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Thank you so much for listening.

You think you know me, you don't know me well. Hey. Thank you so much for listening. I didn't know anybody.

You don't sleep that whole night. I had these weird, lucid dreams of the government coming for me.

I also sat up and was doing research all night, what to expect. So I was like, okay, so you can come over.

So he came over the next morning and he sat down with me on the couch and he laid out his story.

And he's like, here's what happened.

When Ruth's mom was pregnant with her, she was about eight months in.

And I was out at a coffee shop and he's like, I don't even drink coffee.

And he like doesn't drink coffee.

And he's like, that's probably why I don't drink it anymore. I was out at a coffee shop in the city. And there was a table of five people near me. And these

guys, these two guys, parked their car in front of the place and walked in and shot the five people

next to me. All five of them. And left. And he's like, and I hit under a table.

And I was close enough that literally blood splattered on me.

And not long after that, within a 12-hour period, the government showed up and spoke to me and two other people, maybe three other people, that also witnessed this and explained

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