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I'm going to ask you, plain out, you are not part of it anyway.

No.

I want to believe you, Grant, but you're the last person that I could put in that house.

Hello and welcome to Season 7, Episode 174 of Sword and Scale, a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real. Yeah. As we approach Thanksgiving and the holidays, it's a time to be around family, to be thankful for your family, to support them, to be there for them.

This episode is very much about family and also camgirls.

I know that doesn't make any sense right now, but it will in just a minute.

In any case, strap in, because you're about to

find out a whole lot about the world of Cam Rooms. You may already know a lot about it. I don't know

you. I don't know you, man. I haven't lived your life. But for everyone else, we're going to start

at the very beginning. So here we go. You know, I'm going to It was the summer of 2018.

It was the summer of 2018, back in the good old days, before the infinite Zoom meetings, virtual K-12 schooling and burgeoning alcoholism in half the adult population.

Grant Amato sat at his desk in his bedroom at his family's house in Chulot, Florida.

He was surrounded by several computer monitors, one of them displaying an episode of a Japanese

anime series, while another monitor lit up whichever video game Grant was obsessed with at

the moment.

A third monitor displayed Twitch, where he sometimes streamed his gameplay, and Grant withdrew

into his private world.

It was one room in the house that he felt safe and secure, one room in which he could be himself

and relieve stress through online gaming and streaming. Something more

and more adolescents find solace in these days. Grant's desk sat in the corner of his bedroom.

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