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Today's episode is The Blood Marrow, written by Ellis Marsh and narrated by Josh Curran.

Blood, that's the first secret.

Not just any blood either.

The best there is.

As he spoke, the old man scratched his right buttock with the thick, dirt-filled fingernails

of a weathered hand.

He stood with the young stranger among the twisted and gnarly vines of a half-grown marrow crop.

Their feet sinking into the pitch black dirt, the stink of manure and tang of metal rising from the ground as the summer heat warmed the soil.

In contrast, the stranger's plot in the community gardens had bloomed.

Potatoes and carrots burrowed underground, tomatoes budded on bamboo cane supports, and

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