course, when my mom got home, I immediately forgot.
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Of course. It's just like you can't ask teenagers to do anything. No, no. The answer's no.
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They can't say it for themselves. The answer's no. I immediately forgot and didn't mention their neighbor's visit because I'm a forgetful little fool.
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Your brain isn't done fucking forming yet. It's okay. There's all these weird chemicals and hormones in your brain distracting you from everything.
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A few days passed and the murderer was caught. He'd killed another man with an ax over what the media described as a love triangle turned bloody.
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That afternoon, my mom and the neighbor chatted over the fence. So turns out our neighbor's husband was best friends with the man who was murdered
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and knew who the killer was right away. He'd called the killer, accusing him. And then in parentheses, it says, imagine that phone call.
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And then the killer threatened he would be next. The neighbor was alerting my mom in case, I don't know, we heard our neighbors being
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murdered in the coming days and to please call the police. Thankfully, things didn't end up that way.
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And old mate was caught and charged with life before he could go for our neighbors Anyways always remember to take a memo with love grace she her Whoa Like he was on a killing spree if he hadn gotten caught
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I mean, I love that the neighbor was like, we need you guys to know about this. That's such a smart and important thing to do.
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Responsible. Do not leave a message of that importance with a teen. Never leave a message with a teenager.
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Never. That's the rule here. I think I have to tell you a very, very quick story.
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because I have a story just like this. So when my dad was still in the firehouse,
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can you get your mom to get your dad's service uniform ready? And please remember to tell her.
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Oh no. To tell her. And I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was 16. So of course I don't remember.
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Oh, my God. And he immediately knows that it was me. So he goes, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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Yeah. Yeah. I and your brother's Boy Scout uniform. Like, okay. Yeah. Not put the, scare the living life out of your own mother.
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Okay. My first one's called Metal Detector Hometown. Hell yeah. Hey, are we two-ing metal detector stories?
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I think we are since you two talked about the detectorists on a recent episode. Yes, we always want to hear metal detector stories.
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Metal detector stories are basically all treasure stories, right? Except when they're true crime stories and mine is.
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This is a really good one. Okay. In college, my very best friend in the whole world was murdered.
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We were 20 years old and we met at college orientation. It was one of those times when you meet someone and instantly recognize that they're going to be a good friend, like love at first sight, but for besties.
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We were classmates, roommates, and we promised to marry each other if we didn't find someone else to marry before we were 40.
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And I want to tell everyone that 40 is not that old. So please take a step back.
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Yeah, you got to lift up that cutoff rate. Yeah, it sounds old, I know. But anyway, Richard was a metal detector enthusiast and belonged to a metal detector club.
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He loved scouring old battlefields for historical artifacts, which he always turned over to the appropriate authorities.
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And beaches, lakes, rivers, and oceans, he wasn't picky. For treasure that he did not turn over to any authorities.
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He gave me lots of little treasures, a pretty little ring from the 1960s, old coins, and lots of little shiny things.
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The story of his murder is too hard for me to tell in detail here. But in a nutshell, he was back home in a small town in Oklahoma at his dad's house when some evil men decided he was too, quote, different, probably gay, and attacked and killed him with their knives.
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Afterwards, they threw the murder weapons into a lake. How do we know the murder weapons were in a lake?
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All caps. Because of the motherfucking metal detector club. When they heard about the murder and that the murder weapons hadn't been recovered, they jumped into action and set up a grid and Mel detected the shit out of the area.
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They recovered the knives and some items stolen from my friend. The test on those items helped lead to the arrest and conviction of the two men who are serving life in prison for my friend's murder.
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I am forever grateful to that group of detectorists for stepping up and getting shit done that helped bring a little bit of closure to me and everyone who loved Richard.
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Love the podcast. Keep doing what you're doing. I'm thankful that you and people like you have
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normalized making mental health a priority. Stay sexy and always stay on the good side of
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Detectorists. K, she, her. God, that's a beautiful story. Isn't that beautiful? And so horrible. And like this idea that when sometimes you give people an opportunity to do
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good with what they know and they jump to it, that's all the best parts of people being involved
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Let's do it. Let's keep the spooky roller coaster stories going. And then it says lighthearted.
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Hello, all. I just listened to Minnesota 332 that had that truly stomach-churning story about a roller coaster attendant forgetting to lock everyone's seatbelts.
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Well, allow me to take you back in time to the now-defunct amusement park, Peony Park, located in the heart of America, Omaha, Nebraska.
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Have you heard of this place? No. It sounds like it's the, what's it called? Action Park of the Midwest.
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In New Jersey, yeah. It was the early 80s and my dad and his siblings were all in high school and working at Peony Park on the evenings and weekends to make a couple bucks.
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That year, the park decided to spice things up for Halloween by renaming all the rides to be more spooky and on theme.
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Think Killer Carousel and the like. The biggest ride, a roller coaster called Galaxy's Orbit, was oh so imaginatively renamed Coaster O'Death.
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Stupid. My dad's older brother was pretty artsy, so he was even given creative liberties to put up a new temporary sign for the ride.
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His sign depicted a cartoony image of a crash roller coaster engulfed in flames with bodies flying out of the seats.
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Jesus. Yeah. Seriously, where were the PR people to put a stop to this? It's like, it was the 80s.
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They didn't exist. No. It's almost like the spooky spirits just couldn't resist.
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One October night, as the coaster of death was click, click, clicking up the first big hill of the ride,
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a resounding crack was heard throughout the entire park. The massive chain that pulls the coaster up the initial hill had literally snapped in two.
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The coaster sped backwards down the hill and slammed back into its starting position.
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Thankfully, the coaster at Odeth did not live up to its name, though many people on board were later transported to the hospital to treat the effects of major whiplash.
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That absolutely blows. Traumatic. And what were my dad and his siblings up to amid this chaos, you ask?
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They were racing as fast as they could to rip down that godforsaken sign before the police arrived.
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You can always count on teenagers to do whatever it takes to save their own asses.
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Oh, my God. And also back in the 80s, you could always rely on major corporations to put everything in the hands of a couple 18-year-olds.
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Totally, totally. Peony Park closed in 1994, and I think the world is a safer place now.
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Stay sexy and don't tempt the spirits, Carly, she, her. Hilarious. Can we get more amusement park stories, please?
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We love them so much. Anywhere. Also, those ones are nice when it isn't the coaster of death and you're like, oh, the worst case scenario.
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It's more of just like awful. Yeah, look at how terrible this was. Yeah. Okay, this one's called
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Theater Ghost. Hello all, furry and otherwise. Then it says, I will let you pick which column you fit into.
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I was driving to work today, listening to your hometowns, trying to think of a story worthy of writing
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when the fates aligned. When you read the story of the forbidden theater props, it came to me.
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I have been a professional theater technician for grumble grumble 20 years or so And theaters are notorious for being haunted When I was still in college I did a couple of calls at a seriously haunted theater Calls I guess that means plays Yeah you get called into it
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I guess so. Like a... Oh, like a call sheet. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. This theater was built on the location of a relocated cemetery.
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Yes, just like in the movie Poltergeist. No. The story goes that the cemetery flooded, and so they dug up everyone and moved them to a more stable location.
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One coffin could not be found, and that was the one belonging to the first person sentenced to hang for murder in the city.
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Who chose that? Why would you? Don't leave that one behind. Let's just leave it.
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Years later, a theater was built over the cemetery location, and apparently at least one spirit decided to stick around.
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The theater ghost is affectionately called Albert and has his own reserved seat for every performance.
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It's Z24 is a seat. Albert's antics are mostly just mischievous random piano playing
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lights turning on the seat lowering as the show begins and folding back up as it ends
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that's creepy very creepy can you imagine if you're sitting in the seat next to it
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and you're just like this is the ghost seat Z23 is not having a good time during that
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musical of anti-mame or whatever fun stuff like that but one story in particular is told
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by the techs who work backstage When working at heights, the crew need to wear harnesses to protect them if they fall.
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One day, a crew member didn't clip in properly and went about their work on the catwalk, which is about 30 feet above the audience seating.
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Suddenly, they heard a voice they didn't recognize yelling at them to clip in. They turned around, saw the problem, and clipped the harness in properly.
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Moments later, the light that they were working on fell, and they fell along with it.
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Oh, shit. Instead of falling, likely to their death, they were hanging safely from the harness they were just told to fix.
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None of the other crew working that day heard the voice. Oh, jeez. I don't know if it's just a story told to all the new crew to make them follow the safety rules,
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but I prefer to think it was Albert making amends for his crimes when he was alive.
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Stay sexy and don't sit in seat Z24. It's Albert's Rebecca. Oh, I love that. But I mean, to give the old murderer a redemptive arc whose grave didn't get moved.
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Sure. Okay, we can do it that way. That's a new way. Sure. Okay, here's my last one.
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I'm not going to read you the subject line, even though it's hilarious. Hello, everyone.
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I've written in before with fun intros and all the thank yous, but this is a short story,
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so I'm going to skip over all of that. And then in parentheses, it says, I guess if you're interested, you'll have to read my
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crime-related hometowns. And then there's a little winky emoji. I went to a very small high school, graduated with 17 people.
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That is small. It's very small. And during my prom, my junior year, we had a money booth.
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Yay. What a perfect solution to like, what are the odds you're going to go to prom with someone you actually like when you only graduate with 17 people?
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Totally. So how about we bring money into the equation? Oh, yeah. Love it. We were all obviously excited about this since only actual students could participate, not dates.
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And there couldn't have been more than 40 of us. This meant the winnings would be good.
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The girls were really smart with their strategies. Many of them used the outer layer of their skirts to catch bills like a big net.
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But me, well, I wasn't blessed with boobs until my late 20s. So I had a bit of an extra room in the chest area.
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I grabbed as many bills as I could and promptly shoved them down my top. Most of the money was in $1 bills to make the game last, but I counted out a total of $176.
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Holy shit. As soon as I got out and excused myself to the ladies room. The best part, however, was when I got home that night, took off my dress, and a $20 bill fell out onto my lap.
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It was some of the most fun I've ever had and a great memory to bring up at parties.
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Big shout out to the people who made that possible. Reagan. just a wonderful memory that reagan's sharing with us i love it thank you reagan just open up
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So hi and mad love to all. Recently, you called out for housekeeping stories and I was all hell to the yeah.
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We felt so sophisticated having just launched our own business and all. The plan we take the train by ourselves to the city clean gallivant around and he drop us back at the station when he finished work The scene His place was a quote bachelor in his late 20s gross but we kept eyes on the prize
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Cold, hard cash. Oh, God, bachelors in their 20s apartments. Disgusting. Is there enough cash in the world?
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All I can picture is t-shirts used as pillowcases. Or just no pillowcases, no bottom sheet. That's the one that really is like,
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something's very wrong. You don't have to live this way. Sheets are very basic. That's true. Okay. Nothing too remarkable as we tore through the kitchen, bath, and bedroom.
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As we met up to tackle the living room together, the first thing I noticed was the mess on the
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coffee table. Two big ashtrays overflowing with butts and gray powdery ash alongside of a mirror
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with a bunch of white powdery, quote, ash all over it. What a slob. I got right to it,
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tossed the butts and grabbed the vacuum. Once all the powder was sucked up, I washed the ashtrays and
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even Windexed the mirror to a perfect shine. The mirror. We finished up, grabbed lunch and hung out
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in town a while. We headed back to the apartment, helped ourselves with a beer in his fridge and
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watched TV waiting for our payout and ride back to the station. A while later, he arrived home and
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remarked how the place looked and smelled great. Yes, mission accomplished and big tip coming our
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way. Then he looked over at the coffee table, my labor of love, quote, shit, where is it? What did
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you do with it? Please tell me what you did with it. With what? I asked, perplexed. With my fucking
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cocaine. Your what? I squealed. I vacuumed up everything on the table. It was really gross.
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Why would you leave that out? And you smoke too much. Visibly frustrated, he clamped his hands
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together behind his head and the jacket he was wearing open enough to reveal a glimpse of a
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holster. What? Elle and I may have been too young to discern tobacco ash from cocaine,
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but we'd watched enough episodes of Hunter to know a sidearm when we saw one. Hunter. A little scared and a lot mad. I piped up, we're 14. We didn't know what it was. Now
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give us our money and take us back to the train or I'm telling my sister, which he did. It would
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be at least a decade before I tried cocaine out for myself and realized all the speedy thrills
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I'd robbed him of. Oh, well, fuck that guy. He was a dirtbag. Thanks for keeping me company
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on long and short commutes. I love your inclusivity and candor surrounding mental health issues.
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Stay sexy. And don't worry, mom. I'm not a drug addict. I just did a few lines in my mid-20s.
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Kate, she, her, they, them. Oh, shit. That guy. Okay. Why did he leave it out or like say something?
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Yes. It's all on him. Yeah. Why bother having a gun in a holster like a big bad gangster when you not smart enough to wrap your shit up and hide it in the desk drawer Yeah for sure Are you new What are you doing
00:29:42
Are you new to cocaine? What the fuck? Always hide cocaine. You have to hide cocaine when
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you're doing cocaine. You don't want people to see. It's expensive. Because then everyone starts asking you for some and then they want to hang out.
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It's addictive. Everybody wants your shit the second they do it. It's one of the many
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drugs that you're like, you start and you're like, this is the best ever. And then two hours later,
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