I heard this story from my friend around 15 years ago.

When he was in elementary school, he was playing alone on a mountain behind his house,

but as he looked down from the top, suddenly

he saw not just his house, but another on the other side of the mountain that looked exactly

the same.

I don't know which house is mine, he thought when he was done playing.

I know that friend's house well.

The other side of the mountain is just forest.

There's no space there for other buildings, let alone another house.

Even supposing that my friend is really from another world, he's still my friend, so I don't care. But at any rate, this

is what he told me one time.

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This week, we're travelling to another world, or several worlds, maybe, as we look at stories of people who

found themselves in areas that don't seem to exist in our world as we know it.

First up, a young man heads out one morning to buy some cigarettes, ignoring a rather

odd warning from his father.

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