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Hello Sam. I know it seems foolishly cloak and dagger for me to leave an encrypted USB like this,

but one can never be too careful. I imagine you're probably already looking over the files within,

and you should take some time to become familiar with them. But I wanted to offer an explanation

in my own words of what exactly is going on. I've been working with atypicals for nearly 10 years.

When I was getting my graduate degree in abnormal psychology, I met a woman who was telekinetic.

She could move things with her mind. I was fascinated and began to study her with her permission,

of course. She worked at the university and became a friend. And then a few months into working with

her, my brother came to visit me. Mark has always been a little different. Mostly he was just so

different from me. Our parents were serious people, kind and generous, but serious. I inherited that

from them. Mark didn't. He found joy in everything. He always had a smile on his face, a joke of his sleeve.

He... Well, the important thing is that he was special. Is special. All things happened around him

when we were growing up. Nothing crazy, just peculiar. I always chalked it up to his strange luck,

his bizarre charm. He chalked it up to the unpredictable joys of life. He thought anything could be

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