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This is exactly right. Hello and welcome to My Favorite Murder. This is the mini-sode.
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It's an early morning mini-sode. It's a... This is the short version. We read you your shit back.
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You guys send us great stuff. So many good stories. Everyone's got a story. Shout out to Lily.
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She's our picker now and she's great. This batch was nice. We had lots to choose from.
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Lily's the person to harass online if you want to pick your hometown. Sorry, Lily.
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I won't say her last name so that you can't find her. She gets swarmed and swatted.
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Come on, guys. Use your power for good. Okay, it just starts. My Catholic middle school English teacher was a lovely, very young woman who was getting married to her best friend of nine years.
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I remember her including the girls from our class of 13 in her wedding planning and us gathering around her desk to look at wedding magazines and pick out her dress.
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It's going to end badly. Right. In the spring of 2002, after her wedding, she very suddenly disappeared from school.
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The teachers were tight lipped about it. And we went on with our lives because we were middle schoolers with short attention spans.
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Over the next months, we pieced together the details of the story. Her husband had woken up early that morning, started massaging my teacher's back, and then slit her throat.
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He continued to stab, smother, and choke her for five hours until authorities were alerted that she never came to our school that morning.
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They found her bleeding in the hallway with her husband leaning over her, face and hands covered in blood.
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There was a long trial during which he pled insanity, claiming he was sleepwalking and had no recollection of the event.
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It's another sleepwalking murder. Yeah. This happened. Holy shit. His lawyers claimed he had cold medicine and wine the night before.
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And in parentheses it says, who hasn't? No, but this is a thing that happens. Georgia just did a sleepwalking murder.
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Yeah. And a psychologist determined he had attacked her during a five-hour series of recurring dreams.
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No. That she was leaving him for another man. That's not a reason to kill her. We heard rumors that the case fell apart when it was discovered that he had attempted several other times to murder my teacher that night, including putting something in her drink.
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but I'm not sure how accurate that is. Welcome to my favorite murder. Yeah, let's just spread some rumors.
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I suppose we won't ever know the truth, but I tend to side with the jury who sentenced him to 40 years.
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Now, this is where things took a hard left for me. My teacher showed up at our eighth grade graduation ceremony
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with a scar across her throat from ear to ear. She fucking lived. Wait, what? She fucking lived.
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She lived. What? What the fuck? Yeah. That's what I did. Because this is such a perfectly told story because I absolutely did not see this coming.
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I remember the hugs and pictures taken with her all the while trying not to stare and to pretend everything's okay.
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She needed a hundred stitches and had said in her testimony that it felt like a stinging paper cut all across her neck and blood flowing down her throat like a waterfall.
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Explain my face right now. I mean, you're just holding, pulling her eyes down. She's so shocked.
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she's falling into a vortex of shock. I have to hold my face or it's going to fall off.
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Right? I am. And then here's the next paragraph. I am still shocked today that someone she thought was her best friend and loving husband
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turned on her with no understandable reason. However, he's thankfully in prison.
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It's amazing that she survived and is now remarried. Crazy to imagine trusting anyone else in your bed again.
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Yeah. But I'm glad she figured it out. Thanks for all your horrifyingly intriguing stories.
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They make workouts and housework so much more tolerable. SSD GM, Laura. Laura what a crazy story
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that is the most jaw dropping story that is told was it intentional did you understand
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because the subject line had survivor in it but that's why I didn't read it but other than that
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I honestly thought this was a horrible murder story she survived she went to their graduation
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and she then went on to remarry I have chills what an incredible woman there's your kick off
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that was a hardcore start No, it was great. It was great. Woo! Right Amazing Fucking amazing Yay I thought it was like she wrote something wrong Also just that description of the attack is so awful and extreme that yeah it miraculous
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It's crazy. She lived. Okay, this one's called Badass Grandma. Love it already. And the name is Rita. Her grandma's name is Rita.
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Yes. Thank you for including that. Hi, my grandmother who recently passed away at 99 years old was a true legend.
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She had spent her late teens as a secretary at the FBI. Amazing. Later in life, after my grandpa died, she moved into a retirement home in Santa Barbara and immediately got bored.
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So she went to work in the district attorney's office. She was beloved by those awesome men and women who advocated for justice for victims.
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Perhaps the most badass thing she ever did, though, was when she was just running to the grocery store in the 1960s.
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Some national tragedy, the 60s was full of them, had just happened and a man approached her and said he was collecting money for flowers for the family of the aforementioned tragedy.
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My grandma said what happened was a shame and she was praying for them, but she just didn't have enough money to donate.
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The man then prevented my five foot tall, 90 pound grandma from closing her car door.
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He reached into her car and said, you're going to give me all your money. Rita outmatched physically but never mentally
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Then yelled if you don't leave me alone Right now I'm going to throw up on you The man ran away
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And my grandma was no worse for wear SSDGM and threatened vomit James It was so perfectly set up
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That there was going to be some legal thing I thought there was going to be She was going to be I recognize you from the docket
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The other day or whatever I'll project I'll vomit on you I mean, that's a threat.
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And it also like momentarily stuns you because you're like, what the fuck? And it's like you it's like I want I do want money, but barf cannot.
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Yeah. Like if she's threatening that, then it's possible. A hundred percent. She's like, this is the thing I do.
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Wow. I'm Rita. And this is my gift. It's amazing. God bless Rita. Rita. No. What?
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Nothing. Edit that out. I was going to say a pun, but I would stop myself. This one is a.
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Rita Gurgitate. Stop it. Don't laugh at that. It's good. And fast. So this just starts.
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The most recent mini-sode you ladies mentioned sending in kids stories, and it made me think of this one.
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So everyone has at least one story about them that comes out at family gatherings and the such.
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Well, I have a few. My most famous that my family absolutely loves to bring up at Thanksgiving, Easter, my wedding, etc. goes like this.
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When I was five, my parents decided we should drive from the Chicagoland area to Washington, D.C. for a family vacation.
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along the way my parents stopped and for a meal at a mall while we were there me being a five-year-old
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found something i just had to have and demanded it from my dad when he refused to give in i started
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screaming and went up to a stranger a strange older couple and screamed at them he is not my
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daddy what an evil thing to do this is straight out of the karen kilgarra five-year-old playbook
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I'm not kidding. For some, for some odd reason, they believed me. I, I say some odd reason,
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because I look almost identical to my father. This older couple went to get, I guess, a mall
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security as my dad picked me up and booked it out to our family's van. Oh my God, like then he takes
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up running with the kids. And puts them in a van. Oh my God, no. We drove out of that town as fast
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as my parents could and we never went back. For all I know, I'm on milk cartons in some random town.
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Don't worry, my dad is currently greatly enjoying the fact that I have a five-year-old
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who is doing his best to recreate my childhood antics. That's how it goes. Stay sexy and don't let karma bite you in the ass, Ingrid.
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Those poor old people probably still talk about like the one time they could have saved a child
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and they just didn't act fast enough. They just didn't. They blew it. Oh, my God.
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He's not my daddy. That's evil. Love it. Okay. This is called The Time a Murderer Sent My City Into a Panic.
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Hey, cuties. All right. No. This happened a few years ago in my hometown, Baltimore, Maryland, or as locals unfortunately call it, Bodymore Murderland.
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We have a large homeless population in the city, and panhandlers often stand at intersections to ask for donations.
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A husband and wife were in the car with their daughter when the wife rolled down the window to give a panhandler money.
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The panhandler was a woman who appeared to be holding a child The panhandler then reached into the car window and shot and killed the wife Oh my God The entire city went on high alert cracking down on panhandling in the city and cautioning
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people against giving money to the homeless. The husband went on local news telling his
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story and warning people of the same thing. Even Oprah Winfrey commented on the whole
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ordeal, though I'm not sure on which platform. The thing is, that shit didn't happen. Turns
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out that the wife was in the middle of filing a divorce against the husband, and the husband
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and daughter had murdered her and fabricated this whole story. Oh my god, the daughter was in on her?
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Uh-huh. Wow. The place of the murder wasn't even anywhere near the city area where the husband had
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originally said his wife had passed away. The husband and daughter fled to Texas but were
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eventually picked up and are currently facing trial this month, January 2020. Whoa. Facing a
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dinky sentence of only around 10 years. Wish I had more information for you, but I had to write it
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anyway. Stay sexy and don't blame the fucking homeless, Elizabeth. For real, Elizabeth. Dude.
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that's well I mean we've heard that story so many times continues to this day but oh my god that's
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yeah it's so evil it's evil I'm not gonna redo the uh the spoiler title hey I'm FM fam let's get
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right into it good I respect that let's do it so a few nights ago my sister and I were having dinner
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with our parents and somehow the topic got on the subject of murders I it may or may not have been
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steered that way by me. Yes. Anyway, I brought up Richard Ramirez, hoping one of my parents would have a story since
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they both grew up in L.A. Cool. My mom said her grandmother was terrified and stuck broom handles in every window and
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sliding door for safety, but no other exciting news. Damn. Then my dad pipes up and says, well, I almost got kidnapped by the freeway killer.
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Now, just so you know, this is a man that intentionally tries to make you laugh at funerals.
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Oh, dad. Same. and told me priest jokes in church till I busted up in the middle of solemn services.
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He thinks morbid stuff is hilarious and he likes to yank your chain, so I was suspicious to say the least.
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On Halloween in 1979, my dad said he dressed as a flasher. Yes, you read that right.
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Oh my God. He just wore a raincoat. Yeah. It's the easiest costume. That's true.
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And was making his way to a friend's house, his friend John's house, not too far from his own.
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My dad grew up in Orange and was well aware of the boys and young men who were going missing
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and getting killed by the freeway killer at this time. He had to cut through an elementary school to get to the back wall of his friend's house where he would jump over.
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This is such childhood. Dude, way to go. What's wrong with the front door? As he's making his way towards the school, a man appears out of nowhere and seems to be walking in his direction.
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My dad immediately gets weirded out and starts changing his path. But the man seems to be following.
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It continues to happen until the guy was getting too close. Finally, my dad finally had enough and said to himself, fuck this.
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If that's the killer, then I'm not going without a fight. He turned around and started sprinting as fast as he could and screaming right towards the man.
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Oh, my God. The guy seemed to get freaked out and took off in the opposite direction.
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My dad sprinted the rest of the way to John's house and arrived yelling for his friends, telling them that he had almost gotten kidnapped by the freeway killer.
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They all agreed that they should call the police. So John goes to get his mother.
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At the same time, their friend Tim comes bursting through the door, screaming for help and saying he's almost been abducted by the freeway killer.
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He starts telling a story about how he was cutting through the school behind John's house.
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When a guy in a trench coat, a lot like my dad's, came charging at, oh, wait. They all realized what happened, and they couldn't stop laughing for the rest of the night.
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That memory still makes my dad laugh to this day. It makes us laugh, too, and I had to share it.
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My dad is still friends with John. They were around 12 or 13 when it happened. So it's two fierce 13-year-olds walking toward each other.
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Freaking each other out. Oh, God. Wow. As funny as it is, I have to give my dad credit that even though he thought a serial killer was stalking him, he summoned the courage to go on the offensive.
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Yes. Hell yeah. And then joke about that fear for years after. He's an interesting man and he has a lot of other stories.
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But this one is a particular gem. Love, love, love your show to death. Pun intended.
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Stay sexy. And someone please arrest the 70s. No name. I just love the idea. The other kid I feel so bad for.
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Someone just starts screaming towards him. Running straight at him in a trench coat with probably no pants.
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Yeah yeah yeah quote ghost story I lived in the same house my entire life across the street from Ed and Delia They were my parents first neighbors in the city new development back in 1979 Ed and Delia were basically a third set of grandparents to me Growing up I got to shovel
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the driveway after heavy snows and mow the lawn during the hottest days of summer. Oh, that's sweet.
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I would sit with them after school and chat until my mom got home from work. And then there's some musical notes around these words, so I feel like I have to sing them.
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do it let's kick in i even briefly trained to be a paper boy with ed who did a morning route
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as well into his retirement it took me maybe two rainy mornings to realize 3 a.m start days were
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not for me yeah i'm from sioux falls south dakota and winter sucks everyone loves to shovel a foot
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of snow off their car every morning right foot oh my god it was one of these early mornings when
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the sweetest and saddest story i know comes from ed was starting his normal day by warming up his
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car and shoveling the driveway. Delia wakes up and she feels Ed sit on the bed and say,
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I've got to go now. Will you be okay? This was the middle of the night to her and like any other
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morning. So she replied, of course I will be confused and a little peeved about the
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uncharacteristic waking message. She fell back to sleep. She was soon awakened by a neighbor's
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knock on the door and flashing lights. Ed had fallen while shoveling and hit his head on the
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driveway. I do not know if he died from the fall, a heart attack or hypothermia, but for the rest of
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Delia's life, she knew that morning message checking in was her husband's spirit. Yeah. I want to give
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a shout out to my friend Megan for introducing your podcast to me and thank her and all art
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and music teachers across the globe for trying to keep the world beautiful. Hey.
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Stay sexy and check in with your loved ones before your spirit moves on. Joe J. Aww.
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he would I have to go now here's the American Express credit card you pay that on the first
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you have to pay it every month I made your coffee here's your coffee don't forget to give Elvis' pill
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every night Starbucks Starbucks one more on the road that's just the music to my ears
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is when Vince will text me Starbucks like you're still in your hotel packing up Starbucks
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