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He Came for Care - She Lost Her Life, Piece by Piece · Narcisist Psychology

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Speaker 1: The third week of August twenty seventeen, a property inspector
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Speaker 1: named Jeffrey Allen walked a vacant lot on Kessler Road
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Speaker 1: to document the condition of a well head before transfer
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Speaker 1: of title. He found two things that should not have
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Speaker 1: been there. A pale yellow cardigan size medium folded with
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Speaker 1: the collar turned up against the concrete casing, not dropped,
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Speaker 1: not forgotten placed, and beside it a brown prescription bottle
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Speaker 1: with the label removed, containing eleven white tablets. The woman
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Speaker 1: those items belonged to had been dead for about three
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Speaker 1: and a half months. Her name was Gina Wagner. She
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Speaker 1: was fifty two years old, a billing coordinator at an
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Speaker 1: ORTHOPEDICX practice in Harlan Mills, Kentucky, where she had worked
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Speaker 1: for twenty one years. She had a daughter named Nora,
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Speaker 1: who lived in Columbus. She had a sister named Paulette
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Speaker 1: in Grover, bed and she had, in the final months
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Speaker 1: of her life, a sober companion named Alan Jensen, a
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Speaker 1: man referred to her by her own treatment coordinator, A
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Speaker 1: man with a certification card and a website and testimonials
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Speaker 1: that nobody had looked at closely enough. What followed Jensen's
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Speaker 1: arrival was not a sudden collapse, but it was the
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Speaker 1: beginning of the end for Gina. It was a slow,
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Speaker 1: methodical dismantling of Gina's finances, her relationships, her capacity to
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Speaker 1: make a decision without him in the room, and when
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Speaker 1: it was over, the initial ruling called it a cardiac event.
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Speaker 1: There was no crime scene, there was no investigation. There
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Speaker 1: was only a family that kept asking questions, and one
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Speaker 1: item of clothing left at a property Jensen had once rented,
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Speaker 1: waiting in plain sight for someone to find it. This
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Speaker 1: is how one person took a part another's reality, piece
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Speaker 1: by piece, and almost got away with it before any
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Speaker 1: of that at there was a Wednesday. Every Wednesday, Gina
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Speaker 1: Wagner drove the county Road from Dellard County to the
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Speaker 1: Rover Bend and had dinner with her sister Polette. They
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Speaker 1: had done this since two thousand and six, eleven years
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Speaker 1: of the same table, on the same drive, the same
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Speaker 1: habit of two women who had learned that a scheduled
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Speaker 1: thing becomes a promise, and a promise becomes a lifeline.
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Speaker 1: Gina was the kind of person for whom routine was
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Speaker 1: not rigiditive. It was architecture. She had held the same
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Speaker 1: job for twenty one years, cataloging billing codes at a
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Speaker 1: small orthopedics practice, where the staff knew her coffee order
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Speaker 1: and the doctors trusted her to catch their errors. She
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Speaker 1: kept a kitchen chair where she always set her cardigan.
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Speaker 1: When she came home, she called Nora back within the hour, always.
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Speaker 1: In the spring of twenty fifteen, Gina entered an outpatient
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Speaker 1: recovery program. The details of her substance hit history are
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Speaker 1: not publicly confirmed in full, but she committed to the
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Speaker 1: program and she stayed with it for more than a year.
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Speaker 1: She held the structure she had built the job the Wednesdays,
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Speaker 1: the calls to Nora. Recovery for Gina looked a lot
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Speaker 1: like the life she already knew how to live. Then,
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Speaker 1: in the fall of twenty sixteen, she relapsed. Relapses do
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Speaker 1: not announce themselves. The clinical record shows only the outcome.
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Speaker 1: Gina's treatment coordinator added a sober companion to her support plan.
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Speaker 1: The name on the referral was Alan Jensen. Jensen was
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Speaker 1: forty four at the time. He drove a clean white pickup.
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Speaker 1: He had a certification card identifying him as a sober companion,
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Speaker 1: a website with client testimonials, and a stated specialty working
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Speaker 1: with women in what he called middle recovery, the long
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Speaker 1: stretch after the acute phase, when the crisis is over
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Speaker 1: and the clinical attention thins out. He claimed eight years
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Speaker 1: of experience. A surface level background check turned up no
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Speaker 1: criminal record. To every one who looked, he appeared exactly
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Speaker 1: as advertised. He arrived in Gina's life in November of
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Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen. Within weeks, he was at her house
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Speaker 1: most days. That much is documented by neighbors. Frank Dunn,
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Speaker 1: who lived near by on Emme at Fork Road, observed
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Speaker 1: Jensen's white pick up regularly in Gina's driveway, often in
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Speaker 1: the early morning, sometimes in the evening. Dunn later described
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Speaker 1: the presence as feeling like more than a professional arrangement,
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Speaker 1: though he would say he had no specific reason for
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Speaker 1: suspicion at the time. By January of twenty seventeen, Gina
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Speaker 1: had given Jensen a house key. That same month, the
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Speaker 1: cash withdrawals began. There is a particular architecture to what
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Speaker 1: Jensen was doing that only becomes visible in full when
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Speaker 1: you know where to look. He was not moving fast,
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Speaker 1: He was not dramatic. He was removing friction, showing up
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Speaker 1: the four appointments, calling the pharmacy, driving Gina where she
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Speaker 1: needed to go. Each act looked like care. Each act
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Speaker 1: made Gina slightly more dependent on his presence and slightly
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Speaker 1: less practiced at making a decision alone. And in late
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Speaker 1: January of twenty seventeen, according to the forensic reconstruction developed
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Speaker 1: months after Gina's death, Jensen began introducing GHB into her
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Speaker 1: herbal tea during his daily visits. GHB clears the body
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Speaker 1: in approximately twelve hours. Gina's outpatient clinic panels tested for opioids, benzodiazepines, alcohol,
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Speaker 1: and stimulants. They did not test for GHB. Jensen, whose
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Speaker 1: ledger would later show he had mapped each client's testing
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Speaker 1: panel before selecting a substance, knew exactly what the panel
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Speaker 1: would not find. By February, Gina was declining invitations she
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Speaker 1: would never have turned down before. On February fourth, two
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Speaker 1: thousand seventeen, her two thousand eleven civic was towed from
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Speaker 1: Route nine, eleven miles from her home. The toe was
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Speaker 1: called from Jensen's phone, he drove her home afterward. That
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Speaker 1: same day, Nora called from Columbus and invited her mother
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Speaker 1: to visit. Gina said no. Nora's phone call went unanswered.
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Speaker 1: But the mist call was not the first sign something
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Speaker 1: had shifted inside the house on Emmet Fork Road. The
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Speaker 1: first sign came from the Wednesday dinners. Since two thousand six,
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Speaker 1: Gina and her sister Paulette had met every Wednesday in
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Speaker 1: Grover Bend eleven years without interruption. Then in March of
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Speaker 1: two thousand seventeen, Gina missed one. Then she missed the
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Speaker 1: second one in a row. Paulette drove to the house unannounced.
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Speaker 1: She found Gina moving. That was the word Paulette would
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Speaker 1: use later, moving through water, slow, distant, reaching for thoughts
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Speaker 1: that seemed to drift just out of her grip. Jensen
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Speaker 1: arrived while Paulette was still there, and something happened that
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Speaker 1: Paulette could not fully describe at the time but could
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Speaker 1: not stop thinking about. Afterward, Gina turned toward him, physically
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Speaker 1: turned like a plant, reorienting toward the only light source
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Speaker 1: in the room. Paulette drove home and told herself her
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Speaker 1: sister was struggling with recovery. She was not wrong, she
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Speaker 1: just did not know what was causing it. In late
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Speaker 1: April of twenty seventeen, on a Tuesday morning, Gina Wagner
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Speaker 1: was found unresponsive in her driveway. She was fifty two
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Speaker 1: years old. She was pronounced dead unseen. The initial ruling
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Speaker 1: was cardiac event. The toxicology screen tested for opioids, benzodiazepines, alcohol,
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Speaker 1: and stimulants. It did not test for GHB. GHB clears
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Speaker 1: the body in approximately twelve hours. By the time the
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Speaker 1: autopsy was completed, there was nothing left to find. The
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Speaker 1: death was recorded, the case was closed, and Alan Jensen
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Speaker 1: drove away in his clean white pick up. Six weeks later,
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Speaker 1: Paulette hired Earl Richardson. Richardson was a licensed private investigator
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Speaker 1: with fourteen years in financial crimes before going independent. Paulette
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Speaker 1: had one question for him, Where did the money go?
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Speaker 1: In the months before Gina's death, roughly nine thousand dollars
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Speaker 1: had moved out of her accounts in small withdrawals, no large,
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Speaker 1: single transfer, no obvious destination. Richardson pulled the withdrawal records
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Speaker 1: and cross referenced them against Jensen's documented billing visits to
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Speaker 1: Gina's clinic. The correlation was not perfect, it was close
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Speaker 1: enough to be impossible to ignore. Within forty eight hours
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Speaker 1: of each clinic billing visit, cash left Gina's account. But
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Speaker 1: here's the thing. The money was only the first layer.
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Speaker 1: Richards's flagged something else in the records. Jensen had called
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Speaker 1: the tow truck on February fourth, not Gina. He had
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Speaker 1: the mechanic's number. Tom Vickers confirmed the call came from
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Speaker 1: Jensen's phone. Gina's car had broken down eleven miles from
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Speaker 1: her home on Route nine. Jensen was not with her
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Speaker 1: when it happened. He arrived after he made the call.
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Speaker 1: He drove her home. That detail sat in Richardson's file
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Speaker 1: for weeks before its weight became clear. Jensen had not
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Speaker 1: inserted himself into a moment of crisis. He had managed
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Speaker 1: it before Gina could manage it herself. He had called
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Speaker 1: before she had the chance to call. That was not response,
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Speaker 1: That was preemption. Richardson brought the financial records, the car logs,
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Speaker 1: and a formal request for toxicology retesting of Gina's preserved
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Speaker 1: blood samples to the Delared County Sheriff's office in July
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Speaker 1: of twenty seventeen. The preserved samples still existed. The lab
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Speaker 1: ran the screen GHB came back positive. The cause of
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Speaker 1: death was reclassified. An arrest warrant was issued for Alan
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Speaker 1: Jensen in July of twenty seventeen. Deputies found him three
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Speaker 1: days later at a motel outside Bowling Green. He was
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Speaker 1: forty four years old and had a clean criminal record
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Speaker 1: and a certification card and a website with testimonials no
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Speaker 1: one had verified in depth. Investigators searched a storage unit
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Speaker 1: Jensen rented in Milford, fifteen miles from Harlan Mills. Inside
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Speaker 1: they found a filing box. Inside the box was a ledger.
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Speaker 1: The ledger listed five names, dates, dollar amounts, and something
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Speaker 1: more specific than any of that, notes on each client's
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Speaker 1: testing panel, which substances each clinic screened for, and which
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Speaker 1: substances each clinic did not. Geno Wagner's name was in
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Speaker 1: the ledger, so were four other women. The earliest entries
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Speaker 1: dated back to twenty eleven. Four prior clients had suffered
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Speaker 1: significant financial losses, two had relapsed and left their recovery programs,
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Speaker 1: one had moved away. None of them had died. Gina
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Speaker 1: was the only one who died. Three days after investigators
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Speaker 1: searched the Milford storage unit. Jensen confessed he did not
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Speaker 1: explain the cardigan. He did not explain the prescription bottle.
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Speaker 1: He did not account for the nine thousand dollars. He
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Speaker 1: declined to discuss any of those items. What he admitted
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Speaker 1: to was enough for the prosecution to build the case
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Speaker 1: they needed. What he stayed silent about was in some
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Speaker 1: ways harder to set aside. The pale yellow cardigan had
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Speaker 1: been found in the third week of August two thousand
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Speaker 1: seventeen at four hundred fourteen Kessler Road, a property fifteen
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Speaker 1: miles from Gina's house. A man named Jeffrey Allen was
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Speaker 1: inspecting the land he had recently purchased. An old well
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Speaker 1: head folded with the collar turned up. Was the cardigan.
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Speaker 1: Beside it a brown prescription bottle with the label removed.
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Speaker 1: The adhesive ghost of the old label was still on
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Speaker 1: the glass inside eleven white tablets. The tablets were g
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Speaker 1: h B, same compound, same formulation as the residue confirmed
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Speaker 1: in Gina's preserved blood. Records showed Jensen had rented that
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Speaker 1: property briefly in two thousand fifteen, two years before Gina's death.
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Speaker 1: The working reconstruction, Jensen drove to Kessler Road the night
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Speaker 1: Gina died or shortly after, and left the cardigan and
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Speaker 1: the bottle near the well head, intending to return for them.
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Speaker 1: The property changed hands faster than he anticipated. He lost
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Speaker 1: access before he could recover what he had left there.
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Speaker 1: The cardigan was matched to Gina through a Christmas photograph.
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Speaker 1: Her family confirmed she had been wearing it during Jensen's visits.
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Speaker 1: Paulette remembered seeing it on a kitchen chair. She never
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Speaker 1: saw it after Jensen stopped coming to the house. Picture
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Speaker 1: Allan Jensen, in the fall of two thousand sixteen, reviewing
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Speaker 1: a referral list in a county with one overworked treatment
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Speaker 1: coordinator targeting women in what practitioners call middle recovery past
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Speaker 1: the acute phase, still fragile, less monitored. He shows up
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Speaker 1: with a certification card and a website and a calm,
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Speaker 1: competent manner, and within weeks he is driving Gina to
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Speaker 1: her appointments and calling her pharmacy and sitting with her
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Speaker 1: through the long afternoons. That version of events Jensen as
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Speaker 1: a skilled manipulator who crossed from financial exploitation into something worse,
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Speaker 1: is the version the evidence supports most directly. The Ledger
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Speaker 1: alone documents a pattern going back to twenty eleven. The
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Speaker 1: testing gap notes are not the notes of someone who
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Speaker 1: made opportunistic mistakes. They are the notes of someone who researched, mapped,
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Speaker 1: and planned. But there is one version that surfaces in
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Speaker 1: the trial record that deserves examination because it attempts to
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Speaker 1: account for the same facts differently. The defense characterized Jensen's
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Speaker 1: actions as boundary violations a professional who became too enmeshed,
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Speaker 1: who accepted money outside the formal arrangement, who lost clinical objectivity.
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Speaker 1: In this version, Jensen's proximity was inappropriate, but not predatory.
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Speaker 1: The g HB in this version was a catastrophic lapse
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Speaker 1: in judgment from some one who rationalized each step as helping.
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Speaker 1: That version collapses the moment you look at the ledger.
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Speaker 1: Boundary violations do not come with notes on which tests
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Speaker 1: each client's clinic runs and which compounds those tests will
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Speaker 1: not detect enmeshment does not produce a filing box with
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Speaker 1: five names and a decade of entries, and a lapse
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Speaker 1: in judgment does not send you to a rented property
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Speaker 1: at night to conceal evidence. Evidence that would sit undis
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Speaker 1: discovered near a well head for about three and a
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Speaker 1: half months until a new landowner walked the land. The
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Speaker 1: cardigan is the detail that does not fit any version
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Speaker 1: except the one the prosecution built. Jensen folded it. He
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Speaker 1: placed it collar up the way you might set something
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Speaker 1: down with care, not the way you discard something in panic.
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Speaker 1: Whether that gesture meant anything specific is not confirmed. What
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Speaker 1: is confirmed is that he drove it fifteen miles from
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Speaker 1: Gina's home on the night she died or shortly after,
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Speaker 1: and he tried to come back for it and he
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Speaker 1: could not. Gina Wagner had been dead for about three
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Speaker 1: and a half months when Jeffrey Allen found her cardigan
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Speaker 1: near that well head. She never knew it was missing.
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Speaker 1: She never knew what had been in her tea. The
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Speaker 1: arrest warrant came through in July of twenty seventeen. Deputies
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Speaker 1: found Alan Jensen at a motel outside Bowling Green. He
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Speaker 1: had his bag, he had his keys, He had not
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Speaker 1: made it. Three days after investigators searched the storage unit
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Speaker 1: in Milfield, Jensen confessed. The confession did not explain the cardigan.
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Speaker 1: It did not explain the brown bottle or the cash.
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Speaker 1: Whatever calculation he made in that motel room, he kept
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Speaker 1: those details to himself. The Dellard County Court convicted him
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Speaker 1: on four counts, one count of second degree manslaughter, two
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Speaker 1: counts of elder financial exploitation, one count of unlawful administration
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Speaker 1: of a controlled substance. The jury had the ledger, They
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Speaker 1: had the blood samples. They had the filing box with
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Speaker 1: five names and notes on testing gaps going back to
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Speaker 1: twenty eleven. The sentence was twenty two years eligible for
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Speaker 1: parole In fourteen. Gina's cause of death was formally reclassified
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Speaker 1: after GHB was confirmed in her preserved blood samples. The
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Speaker 1: initial ruling cardiac event was never the full story. It
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Speaker 1: took a private investigator, a sister who refused to excit
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Speaker 1: accept an easy answer, and a preserved blood draw that
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Speaker 1: almost was not ordered to change the record, but it changed.
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Speaker 1: The pale yellow cardigan was returned to the family. The
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Speaker 1: prescription bottle remained in evidence. The ledger entries told investigators
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Speaker 1: that Jensen had been operating this way since at least
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Speaker 1: two thousand eleven. Four clients before Jina had suffered financial loss,
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Speaker 1: Two had relapsed and left their recovery programs, one had
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Speaker 1: moved away, none had died. The question that the ledger
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Speaker 1: raises and no testimony fully answers is a simple one.
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Speaker 1: At what point did Jensen decide that death was an
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Speaker 1: acceptable outcome, or whether he ever consciously decided that at all.
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Speaker 1: The Sober Companion registry that listed him still exists in
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Speaker 1: some form. The referral system that connected him to Jina,
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Speaker 1: a single overworked coordinator in a rural county with limited
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Speaker 1: clinical infrastructure, is still the model in many places. Dellard
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Speaker 1: County is not unusual. The gap Jensen exploited was not
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Speaker 1: a failure of one person's judgment. It was a structural opening,
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Speaker 1: and he found it, and he mapped it, and he
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Speaker 1: used it for at least six years before anyone looked
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Speaker 1: at it directly. The GHB panel that clinics in Gina's
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Speaker 1: program ran did not include screening for GHB. It tested
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Speaker 1: for opioids, benzodiazepines, alcohol, and stimulants. GHB clears the body
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Speaker 1: in approximately twelve hours. Jensen scheduled around those windows. He
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Speaker 1: knew the schedule because he drove Gina to her appointments.
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Speaker 1: There is a detail in this case that resists explanation.
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Speaker 1: Even after the verdict, Jensen folded the Cardigan He placed
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Speaker 1: it collar up against the well casing at four hundred
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Speaker 1: fourteen Kessler Road, fifteen miles from Gina's house, on or
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Speaker 1: around the night she died. That is not the action
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Speaker 1: of someone discarding evidence in panic. Fold has no legal significance.
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Speaker 1: No one at trial offered a theory about what it
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Speaker 1: meant to him. It may mean nothing, but it is
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Speaker 1: the kind of detail that stays. The systemic failure here
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Speaker 1: is not invisible in hindsight. It is visible in the
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Speaker 1: structure rural outpatient programs relying on single coordinators companion registries
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Speaker 1: with no verification depth screening panels that test for the
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Speaker 1: expected substances and leave chemical gaps wide enough to drive
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Speaker 1: a clean white pick up through. Jensen did not build
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Speaker 1: those gaps. He read them. What Richardson found, what Paulette
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Speaker 1: made possible by refusing to accept a closed case was
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Speaker 1: not just one man's pattern. It was the record of
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Speaker 1: a system being read carefully by someone who understood it
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Speaker 1: better than the people responsible for running it. Gina Wagner
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Speaker 1: was fifty two years old. She had worked the same
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Speaker 1: job for twenty one years. She drove a twenty eleven
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Speaker 1: civic on rural roads in Dellard County, Kentucky. She had
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Speaker 1: been trying, with real effort and real difficulty, to stay
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Speaker 1: in recovery. She kept Wednesday dinners with her sister for
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Speaker 1: eleven years until she could not. She wore a pale
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Speaker 1: yellow cardigan that her family recognized from a Christmas photograph.
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Speaker 1: She deserved a system that could see what was happening
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Speaker 1: to her. She did not get one. Nora Wagner drives
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Speaker 1: to Grover Bend most Wednesdays now since the sentencing, the
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Speaker 1: dinners have resumed. That is the thing that endures, not
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Speaker 1: the verdict, not the ledger, not the twenty two years,
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Speaker 1: the Wednesday dinner, the sister showing up, the ordinary thing
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