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I had extreme difficulty locating the torso.

And I later found that it was because it was so deteriorated that it almost turned to like clay balls.

The Hello and welcome to the granddaddy of true crime podcasts.

This is season six episode 141 of sword and scale, a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real. Oh! Children Children are like sponges.

Squishy little sponges of blood and guts that often carry tons of bacteria and are generally a health hazard.

Where was I going with that?

Oh yeah.

Children are like sponges,

absorbing anything and everything around them.

After they've learned to walk,

and before they hit adolescence,

kids exist in a strange limbo between a lack of understanding

of what's going on around them

and a fully socialized state of awareness.

Their ability to pick up on social cues and new words so quickly in their formative years

shows just how much information passes through their little brains and is retained.

That doesn't mean all of that information is able to be accessed, though.

Ever smell something and have an immediate flashback to a childhood memory?

It happens to all of us.

Maybe it was a smell of blacktop under the hot sun on the playground,

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