I'm going to tell you the start of a redemption arc.

Just a start?

For now.

And it doesn't have any happy ending either.

So this is Erica Walker.

She says that in a former life, if I was a failed architecture student, among other things.

And most recently, yeah, I was an artist like I made furniture and I was a book binder

as well as I bound books.

And she was living in a great spot in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Up until that point, I just remember my life was very peaceful.

I mean, I had upstairs neighbors.

They would be, you know, you'd hear them on occasion.

But nothing like what happened when this is where things go downhill.

Because soon enough, she got upstairs neighbors, a couple with kids.

And from the first day they moved, and I just heard this, do, do, do, do, do, do.

And it would last like 24 hours a day.

I can see how that would be a little annoying.

Yeah, it was to her because the kids with thumb and pattern around is early a 6 a.m.

on most days.

So she tried talking to the neighbors about it, but it didn't work.

But then I was like, I'm just going to take them the small claims court.

So I got like a little recorder.

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