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Speaker 1: In our lives, all of us have to make really
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Speaker 1: difficult decisions from time to time. Sometimes we make the
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Speaker 1: right call and other times we don't. Today's story is
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Speaker 1: about someone who did the latter, but really the story
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Speaker 1: is about what this person did to try to fix
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Speaker 1: get into today's story. On a cold day in January
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Speaker 1: of twenty seventeen, a twenty six year old man named
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Speaker 1: William Pargrove paced anxiously back and forth inside of his
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Speaker 1: tiny bedroom. Will was nervous because he was about to
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Speaker 1: take the biggest chance of his life. He was about
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Speaker 1: to ask a woman who he had only known for
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Speaker 1: a few weeks if she would marry him. Will looked
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Speaker 1: around his bedroom and he saw there was dirty clothes
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Speaker 1: coming out of his hamper, and there was fast food
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Speaker 1: trash all over the ground, and so he knew this
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Speaker 1: was not the ideal location to ask someone to marry him.
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Speaker 1: But he also knew he was running out of time.
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Speaker 1: The woman he wanted to propose to, who was sitting
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Speaker 1: right behind him on his bed, was about to head
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Speaker 1: back to Russia where she lived in just a few hours,
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Speaker 1: and so Will finally stopped pacing. He turned to face
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Speaker 1: this woman on the bed who was just sitting there silently,
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Speaker 1: and Will was about to say something, but then he
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Speaker 1: checked out and just kept on pacing. To that point,
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Speaker 1: Will's life had been pretty boring and lonely. He worked
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Speaker 1: a low paying job as a mechanic, and he lived
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Speaker 1: in this bedroom. This was his apartment, this one room,
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Speaker 1: which was being rented to him by a married couple
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Speaker 1: who owned the house it was in, and this house
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Speaker 1: was in a small city in the US state of Oregon.
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Speaker 1: Will didn't really have any friends, and he didn't really
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Speaker 1: have any meaningful hobbies. All he really had was his
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Speaker 1: intense love of science fiction and fantasy. He would lose
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Speaker 1: himself for hours watching movies about outer space and strange
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Speaker 1: distant alien planets and magic. And then often after he
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Speaker 1: would watch these movies, he would walk into the forest
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Speaker 1: near his house and he would just kind of wander around,
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Speaker 1: daydreaming about these movies, and he would pretend he was
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Speaker 1: the hero from these movies, and suddenly, in his mind,
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Speaker 1: Will would become a sorcerer with great powers, or a
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Speaker 1: brilliant scientist who went back in time to save the world.
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Speaker 1: But as much as Will loved daydreaming and fantasizing, what
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Speaker 1: he really wanted was a wife and kids. And so
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Speaker 1: recently he had joined an international dating website, and it
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Speaker 1: was through that website that he connected with twenty six
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Speaker 1: year old Anna Repkina from Russia, who was the woman
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Speaker 1: sitting on the bed behind him. And now, if Will
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Speaker 1: could just muster the courage to pop the question to her,
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Speaker 1: he was confident she would say yes and he could
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Speaker 1: finally start his real life with Anna. Anna, who had
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Speaker 1: blonde hair and striking blue eyes, was a bit of
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Speaker 1: a dreamer like Will, for example, she fundamentally believed that
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Speaker 1: there was a soulmate somewhere in the world for everyone. However,
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Speaker 1: to that point in her life, she had not found
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Speaker 1: her soulmate. Instead, she had been through one bad breakup
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Speaker 1: after another. But a few weeks earlier, when a short, stocky,
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Speaker 1: bald guy with a bushy goateee, Will had reached out
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Speaker 1: to her on an international dating website and invited her
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Speaker 1: to America to visit him, she believed it was fate
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Speaker 1: that they were being brought together, and so Will had
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Speaker 1: to be her soulmate. Will finally stopped pacing and turned
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Speaker 1: again to face Anna, who was now reading a book
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Speaker 1: on the edge of the bed, and Will, who was
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Speaker 1: terrified at this point, took a deep breath and then
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Speaker 1: reached into his pocket and pulled out a jewelry box.
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Speaker 1: Inside of it was a beautiful emerald ring that was
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Speaker 1: situated on a white gold band, and so Will took
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Speaker 1: a step towards Anna. He dropped down to a knee,
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Speaker 1: and he held out the jewelry box and he opened
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Speaker 1: it up. At first, Anna didn't know what Will was
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Speaker 1: doing and was kind of confused, but when she saw
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Speaker 1: the ring and saw him on his knee. She knew
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Speaker 1: what was happening, and she began trembling with excitement. And
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Speaker 1: then Will he pulled the ring out of its holder
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Speaker 1: and he slipped it onto Anna's finger, and he asked
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Speaker 1: her if she would marry him, and Anna she began
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Speaker 1: crying tears of joy and shouted yes. Later that day
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Speaker 1: Anna would fly back home to Russia, but as soon
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Speaker 1: as she landed, she began getting her affairs in order
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Speaker 1: to go right back to Oregon to live with Will permanently.
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Speaker 1: And two months later, in March of twenty seventeen, Anna
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Speaker 1: was touching back down at the Oregon Airport and then
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Speaker 1: right near the baggage claim. She had her big reunion
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Speaker 1: with Will. That evening, when Anna and Will drove from
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Speaker 1: the airport to Will's place, they parked the car, they
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Speaker 1: got out, they grabbed Anna's luggage. They went up the
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Speaker 1: front steps, and when Will unlocked the front door to
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Speaker 1: go inside of the house to make their way up
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Speaker 1: to his bedroom apartment. As soon as the door swung open,
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Speaker 1: there was a woman standing in the doorway with her
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Speaker 1: arms crossed, staring out at both of them. This woman
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Speaker 1: was thirty four year old Michelle Chavez, and she and
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Speaker 1: her husband were the married couple who rented the bedroom
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Speaker 1: apartment to Will. Michelle had dark hair and piercing eyes,
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Speaker 1: and even when she was being pleasant, she could be
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Speaker 1: very intimidating, and right now it was obvious she was
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Speaker 1: not trying to be pleasant, and so Anna, who sensed
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Speaker 1: something was wrong here, kind of awkwardly said hi to Michelle.
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Speaker 1: But Michelle she just glared at Anna and said nothing,
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Speaker 1: and then looked from Anna to Will and said, Will,
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Speaker 1: I need to talk to you. And then before Will
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Speaker 1: could say anything, Michelle grabbed his arm and began dragging
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Speaker 1: him through the house to the back. And as Will
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Speaker 1: is kind of stumbling along after Michelle, he tried to
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Speaker 1: become and told Anna, just go ahead and take your
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Speaker 1: stuff up to the room. I'll be up there in
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Speaker 1: a minute. And so Anna, she's very confused about what's
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Speaker 1: happening here. She does not understand this dynamic at all,
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Speaker 1: but she began taking her suitcases and marching over to
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Speaker 1: the side of the house where Will's bedroom was, and
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Speaker 1: as she did this, she could hear on the other
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Speaker 1: side of the house Michelle really yelling at Will. But
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Speaker 1: Anna couldn't make out what Michelle was actually saying. And
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Speaker 1: so at some point when Anna was now inside of
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Speaker 1: Will's bedroom, just kind of waiting, Will finally did come
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Speaker 1: into the bedroom with his head hung down low, and
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Speaker 1: Anna could just tell that, you know, obviously he's just
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Speaker 1: been yelled at. He looks defeated, and so Anna's trying
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Speaker 1: to make eye contact with him. And finally, you know,
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Speaker 1: Will looks up at Anna and Anna says, you know, hey,
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Speaker 1: what's going on? Why was she so upset? What's happening here?
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Speaker 1: And in a quiet trembling voice, Will would tell Anna
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Speaker 1: that Michelle and her husband had just told him that
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Speaker 1: they can't live here anymore, they have to move out.
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Speaker 1: Anna couldn't believe this. She had just flown across the
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Speaker 1: world to be here with Will and now they don't
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Speaker 1: have a place to live. But she could tell obviously
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Speaker 1: Will is really upset about this too, and so instead
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Speaker 1: of just being mad at him, she said, you know,
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Speaker 1: what's going on? Why is she kicking us out? And
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Speaker 1: at first Will kind of acted like he didn't really know,
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Speaker 1: but then eventually, when Anna kept asking for more information,
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Speaker 1: he would tell her that Michelle sort of had a
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Speaker 1: crush on him. And when she saw Anna moving in
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Speaker 1: with Will, she became really jealous and told them to leave.
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Speaker 1: When Anna brought up the fact that Michelle was married,
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Speaker 1: Will said, I know she's married. The crush hasn't gone anywhere,
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Speaker 1: but she still feels really jealous. Anna was obviously really
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Speaker 1: upset about this situation. But after Will had explained what's
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Speaker 1: going on with Michelle, you know, Anna was mad at Michelle.
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Speaker 1: She actually felt kind of bad for her. It was
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Speaker 1: sort of pathetic that this married woman was acting the
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Speaker 1: way she was, and so Anna actually figured that, really
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Speaker 1: this is probably for the best that we should get
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Speaker 1: away from Michelle. And within a few days, Anna and
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Speaker 1: Will had moved out of Michelle's place and found a
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Speaker 1: place of their own in a neighboring town. And as
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Speaker 1: soon as they were settled inside of there, it was
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Speaker 1: like relief wash over both of them, and they both
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Speaker 1: back to the story. A few weeks later, on March
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Speaker 1: twenty fifth, twenty seventeen, Anna woke up early and put
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Speaker 1: on her beautiful, simple white wedding dress that she brought
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Speaker 1: from Russia, and then she and Will piled into his
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Speaker 1: car and they headed to the beach. The couple had
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Speaker 1: decided to go with a very simple, intimate outdoor wedding
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Speaker 1: ceremony led by an efficient an efficient to someone who
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Speaker 1: can legally conduct a wedding. When the couple arrived at
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Speaker 1: the beach, Anna hopped out and immediately began walking over
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Speaker 1: the sand towards the water, and Will stayed back to
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Speaker 1: call the officiant because he didn't see him anywhere. And
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Speaker 1: so when Anna reached the water, she took in the
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Speaker 1: beautiful sights and sounds of the beach. She felt the
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Speaker 1: sun on her face, and she listened to the sound
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Speaker 1: of the waves crashing, and it was like suddenly she
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Speaker 1: realized how lucky she was. I mean, this wedding day
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Speaker 1: was turning out to be perfect, when over the past
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks she wasn't sure if it was even
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Speaker 1: going to happen, even though Anna and Will had left
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Speaker 1: Michelle's house and had no contact with her. Over the
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Speaker 1: past couple of weeks, Michelle had become a sort of
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Speaker 1: thorn in their side, sending Anna all these really threatening messages,
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Speaker 1: things like demanding that Anna share Will with her or
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Speaker 1: else she'll do something awful. And so Anna is thinking
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Speaker 1: that Michelle is going to find a way to sabotage
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Speaker 1: their wedding. But here they were on the beach, about
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Speaker 1: to get married with no Michelle insight. And so at
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Speaker 1: some point Anna looked along the beach and saw a
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Speaker 1: little bit farther along were the two friends that she
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Speaker 1: and Will had invited to be a part of their wedding,
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Speaker 1: and so Anna ran over to them, and she hugged
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Speaker 1: them and began chatting with them. And as she's chatting,
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Speaker 1: she looks up and she sees Will coming down onto
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Speaker 1: the beach, and he's on his cell phone and Anna
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Speaker 1: can't tell what he's saying. He's too far away, but
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Speaker 1: it's obvious there's something wrong, and by the time Will
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Speaker 1: actually got up to the group, he had hung up
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Speaker 1: his phone, but it was very obvious he was really upset,
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Speaker 1: and as soon as he reached the group, he would
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Speaker 1: announce to Anna and their friends that the officiant was
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Speaker 1: not going to be able to make it, and so
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Speaker 1: unfortunately the wedding was off at least for now. Now.
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Speaker 1: Anna was totally crushed by this, but she could tell
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Speaker 1: Will also was totally crushed by this, and so instead
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Speaker 1: of crying and making Will feel worse, Anna put on
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Speaker 1: a brave face and told Will, don't worry about it.
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Speaker 1: We will find another officiant, Will reschedule this. It will
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Speaker 1: be fine, and so Anna and Will's friends they said bye,
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Speaker 1: and they headed their way, and Anna and Will had
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Speaker 1: a very somber walk along the beach back to their
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Speaker 1: but on the drive from the beach back to their apartment,
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Speaker 1: they would stop at a fast food restaurant McDonald's and
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Speaker 1: they would get some food, and by the time they
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Speaker 1: had made it back to their apartment, they were laughing
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Speaker 1: about how ridiculous it was that they were eating fast
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Speaker 1: food in their wedding clothes. A couple weeks later, Anna
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Speaker 1: was still in the process of rescheduling their wedding and
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Speaker 1: she was starting to feel very frustrated with Will. Over
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Speaker 1: the last week or so, Will, instead of helping her
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Speaker 1: with the wedding, was spending much of his time outside
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Speaker 1: of the apartment, pacing around chainsmoking while talking to someone
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Speaker 1: on the phone. Now Anna didn't know who he was
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Speaker 1: talking to, but based on how stressed out he seemed,
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Speaker 1: Anna assumed he had to be talking to either Michelle
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Speaker 1: or talking to someone else about Michelle. Regardless, Anna knew
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Speaker 1: this had to in some way be connected to Michelle. However,
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Speaker 1: whenever Anna would approach Will and ask him why he
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Speaker 1: was so stressed and whether or not he was still
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Speaker 1: in contented with Michelle, Will would try to change the subject,
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Speaker 1: or he would just clam up and not talk at all.
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Speaker 1: But finally, on April sixteenth, so three weeks after the
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Speaker 1: couple's first failed wedding attempt, Will would approach Anna and
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Speaker 1: ask her very sheepishly if she would come with him
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Speaker 1: on a walk through the woods because he had something
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Speaker 1: important he wanted to tell her. Now, Anna knew that
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Speaker 1: Will loved walking in these woods. He still went off
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Speaker 1: and daydreamed after his movies, and so she knew that
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Speaker 1: if he's asking her to go out there to talk,
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Speaker 1: that this was going to be a very serious conversation,
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Speaker 1: most likely about Michelle and whatever's going on. And so
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Speaker 1: the couple piled into Will's car and they drove to
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Speaker 1: the parking lot right near the woods. They got out,
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Speaker 1: they hopped on a path and they began walking into
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Speaker 1: the trees, and for a while, they didn't really talk
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Speaker 1: to each other. They just walked quietly, side by side
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Speaker 1: through the woods. But at some point Will began to
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Speaker 1: slow down and then finally came to a full stop,
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Speaker 1: at which point Anna stopped too, and she turned to
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Speaker 1: face him, and when she did, Will pause for a moment,
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Speaker 1: and then, with a shaky voice, told Anna that he
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Speaker 1: felt like they rushed into their relationship and he wanted
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Speaker 1: to call off the engagement. Anna was so caught off
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Speaker 1: guard and heartbroken by what she was hearing that she
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Speaker 1: couldn't say anything. She just stood there in stunned silence,
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Speaker 1: and then finally just turned around and stormed off away
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Speaker 1: from Will, deeper into the woods until she was out
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Speaker 1: of Will's sight. The next day, when Will woke up,
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Speaker 1: the first thing he did was pick up his phone
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Speaker 1: and text Anna. But Anna didn't write back, and so
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Speaker 1: as Will is laying in bed, he couldn't help but
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Speaker 1: feel this overwhelming sense of regret about the decision he
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Speaker 1: had made the day before. He wanted Anna back, so
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Speaker 1: over the course of the next several hours, Will would
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Speaker 1: send Anna a series of increasingly more desperate sounding text messages,
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Speaker 1: pleading with her to just talk to him, please. But
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Speaker 1: she didn't respond to any of his messages, and so
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Speaker 1: Will decided that the only way he could get Anna
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Speaker 1: back would be if he did something big. So he
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Speaker 1: hopped out of his bed, He grabbed his cigarettes, he
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Speaker 1: went outside, and he began pacing and chain smoking, trying
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Speaker 1: to come up with whatever big idea was going to
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Speaker 1: get Anna back, And at some point an idea came
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Speaker 1: to him. He would do what he had seen heroes
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Speaker 1: do in several of his favorite science fiction and fantasy movies.
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Speaker 1: He would use time travel to go back in time
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Speaker 1: and get Anna back. Feeling totally energized by this idea,
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Speaker 1: Will ran back inside his apartment, he grabbed another pack
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Speaker 1: of cigarettes a six pack of soda, and then he
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Speaker 1: sat down at his computer and he scoured the internet
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Speaker 1: for any information about how to build a time traveling machine.
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Speaker 1: And for the next twenty four to forty eight hours,
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Speaker 1: Will stayed at his computer, chain smoking and drinking sodas,
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Speaker 1: drawing all these sketches of different time machine designs that
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Speaker 1: he found on the internet. But at some point after
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Speaker 1: twenty four to forty eight hours, Will realized that no
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Speaker 1: matter how good these sketches were, he lacked one the
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Speaker 1: resources and two the knowledge and expertise of how to
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Speaker 1: take this sketch and actually make it into a real
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Speaker 1: physical time machine. And so, feeling totally frustrated, Will took
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Speaker 1: a sketch book and through it and then lay down
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Speaker 1: on his bed feeling somewhat defeated. But as he laid
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Speaker 1: there thinking about Anna, he had another epiphany. In other
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Speaker 1: science fiction and fantasy movies, sometimes the heroes didn't need
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Speaker 1: to use time machines to go back in time. They
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Speaker 1: would use magic. And so suddenly Will decided, oh, my goodness,
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Speaker 1: I need to find the right magical spell that will
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Speaker 1: allow me to travel back in time. And get Anna,
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Speaker 1: and so once again he ran back to his computer
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Speaker 1: continued chainsmoking and drinking sodas while scouring the internet looking
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Speaker 1: for the right magical spell that would take him back
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Speaker 1: in time. And several times he communicated with strangers on
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Speaker 1: the internet, telling them that he would sell his soul
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Speaker 1: to them if they could give him the right spell.
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Speaker 1: And then any time he thought he found the right spell,
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Speaker 1: he would close his eyes and chant the words out loud,
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Speaker 1: and then open his eyes, only to realize he was
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Speaker 1: stuck in the present. And so finally, after basically staying
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Speaker 1: awake for seventy two hours on this quest to go
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Speaker 1: back in time to get Anna back, Will realized that
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Speaker 1: it was not going to work, and so he gave up.
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Speaker 1: The next morning, on April nineteenth, so this is three
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Speaker 1: days after he broke up with Anna. In the woods,
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Speaker 1: Will heard a knock on his front door and when
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Speaker 1: he opened the door, there were two police officers standing there,
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Speaker 1: and when Will asked them what's going on, they told
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Speaker 1: him that they actually needed his help and would he
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Speaker 1: mind coming to the station to talk to them, and
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Speaker 1: so Will, he was still totally exhausted from not having
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Speaker 1: slept over the last three days, but he of course
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Speaker 1: agreed to go, and when he got to the police station,
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Speaker 1: he was led into a small interview room and he
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Speaker 1: sat down behind this metal desk in front of the
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Speaker 1: other two officers, and he asked them, you know what
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Speaker 1: can I do for you? And one of the officers
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Speaker 1: eventually asked Will if he had recently eaten at a
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Speaker 1: Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. That's a fast food restaurant, also
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Speaker 1: known as KFC. Will was puzzled and almost wanted to
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Speaker 1: laugh because he couldn't understand how this was important. But
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Speaker 1: when he saw that these two officers were not making
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Speaker 1: light of this at all, they were very serious, Will said, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: a few days ago, I did eat at a KFC.
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Speaker 1: Why does that matter. To understand why it mattered, we
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Speaker 1: need to understand the relationship between Will and Michelle. It
19:34
Speaker 1: would turn out Michelle did not just have a crush
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Speaker 1: on Will. Michelle and Will had been having an intense
19:41
Speaker 1: affair right in Michelle's house with her husband since twenty fifteen,
19:46
Speaker 1: so a full year before Will met Anna. Now, Will
19:50
Speaker 1: had wanted Michelle to leave her husband and be with him,
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Speaker 1: and Michelle had told Will that she wanted the same thing,
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Speaker 1: but she couldn't do it right now, and so to
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Speaker 1: show Will that she was serious that one day she
20:02
Speaker 1: would be with him, she gave him her wedding ring,
20:06
Speaker 1: which was an emerald stone sitting on a white gold band.
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Speaker 1: It was like a promise ring that this is my
20:12
Speaker 1: token to you to show you that one day we
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Speaker 1: will be together in public. But as time went on,
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Speaker 1: Michelle didn't really show any signs of trying to leave
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Speaker 1: her husband, and so Will started to wonder if he
20:25
Speaker 1: was just kind of letting his life slip by, because remember,
20:28
Speaker 1: Will really wanted a wife and kids, and it was
20:31
Speaker 1: starting to look like Michelle was not going to give
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Speaker 1: him either of those things. And so that was why
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Speaker 1: Will went on that dating site and contacted Anna, and
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Speaker 1: then when he learned that Anna wanted a family too,
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Speaker 1: he had asked her to marry him. The ring that
20:46
Speaker 1: Will gave Anna when he proposed to her was the
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Speaker 1: same ring that Michelle had given Will her wedding ring,
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Speaker 1: the promise ring, and so when Michelle saw that ring
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Speaker 1: on Anna's finger on a Facebook post that Anna made
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Speaker 1: about having been proposed to by Will, Michelle was enraged
21:07
Speaker 1: and then just a few weeks later, when Anna showed
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Speaker 1: up at Michelle's house to move into Will's bedroom with him,
21:14
Speaker 1: she grabbed Will, dragged him to the side of the
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Speaker 1: house and said, you need to choose right now between
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Speaker 1: me and Anna. And because Will couldn't come up with
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Speaker 1: an answer, Michelle kicked him and Anna out of the house. However,
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Speaker 1: over the following weeks, despite Michelle having booted them from
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Speaker 1: her property, she could not let go of her jealousy
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Speaker 1: of Anna and her love for Will, and so she
21:37
Speaker 1: sent Anna all these threatening messages on Facebook demanding that
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Speaker 1: she share Will with her or else, and she began
21:44
Speaker 1: incessantly calling and texting Will demanding that he choose her
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Speaker 1: over Anna. And so when Anna saw Will walking around
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Speaker 1: outside chainsmoking cigarettes on the phone, Anna was right in
21:56
Speaker 1: suspecting that that was Michelle that he was talking to.
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Speaker 1: But despite all this pressure, Will just could not make
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Speaker 1: up his mind. He didn't know which woman he wanted
22:06
Speaker 1: to be with more and so to buy himself some time,
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Speaker 1: he had lied to Anna about hiring an officiant for
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Speaker 1: their wedding on the beach, and then when they arrived
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Speaker 1: on the beach and Will said the officiant had canceled.
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Speaker 1: It was all a ruse. There was never any efficiant
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Speaker 1: He was just trying to buy time for himself. But finally,
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Speaker 1: on April sixteenth, for whatever reason, Will had decided that
22:29
Speaker 1: he knew which woman he wanted to go with. He
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Speaker 1: wanted to go with Michelle. So he brought Anna out
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Speaker 1: into the woods and he told her the news that
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Speaker 1: he was breaking off the engagement, and effectively their relationship
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Speaker 1: was over, at which point Anna turned and stormed off
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Speaker 1: into the woods, and so Will he watched her disappear,
22:47
Speaker 1: and then he turned around and walked back along the
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Speaker 1: path back toward his car, and when he got there,
22:53
Speaker 1: he opened his trunk and got something out of it,
22:55
Speaker 1: and then he walked back along the trail into the
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Speaker 1: woods where he had seen Anna lie last. And when
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Speaker 1: he reached that spot, he kind of walked off in
23:03
Speaker 1: the direction that Anna had wandered, and eventually he spotted Anna.
23:07
Speaker 1: She was standing in a clearing, looking up into the sky,
23:10
Speaker 1: seemingly lost in thought, and so Will quietly walked up
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Speaker 1: right behind her, and then he raised the shotgun he
23:17
Speaker 1: had gotten out of his trunk. He placed the barrel
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Speaker 1: against the back of Anna's skull and before she could
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Speaker 1: even react, say something, turn around, do anything, he pulled
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Speaker 1: the trigger. Afterward, he ran back down the trail to
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Speaker 1: his car and he gathered up all of Anna's things
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Speaker 1: that happened to be inside of the car, along with
23:35
Speaker 1: some trash on the floor of the car, and then
23:38
Speaker 1: he brought all of that stuff back into the woods
23:41
Speaker 1: and kind of dumped it both on and around Anna's body.
23:44
Speaker 1: The next day, a walker and their dog happened to
23:47
Speaker 1: come across Anna's body, and when the police were called
23:51
Speaker 1: out to the site, they began sifting through all of
23:53
Speaker 1: the trash that was kind of scattered around Anna's body,
23:57
Speaker 1: and inside of a crumpled up kat sea bed, the
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Speaker 1: police would find a receipt for the day of the murder,
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Speaker 1: and that receipt belonged to Will. The morning after Will
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Speaker 1: killed Anna, he sent those initial text messages to Anna
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Speaker 1: just to cover his tracks, but as he sent them,
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Speaker 1: he actually did feel an enormous sense of regret about
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Speaker 1: the decision he made. He no longer wanted Michelle, he
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Speaker 1: wanted Anna, and it was at that point that he
24:25
Speaker 1: decided he would do what the heroes in some of
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Speaker 1: his favorite movies did. He would go back in time
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Speaker 1: and undo the murder and get his love back. But
24:34
Speaker 1: of course his efforts would fail, and in January of
24:37
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, years after Anna's murder, Will was sentenced
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