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3 INTERNET STALKER HORROR STORIES ANIMATED · Martin Animations

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Speaker 1: So something very strange happened to me a few years ago.
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Speaker 1: Because I can't tell it without giving away some identifiable information,
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Speaker 1: I can't say exactly where it happened, but it was
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Speaker 1: a major US city. I don't think I'm in any
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Speaker 1: danger from telling this story, I just have a very
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Speaker 1: good reason to be cautious. I'd been furloughed during the
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Speaker 1: 2020 pandemic, and my stimulus check was starting to run out.
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Speaker 1: I'd split up with my boyfriend because living together in
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Speaker 1: lockdown had revealed that he was a massive Jordan Peterson guy.
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Speaker 1: And before I blocked him on Facebook, I think he
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Speaker 1: was getting into QAnon. So I was starting to get
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Speaker 1: worried about money. I'd got into a routine of waking
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Speaker 1: up and making some black coffee and then checking all
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Speaker 1: the job listing sites for remote work. When nothing turned up,
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Speaker 1: I'd usually hit one of the few gyms that.
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Speaker 2: Were still open.
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Speaker 1: Working out made me feel like that I still had
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Speaker 1: some control over my body. And that day was different
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Speaker 1: though because before I could open my crossword app, I
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Speaker 1: saw a Facebook message about an exciting new job opportunity
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Speaker 1: with flexible hours and daily earnings up to $ 1, 000. It
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Speaker 1: was a multi-level marketing scheme to sell overpriced makeup. I
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Speaker 1: blocked and reported them for scams and thought that that
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Speaker 1: would be the end of it. There was a new
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Speaker 1: girl at the gym that day, but she seemed to
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Speaker 1: be more interested in her phone than working out, probably
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Speaker 1: trying to choose the right selfies to post. I tried
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Speaker 1: to ignore her and worked on my arms. After showering
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Speaker 1: and changing into a strappy top and leggings, I went
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Speaker 1: to the nearby Starbucks for a frappe. There were some
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Speaker 1: more scam messages, which I didn't even bother reading this
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Speaker 1: time before blocking them, and there must have been about
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Speaker 1: five different accounts, all with the same kinds of messages
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Speaker 1: and the same profile photo, of a woman in her
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Speaker 1: thirties with lip fillers and.
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Speaker 2: Pretty good eye makeup.
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Speaker 1: It was about this point when I realized that she
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Speaker 1: was in the coffee shop, only about three tables away.
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Speaker 2: I froze.
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Speaker 1: I went to that gym almost every day. I was
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Speaker 1: in the Starbucks nearly as often, and she had to
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Speaker 1: have seen me here, probably got my name from them
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Speaker 1: calling out for my drink orders and guessed the rest
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Speaker 1: on Facebook. And this was no coincidence. Another terrible thought
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Speaker 1: struck me. I googled the makeup brand Zero Results, and
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Speaker 1: that kind of company is almost built on search engine optimization.
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Speaker 1: There was no way that it would have had a
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Speaker 1: digital footprint. And like most people, I didn't know much
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Speaker 1: about multi-level marketing companies. The scale at which most of
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Speaker 1: the recruiters message people is a little frightening. And you're
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Speaker 1: told to find up to hundreds of people each day
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Speaker 1: and tell them their unique qualities make them suited to
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Speaker 1: the MLM. So when I found out that the MLM
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Speaker 1: company wasn't even real, it made a lot more sense
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Speaker 1: how she'd had the time to do so much research
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Speaker 1: on me. I later found out from friends and ex-coworkers
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Speaker 1: that she'd been messaging them asking questions about me and
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Speaker 1: just giving a very weird vibe. I was so shocked
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Speaker 1: that I almost ran out of the coffee shop. And
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Speaker 1: of course she followed me after taking a sip from
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Speaker 1: my unfinished drink. I asked her what the hell she
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Speaker 1: was doing and in the end it turned out to
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Speaker 1: be about a man that I'd just forgotten about. She
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Speaker 1: claimed I'd stolen her ex and in reality he'd never
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Speaker 1: told me that he was in a relationship and when
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Speaker 1: he proved to be useless in every way that mattered
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Speaker 1: I ended it The next week I'd seen him with
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Speaker 1: another woman and I barely even cared. I didn't steal
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Speaker 1: her boyfriend and she would have been better off without him.
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Speaker 1: I tried to tell her as much but she was
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Speaker 1: clearly obsessed with me now and it didn't really matter
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Speaker 1: how she'd started. It felt very strange trying to run
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Speaker 1: away from her without wanting to make it obvious that
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Speaker 1: something weird was happening and as if by not showing
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Speaker 1: it I could avoid the situation that I was in.
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Speaker 1: She didn't seem to care about that so I was
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Speaker 1: forced to run away from her. Not sure where else
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Speaker 1: to go, I ran for the subway with her not
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Speaker 1: far behind. And I thought back to my wilder teenage
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Speaker 1: years as I cleanly jumped over the turnstile, leaving her
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Speaker 1: scrambling to pay the fare. And I ran down the
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Speaker 1: platform and jumped through the subway car doors and tried
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Speaker 1: to make my way along the packed train. Just as
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Speaker 1: the doors were closing, she made it into the car,
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Speaker 1: and I waved at her as the train started to
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Speaker 1: move and walked back up the steps to get a
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Speaker 1: cab home. I don't have my name on any social
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Speaker 1: media accounts now and I deleted most of them. Even
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Speaker 1: if you could work out who I am from this,
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Speaker 1: you'll never find me online. I don't really take selfies anymore,
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Speaker 1: not on any public accounts, and of course I got
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Speaker 1: multiple restraining orders on her, but I still don't want
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Speaker 1: to take any chances. Unless she's gotten the help she needs,
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Speaker 1: then she's probably stalking someone else right now. I have
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Speaker 1: a very close friend who tells me I need to
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Speaker 1: move because I resent having to keep a file on
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Speaker 1: my own stalker. and I'm only writing this because I
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Speaker 1: think if she escalates again, that she.
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Speaker 2: Might get caught.
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Speaker 1: I'm from Old Blighty, and I've got a proper corker
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Speaker 1: of a yarn to share with you today, old chap.
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Speaker 1: Just kidding, we don't actually talk like that, but that
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Speaker 1: was the first message I received from the girl that
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Speaker 1: I'll call handcuffs. She said that she'd seen my MySpace
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Speaker 1: and liked my photography and thought it was funny that
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Speaker 1: I came from Old Blighty. She was fascinated by British
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Speaker 1: slang and British culture and kept making weird British jokes
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Speaker 1: to me, calling me Old Chap and that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 1: And I found it pretty enduring that a hot alternative
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Speaker 1: Californian chick was impressed by my Britishness. And I figured
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Speaker 1: the rumor was true, that American chicks dig British guys
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Speaker 1: despite our awful teeth and love of bland cuisine. And
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Speaker 1: I was even more impressed when Handcuffs told me the
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Speaker 1: site that she'd worked for. You can't actually say the
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Speaker 1: name on YouTube, but let's just say that it's a
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Speaker 1: modeling site that still exists to this day, which could
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Speaker 1: be known as Unalive Lasses, if you catch my drift.
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Speaker 1: And you probably get it by now. Handcuffs told me
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Speaker 1: that she was an unalive lass, and sent some photos
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Speaker 1: that did indeed suggest that she was such. And I
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Speaker 1: could see her on the public version of the website, but...
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Speaker 1: A number of the photos were definitely from the paying
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Speaker 1: members only area if you catch my drift.
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Speaker 2: And of course it didn't.
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Speaker 1: Really occur to my dumb hormone fueled self that someone
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Speaker 1: could have just subscribed to the site to save those
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Speaker 1: photos and send them to me. The inclusion of some
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Speaker 1: candid personal photos sealed the deal for me and again,
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Speaker 1: stupid as I am, I didn't really consider that whoever
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Speaker 1: Handcuffs really was, they could have just found other photos
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Speaker 1: of this unalive lass who was a public figure. Me
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Speaker 1: and Handcuffs talked for a while, and then she confessed
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Speaker 1: her love for me. And I believed this, obviously, because
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Speaker 1: I was an arrogant little sod who thought that I
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Speaker 1: was a great catch for a Californian glamour model. And
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Speaker 1: I started getting more suspicious, however, when she became dead
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Speaker 1: set on flying me out to Cali to meet her.
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Speaker 1: And that seemed too good to be true, but hey,
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Speaker 1: what's the worst that could happen? A free trip to California?
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Speaker 1: Then she said that because of the way the exchange
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Speaker 1: rate works, she could only buy a ticket from the
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Speaker 1: UK to California using GBP, and her bank account didn't
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Speaker 1: allow her to exchange dollars for pounds. Therefore, I'd have
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Speaker 1: to send her the ticket price in pounds, and she'd
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Speaker 1: send it back in dollars, and she knew my bank
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Speaker 1: account would automatically convert it because Lloyd's Bank did that apparently.
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Speaker 1: Why a Californian on a live last was supposed to
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Speaker 1: have insight into the functions of Lloyd's Bank as something
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Speaker 1: I'll never know. But hey, at least it was a
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Speaker 1: good tell that started to open my eyes. I asked
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Speaker 1: her if she could possibly send the money first because
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Speaker 1: I was a little strapped for cash after getting my
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Speaker 1: Peugeot modded. At first she said that was fine and
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Speaker 1: even claimed that she'd done an international transfer, so I
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Speaker 1: should send the money over in the meantime and her
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Speaker 1: transfer would appear in my account later.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no thanks.
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Speaker 1: I told her I'd have to wait until her transfer
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Speaker 1: came through and she started ranting about how I didn't
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Speaker 1: really love her. and how I wasn't going to get
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Speaker 1: some if I didn't make the effort and try to
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Speaker 1: appeal to my, you know, baser instincts. And as much
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Speaker 1: as I wanted to believe that I'd be sinking into
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Speaker 1: the bed of an unalive lass, I also wanted to
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Speaker 1: believe that I'd have money to live, so I told
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Speaker 1: her that I genuinely could not send the money back
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Speaker 1: until I had it. Of course, no money showed up,
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Speaker 1: and then she surprised me by saying it was fine.
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Speaker 1: She'd managed to buy the ticket anyway, so I didn't
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Speaker 1: need to worry about the money. I asked her if
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Speaker 1: the plane tickets would be arriving at my house, and
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Speaker 1: she said no. She hadn't been able to arrange that,
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Speaker 1: so I'd have to pick them up from the airport
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Speaker 1: on the day of the flight. I told her that
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Speaker 1: I'd prefer to have the ticket in hand before driving
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Speaker 1: all the way down to Heathrow, or at the very least,
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Speaker 1: could she email me the receipt for the ticket so
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Speaker 1: I knew everything was kosher. And again, she flipped out
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Speaker 1: at this, screaming over instant messenger and hurling some of
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Speaker 1: the worst written abuse I think I'd ever seen in
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Speaker 1: my life. Hell, at this point I didn't even care
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Speaker 1: if she was genuine, Californian hot girl or not.
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Speaker 2: Never stick your head in crazy, as they say.
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Speaker 1: And so I told her to have a nice life,
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Speaker 1: blocked her, and moved on thinking that I was no
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Speaker 1: worse for wear. I did kind of miss her, or
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Speaker 1: miss the things that I'd imagined getting.
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Speaker 2: Up to with her, but it was whatever. And a
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Speaker 2: few days later I.
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Speaker 1: Was strolling through town with a couple of the boys
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Speaker 1: when I heard a female voice yelling my name with
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Speaker 1: some absolute venom. I turned to look, and an ex-girlfriend
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Speaker 1: from year eight came bounding across the high street. Lucy
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Speaker 1: was a large Wiccan girl who had been a smaller
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Speaker 1: quiet girl when we dated. We just kind of drifted
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Speaker 1: apart after just a few weeks, simply not vibing, and
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Speaker 1: I never even thought about her since. We were in
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Speaker 1: sixth form college now, and I saw her around at times,
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Speaker 1: often being quite loud and mouthy, and was always glad
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Speaker 1: that I'd dodged a bullet with that one. And now
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Speaker 1: she was storming over to me, swinging her big woolen
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Speaker 1: black bag, pentagrams jangling around her neck, mascara smeared around
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Speaker 1: her eyes and she came up to me and jabbed
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Speaker 1: me in the chest with a porky finger hollering at
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Speaker 1: me that i had no idea what i'd missed out
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Speaker 1: on and that i'd regret not paying her what i
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Speaker 1: owed her for the heartbreak she began screeching that she
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Speaker 1: was going to put a spell on me and my
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Speaker 1: friends and that my uh genitals would fall off then
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Speaker 1: she mentioned a few things that only handcuffs would know
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Speaker 1: and that's when i realized handcuffs was lucy my weird
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Speaker 1: Wiccan ex-girlfriend from year eight, and I'd been successfully and
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Speaker 1: decisively catfished by this crazy bitch. My mates would give
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Speaker 1: me the ribbing of a lifetime about this later, but
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Speaker 1: right now Lucy seemed genuinely unhinged and dangerous. She was
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Speaker 1: talking as if she genuinely believed that she was handcuffs,
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Speaker 1: and had at least summoned or manifested her, and that
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Speaker 1: if I'd just sent her the money to pay her rent,
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Speaker 1: then everything would have been forgiven and we could have
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Speaker 1: gone back to being in love. I asked her what
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Speaker 1: needed forgiving, and she said the fact that I broke
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Speaker 1: up with her.
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Speaker 2: In year eight, lady. Like five years ago.
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Speaker 1: And we just drifted apart, so I yelled it at her,
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Speaker 1: and it absolutely broke her brain. Lucy full-blown leaped on me,
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Speaker 1: slamming me to the floor, and I felt my head
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Speaker 1: hit the side of a granite bench as I fell
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Speaker 1: and blood began to trickle from my skull. And on
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Speaker 1: top of that, I could feel tiny, sharp pains in
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Speaker 1: my chest as she began to stab me over and
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Speaker 1: over repeatedly with a safety pin. It was more annoying
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Speaker 1: than agonizing, and coupled with the crack in my skull,
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Speaker 1: things were starting to feel very serious. I felt my
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Speaker 1: friends dragging Lucy off me, and the next thing I knew,
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Speaker 1: I was waking up in a hospital. Lucy had accidentally
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Speaker 1: fractured my damn skull when she'd pushed me, and I
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Speaker 1: had a massive bleed on my brain. My chest was
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Speaker 1: also really sore from being stabbed by a damn safety pin,
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Speaker 1: and my parents told me that Lucy was absolutely mortified
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Speaker 1: about nearly killing me. Lucy's parents were insisting that she
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Speaker 1: went into a voluntary rehab stint. Apparently she'd been pretty
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Speaker 1: heavy into drugs and alcohol, and this was a wake-up
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Speaker 1: call for her. And it was up to me if
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Speaker 1: I pressed charges, and ultimately I decided not to. But
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Speaker 1: that is the story of how I got catfished, stalked,
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Speaker 1: and almost killed by a fake unalive lass who almost
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Speaker 1: unalived me. For a bit of a happy ending, Lucy
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Speaker 1: went through a stint at rehab and got better. We're
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Speaker 1: not close or anything, but she's a mother of two
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Speaker 1: and a fitness instructor now and living her best life.
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Speaker 1: We keep in touch sporadically, though, for class reunions and stuff,
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Speaker 1: and she has an incredibly dark sense of humor like
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Speaker 1: I do, so we're able to joke about her almost
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Speaker 1: killing me. In fact, it was her idea that I
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Speaker 1: write this up, and she proofread and signed off on it.
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Speaker 1: Some of the more damning descriptions of her were added
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Speaker 1: by her, and she said that I should send it
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Speaker 1: to a True Scary Stories channel, and so I settled
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Speaker 1: on sending it to my favorite lad who would never
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Speaker 1: catfish anyone.
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Speaker 2: Let's read.
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Speaker 1: So I've been a listener for a long time, and
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Speaker 1: I've come into your livestreams sometimes. And I'm ashamed to
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Speaker 1: say that I've left a few comments laughing at some
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Speaker 1: of the submitting authors for being idiots. I've always felt
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Speaker 1: a bit guilty about it because deep down I know
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Speaker 1: that I'm just projecting. As about eight years ago, I
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Speaker 1: got myself into a situation with a weird internet creeper
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Speaker 1: and I know it really was my own doing. I
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Speaker 1: guess it's easier to take out my frustrations on others
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Speaker 1: than admit fault. My friend Allison warned me about this
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Speaker 1: guy named Jeff. And yeah, It was my own stupid fault,
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Speaker 1: I admit that up front. And Allison told me, hey Shan,
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Speaker 1: I met this guy on such and such Facebook group
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Speaker 1: and he started being all weird and intense with me.
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Speaker 2: And she told me he.
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Speaker 1: Was into swords and horror and all sorts of edgelord things.
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Speaker 1: She told me that Jeff had mentioned me a few
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Speaker 1: times and that he thought I was interesting. She said
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Speaker 1: she thought he'd been trying to hit me up next.
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Speaker 1: And she was right, he did. and my bored, stupid self,
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Speaker 1: against my better judgment, allowed him to strike up a
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Speaker 1: conversation with me. If you've ever been on the internet
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Speaker 1: at all, anytime between the 2000s and the late 2010s,
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Speaker 1: you'll know guys like Jeff. Intense, serious, quick-to-anger anime fans
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Speaker 1: who love The Killing Joke, Sin City, Firefly, and Arma.
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Speaker 1: They hate the MCU and any mainstream superhero thing. They
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Speaker 1: claim to be huge comic book fans, but get all
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Speaker 1: their information from the Nolan Batman movies. They're an embarrassment
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Speaker 1: to genuine comic book fans and nerds and people who
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Speaker 1: understand why the Joker actually is a cool character instead
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Speaker 1: of why mean lord incels think he is. True ones understand.
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Speaker 1: And Jeff was not a true one. His favorite game
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Speaker 1: of all time was Bioshock Infinite. And this is not
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Speaker 1: to insult that game, but it is relevant and will
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Speaker 1: come up later. And when Jeff started talking to me,
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Speaker 1: it wasn't actually as bad as I expected. He was
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Speaker 1: surprisingly fairly interesting. He had a rudimentary interest in the
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Speaker 1: same things I did, the same comics, movies, anime, and
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Speaker 1: video games. And at first, the cracks didn't show. But
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Speaker 1: then the more he talked about these things, the clearer
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Speaker 1: it became that he was getting all his information from
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Speaker 1: probably Wikipedia or a handful of movie adaptations. He'd make definitive,
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Speaker 1: sweeping statements about media that was just completely wrong or misinformed.
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Speaker 1: For example, he went on about how Batman was his
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Speaker 1: favorite superhero because all of his rogue gallery was totally
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Speaker 1: grounded and normal, nothing weird or comic book-y. And this
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Speaker 1: was only true in the movie adaptations, but to an
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Speaker 1: OG Batman comics fan, it's a ridiculous thing to say.
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Speaker 1: I made the mistake of pointing this out to him,
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Speaker 1: and he got super mad and started yelling at me
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Speaker 1: that the Comics didn't really count, eh?
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Speaker 2: Weird.
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Speaker 1: Now, I only knew Jeff online, thank God, but every
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Speaker 1: time I'd come online, I'd find lengthy messages from him.
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Speaker 1: After just a week of knowing him, he'd write elaborate
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Speaker 1: essays about how close we were and how much I
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Speaker 1: meant to him and how grateful he was to know
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Speaker 1: someone like me. We had known each other for probably
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Speaker 1: a week at that point. The close friendship he'd imagined
16:52
Speaker 1: in his head soon seemed to sway towards the suggestion
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Speaker 1: of a relationship. I had absolutely no romantic interest in
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Speaker 1: this guy and had made it very clear to him
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Speaker 1: that I wasn't looking, but it was like he heard
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Speaker 1: what he wanted to hear. Multiple times he tried to
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Speaker 1: impress me by crowing on about how he had to
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Speaker 1: break the heart of his last girlfriend because she wanted
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Speaker 1: to sleep with him and he'd lectured her about how
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Speaker 1: that was inappropriate. When I asked why it was inappropriate,
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Speaker 1: He let slip that he, in his early 30s, had
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Speaker 1: been dating a 16-year-old girl. Not just online, either. They
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Speaker 1: were dating in person. And he very smugly told me
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Speaker 1: that he wouldn't sleep with her because it was illegal, though,
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Speaker 1: and she was a bad person for wanting to get
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Speaker 1: with him.
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Speaker 2: Okay, buddy. That's the child at fault, for sure. I bet.
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Speaker 1: And this is when I decided that I didn't really
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Speaker 1: want to be friends with this weirdo anymore. And one
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Speaker 1: time I told him I was sick and that I
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Speaker 1: wouldn't be online for a while. And after five days
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Speaker 1: of frantic messages from him, I kind of snapped and said, dude,
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Speaker 1: I was sick. And he kept replying saying, I knew it.
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Speaker 1: I just knew it. And then proceeded to ramble on
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Speaker 1: about how we had a freaking psychic connection and how
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Speaker 1: he had the same thing with his beloved grandmother and
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Speaker 1: could always tell when something was wrong with a loved one.
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Speaker 1: So he had simply been able to tell that I
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Speaker 1: wasn't okay. Oh right, it was a psychic connection, and
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Speaker 1: not the fact that I literally told you five days ago. Next,
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Speaker 1: when I wouldn't reply, he began sending me messages saying
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Speaker 1: that he was having severe chest pains, and then narrating
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Speaker 1: his journey to the emergency room, and leaving vague hints
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Speaker 1: that he had only hours or minutes left to live.
18:36
Speaker 1: The first time, I stupidly fell for it, and then
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Speaker 1: he would simply do it every time he wanted attention,
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Speaker 1: but there was never any follow-up to these medical disasters.
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Speaker 1: absolute clown man and when that stopped working he began
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Speaker 1: to spin sob stories about various elderly relatives he lived
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Speaker 1: with who were on death's door the problem was he
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Speaker 1: couldn't remember the stories that he'd spun so one month
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Speaker 1: it was his beloved granddad who'd raised him who was
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Speaker 1: dying but the next month it was his grandmother and
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Speaker 1: then it was his brother and his dad and none
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Speaker 1: of them ever actually did die and most of them
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Speaker 1: never even got mentioned again It also contradicted the fact
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Speaker 1: that he previously told me that he lived with a
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Speaker 1: roommate who stole a ton of money off of him
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Speaker 1: but still lived with him, and also that he lived alone.
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Speaker 1: It was just completely nonsensical gibberish, all designed to evoke sympathy.
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Speaker 1: He'd write lengthy attention-seeking diatribes on Facebook about how everyone
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Speaker 1: he knew always wanted to take, take, and take from him.
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Speaker 1: and how he was an untapped well of positivity and generosity,
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Speaker 1: who was literally incapable of being mean, that he genuinely
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Speaker 1: had some kind of condition that meant that he couldn't
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Speaker 1: be unpleasant to people. And yet somehow he was always
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Speaker 1: managing to condemn women and girls for their behavior, choice
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Speaker 1: of dress, etc., or calling other people fake fans of
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Speaker 1: things he liked, even though he had the most rudimentary
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Speaker 1: understanding of most things. And eventually it all became too
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Speaker 1: much for me. He'd go on these rants about how
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Speaker 1: desire was disgusting and inappropriate, but also keep trying to
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Speaker 1: hit on me. He'd send me random poorly lit photos
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Speaker 1: of himself, nothing risque even, just weird photos of him
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Speaker 1: in a hat, and then ask for lengthy opinions on
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Speaker 1: how good he looked, and if he felt like I
20:28
Speaker 1: hadn't said enough, he'd just keep pressing and pressing. Now again,
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Speaker 1: let me stress that I met this guy online for
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Speaker 1: about six weeks, and in the end, I told him
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Speaker 1: that things were way, way too intense for me, and
20:42
Speaker 1: that while I'd be happy to try a friendship with him,
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Speaker 1: we just didn't have the same kind of relationship where
20:48
Speaker 1: we were actually close BFFs or more like he seemed
20:51
Speaker 1: to keep insisting. This was of course my fault, and
20:56
Speaker 1: he lost it with me, getting ragey and angry at
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Speaker 1: the fact that I'd said that I was willing to
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Speaker 1: be his friend. Now why would I say that if
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Speaker 1: I wasn't? I tried to explain to him that being
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Speaker 1: someone's friend doesn't involve constant trauma dumping, attention seeking, and
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Speaker 1: claims of psychic bonds. But he was having none of it.
21:15
Speaker 1: He started swearing and cursing at me, so I blocked him. Later,
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Speaker 1: he messaged me on Steam, apologizing for what he was
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Speaker 1: about to do. It wasn't clear whether he was going
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Speaker 1: to do something to himself or to me. I wasn't
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Speaker 1: too concerned about the latter, though. We lived in totally
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Speaker 1: different countries and he was far too broke to fly
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Speaker 1: here and do anything to me. Of course, nothing came
21:39
Speaker 1: of it because guys like him are all terror and bluster.
21:44
Speaker 1: And instead, he posted a huge rant on Facebook about
21:48
Speaker 1: how if you have a beautiful songbird in a cage,
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Speaker 1: it's your duty to let her fly free. It was
21:54
Speaker 1: a quote from Bioshock Infinite and he decided I was
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Speaker 1: Elizabeth from Bioshock and he was, I don't know, her dad? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: way to make it even more creepier, pal. It was
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Speaker 1: a pretty terrifying experience, even if I can look back
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Speaker 1: on it and laugh at him. Having someone that toxic
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Speaker 1: in your life is horrible, and I severely learned my
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Speaker 1: lesson about believing people like this are interesting. And I
22:19
Speaker 1: hope the same can be said for my third friend
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Speaker 1: who decided to befriend Jeff even after all of what
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Speaker 1: I'd told her. And last I heard, she'd cut him
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Speaker 1: off because he was trying to convince her to cheat
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Speaker 1: on her husband with him.