What happens if you want to believe that sending money to a psychic will change the course of your destiny?

Are you a victim or a willing participant in your own deceit?

If somebody says the right words, anybody can become a victim.

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This is a CBC podcast. Now these are these are blackberry yeah there he's him

he's him huh mmm good we pick, make black bear pies.

It's 40 years since I picked black bears.

40 years.

We're standing at the edge of a gravel lane wayeway looking out over a knot of trees and vines.

The tent top right here is the house that Charles Moore and I was born in. It's a real small house. No

inside bathroom. We had three room, a bedroom, mama's room, in the kitchen.

Up ahead in the middle of the bush with trees growing out of it,

a rotting structure with rusty roof mostly detached and bowed over like a bedraggled weeping figure.

A mildewed rocking chair, Thomas's mother mazes, sinks into the tilted remains of a front porch.

Almost frozen in time.

Well, I came from Vietnam, 1966.

I had made it from the road to about here.

Mama must have seen me coming.

She started running down the hill.

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