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He Stole My Name, My Story - The Box by the Reservoir · Narcisist Psychology

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  Speaker 1: At six fifteen in the morning on March eleventh, two
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  Speaker 1: thousand nineteen, Darlene Holmes was running her usual loop along
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  Speaker 1: the Kellner Reservoir trail when she spotted a cardboard box
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  Speaker 1: wedged against the base of a chain link fence. It
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  Speaker 1: had rained hard for two straight nights. The box was dry.
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  Speaker 1: That detail alone should have been impossible. The trail ran
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  Speaker 1: through a low drainage corridor and the fence line sat
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  Speaker 1: in open ground. There was no overhang, no shelter. Something
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  Speaker 1: had placed that box there after the rain stopped, and
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  Speaker 1: the access gate to that section of the trail required
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  Speaker 1: a county issued padlock key. Inside the box four hundred
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  Speaker 1: twelve printed pages, a notarized contract, and a wire transfer
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  Speaker 1: receipt for forty one thousand dollars. Every document bore the
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  Speaker 1: same name, not the name of the person who wrote
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  Speaker 1: those pages.
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  Speaker 2: A different name. In timely that name was Philip Perry.
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  Speaker 1: To understand how these documents got there, we must go
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  Speaker 1: back two years, and the story of how it got
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  Speaker 1: there begins two years earlier in a conference room in Dunmore,
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  Speaker 1: with a handshake that looked like opportunity. Dale Marshall was
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  Speaker 1: thirty eight years old. In the spring of twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: He lived on Crestline Drive in Pelham County, worked as
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  Speaker 1: a freelance writer, and had spent the previous six years
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  Speaker 1: building something he cared about more than almost anything else.
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  Speaker 2: He had made.
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  Speaker 1: Every morning before he sat down to write, he fed
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  Speaker 1: his desert tortoise Kepler, twelve years old, slow and steady
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  Speaker 1: at exactly seven forty five. It was the kind of
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  Speaker 1: small ritual that signals a person who structures their days
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  Speaker 1: around purpose. The book Dale was writing was a memoir.
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  Speaker 1: It was about caring for his father through a long illness,
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  Speaker 1: six years of drafts of revision, of finding the right
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  Speaker 1: shape for a grief that did not resolve cleanly. By
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  Speaker 1: early twenty eighteen, he had three complete drafts totaling three
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  Speaker 1: hundred eighty pages. The work was intimate and specific, the
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  Speaker 1: kind of writing that can only come from one place.
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  Speaker 1: Dale had met Philip Perry in October of two thousand
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  Speaker 1: seventeen at a writer's conference in Dunmore. Perry presented himself
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  Speaker 1: as a literary agent representing Northgate Literary, also based in Dunmore.
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  Speaker 1: He was fifty one, polished and unhurried. According to later accounts,
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  Speaker 1: Perry did not pursue Dale aggressively. He let the conversation
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  Speaker 1: develop at Dale's pace. He listened that detail would matter later.
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  Speaker 1: By January of two thousand eighteen, Dale had signed a
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  Speaker 1: representation agreement with Northgate Literary. The commission structure looked standard,
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  Speaker 1: but certain clauses buried in the contract's language were not
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  Speaker 1: standard at all, including one on page seven that used
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  Speaker 1: a phrase with no recognized legal meaning editorial personhood. At
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  Speaker 1: the time, Dale did not flag it nothing in the
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  Speaker 1: relationship he had suggested he should. Perry had also, in
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  Speaker 1: the months before signing, worked to quietly reposition Dale's relationship
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  Speaker 1: with his closest confidant. Gordon Hunt was Dale's cousin, eleven
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  Speaker 1: years older, twenty two years in insurance compliance, the kind
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  Speaker 1: of steady, skeptical presence that tends to notice when something
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  Speaker 1: is off. According to the record, Perry introduced friction between
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  Speaker 1: them gradually, not through confrontation, through suggestion, small doubts placed
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  Speaker 1: carefully over time. By the point Dale signed the contract,
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  Speaker 1: Hunt was already somewhat at a distance. Isolation rarely looks
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  Speaker 1: like a door slamming shut. It looks like a door
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  Speaker 1: that quietly slowly closes. By the autumn of twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: Parry had introduced a puppist named Cheryl Amos. She appeared independent,
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  Speaker 1: she was not. Records would later show she had been
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  Speaker 1: involved in at least one previous Perry project. Her role
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  Speaker 1: in this one was to function as a third voice
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  Speaker 1: of validation, someone who could confirm from the outside that
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  Speaker 1: the plan Perry was proposing made sense. The plan involved
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  Speaker 1: a pen name. Perry suggested it, gently, framing it as
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  Speaker 1: a strategic move for the market. Dale had questions, Amos
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  Speaker 1: had reassurances. The scheme's architecture was almost invisible from inside it.
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  Speaker 1: What Dale did not know, what he had no way
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  Speaker 1: to know, was that by February of twenty nineteen, someone
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  Speaker 1: had been modifying his manuscript. The metadata would later show
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  Speaker 1: edits made under a profile that did not match any
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  Speaker 1: version Dale had submitted. The changes were not substantial rewrites,
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  Speaker 1: they were something more calculated than that.
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  Speaker 2: And somewhere in Alderton.
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  Speaker 1: A small all press called Copper Line Press had already
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  Speaker 1: listed a Spring memoir in its upcoming catalog.
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  Speaker 2: The attributed author was Philip Perry.
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  Speaker 1: Dale found out the way most catastrophic discoveries happened not
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  Speaker 1: through investigation, but through a message from a friend. James Fong,
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  Speaker 1: a writer Dale had met at the same Dunmore conference
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  Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen, forwarded him the Copper Line listing. He
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  Speaker 1: probably thought he was doing Dale a favor by sharing
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  Speaker 1: an interesting industry note. He was just not in the
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  Speaker 1: way either of them expected. The Copper Line listing was
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  Speaker 1: three lines long, a title, a season, a name, Philip Perry.
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  Speaker 1: Dale read it twice before the meaning settled his memoir
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  Speaker 1: his six years someone else's name on the cover. The
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  Speaker 1: first thing Dale did was called Gordon Hunt. Hunt had
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  Speaker 1: spent twenty two years in insurance compliance. He knew what
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  Speaker 1: a document could hide and what it couldn't. He pulled
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  Speaker 1: the commercial registry for Alderton and found the Copper Line
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  Speaker 1: press filing. Within a day. The contract attached to the
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  Speaker 1: listing named Perry as author of record. The advance paid
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  Speaker 1: to Perry was forty one thousand dollars. That number stopped
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  Speaker 1: Hunt cold. He had seen Dale work this manuscript. He
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  Speaker 1: knew the note books, the false starts, the years of
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  Speaker 1: drafts written around the care schedule for Dale's father. Forty
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  Speaker 1: one thousand dollars had changed hands for work that had
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  Speaker 1: never been Perry's to sell. What Hunt found next was
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  Speaker 1: page seven of the Northgate literary contract Dale had signed
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  Speaker 1: in January of two thousand eighteen. Buried in the language
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  Speaker 1: was a clause Perry had called the editorial personhood provision.
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  Speaker 1: It had no standard legal meaning. It appeared in no
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  Speaker 1: industry template Hunt could locate, But in the Copper Line
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  Speaker 1: contract that same phrase had been used as the mechanism
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  Speaker 1: to transfer authorial credit. The clause had been drafted to
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  Speaker 1: look like boilerplate.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: It was a door built into the agreement from the
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  Speaker 1: beginning that opened only one way. Dale had signed it
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  Speaker 1: without knowing what he was signing. That detail the clause
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  Speaker 1: on page seven is worth sitting with because it means
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  Speaker 1: the transfer of credit was not improvised. It was engineered
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  Speaker 1: before Perry had even read the full manuscript, before the
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  Speaker 1: pen name suggestion, before Cheryl Amos appeared with her reassurances
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  Speaker 1: the scheme.
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  Speaker 2: Had a blueprint.
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  Speaker 1: Dale had been handed the blueprint and told it was
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  Speaker 1: a standard contract. But here is the thing about page seven.
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  Speaker 1: It required the manuscript to exist, and the manuscript for
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  Speaker 1: six years had existed only as Dale's continuous dated, time
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  Speaker 1: stamped creative record. That record did not disappear when Perry
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  Speaker 1: copied the files. Gordon Hunt secured a preservation order on
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  Speaker 1: Dale's draft archive before anything else moved. On March eleventh
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  Speaker 1: of twenty nineteen, at six fifteen in the morning, Darlene
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  Speaker 1: Holmes was running the Kellner Reservoir trail.
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  Speaker 2: The way she did every weekday.
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  Speaker 1: She found a cardboard box near the secondary access path.
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  Speaker 1: It was dry, that mattered, The area had seen two
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  Speaker 1: nights of rain. The box had no weathering on it.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever was inside had been placed there recently and placed
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  Speaker 1: under cover. Darlene called the non emergency line officer. Steve
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  Speaker 1: Arroyo arrived roughly twenty minutes later. Inside the box four
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  Speaker 1: hundred twelve printed pages, a notarized contract, a wire transfer
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  Speaker 1: confirmation for forty one thousand dollars. Every document carried the
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  Speaker 1: name Philip Perry. The access path to that spot required
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  Speaker 1: a county issued padlock key. The secondary gate at Kellner
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  Speaker 1: Reservoir was part.
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  Speaker 2: Of the parks system.
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  Speaker 1: Perry had served on the Pelham County Parks Committee from
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  Speaker 1: twenty fifteen to tw thousand seventeen. Records showed he had
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  Speaker 1: signed out a padlock from that system's key series during
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  Speaker 1: a spring twenty sixteen site inspection. The padlock had never
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  Speaker 1: been returned. The box hadn't been dumped. It had been
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  Speaker 1: placed by someone who knew the trail, knew the.
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  Speaker 2: Gate, and had access to it.
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  Speaker 1: When investigators pulled the digital files, they were looking for
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  Speaker 1: something specific, the chain of custody inside the manuscript itself.
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  Speaker 1: What they found was a time stamp record with a
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  Speaker 1: fracture in it. Dale's files showed continuous modification across six years.
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  Speaker 1: The dates were consistent with the narrative. Early drafts in
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  Speaker 1: rough shape, later versions tightened, chapters reorganized in the sequence
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  Speaker 1: you would expect from a writer working through grief and
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  Speaker 1: memory over time.
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  Speaker 2: The record was coherent. It read like a life.
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  Speaker 1: The fracture appeared in February of two thousand nineteen. Edits
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  Speaker 1: to the third draft appeared under a user profile that
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  Speaker 1: did not match any version Dale had submitted to Perry.
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  Speaker 1: The changes were not major, They were not rewrites. They
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  Speaker 1: were the kind of marks that look, at first pass
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  Speaker 1: like an editor's hand in a manuscript, marginal notes, tract suggestions,
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  Speaker 1: a few inserted comments. A forensic examiner determined Those notes
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  Speaker 1: had been inserted digitally after the fact. They had not
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  Speaker 1: been made during the editing process. They had been added
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  Speaker 1: to create the appearance that Perry had substantively worked.
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  Speaker 2: On the text.
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  Speaker 1: The notes were not evidence of collaboration. They were evidence
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  Speaker 1: of fabrication. Perry had not edited the manuscript. He had
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  Speaker 1: constructed a record to make it look like he had.
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  Speaker 1: That distinction matters because Perry's defense, for seven months, across
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  Speaker 1: two continuances and a pre trial hearing, rested on exactly
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  Speaker 1: that record. He denied authorship of the theft. He pointed
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  Speaker 1: to his own involvement with the text, and for a time,
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  Speaker 1: without the forensic analysis, the inserted notes looked like exactly
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  Speaker 1: what he needed them to look like, the trail of
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  Speaker 1: an agent who had done real work. The trial reached
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  Speaker 1: its second week in November of two thoy nineteen. The
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  Speaker 1: prosecution presented the metadata analysis. Then it presented the forensic
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  Speaker 1: examiner's finding about the inserted notes. Perry's attorney had no
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  Speaker 1: document to contradict either. The fabricated record, the one Perry
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  Speaker 1: had built to protect himself, was the thing that finally
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  Speaker 1: collapsed the defense from the inside. Perry confessed before the
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  Speaker 1: jury returned, the jury convicted on all charges anyway, four
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  Speaker 1: years full restitution of the forty one thousand dollars to Dale.
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  Speaker 1: There is something in that sequence worth noting. Philip Perry
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  Speaker 1: spent seven months maintaining a position he had manufactured evidence
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  Speaker 1: to support. The moment that evidence was exposed as manufactured,
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  Speaker 1: he stopped, not before, not after the verdict. The confession
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  Speaker 1: came at the precise moment when the fabrication could no
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  Speaker 1: longer function. That timing is its own kind of admission picture.
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  Speaker 1: Philip Perry at the Dunmore Conference in October of twenty seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: He is not approaching Tale, He is letting Dale come
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  Speaker 1: to him. The distinction is documented. Witnesses at the conference
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  Speaker 1: later described Perry as unhurried, available, generous with his attention.
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  Speaker 2: He seemed like someone.
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  Speaker 1: Who did not need anything from anyone in that room.
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  Speaker 1: That posture was the opening move. If you work backward
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  Speaker 1: from the forensic evidence, one scenario assembles itself clearly. Perry
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  Speaker 1: identified Dale not because Dale had a publishable memoir, but
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  Speaker 1: because Dale had a publishable memoir and no industry connections
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  Speaker 1: to verify anything Perry told him the Dunmore conference was
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  Speaker 1: a pool of exactly those people, writers with completed or
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  Speaker 1: mere completed manuscripts, who did not yet know how the
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  Speaker 1: business worked well enough to recognize what was missing from
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  Speaker 1: the contract they were being handed. The clause on page
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  Speaker 1: seven was not drafted in response to Dale. The clause
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  Speaker 1: existed before Dale and was waiting. That refrains every subsequent move.
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  Speaker 1: The pen name suggestion in autumn of two thousand eighteen
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  Speaker 1: was not improvisation. It was the mechanism to put Perry's
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  Speaker 1: name on a cover without requiring Dale to agree to.
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  Speaker 2: That specific outcome.
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  Speaker 1: The pen name conversation was about market strategy. The copper
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  Speaker 1: Line contract was about authorship. Dale was never asked to
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  Speaker 1: agree to the second thing. He had already signed the
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  Speaker 1: language that made it possible. Cheryl Amos served a specific
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  Speaker 1: function in that architecture. She was not there to advance
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  Speaker 1: Dale's career. She was there to provide an outside voice
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  Speaker 1: at the moment Dale might have paused to question the
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  Speaker 1: direction things were moving. A second opinion, apparently independent, that
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  Speaker 1: confirmed Perry's framing. Records would later show she had been
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  Speaker 1: involved in at least one previous pair project. Her independence
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  Speaker 1: was the performance the reassurance was the product. But the
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  Speaker 1: version of events that the physical evidence makes hardest to
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  Speaker 1: dismiss is the one that starts with the key. Perry
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  Speaker 1: signed out a padlock from the Pelham County Parks System
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  Speaker 1: in spring of twenty sixteen. He was on the committee.
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  Speaker 1: The checkout was routine. The key was never returned. Three
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  Speaker 1: years later, a box of documents appeared behind a gate
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  Speaker 1: that required exactly that key series to open, documents that,
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  Speaker 1: if found, would seem to establish Perry's ownership of a
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  Speaker 1: manuscript and an advance. The box was dry after two
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  Speaker 1: nights of rain. It had been placed recently. It had
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  Speaker 1: been placed deliberately, and whoever placed it had known that
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  Speaker 1: Darlene Holmes ran that trail at six fifteen every weekday morning.
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  Speaker 1: Perry had been present at enough Pelham County community functions
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  Speaker 1: between twenty fifteen and twenty seventeen to have encountered that
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  Speaker 1: kind of local knowledge. The box was not meant to
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  Speaker 1: be evidence against Perry. It was meant to be evidence
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  Speaker 1: for him, a physical record outside his possession that appeared
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  Speaker 1: to confirm his version of the deal. Someone found it
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  Speaker 1: ahead of schedule. That is the detail that recontextualizes everything.
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  Speaker 1: The Kaja wasn't dumped, it was planted, and it was
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  Speaker 1: planted for discovery. Laurie Veneck, the victim advocate assigned during
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  Speaker 1: the sentencing investigation, found something the trial had not surfaced.
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  Speaker 1: Perry's pattern did not begin with Dale records. She located
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  Speaker 1: traced a similar structure back to two thousand nine. A
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  Speaker 1: graphic designer in Prestwood, a composer in Millhaven, different creative fields,
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  Speaker 1: the same architecture, the relationship that appeared to develop on
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  Speaker 1: the victim's initiative, the contract with a clause that had
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  Speaker 1: no standard meaning, the third party introduced at the moment
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  Speaker 1: of maximum dependence. Dale Marshall had not been the first.
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  Speaker 1: He had simply been the first one where a runner
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  Speaker 1: found the box before anyone was supposed to. What the
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  Speaker 1: trial did not surface, Lori Vanek found afterward. During the
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  Speaker 1: sentencing investigation, Vanik, working as the assigned victim advocate, traced
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  Speaker 1: Perry's pattern back a decade two thousand nine. A graphic
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  Speaker 1: designer in Crestwood, a composer in Milhaven, different creative disciplines,
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  Speaker 1: different cities, identical architecture, a relationship that appeared to grow
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  Speaker 1: on the victim's initiative, a contract with a clause that
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  Speaker 1: carried no standard legal meaning, a third party introduced at
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  Speaker 1: the precise moment when the target was most financially and
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  Speaker 1: emotionally invested. Perry had not invented this with Dale, he.
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  Speaker 2: Had refined it.
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  Speaker 1: The Copper Line Press listing had gone live in the
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  Speaker 1: spring of twenty nineteen with Perry's name on a memoir
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  Speaker 1: that belonged to someone else. After the con that listing
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  Speaker 1: was removed the contractual claim Perry had assembled the editorial
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  Speaker 1: personhood clause the notarized documents the planted box collapsed under
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  Speaker 1: the weight of the evidence that his own forensic fabrications produced.
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  Speaker 1: The clause itself was never declared legally valid by any court.
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  Speaker 1: It had been designed to sound legitimate enough to intimidate,
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  Speaker 1: not to function as actual law. Dale Marshall fed Kepler
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  Speaker 1: at seven forty five every morning. A twelve year old
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  Speaker 1: desert tortoise is not dramatic evidence of anything. It is
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  Speaker 1: just a life structured around small, reliable acts. That structure
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  Speaker 1: was what Perry had studied and used. The routine of
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  Speaker 1: the trail, the rhythm of the work space, the way
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  Speaker 1: a person working alone for six years on something private
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  Speaker 1: and true will reach eventually for the one door that opens,
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  Speaker 1: an agent who seems to understand what the work is for.
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  Speaker 1: The memoir was about caring for a dying parent. That
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  Speaker 1: was the material Perry chose to take. Not a thriller outline,
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  Speaker 1: not a pitch deck, a document built from grief and
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  Speaker 1: from love, from six years of sitting with something that
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  Speaker 1: could not be rushed. That is what he attached his
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  Speaker 1: name to. In the spring of twenty twenty one, a
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  Speaker 1: small publisher in Dunmore released the book Dale Marshall's name
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  Speaker 1: on the cover, his father's story in his words, finally
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  Speaker 1: in print.
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  Speaker 2: There is a version of.
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  Speaker 1: This case that ends with the conviction and the restitution
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  Speaker 1: and the four year sentence, and calls that.
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  Speaker 2: Justice and moves on.
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  Speaker 1: But the graphic designer in Crestwood never got a trial.
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  Speaker 1: The composer in Milhaven never got a verdict. The case
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  Speaker 1: is Laurie Vanik, traced from two thousand nine. Are part
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  Speaker 1: of the record now, but only because someone went looking
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  Speaker 1: after the fact, and only because Dale Marshall's case made
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  Speaker 1: it to a court room at all. What catches a
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  Speaker 1: pattern like this is rarely the institution. It is the
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  Speaker 1: runner who takes the same trail every morning, the cousin
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  Speaker 1: who pulls a commercial Registry record on a lunch break,
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  Speaker 1: the writer at a conference two years earlier who happens
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  Speaker 1: to forward a listing people paying quiet attention at the
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  Speaker 1: margins of someone else's life. This case is not entirely closed.
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  Speaker 1: Whether the two thousand nine victims will see any formal
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  Speaker 1: outcome remains unconfirmed in the public record. What is confirmed
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  Speaker 1: is this a man spent a decade learning how to
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  Speaker 1: make other people's creativity disappear, and the thing that stopped
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  Speaker 1: him was a cardboard box that stayed dry when it
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  Speaker 1: should have been soaked. Dale Marshall built something true.
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  Speaker 2: It survived.
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