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People are just flabbergasted.

This could happen not only in the community but in the county.

Bludgeoning a 76-year-old person to death?

I mean, come on, this is Stephen King type of stuff.

Hello and welcome to Season 9, Episode 2.31 of Sword and Scale, a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real. Thank you once again for joining us.

This episode is going to be one of the ones you're going to remember for quite a while

as the final episode of season nine.

But don't worry, we'll be back within a week for our 10th year in operation.

Thank you guys so much for joining us, for sticking with us for all this time.

We've had a hell of a run so far. It's been quite something. And we want to thank you all

for continuing to listen, continuing to be here. We have a whole lot of exciting stuff planned for this year, so we hope you'll join us.

But for now, let's get right into it, shall we?

Thank you. You know, we're at the time of the time of the year, where everybody's looking towards how to improve themselves for the next.

It's a time to change things about you that you don't like, to make yourself better,

to reinvent yourself, to grow.

Personal growth isn't all about pushing yourself though.

It's not just about setting goals that are just out of reach and striving to achieve them.

At a certain age in everyone's life, personal growth is unavoidable.

During teenagers, everything is a new obstacle. All goals are just out

of reach. And it's during this time in our development that we learn to push ourselves,

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