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Here's Aridian's friend and previous co-worker, Amber. I started working in another building, another department, and one of my neighbors and I,

we had met recently. Our daughters had become friends while playing outside.

And this neighbor still worked at the town company.

And she said, you know, we started talking.

She told me she worked there and everything.

And then she told me one day about some trauma that happened.

And she told me, you know, mentioned Crystal in this situation about her lying about her husband being dead.

And I was like, what do you mean?

And she said, well, we were in training one day and somebody mentioned Crystal. And Ritz was like, yeah, no,

that's my sister-in-law, like, blah, blah, blah, blah. And that person was like, oh,

I'm, you know, I'm so sorry about your loss. And everybody was like, what? And then later,

Zach, like, putting the pieces together was like hold on

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