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Hello and welcome to meet us pod
episode 13. I'm your host D

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Mitas. Our story for this
episode comes to us from Heather

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Santo. Heather works as a
chemist in Pittsburgh, PA. Her

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educational background is
biochemistry, forensic science

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and law. In the past two years
she's had flash and short

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stories published by ink and
sword, yellow mama spaceports

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and spider silk retreats from
oblivion, Jersey double press,

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the haunted traveler,
bewildering stories and the

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mystic blue review with two
stories pending in the

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Staybridge. Joining me telling
this story are Charlotte North,

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Elijah be more. Michael Blakey,
Lex Zorn, and Stacy Cotham. Stay

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tuned after the story for full
actor bios and some news about

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the future of metus media.
Without further ado, here's our

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story.

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How does your garden grow by
Heather Santo. I slicked back my

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hair and flash a dazzling smile.
Check again please. I tell the

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young woman at the front door.
She checks her screen for the

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10th time. I'm sorry, there's
still no one by the name Jasper

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crane here. honest mistake, I
assure her. Claudia gave me a

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verbal invite at the
Worthington's charity event last

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week. Maybe she forgot to tell
you. I amp up the smile even

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more and inch my way across the
threshold. I'm sorry she repeats

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but I wave a dismissive hand.
There she is now I say and call

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out to Claudia. My dear. There
seems to be some mix up. Claudia

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saunters over a black dress
fitting like a second skin on

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her curvaceous body. Faint
recognition registers our face.

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How do I know you? We met at the
Worthington's last week. I

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slipped my arm around her
shoulders. Remember I told you I

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wouldn't miss your opening for
the world. She squinted me

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through thick black frames. Next
years 2035 models smart glasses

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by the look of them and tosses a
mass of lime green hair over one

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shoulder. Why don't you show me
around? I suggest it's okay

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mossy she tells the frazzled
girl of the door. I'll show she

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falters and I flashed a smile
bright enough to light the city.

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Jasper crane I offer?

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Yes, I'll show Mr. Crane around
from here. Thank you.

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We walk into the dimly lit
entrance of the gallery aptly

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dubbed artsy fartsy surrounded
by the city's elite

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Jasper. We definitely did not
meet at the Worthington's last

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week, or anywhere before for
that matter. Yours is a smile I

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will not forget

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why I'm insulted. So easily
forgotten by a woman as

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beautiful as yourself. I'm

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sure you have a legion of
beautiful women at your beck and

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call. You have however, piqued
my curiosity.

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She says taking my elbow. I'll
take it. I navigate the crowd. A

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large group is gathered in front
of the gardenia garden. The

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Knights main attraction and
namesake of the exhibit opening.

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Claudia is responsible for
creating set exhibit as well as

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part owner of artsy fartsy it's
breathtaking. I don't remember

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real flowers but I've heard this
emulations pale in comparison to

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the real thing. How did you do
it? Claudia shakes her head

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sadly.

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This is one of the first
subjects I captured with

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environmental camera technology.
I have a friend a few hours

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north with a pretty house in the
country. I sprinkled micro

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lenses in her garden to capture
the individual images. And that

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was surround vision display
edited each from 2d into this

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life sized 3d display.

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Fascinating. Out of those work.
I motion of the projectors on

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the wall.

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They emit an invisible fog,
allowing me to adjust focal

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plane and depth of field and
project the images into space.

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How soon after you photograph
the garden did the freak pod

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fungus hit the US?

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Less than six weeks.

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I walk into the exhibit.
Immediately enveloped in glossy

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green leaves and soft white
blossoms. It's almost as

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beautiful as the photographer.

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Okay, Jasper. Enough chitchat?
Who are you on? What are you

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doing at my exhibit opening,

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I remove my arm from her
shoulders and raise both hands

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and defeat. You got me, I say
and pull an old photograph from

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inside my tux jacket. It's from
a now obsolete instant camera.

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The muted colors of the image
are bordered in white paling in

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comparison to the vibrancy of
guarding your garden. I hand it

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to Claudia.

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How did you get this?

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The photo depicts a young woman
dressed in a simple white t

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shirt, knees drawn up to her
chest with a single gardenia

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tucked behind one ear. Gillian
is my older sister. I say. I can

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see the realization slide into
place. Although Jillian's

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features are softer, like the
flower in her hair, the family

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resemblance is undeniable.

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We drifted apart. Both so
focused on our careers. Claudia

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whispers me with photography and
her with science. She

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looks up at me.

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There isn't a day that goes by
that I don't think of her.

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She's in a coma. I say and
Gloria grips my wrist daily. has

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been for almost a year what
happens? I bought a business

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card for my tux jacket. The
front of it reads yours Greek

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food delivery service. cloudier
rips it from my fingers. Meet me

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tomorrow. at this address. Five
o'clock sharp. I'll explain

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everything. I turned to leave
Claudia to her adoring fans. And

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as I walk away she calls out
Jasper. I glance over my

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shoulder.

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This is the best photograph I've
ever taken, she says

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holds the instant image to her
heart. Yours is a hole in the

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wall on the north side. The food
delivery gigs started out as a

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front from Aleyda scheme but
much to my surprise it quickly

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grew into a profitable business.
The credit goes to Xander my

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chef and a former Army Ranger.
What's cookin? I yell as I enter

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gear yours. I launch myself onto
a bar stool and prop my feet up

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on the counter. Xander a
mountain of a man with a

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screamin Eagle haircut is busy
in the grill. Same thing that's

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cooking every day. He growls
Sandra's famous gyros my man go

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three, then ratty haired and
blue spectacles. The antithesis

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of Xander good falls from his
spot at Central Command. He's a

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drone pilot and one hell of a
hacker was six screens hooked up

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to a network of computers, none
of which I understand. It

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probably rivals anything set up
at the CIA or delivery drone,

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which cost me a nice chunk of
change sits on the table next to

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Central Command. We nicknamed
him Hermes. Did you have Chow

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yet? Xander asks, throwing a guy
row in front of me. His apron

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says kitchen bitch across the
chest. No, I haven't. And I take

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a huge bite. You're welcome. he
grumbles turning back to the

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grill. So where's this
photographer chick? Guthrie asks

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as Claudia saunters through the
door

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right here,

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she says flipping her lime green
ponytail with sensuous grace.

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Xander and Guthrie stare, mouths
agape order up. I call and slam

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my hand down on the kitchen
service Bell. Conrad explodes

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out of the stockroom long limbs
Tangling together like yarn. I'm

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here I'm coming. I've got it. He
yells and Paul's face first in

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front of Claudia's red high
heeled pumps. The kitchen erupts

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into laughter and I help Conrad
to his feet easier years newest

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hire a struggling ventriloquist
who walked in one day and asked

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if we were hiring. We weren't
but I gave him a job on the

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spot. The guy although a bit
high strung, is extremely

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likable and eager to please.
Plus his dummy Pierre gives

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Xander the creeps.

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Well guys, something smells
delicious.

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After I introduced the
photographer to Xander Guthrie

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and Conrad, we get down to
business. Not the guy real

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business, the real business. But
we do eat Kairos as we talk, the

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risk of family Claudia exclaims
incredulous.

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How did you learn get involved
with the mafia?

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Indirectly as it turns out, I
explain her colleague, some guy

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drowning in gambling debt was
developing mind control

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technology. One of those main
bruisers isn't really this guy

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makes Xander look like a kitten
broke into the complex where she

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worked. plan to steal the guy's
tech to make up for the debt and

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then break the guy's legs for
good measure. stumbled into

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Joe's lab by mistake. I pause to
take a deep breath. what Joe was

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working on was more valuable to
the mafia than mind control. And

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what was that? Flowers resistant
to the freak pod fungus? Top

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Secret stuff. Her first success
was with gardenias Claudia

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stares at me, speechless. The
boss big Polly thought they

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could make a mint selling real
flowers, weddings,

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anniversaries, funerals. You not
believe what people were willing

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to pay for flowers on the black
market. So they went in put my

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sister didn't give up her
flowers without a fight.

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Reserves guy put her in a coma
and she's been at St. Margaret's

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ICU sense. What can I do to
help? Claudia asks without

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hesitation later that night one
of rizos men places his weekly

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delivery order like clockwork
Xander prepares the Kairos

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Conrad boxes everything up and
Guthrie fires up the drone.

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Claudia pops open her very
expensive laptop and we wait.

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Watching the drones feed when
one of the central command

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screens

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holy cow.

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Claudia says when she spots
Rizzo is bruiser the front door

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of the delivery location.
Ironically, the mob works out of

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a kitchen design store a few
blocks south of here he is told

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you he was big. I say as the
behemoth takes the box of food

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from the drone. Guthrie pilots
the drone back home and we

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switch views to cloudy his
laptop. The microlens is

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attached to the food box which
on and she starts capturing

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images and rapid fire speed.
Photos of 12 wiseguys plus big

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Polly making a baker's dozen pop
up in succession. We also get a

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complete layout of the room.
There's a door in the back that

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immediately catches Guthrie's
interest. Something important

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behind there, he says pointing
voice and face recognition on

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the outside. If you ain't big
Polly or one of us could pose

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you ain't getting in there. I
look at Claudia. Can you be back

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next week, same time. We're
gonna get Jill's flowers back.

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The next Saturday, we gather
back at years. Xander works

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furiously at the grill preparing
the resume family's weekly

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order. There's a tub of his
secret guiro sauce next to the

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grill. The recipe kept secret
even from me. Except this week,

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I've added my own secret little
ingredient. Good old Georgia

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homeboys enough to knock out
even the largest of results

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clan. Order Up. Xander yells
hitting the kitchen service

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Bell. Conrad boxes everything up
for delivery and Guthrie fires

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up the drone wants to be big boy
bruiser takes the box from

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Hermes. Claudia pulls anxiously
at her lime green braids. Are

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you sure

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this is going to work? Nope.

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I say Guthrie has loaded the
photo software onto one of

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Central Command screens. While
he brings Hermes back to he is

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he simultaneously switches on
Claudia's micro lenses, again,

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attached to the delivery box and
captures images of rizos men big

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Polly included devouring Xander
Slimer Skyros. The secret sauce

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drips through their fingers
splattering on the table covered

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with playing cards. We wait.
Less than an hour later all 13

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men are down for the count.
That's our cue. All right,

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everyone loaded into van drive a
few blocks over Guthrie riding

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shotgun to the kitchen design
store. The old panel van 2018

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model but still more reliable
than many of my ex girlfriends

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rattles as if in anticipation.
Pull in here. Claudia exclaims

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and I slide the van into a side
alley. Everyone out I say and

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look at Conrad in the rearview
mirror. Are you ready? Yes. He

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squeaks and opens the back door.
Luckily for us, Rousseau's men

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didn't lock the door. After
grabbing the guy rose from the

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drone. We slipped through the
darkness and into the store. The

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room reeks of cigar smoke and
guiro sauce. All 13 men are

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slumped in various positions
around the car table. Big barley

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at the head. I pet his flabby
cheek as we walked by. How's the

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food big barley? He snorts in
response and turns his head the

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other way. snoring like a
buzzsaw Conrad Harry. Conrad

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approaches the back door. He's
been practicing for this moment

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all week. Studying online videos
of big Polly's last court

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deposition. Hey, it's me big
boy. He says mimicking the mafia

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bosses voice perfectly. A lot on
the voice recognition screen

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blinks green Xander looking
totally creeped out. Olds up

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here to the facial recognition
scanner. Guthrie 3d printed a

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perfect replica of the bullies
face earlier in the week and

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swapped it out for the one on
Conrad's dummy. Pierre looked

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decidedly more ugly for the
effort. Another green light

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flashes in the back door lock
clicks open. Before anyone can

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say anything. I push through and
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operation of a most unusual
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supplies the brightly lit room
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lilies, tulips and last but not
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All right, box everything up and
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Monday the news headlines
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return of freak odd resistant
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were originally stolen from. The
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of the entire Rizzo mob family
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large amounts of a date rape
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I decided to permanently close
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Xander Guthrie and Conrad move
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a storage locker on the east
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fartsy and pick up Claudia. She
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houndstooth print pantsuit. And
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potted gardenia ready, task.

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So I'll never be

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we sit in silence as I navigate
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St. Margaret's is at the heart
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simulated flower gardens.
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filled with real flowers. Hello,
Jasper. A pretty nurse says to

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me when we enter the ICU.
Haven't seen you in a while.

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Yeah, sorry. I flashed a
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a friend of Julian's. Uh huh.
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Emotional for her to enter
Julian's room. My older sister's

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like a small child of to an IV
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Hi, Jill.

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Claudia says, and in the state
of light peeking through the

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window blinds, places the
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bed. Links to our author and
actors work will be in the show

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notes that meet us pod.com.
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was born and raised in Denmark.
Since childhood she has been in

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love with dark and sinister
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twisted world. That is horror.
Charlotte's work can be heard

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all over the place. Honestly,
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listed here. But Eliza be more
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Hill, North Carolina. He can
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legacies. Elijah also has a new
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to cut. Check it out if you like
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actor, musician, human. He
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to life with his voice, and
Missouri boy who wants the

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people in this world to just be
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can all appreciate that. Lexa
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actor, both on screen and voice
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making his own films as well. He
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children, Aria Kelly and Liam
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He's also a radio sports
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definitely not least, Stacy
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out of North Carolina. She's
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performance artist and lecturer.
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I'm devoting a lot more time to
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The full cast episodes like this
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between. Most episodes will be
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single storyteller. With this
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episodes out. I still have my
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take a while to get produced and
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working on getting a more
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this change will definitely help
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lot of work into my daughter
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and David, which is now live
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nights at seven Eastern time.
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Friday, but there are reasons, I
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