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Speaker 1: today's stories. In twenty eighteen, a fifty six year old
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Speaker 1: father of four named Tayeb Suyami was living in a quiet,
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Speaker 1: modest town in New Jersey, called Little Ferry. Tyeb had
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Speaker 1: moved to the United States from Africa back in nineteen
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Speaker 1: ninety six, and after getting settled in New Jersey, he
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Speaker 1: had landed a job as an accountant for a food
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Speaker 1: importing company. At first, Tyeb's salary had been enough to
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Speaker 1: provide for the family, but as his family grew, his
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Speaker 1: salary just wasn't enough and money became a real problem,
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Speaker 1: and so eventually Tyeb's wife also got a full time job.
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Speaker 1: But even then, with two full time working adults, the
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Speaker 1: family had to stay on a very strict budget just
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Speaker 1: to make ends meet. And that year, in twenty eighteen,
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Speaker 1: one of Tyeb's daughters was getting ready to go to college,
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Speaker 1: and so Tyeb was forced to refinance his mortgage just
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Speaker 1: to make the initial payments on his child college bills.
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Speaker 1: But despite his financial struggles, Tyab did not let it
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Speaker 1: bother him. He was an eternal optimist who fundamentally believed
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Speaker 1: that in the end, everything would just work itself out.
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Speaker 1: On May first of that year, Tyab was on his
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Speaker 1: way home from work when his wife called him and
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Speaker 1: asked if he would swing by the grocery store and
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Speaker 1: pick up some orange juice. So Tyab stopped at the
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Speaker 1: Shopwrite grocery store in Hackensack, New Jersey, which was only
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Speaker 1: a couple miles north of Little Ferry, where they lived,
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Speaker 1: and he went inside. He went to the juice stile
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Speaker 1: and he scanned the different brands of orange juice, and
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Speaker 1: at some point he grabbed the most appealing orange juice
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Speaker 1: that was still within their budget. It was five dollars.
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Speaker 1: He takes the juice, he goes to the front of
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Speaker 1: the store, he pays for it. He goes outside, he
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Speaker 1: hops in his car, and he heads home. When he
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Speaker 1: pulls into his driveway, he gets out, he goes into
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Speaker 1: the house. He goes right into the kitchen where his
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Speaker 1: wife was, and he proudly set the orange juice down
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Speaker 1: on the kitchen table, expecting a thank you from his wife.
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Speaker 1: But his wife turned around and she looked at the
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Speaker 1: orange juice and she saw the brand he had purchased,
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Speaker 1: and she immediately said, how much did you pay for that?
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Speaker 1: And Tyeb said five dollars, And she said, well, you
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Speaker 1: got to take it back because I know that brand
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Speaker 1: is on sale for two dollars and fifty cents at
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Speaker 1: the grocery store right down the road. So go return
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Speaker 1: this one, and so Tyab was totally annoyed because he
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Speaker 1: just got home from work. He thought he had done
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Speaker 1: a good deed and now he's in trouble. And so
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Speaker 1: he decided, you know what, I'm not going to fight
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Speaker 1: her on this. He just walked over, grabbed the five
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Speaker 1: dollars orange juice, and he went back outside, hopped in
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Speaker 1: his car, and took off. A few minutes later, he
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Speaker 1: arrived at the Hackensack, New Jersey shopwrite. He went inside
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Speaker 1: and he went straight to the customer service desk where
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Speaker 1: there was a teenager behind the counter, and Tyeb walked
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Speaker 1: over to them and he handed them the juice along
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Speaker 1: with his receipt and he asked for a refund. And so,
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Speaker 1: while Tayeb is standing there letting this cashier complete the transaction,
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Speaker 1: he looked behind the cashier at the wall and there
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Speaker 1: was this sign that totally piqued his interest, and so
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Speaker 1: he's staring at the sign and then finally the teenage
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Speaker 1: cashier he finishes the transaction and he reaches out across
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Speaker 1: the counter with Tyeb's five dollars, and Tyeb he reaches
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Speaker 1: out and he takes the five dollars, but then he
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Speaker 1: pauses for a second, and he's kind of looking up
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Speaker 1: at the sign, and he's thinking about what he should do.
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Speaker 1: And he knows that if he does this, if he
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Speaker 1: does what the sign is telling him to do, he's
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Speaker 1: gonna get in trouble with his wife, because this is
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Speaker 1: the exact opposite of what he was sent out to do.
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Speaker 1: But Tyeb just couldn't help it, and he takes the
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Speaker 1: five dollars and he proceeds to hand it right back
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Speaker 1: to the cashier, and he tells the cashier what he
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Speaker 1: wants him to do with it, and so a couple
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Speaker 1: minutes later, Tyeb leaves the shop right with no juice,
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Speaker 1: with no five dollars, but two small slips of paper
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Speaker 1: in his back pocket. And so Tyeb hops in his
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Speaker 1: car and he drives to the grocery store that's right
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Speaker 1: down the road from their house. He goes inside and
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Speaker 1: he gets the on sale two dollars and fifty cents
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Speaker 1: bottle of orange juice, and then he goes back into
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Speaker 1: his car. He drives home. He goes in the kitchen
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Speaker 1: and he sets the juice on the counter and tells
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Speaker 1: his wife, yep, I got the right one. Two dollars
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Speaker 1: and fifty cents, and he's just hoping the whole that
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Speaker 1: she has not checked the bank account and has not
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Speaker 1: discovered what he had really been doing while he was out,
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Speaker 1: because he had actually spent more money on the second
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Speaker 1: trip than the first time. But apparently his wife had
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Speaker 1: not checked the account yet, and she just thanked him
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Speaker 1: for being willing to go out and get the better deal.
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Speaker 1: And so Tyab very happily left the kitchen and he
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Speaker 1: spent the rest of the night watching TV and hanging
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Speaker 1: out with his family. And then early the next morning,
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Speaker 1: Tyab got up and he decided, you know what, I
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Speaker 1: need to do something to curry some favor with my
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Speaker 1: wife because she's gonna learn what I did with the
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Speaker 1: refund money pretty soon. And so he decided he would
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Speaker 1: just go out and do a bunch of yard work
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Speaker 1: that day, right in front of his wife, to make
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Speaker 1: sure she really saw that he was doing some good stuff.
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Speaker 1: And so he goes outside, he opens up the garage
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Speaker 1: and he's about to pull the lawnmower out when he
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Speaker 1: notices his car is really dirty, and so he decides,
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Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna go wash my car first
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Speaker 1: and then come back and cut the grass and do
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Speaker 1: some other things. And so he goes inside and he
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Speaker 1: tells his wife what his plan is, and she says, okay,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'll see you in a little bit when
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Speaker 1: you come back from the car wash. And then Tyeb
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Speaker 1: went back outside, he hopped in his car and he left.
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Speaker 1: As he was driving to the car wash, he made
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Speaker 1: a pit stop at a small store that was set
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Speaker 1: back off the road, and so he goes inside and
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Speaker 1: he goes right to the back of this little store
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Speaker 1: where there's this strange machine that looks like in ATM
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Speaker 1: and it has a screen on it with text scrolling
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Speaker 1: across it, and at the bottom there was an opening
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Speaker 1: where a barcode scanner was kind of projecting down. And
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Speaker 1: so Tyeb walks up to this machine and he reaches
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Speaker 1: into his back pocket and he pulls out those two
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Speaker 1: slips of paper he had got from the grocery store
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Speaker 1: cashier the night before, and he puts the first one
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Speaker 1: under the scanner, and then he reads the text that
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Speaker 1: appears on the screen of this machine, and after reading it,
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Speaker 1: he kind of shrugs his shoulders and puts that piece
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Speaker 1: of paper back in his pocket. And then the second
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Speaker 1: slip of paper he puts into the scanner, and then
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Speaker 1: when he reads the words that pop up on the screen,
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Speaker 1: he thinks there's been a mistake because all it says
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Speaker 1: is see receptionist. So he re scans the second slip
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Speaker 1: of paper to see if something different will happen, but
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Speaker 1: sure enough, again it just says see receptionist. And so
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Speaker 1: he pulls the second slip of paper out of the scanner.
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Speaker 1: He turns around, and he walks to the front of
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Speaker 1: the store and he hands the paper to the woman
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Speaker 1: behind the counter. Over an hour later, Tyeb pulled into
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Speaker 1: his driveway and he sat in his driveway for a second.
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Speaker 1: He was still shaking from what had just happened inside
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Speaker 1: of that small store. So he gets out of his car,
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Speaker 1: which was still totally dirty, and he made his way
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Speaker 1: into the house and he went straight to the kitchen
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Speaker 1: where his wife was. And so as soon as he
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Speaker 1: gets in the kitchen, his wife turns around and looks
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Speaker 1: at him and says, where were you? The car wash
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Speaker 1: is like five minutes away. Why were you gone for
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Speaker 1: like two hours? But Tayeb, he's got no expression on
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Speaker 1: his face, and he looks at his wife and just says,
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Speaker 1: give me one hundred dollars, and his wife scrunches her
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Speaker 1: face up at him and says, no, where's your money,
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Speaker 1: and Tyeb smiles. He turns around. He reaches into his
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Speaker 1: back pocket and he pulls out that second slip of
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Speaker 1: paper and he hands it to his wife and he says,
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Speaker 1: here's my money. After getting that five dollar refund at
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Speaker 1: the Shopwright in Hackensack, New Jersey, Tyeb noticed a sign
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Speaker 1: on the back wall that was advertising for a moneyball
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Speaker 1: jackpot lottery, and he had decided to use the five
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Speaker 1: dollar refund to buy two lottery tickets. And so he
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Speaker 1: buys these two lottery tickets and the next day that
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Speaker 1: store set back off the road he went to was
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Speaker 1: a convenience store, a seven to eleven, and the machine
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Speaker 1: he was using was a machine that scanned your lottery
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Speaker 1: tickets to see if they were winners. And so the
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Speaker 1: first ticket he scanned it was a dud, it didn't
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Speaker 1: win anything. But the second ticket, when he scanned it,
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Speaker 1: it couldn't process the amount of money he had just won.
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Speaker 1: And so that's why I told him to see the receptionist.
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Speaker 1: And so he brought the second ticket up to the counter.
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Speaker 1: He handed it to the woman, and after she scanned
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Speaker 1: it and saw the amount of money he had won,
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Speaker 1: all she could do was say, oh my god, Oh
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Speaker 1: my god, Oh my god. And when he asked her,
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Speaker 1: you know, what are you looking at? What happened? She
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Speaker 1: just goes big. And so when he got home, Tyeb
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Speaker 1: handed that slip to his wife and on it was
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Speaker 1: the amount of money that he had won. He was
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Speaker 1: the jackpot winner. He had won three hundred and fifteen
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Speaker 1: million dollars. Tyeb would say that he and his wife
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Speaker 1: and his kids all laughed and cried and celebrated in
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Speaker 1: the kitchen all night, and within a couple of days,
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Speaker 1: Tyeb had left his job. He retired, and he had
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Speaker 1: paid off all of his family's debts. And at his
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Speaker 1: press conference for the New Jersey Lottery, he was quoted
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Speaker 1: as saying, I love orange juice now. In twenty twelve,
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Speaker 1: someone went on Reddit and asked people to share their
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Speaker 1: personal glitch in the matrix stories. A glitch in the
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Speaker 1: matrix story is any story where something totally unusual happens
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Speaker 1: that doesn't have a logical explanation. So these are true stories,
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Speaker 1: or at least purported to be true. Their first hand
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Speaker 1: accounts and they're very popular on Reddit, and so this
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Speaker 1: particular query on Reddit very popular. It went totally viral,
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Speaker 1: and so there were thousands and thousands of stories commented
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Speaker 1: down below. So lots of people gave their Glitch in
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Speaker 1: the Matrix story now the top comments. So the top
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Speaker 1: stories that were given were really really interesting, but by
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Speaker 1: far the best response, the best Glitch in the Matrix
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Speaker 1: story got no attention at all. It was buried at
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Speaker 1: the bottom of fourteen thousand plus comments. This story, which
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Speaker 1: was written by a person who just went by Sarah
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Speaker 1: x eleven, should have gone completely viral. It should have
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Speaker 1: been the top comment by far, but for whatever reason,
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Speaker 1: it wasn't, and so now ten years later, no one
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Speaker 1: really knows about it. While we don't know for sure
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Speaker 1: if Sarah x eleven story is true, as it is
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Speaker 1: just an unverified first hand account, what we do know
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Speaker 1: is that this was the first story that Sarah x
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Speaker 1: eleven had ever posted to Reddit about glitches in the Matrix.
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Speaker 1: The majority of her Reddit activity consisted of liking cute
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Speaker 1: pictures of cats and dogs, so this person, this user
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Speaker 1: was not on Reddit for clout. Also, when Sarah x
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Speaker 1: eleven posted her story in this Reddit thread, there were
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Speaker 1: already thousands and thousands of comments posted, so if they
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Speaker 1: were trying to get recognized through this story, they chose
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Speaker 1: the worst post to do it on. If you want
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Speaker 1: to get recognized in a comment section and be a
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Speaker 1: top comment typically you have to be one of the
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Speaker 1: very first comments after this thing gets posted. And so
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Speaker 1: she's posting after thousands and thousands of people have done this.
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Speaker 1: So in my mind, it seems like this post by
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Speaker 1: Sarah x eleven this story has got to be true,
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Speaker 1: and even if it isn't true, it's one of the
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Speaker 1: coolest stories I've come across on the Internet that is
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Speaker 1: guaranteed to give you goosebumps. Okay, here we go. In
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Speaker 1: two thousand and six, a twenty year old woman named
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Speaker 1: Sarah started having some very strange dreams about a woman
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Speaker 1: named Aurora. She had a very striking face with sharp
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Speaker 1: features and long black hair. Now her dreams varied. Sometimes
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Speaker 1: Sarah was in a crowd of people, or she was
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Speaker 1: at her office, or she was just alone in a room.
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Speaker 1: But in all of her dreams, Aurora would always show up.
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Speaker 1: Either she would interact with Aurora and they would speak,
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Speaker 1: but Sarah could never remember what they actually spoke about,
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Speaker 1: or Aurora would just be in the crowd or in
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Speaker 1: the background, just watching Sarah. Now she had these dreams
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Speaker 1: enough that eventually Sarah began to think, I must know
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Speaker 1: someone named Aurora. I must have come across this person,
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Speaker 1: and now they're just kind of manifesting in my brain
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Speaker 1: at night when I'm sleeping. And so she began going
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Speaker 1: through her older posts on social media to look in
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Speaker 1: pictures of her and of her friends to see if
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Speaker 1: there was a woman with striking features in long black
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Speaker 1: hair that was this Aurora person in her dream. But
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Speaker 1: after looking through hundreds and hundreds of pictures, she couldn't
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Speaker 1: find any indication that she had met this person, at
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Speaker 1: least not according to her social media And so Sarah
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Speaker 1: began just going on Google and typing in Aurora, long
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Speaker 1: black hair, striking features, has anybody dreamed about this to
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Speaker 1: see if there were people talking about having this type
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Speaker 1: of dream on the internet, But she had no luck. Eventually,
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Speaker 1: after about three or four months of having these strange
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Speaker 1: dreams that Aurora was in, Aurora stopped showing up in
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Speaker 1: Sarah's dreams. It was like it suddenly was all over,
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Speaker 1: and so very quickly Sarah just kind of forgot about it.
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Speaker 1: A few years later, on Halloween Night two thousand and nine,
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Speaker 1: Sarah and a friend pulled off the highway into a
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Speaker 1: gas station. They had been out with some friends celebrating Halloween,
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Speaker 1: and now they were making their way back home. Sarah
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Speaker 1: pulled into an empty spot right in front of the
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Speaker 1: convenience store, and after they were parked, Sarah and her
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Speaker 1: friend got out. They went inside, they got some snacks
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Speaker 1: and drinks, and then they came back outside and climbed
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Speaker 1: back into Sarah's car. A few moments later, Sarah had
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Speaker 1: turned her car on, she had backed out, and she
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Speaker 1: had driven past all of the gas station pumps, and
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Speaker 1: she was making her way towards the single lane strip
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Speaker 1: of road that merged out onto the highway. It was
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Speaker 1: how anybody who got into this gas station got back
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Speaker 1: out onto the highway. And so as she's getting closer
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Speaker 1: to the entrance of this short merge road, her phone
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Speaker 1: suddenly rings. What happens next occurred over a span of
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Speaker 1: just a few seconds, so it might seem like this
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Speaker 1: is over several minutes, but this all happened pretty much simultaneously.
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Speaker 1: So she's pulling up to the entrance of this Merge road,
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Speaker 1: her cell phone rings, and because there was no one
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Speaker 1: behind her it was not a busy night, Sarah decides
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Speaker 1: to just stop her car put it in park so
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Speaker 1: she can safely take this phone call. And so she
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Speaker 1: stops her car pretty much right in front of the
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Speaker 1: entrance to this Merge Road, and she picks up her phone.
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Speaker 1: She looks at the number and she doesn't recognize it,
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Speaker 1: but she picks it up anyways, and she says hello.
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Speaker 1: There was silence on her phone, and as Sarah is
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Speaker 1: saying hello, is anybody there, another car from the gas
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Speaker 1: station pulls up right behind Sarah's car and they start
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Speaker 1: honking their horn. Immediately they're in a huge rush, and
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Speaker 1: so Sarah, who's totally embarrassed that she's blocking traffic, she
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Speaker 1: hangs at the phone, she puts it down, she puts
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Speaker 1: her car back and drive and she hits the gas.
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Speaker 1: But this driver behind her is apparently in such a rush.
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Speaker 1: They're so impatient that they actually swerved around her, driving
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Speaker 1: on the dirt off to the side of the road
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Speaker 1: just to get around her. And then they sped off
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Speaker 1: down the Merge Road back onto the highway, and literally
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Speaker 1: seconds later, another car that was already on the highway,
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Speaker 1: a silver Honda Civic, lost control and smashed into this
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Speaker 1: car that had just passed Sarah's car. So there's this
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Speaker 1: huge car accident literally right in front of Sarah and
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Speaker 1: her friend, who have now stopped the car. They're right
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Speaker 1: at the end of the Merge Road looking at this
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Speaker 1: horrible accident that they narrowly escaped. Sarah put her car
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Speaker 1: back in park, she picked up her phone, and she
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Speaker 1: called the police. When the police showed up a few
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Speaker 1: moments later, they took down Sarah and her friend's version
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Speaker 1: of events. And then a little while later, after the
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Speaker 1: ambulances had left and after the two cars had been
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Speaker 1: pulled off of the highway, one of the police officers
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Speaker 1: pulled Sarah aside and told her that the driver of
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Speaker 1: the Honda Civic and the driver of the car that
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Speaker 1: had swerved around her had both been killed in the accident. Shocked,
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Speaker 1: the only thing Sarah could think to do was to
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Speaker 1: call back that number she didn't recognize that had effectively
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Speaker 1: stopped her from getting onto the highway and maybe even
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Speaker 1: stopped her from being hit by that Honda Civic, And
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Speaker 1: so she wanted to talk to this person and thanked
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Speaker 1: them for saving her life. But when she called the
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Speaker 1: number back, the person did not pick up. However, it
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Speaker 1: went to her voicemail and it said, Hi, you've reached Aurora.
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Speaker 1: Leave your name and number. After the beat, Sarah could
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Speaker 1: not believe it. She said she had never felt goosebumps
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Speaker 1: like that in her entire life. The next day, Sarah
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Speaker 1: tried calling the number again, and this time the woman Aurora,
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Speaker 1: answered the phone. The two got to talking and Sarah
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Speaker 1: explained her crazy dreams and now this crazy car crash
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Speaker 1: thing and how it's all connected, and Aurora would tell
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Speaker 1: Sarah like, that's amazing. This is a crazy story you're
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Speaker 1: telling me, except I didn't call you last night. I
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Speaker 1: have no idea how you got my phone number. And
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Speaker 1: so at the end of this phone call, the two
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Speaker 1: women really had not reached any sort of explanation for
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Speaker 1: how this came to be, how they came to be talking,
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Speaker 1: but they ultimately just said okay, hey, you know, thanks
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Speaker 1: and best to luck to you, and then they hung up.
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Speaker 1: After the call was over, Sarah found herself just kind
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Speaker 1: of sitting there, not really sure how to react to
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Speaker 1: what had just happened. It was such a totally bizarre
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Speaker 1: thing that she had just been through over the past
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Speaker 1: twenty four hours, and then if you include the dream,
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Speaker 1: this has been a multi year long thing. And so
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Speaker 1: on a whim, Sarah just opens up her Facebook account
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Speaker 1: and she plugs in Aurora's full name, because Aurora had
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Speaker 1: given her her full name on this phone call they
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Speaker 1: just had. And when she looked at her phone when
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Speaker 1: the results came in, Sarah nearly fainted. Right at the
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Speaker 1: top of the results page was this woman, Aurora's Facebook account,
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Speaker 1: and her profile picture showed her face, and when Sarah
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Speaker 1: looked at her face, it was the exact same face
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Speaker 1: she had seen so many times in her dreams. It
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Speaker 1: was the same Aurora with the striking features and long
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Speaker 1: black hair. The woman in her dreams was the woman
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Speaker 1: who called her and saved her life. On the evening
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Speaker 1: of January sixth, nineteen eighty two, a man named Harold Bray,
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Speaker 1: who was a sheriff in Jefferson County, Colorado, which is
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Speaker 1: an area just west of Denver, arrived at the Denver Airport.
18:52
Speaker 1: Harold was running late because his commute into the airport
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Speaker 1: had been treacherous because Denver and the surrounding areas were
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Speaker 1: all getting pounded by a snowstorm. After running into the
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Speaker 1: terminal and getting checked in and getting through security, he
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Speaker 1: made it to his gate right as they were boarding
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Speaker 1: the plane. Feeling very relieved, Harold joined the queue of
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Speaker 1: other people that were getting on the ramp to go
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Speaker 1: down into the plane, and then just a couple of
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Speaker 1: minutes later, he stepped on board and he found his seat,
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Speaker 1: which was located at the front right side of the plane.
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Speaker 1: He sat down in his seat, he buckled in, and
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Speaker 1: then he grabbed an in flight magazine from the back
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Speaker 1: pocket of the chair in front of him, and he
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Speaker 1: waited for takeoff. Fifteen minutes later, as the plane was
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Speaker 1: rumbling down the runway at full speed, Harold booked out
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Speaker 1: the window and so as the plane began to lift
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Speaker 1: off the ground, he watched as the city lights of
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Speaker 1: Denver slowly faded away as they got higher and higher up.
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Speaker 1: But just before their plane entered into the thick cloud
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Speaker 1: that was hovering over that stretch of Colorado, Harold noticed
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Speaker 1: something very odd out of his window. Located just west
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Speaker 1: of Jefferson County, which is where Harold worked, was a
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Speaker 1: twenty two mile stretch of road it cut through the
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Speaker 1: rocky mountains. It was called the Guinela Pass, and it
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Speaker 1: took motorists up and over this eleven thousand foot mountain pass. Now,
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Speaker 1: this was a beautiful scenic drive that Harold was very
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Speaker 1: familiar with. But this road was not maintained in the wintertime.
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Speaker 1: So if there was snow on the ground, you simply
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Speaker 1: could not get through this pass. It was impossible. Yet,
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Speaker 1: as Harold looked out of his plane window down to
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Speaker 1: Jefferson County below, and he kind of scanned his way
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Speaker 1: west up into the rockies, he saw there were clearly
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Speaker 1: a car's headlights on the Guanela Pass. And so Harold's
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Speaker 1: thinking to himself, why in the world would anyone be
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Speaker 1: on the Guanella Pass in the middle of this huge snowstorm.
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Speaker 1: It didn't make any sense. But as Harold watched this vehicle,
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Speaker 1: he saw what was going on. Whoever was in this
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Speaker 1: vehicle was holding a flashlight out of their window and
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Speaker 1: they were shining the lights straight up into the sky,
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Speaker 1: flashing it on and off, signaling distress. This motorist was trapped.
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Speaker 1: Harold knew the likelihood of another plane happening to fly
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Speaker 1: over this area and looking down and seeing those lights
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Speaker 1: and recognizing them for what they were, an emergency were
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Speaker 1: slim to none. So Harold knew if he didn't act quickly,
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Speaker 1: this motorist was doomed. And so Harold quickly got up
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Speaker 1: from his seat, he climbed over the person next to him,
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Speaker 1: he got into the aisle, and he waved down the attendant,
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Speaker 1: and then after the attendant ran over, Harold explained who
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Speaker 1: he was and why. His experience as a sheriff told
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Speaker 1: him that this was an emergency, and so the attendant
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Speaker 1: took him very seriously. They turned around, they went into
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Speaker 1: the cockpit, and they told the pilots, and the pilots
21:37
Speaker 1: used their radios to call down to authorities on the ground,
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Speaker 1: and then just a couple of minutes later, the fire
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Speaker 1: department was dispatched to Guenela Pass. Fifteen minutes later, the
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Speaker 1: fire chief, a man named Dave Montoya, who was driving
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Speaker 1: in a four wheel drive suv, arrived at the start
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Speaker 1: of this twenty two mile stretch of Mountain Pass, and
21:56
Speaker 1: as they're driving through the whipping snow, he sees up
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Speaker 1: ahead the headlights of the stranded vehicle, and so he
22:02
Speaker 1: drives right up alongside this vehicle, which was a small
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Speaker 1: pickup truck that had clearly slid off the road and
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Speaker 1: gotten stuck in a big snow bank. And so Davy
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Speaker 1: parks his suv, he hops out, and he rushes over
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Speaker 1: to the driver's side window of this vehicle, and inside
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Speaker 1: was a terrified looking thirty year old man named Alan Phillips,
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Speaker 1: who was a mechanic who lived in the Denver area.
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Speaker 1: Now at the time, it was the middle of the night.
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Speaker 1: It's negative twenty two degrees fahrenheit outside, the winds are whipping,
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Speaker 1: the snow is coming down, and Alan only had on
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Speaker 1: a light jacket and some jeans and a small blanket
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Speaker 1: wrapped around him. So, had Harold not spotted his flashlight
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Speaker 1: SOS signal from the plane, it's almost guaranteed that Alan
22:44
Speaker 1: would have died that night from hypothermia. And so when
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Speaker 1: Alan turned and saw Dave standing there his rescuer, Alan
22:51
Speaker 1: began crying tears of joy and thanking God that he
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Speaker 1: was going to survive. When Dave asked Alan what happened, Alan,
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Speaker 1: who was lightly intoxicated, told Dave that he had gone
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Speaker 1: out drinking at a bar and then when it was
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Speaker 1: time to come home. He had stupidly decided to drive
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Speaker 1: through the Guenela Pass back to his home, forgetting that
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Speaker 1: this particular stretch of road was not maintained during the winter.
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Speaker 1: When Dave asked Alan how he got this really deep
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Speaker 1: bruise on his cheek, he assumed he got it from
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Speaker 1: crashing off the side of the road. Alan smiled a
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Speaker 1: kind of embarrassed smile and said, no, Actually, after I
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Speaker 1: got stuck, I needed to urinate, and so I got
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Speaker 1: out of the vehicle and I walked a few paces
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Speaker 1: away from my truck, and I went to the bathroom.
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Speaker 1: And then when I turned to walk back, the snow
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Speaker 1: was so blinding I couldn't actually see my truck and
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Speaker 1: I ran to go find it again because I didn't
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Speaker 1: want to be trapped out in the snow. And I
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Speaker 1: ran into the truck face first, and so my cheek
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Speaker 1: hit the door of the truck, and so Dave he
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Speaker 1: just smiled and said, Alan, you are one lucky man.
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Speaker 1: Over the next few days, local newspapers in Colorado and
23:55
Speaker 1: some national newspapers ran headlines about the miracle at Gwennaella Pass. However,
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Speaker 1: as it would turn out, that headline would not age
24:04
Speaker 1: well thirty eight years later, in twenty twenty, it was
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Speaker 1: discovered that Alan had lied to Dave about why he
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Speaker 1: was in Guenela Pass. The truth was earlier, in the
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Speaker 1: evening that Alan would eventually get stuck, he had murdered
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Speaker 1: two hitchhikers near Breckenridge, Colorado, roughly fifty miles from the
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Speaker 1: Guinela Pass. Both of these murders had gone cold, but
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Speaker 1: in late twenty twenty, DNA evidence connected Alan to both cases.
24:34
Speaker 1: Several hours before Alan got rescued, he picked up twenty
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Speaker 1: two year old Annette Schne who was hitchhiking, and after
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Speaker 1: she got into his truck, it's believed he held her
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Speaker 1: at gunpoint and then put Zipti handcuffs on her wrists,
24:47
Speaker 1: and then we don't really know what happened next, but
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Speaker 1: at some point that night, Annette was taken out of
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Speaker 1: the vehicle and led into the woods and she was
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Speaker 1: shot in the back and she was left face down
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Speaker 1: in a stream. A couple of hours after after he
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Speaker 1: killed Annet, Alan picked up another hitchhiker, twenty nine year
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Speaker 1: old Barbara Oberholtz her and when she got into his truck,
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Speaker 1: it's believed he did the same thing he held her
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Speaker 1: at gunpoint and put her in Ziptai handcuffs. However, Barbara
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Speaker 1: was able to break out of her restraints. It's believed
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Speaker 1: she struck Alan in the cheek, which is why he
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Speaker 1: got that deep bruise on his cheek, and then she
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Speaker 1: leaped out of his car and started running, but Alan
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Speaker 1: got out, chased her down and shot her in the chest,
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Speaker 1: killing her, and then he dumped her body off the
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Speaker 1: side of this cliff down into the snow bank below.
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Speaker 1: So the only reason Alan got stuck in Guenela Pass
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Speaker 1: is because he was attempting to flee the area where
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Speaker 1: he committed these murders, and he likely just didn't understand
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Speaker 1: how dangerous this pass was, and so shortly after turning
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Speaker 1: onto it, his truck split up the road and he
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Speaker 1: got stuck. In February of twenty twenty one, Alan, who
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Speaker 1: was seventy years old at the time and still living
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Speaker 1: in the Denver area, was finally arrested for these two
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Speaker 1: ms and he is currently awaiting trial. Assuming he did it.
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Speaker 1: That Alan killed these two women, we don't know what
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