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think about where you want to enter

just think of a doorway

once you find it

let yourself

be carried up

the stem into the leaves

how much is this plan

five dollars

how much is this plan

ten dollars that's a little ski

what about this one

it's not for sale

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there aren't very many artists in soho

at least not these days

we fit right in

we took a third floor loft and i got the

one below us for lori

my husband robert was an architect

and me i'm a photographer

i used to love doing portrait work of

robert it was a challenge

if i could get him to relax i could work

with anyone

poor robert he was a stiff

not a very good model

but then he never had much respect for

my work

i'm gonna put these slides into this

show

the gallery owner wants me to make

prints

plants

when did you start photographing plants

do you like them

yeah they're nice

your sister hasn't taken up photography

by any chance has she

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hello

lori this is silly you live downstairs

why are you calling me

you won't mind

yeah that'd be okay when

okay

bye

will you help me move laurie's plans

tomorrow

more planets

she can't sell them of course she can't

sell them

she scares all the customers away

did you see

the door in the truck

look

you've been putting crazy ideas in

rila's head with no reason

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damn it will you get your mind off those

plants and talk to me

get away from that

what am i doing get away from there

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get away

the plants don't want you there

i swear lori

sometimes i think you're out of your

mind

what happened

oh and it was an accident

no

it wasn't an accident did it on purpose

come on that's really silly robert

wouldn't do anything like that

i sense

my plants sense that he is a bad person

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dusty what do you want

i'm almost finished

what

plant pyramid

i'd like for you to take a look at it

before i finished well dusty i'll look

at it later

look if uh

you don't like it for your plants you

could always uh

put a mattress in it and

sell it as a furnished loft

i'll look at it later dustin

okay

i didn't mean to disturb you well you

didn't disturb me no

no

good

oh uh

by the way i thought you might like the

model

the hole is so you could put a razor in

it it'll stay sharp forever

ancient greeks use that

quite lovely

i think it was the ancient egyptians

though

what

pyramids were built by the egyptians oh

yeah

lori and i no i think you better finish

your work

yeah a minute

no please

are you afraid of me no it's not bad

i just want to hold you looking great no

don't

what's wrong i'm all right

shaking

put this around you no stop it come on

this will warm you up no i'm not cold

don't touch me okay just calm down

i think you better leave

i just wanted to get closer no don't

ever touch me just leave

because somebody else

right

no

no

i'll go finish

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when we were little

lori and i had to have separate rooms

i had a fear of sleeping in a room with

plants

i kept thinking they were watching me in

the dark

laura used to tell me they had a life of

their own

i believed her

then still i never talked to plants like

some people do

talking to animals or inanimate objects

always struck me as being crazy

after our last meeting

i decided i had to do more to help

laurie

even if it hurt robert

i never got the chance

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there

i learned how to directly apply what

were only intuitive ideas about plant

communication

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during intensive periods of meditation

with plants

i learned to channel my energies and

enter new states of being

after spending many hours in deep

concentration

both at fendhorn and here in my own room

i am able to transcend my physical

boundaries

and allow my own spirit to commune with

the spirit of my plant

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um

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a

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want to play

though if a tree died of old age was

finally blown down

rituals were performed to help the soul

of the tree find a new home

naturally nobody would dare to fell a

tree which would absorb the spirit of a

human being

unless they wish to cause harm

married

yeah

yeah i'm married what

oh nothing

i just had a feeling you weren't a

regular drinker you know what i mean

not that you don't take a drink

occasionally

just that i uh

i don't know he didn't strike me as a

solitary type

you know

drinking alone

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wife drove

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it's just a joke

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when you and your wife fight you ever

feel like just kind of

cracking our wood

cracking

yeah you know what i mean we all lose it

sometimes you're tired of talking

just explode

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can't stay bottled up 24 hours a day

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the reason i ask is just uh

sometimes this feeling comes over me

i feel like a jerk a little shirt

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just a split second thing you know what

i mean

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still your shop

oh yeah

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hey

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so

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are you sure the door was locked

downstairs street door yes

you know we get a lot of cases like this

someone falls hits his head or something

of course he could have surprised the

burglar on the roof who pushed you

that sort of thing happens a lot quite a

lot

you'd be amazed at the amount of

homicide cases we get that turn out to

be accidents or even suicides

well

i'm sorry i couldn't be more help

we appreciate your cooperation

did you talk to that detective

yeah

what did he say

nothing really

nothing

really they have nothing to go on

he's sure it was an accident you give

him my list

yes he'd already checked it out

and he came up with nothing

let's go somewhere quiet for a week or

so

to spend some time enjoying each other

we have to take care of lori's plans

claire can come over and water

i'm not ready yet

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april 27

my friend and i had another session with

the plant today

he's always trying to give me things

later he came by with a new present

a basket for the plan

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lori showed the way and i followed

i owed it to her

i found the plant from finned horn i

took care of it

in her tapes lori always spoke of it as

something special

it was

as soon as i got the plant strange

things started to happen

how much longer

about an hour

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i was just thinking how long it's been

since we've taken a trip together

we'll make it up

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gorilla

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by the lake

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so

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hillary

hmm

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i started keeping a journal

that nightmare i'd had unnerved me

then there was the plant store somebody

had been in there

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acting on an intuition

i didn't tell robert about these things

it was the first time i didn't turn to

him for help

but what happened next bothered me most

my key to laurie's loft was missing and

there was only one person who could have

taken it

what were you doing in laurie's loft

today

what when i went into laurie's loft i

noticed someone had gone through her

things

now what reason would i have for going

through laurie's thing

robert i'm not accusing you of anything

it's just that when i tried to get into

laurie's loft this morning i noticed

that someone had taken my key

you're the only one who could have done

it right take what

your key

or one of laurie's precious belongings

robert don't do that

well if i took your key how'd you get in

i asked the super

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so what were you looking for

i wasn't looking for anything i find

that hard to believe robert considering

the trouble you took to get in look

gorilla

i'm just as concerned as you are that

somebody broke into your sister's law

so if it wasn't you then why did you

take the key

simply don't think it's a good idea for

you to spend so much time in your

sister's room

then why don't you just tell me that

instead of going around sneaking around

stealing my things

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come

on you know what happens when we try to

discuss your sister

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no

i just think we should try to forget

so i'm supposed to act as if she never

even existed oh come on

look robert

i understand that you see her absence is

a veritable blessing but do not expect

me to behave the same way

see what i mean

we start to talk about your sister all

hell bricks she's dead for christ's sake

exactly

and you seemed intent on giving her an

afterlife

what's that supposed to mean you want to

know the truth

you're beginning to remind me more and

more of your sister every day

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what's wrong with that

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next thing you know you'll start

babbling to plants too

there's uh

can i help you man i'm looking for books

on plants

plants gardening horticulture yeah right

over there

not books on how to grow plants books on

um

how to communicate with plants ah plant

communication

curling photography and all that um

follow me that's in the occult section

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i read everything i could about plant

communication

i was groping through a way into lori's

world

some people spend years looking for the

answer

i found it in the back of a catalog from

one of those mail-order occult

supermarkets one of the many with a los

angeles address

an advertisement for kirlian

photographic apparatus with a set of

kirlian slides

according to the instruction booklet

kirlian auras can be related to living

states of consciousness

by studying the changes in pattern color

and intensity

slide number one

oakleaf

note healthy blue aura

injured oak leaf

note redness in wounded area

hemlock leaf

blue healthy center

extremities dying

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similar disease pattern

aura indicate shock

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finger tip of psychic healer

at rest

same finger during healing no brilliant

enlarged aura

healer's finger next to tip of living

leaf

note energy interchange

a blue bridge appears between the

fingertips of two compatible people

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the fingertips of two

incompatible people note

angry redness away from center

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fingertip of recently bereaved person

fingertip of manic depressive note the

dual aura

repressed anger even aura no flare

convicted murderer

extreme anger

note pure red and exaggerated white

flare

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come on in it's open

hello hello

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i'm dusty

you laurie's sister

yeah

i'm really sorry about your sister

she was really a good person

ask what you're doing here

watering the plants

how did you get in i've got a key

i need to help gloria all the time

i don't think she ever mentioned mention

me

that's lori that's the way she was

sometimes it was like i was an imaginary

friend

imaginary friend

yeah that's the way she made me feel

sometimes

you like plants

not as much as lori but i like them

yeah

well uh

i was just thinking

i know lori has a lot of plans up in her

loft

and rather than let them die i uh

i could take care of him for you i don't

let them die

oh no i i know you wouldn't

now i can see that

i mean you're just like lori that way

what way

you got a similar bead on you

know special kind of sensitivity most

people don't have it

it's just the reason i ask about plants

you know taking care of them and all

just some of them are kind of

delicate know they uh need special

treatment

like this is one plant she has

that only responds to moonlight

i'm afraid i don't follow you

most people wouldn't be sensitive enough

to know that

they just throw up their hands and say

who needs this crazy plant

they let it die

well it must have been a very romantic

plant it was

how many of these moonlight plants did

laurie have just one

she brought it back from the finhorn

colony

i think i should go

hey uh

you know i've only spoken to you but

five minutes here

i feel like i know you a long time

hey you want your key

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my first experiment with curling

photography proved nothing

i made a slide of dusty's key and one of

the key i got from robert

they were similar

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i didn't know whether or not it was my

imagination

it was time to put my newfound skill to

the test

i had to come up with a plan

robert

what are you doing

put your finger right there

why

go ahead

now again i'll get a shock no you didn't

before

laurie

i mean claire gave me this

i compared robert slide before i

mentioned lori

to the one after i said her name

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the one after was very reminiscent of

one i'd come across in my studying

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um

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yeah what are you doing

seeing if the film dried yet

i'm coming to bed right now

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there's a sink in the room hot and

cold running water uh

the uh bathrooms down the hall the lock

when the doors broke but the door opens

in so if you kind of wedge your foot

against it you'll be fine

this is fine

well

temporary

i would have been more than happy to put

you up

must have been quite an argument

okay

what's wrong

i don't know why i asked you here

well i assumed it was about robert well

it was and now i'm embarrassed to admit

why

well i'm sure you must have had your

reasons

they all center around laurie

oh

yeah everyone's in

he's been going through her stuff

really yeah

and he won't admit it

i know it sounds stupid and trivial but

i just

i feel like he's trying to cut off my

contact with her

contact

no not that exactly i don't know

you know really you're not making a

whole lot of sense

what's this

it's a polygraph

come again lie detector

i've been reading the experiments of

cleve baxter

he attached a polygraph to the leaves of

a plant

and then threatened to burn it

when he thought about burning the plant

the needle on the polygraph jumped

as if the plant could actually read his

mind

it's very difficult to establish a

communication

a rapport

willa where did you get this plant

lori brought it back from fintorn

it's our being killed

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he looked away from the plant

he stared at me

the skin seemed to tighten over his face

his eyes sank into his head

the color left his

face his lips drew tight

this was not my imagination

dusty's face became a death's head in

front of my eyes

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oh

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hello

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okay

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so

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so

i called all over nobody knows where she

is

yeah but she's become more withdrawing

the shock i suppose

claire

i've hardly seen her

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grilla

ah

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when robert walked into that hotel room

i saw everything as it must have

appeared to him

he must have thought i was mad

i couldn't say that he wasn't right

i thought a lot about dusty

laurie had confided in him

i didn't know why or how but

i felt he might clear up some of my

questions

i set up a meeting with him

so

have you been taking good care of

laurie's plans

yeah i'm taking good care of larry's

plans

didn't know i had it in me

what

oh i've just managed to establish a much

stronger rapport than i thought possible

yeah that can happen i mean uh

they can tell you a lot i know

you know

yeah i know they can tell you a lot

in fact one of them is very

communicative

rusty have you ever had a vision

i mean one in which something occurred

that you couldn't possibly have known

about on your own

no i don't think i have

i am

this is very strange

i i saw the roof very clearly

and i saw lori

you saw laurie on the roof only i didn't

feel like lori it felt like me

and it was like i was there

were you alone

no no um

the door opened and a man appeared

man yeah

i couldn't see his face very clearly it

looked like robert

who's robert

this is my husband

i must find all this pretty ridiculous

no not at all i told you i've been quite

concerned

why listen lady i don't know how to

explain these feelings all i know is

that i have them

did you have this feeling about laurie

well uh

yes and no uh

i mean with lori she was always kind of

she always got threw you off

what do you do

i mean besides work at the plant store

what do i do you mean work

yeah

i do all kinds of things uh

a little plumbing house painting

carpentry

kind of a freelance handyman

why

i don't know

i'm just curious

here i am telling you the intimate

details of my life and i hardly even

know you

what can i tell you

what do you want my social security

number yeah

uh

5 60 58 15 44.

i think i have some work for you

thus he didn't have anything to tell me

he had something to hide

i began with one suspect robert

instead of solving anything i now had

two suspects

at least i knew how to deal with robert

dusty was playing a game with me

so i decided to play a game with him

i knew i was taking a risk

it's awful with these old pipes

it corrode

block up

water has a tendency to turn on you go

back up the pipe away from the drain

i really been tired lately because i've

been working two jobs once

i'm trying to make ends meet

but uh the ends don't seem anywhere near

me in fact they're getting further and

further apart

you don't seem to have that problem do

you

i mean what do you do for a living i'm a

photographer

oh yeah

i wish i could earn a living like that

i mean i can't make a cent for my poems

and uh

but my pipes will

one pipe's just like another after a

while

you ever get afraid

living around here

no

you know what gets me now is how this

area has changed

it used to be just the guys in the

corner and the warehouses and the trucks

but uh

now with these boutiques

you know i didn't even know what a

boutique was until they first came here

boutiques art galleries people living

here

i remember when this place used to be a

chicken slaughterhouse

channeling in the floor and all

right over there is where the blood used

to run off into the drain

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you ever meditate

your sister used to meditate

in fact we used to meditate together

with the plants

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i always wondered what you thought about

me

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that's the awful thing you know you

never know what people are thinking

about you

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yep

i'll go back to work

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so

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hello

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um

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hey somebody in there

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hey open up what is it

what's going on in there oh it's you mr

heart

uh

i'm fixing the tub i couldn't hear you

uh

the noise of the water

pipes

we'll open up

it's really a mess

there's water all over

rust all over the floor it's all right

uh

could you just

wait uh

open the door

uh i thought i'd give it a run

you know uh

see how it worked

where have i seen you before

oh yeah in barnabas

yeah

i take a drink every now and then

we play pool together

no i don't

like pool

do you

pinball's my game

you beat me for 20 bucks you must be

someone else i don't play

if i did i wouldn't win no it was you i

got to clean up in here

no you don't have to clean up i can

clean up don't worry

well

i guess i'll be leaving now

your wife shoot his life plans

yeah

goodbye

yeah j just a minute

that's why i work right across from

where you live

but you never notice me loading

unloading trucks just another face huh

what do you do

i'm an architect listen friend i know

what you've done

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excuse me

i mean when you're in tune with the

world with nature

you know certain things you wouldn't

ordinarily know wouldn't normally be

known to you

i know for example the exact time and

date of my death

yeah

exact year month week day

hour minute second of my death

i have that kind of knowledge

let's go you're the kind of guy i like

seems to be less vague more concrete

right something you can see you can hold

in your hands

what are you talking about

architect then

i bet the page goes just from looking

around here

sometimes i have to work nights you ever

have to work nights

not often

i go for that ot you know over time

that's the only way a guy can make a

living loading and unloading trucks

so

beautiful plants

do you know that plants can communicate

yeah i can sense what they're saying

sometimes

i can even see auras around people too

i think you better go you're the one

who's going i was working the night lori

had her accident

see

i know how guys like you operate

one thing goes wrong

you're all over the place

what are you gonna do kill me

i'm not a killer

of course i'm sure you'd have a good

case against me for uh

trespassing

plumbing without a license

i'd love to stay and talk

but uh they're really expecting me at

work

you're going to love the way it fixes up

pressure's real good in the cold water

uh

don't wash any shag rugs in it though

but then it'll clog up see and we'll

have to call me back

see you around

what happened

who is that guy

he's very strange

he knew lori what did he do

nothing he just sort of rambled on

why are you so frightened of it

come here look

the line moved upward

why don't you just rest

and we'll talk about this tomorrow we'll

try to figure out what to do

i'll call the police if you want we'll

find out who this guy is

maybe i'm just

i don't know

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so

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do

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morning

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robert there's somebody in the fire

escape what

you stay here

i hope to be you glad you could make it

what do you want

plants are wonderful things don't you

think so

i've always thought so

ah but they can be terrible gossips

all kinds of sordid rumors can pass

through their lips

you'd be surprised at the terrible

things they can say

ask your wife

she knows

why don't you just tell me what you want

oh but you've got me wrong

i'm not out for material game

i just want to see things set straight

you got a friend in me

after all i did drop by to tell you

didn't i

bye

hello

i just don't know what to believe

anymore

god i just i

i don't want to talk about it i just

don't i just don't even want to think

about

it it's just that it is it is very

difficult when you lose the two people

that you love most in the world

then i guess

i guess that you

well you just you just you just have to

adjust to those things

wait a minute is it robert

i don't know i guess so

i don't know maybe he's always been that

way you know and maybe um

i just didn't give him a chance

a chance for what

i don't know

um show me his true nature

oh maybe you know maybe i just didn't

push him hard enough that

make me a bloody messy what the hell are

you talking about

i don't know

hey

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can i get you something

no i'm fine

thank you

yeah well uh i'm just gonna um

gonna run down and get myself some

cigarettes

you just stay there i'll be right back

up

hello

listen claire

don't get involved with this

she's very disturbed right now it's

better if you let me handle it

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foreign

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willa

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so

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really don't run away from me

i should have told you when it happened

i wanted to

laurie was pushing me all the time

she was on my back all the time

i just wanted to talk to her

she turned it into an argument

i followed her up to the roof she

started hitting

i pushed her back she fell she hit her

head

it was an accident

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ah

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food

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it's over

come on

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wow

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it made me sad to watch the plant wither

but no matter how much i watered it the

leaves continued to shrivel and finally

fell off the stem

the plant died

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after the initial shock of that day in

clare's building i was sure of one thing

i had to come up with a story

i told the police that dusty was a total

stranger who'd been bothering robert and

me for a long time

he killed robert and came after me

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i'm happy to say the police did their

usual thorough investigation

i played my part well

they believed me even claire went along

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i went free

now that i finished here i'm ready to

leave this city

i heard about a group in northern

vermont that's involved in much the same

thing lori was

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i want to know more

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so

you