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Speaker 1: Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, and today I'm
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Speaker 1: going to share two stories that demonstrate that. But before
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Speaker 1: At around eight pm on December sixteenth, twenty twenty three,
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Speaker 1: a thirty one year old man named Nestra Flores was
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Speaker 1: driving down a highway just outside of Dallas, Texas, with
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Speaker 1: both his hands tightly gripping the steering wheel. Nestor was
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Speaker 1: very stressed out on this ride. All he wanted to
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Speaker 1: do was get home because he was worried that on
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Speaker 1: this ride he might get pulled over by police. I mean,
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Speaker 1: this was a route he had driven a bunch and
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Speaker 1: he knew there were loads of state troopers that patrolled
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Speaker 1: the area, and from his perspective, it seemed like they
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Speaker 1: kind of pulled people over all the time. And Nestor
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Speaker 1: had spent the night out with a couple of friends,
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Speaker 1: and he had had a couple of drinks. You know,
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Speaker 1: he didn't feel he had had too much to where
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Speaker 1: he couldn't drive, but he knew if he did get
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Speaker 1: pulled over, you know, he could be in trouble. And
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Speaker 1: then on top of that, you know, in the back
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Speaker 1: of Nestor's mind was the fact that he had had
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Speaker 1: a couple of minor run ins with the law over
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Speaker 1: the past couple of years, and so he kind of
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Speaker 1: had this fear of police already. And also Nestor was
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Speaker 1: not born in America, and so he was worried that
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Speaker 1: on top of all that, if he got pulled over,
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Speaker 1: you know, he could risk being deported and so on. Hole,
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Speaker 1: Nestor just does not want to see any police officer.
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Speaker 1: He just wants to get home and go to bed.
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Speaker 1: And so, as Nestor is doing his best to not
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Speaker 1: draw any suspicion to himself and is trying to follow
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Speaker 1: all the rules of the road, he decides to have
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Speaker 1: a sip of his diet coke. And his diet coke
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Speaker 1: was right in the middle console, so as he's driving,
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Speaker 1: eye straight ahead, he reaches down and he grabs the coke.
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Speaker 2: He pulls it up, he uncaps it, takes a sip.
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Speaker 1: But then as he puts the drink back down again,
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Speaker 1: he's keeping his eyes on the road, he hits something
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Speaker 1: with the drink, and he feels the drink slosh out
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Speaker 1: of his cup and it hits his hand, and instinctively,
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Speaker 1: you know, he took his eyes off the road and
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Speaker 1: looked down at the coke and he managed to put
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Speaker 1: the drink back in its cupholder.
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Speaker 2: And then when he.
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Speaker 1: Brought his eyes back to the road, there was a
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Speaker 1: deer in the middle of the road. He was too
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Speaker 1: close to swerve out of the way, and so at
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Speaker 1: full speed, he smashes into this deer. The deer hits
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Speaker 1: his front windshield and basically caves in the passenger side
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Speaker 1: windshield and flips up and over the back of his car.
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Speaker 1: And Nestor amazingly was composed enough to not swerve wildly
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Speaker 1: post impact, because he knew if he did that he
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Speaker 1: could run into oncoming traffic or something and so he
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Speaker 1: just kept on going straight and gradually slowed down and
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Speaker 1: pulled off the side of the road. And as he did,
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Speaker 1: he looked over his shoulder, seeing if this deer was
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Speaker 1: basically lying in the road, or even worse, maybe it
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Speaker 1: hits some other car. But when he looked over his shoulder,
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Speaker 1: the road was clear. There was no deer. Now, even
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Speaker 1: though Nestor was obviously very shaken up at this point,
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Speaker 1: I mean, he just had this horrible car accident with
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Speaker 1: this deer, and he's already on edge about getting pulled
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Speaker 1: over by police, but for the moment, it was just
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Speaker 1: peaceful on the highway. You know, no cops were coming
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Speaker 1: up to him, and he's pulled over to the side.
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Speaker 1: You know, physically he was okay. You know, it seemed
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Speaker 1: like the deer was okay. It clearly ran off the
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Speaker 1: road or something, and there was damage to his car.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the deer really smashed in the front of
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Speaker 1: his car, and the windshield, especially on the passenger side,
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Speaker 1: was basically caved in. But Nestor was able to see
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Speaker 1: through his side of the windshield, and when he put
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Speaker 1: the car back in drive and hit the gas, the
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Speaker 1: car seemed to drive just fine. And so even though
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Speaker 1: Nestor felt kind of bad that he had smashed this deer,
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Speaker 1: he thought, you know what am I gonna do?
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Speaker 2: Go find the deer and make sure it's okay.
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Speaker 1: Like he can't really do anything, it's nighttime, and so
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Speaker 1: he made the decision that you know, nobody saw this,
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Speaker 1: and it seems like everything's okay. So I'm just gonna
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Speaker 1: drive home and I'll take care of my car tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: But after driving thirty eight more miles from the impact site,
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Speaker 1: Nestor's car began making this horrible rattling sound from the engine,
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Speaker 1: and also smoke began to billow up out of the
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Speaker 1: front of his car, and so Nestor knew, you know,
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Speaker 1: this is so conspicuous, he's gonna get pulled over if
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Speaker 1: he doesn't stop. And so, feeling really annoyed because he
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Speaker 1: was actually pretty close to home at this point, Nestor
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Speaker 1: pulled off the highway and came to a stop in
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Speaker 1: a parking lot of a fast food restaurant. And so,
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Speaker 1: at first, all Nestor did was just turn off his
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Speaker 1: car and wait for a couple of minutes in hopes that,
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Speaker 1: you know, that would be enough to cure his car.
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Speaker 1: But after a couple of minutes, you know, the smoke
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Speaker 1: continued to billow out of his car, and then when
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Speaker 1: he tried to turn it back on again, the car
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Speaker 1: simply wouldn't start. And so at this point Nestor knew
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Speaker 1: he had to call a tow truck, but when he
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Speaker 1: reached for his phone, his phone was dead and he
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Speaker 1: didn't have a phone charger in his car, and so
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Speaker 1: he's like, great, I can't even call a tow truck.
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Speaker 1: But then he looked up and saw the fast food
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Speaker 1: restaurant was open, and he decided he would just go
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Speaker 1: in there and he would ask one of them if
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Speaker 1: they had a charger. So Nestor gets out of his
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Speaker 1: smoking car, he walks into the restaurant. He goes up
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Speaker 1: to the counter, and he asked the person behind the counter, Hey,
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Speaker 1: you know, my phone's dead. Do you have a charger?
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Speaker 1: Do you mind charging my phone? But the employee they
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Speaker 1: didn't say anything back to Nestor. They just stood there
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Speaker 1: with their mouths open and their eyes wide, staring at
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Speaker 1: Nestor like they couldn't believe what they were looking at.
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Speaker 1: And so Nestor's thinking, like, what's wrong with this person?
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Speaker 1: You know, hey, do you have a charger or not.
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Speaker 1: And the employee, who by this point is pale as
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Speaker 1: a ghost, just shook their head at Nestor like, no,
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Speaker 1: they don't have a charger, and then they just stood there,
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Speaker 1: still staring at Nestor. And so now Nestor is genuinely
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Speaker 1: just furious. I mean, the whole night has completely derailed here.
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Speaker 1: All he wanted to do was get home, and it's
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Speaker 1: like one horrible thing happens after another, and so Nestor
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Speaker 1: was just like, okay, fine, and he turned around and
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Speaker 1: he left the restaurant and went back to his car, thinking,
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Speaker 1: maybe if I searched the whole vehicle, you know, there's
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Speaker 1: bound to be a charger in there somewhere. And so
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Speaker 1: Nestor gets back into his car, he climbs into the
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Speaker 1: driver's seat, he shuts the door, and as he begins
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Speaker 1: looking around his car for this charger, he begins to
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Speaker 1: feel really sleepy, and actually he eventually just kind of
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Speaker 1: leans forward and falls asleep in his car. More than
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Speaker 1: two hours later, Nestor woke up to the sound of
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Speaker 1: somebody tapping on his window, and so Nestor groggily turned
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Speaker 1: and looked, and it was like the worst case scenario.
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Speaker 1: It was a police officer who was shining his flashlight
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Speaker 1: into the vehicle, clearly gesturing for Nestor to roll his
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Speaker 1: window down. And so Nestor was totally compliant. He rolled
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Speaker 1: the window down, and he looked at the officer and
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Speaker 1: before Nestor could even say anything, the officer said, get
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Speaker 1: out of the car. So Nestor he gets out of
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Speaker 1: the car, and he's thinking to himself, you know, why
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Speaker 1: is he acting so aggressively towards me, Like what have
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Speaker 1: I done here? And so Nestor, you know, he gets
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Speaker 1: out of the car, and again before Nestor can ask
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Speaker 1: any questions, the officer just says to Nestor what happened tonight?
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Speaker 2: Like what's going on here?
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Speaker 1: And so Nestor, you know, he knows his car is
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Speaker 1: jacked up and here he is sleeping in the parking lot.
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Speaker 1: And so he turns to the officer and begins explaining
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Speaker 1: the deer story. You know, he was driving down the
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Speaker 1: road he hits the deer. You know, it went over
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Speaker 1: the top. He didn't see it, he didn't report it.
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Speaker 1: And as he's telling the officer this, he's thinking, oh
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Speaker 1: my gosh, like is there a law, like if you
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Speaker 1: hit a deer, are you supposed to report it?
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Speaker 2: Is that what's going on?
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Speaker 1: Maybe the deer did die and it was in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the road, and somebody saw his license plate,
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Speaker 1: and now the cop was here, and so Nestor began
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Speaker 1: to pan it, you know, trying to explain the logic
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Speaker 1: behind leaving the deer and how sorry he was. He
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Speaker 1: should have stopped, he should have called the police. But
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Speaker 1: the officer finally just put up his hand, telling Nestor
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Speaker 1: to stop talking. And then the officer took his flashlight
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Speaker 1: and he shined it past Nestor at his car. And
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Speaker 1: when the officer did that, the officer immediately grabbed his
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Speaker 1: radio and began barking orders into it, saying he needed
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Speaker 1: back up. And so Nestor's like, what is going on here?
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Speaker 1: Like this whole night has been such a disaster, Like
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Speaker 1: what did I do? And so Nestor he turned to
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Speaker 1: see what the cop was looking at on his car
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Speaker 1: that would elicit such a big response from him, And
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Speaker 1: when he looked at the passenger seat of his car,
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Speaker 1: where the CoP's light was now shining, Nestor froze for
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Speaker 1: a second and then just started to scream. It would
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Speaker 1: turn out that even though Nestor believed he had only had,
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Speaker 1: you know, a few drinks and he was okay to drive,
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Speaker 1: the reality was he was completely annihilated drunk and should
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Speaker 1: never have been behind the wheel. And when he was
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Speaker 1: driving on the highway, you know, anxiously trying to get home, well.
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Speaker 2: He didn't hit a deer.
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Speaker 1: He hit a forty five years old pedestrian named Terry Ivory,
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Speaker 1: and he hit the sky was so much force that
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Speaker 1: Terry went through the windshield on the passenger side and
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Speaker 1: then landed in the passenger seat minus one leg, which
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Speaker 1: had been severed on impact. And then Terry's dead body
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Speaker 1: sat there in the passenger seat, with Nestor having no idea.
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Speaker 1: He thinks there's a deer back there, but there was
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Speaker 1: never a deer. There's just a dead guy next to him.
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Speaker 1: And Nestor just drove forty more miles with Terry's dead
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Speaker 1: body next to him.
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Speaker 2: And then when Nestor's car.
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Speaker 1: Began to smoke and make noises, he pulled off the
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Speaker 1: highway to that fast food restaurant parking lot. And then
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Speaker 1: when he went inside the restaurant to try to get
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Speaker 1: a phone charger. The reason that employee was so shocked
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Speaker 1: to see Nestor and could basically not even speak when
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Speaker 1: Nestor was trying to talk to them was because Nestor
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Speaker 1: was covered practically head to toe in blood, Terry's blood. Now,
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Speaker 1: it's not entirely clear why that employee did not immediately
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Speaker 1: call police, but you know, after Nestor left the restaurant,
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Speaker 1: went back to his car and fell asleep. During the
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Speaker 1: time Nestor was sleeping, someone inside the restaurant did call
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Speaker 1: the police, and that's why they showed up and knocked
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Speaker 1: on Nestor's glass. Nestor was charged with collision involving death
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Speaker 1: in December of twenty twenty three. However, his case has
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Speaker 1: not yet been adjudicated. Earlier this year, we announced our
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Speaker 1: release date is fast approaching.
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Speaker 2: It's coming out on.
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Speaker 1: October first, which also happens to be my birthday. Now,
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Speaker 1: this graphic novel was truly a labor of love. It
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Speaker 1: took us well over a year to put this thing together,
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Speaker 1: and I'm telling you it's fantastic.
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Speaker 2: There are four.
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Speaker 1: Brand new feature length stories that I have never told
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Speaker 1: on any of our platforms. So four new and then
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Speaker 1: five og like classic mister Ballin stories that have been
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Speaker 2: Okay, back to the stories.
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Speaker 1: On the afternoon of December fifteenth, nineteen ninety seven, a
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Speaker 1: brand new mother named Luskwavas sat on her cow and
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Speaker 1: her little apartment in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, cradling her beautiful ten
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Speaker 1: day old baby girl, who she had named DeLamar Vera.
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Speaker 1: And in the room with Luise and her daughter were
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Speaker 1: some members of Luca's extended family who had come over
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Speaker 1: to meet the baby. And so for about an hour,
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Speaker 1: the family all took turns, you know, holding the baby
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Speaker 1: and complimenting how cute her little dimples looked.
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Speaker 2: And then eventually the.
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Speaker 1: Baby started to get fussy, at which point Luce said
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Speaker 1: she was going to take her upstairs and put her
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Speaker 1: to bed. And so Louise brought DeLamar upstairs to her
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Speaker 1: nursery and she put the baby down in her crib,
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Speaker 1: and she stayed with her for a bit until DeLamar
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Speaker 1: finally had kind of dozed off to sleep, and so
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Speaker 1: after being sure that her daughter wasn't going to stir,
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Speaker 1: Louse got up and she began making her way towards
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Speaker 1: the door, and right before she left, she made sure
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Speaker 1: to plug in the space heater for her daughter's room
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Speaker 1: to make sure it would stay warm enough while her
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Speaker 1: daughter slept. And then after that she left the room,
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Speaker 1: shut the nursery door, and went back downstairs to rejoin
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Speaker 1: her family. Luc's family didn't stick around much longer after
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Speaker 1: Luce came downstairs, and after they were all gone, Luce
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Speaker 1: realized she was totally exhausted and her daughter was still
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Speaker 1: fast asleep upstairs, and so Loose decided she would also
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Speaker 1: lie down and try to take a nap herself. But
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Speaker 1: as soon as she closed her eyes, she heard this
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Speaker 1: loud thud sound coming from the second floor, and it
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Speaker 1: sounded like something really heavy it smashed into the ground,
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Speaker 1: and she's thinking, you know.
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Speaker 2: Her daughter's up there.
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Speaker 1: Could that be her daughter somehow falling out of the
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Speaker 1: crib or something, And so Louse jumped up sprinted upstairs,
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Speaker 1: and as she looked down the hall, she could clearly
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Speaker 1: see there was black smoke billowing out of her daughter's nursery,
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Speaker 1: and so Louise charges.
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Speaker 2: Down the hall.
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Speaker 1: She opens up the door and she looks into her
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Speaker 1: daughter's room and it's completely engulfed in flames. I mean,
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Speaker 1: everything is on fire, but it's her baby girl in there,
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Speaker 1: and so without any hesitation, Loose charges in to the inferno.
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Speaker 1: But when she gets up to the crib, like the
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Speaker 1: crib is so completely on fire that when she looks
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Speaker 1: in she can't even see her daughter. And so in
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Speaker 1: a craze, she begins looking around the room, thinking, maybe
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Speaker 1: my daughter did fall out of the crib and she's
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Speaker 1: somewhere else in the room, but everything is on fire.
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Speaker 2: She can't see.
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Speaker 1: Anything, and as Loose, it's like literally catching on fire
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Speaker 1: and breathing in all the smoke. She's screaming for her daughter.
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Speaker 1: And then a couple of minutes later, firefighters burst into
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Speaker 1: the door and they literally drag Loose out of the nursery.
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Speaker 1: She hasn't found her daughter. She's screaming, you know, where's
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Speaker 1: my baby? But the firefighters they bring her outside and
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Speaker 1: just a couple of minutes later they were able to
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Speaker 1: extinguish this blaze. And after they came out of the
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Speaker 1: house again, they found Loose, who had all these terrible
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Speaker 1: burns in her body and she's totally messed up from
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Speaker 1: this fire. And they tell her that unfortunately her daughter
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Speaker 1: was dead. After Delamar's death, Luc's life completely fell apart.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the grief was so immense. It was like
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Speaker 1: she could no longer function in society. I mean, she
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Speaker 1: actually retracted from the world, stopped interacting with people, didn't
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Speaker 1: see her family. She wound up getting a divorce from
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Speaker 1: her husband just over the grief and the sadness of
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Speaker 1: losing this child. I mean, it was like her life
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Speaker 1: basically ended when her daughter's life ended. But on top
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Speaker 1: of that, Luce also felt this incredible sense of guilt
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Speaker 1: because after the fire, the investigators told her that the
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Speaker 1: cause of the fire, although not conclusive, was very likely
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Speaker 1: from that space heater she had plugged in right before
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Speaker 1: she had left the room. And so of course, you know,
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Speaker 1: Luce is feeling this incredible burden for having potentially killed
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Speaker 1: her daughter.
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Speaker 2: But also she.
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Speaker 1: Just began to obsess over the details because again that
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Speaker 1: wasn't conclusive that it was the space heater that was
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Speaker 1: their best guess as to what caused the fire, and
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Speaker 1: so Luce began to wonder, like, was it something else?
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Speaker 1: Was it preventable? You know, like what was it basically
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Speaker 1: loose became completely obsessed with what happened to her daughter.
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Speaker 1: It was like the only thing she ever thought of
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Speaker 1: for years. Fast forward to January twenty fourth, two thousand
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Speaker 1: and four, so six years after the fire, and on
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Speaker 1: this day, Luce was invited to a family party. There
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Speaker 1: was a get together, and you know, Louise basically never
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Speaker 1: went to any family function or really left her house
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Speaker 1: much at all, but for some reason, on this day
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Speaker 1: she decided to go out.
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Speaker 2: And so she goes to this party.
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Speaker 1: And when she gets there, you know, remember loose has
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Speaker 1: basically been a recluse for the past six years, and
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Speaker 1: so she's not going to immediately start socializing, and so
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Speaker 1: instead she just goes in the house and kind of
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Speaker 1: finds a spot in the back, kind of away from
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Speaker 1: everybody else who's chatting, and just stands there kind of
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Speaker 1: people watching. And as she's doing that, something catches her
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Speaker 1: attention off to the side, and when she turns to
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Speaker 1: look at it and sees what it is, she immediately
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Speaker 1: just freezes. Three days later, LuSE walked into the office
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Speaker 1: of a local state legislator and after saying hello, she
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Speaker 1: sat down, reached into her purse and pulled out a
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Speaker 1: little plastic bag that contained to fold it up napkin,
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Speaker 1: and she slid it across the table to the legislator,
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Speaker 1: and so he picked up the bag and stared at
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Speaker 1: of silence, the legislator just said, Okay, yeah, I'll see
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Speaker 1: what I can do. It would turn out the fire
16:01
Speaker 1: was not caused by the space heater that Luce had
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Speaker 1: police believe after Luce came downstairs and tried to take
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16:44
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Speaker 1: literally saw her daughter, and even though she hadn't seen
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Speaker 1: her in six years, she instantly knew it was her
16:59
Speaker 1: because of her distinctive dimples. Now loose knew she couldn't
17:01
Speaker 1: just suddenly yell out like that's my daughter, so instead
17:05
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17:52
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18:02
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18:05
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