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What is, uh, what do you want me to say? You have found Cornelia. Season 3, Wild Boys.

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A heads up.

This show contains discussions of an eating disorder.

If you or someone you know is struggling with eating disorders, please listen with care.

It was March of 2004 and seven months had passed since the Bush Boys showed up in my hometown.

In the seven months, the town had rallied, the media had circused, but now things were kind of quiet.

The only people really talking about the Bush Boys would be the senior citizens.

They'd see them acting strange downtown around the natural food store and called the police and say, I saw some youths. There's two of them. One of them's too skinny. They're always

together. They're never apart. They're always together. Corporal Henry Pro se was the cop fielding

most of these calls. And it's true. The boys were always together all those seven months. But now, for once,

they weren't. Because Will, the 16-year-old, was in the back of Proce's police car.

I think he, I literally think he was within days or weeks of starving himself to death. He was,

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