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This is all just information that I have found on the internet and I'm compiling into one video.

So Tim McLean was a 22-year-old man born on October 3, 1985 in Manitoba in Canada. Tim was a very active person.

He was very athletic. He loved sports. He loved adventures. He'd love going out traveling and doing new

things, being very spontaneous in that way. Tim was very, very outgoing. He was very social,

loved to make friends. he could get on with

anyone and he was generally just very liked throughout his life, everyone that met him.

So in the summer of 2007, Tim's friend Tiffany rang him up and said like, what are your plans

for the summer? Have you got a job? Are you going travelling? What are you doing this summer?

And Tim just kind of said he didn't really have anything planned. And Tiffany just said on the phone term pack a bag for at least a week they

could be gone for more than a week but they're just going to go they're just going to go off

somewhere and do something over the summer they didn't have a plan it was very spontaneous

so the two of them just kind of set off like I I said, they didn't have a plan at all,

and then they found a travelling carnival, a carnival that travelled all the way around Canada.

And they thought, perfect, let's both get jobs here, we'll travel around Canada all summer,

we'll meet a bunch of people our age, it'll be really fun working at this carnival,

and so they both got jobs. And Tim really had a talent for working at this carnival and so they both got jobs and Tim really had a talent

for working at this carnival like I said he was a very outgoing person and so

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