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M Thirteen

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Days of Halloween, Devil's Night,

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a production of I Heart three D audio Blumhouse

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Television and Grimm and Mild from Aaron

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Mackey. Headphones recommended.

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Listener discretion advised. How

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how I

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You're be

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afraid? You have

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nothing to fear from me? What

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are you a

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friend? No? No,

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they were going to hurt you. You

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you killed them.

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I am sorry you had to see that,

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but I assure you those

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boys intent was to harm you.

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You would not be the first nor

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the last. There was

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no other way. You

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are real. There was a scarecrow,

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a cost to come. There

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is no time to waste. The night

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will only grow darker. I'm

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not going anywhere with you. Then

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I will at least show you back to the

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road. Come

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on, Arrow,

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Who are you? My

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name is Bezi

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level? Kind of name?

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Is that? An old

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one? And

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yours? I'm

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Max? This is Arrow?

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Yes, Arrow, a brave

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dog, very loyal.

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It's my best friend. What

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are you doing out here? Stephen

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saying everyone should stay indoors,

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that it's dangerous, and they are right.

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Halloween night is no time to be

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out, especially for children.

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There are things in the night that would

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love to get their bony hands on a boy

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like you. To

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that end, I offer my protection.

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I don't understand. It

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is a dangerous night, maybe

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the most dangerous of your life. I

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do not want to scare you, Max, But you

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have a long journey home, too

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long. You

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are skeptical of me, and

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that is understandable. But

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I said I would bring you to the road, and

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here we are. I

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will make the journey with you. It

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will not slow you down, and I

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will keep you safe. Thanks,

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no, thanks, aar, and I have got

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it from here as

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you wish. Got

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room for one more kid? Buys

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alll that's

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so well and got

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all night kid, I'm coming. You're

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bringing that mutton better sitting

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the back. Jeez,

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kid, what are you doing way out on the highway.

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You know what night it is, don't you?

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Yeah? Um,

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thanks for stopping. Are

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you heading into town? Sure? A shoot

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held up on a sales call over in sunny

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Belle lost track of time. Real

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foolish of me. Should have been home an hour ago.

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Last year vandals chased me off

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the damn road. This

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year, I'm ready for them. This

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is a W B r D Devil's Night bulletin.

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Hold on, we are receiving the first reports

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of a disturbance on Main Street. Mass suspects

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reportedly broke into Cooper's Parmacy at sunset,

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vandalizing the property and making off with a large

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quantity of candy and toilet tissue. If

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anyone has any information on these vandals, please

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reported with haste to the Bradberry Police

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Department. In the meantime, we must

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again implore all residents of Bradberry

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to remain indoors and off the

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streets. Disgusting,

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I tell you, goddamn

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outsiders. You know it's

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not our people doing this right, it's

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out of towners coming in disturbing our

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peace and order. How much you want

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to bet that whole town will be decorated by

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toilet tissue? I'm gone. They

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could say it's just our kids blowing off

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a little steam, But our boys

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do that on the football field, on

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the courts, on the diamond. These

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are degenerates from elsewhere, all

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worming their way in, and they won't stop

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with the pharmacy. Where

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did you say you were from

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Bradberry, sir? Well,

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if you were up to no good, you wouldn't tell me,

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would you just sit there

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all quiet with your mutt there and

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play the innocent, wouldn't you. That's

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how they played it. Last year. They

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played on my kind nature. Promise,

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sir, I'm not going to go strouble.

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I just need to get home. People

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think they're just hooligans coming in for a good

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time, you know, like they're just drunks

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or kids out on a wild tear.

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And yeah, yeah, maybe some of them

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are the real dangerous

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ones hid among them.

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That's what's insidious. Is

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it stuffy in here? They're

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out there waiting. Last

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year, I saw this girl on the side

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of the road, not far from where I just picked you up.

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Matter of fact, probably

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not much older than you. Real

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sweet, just done with duties

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on the farm. I assume, going home to have dinner

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with Mom and pop. Apple cheeked

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and dough ide and just real wholesome,

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Like if you looked up wholesome in the dictionary.

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Boom, there she'd be smiling

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out on she with her little white teeth and her eyes

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shining with all the glory of Christian

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God. She was

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the perfect baked

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Of course, I was gonna stop for her, pick

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her up, get her home to her

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parents. Red blooded

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American man. Goddamn it, when I see

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a girl like that out there trying to get home. I'm

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going to help her out. That's

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how they got me last year, a kid,

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and it ain't happening again. Un

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how is the other way. Let's

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call it a short cut. You

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can just let me out. Heren't

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dream of it, kid, It's

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just that my parents are expecting me.

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That's what she said, just like

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that. And I tell you I had every

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intention of getting her home. I'm not a monster.

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I'm a good man, a family man.

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Go to church every Sunday. I pay the tithe

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even on weeks when it's hard, and you know it's

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hard these days. Kid. Anyway,

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I was following her directions, telling

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her about my wife, my kids at home,

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all waiting on daddy. But

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I just couldn't let a girl like

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that alone on the side of the road. What's

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this another loss soul

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trying to hitch hike home? I suppose os

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shall we stop? I

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don't know we should. It's only Christian

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of us. I'll

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roll down the window, kid, don't be shy

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you. Hey, mr,

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I'm trying to get to town. I

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think I could get a live sure,

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buddy, always room for one more.

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Shut up? Sorry about

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my boy's boot. She's a good boy,

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but he's got the manners of a barn animal.

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I was just telling the kid here about my experiences

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last Devil's Night. Oh

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by all means little

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bit me in a row. So the girl

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that innocent little answer. She's

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given me directions to her house, right

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sort of out of the way from where I'm used to driving.

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But I'm not suspicious. Where

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should I be? I'm escorting

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a real life ethereal being home.

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What's the worst that could happen? I'll

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tell you. See, she

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turns me down this road, and when we're on

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now, I

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never had a reason to go this way. I'm not really

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familiar with it, so maybe

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I'm already a little on edge. Say

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what is that up ahead? Looks

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like a couple more hitch hikers. I guess

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we'd better pick him up. I fellas, I

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guess, so what

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how? Hey

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Mr? It's getting awful dark out here.

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Can you spare us a drive to town? Yes,

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sir, I'm afraid to walk with

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all these bad men causing man

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sure thinks sweetheart never could

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say no to a pretty face. Always

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room for a couple more. Everyone

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in we're

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just telling a story about another hitchhiker

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I picked up this time last year. Gosh,

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I love a good story. Seemed like it

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was just getting to the good part. Oh,

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please do continue, well,

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if you all insist. At

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this point in the story, I've got

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a goddamned four real angel of

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the Lord riding shotgun down this

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very road in this very car. And

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she's sitting there, real quiet,

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like she's expecting something. And

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I thought, is she afraid

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of me? So

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I reached over gently and

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I put my hand on her knee, and I whisper, he

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ki't you don't have to be afraid

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a little on me. She

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doesn't look at me, just stares straight

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ahead, her eyes suddenly full of terror.

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I look up and before

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I even really saw I swerve pure

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in state. The body just knows what to

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do. It was a pickup truck blocking

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the road right in my path, and I'm trying

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to clear it, and I lose control. Bam. We're

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in the ditch, engine smoking, the

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windshielders cracked. The girl

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nearly gone through the damn thing. She's

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groaning. I pulled her

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back. She had a nasty gash

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across her scalp, blood coming down her face,

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but her eyes were still sharp, and I thought,

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this kid will be okay, she'll be fine.

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I can just get her back to my place and bandage

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her right up, nurse her back to health. And

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then I saw five

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figures coming out of the apple trees on the side

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of the road, tall masked.

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As they moved the last of the twilight, glenned

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off something shiny in one of their hands. I

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didn't hesitate. I'm not stupid.

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I reached right into the glove box. I

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keep a loaded pistol in there. Go

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ahead, open her up,

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take a peek. Oh,

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I don't think i'd better open it.

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You see that gun? Yes,

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sir, these days,

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you know, you just can't

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take any chances reach

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in. I don't

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grab the gun, do

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it. That's not nice,

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Mr. Shut up back there, I'm talking. Don't

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look at them, look at me. Take

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the gun out of the goddamn glove box.

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I'll hand it to me, thank

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you. Where

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was I the man in

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the woods with knives?

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Did I say they all had knives? H?

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Well, I didn't hesitate. I was in

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the army. See in the trenches. You

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learn a lot there. I wasn't gonna let some

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punk outsiders get the jump on me. I

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got the gun and I sat back real

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quick. Some of the girl's blood

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had gotten on my hands, and I wiped it

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all over my face, so I looked like I was

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wounded. Make him cocky, think

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I was easy. Pray right. Then

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it works. See one

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of them makes right for the driver's side, goes

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to open the door. The others are all

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lined up right in front of the car like ducks

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in a row. The first one wrenches open

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the door, reaches into Grabby, never

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sees the muzzle, just feels it on

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his forehead, but it's too late. Blam.

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He flies back lands with a thud. And

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these other four of that day, as you get when you're

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not expecting something ship from

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the girls and figured it out, and she saw

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me go for the gun, so blam, blam, blam.

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I hit three more, two or dead right

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away. One topples over, screaming,

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maybe a gut shot, maybe a shoulder

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I don't know. I'm all adrenaline

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at this point, but I see the last

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one is bolt right back into the orchard,

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and I tell the girl wait right there,

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and I bowled out after him into the field. He

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was stupid, sloppy,

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hid down in some brambles. But here's

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the thing. He was sobbing

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his sniffling led me right to him.

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He was laying their mask off, curled

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up and clutching himself and stinking a pass

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of teenager. For Christ's sake, he

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wailed some ship about please, Mr,

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don't kill me. I was just kidding around. Don't

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you know which devil's night I

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saw in his eyes? It

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was an act. He

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got bullet number five. Gosh,

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Mr, that's quite

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a story. Yeah, well it ain't

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done yet, so shut your mouth. I

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make my way back to the road with a

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fellow had winged and dragged himself up a

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pavement, attempting to make an escape on his

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belly. Poor sucker got

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it right the gut. I walk

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up, flip him over with my foot. What

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are you on? Another teenager? Zits

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all over his face, gawky, Adam's

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apple, everything, except

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he don't plead with me. Instead, he fixed

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his eyes up the road aways, where my shattered

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headlight illuminated a figure limping

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down the road. The girl kid

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tried to call out after her. You

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could barely manage to croak out a name, Sally,

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before I crushed his windpipe beneath

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my boot, Sally,

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he knew her. They

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were in coots. Might

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they not have just been schoolmates?

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Sure? Sure, of course, just old

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chums at school, right here at Bradbury

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High, getting malted milks at the soda

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fountain and holding hands at the pictures.

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You and I both know

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that ain't true. These

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were conspirators.

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She was one of them.

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They wanted what I had, and they were willing

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to kill to get it. All

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this time, ever since I picked

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her up, I'd been fooled into thinking she was some

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beautiful creature who needed protection,

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some perfect angel falling from

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the sky, perfect and innocent

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and pure American. My

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heart broke, just broke

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into a thousand pieces to

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learn that none of it was real. These

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boys, these monsters,

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hiding their evil intent behind masks,

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They were bent on destroying everything

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that made this town good. And

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this girl, this Sally,

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well, she was as bad as any of

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them, worse, in fact, more insidious,

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because she looked like the kind of girl you take home

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to meet your mother. She tricked

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me her face was a

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mask. I wanted to see

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what was behind it. I

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called out, hey, Sally,

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Sally. She didn't

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even give me the courtesy of turning around,

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just limping away fast as her injured

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legs could carry her. But

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I had one bullet left. It

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didn't take me long to catch up. Because

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of that night, I always

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have my gun on me, and I

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keep all six bullets loaded in the chamber

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in memory of Sally and her friends.

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And I won't be fooled again this

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year. I'm ready for

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you, for all of you. Well,

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what do we have here? Another hitchhiker? Open

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the door, kid, will,

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sir? Looks like you got a full

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car, nothing of the sort. This

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hound dog has been growling all night, and I

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think it's hard time he was out on his ass

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alongside this boy, his scram

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kid. I ain't got no more space

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for you. Hello,

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stranger, Well, who what

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menagarius souls do we have here?

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Excuse me? Thank your pardon,

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ma'am. Pardon my gaze,

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Oh, hadsome and charming.

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I was just talking about a hitchhiker.

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I picked up my HiT's

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all right, No boy going to be

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all right?

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Run boy, mats bad.

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Thirteen Days of Halloween, Devil's

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Night, starring Carter Rockwood

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and Clancy Brown. Episode

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two, The Highway, written by Nicholas

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Takowski, featuring the voice

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of Clayton Frowning. Editing

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and sound design by Jesse Funk, directed

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by Alexander Williams, Script

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supervision by Nicolas Takowski. Casting

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by Sunday Bowling C s A and Meg

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Mormon c s A. Production coordinator

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Wayna Calderon. Production assistants

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Zoe Shay and Amber Ferris. Animal

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recording by Ben James, closing

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theme by Rose Azerti Loyalty

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Freak music dot Com.

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Recorded at d G Entertainment

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in Los Angeles, California. Engineered

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by Gary Forbes and Jody Abbott.

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Executive producers Aaron Mankey, Noah

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Finberg, Chris Dicky, Matt

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Frederick and Alexander Williams.

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Supervising producers Trevor Young

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and Josh Than. Producers

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Jesse Funk and rima il Kali.

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