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Theresa Helm And The Building At 301 E. 66th Street (5/20/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
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Teresa Helm, one of Jeffrey Epstein's survivors, gave an exclusive
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interview to The Mirror, and in this interview she's talking
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about the building on three h one East sixty sixth
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Street that was said to be a place where Jeffrey
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Epstein and John Luke Brunel would bring girls over from Europe,
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different places around the world and keep them at this
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building as almost like a pen, a corral pen, and
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then these girls would be promised modeling jobs, this, that,
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the other thing, but only to end up being assaulted instead.
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So this building has always been at the middle of
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all of this controversy surrounding these girls that were brought in,
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but we've never really had a full on explanation for
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what's going on at this building or how Mark Epstein,
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Jeffrey Epstein's brother, owned a bunch of these units and
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nothing ever came of that. So again another area of
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this story that's just shrouded in mystery. So let's see
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what sort of veil we get pulled back here with
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this interview from Teresa Helm. Headline exclusive Jeffrey Epstein's sex
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slave holding house where victim got cookies before abuse. Now
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think about that for a minute. We're talking about younger ladies.
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Younger girls fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, come in, you apply them
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with cookies. Oh, everything's safe here. I wanted to feel
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warm and homely, so have yourself some cookies. And that
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was all part of the normalization process that these ladies,
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these girls had to go through. Every single thing that
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Epstein and Brunel and Maxwell and Kellen Vickers were up
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to was all to make sure that these women were
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groomed correctly and that everything that they were doing was
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normalized so that they would continue with the behavior. This
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article was authored by Matthew Dresh. One of Jeffrey Epstein's
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survivors has spoken out for the first time about the
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predator's holding facility for young girls. Teresa Helm forty two,
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spent one night at three ZHO one East sixty sixth Street,
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staying there before and after she was abused by Epstein
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in two thousand and two. And this is one of
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those places where we've had a lot of questions, but
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there's never been too many answers. Right, like everything else
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in this case, unless you do the legwork yourself, it
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seems like you're really not going to get to the
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destination you're looking to go to. But this place at
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sixty six, I mean, how is it that there wasn't
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a full on rate of this joint considering what some
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of these ladies had to say about what went on here.
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She felt when she was greeted by a gift basket
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of cookies and fruit inside her room at the apartment block.
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You know, let's make it feel like they're special VIPs.
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And again it was all part of that process to
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suck them into the spider web, suck them into Epstein's orbit,
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and then from there to normalize the abuse. A previous
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lawsuit against Epstein revealed how he kept girls as young
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as thirteen at the property, which was listed as apartments
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for models in his infamous Little Black Book. Pictures from
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inside the plush apartment complex give a taste of both
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the security and luxury within, showing the front desk where
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visitors are monitored, and the marble floored lobby of the building.
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Recalling her arrival at three ZHO one East sixty sixth Street,
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miss Helm told the Mirror when the driver pulled up outside,
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I was a little bit surprised, and I didn't realize
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I'd be staying at an apartment building. I thought it
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would be a hotel. So the idea was to have
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this whole ass apartment building basically, so they could do
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what they want here with an air of secrecy. There
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would be no troublesome metalsome room attendant showing up or
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anyone that could out them for what they were up to.
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So that was all part of it. And Epstein and
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Jean Luke Brunel, who played a big part here, they
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definitely wanted that secrecy. I remember the apartment clearly. It
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was relatively small, and there was Danny yogurt in the
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fridge and a basket of fruit and cookies on the counter.
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So you walk in and everything's normal, right, Oh, there's
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some yogurt, there's some cookies, there's some fruit. It's like
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a hotel. Things are going to be fantastic until they're not.
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I remember feeling quite special, thinking there's this nice gift
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basket of fruit and cookies. It was part of the manipulation. Here,
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we are caring for you, we are providing for you.
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That's all part of the grooming process. Epstein was using
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it as a holding facility for a supply of girls.
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I think they brought girls there to stay throughout their
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trafficking operation. They needed to put the girls up somewhere.
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And remember, folks, what have I said to you from
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the very beginning of all of this. Listen to what
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the survivors are telling you, not anybody else. They're the
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ones who live through this shit. They're the ones who
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know intimately how it all went down and what happened,
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not some two bit reporter, not me, not anybody else.
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To them, they're the ones who lived it. So whenever
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the survivors have something to say, I sit up and
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I really listen to what's going on. Because when you're
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talking about people like Teresa helm or Virginia or Maria
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or insert survivor here, they're looking for justice and they're
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looking for the people who abuse them to face that justice.
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So whenever one of these ladies has something to say,
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I advise you to listen and listen very closely. Miss
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Helms meeting another young girl outside the apartment block who
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she suspects was abused by Epstein. She said, I went
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down to the car to leave for the airport, and
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the driver said to me we were waiting for someone else.
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She got in the car a few minutes later and
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we exchanged names. I told her I had seen Maxwell
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and Epstein and that I went for an interview. I
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think she said she had only met Epstein. She asked
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me if I thought anything was weird. I don't answer,
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and she said she wanted to go home. So who
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knows what this poor girl went through, And considering what
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we know about the abuse of these other girls, I'm
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sure it wasn't a very pleasant time. We went to
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the airport in total silence after that. I can only
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assume she went through a similar experience to me based
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off what she said. I can't remember her name. I
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wish I knew who she was. All I remember is
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that she was a lot shorter than me and her
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hair color. My message to her would be that I
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hope she's well and that if she hasn't come forward,
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they're support for Look, these ladies have really supported each
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other throughout this whole entire thing, and they have found
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a community amongst themselves of support when nobody else was
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believing them, they relied on each other. And while there's
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a lot of women out there who still haven't come forward,
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like she says, here there is a support system, and
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the women who have stories to tell. Believe me when
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I tell you we're here, We're willing and we're receptive
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to all of it. And when I say we, I
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don't just mean us here on this podcast, I mean
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everybody who has concerns about what went down here, from
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podcasters to journalists who actually care, to people who have
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spent years and years digging into this. There are people
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out there who are, you know, a support system for
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these women when they come forward, and that support system,
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in my opinion, is backboned by the other survivors. Stein's brother,
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Mark owns most of the two hundred flats at East
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three oh one East sixty sixth Street through his company
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OSA Properties, and rented some of the flats out to
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his disgraced sibling, according to The New York Post, and
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it's never really been established where Mark Epstein got the
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money for all of this. Anyway. Now I don't know
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what his finances are, but I think it's a logical
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question to ask if he had any financial connections to
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his brother, and if so, was the money that was
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used to purchase these flats. To purchase these apartments derived
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from ill gotten gains, and if so, shouldn't everything be
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subject to seizure by the federal government. Mark Epstein declined
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to comment when approached by The Mirror. Maritzavasquez, who worked
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as a bookkeeper for Epstein's Pedro fashion pal Jean luke Brunel,
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said underage girls as young as thirteen were staying in
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the block. In a twenty ten deposition, she said, I
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know there were girls staying there. Some of the girls
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were underage or fourteen. Imagine think about that. They had
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a whole ass apartment where they basically corralled these girls,
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thirteen fourteen year old girls, sick ass Jean lu Brunel,
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who we know was a rapist, who we know was
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a sick bastard, and him and Epstein had this whole
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ass building here where they would bring these girls so
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that they could assault them. Miss Helm realized she stayed
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at the apartment block after seeing pictures of the building
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in news reports. She initially flew from la to New
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York for an interview with Glenn Maxwell for a traveling
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private massage therapist job. Everything that these people did was
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based on the false ass pretense of becoming a massage therapist.
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That's how they manipulated these girls, all of these girls
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from broken homes who had no prospects. Let's be clear.
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You come home every day, you have a broken home.
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Your parents aren't there because they're working or they're not
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involved in your life. You're left up to your own devices,
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and before you know it, you're out running the streets.
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So that's exactly the kind of people Maxwell and Epstein
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were looking for. The then twenty two year old was
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greeted by a driver at the airport and taken straight
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to three ZHO one East sixty sixth Street. Shortly afterward,
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miss Helm traveled to Maxwell's house for her interview and
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ended up giving the British socialite you mean child molester,
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you mean fellow child abuser, you mean bipedal serpent a massage.
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When the massage was over, Maxwell told her she had
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to meet Epstein for the second part of her interview.
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She says. She added that Maxwell told her, make sure
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you give Jeffrey what he wants, because Jeffrey always gets
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what he wants. When miss Helm arrived at Epstein's house,
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the pedophile a lurder into his office and sexually assaulted
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her recalling the attack, Miss Helm previously said, I walked
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up to this really elaborate door. It seemed like a
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castle to me. And remember, these girls are all coming
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from broken homes or coming from a place of nothing, really,
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so they walk into all of this opulence and they
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think it's a whole different realm of reality. I was
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let in and Jeffrey said to follow him to his office.
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We walked into that room and then he asked me
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for a foot massage and put his foot on my leg.
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I started giving him a foot massage, and he started
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pushing his foot closer and closer to me, to the
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point where his foot was literally pressing up against my body.
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He grabbed my chin in his hands and said to me,
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I know I can always trust a woman who shows
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her gums when she smiles. I was very scared, so
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I got up from the couch and started walking to
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the door, and then he grabbed me from behind. Imagine
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this sick, gross, disgusting, flat faced, big eared son of
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a bitch saying that to you. Talk about terrifying. I
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completely froze, and he assaulted me in the hallway. When
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I made it to the door, he said to me
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don't do anything I wouldn't do. I took that as
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a direct threat. Miss Helm then returned to the three
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to zero one East sixty sixth Street holding facility and
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flew home the next day. In twenty twenty, miss Helm
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accepted an offer from Epstein's victim compensation fund and agreed
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to withdraw her lawsuit against the financier Pedophiles the state
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a coroner ruled Epstein took his own life in New
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York's Metropolitan Correctional Center while awaiting trial for child sex
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trafficking charges allegedly, and miss Helm, like many other survivors
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of Epstein, they got some compensation from that compensation fund.
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But in the aftermath of that, in the wake of that,
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there's been a lot of questions about that fund. Now.
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I have a pretty expansive article from Politico from twenty
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twenty one that we're gonna get into, but it's going
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to be several parts, and I'm just trying to slide
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it into the schedule here, but it goes into all
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of that, and it talks about that a little bit.
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So that's a pretty good article and we're definitely going
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to dive into that for sure. But that compensation fund.
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It has been a point of conversation for a lot
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of people, and in the aftermath there's been a lot
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of questions. Meanwhile, Maxwell was sentenced to twenty years behind
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bars in June after being found guilty to the enticement
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of minors and sex trafficking of underage girls for Epstein
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to abuse. Miss Helm was not part of the trial,
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although she did attend court and at one point locked
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eyes with Epstein's Madam stop calling her that call her
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what she is, a child abuser, a human trafficker, all
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of it. When I was in court. When I was
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in the courtroom with her in December, I maintained eye
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contact with her. Miss Helm told the mirror she was
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trying to suss me out. It had been twenty years
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since I'd seen her, and she'd seen me. So at
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least Teresa Helm got a chance to, you know, look
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at her accuser in the courtroom. There's a lot of
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people that don't get that chance. All I saw in
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her eyes was arrogance. She's one of the most arrogant
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people ever. Miss Helm is now furious that the trafficker
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has been moved to a cushy, low security prison inmates
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that the Florida Jail can partake in yoga, baking, and
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a range of other luxury activities. The Mirror this week
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published pictures of Maxwell running around in the Florida Sun.
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In the Florida Sun on the prison grounds, Miss Maxwell said,
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excuse me. Miss Helm said, Maxwell did not deserve to
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be housed at the jail the Federal Correctional Institute Tallahassee
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after destroying so many lives. Look, I agree with that, fully,
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but for that to change, we have to have lawmakers
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who have some backbone and who were willing to punish
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people like Maxwell to the extent that they deserve. Now, remember, folks,
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if you get nailed with five grams of crack rock,
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you're looking at like a ten year mandatory sentence. If
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you get nailed with five grams of powdered cocaine, it's
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not even close to the same thing. And when you
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get nailed with that that crack, you're gonna go to
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a real prison. But Maxwell destroyed all of these lives,
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hurt all of these women, and she ends up here.
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So yeah, I could see why people are pissed off
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about that. But unfortunately, the way things are set up
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and the way our laws are, this is where people
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like Maxwell end up. She destroyed so many lives. I
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don't know that a low security environment is appropriate given
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her level of maliciousness. Activities like yoga are freedoms to
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some people, their luxuries. I think she's got it the
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best way she can get it in prison. There are
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plenty of people that don't have it as good as her.
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Maxwell previously previously complained about living in hellish conditions at
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the notorious Metropolitan Detention Center in New York. There is
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no doubt that what she's going through now is a
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cakewalk compared to what was going on in New York,
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no doubt about it at all. But I will say this,
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at least she's behind bars. Now. We can argue the
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semantics of that, you know, until the sun comes up.
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But at least this lady's behind bars, and for me,
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that's a start. At least. Her lawyers filed more than
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one hundred complaints during her two year detention at MDC.
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Miss Helm rubbished the lawyer's complaints, including the claim that
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maggot that Maxwell was fed maggot infested food. She said,
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of course, She said that they wanted to get her out.
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In an exclusive interview published in October, Maxwell brazenly complained
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about the restrictions at f FCI Tallahassee. She ranted about
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being locked up in her cell for most of the
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day because of the jail's code read COVID lockdown. Imagine
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this is what she's complaining and crying about. Oh my
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life is so hard, we're in lockdown. Oh the travesty
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of it all. Although she denied it was a cushy facility,
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she did admit that the conditions were better than at MDC.
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The trafficker told The Sun, I can assure you it
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is very far from a cushy country club. You're locked
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up the entire time and they let you out for
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an hour. There's no communal area to get together. There's
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not a chair for everybody, there's no way to watch TV.
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And when I arrived here there were only two phones.
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Imagine this is what she's complanning about. Meanwhile, all of
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these other girls who have had their lives wrecked are
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just beginning to pick up the pieces, and she's worried
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that there's only two phones or not enough chairs. The
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Mirror previously reported on how inmates at the jail, can
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watch movies and even take part in prison talent shows. Now,
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look that all sounds oh my god, what the hell,
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how dare they? But in reality, for most people at
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this facility, they are white collar criminals, people that are
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going to be coming back out into society and into
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our communities. So we want there to be things like
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this programs rehabilitation. I think that's very important to make
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sure that people that come out have maybe some kind
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of new career or something to go on, some kind
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of hope. Right. But with that said, the problem is
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sending somebody like Maxwell to a facility like this. She
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should be sent to a level two facility the same
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way Alison Mack was. There's no reason for Maxwell to
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be here, but this is the way it works. When
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you have Doe and you have these great lawyers, this
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is where you end up. There are also opportunities to
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try out yoga classes, as well as other recreational activities
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like football, frisbee, waits, and jogging. Despite these perks, Maxwell
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is still living alongside hardened criminals. She shares her sleeping
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quarters with Manda may Rowell and Shakara Bryant, who between
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them have more than seventy convictions. A source said Glenn's
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bunk mates could not have come from a more different
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and difficult upbringing than her. Whereas she was given everything
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she wanted, life was not great for both Manda and Shakara.
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Shakara and in particular, had it so very tough from
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a young age. Both got got it, got in with
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the wrong crowd. Seeing them head down roads, they refused
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to turn back on both their triald judges told them
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they were the owners of their own fates after being
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given numerous chances to change. But it's impossible to imagine
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having a more different childhood from all the privileged privileges
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Glaine was given. I mean, this lady had the world
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at her fingertips and she threw it all away because
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she's a scumbag. Let's just call it what it is. Maxwell,
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who works in the prison's law library, is being held
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in general population in Unit B South Dormitory of one
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hundred and twenty beds separate, separated into cul de sacs
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and two bunk beds in each. So there's what Teresa
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Helm had to say about the building at E sixty six. Now,
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we've talked about this building previously and the fact that
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it was being used as a holding pen. So when
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you have somebody like Teresa Hell come out and talk
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about it as well and confirm it, it just shows
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you exactly where things stand. Folks. You mean to tell
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me that that building should have never been raided? How
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is it that that a building like that that so
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many of these girls say was used as a holding
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pen was not even rated? How come Zoro Ranch wasn't rated?
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How come none of these properties where all of this
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evidence was being held were treated as crime scenes. So
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these are the questions that are still buzzing around all
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these years later, and there's still no answers for any
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of them. So we'll continue to bang around and see
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what we can come up with, and we'll continue to
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try and put these pieces together. All right, folks, it's
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gonna do it for this one. If you'd like to
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contact me, you can do that at Bobby Gapuchi at
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