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The Red Shoe: How a Lost Oxford Unmasked a Heartbreak Scam · Fake Love Stories

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  Speaker 1: On a Tuesday morning in November 2019, a septic technician
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  Speaker 1: named Kimberly Phillips pulled her truck onto Linden Creek Road
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  Speaker 1: and found something that had no business being there. It
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  Speaker 1: was a single Oxford shoe, brown leather size 11, lying
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  Speaker 1: in the wet soil beside a maintenance panel, clean enough
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  Speaker 1: to have come off a shelf. No mud on the heel,
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  Speaker 1: no weathering on the sole, just a shoe, alone, the
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  Speaker 1: dark earth behind a house where a woman lived by herself.
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  Speaker 1: She tried the door. No answer. She called a non-emergency
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  Speaker 1: line at 7.40 in the morning. That shoe is the
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  Speaker 1: reason this story gets told. What followed over the next
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  Speaker 1: few days was the unraveling of something that had been
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  Speaker 1: running quietly for months. A woman recovering from cancer had
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  Speaker 1: been chosen, studied, befriended, and systematically taken for $ 41, 000. The
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  Speaker 1: person who did it had walked that road in the
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  Speaker 1: dark of November 4th and lost a shoe somewhere near
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  Speaker 1: a septic panel. One shoe. Left behind by accident. That
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  Speaker 1: is the thread that pulled everything apart. There is something
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  Speaker 1: about this case that resists easy summary. The mechanics are
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  Speaker 1: not complicated. But when the full picture emerges, the question
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  Speaker 1: is not how it was done. The question is what
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  Speaker 1: kind of deliberateness it takes to do it. Rebecca Smith
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  Speaker 1: turned 38 in the autumn of 2019. She had been
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  Speaker 1: a middle school science teacher in Corbin, Kentucky, for nearly
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  Speaker 1: a decade, the kind of teacher whose students remembered specific
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  Speaker 1: things she said years later. She left the classroom not
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  Speaker 1: because she wanted to, but because her body forced the decision.
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  Speaker 1: At 34, she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The treatment
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  Speaker 1: was long. The recovery was longer. By the time she
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  Speaker 1: moved to a small house at 412 Linden Creek Road
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  Speaker 1: in Harlan County, Tennessee, she had been in remission for
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  Speaker 1: two years. She was not celebrating. She was building. The
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  Speaker 1: house was modest, set back from a two-lane road, surrounded
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  Speaker 1: by tree line on three sides. She lived alone by choice,
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  Speaker 1: the way people sometimes choose solitude when they have spent
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  Speaker 1: too long being frightened. Her aunt, Norma Eastwick, live 20
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  Speaker 1: minutes away. Norma had driven Rebecca to every chemotherapy appointment
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  Speaker 1: without being asked once. That is the kind of detail
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  Speaker 1: that tells you who Norma is. It also tells you
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  Speaker 1: something about Rebecca, that she had a person like that
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  Speaker 1: and still chose to live alone. She needed to prove
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  Speaker 1: something to herself that required quiet and distance. The proof
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  Speaker 1: took the shape of a walk. Every morning at 6.15,
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  Speaker 1: Rebecca laced up her shoes and walked three miles from
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  Speaker 1: her front door to a trailhead marker on Copperhead Ridge.
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  Speaker 1: Hikers knew the marker as the Red Post, a painted
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  Speaker 1: stake at the edge of a fire road, unremarkable to
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  Speaker 1: anyone passing through. To Rebecca, it was a fixed point.
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  Speaker 1: She started the walks in her first week of remission,
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  Speaker 1: and she kept a diary of every single one. She
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  Speaker 1: called it, counting herself present. After two years of not
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  Speaker 1: knowing whether her body was going to hold the act
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  Speaker 1: of reaching that post, and walking back was the daily
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  Speaker 1: confirmation that it had. She was not on social media
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  Speaker 1: in any meaningful way before the spring of 2019c. She
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  Speaker 1: had a Facebook account she barely used, a few photos,
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  Speaker 1: a small circle of friends from before Corbin. Then, in
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  Speaker 1: late spring, someone added her to a group called Lymphoma Survivors.
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  Speaker 1: Moving forward, around 200 members, posts about treatment, fatigue, about
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  Speaker 1: the particular grief of leaving a life on pause, about
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  Speaker 1: the strangeness of remission. Rebecca read for weeks before she
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  Speaker 1: commented on anything. When she did, someone named Kathleen York
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  Speaker 1: responded within the hour. Kathleen's profile photo showed a woman
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  Speaker 1: in her mid-40s, warm expression, the kind of face that
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  Speaker 1: reads as trustworthy and before you have any reason to decide.
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  Speaker 1: Her posts described her own battle with lymphoma, her move
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  Speaker 1: to a quieter part of Tennessee, her habit of early
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  Speaker 1: morning walks as part of her recovery. The parallels with
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  Speaker 1: Rebecca's life were striking. They would have been striking to anyone.
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  Speaker 1: They were not a coincidence. By early October 2019, Kathleen
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  Speaker 1: York had suggested they meet in person. She knew about
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  Speaker 1: the red post. She said, She had found the trailhead
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  Speaker 1: on a map and thought it sounded like exactly the
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  Speaker 1: kind of place she needed. Rebecca said yes. The meeting
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  Speaker 1: at the Red Post lasted about 40 minutes. Kathleen York
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  Speaker 1: arrived in a white Subaru Forester. She was warm, unhurried,
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  Speaker 1: and she knew things. The specific fatigue that follows the
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  Speaker 1: last round of chemo, the strange guilt of surviving when
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  Speaker 1: others in your support group had not survived. the way
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  Speaker 1: remission sometimes felt less like relief than suspension. Rebecca would
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  Speaker 1: describe it later as meeting someone who already understood the language.
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  Speaker 1: What Rebecca did not know was that Kathleen had been
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  Speaker 1: there before, two mornings earlier. The same white Subaru had
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  Speaker 1: been parked at the Copperhead Ridge trailhead. The morning before that, too,
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  Speaker 1: Burnham had located the trailhead using satellite mapping and had
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  Speaker 1: driven from Chattanooga, To position herself there. Not to meet Rebecca.
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  Speaker 1: Not yet. But to watch the rhythm of the place.
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  Speaker 1: To confirm the timing. To make sure the approach would
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  Speaker 1: feel accidental when it finally happened. It felt accidental. The
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  Speaker 1: Facebook group had been operating since June of 2019. Around
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  Speaker 1: 200 members. Most of them women. Most of them navigating
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  Speaker 1: some version of what Rebecca was navigating. The group was
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  Speaker 1: called Lymphoma Survivors. Moving forward, it had a description pinned
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  Speaker 1: to posts about coping strategies, a warm and consistent moderator.
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  Speaker 1: The moderator was Kathleen York. She had created the account
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  Speaker 1: in March of that year, roughly three months before the
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  Speaker 1: group launched. The profile photo showed a woman named Sandra Foote.
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  Speaker 1: Sandra Foote was a nurse practitioner in Asheville, North Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: Her image had been lifted from a professional directory. She
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  Speaker 1: had no knowledge of any of this. Burnham had done
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  Speaker 1: this before. Vicki Ames in Murfreesboro lost $ 22, 000 through a
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  Speaker 1: grief forum for parents of premature infants. Fred Cobb, a
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  Speaker 1: retired postal worker in Rome, Georgia, lost $ 19, 000 through a
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  Speaker 1: community gardening group where Burnham had presented herself as a
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  Speaker 1: veterinary technician. Different platforms, different pretexts, different human needs, same architecture.
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  Speaker 1: But here is the thing. With Rebecca, Burnham added something
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  Speaker 1: she had not used before. She showed up in person.
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  Speaker 1: That detail will matter. The first money request came in
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  Speaker 1: the second week of October, shortly after the trailhead meeting.
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  Speaker 1: $ 800 through Zell for a copay Kathleen said she could
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  Speaker 1: not cover before an upcoming scan. Rebecca transferred it the
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  Speaker 1: same day. Eleven days later, a second request arrived. $ 400
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  Speaker 1: for a medical administration fee, then a car repair, then
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  Speaker 1: a follow-up billing issue. The amounts escalated with a logic
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  Speaker 1: that felt internally consistent, each expense plausible, each one slightly
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  Speaker 1: larger than the last, each one arriving just long enough
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  Speaker 1: after the previous transfer that the sequence did not feel
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  Speaker 1: like a sequence. By the third week of November, Rebecca
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  Speaker 1: had transferred $ 41, 000. $ 41, 000 She had borrowed against her retirement
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  Speaker 1: account to cover the later amounts. She had not told Norma.
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  Speaker 1: She had not told anyone. She had not told anyone.
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  Speaker 1: Partly because Kathleen had spoken about the embarrassment of needing help,
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  Speaker 1: the privacy of illness, the particular shame of financial difficulty
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  Speaker 1: when you were supposed to be getting better. Rebecca understood
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  Speaker 1: that language too. Norma Eastwick noticed something was wrong before
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  Speaker 1: she had any specific reason to, The tone of Rebecca's
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  Speaker 1: calls had shifted. Something was slightly off in the way
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  Speaker 1: Rebecca talked about Kathleen. Too careful, too deliberate. The way
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  Speaker 1: someone speaks when they are protecting a story they have
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  Speaker 1: already started to doubt. Norma mentioned it to Dennis Larson,
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  Speaker 1: her neighbor, who worked fraud investigations for a regional consumer
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  Speaker 1: protection unit. Larson asked to see the Facebook group. He
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  Speaker 1: found it in under a minute. The account age, the
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  Speaker 1: profile image. the structure of the group's founding posts, enthusiastic, specific,
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  Speaker 1: slightly too perfectly calibrated to recruit people in exactly Rebecca's situation.
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  Speaker 1: He ran a reverse image search on the profile photo.
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  Speaker 1: Within the same session, Sandra Foote, the image had been
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  Speaker 1: taken from a professional directory in Asheville. The face in
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  Speaker 1: the profile photo was not Kathleen York. There was no
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  Speaker 1: Kathleen York. Larson brought what he had to the Harlan
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  Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Office and cross-referenced it with the state fraud unit.
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  Speaker 1: The account linked to the Zelle transfers traced back to
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  Speaker 1: a prepaid SIM card purchased at a Walgreens in Chattanooga
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  Speaker 1: in late August of 2019, roughly one week before Rebecca
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  Speaker 1: was added to the group. The SIM was registered to
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  Speaker 1: no clear individual name. The address on the account was
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  Speaker 1: a UPS store mailbox in Knoxville. Each piece of that
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  Speaker 1: was a wall. A wall. Designed to be a wall,
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  Speaker 1: then Kimberly Phillips called the sheriff's non-emergency line. Phillips had
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  Speaker 1: worked the Harlan County route for Clearwater Well and septic
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  Speaker 1: for 11 years. On a Tuesday morning in late November,
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  Speaker 1: servicing the panel near 412 Linden Creek Road, she found
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  Speaker 1: a shoe in the wet ground beside the septic access cover.
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  Speaker 1: A brown Oxford, men's size 11, clean, barely worn. She
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  Speaker 1: tried the house. No answer. She called the non-emergency line
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  Speaker 1: at 7.40 in the morning. The shoe sat in an
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  Speaker 1: evidence bag within three hours of her call. It was
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  Speaker 1: a brown, Oxford size, 11. A capital K was stamped
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  Speaker 1: inside the heel. A standard manufacturer's marking. Not a monogram,
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  Speaker 1: but the kind of detail that pulls you toward a
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  Speaker 1: name before you have finished reading it. The sole was cleaned.
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  Speaker 1: The leather was barely creased. It had not been worn
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  Speaker 1: enough to break in. A goodwill receipt, recovered later by investigators,
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  Speaker 1: would show a purchase in Knoxville approximately one week before
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  Speaker 1: the night of November 4th. Burnham had walked Linden Creek
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  Speaker 1: Road in the dark. There was no other reason to
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  Speaker 1: be there. Rebecca's address was not on any public route.
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  Speaker 1: The road served a handful of residential properties and ended.
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  Speaker 1: Burnham had driven to Harlan County five times across October
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  Speaker 1: and November, each time staying at the same motel in town,
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  Speaker 1: a room on the ground floor with immediate parking access,
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  Speaker 1: paid in cash, registered under the name Kay Burnham. The
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  Speaker 1: record showed it, what she was doing on that road
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  Speaker 1: in the dark, wearing shoes she had bought at a
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  Speaker 1: thrift store days before, that part she had not explained yet.
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  Speaker 1: Cell tower data placed her phone on Linden Creek Road
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  Speaker 1: that same night. There is an explanation that fits neatly here,
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  Speaker 1: and it is the wrong one. Picture Burnham on that
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  Speaker 1: road at night, moving carefully, wearing second-hand shoes she likely
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  Speaker 1: had no intention of keeping. The natural red is surveillance,
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  Speaker 1: checking whether the financial pressure was working, maybe planning some
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  Speaker 1: kind of escalation that the transfers alone could not achieve.
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  Speaker 1: She knew the layout. She had walked the trailhead twice
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  Speaker 1: before the first meeting. She knew which house was Rebecca's.
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  Speaker 1: That version holds together right up until you look at
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  Speaker 1: what the transfers had already produced by that night. By
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  Speaker 1: the night of November 4th, Rebecca had already sent the
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  Speaker 1: bulk of the $ 41, 000. The scheme was functionally complete. Burnham
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  Speaker 1: had what she came for. There was no financial reason
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  Speaker 1: to return. A rational actor running a fraud operation that
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  Speaker 1: had succeeded. does not go back to the victim's street
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  Speaker 1: after dark. The risk is asymmetric. Everything to lose, nothing
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  Speaker 1: left to gain. Which means the walk was not about money.
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  Speaker 1: In her December 3rd confession, delivered calmly in a tone
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  Speaker 1: investigators would later describe as almost procedural, Burnham said she
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  Speaker 1: had driven to Harlan County that night because she wanted
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  Speaker 1: to see the house. She had been to the trailhead,
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  Speaker 1: had met Rebecca there had corresponded with her for weeks.
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  Speaker 1: She said she wanted to see where Rebecca actually lived.
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  Speaker 1: She did not frame it as surveillance. She did not
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  Speaker 1: frame it as threat assessment. She described it in a
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  Speaker 1: way that implied a different register entirely, something closer to attachment,
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  Speaker 1: to needing to see the shape of a life she
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  Speaker 1: had spent months constructing access to. That recontextualizes something planted
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  Speaker 1: much earlier. The Facebook group was not just a recruitment
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  Speaker 1: Burnham had run simpler operations before. Vicki Ames' grief forum,
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  Speaker 1: Fred Cobb's gardening group. And those worked without physical contact,
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  Speaker 1: without months of correspondence, without five drives across the state.
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  Speaker 1: With Rebecca, Burnham had introduced something new. Presence. She had
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  Speaker 1: shown up at the trailhead. She had kept returning. The
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  Speaker 1: shoe on the ground is evidence of the sixth trip.
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  Speaker 1: It is possible the fraud had become something more consuming
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  Speaker 1: than the money. That does not diminish what was taken. $ 41, 000,
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  Speaker 1: a retirement account partially liquidated. The particular damage of having
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  Speaker 1: trusted someone with the specific language of survival, the fatigue,
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  Speaker 1: the guilt, the strangeness of remission, and learning that the
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  Speaker 1: understanding was manufactured. Rebecca told investigators she had felt in
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  Speaker 1: the early weeks of knowing Kathleen, less alone for the
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  Speaker 1: first time since her diagnosis. That was the mechanism. That
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  Speaker 1: was always the mechanism. The shoe, the cell data, and
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  Speaker 1: the motel records converged into a single, identified person. Kathleen Burnham,
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  Speaker 1: 44 years old, Chattanooga, Tennessee, no history of cancer. Arrested
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  Speaker 1: in late November of 2019, the Subaru Forester was registered
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  Speaker 1: in her name at a UPS store address in Knoxville,
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  Speaker 1: the same mailbox linked to the Zelle account. She pleaded
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  Speaker 1: guilty in February of 2020. Two counts of wire fraud,
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  Speaker 1: one count of identity theft. Six years in federal prison,
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  Speaker 1: Rebecca recovered approximately $ 9, 000 through asset forfeiture. The remaining $ 32, 000
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  Speaker 1: were gone. The $ 32, 000 that could not be recovered did
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  Speaker 1: not disappear into abstraction. It had been a retirement account
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  Speaker 1: that Rebecca had spent years building on a teacher's salary,
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  Speaker 1: money she had held onto through diagnosis, through treatment, through
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  Speaker 1: the months when she was not sure there would be
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  Speaker 1: a retirement to fund. Asset forfeiture returned $ 9, 000. The rest
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  Speaker 1: followed Kathleen Burnham's cash payments and prepaid Sim into a
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  Speaker 1: chain of transactions that investigators could trace but not reverse.
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  Speaker 1: Sandra Foote, the nurse practitioner in Asheville, whose photographs had
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  Speaker 1: built Kathleen York's face and credentials, learned she had been
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  Speaker 1: used only after the arrest. She had never spoken to Rebecca.
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  Speaker 1: She had never heard of the Facebook group. Her professional
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  Speaker 1: directory photograph had been enough. Dennis Larson, the fraud investigator
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  Speaker 1: who had first looked at the group as a neighbor's favor,
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  Speaker 1: submitted his analysis to the Harlan County Sheriff's Office before
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  Speaker 1: the shoe was ever found. The shoe connected a digital
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  Speaker 1: pattern to a physical body in a specific place on
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  Speaker 1: a specific night. Without Kimberly Phillips calling the non-emergency line
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  Speaker 1: on a Tuesday morning at 7.40, the connection might have
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  Speaker 1: taken weeks longer to make. It took less than a day.
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  Speaker 1: Burnham's December 3rd confession was described by those present as calm, specific,
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  Speaker 1: almost procedural. She did not dispute the vehicle registration, the
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  Speaker 1: cell tower data, or the motel records. She confirmed the
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  Speaker 1: SIM purchase in Chattanooga. She confirmed the five drives to
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  Speaker 1: Harlan County. She confirmed the name Kathleen York and the
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  Speaker 1: group she had built. What she did not explain, what
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  Speaker 1: the record does not contain, is why she kept returning
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  Speaker 1: after the first transfer cleared. The money could have stopped
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  Speaker 1: at $ 800 and the trail would have been much harder
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  Speaker 1: to follow. Instead, she escalated. $ 41, 000 across three weeks. and
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  Speaker 1: six physical trips across the state. Vicki Ames lost $ 22, 000
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  Speaker 1: through a grief forum for parents of premature babies. Fred Cobb,
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  Speaker 1: a retired postal worker in Rome, Georgia, lost $ 19, 000 through
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  Speaker 1: a gardening community where Burnham had presented herself as a
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  Speaker 1: veterinary technician. In Cookville, investigators found a pattern but no
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  Speaker 1: named victim. The specific architecture shifted each time. platform, the identity,
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  Speaker 1: the emotional context. But the foundation did not. Find someone
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  Speaker 1: in a defined community of pain. Build fluency in that
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  Speaker 1: pain's specific language. Become indispensable before the first financial request arrives.
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  Speaker 1: Rebecca had been in the lymphoma survivors moving forward group
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  Speaker 1: for roughly six weeks before Burnham asked for $ 800. By
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  Speaker 1: that point, she had exchanged messages almost daily with someone
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  Speaker 1: who knew what lymphoma fatigue felt like from the inside,
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  Speaker 1: who understood the specific guilt of remission, who had shown
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  Speaker 1: up at the Copperhead Ridge trailhead and walked beside her
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  Speaker 1: in the early morning cold. The $ 800 felt, at that moment,
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  Speaker 1: like the smallest possible thing she could do. That is
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  Speaker 1: not naivety. That is what the scheme was designed to produce.
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  Speaker 1: Kathleen Burnham was sentenced to six years in federal prison
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  Speaker 1: on two counts of wire fraud and one count of
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  Speaker 1: identity theft. Norma Eastwick still talks to Dennis Larson sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: They are neighbors, and occasionally their paths cross the way
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  Speaker 1: neighbors' paths do, she told him. Not long after the
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  Speaker 1: sentencing that Rebecca was still walking every morning, still three
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  Speaker 1: miles out and three miles back on Linden Creek Road,
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  Speaker 1: to the Copperhead Ridge marker. One change. She leaves at
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  Speaker 1: seven now, after the sun has come up. Rebecca had
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  Speaker 1: started that walk during her first week of remission, she
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  Speaker 1: called it, counting herself present. a record kept in motion,
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  Speaker 1: a daily confirmation that she had made it to another morning.
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  Speaker 1: The walk existed before the Facebook group, before Kathleen York,
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  Speaker 1: before the first message that arrived in a stranger's inbox
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  Speaker 1: with exactly the right words. It existed before $ 41, 000 left
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  Speaker 1: her account. It exists now, after. There is something worth
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  Speaker 1: sitting within that. The mechanism Burnham used was real trust,
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  Speaker 1: built inside a real routine, aimed at a real grief,
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  Speaker 1: the thing she borrowed to construct the fraud. The specific
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  Speaker 1: language of surviving a serious illness, the texture of what
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  Speaker 1: remission actually costs a person, was not invented. Rebecca recognized
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  Speaker 1: it because it was true. The recognition itself was not
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  Speaker 1: a failure. It was evidence of her own experience turned
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  Speaker 1: against her. The red post stands at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the trail, regardless of who has walked that road at night.
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  Speaker 1: It does not mean what it meant before, but Rebecca
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  Speaker 1: walks to it anyway, in the light, and that is
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  Speaker 1: its own kind of record. What Burnham could not take,
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  Speaker 1: and did not take, was the walk itself. This show
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