High listeners, this is Ashley Flowers, and I have a story I want to tell you.

A story about a sweet old neighbor taken in by police for a crime no one understands.

So gather around and listen close.

My roommate just called me and said the police arrested Madame Albert.

I don't understand what could drive the police to arrest and take a 70-something-year-old woman into

custody. I mean, come on. Marianne, my roommate and forever pain in the ass had no more

information to give me. So thanks Marianne. Now I'm going to be thinking about this until there are

answers, which could be in a week, a month. Who knows? Madame Albert has been a staple in our lives

for a while. She often jokes that she's the witch of the neighborhood because she's old and has

a lot of gray hair, which is not always perfectly capped. Let's be honest. And she also cooks a lot,

but not kids, she would joke. And she has two black cats. One of them Milo is perfectly black.

The other one Esther is mostly black, but she has a few white whiskers and a white spot on her

chin. And she also hates me for whatever reason. I'm not a cat psychologist, but she's probably jealous

because Milo adores me and ignores her. I'm going to have to figure out if someone is going to

take care of them. I don't know if I can call this station. I don't even know where they took her,

though. I just can't even wrap my brain around this. What did Madame Albert do? I mean, this has to

be some kind of mistake. Ever since Marianne and I moved into the same building, she was always very

sweet to us. Well, I guess always isn't the best choice of words. She was kind of mean at first,

but not always to our face. When she was pissed, she often slurred her curse words in French.

You know, weird as a French immigrant town, so I was quick to pick up on a few of those.

She was worried that two students moving upstairs would be the death of her. That would mean parties

every night, the clicking, clacking of heels on the wood floors at midnight, fights broken glasses,

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