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Until then, enjoy. What'd you think of the Watkins?

Honestly, my heart broke for them.

I could like feel the, I could just kind of feel, especially with the father,

you could just feel like this exhaustion and weariness and he...

I don't want to say broken, but it's kind of the more supposed to mind.

Yeah, you're right. He seems broken to me.

And it reminds me a little bit of a non-sad, although non-status so broken that he just can't even engage in six-end.

But you could just, I can just sense like a desperation.

And you know that scares me a little bit because

it's scary to give somebody hope, right? Yeah. Because the terror is, like if it doesn't work.

Yep.

Awesome.

Earlier this summer, Susan Collin and I met up in Rome, Georgia.

It's a far cry from the bustling, busy, gritty streets of Baltimore to the sleepy, laid-back town of Rome.

Susan, who will be explaining her connections to the town a little bit later,

had already been there a number of times during her investigation,

but it was the first time Colin and I would be heading to the town where this case unfolded 16 years ago.

Now, I'll admit, I was a bit nervous. I knew we'd be heading fairly far from Atlanta, into an

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