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The first thing about Leslie Minookian that caught my brother's attention was her American accent.

The second thing my Americanophile brother was attracted to was Leslie's wild story about why she left Hawaii.

Some bad people in Hawaii were trying to attack her, you know, because that frauded her and were trying to do bad stuff to her.

And her mum and dad sent her to Europe to escape them.

According to Leslie, she had been run off the island by murderous locals.

A lot of people heard different versions of this story.

I remember her saying something about she had to curl up in a dark bathroom.

There was something about some cash.

She was like hiding under a table and these guys like...

Somewhere and she was trying to call her dad.

She'd go on the wrong side of the local mafia.

She witnessed...

She might have got beaten up?

Murder.

Or she got home invaded in her house or something like that.

They're going to kill me tonight, Dad.

This is where they're basically being taken by these criminals.

Got on this chartered airplane.

Parents had to pay for a private jets come get her before the mafia killed her.

So this story about Hawaii, after everything that happened to my brother Greg, he started to think about how it might be a fat yarn.

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