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3 Creepy Clown Horror Stories That Will Keep You from Going Near a Circus · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: I lost my right arm below the elbow during my
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  Speaker 1: senior year of high school. I won't go into detail
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  Speaker 1: of the accident that caused it, but needless to say,
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  Speaker 1: it was an unpleasant experience and left me mentally scarred
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  Speaker 1: for a long time. After the fact, I remember feeling
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  Speaker 1: like my life was over. Then. I had been right
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  Speaker 1: handed up until then, so I had to relearn even
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  Speaker 1: basic things like writing and getting dressed. It was exasperating.
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  Speaker 1: The only thing worse than trying to adapt was the
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  Speaker 1: different way people looked at me in the halls of
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  Speaker 1: my high school after I lost my hand. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: bully me or anything quite the opposite. In fact, they'd
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  Speaker 1: go out of their way to help me with things
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  Speaker 1: whenever I needed help, and being newly amputated, I often
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  Speaker 1: needed someone's help to get even the smallest things done.
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  Speaker 1: Before the accident, I was the quiet loaner who only
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  Speaker 1: stuck to a few close friends and didn't bother anyone else.
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  Speaker 1: After the accident, I became the poor girl who lost
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  Speaker 1: her hand and deserved special treatment from everyone around her.
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  Speaker 1: People would open lockers for me, carry stuff I dropped,
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  Speaker 1: and hold open doors while I was still far away
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  Speaker 1: from it. I know they were trying to be nice
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  Speaker 1: and they weren't causing anyone harm, but I couldn't stop
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  Speaker 1: myself from secretly feeling embarrassed whenever they helped me. The
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  Speaker 1: pitiful looks that gave me when they passed me in
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  Speaker 1: the hall felt like dagger stabbing into me. Still, I
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  Speaker 1: made sure to thank everyone who went out of their
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  Speaker 1: way to help me, despite how I felt. For a
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  Speaker 1: long time, I prided myself on being a tough girl
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  Speaker 1: who could do anything by herself. Suddenly needing the help
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  Speaker 1: of other people who must have felt obligated to aid
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  Speaker 1: me was a constant source of humiliation for me. I
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  Speaker 1: felt less like an independent person and more like a
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  Speaker 1: school pet than needed to be carefully cared for to survive.
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  Speaker 1: On the bright side, the popular girls who used to
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  Speaker 1: push and shove me when they thought they could get
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  Speaker 1: away with it no longer bothered me. I guess even
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  Speaker 1: spoiled rich girls have some standards all except one, that is,
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  Speaker 1: was Sophie, and she was well known for being a
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  Speaker 1: mythic bitch at her school who'd throw a shit fit
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  Speaker 1: at the Lamborghini she got for her birthday. Wasn't the
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  Speaker 1: right color with all the personality of a sheet of
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  Speaker 1: sandpaper being rubbed against your crotch. She was popular for
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  Speaker 1: just being popular and having more money than she knew
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  Speaker 1: what to do with. I never paid her much mind,
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  Speaker 1: and she didn't bother to acknowledge my existence before I
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  Speaker 1: lost my hand, which was fine by me because I
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to associate with someone like her anyway. But
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  Speaker 1: after I lost my hand and gained the unwonted collective
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  Speaker 1: sympathy of the school, her apathy towards me turned to absolute,
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  Speaker 1: burning hatred for an unbelievably idiotic reason. Senior prom was
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  Speaker 1: just around the corner. Sophie had pretty much guaranteed the
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  Speaker 1: prom queen title up until my accident made people know
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  Speaker 1: I existed. Pity votes for me to be prom queen
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  Speaker 1: started rolling in as my name skyrocketed to the top
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  Speaker 1: of the possible candidates. I held the lead for prom
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  Speaker 1: queen by the balls without trying or caring. By the
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  Speaker 1: time I even noticed that my name was on the
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  Speaker 1: list of those nominated by the student body, I already
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  Speaker 1: had more votes than the next two nominees combined. Directly
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  Speaker 1: below me in votes was Sophie, who apparently took that personally.
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  Speaker 1: She started talking shit about me to her friends behind
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  Speaker 1: my back and would accidentally trip me whenever I walked
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  Speaker 1: past her in the hallway. I fell on my face
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  Speaker 1: several times because of her. I was already unbalanced in
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  Speaker 1: general due to missing a chunk of my right side,
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  Speaker 1: and my sudden lack of dominant hand made me unable
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  Speaker 1: to shield myself from the floor whenever she tripped me.
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  Speaker 1: One time, I even felt so bad that I got
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  Speaker 1: sent to the nurse's office with a nosebleed. Unsurprisingly enough,
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  Speaker 1: picking on the disabled girl so badly that real blood
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  Speaker 1: was drawn didn't earn her any favors with the student
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  Speaker 1: body she was trying to get votes from. Once she
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  Speaker 1: realized this, she decided to try a different approach. Sophie
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  Speaker 1: approached me in the cafeteria about a couple weeks before
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  Speaker 1: the pro Despite having caused me no small amount of grief,
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  Speaker 1: She wore a smile on her face, faker than the
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  Speaker 1: implant she bought with her dad's credit card. She introduced
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  Speaker 1: herself as if the whole school didn't already know her name,
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  Speaker 1: and asked how I was coping with losing a hand.
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  Speaker 1: Had she been anyone else? I would have lied that
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  Speaker 1: I was doing fine and thank her for her concern.
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  Speaker 1: But since it was Sophie asking me that, I told
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  Speaker 1: her that I was doing about as well as you'd
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  Speaker 1: expect for a person who just lost their goddamn hand,
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  Speaker 1: and told her, in no uncertain terms to fuck off.
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  Speaker 1: She simply laughed off my response. Whether she chose to
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  Speaker 1: ignore the shade I threw her away, or was just
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  Speaker 1: too stupid to realize that I was insulting her, I
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  Speaker 1: have no idea. She went on to talk about how
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  Speaker 1: much she'd been looking forward to being prom queen, as
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  Speaker 1: if I was supposed to care. At the very end
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  Speaker 1: of her self entitled rant, she asked me to not
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  Speaker 1: go to the prom so that she could be prom queen.
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  Speaker 1: I shrugged. I honestly wasn't in the mood to dance
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  Speaker 1: anytime soon with my fucked up sense of balance. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: if not going to prom was going to get her
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  Speaker 1: out of my hair, I was more than glad to
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  Speaker 1: oblige her. She stopped messing with me after that. Then,
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  Speaker 1: a week before Prom, my best friend in longtime crush,
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  Speaker 1: asked me to go to prom with him. According to him,
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  Speaker 1: he'd been planning to ask me out for a while.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that I was missing a hand didn't bother him,
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  Speaker 1: though he told me that he'd understand if I didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to go to the prom with him or at all.
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  Speaker 1: The truth was, I didn't give a rat's ass about
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  Speaker 1: the prom, but I did care about him. I really
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  Speaker 1: did want to spend a memorable night with him at
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  Speaker 1: the prom. But if I did, then Sophie would no
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  Speaker 1: doubt give me grief about it. I then promptly realized
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  Speaker 1: that I didn't give two shits about what she thought
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  Speaker 1: of me. The tough girl I was before the accident
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't have let someone like Sophie keep her from what
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  Speaker 1: she wanted to do. Anyways, when prom night came, I
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  Speaker 1: power walked into the venue with my best friend turned
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  Speaker 1: boyfriend holding my shiny new prosthetic hand. He helped me
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  Speaker 1: pay for it to be delivered in time for the prom,
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  Speaker 1: and it did wonders for my confidence. Instead of people
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  Speaker 1: pitying me for my missing limb, they were gushing over
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  Speaker 1: my cool new cyborg arm and asking me how it worked.
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  Speaker 1: I was more than happy to tell them too. For
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  Speaker 1: the first time since my accident, I felt whole again,
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  Speaker 1: not everybody was as excited for me. However, Sophie glowered
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  Speaker 1: at me from a dark corner of the venue the
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  Speaker 1: entire night. Her usual click was nowhere to be seen.
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  Speaker 1: I guess most of them decided to jump ship to
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  Speaker 1: save their reputation from being associated with her. Honestly, at
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  Speaker 1: that point, I doubted she'd get to be prom queen
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  Speaker 1: even if I hadn't attended. To my surprise, I had
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  Speaker 1: a great time at the prom. I introduced my new
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  Speaker 1: boyfriend to my friends, and they all took to him
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  Speaker 1: right away. There was a little accident when I tried
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  Speaker 1: to hold my fruit punch with my prosthetic hand and
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  Speaker 1: ended up crushing the cup, but we all laughed at off.
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  Speaker 1: I kissed my boyfriend on the cheek and excused myself
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  Speaker 1: to the bathroom so that I could clean the fruit
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  Speaker 1: punch off my dress. As you can imagine, it took
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  Speaker 1: me a while, since I still wasn't accustomed to using
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  Speaker 1: my left hand or my new robotic hand. When I
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  Speaker 1: was finished, I looked at my watch and realized that
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  Speaker 1: the prom queen would be announced soon. I hurried back
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  Speaker 1: to the dance floor and was met with a scene
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  Speaker 1: straight out of a fever dream. Everyone from the teachers
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  Speaker 1: to my boyfriend were out cold on the ground, many
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  Speaker 1: of them still holding spilled cups of fruit punch in
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  Speaker 1: their hands. Standing in the middle of the dance floor
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  Speaker 1: among the past out at ten DS was Sophie, wearing
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  Speaker 1: the prom queen's sash over her hot pink dress and
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  Speaker 1: a tiara on her head. For the first time that night,
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  Speaker 1: she was smiling. It was not a happy smile, however,
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  Speaker 1: but one fueled by pure delusional insanity. She turned to
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  Speaker 1: look at me with crazy, bloodshot eyes and let out
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  Speaker 1: a laugh. I'm prom queen me, not you, she screamed,
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  Speaker 1: before charging me. I noticed the kitchen knife in her
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  Speaker 1: hand just in time to bring my prosthetic arm to
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  Speaker 1: defend myself. On instinct, the tip of the blade snapped
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  Speaker 1: off the moment it hit my prosthetic arm. That seemed
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  Speaker 1: to surprise her, and I took the opportunity to backhand
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  Speaker 1: her with the same prosthetic arm. She dropped to the
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  Speaker 1: ground like a sack of potatoes, and I immediately called
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  Speaker 1: the police. Police investigation revealed that she'd spike the fruit
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  Speaker 1: punch at the prom and was there waiting for everyone
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  Speaker 1: to fall unconscious. I wasn't going to be the only
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  Speaker 1: victim that night either, just the first. She revealed in
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  Speaker 1: an interview that she had planned on killing everyone who
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  Speaker 1: didn't vote for her to be prom queen. To this day,
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  Speaker 1: I'm thankful that my boyfriend now my husband, helped me
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  Speaker 1: pay for my prosthetic arm. If I hadn't blocked that
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  Speaker 1: knife and a lot of other people would have died
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  Speaker 1: that night at the hands of a girl who took
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  Speaker 1: prom way too seriously. Before starting the story, I would
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• 9:13
  Speaker 1: turns out that most of you guys who watch me
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  Speaker 1: the bell. It's free and you can always change your
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  Speaker 1: mind later. I broke up with my boyfriend about a
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  Speaker 1: month before Prom night. We've been dating each other since
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  Speaker 1: the start of high school, so it felt like a
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  Speaker 1: big part of my life was over. At the time,
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  Speaker 1: I was inconsolable. I shut myself off from my friends
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  Speaker 1: and family, who had never approved of my boyfriend in
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  Speaker 1: the first place. My mom took great joy and rubbing
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  Speaker 1: into my face, saying I told you. So. Right after
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  Speaker 1: the breakup, the only person I felt comfortable around enough
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  Speaker 1: to talk about it was a school counselor, doctor Marcus.
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  Speaker 1: He was probably the only member of the school staff
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  Speaker 1: I actually got along with. Everyone else just tolerated my
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  Speaker 1: existence as a background character in their classroom. Doctor Marcus
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  Speaker 1: was the only one who seemed to recognize me as
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  Speaker 1: a person. He made time for me whenever I needed
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  Speaker 1: someone to talk to about stuff that was bothering me.
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  Speaker 1: The counselor's office became sort of a safe place for
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  Speaker 1: me to relax when life had me feeling down. The
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  Speaker 1: smell of the lavender air freshener he liberally sprayed the
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  Speaker 1: office with became a comforting scent to me. I'd often
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  Speaker 1: talked to doctor Marcus for hours on end about stuff
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  Speaker 1: my boyfriend did whenever I thought he was being a
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  Speaker 1: jerk to me while we were dating. I think part
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  Speaker 1: of the reason why we broke up was because he
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  Speaker 1: heard about how much time I liked to spend with
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  Speaker 1: doctor Marcus and got jealous because of it. If that
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  Speaker 1: was the case, then the breakup backfired on him because
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  Speaker 1: I spent even more time at doctor Marcus's office afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes I talked about my problems. Other times we just
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  Speaker 1: lounged around and chatted about random things while munching on
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  Speaker 1: some snacks he kept in the office. He went out
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  Speaker 1: of his way to make sure he always had salted
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  Speaker 1: almonds stocked in the office, since he knew they were
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  Speaker 1: my favorite. When my self confidence was at an all
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  Speaker 1: time low, he was the only one who told me
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  Speaker 1: that I was worth it. It was nice having someone
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  Speaker 1: to talk to in that trying time. Stupid teenage me
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  Speaker 1: might have done something stupid if not for all the
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  Speaker 1: emotional support I received from doctor Marcus. I'm still grateful
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  Speaker 1: for it to this day, despite what would happen later.
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  Speaker 1: After a few weeks of sulking away from each other,
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  Speaker 1: my boyfriend and I finally made up through text and
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  Speaker 1: got back together. Of course, I couldn't be happier. I'd
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  Speaker 1: have an actual date for the prom instead of being
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  Speaker 1: forced to go alone. The next time I visited doctor
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  Speaker 1: Marcus's office, I excitedly told him that my boyfriend and
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  Speaker 1: I got back together. A worried look came across his
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  Speaker 1: face when I said that. He told me that I
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  Speaker 1: should be careful about him, since guys like him can
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  Speaker 1: get pretty dangerous when they're jealous. I told him that
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  Speaker 1: it'll be fine. We already talked things out after a
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  Speaker 1: long heart to heart. My boyfriend said that he was
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  Speaker 1: fine with me talking to doctor Marcus about problems I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't share with anyone else. Seeing that I was happy
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  Speaker 1: to be back with my boyfriend in time for the prom,
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Marcus dropped the subject and we ended up chatting
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  Speaker 1: about my hobbies and ambitions after high school instead. When
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  Speaker 1: prom night came, I put on a brand new dress
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  Speaker 1: I bought just for the occasion and took a cab
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  Speaker 1: to the hotel where the prom was being held. I
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  Speaker 1: waited at the entrance of the venue for my boyfriend
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  Speaker 1: to arrive. Then I waited and waited and waited in
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  Speaker 1: front of the hotel until I could hear the prom
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  Speaker 1: queen being named. Every text I sent was marked as red,
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  Speaker 1: but I got no reply. I broke down in tears
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  Speaker 1: in front of the venue, feeling betrayed by the guy
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  Speaker 1: who I thought i'd marry one day. Just as I
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  Speaker 1: thought my night was ruined, I felt a hand touch
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  Speaker 1: my shoulder. I looked up and saw Doctor Markets looking
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  Speaker 1: at me with concern. He asked if I was all right,
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  Speaker 1: and I shook my head to say no. Then he
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  Speaker 1: asked me if i'd like to go home, to which
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  Speaker 1: I nodded softly. I accepted his offer to give me
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  Speaker 1: a ride home and got into his car. Once inside
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  Speaker 1: his car, I immediately started to calm down. The lavender
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  Speaker 1: air freshener he used for his car smelled just like
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  Speaker 1: the one he used in his office. It was like
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  Speaker 1: I was in the councillor's office again. Even offered me
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  Speaker 1: some of my favorite salted almonds he kept in the
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  Speaker 1: glove compartment of his car to help ease my nerves.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think much of it and began snacking away
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  Speaker 1: like I usually did in his office. I told him
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  Speaker 1: my address, and he drove away from the hotel into town.
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  Speaker 1: I slowly regained my composure as we drove through town
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  Speaker 1: in awkward silence. I opened my mouth to speak, but
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  Speaker 1: paused when I noticed something strange. The smell of lavender
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  Speaker 1: air freshener had become ingrained in my brain after spending
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  Speaker 1: so much time it in his office. I knew it
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  Speaker 1: by heart at that point, but another scent was there
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  Speaker 1: in the car with me, something metallic and foul that
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  Speaker 1: faintly lingered within the pleasant lavender smell, like day old
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  Speaker 1: meat being sold at the supermarket. I thought about saying something,
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  Speaker 1: but didn't want to be rude. Doctor Marcus was already
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  Speaker 1: going out of his way to help me deal with
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  Speaker 1: my own problems again for the millionth time. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to risk offending him by an insensitive comment about
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  Speaker 1: his body odor. My vision started to blur. I presumed
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  Speaker 1: that it was probably just the stress of everything that's
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  Speaker 1: happened getting to me. When I told doctor Marcus that
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  Speaker 1: I was feeling a bit light headed, he simply told
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  Speaker 1: me that it's normal to feel that way when stressed,
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  Speaker 1: and assured me that everything will be all right soon.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't see it very well, but I could have
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  Speaker 1: sworn his lips curled into a smile when he said that.
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  Speaker 1: I was about to fall asleep. Just as Doctor Marcus
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  Speaker 1: abruptly slammed the brakes of the car, causing me to
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  Speaker 1: lurch forward in my seat, I struggled through my blurry
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  Speaker 1: vision to make out what was going on outside the car.
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  Speaker 1: The last thing I saw before I fell unconscious was
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  Speaker 1: red and blue lights flashing towards me, accompanied by the
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  Speaker 1: sound of sirens, which faded away into silence. I woke
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  Speaker 1: up in the hospital the next day. My parents were
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  Speaker 1: there waiting for me, and my mother immediately hugged me
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  Speaker 1: when she saw that I was conscious. I asked them
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  Speaker 1: what happened to me and where doctor Marcus was. My
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  Speaker 1: parents hesitated to say anything and told me that it
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  Speaker 1: might be better if I heard what happened from the
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  Speaker 1: police themselves. A few minutes later, two policemen walked into
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  Speaker 1: the hospital room. I couldn't believe what they told me,
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  Speaker 1: or rather I didn't want to. Doctor Marcus had been
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  Speaker 1: arrested for the murder of my boyfriend. He found out
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  Speaker 1: where my boyfriend lived through student profiles and drove there
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  Speaker 1: before the prom to kill him. Ludgend him on the
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  Speaker 1: head with a baseball bat before wrapping and stuffing him
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  Speaker 1: in the trunk of his car, the same car he
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  Speaker 1: drove me in after my breakdown at the prom. The
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  Speaker 1: foul smell I got from the car when I wrote
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  Speaker 1: in it was coming from the dead body of my
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  Speaker 1: boyfriend in the truck. Drug tests on the amens Doctor
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  Speaker 1: Marcus gave revealed them to be laced with drugs that
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  Speaker 1: made me lose consciousness. I don't want to know what
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  Speaker 1: he would have done to my unconscious body had the
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  Speaker 1: police not found his car in time, had a neighbor
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  Speaker 1: not noticed Doctor Marcus hauling my boyfriend's wrapped up body
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  Speaker 1: into his car trunk, he might not have been caught
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  Speaker 1: by the police and I would have been killed or worse.
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  Speaker 1: The experience has left me traumatized to this day, not
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  Speaker 1: because I was almost killed, but also because it would
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  Speaker 1: have been at the hands of someone I thought I
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  Speaker 1: could trust. I was a foreign exchange student in America
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  Speaker 1: for my senior year of high school. I'm Japan and
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  Speaker 1: when I first arrived in America, I couldn't speak a
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  Speaker 1: lick of English. I was already a shy and socially
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  Speaker 1: awkward girl to begin with, and the language barrier made
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  Speaker 1: it even harder to make any friends. Most of the
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  Speaker 1: people who bothered to make an effort to talk to
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  Speaker 1: me were people who I would later learn are called
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  Speaker 1: wiyaboos that would ask me about japan An anime non
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  Speaker 1: stop with broken Japanese. Yeah, it wasn't fun having to
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  Speaker 1: deal with them all the time, because no one else
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  Speaker 1: wanted to go through the trouble of trying to talk
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  Speaker 1: to the weird foreign exchange student. The only person I
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  Speaker 1: could talk too freely was a guy all called John
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  Speaker 1: for the sake of the story. He was smart, good looking,
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  Speaker 1: immensely popular with the girls from what I could gather,
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  Speaker 1: and spoke perfect Japanese. He told me that his grandfather
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: was Japanese too, so he learned the language to be
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: able to talk with him when he was just a kid.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: I thought it was cool as hell that he could
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: speak two languages so fluently and asked him to teach
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: me some English so I wouldn't feel so out of
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: place at the school. He agreed, and soon we were
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: hanging out almost every day, with dates disguised as study sessions. Naturally,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: when John, being as popular as he was, a lot
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: of girls there were jealous that an upstart foreign exchange
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: student had just stolen his time away from them. They
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: would speak badly of me behind my back or sometimes
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: right in front of me, thinking I wouldn't be able
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: to understand them anyways, not knowing that my English had
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: improved dramatically thanks to John's lessons. The most common sentiment
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: was that John only hung out with me had a pity,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: which I couldn't help but agree with to some extent.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: I never confronted any of the girls about what they said.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: It might be a cultural thing, but Japanese people tend
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: to value conformity and a non confrontational latitude. Standing up
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: for myself seemed like a selfish thing to do that
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: will inconvenience other people. Besides, I didn't want to stir
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: up any trouble by causing a scene when I was
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: barely able to cope with the culture shock as it is.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: For a long time, I thought of being a burden
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: to John, who only tolerated me because he was too
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: nice to turn me down when I asked him to
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: teach me English. When prom night was approaching, I got
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: a few guys who asked me to prom in broken
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Japanese too, but I politely turned them all down for
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: obvious reasons. Surprisingly enough, John didn't ask any girl to prom,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: even though any single girl at school would have jumped
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: at the chance to go with him. Hell, some girl
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: even took the initiative to ask him to prom. He
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: turned them all down and kept hanging out with me
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: after school every day for our English lessons. One day,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: during our lessons, I asked him if he ever had
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: a girlfriend. He told me that he did have a
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: girlfriend once, but they weren't together anymore. He didn't elaborate
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: on what happened to them, though, so I didn't push
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: the issue. I just assumed that it must have been
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: a bad breakup and that whoever the girl was must
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: still be regretting it now. He then asked me if
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I ever had a boyfriend, and truthfully answered that I'd
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: never been in a relationship before. At the end of
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: our lesson the same day, I casually asked him if
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: he was interested in asking any girl out for the
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: upcoming prom. He looked at me dead in the eye
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: with a lady killer smile and said that yes, he
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: did have a girl in mind for prom. Then, without
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: any hesitation, told me that that girl was me. My
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: heart nearly exploded in my chest from excitement when I
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: heard that. My brain was slower to react, and I
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: must have stood there staring at him incredulously for a
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: good two seconds before I gave him a hundred yeses
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: and response. Rumors and shit talk about me tripled throughout
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: the school when news got out that John had asked
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: me out. I didn't pay them any mind. Nothing they
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: said mattered to me, because I knew that my night
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: at the prom, which John, was going to be the
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: best night of my life. My host family was happy
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: for me when they heard I actually got a date
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: for the prom. When I asked them if it would
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: be appropriate for me to wear a traditional Japanese kimono
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: to prom instead of the typical formal dress, they were
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: nothing but supportive of the idea. I was supposed to
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: spread Japanese culture in America, after all, it was only
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: natural that I choose to wear something distinctively Japanese to
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: the prom. My host mother managed to rent a beautiful
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: white silk kimono with lily patterns for the big night.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: She even helped me put it on with some help
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: from Google. She made a little mistake while helping me
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: put it on that I only noticed later. Though kimonos
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: are traditionally wrapped left over right, instead, she wrapped my
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: kimono with the right side over the left, which is
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: usually reserved for corpses being prepared for funerals. By the
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: time I noticed the error, I was already at the
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: prom venue, and I was too lazy to try and
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: fix it. I waited for John to arrive at the prom,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: getting many stairs and some compliments in the meantime. Then
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: a girl I'd never seen before approached me. She told
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: me that I shouldn't have come here, right to my face.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: I told her that I was a student too, and
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: was here with a date. She told me that she
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: knew all about me and my date and that I
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: should have stayed away from John for my own sake.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: I felt a chill run down my spine. This was
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the first time I'd actually been confronted by a jealous girl. Still,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: I wasn't too afraid, since we were still in a
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: populated area. I asked her who she thought she was,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: and she fell silent. Then she told me that she
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: was only here too, in her words, take care of something.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Before I could ask her what the hell that was
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: supposed to mean, she walked off without another word. John
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: never made it to the prom. I spent the whole
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: night alone with people laughing at me for thinking I
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: had a chance with John. Then the next day, John's
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: body was found drowned in a nearby lake. He'd gone
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: missing from his home, and a passer by noticed his
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: shoes floating on the water. Of a nearby lake. When
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: they searched the lake for him, his body was not
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: the only one they found. There was another body there
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: that looked like it had been decaying in the lake for
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: at least a year. It was identified to be a
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: missing girl who just so happened to be John's girlfriend
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: when she initially went missing. The wounds on her body
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: suggested that she'd been killed before being dumped in the lake.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: The investigation on the girl's disappearance turned murder reopened an
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: evident surface that suggested John might have been the one
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: who killed her, although nothing has been definitively proven. I
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: immediately knew that John was her killer when I saw
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: the picture of the missing girl in the newspaper, because
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: the girl who'd been rotting in the lake for a
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: year looked exactly like the girl who approached me at
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: the prom that night, saying that I should have stayed
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: away from her boyfriend.