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0:00.0	When I was 14, I was asked to babysit my three younger cousins, aged 8, 4, and
0:30.0	and an extremely rural mountainous part of Pennsylvania. My aunt and uncle had a wedding to go to
0:38.0	over an hour away and wouldn't be back until very late. Their house was situated on a steep mountain
0:47.5	side. Their back deck had a 15-foot drop into a rocky hill below, leading down to a river.
0:54.2	The closest neighbors were about a half a mile away, and the closest main road was a mile away.
1:02.9	At night, there were no lights to be seen anywhere around them. Basically, it wasn't the middle
1:10.6	of nowhere, but you would have to know where you were going to get there. You don't just accidentally
1:16.9	end up there. My aunt and uncle left us with some pizza, and their cell phone number next to
1:24.2	their landline. This was the early 2000s, and I didn't have a cell phone. But even if I did,
1:32.6	I wouldn't get reception there anyway. The baby was already asleep. The four-year-old wasn't
1:40.7	feeling well and was quietly watching TV in the living room as he dozed off, and the eight-year-old
1:47.6	was playing guitar hero with me up on the loft. The loft overlooked a living room to the left,
1:55.1	where I could keep an eye on the four-year-old, and there was a huge window that overlooked a driveway
2:01.6	to the right. The description of the driveways is an important detail to the story.
2:08.0	The road that led to their house ran straight into their fort driveway. It was a dead-end road.
2:16.3	The house was as far as you could go. If you went to the left driveway, there's a large open
2:25.0	car port, and that's where my aunt and uncle and anyone who ever visited part. The right driveway
2:32.9	led down a very short, but very steep hill to a large-leveled-out area, and ended against the
2:41.3	garage door that opened to the basement of the house. It was never used as a garage, but served as
2:49.1	my uncle's man cave, and to where he spent most of his time. Right beside the garage door,
2:57.6	there was a normal door with the window, so you could see right in.
3:02.5	But this driveway was exclusively used by the kids as a play area because it was the only flat yard
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