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Enjoy the show. When I was in college, I had a friend who I'm going to call Caroline.

We met through a community service student organization at the University of Florida.

We had a couple of mutual friends and often went to parties together.

Caroline was always very chill and was up for whatever that we had in mind.

But for the most part, our interactions were always in a group environment, and we never really

spent any alone time together. I graduated in

2003, and we never kept in contact afterwards. Then maybe in 2010, I received a Facebook message

from Caroline. At first, I was pleasantly surprised to hear from her since we haven't seen each

other in over seven years, but as I read the message, I found that there was something very strange

about her message. It was very cryptic, saying that she needed to speak with me and asking for my

number. For a moment, I thought maybe it was a fake message from a fake account, but then I went

to her profile and saw that it was indeed her. The page was relatively empty with a few posts

filled with quotes or things like that, and then there were two profile pictures of her.

We messaged a couple of times, and she insisted that she wanted to speak with me on the

phone and that it would be easier to explain that way. I thought it was strange, but being the

trusting person that I am, I said why not? I knew her in college and I had fond memories of her.

When we finally got on the phone, within two minutes I knew that it was a bad idea.

I recognized her voice immediately, but there was something odd about her.

It sounded like she was fishing for information, and there were times where she would ask me a question which I didn't feel comfortable answering,

and then she would just fill that time with silence waiting for me to respond. She simply sounded off. I finally learned that

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