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He actually turned around and ran back and he was laughing about it. He said he used the claw part of the hammer.

This is season 8 of Sword and Scale, episode 183. A show that reveals that the worst monsters are real.

I often wonder what the perfect crime would look like.

Because there really isn't such a thing. It's like a unicorn.

Like a magical unicorn that only exists in your imagination.

I wonder what kind of people actually think they can get away with murder.

Let's face it, they can't be that bright.

The End

Teresa's Seavers sister recalls the weekend of June 26th, 2015.

It began in celebration of their mother's birthday and abruptly ended.

As the last weekend, the family would ever spend together.

We enjoyed the weather the first day. It was beautiful.

We swam in the pool and we relaxed in the sun. My sister was doing yoga.

She prepared a beautiful dinner, started to cook for the weekend.

We just enjoyed each other's company and had wine and left and played a lot of scrabble.

It rained the next day, so we just played a lot of scrabble.

I played piano because much to our delight.

There was a piano there on my sister and I played and we had to play it in years.

There was a lot of that.

At these gatherings, it was once a tradition to take a family photo together.

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