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[Assistant] Satellite images show their scale, but for a picture of what they're really like, we can only rely on those who've been there.


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[Assistant] These sketches are the recollections of other prisoners who've managed to escape the camps.


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[Assistant] These gross little like, hag things are apparently one of the weaker enemies here.


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[Assistant] Why couldn't I fucking warp out of there? I was literally like on the last fucking step. So I lost all of those fucking items.


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[Assistant] This will help. I forgot they didn't have any equipment on.


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[Assistant] No, it's a bit expensive for me. Like I said- Down to Earth.


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[Assistant] Yes, my grandad's got one. Throwed it up in the islands during the war. Take a closer look.


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[Assistant] Fine. Nice guy. Don't think I've got too many worries.


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[Assistant] We lived a different sort of life back home. Like Mum. Mum would die before she slept in the way you do.


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[Assistant] He's thinking about a forgotten name. Just not real good company at the moment.


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[Assistant] I-I have to go now, Mom. Look after yourself.


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[Assistant] Regardless of what department they worked in, they were all just really devoted.


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[Assistant] To doing what they could do best to take care of patients and families.


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[Assistant] I've been a very fortunate man in terms of that experience at Bradley Hospital.


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[Assistant] I knew I was going to be a part of something that was a whole lot bigger than me. It's like going to your church.


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[Assistant] We oughta feel like we're a part of something that's much bigger than us, but we're a little bitty part of it. What made you be that type of person?


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[Assistant] But, but they were hard working people. They loved their kids. I have a brother and a sister both younger than me. And my grandparents.


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[Assistant] But, but people of good character, they would, the proverbial statement about, uh, they'd give you the shirt off the back. They'd give you the shirt off the back and my granny'd fix you homemade cat head biscuits. And, uh, and then on my mom's side, my, my,


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[Assistant] And God's put people in my life throughout the years, friends and people that I just call brothers and sisters. They've, they've, uh, they've helped me learn some life lessons.


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[Assistant] They just live, don't they? They just wanna live. They do. They do. They don't, they don't look, they don't...


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[Assistant] I think, uh, you know, we could talk about that probably on a different subject, but...


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[Assistant] But lots of times we create these human barriers between faith and, uh,


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[Assistant] You know, unflattering or illogical or maybe even stupid. And I don't, I don't really understand that because I don't know what you gain by doing that to someone else. I don't know either unless it's just more or less a habit.


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[Assistant] That's, in my opinion, that's a cowardly way of going about it. If you want to say something bad about me, that's okay, say it.


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[Assistant] Amen. I grew up, uh, my first job at 11 years old was delivering the Columbia Daily Herald newspaper.


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[Assistant] Well, I deliver newspapers from the time I was 11 until I graduated high school, most of the time. And on Sunday,


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[Assistant] Uh, when I was old enough to have a car at 16, I delivered Sunday morning newspapers. So on Saturday night,


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[Assistant] But I, but, but to your point about, I think that's part of why I grew up loving news.


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[Assistant] And they, they don't, they don't know about, you know, newspapers, despite the fact that I talk to them the same way I do, and I've got a son at UTK, gonna graduate and be a teacher next year. But newspapers in the form that you and I are talking about,


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[Assistant] And then usually about midnight or 1am they get there with the, uh, with the front section, you know, the headlines and the last news that they could print.


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[Assistant] And like I said, we'd insert those and then you load them in your car. Wouldn't that take an hour or two hours? It would take a little while, depending on how big your route was. And we had brouts of different sizes and there were several of us. But it'd take me a little while.


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[Assistant] And where they wanted it. Now most people, back in that day, they were very kind about it.


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[Assistant] Put it in my mailbox, put it on the, uh, you know, my, uh, my driveway. But I had a few customers.


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[Assistant] And that's what you did back at the time, you know, back in the, back when I delivered the Columbia Daily Herald.


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[Assistant] Yeah, absolutely. I think what we were talking about earlier, I enjoy, I enjoy people telling me their story. As much as they want to tell. I'm not looking for anything that's private or that would be embarrassing, but I love to hear how people


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[Assistant] Uh, was it because of your upbringing? Was it because of a family thing? Uh, was it because you looked at your children and said, I want my children to have more. Right. I want them to have something different. And you know, people are motivated by different things, whether it's, whether it's laughter or fear. The old thing we like to talk about, we've heard it so many times in our life, you know, the carrot and the stick.


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[Assistant] Sometimes, sometimes it's the, it's the, it's the rod off the corner, the bush at the corner of the porch.


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[Assistant] And sometimes, well if you'll do this, you'll get an ice cream sandwich. Whatever it might be. We're motivated by different things. And I don't, I don't necessarily think any of those are bad. I know some people would say some are better than others. That's probably true. But you know, we're just individuals.


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[Assistant] It is. It is. But it's a big old beautiful world. Uhm, and if we can keep from being too distracted too often.


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[Assistant] It is, it is. Because, you know, sometimes in life you can feel like you've become, you know, trapped into a situation. And there may be a period of time when you are.


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[Assistant] I was telling somebody the other day, if we're in the middle of a situation that's really tough on us, if we can figure out a way to take a few breaths, clear our minds, think just a little bit, quite often,


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[Assistant] An opportunity will present itself to make it a little bit better. It may not solve everything, but we can figure out how to make it a little bit better.


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[Assistant] He gifted me in ways that I need to be more thankful. He's given me two wonderful children that I love dearly and I'm very proud of. He surrounded me with friends and family that I love beyond measure.


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[Assistant] And in my professional world and the things that I get to do from a charitable cause, uh, I'm thankful for all those. Uhm, I've been, I've been a guy who has more than most people and I'm thankful for it.


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[Assistant] I probably don't appreciate it as often as I should, but I try to remind myself I should appreciate it more.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I do have a certain knack for being able to judge people, I don't mean that in a harsh way, but evaluate people in terms of are they going to fit in and be able to do the job


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[Assistant] They're gonna send that specimen to my company, Path Group, and we're gonna evaluate it.


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[Assistant] I always claim, you know, I'm not one of them, but I'll try to make sure they have the right equipment, the right facilities in which to work, the right budget in which to do their job, the right inventory.


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[Assistant] So that, you know, the patient can get their results through their physician and we know how to, and they can figure out a proper treatment plan, whether it's surgical or...


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[Assistant] Absolutely, yeaah. It's a growing business.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know despite the fact that we've come so far in terms of, uh, of, of medical understanding through research and just experience and data evaluation.


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[Assistant] So they have a long history of research and support of caregivers and support of survivors.


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[Assistant] I'm not sure about this but I think there are 200 or so different kinds of cancers that fall underneath that.


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[Assistant] And many people know about those, either from personal experience, either themselves, or with their family or friends, somebody to go to church with, somebody to work with.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there's a, there's another project going on, it's called, it's called The Moonshot. And I'm not an expert on it, it's called The Moonshot. And I sort of describe it this way, back in the day when John F. Kennedy said, you know, we're gonna go to the, we're gonna go to the moon by the end of the decade, right? Many people old enough remember that.


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[Assistant] And, uh, it's a, it's, it's much the same thing. It's trying to bring together the best and the brightest researchers, the best and the brightest doctors, you know, the scientists and the doctors to collaborate and to understand what's going on in the world of cancer fighting.


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[Assistant] How do we analyze it better? How do we diagnose it earlier? And then how do we treat it more effectively, either preemptively or after we diagnose it?


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[Assistant] And again, I'm not an expert in those areas but I'm really excited about what they're doing in terms of bringing people together to share information.


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[Assistant] And then there's another one, during the Super Bowl there was an advertisement from Pfizer, the giant international pharmaceutical company. And, uh, I think it's, it's, uh,


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[Assistant] And despite the fact that cancer continues to be so devastating, so heartbreaking, so tragic, we have come so far, but we're not to the finish line yet.


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[Assistant] And that's part of the reason I and many others volunteer is because, you know, when people talk to me about cancer, I can tell you lots of different things, but for me, uhm, back to your question about why, why do I volunteer?


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[Assistant] Whether it's for them or their grandchildren, I'd like it to be for them. Where they'd say,


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[Assistant] I remember my dad talking about cancer. Let's look it up in a book. What was it? Exactly. And so we're not there yet, but like a lot of hard things in life,


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[Assistant] I'm, I'm, I'm very encouraged. Again, there's still a lot of work to be done and a lot of that goes back to the same thing as is often the case. It's people and their dedication to it and clear thought and then it's money.


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[Assistant] And those two quite often go hand in hand because the resources that are provided, you know, allow for better equipment, better technology, better training of people, so you can, you know, in the football analogy, move that ball down the field. Move the ball. Get a first down.


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[Assistant] Exactly, because it's hard, it's not impossible, but it's hard to get, it's hard to get a 99-yard touchdown in the fight against cancer. But you can get a first down, and then you can be encouraged, and then you work to get


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[Assistant] I mean think, think about in our lives how different it is today for a whole spectrum of diseases. Whether it's for treatment or whether it's for diagnosis.


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[Assistant] Think about how much better we are in terms of management.


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[Assistant] We're not there yet, but think about how much better, people you know who have diabetes, how much better are we today?


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[Assistant] Surgical and pharmaceutical and other therapeutic interventions, we have come so far. We, we, we have work to do. But again, uhm,


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[Assistant] They absolutely are. Uhm, and we have the capacity, we have the ability, and many people have the willingness. Somehow we just have to get other people involved to make these significant improvements that we're talking about.


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[Assistant] Now what you're talking about, I don't know if that's cool or not, cause sometimes in all candor, sometimes science allows us to do certain things.


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[Assistant] But we haven't figured out as humans should we do those things. Sometimes we get a little bit ahead of ourselves, I think. Now other people might disagree with me, but ethically and morally we gotta figure out, well, if we can do that, how do we do that properly?


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[Assistant] It's pretty remarkable. It was a fun cartoon when I was a kid. I always enjoyed it. And today it's like, how did they see the future so clearly?


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[Assistant] Yeaah, it's a, you know, the things that, the things that have changed in our lives, uh, so many for the better. And some, I'm not sure of, but I probably take advantage of many of them.


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[Assistant] They had the gas on the bottles. Oh, it's just, it's just, it's just extraordinary. This was uh, I don't know, 10, 30, 11 o'clock in the morning, just packed.


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[Assistant] And every gas, 150 gas pumps or whatever the number was, they were all full. And, uh, you know, the, the, the advances we made in so many ways. It's a...


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[Assistant] You can, you can have, you can have a wide, there's a wide selection there.


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[Assistant] I'm pretty sure they have a plan B. They seem to be, they seem to be pretty wise about looking to the future and, and I bet they figure it out.


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[Assistant] You know, I've been in Cleveland long enough to say this without any hesitation whatsoever. Cleveland and Bradley County, extraordinary community made up of so many people who are willing to help a neighbor. And it doesn't have to be a neighbor, they know. They will help raise money, they will show up and clean up a yard, they will clean up a creek.


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[Assistant] And, uh, we have lots of those kinds of people dedicated to the American Cancer Society. This is actually, this is our 31st anniversary in Cleveland and Brown County. 31 years. I didn't, I didn't know until I was doing some research. So we'll celebrate our 31st birthday.


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[Assistant] But not every community has them. For example, Hamilton County does not have a Relay for Life, but we do.


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[Assistant] And then we mark off bas- we use the parking spaces sort of as an outline for what we call our campsites. And we'll have teams...


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[Assistant] From all kinds of different places. Patents, for example. To Nova Healthcare. Wesley Memorial Church. And I don't mean to leave anybody out. Food City, Coca-Cola, etc, etc, etc.


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[Assistant] And, uh, we're doing some, some, we did some new things last year that we're going to do again this year, maybe a couple of new things this year.


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[Assistant] Last year, I'm going to brag on our volunteers just a little bit, but last year, at our 30th Relay for Life in Cleveland and Bradley County, we raised over $170,000.


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[Assistant] And individuals or families, they will either decorate or will decorate for them. They'll sponsor that.


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[Assistant] And they'll decorate it and we fill it with sand and put a candle in it and we, then we'd lie in the streets and that night about nine o'clock,


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[Assistant] And then we also read off a list of names in honor of, that is, people who are currently fighting cancer.


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[Assistant] And so we, we, we had 358 sponsors last year, the most we've ever had. And so that combined with, uh,


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[Assistant] We had our first ever last year, we had a survival choir.


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[Assistant] We had cancer survivors who came up on stage. We had about 35.


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[Assistant] He's a true southern gentleman. He really is. True southern gentleman. Anyway, I called him up last year and said I got an idea. They said tell me about it. I told them about it and said we'll do it.


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[Assistant] So my goal originally was let's get 10 people to raise $500 each to go to fighting cancer. Or as I say it now, to defeating cancer.


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[Assistant] And we had about 10 contestants registered in the first, about 10 days. We ended up on the day of the event, 23 contestants. Had them lined up all across the front of the courthouse there.


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[Assistant] And in five minutes, we had two people, Carla Stitchfield and John Squires from Cleveland State. They ate 19 full-size sandwiches.


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[Assistant] And, uh, and I've got about six people already committed, but I'm looking for, I'm looking for volunteers. It's a lot of fun.


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[Assistant] We had, uh, both school systems represented last year. We had the Cleveland Police Department represented last year. Had the President of Blood Assurance come up and be with us in Cleveland last year for it.


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[Assistant] So he was the first relay. He ran, if I remember this right, overnight he ran 83 miles around a track.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think just in Cleveland, I did a rough calculation a few weeks ago, just in our 31 years, we've raised somewhere in the vicinity of 2.3 million dollars, give or take, just in Cleveland and Bradley County to fight cancer.


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[Assistant] We also, the ACS has their Hope Lodges in the state of Tennessee. H-O-P Hope Lodges.


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[Assistant] And in between all of that. So the relay starts at two? At two. Not in the mornings anymore. No, two p.m. Two p.m. And uh, teams start setting up at noon and it sort of builds throughout the day. The official formal opening will probably be about four thirty or five o'clock. That's when the, the, the,


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[Assistant] We'll have the presentation of our nation's colors. We'll have the national anthem. We'll introduce all the teams. We'll thank the sponsors.


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[Assistant] Is going to be a part of our entertainment. They are absolute spectacular children. Spectacular students and, and they're just so exciting.


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[Assistant] We ended up being chosen by the American Cancer Society as the number one relay in the state of Tennessee. Now that's a big honor. That's a big one. That's a big honor in the entire state of Tennessee.


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[Assistant] You know, we thought, boy, that's a great year. We raised a lot of money. We supported a lot of survivors. We hugged on some caregivers. We had a good year. They came back to us and said, oh, one more thing. Out of the 2,500 relays in the country,


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[Assistant] Out of all those relays. So we were the best in Tennessee, the best in the southeast, and the best in the country. And all the credit goes to all those volunteers who worked hard.


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[Assistant] Three letters, one word, and I encourage them to use it every day when they're working on things like this on behalf of fighting and defeating cancer. It's a little word called A-S-Esk. A-S-K. Ask. Just ask.


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[Assistant] Ask people, will you be on a team? Will you start a team? Would you like to be in the ice cream contest? Are you a survivor? Would you like to register so we can honor you at the relay? Would you just like to come down and bring your kids and have something to eat and play a game? Would you just like to come down and see what we're doing? Just ask people to be a part of it. We're not pushy.


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[Assistant] Uh, but we are fully engaged because we understand the importance of what we're doing in terms of moving this needle forward to improve diagnosis, to improve treatment, to help people feel better if they're a survivor.


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[Assistant] You know, I get the good fortune of being able to speak to a lot of groups and they always ask me, you know, well what can we do? The number one thing people can do for us, pray for us. Pray for us that we're thinking clearly. Pray for us that we're saying the right things. Pray for us that we're doing the right things. And the second thing is, just get involved with us somehow. Whatever you want to do.


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[Assistant] Dip your toe in the relay water and find out whether you like it. Now if you've been doing it for a while, jump on in. We got plenty of jobs for everybody.


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[Assistant] But if somebody says to you, hey Dee, how do I get in touch with that fellow who's talking about the relay? You put him in touch with me. I will, uh, I will try not to talk too long, but I will give them as much information as they can stand.


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[Assistant] Try to reconcile what they just heard. But you're absolutely right. That's not a time for a person to be alone.


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[Assistant] And that's one thing that we try to do through the American Cancer Society. And this year's theme ties into that. This year's theme is the International Festival of Hope.


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[Assistant] But we want to be unified in trying to get people connected to resources, education, other people.


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[Assistant] And other survivors are great resources. People who have fought the battle or are fighting the battle. I've seen, I've seen survivors sit down with a...


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[Assistant] I remember we were at a relay in another town last year and, uh,


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[Assistant] So the survivors were getting their t-shirt and their medallion that we give them, too much like we do here.


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[Assistant] And, and, and, and I'd ask the question, well, how long have you been a cancer survivor? And you, you get all kinds of, whether it's a year, five or 10, and some people 20 and longer than that. And there was one lady who stepped up and said, I was diagnosed last week. And I'm just telling you, Dee, could hurt a pin drop.


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[Assistant] Because everybody in there who was a survivor knew exactly at that moment


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[Assistant] What that woman was experiencing and feeling down to her core.


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[Assistant] And you could, I watched it from the stage. I watched those people rally to that woman and embrace her and take her in their arms physically and otherwise to say, we gotcha. We're going to help you. I can't say enough about survivors and I can't say enough about caregivers.


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[Assistant] Because the work they do for one another, the work they do internally for themselves,


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[Assistant] They have to. They absolutely have to because sometimes it's a long and a very painful battle.


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[Assistant] I'm honored to just be a part of it, uhm, the folks I get to work with in terms of volunteers.


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[Assistant] Oh, I don't know, just a little while, a few decades now. Is that right? Yeaah, yeaah. It's a powerful thing.


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[Assistant] So there are lots of people, and we don't look for folks who have.


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[Assistant] You don't have to, if you don't think you have any talents, you have more talents than you think you do. Cause what you said earlier, we need people to, at the end of the night, we need people to make sure that we've picked up all the garbage. Cause one of our commitments is, at the relay downtown or wherever we've been, we want to make sure that that property is as clean or cleaner when we leave as when we got there. Cause we want them to invite us back next year.


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[Assistant] We have, uh, we have the full committee we meet at least once a month.


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[Assistant] And we talk about all of those and try to make sure that everybody's informed. Seldom does a day go by when many of our volunteers aren't working on some aspect of the relay. And so communication is really important for us because we're all, we're all disparate locations and we're working on different things.


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[Assistant] Well, we take a lot of business concepts and apply those because it's such a big undertaking.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I also want them to spend some money, whether it's at the auction or buying a hamburger or a beignet or a chicken sandwich or whatever it might be. And all that money goes to help us defeat cancer.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm here to talk about the Cancer Society, but over my years living here in Cleveland, I've had the good fortune of being involved with the American Heart Association, the March of Dimes, the Alzheimer's Association, and so many other worthy causes. And I would simply say this to people.


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[Assistant] Just pick one. Get involved with somebody. I'm also on the board of directors for blood assurance.


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[Assistant] Absolutely, I, I, I, it was, it was extraordinary to me when we announced that our, uh,


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[Assistant] Meeting that, that we had won the state award and the regional award and the, and the national award to a person in that audience, all of our volunteers, you could see it in their face. They were honored to be chosen. They were humbled by the selection.


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[Assistant] They show up because defeating cancer is a particularly specific and important cause for them.


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[Assistant] We're going down, uh, Ken Webb has helped and, uh, on March the 11th, uh, Cleveland City Council is going to declare April 20th Relay for Life Day in Cleveland.


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[Assistant] Has Ken got it passed? Ken's work, Ken's working on it right now. And so we, we get a lot of support from the local political leadership. And I was talking about the first responders earlier. They've been so good throughout the year. I'll tell you, I remember this throughout the, all the many years. One of the most powerful images for me was, uh, you know, it'd be, it'd be so hot. People out there in short pants and t-shirts and they're sweating.


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[Assistant] They could barely make it from the sidewalk to the track. But again, their courage and grit.


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[Assistant] If it didn't encourage you, you weren't paying attention. I told somebody the other day, sometimes for me, when I see those folks doing what they do,


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[Assistant] Remember that wonderful scene in the Grinch? When the Grinch is hard, it finally grows three times. Sometimes at a relay.


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[Assistant] And if you pay attention quite often, multiple times at a relay, you'll see an interaction between two people.


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[Assistant] And it will make your heart grow stronger because you absolutely understand somebody just got a word of encouragement that may make a difference today, but it also may make a difference in their life. It's a beautiful thing to be around. It's a, it's just, it's,


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[Assistant] They allowed us to use their campus. And, uh, Pastor Easley out there.


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[Assistant] He's a cancer survivor and he had written a book about it the first time I met the man. He was so gracious and so kind to us. He gave me a copy of his book and what we've talked about today, he sort of captured in that book about I remember the moment they said the word cancer.


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[Assistant] That's part of what we do is we want to try to help these folks be strong enough to get through the journey.


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[Assistant] Cancer research, supporting survivors, supporting caregivers.


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[Assistant] Educational materials, places like the Hope Lodge, they take those dollars and then, uh,


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[Assistant] And they squeeze them to make sure that we're making a difference for the fight that we're fighting.


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[Assistant] I think you find, again I've had the pleasure of being able to work with a lot of different health organizations throughout the years.


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[Assistant] And quite often that's where we find our volunteers is somebody will say, hey, you know, my grandmother has cancer. Can I get involved? Sure. Come on. What do you want to do? Well, I'd like to help with this. Okay. Let's teach you how we do that. And we put them to work.


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[Assistant] There will be in 2024, this year, there will be 2 million brand new cancer diagnosis. 2 million new ones this year.


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[Assistant] Now when I say that out loud, some people go, wow, that's terrible. And it is. On the plus side, on the positive side, many of those will be diagnosis that are caught early. So treatment can be implemented early.


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[Assistant] But we're better on the diagnostic side. We're better on the treatment side. We're not out of the woods yet. There is a lot of work left to be done to defeat cancer. And that's why


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[Assistant] I'll say I. That's why I and the American Cancer Society, we need a lot more volunteers to be involved in some way.


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[Assistant] If somebody wants to put together a team out there it's not hard. If somebody wants to be a sponsor, we make it easy.


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[Assistant] Somebody wants to volunteer and help set up tables and chairs, we'd be glad to have you. Somebody wants to help us find some entertainment.


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[Assistant] We'd be glad to have you. If a survivor wants to register, go to that website. Come down that day. We want to give you a t-shirt. We want to give you a medallion. We want to say how thankful we are to have you. And I mentioned the survivor choir earlier.


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[Assistant] If you show up and you can't sing a lick, don't worry about it.


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[Assistant] We don't have a, we don't, we don't have a hurdle. That old thing in the south we like to say, it doesn't matter if you can carry a tune in a bucket.


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[Assistant] And we just want people to come down and sing and celebrate the fight and eventually the defeat of cancer.


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[Assistant] And there are pirates. Pirates? We must go at once.


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[Assistant] We would have to keep flying because Peter did teach us how to stop.


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[Assistant] Do you want to stop for tea now or go and have an adventure?


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[Assistant] I see a pirate asleep in the grass below us. If you want, we can fly down and kill him.


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[Assistant] Wakes up. I would never kill a pirate while he was sleeping.


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[Assistant] That's not fair. I always wake them up before I kill them. Oh, do you kill many pirates? Of course.


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[Assistant] There are more pirates in Neverland now than before. Who is their leader?


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[Assistant] He is called Hook. Captain James Hook.


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[Assistant] He is not as big as he used to be. I cut off a part of him. Which part did you cut off?


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[Assistant] If he doesn't have a right hand, how does he fight?


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[Assistant] He has put an iron hook where his hand used to be, and he uses it to fight.


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[Assistant] Every boy who serves under me makes me a promise. You must now also make this promise.


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[Assistant] The promise is that if we meet Hook in a battle, you must let me fight him. I promise.


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[Assistant] The light only goes out when she is sleeping. It is just like the stars.


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[Assistant] That's right. Just think. Day after tomorrow we'll be waking up in that.


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[Assistant] That's right. I've got two hard-boiled eggs. They don't agree with me.


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[Assistant] Shall we? Hot coffee and buttered rolls twice. Oh, and a semolina for the spook. Won't be long now, sir.


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[Assistant] I hope you enjoyed this video. We put a lot of good information up here and it causes everything in your life to get better. If you'd like us to notify you every time we put a new video up, hit subscribe and then turn on notification.


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[Assistant] Gradually, I saw the sun and moon return to their familiar position in the sky.


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[Assistant] I saw the returning signs of humanity and felt comforted.


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[Assistant] This had the effect of restoring my desire to explore.


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[Assistant] I still had a lot of curiosity about mankind in its most advanced age Even though my feet were complaining


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[Assistant] I told myself that I was allowed just one more stop.


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[Assistant] I looked down at my machine's time dial and found that I was in the year 3088.


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[Assistant] Just a little more than a thousand years ahead of my own time.


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[Assistant] I seem to be in the corner of a very large room of windows.


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[Assistant] Even the ceiling was made up of glass, through which sunlight shone brightly.


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[Assistant] Outside the windows, the room was almost completely surrounded by tall trees.


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[Assistant] On all sides, except for the southern one, toward the top of the windows could be seen the steel of huge buildings rising high into the sky.


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[Assistant] Inside, the room itself was completely empty.


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[Assistant] My foot found no ground underneath and I fell clumsily to the floor and reopened the cut on my chin.


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[Assistant] Picking myself up again, I turned round to find my machine sitting upon a stage of some kind.


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[Assistant] Suddenly, from behind the door, I heard the sound of people coming.


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[Assistant] Having nowhere to hide, I quickly ran toward my time machine.


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[Assistant] I found a line of ten men standing just inside the doorway. Half of them were dressed in fine suits.


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[Assistant] The other half I guessed were police, judging by their clothing and the gun-like objects they pointed at me. One of the well-dressed men then spoke, Welcome! I apologize for the guns. However, we don't want you running away so quickly. I did not know how to respond.


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[Assistant] However, if you had tried to travel any further, you would have found it impossible.


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[Assistant] You see, over many years we have been designing this room for you.


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[Assistant] You could say it is a kind of net. And you, the butterfly. As I said,


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[Assistant] We had been trying to catch you going forward into the future, but realized that we had assumed your speed to be much slower than it really was.


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[Assistant] So, we redesigned the room to catch you coming back from the future at a much higher speed.


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[Assistant] About 50 years ago, your writings on the development of a time machine were discovered in a storage room at one of the older universities.


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[Assistant] After a little research, we found that you had mysteriously disappeared at the fairly young age of 36, shortly after having built your machine.


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[Assistant] Although I could not be absolutely certain, I guess that you had succeeded in your experiments.


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[Assistant] Well, now that you have me, what do you want from me?


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[Assistant] We simply want to examine your machine and ask you several questions about its construction.


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[Assistant] We have attempted to rebuild it according to your writings.


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[Assistant] However, there seems to be something missing from your notes.


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[Assistant] Something you may not have had the time to write.


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[Assistant] Then one of the policemen stepped forward and whispered something into the man's ear.


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[Assistant] A moment later, the man turned back to me saying,


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[Assistant] If you will please come with us, I can explain more to you on the way to our laboratory.


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[Assistant] Several policemen then took hold of me and led me out the door.


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[Assistant] Outside, the air was quite fresh, as if I were in the countryside. However, the surrounding woods were not very deep.


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[Assistant] For just minutes later, we walked out into a large city square full of people.


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[Assistant] At one end of the square were hundreds of tables where people were talking over food and drinks. At another end was an entertainment area.


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[Assistant] There, a large group of people had gathered to listen to four musicians.


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[Assistant] They were sitting on a small stage, each holding some kind of instrument which they seemed to be playing with very serious concentration. However, no sound came from the stage.


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[Assistant] I thought maybe they were just preparing to play until the musicians suddenly relaxed their concentration and stood up


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[Assistant] While the crowd clapped their hands in great appreciation.


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[Assistant] The rest of the square was just an open space of people walking here and there, all wearing fine, colorful clothing.


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[Assistant] Possibly on their way to work or home. I could not tell.


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[Assistant] I then noticed that I could not hear the sound of their feet as they hurried across the square. Nor could my own footsteps be heard.


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[Assistant] Your city seems to have solved the problem of sound pollution.


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[Assistant] We haven't had pollution of any kind for hundreds of years.


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[Assistant] Our air and water are all 100% pure.


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[Assistant] I cannot imagine having to breathe the air of the London of your time.


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[Assistant] It's no wonder people die during those years before the age of 70. Such a short life compared to our 160 years. Now please, this way.


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[Assistant] The man said pointing to the entrance of a large building just behind the entertainment


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[Assistant] Was a sign that had words running across it at great speed.


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[Assistant] Some people in the square were watching as the words entered the sign and then quickly disappeared. The words were unreadable to me.


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[Assistant] For they used a different alphabet than the one we are familiar with.


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[Assistant] The words came and went from the sign so quickly that I could not begin to read even the first word.


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[Assistant] The man must have noticed my confusion for he then spoke.


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[Assistant] Yes, that's English up there. However, much more simplified.


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[Assistant] It's now the only language spoken around the world. But I can't read a single word of it.


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[Assistant] A new method of reading and writing has been developed, which allows us to read at a much faster rate than before.


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[Assistant] We can now finish a long book within just a few hours.


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[Assistant] But how can your brain take in all of the information so quickly?


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[Assistant] It is just a matter of practice. Lots of practice.


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[Assistant] I was then led to an electric elevator that seemed to go up for miles into the air and there the man started to explain things to me as he had earlier promised. Let me introduce myself. My name is Dr. Elsner.


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[Assistant] I once worked as a professor at Rendsburg University, where I taught engineering.


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[Assistant] That was during the good days when the world was in perfect balance. As you can see


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[Assistant] We have made life on earth very comfortable for humans. However, as I am sure you know, this comfort could very soon disappear. Here we arrived at our floor.


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[Assistant] And we, its people, are known as Ectonians. The other country is called Antus.


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[Assistant] And often cooperated and openly traded with one another. However,


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[Assistant] For certain reasons that I will soon explain, over the years our two countries have come to hate one another.


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[Assistant] Every year we get closer and closer to World War. And, as you might imagine,


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[Assistant] War has changed quite a bit since your time.


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[Assistant] Both countries have developed weapons that could destroy the entire world within just a few seconds. The Actonians are a peaceful people, happy with the balance of the world as it is now. The Antusians, as I said before, are a good people as well.


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[Assistant] However, their leader is a terrible man who, ever since coming into power 30 years ago, has made it his biggest goal to join our two countries under his leadership. He has become increasingly uncooperative.


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[Assistant] And there have been a few small battles fought quite far from our capital here.


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[Assistant] We fear that he may become more and more aggressive toward our country. The more we resist his attempts at taking control.


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[Assistant] At the time he took control over Entus, I had already been studying your experiments for 30 years and had become increasingly confident in the possibility of successfully repeating your work.


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[Assistant] The one problem was that I did not have the money to carry it out on my own.


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[Assistant] I needed to somehow get support from the government.


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[Assistant] I decided to write a book about your work and how it could make it possible for us to maintain our peaceful society.


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[Assistant] In this book, I explain that by going back in time, we could prevent the birth of the one man who is now trying to destroy our happiness. At once,


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[Assistant] The government promised me unlimited money in order to build the time machine.


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[Assistant] We had now reached a pair of large steel doors at the end of the hallway, which opened automatically as we approached them.


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[Assistant] The outside of the machine seemed to be complete. However, inside, I noticed that his dials were much more modern than mine, and the engine was missing several important parts.


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[Assistant] Elsner was suddenly interrupted by an extremely loud noise, like an alarm.


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[Assistant] Just then, a policeman came running down the hall and whispered something into Elzner's ear.


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[Assistant] He was too busy shouting orders to the other policeman.


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[Assistant] Soon the doctor and I were the only ones in the laboratory.


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[Assistant] It seems that I must again apologize to you. Your time machine has just been stolen. What? By whom? I shouted. By the Antusians. Didn't you have soldiers guarding it? Of course.


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[Assistant] But it seems that there was a spy among our staff who found a way to steal it.


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[Assistant] Maybe he offered some of the guards money, I don't know. All of that doesn't matter now. What matters is that they have the machine and may be able to use it against us.


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[Assistant] We must act quickly and get the machine back from them before it's too late.


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[Assistant] But, how do the entusians know about the machine?


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[Assistant] We have been racing to be the first to develop your machine. Just then another policeman entered the room.


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[Assistant] Sir, the general would like to speak with you immediately.


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[Assistant] You'll have to excuse me for a moment, Elsner said as he began to follow the officer out of the laboratory doors. Just wait for me here. Do not leave this room.


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[Assistant] I noticed as the doors closed behind Dr. Elsner that he ordered a guard to stand outside the laboratory to make sure I did not try to escape.


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[Assistant] I was dealing with very intelligent people in the most modern world the earth would ever see. My machine could be anywhere. I was completely at the mercy of these people.


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[Assistant] My head began to hurt and my knees started to weaken. Then the room went black.


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[Assistant] Chapter 7 A Murder Occurs It was a beautiful morning in May.


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[Assistant] Henry and I had just come back from a long walk in the country.


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[Assistant] On the table in our house there was a letter from my father. I wondered what he was writing about.


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[Assistant] Because I was going to visit my family soon, after many years away.


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[Assistant] Can't he wait until he sees me to talk to me about it? I thought. Quickly I opened the letter and read these words. Geneva, May 12th. My son.


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[Assistant] It is with great sadness and pain that I tell you, you must come home now. But first, I must tell you what has happened here. Sit down in a chair before you read my next words. Your little brother William is dead.


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[Assistant] My happy young boy has been murdered. Victor, I will not try to comfort you. I will only tell you what happened.


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[Assistant] Last Thursday in the evening, your two brothers, Elizabeth and I, went for a walk in the forest of plain palais. You loved to run and play here when you were a child. On that evening,


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[Assistant] William and Ernst were far away from Elizabeth and I playing games.


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[Assistant] It began to get dark and Elizabeth and I sat down to wait for the boys.


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[Assistant] Soon, Ernest came to us and asked if we had seen William.


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[Assistant] Ernest told us that William had gone to hide, but he had not returned.


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[Assistant] Immediately, Elizabeth and I began to look for Williams.


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[Assistant] But we had not found him after three hours of searching.


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[Assistant] Elizabeth ran home to tell the servants to look for William around the house.


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[Assistant] At five o'clock in the morning, I finally found him.


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[Assistant] His cold, dead body was lying on the grass, and there were black finger marks on his throat. I carried him home and put him on his bed.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, I have killed my darling William. And she fainted onto the floor.


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[Assistant] When we woke her up, she told me that yesterday, William had asked to wear Elizabeth's necklace. The necklace was a beautiful gold one. Elizabeth couldn't say no to William, but when she saw William's body, there was no necklace around his neck.


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[Assistant] Elizabeth thought someone had killed William because they wanted the necklace. We have not found the murderer yet.


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[Assistant] Elizabeth blames herself for Williams death and cannot stop crying. We need you to come home, Victor.


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[Assistant] Not to find the killer, but to comfort our sad hearts. Your loving father, Alphonse Frankenstein


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[Assistant] I threw the letter across the room, covered my face with my hands and began to cry.


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[Assistant] Henry ran into the room and asked me, My dear friend, what has happened? I couldn't speak.


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[Assistant] He cried out in pain, and tears fell from his eyes.


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[Assistant] On a dark and stormy night in November, the work was finally done.


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[Assistant] There was so much lightning that the room was as light as day. There was terrible thunder. Wind screamed and howled outside. The wild weather made me excited.


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[Assistant] I stared down at the table in my workroom and thought about what I was about to do.


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[Assistant] On the table was an enormous monster waiting to be given life. I touched the monster with my special tools.


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[Assistant] Because of the lightning, there was much electricity in the air. This electricity brought the monster to life.


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[Assistant] His large strong arms and legs moved in the air. I stared at this monster.


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[Assistant] I had spent two years of my life making him.


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[Assistant] Once, I had thought he was beautiful, because he had come from my life's dreams. But now, I only felt horror and fear. He was an ugly monster, made from death.


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[Assistant] I saw huge, strong bones and muscles under his yellow skin.


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[Assistant] He had long black hair and an ugly face. His sharp white teeth and thick black mouth were the most terrible. What had I done?


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[Assistant] I could not stand to look at the thing for another minute. I ran out of the workroom and down to my bedroom. I hoped the monster would not follow me. I fell onto the bed with all my clothes on. All I wanted to do was sleep.


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[Assistant] I hope that when I woke up, I would find that everything had been a bad dream. When I finally fell asleep.


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[Assistant] I had terrible dreams about the monster, Elizabeth, and my mother. Suddenly I woke up. I had the feeling that something was watching me. The light of the moon came through the bedroom window. As my eyes opened, I saw the monster standing next to my bed.


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[Assistant] His black mouth moved and he gave me a terrible ugly smile.


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[Assistant] He said some things that I did not understand in a voice like death. Then his hand moved to touch me.


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[Assistant] Screaming, I jumped out of my bed and ran out of the apartment.


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[Assistant] That night, I hid outside under a tree, weak, frightened, and terribly upset for the rest of that dark night.


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[Assistant] Chapter 9 A Game of Croquet for the Queen


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[Assistant] My name is Alice, if you please, Your Majesty. Nervously answered Alice.


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[Assistant] She had to use all of her courage and she almost forgot to bow politely.


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[Assistant] Then she realized they were only a pack of cards after all. She thought, I needn't be afraid of them. And who are these workers? asked the Queen.


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[Assistant] She was pointing to the gardeners who were still laying face down around the white rose tree they were trying to paint red.


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[Assistant] Because the pattern on their back sides was the same as all the rest of the pack.


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[Assistant] She wasn't able to tell whether they were gardeners, soldiers, courtiers, or even three of her own children. Quite rudely, Alice answered, How should I know? She was surprised at her new courage. It's no business of mine.


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[Assistant] She continued, not able to stop herself from being impolite.


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[Assistant] The Queen turned red with anger and screamed, Off with her head! Nonsense! cried Alice loudly. All of a sudden the Queen became silent.


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[Assistant] But it didn't work and the Queen angrily addressed the three gardeners who were still lying flat on their faces on the ground.


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[Assistant] Two, five, and seven jumped to their feet. They began bowing to the king, the queen, and all the royal children. After they finished, they started bowing to everyone else, even Alice again.


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[Assistant] What are you doing here by this rose tree? asked the Queen, as she examined the rose tree carefully, making them very nervous.


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[Assistant] I see," answered the queen, extremely angry. She had discovered that the roses had been painted. Immediately she shouted, Off with their heads! With that the company continued on their walk.


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[Assistant] But three soldiers stayed behind, looking for two, five, and seven.


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[Assistant] Meanwhile the unlucky gardeners had rushed to Alice's side for protection.


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[Assistant] Don't worry, nobody's going to chop off your heads, promised Alice.


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[Assistant] She quickly hid them in a large pot that stood beside her.


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[Assistant] The three soldiers looked all around for a minute or two, but they weren't able to find the gardeners.


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[Assistant] Finally they decided to march off after the others. Did you cut their heads off?


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[Assistant] Shouted the queen so loudly that Alice's ears hurt.


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[Assistant] The soldiers answered in reply, How wonderful! cried the queen.


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[Assistant] Yes, said Alice, glad to be talking about something else after such an unpleasant situation.


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[Assistant] Well, come on then! roared the queen. Alice went and joined the royal company.


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[Assistant] Alice looked down and saw the white rabbit looking up at her. It most certainly is, said Alice.


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[Assistant] She was quite happy to speak to the rabbit, especially as he seemed not to remember who she was.


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[Assistant] Whispered the Rabbit. He looked anxiously over his shoulder.


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[Assistant] As if he expected to have his own head cut off for speaking about it.


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[Assistant] Alice couldn't help but give a little scream of laughter.


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[Assistant] The field was made completely of edges and lines.


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[Assistant] It was totally impossible to hit the ball straight.


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[Assistant] The croquet balls were hedgehogs and the mallets were real flamingos. There weren't any arches.


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[Assistant] So the soldiers had to bend over and stand on their heads and feet to form them.


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[Assistant] The soldiers were the biggest difficulty for Alice.


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[Assistant] None of them would stand still long enough for her to play the game.


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[Assistant] Also all the players were all playing at once. They didn't wait for their turns.


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[Assistant] And some started to fight for the hedgehogs, which really should have been balls. All of this made the queen very upset, and she went marching around yelling, Off with his head, and off with her head.


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[Assistant] She was afraid that soon the Queen might look at her and shout, off with her head. What's to become of me? she worried.


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[Assistant] They seem to really like cutting people's heads off around here.


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[Assistant] She started looking around for a way to escape to someplace safe.


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[Assistant] Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to come back to this garden after all, said Alice to herself. But just then,


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[Assistant] She noticed a strange and curious thing in the air She watched closely for a minute or two


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[Assistant] Why, it's the Cheshire Cat! she cried, clapping her hands together in delight.


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[Assistant] Now at least I shall have somebody nice to talk to. How are things going for you, my dear? asked the cat.


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[Assistant] Alice waited until his eyes appeared and then nodded her head.


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[Assistant] I don't think it'll be any good speaking to him just yet, she thought. His ears haven't even arrived yet.


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[Assistant] In a minute the whole head appeared and Alice began to tell him about the croquet game.


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[Assistant] Also, you have the smallest idea how confusing it is having all the equipment in this game alive. For example,


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[Assistant] Just look at the arch I've got to go through next.


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[Assistant] whispered the cat. Not in the least, replied Addis. She's so very...


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[Assistant] Luckily, she just noticed the Queen standing right behind her, listening. Alice continued,


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[Assistant] The queen only smiled and happily walked by.


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[Assistant] Standing beside Alice, he looked with great curiosity at the cat's head. Alice proudly replied,


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[Assistant] For some reason the king stood behind Alice as he spoke, as if he were afraid.


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[Assistant] I've read it before, perhaps even in a book, but I don't remember where.


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[Assistant] Who was just passing by at that moment cried, off with his head, without even looking around.


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[Assistant] Eagerly, the king hurried off, saying,


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[Assistant] Alice thought it best to go back and see how the croquet game was coming along.


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[Assistant] But the players were even more confused than before.


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[Assistant] As a last try, she put her flamingo, who was always moving about and trying to escape, under her arms.


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[Assistant] But she noticed that a large crowd was standing around the Cheshire Cat.


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[Assistant] She could hear an argument happening between the soldier, the king, and the queen.


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[Assistant] They were all talking at once, while the crowd remained silent.


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[Assistant] When they saw Alice approaching, they rushed to her side to tell her their side of the argument, begging her to make a decision.


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[Assistant] Unfortunately, because they all talked at once, Alice couldn't understand a word that was said.


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[Assistant] The soldier argued that it was impossible to cut off a head without having a body.


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[Assistant] He stated quite strongly that he had never before done such a thing, and that he wasn't going to start doing it at this time of his life either.


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[Assistant] The king argued that anything with a head could have its head cut off.


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[Assistant] The Queen kept shouting that if something wasn't done soon, she would start cutting off everyone's head.


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[Assistant] When she said this, the whole party became very silent and worried.


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[Assistant] Alice couldn't think of anything else to say but, I think the cat belongs to the Duchess. You should go and ask her about it.


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[Assistant] But she's in prison, the Queen said to the soldier.


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[Assistant] Well, if it will help end this matter quickly, then fetch her here. And the soldier quickly shot off like an arrow. Yet the cat's head began to fade away once the soldier had left.


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[Assistant] By the time the soldier had returned with the Duchess, the cat's head was completely gone.


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[Assistant] The king and the soldier started to run everywhere looking for it, all the while shouting,


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[Assistant] The rest of the party, seeing that no one's head was getting cut off, went back to play croquet.


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[Assistant] So, you think you've changed, do you?


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[Assistant] One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.


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[Assistant] I have been watching out for snakes both night and day.


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[Assistant] Why, I haven't been able to sleep in weeks.


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[Assistant] Just as I thought I was free from all snakes since I was in the highest tree in the woods,


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[Assistant] One of them comes down from the sky.


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[Assistant] I've seen many little girls before, but never have I seen one with such a neck as yours. No, no.


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[Assistant] You're indeed a snake. And there's no use in saying you're not.


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[Assistant] I suppose you're going to tell me next that you've never tasted an egg before either.


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[Assistant] But if they do like to eat eggs, why?


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[Assistant] Then they must also be a kind of snake. That's all I can say.


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[Assistant] I know that as well as I could know anything else.


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[Assistant] What difference does it make to me whether you're a little girl or a snake?


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[Assistant] Peter had run as fast as his legs could across the whole island.


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[Assistant] The whole time he ran, he was thinking about two things. Saving Wendy and killing Hook.


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[Assistant] Truthfully, Peter had often felt that fighting the pirates was a game.


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[Assistant] Peter saw the great crocodile swimming slowly along the island's river.


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[Assistant] He noticed that the crocodile wasn't making a ticking sound. The clock must have stopped working.


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[Assistant] Peter could imitate any sound and started imitating the tick sound.


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[Assistant] So that the beasts on the island would think he was the crocodile and run away. When he arrived at the lake and began swimming, he continued making the ticking sound. Peter was a fast swimmer. He reached the pirate ship quickly. He climbed onto the ship and looked around.


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[Assistant] He thought that if he climbed on, he had to be silent.


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[Assistant] But he saw all the pirates standing closely around Hook and guarding him.


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[Assistant] Hook looked very frightened, just like a little child.


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[Assistant] Peter then remembered that he himself had been making the crocodile sound as he swam, and that Hook thought the crocodile was close by.


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[Assistant] Peter was very fast and he quickly pushed his knife deep into the pirate's chest.


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[Assistant] Peter covered the pirate's mouth so that he could not scream and then threw the dead body into the water. He did all of this in less than one minute.


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[Assistant] The children could see Peter do this, but the pirates, who were all guarding the captain at the front of the boat, could not. Peter walked into the kitchen quietly.


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[Assistant] The pirates heard the sound of the crocodile disappear and began to relax. When Hook recovered his breath and courage, he thought about the prisoners again.


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[Assistant] They all cried loudly and fell to their knees, begging for mercy. Hook smiled his terrible smile.


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[Assistant] The boys stared at each other and didn't know what to do.


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[Assistant] Jukes entered the kitchen and the door closed loudly behind him. Suddenly, a horrible scream filled the air.


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[Assistant] After the scream, the boat was filled with a strange singing sound.


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[Assistant] The pirates did not understand this strange sound.


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[Assistant] But the boys all knew that it was Peter's victory song.


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[Assistant] The captain ordered. Seko was the bravest of the pirates, but he did not want to go.


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[Assistant] Hook raised up his iron hook to Seko's neck, making him obey.


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[Assistant] Seko turned around and slowly walked into the kitchen. Again, there was a terrible scream and then Peter's victory song.


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[Assistant] Said the captain, raising his iron hook to Starkey's neck.


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[Assistant] Let's first wait until Chico comes back, Starkey said.


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[Assistant] The rest of the pirates nodded their heads to agree.


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[Assistant] Screamed hook, bringing the hook up just over Starkey's head.


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[Assistant] Yelled Hook with great power in his voice. Please have mercy, Captain, Starkey cried.


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[Assistant] Hook brought his terrible iron hand down close to Starkey's head.


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[Assistant] The other pirates just stood where they were. None of them dared to stop him.


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[Assistant] Yelled Hook. Starkey began to walk toward the kitchen.


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[Assistant] Before he got there he let out a scream of sadness and jumped off the ship into the sea. The pirates were all silent for a moment. Then Captain Hook yelled


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[Assistant] Hook grasped a light and raised his iron hook, then walked slowly into the kitchen.


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[Assistant] A short moment later, he came back without the light.


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[Assistant] Hook did not want to go back into the kitchen and it made him look scared and weak in front of his men.


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[Assistant] The children all began yelling happily at the pirate's fear.


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[Assistant] Hook was fighting to control his men and almost forgot about his prisoners.


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[Assistant] The pirates all thought that this was a great idea and began to push the boys into the kitchen.


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[Assistant] The boys all pretended to be afraid as the pirates pushed them.


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[Assistant] Wendy was still tied up outside and waited for Peter to come out and save her.


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[Assistant] Meanwhile, Peter had found the key to unlock the boys' chains in the kitchen. He unlocked their chains and they were free.


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[Assistant] He then told them to let out horrible screams so that the pirates would think that they were killed.


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[Assistant] When the pirates heard all of the boys screaming, they began to be very afraid, and some jumped off the ship into the water.


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[Assistant] All the boys found knives and other things they could use as weapons in the kitchen.


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[Assistant] Hook and the pirates were still at the front of the ship, scared from all the screams in the kitchen. Everything was ready, so Peter called out, Come boys!


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[Assistant] The boys ran forward shouting and carrying their weapons.


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[Assistant] The sound of swords and screams of excitement filled the air as the boys took revenge on the pirates. There were still many pirates on the ship, and they might have beaten the boys. But instead of staying together, they ran wildly around the ship.


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[Assistant] Each man only thinking of his own life.


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[Assistant] After a long fight, all of the pirates were dead, except Captain Hook.


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[Assistant] Hook was so terrible that even while alone, he seemed as strong as the whole group of boys. Each time they attacked him, he fought them back.


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[Assistant] The boys stepped back and Peter Pan came face to face with Captain James Hook.


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[Assistant] Hook was much bigger and stronger than Peter Pan, but Peter could fly.


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[Assistant] He flew around so quickly that Hook could not hit him.


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[Assistant] In the end, Peter was too fast for Captain Hook.


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[Assistant] Each time that Hook attacked with his sword, Peter would quickly make a small cut in Hook's face.


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[Assistant] Then Peter swung his knife and hit Hook's sword out of his hand. Hook attacked wildly with his iron hook, but Peter was too far in the air. Finally, Hook was too tired to fight.


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[Assistant] He saw Peter preparing his knife for a final cut.


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[Assistant] Hook ran to the side of the ship and jumped into the water.


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[Assistant] However, Hook did not look before he jumped.


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[Assistant] The great crocodile was waiting there silently in the water.


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[Assistant] The crocodile's mouth opened wide when he saw Hook jump.


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[Assistant] Hook's arm had been the most delicious thing that the crocodile had ever eaten. He had waited many years to eat his whole body.


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[Assistant] As Hook fell, he saw the crocodile rise up out of the water and open his great mouth.


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[Assistant] Hook screamed a terrible scream as the crocodile bit into his leg and pulled him under the water. This was the end of Captain James Hook.


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[Assistant] One of the most violent and terrible pirates in history.


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[Assistant] Chapter 8 Death Rock In the center of Neverland Island was a great lake.


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[Assistant] They would take naps on a large rock in the center of the lake. The rock was called Death Rock.


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[Assistant] And it got this name because the pirates would often tie up people with ropes and leave them on the rock. The water in the lake became high every night.


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[Assistant] And the people would be covered with water and drown. When the children swam in the lake the mermaids would always swim away.


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[Assistant] But the mermaids did not like Wendy and the boys. They only liked Peter Pan.


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[Assistant] He often swam over to them and chatted with them.


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[Assistant] One day a mermaid gave him her comb that she used for her long hair. He later gave it to Wendy.


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[Assistant] Wendy told the boys that they had to rest on the rock for 20 minutes after eating lunch, even if they only ate a pretended meal.


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[Assistant] She would sit with them on the rock and sew their clothing.


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[Assistant] The rock was small, about the same size as the boys' beds, but the boys could all fit on it.


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[Assistant] One day, when Wendy and the boys were sitting on the rock, a sudden change happened in the lake.


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[Assistant] The sun disappeared behind thick clouds and it became so dark that Wendy could not see her sewing needle.


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[Assistant] The water became very cold and the wind stopped. Wendy heard a sound from far away. It was the sound of a large boat.


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[Assistant] Wendy was afraid and wanted to awake the sleeping boys.


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[Assistant] But she didn't want them to swim just after eating lunch, so she did not.


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[Assistant] He shouted, and the children all awoke afraid.


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[Assistant] The boys all quickly jumped into the water and swam away. The pirate ship moved closer and closer to the rock. Starkey and Smee were on it, and so was the Indian Tiger Lily.


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[Assistant] Smee had caught her as she was climbing onto their ship, with a knife in her mouth.


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[Assistant] They tied her up with rope and threw her down onto death rock.


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[Assistant] Peter and Wendy swam under the pirate ship so that no one could see them.


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[Assistant] Wendy felt a great pity for the Indian girl and did not want to see her die.


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[Assistant] Peter felt angry because the pirates did not fight fairly.


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[Assistant] Many pirates had fought against just Tiger Lily. Peter planned to save Tiger Lily.


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[Assistant] He could have waited until the pirates left before saving her.


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[Assistant] But Peter never did anything the easy way. Instead, he thought of a different plan.


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[Assistant] Peter could imitate many sounds and many voices, so he imitated Captain Hook's voice.


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[Assistant] Said Peter, imitating Hook's voice. Free? Smee cried, feeling very shocked.


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[Assistant] And cut the ropes that were around Tiger Lily's hands and feet. She quickly jumped into the lake and disappeared.


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[Assistant] Wendy thought Peter's clever trick was very wonderful. But before she could praise him, they heard the real voice of Captain Hook coming from over the lake.


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[Assistant] Smee and Starkey looked out into the water and saw Captain Hook in a little boat rowing toward the ship.


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[Assistant] Peter and Wendy watched him use his iron hook to climb up the side of the boat.


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[Assistant] Hook sat down on the boat and looked sadly down at the ground.


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[Assistant] The captain stood up and pointed out into the water. Smee looked and saw a strange thing. There was a large bird's nest floating on the lake, and a large bird was sitting on it.


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[Assistant] They all smiled a long terrible smile. Suddenly Hook remembered about Tiger Lily.


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[Assistant] Shout at Hook, becoming extremely angry.


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[Assistant] The captain jumped up and stared into the dark water.


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[Assistant] Peter loved to play games, so he answered using Captain Hook's voice.


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[Assistant] I hear you. Stalky and Smee held each other in fear.


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[Assistant] The real Captain Hook tried using a gentle voice.


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[Assistant] Hook jumped into the water and swam toward Peter when he heard Peter's voice.


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[Assistant] Said the lost boys from many places around the lake. They all began swimming toward the ship. The battle was fast and violent. John attacked first. He climbed bravely onto the pirate ship, grasped Starkey, and pulled away his sword. He then jumped back into the water. Starkey jumped after him, and the boat, with no men to watch it,


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[Assistant] began to float away slowly. In a different part of the lake, Smee attacked toodles with his corkscrew.


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[Assistant] But before he could get toodles, Curly hurt him with his knife.


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[Assistant] Captain Hook and Peter Pan fought each other on Death Rock.


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[Assistant] They had not planned to do this, but they had both climbed onto the rock from different sides and then fell down on the wet rock top.


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[Assistant] While trying to stop themselves from falling into the water, they grasped each other's arms.


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[Assistant] Peter pulled the knife from Captain Hook's belt and was about to push it into the pirate's chest when he stopped.


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[Assistant] He realized that he was higher on the rock than Hook and that it wouldn't be a fair fight. So,


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[Assistant] He grasped the pirate's arm and pulled him up higher. Suddenly Hook's iron hand attacked him. Hook didn't think that fair fighting was important. Certainly not like Peter did. As they were fighting, Captain Hook heard a sound. Tick, tick, tick, tick.


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[Assistant] He instantly turned white with fear and swam wildly toward the pirate ship.


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[Assistant] The crocodile was following closely behind him.


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[Assistant] Perseus left the cave and flew straight to the island of the Gorgons. He searched the island for Medusa and found her sleeping next to her two sisters.


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[Assistant] They were truly as horrible as Perseus had been told.


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[Assistant] Their bodies were not pink like humans, but green like a snake.


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[Assistant] Their hair, which was all snakes, seemed to fight with itself, and the air was thick with their terrible smell.


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[Assistant] Very quietly, Perseus walked up to Medusa's sleeping body, pulled out his sword, and prepared to cut off her head. Just then, her snake hair woke up and hissed at him.


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[Assistant] The three Gorgons awoke and Perseus quickly turned around so that he would not see Medusa's eyes and be turned into stone.


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[Assistant] The horrible monsters jumped at Perseus, but he avoided their terrible arms with his quick steps. He used the inside of his shield, which was as clear as a mirror, to watch out for the Gorgons as he ran into a forest nearby.


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[Assistant] The three women carried bows and arrows and hunted him in the woods.


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[Assistant] When Medusa noticed his face in the shield, she thought it was him and jumped at it.


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[Assistant] Just then, Perseus came up behind her and with one strong movement of his arms, cut off her head.


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[Assistant] Perseus knew that Medusa's head was still very dangerous and did not look down at it.


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[Assistant] Instead, he used his shield as a mirror, reached down behind him, picked up the head, and put it into his bag. He then closed his bag and flew off the island.


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[Assistant] Mr. Pontellier walked back with Madame Lebrun and found Edna resting outside.


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[Assistant] He asked Edna said nothing.


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[Assistant] Mr. Pontellier asked, putting his face near hers. Yes, she answered, looking at him, without any sign that she was sleepy.


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[Assistant] He then entered the cottage and, after a few minutes had passed, called to her to come inside. I'll come in a little later, she replied.


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[Assistant] Returning to the door and sticking his head outside, he asked,


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[Assistant] She could hear him walking about the inside of the cottage He was clearly upset.


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[Assistant] Usually, she would have done what he asked her to.


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[Assistant] She did not often think about whether she should or should not. It was simply her habit to do as he asked.


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[Assistant] He asked her, very gently, No thanks, I'm quite comfortable out here.


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[Assistant] She felt that she had never had this experience with her husband before. This was something new. She was resisting him, fighting him.


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[Assistant] And it was something that she could not stop herself from doing.


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[Assistant] The feeling was too strong inside of her to stop it.


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[Assistant] Leance, I plan to stay out here. You go on and go to bed yourself. Stop yelling at me. The next time you do, I'll not listen, she said. He did not go to bed, however. Instead,


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[Assistant] Put on some warmer clothing and poured himself another glass of wine. Once again,


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[Assistant] Edna refused to drink and he smoked a few more cigars.


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[Assistant] The feeling that the ghost had put over Edna was beginning to leave her.


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[Assistant] She was becoming more and more aware of her real life now. It suddenly made her very tired.


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[Assistant] She had no more strength to fight any longer. That was the quietest time of the night


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[Assistant] The time when everything seems to become silent, waiting for the sun to arise once again. Edna got up from the hammock.


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[Assistant] Mrs. Pontellier had a pair of bright eyes, which were yellowish brown, a similar color to her hair.


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[Assistant] She could move them quickly and look at something in a way.


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[Assistant] Which made it seem that she was thinking very hard.


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[Assistant] Her eyebrows had a darker color than her hair. They were straight and full, making her eyes look even deeper.


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[Assistant] Handsome is a better word to describe her than beautiful.


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[Assistant] She had a charming nature and people found her easy to talk with. Without much money to buy cigars, Robert often rolled his own cigarettes. He was doing so now.


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[Assistant] Mr. Pontellier had given him a cigar earlier in the day, but he wanted to smoke it after dinner.


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[Assistant] His appearance was a little similar to Mrs. Pontellier's. They had a similar skin color.


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[Assistant] They couldn't stop chatting about everything that was happening on the little island. They talked about their experience in the water. It had, once again, become interesting to them.


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[Assistant] About the people who had gone to church earlier that morning.


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[Assistant] About the children who were playing croquet.


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[Assistant] And the two Faraval girls who they could hear still playing piano. They also talked about themselves.


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[Assistant] Robert told her that he wanted to go to Mexico. In fact, he had always wanted to go, but for some reason he could not. In the meantime, he worked for a company in New Orleans.


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[Assistant] Where his ability to speak French and Spanish was considered very useful.


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[Assistant] He was at Grand Isle with his mother for the holiday.


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[Assistant] The house had once been a summer home for the LeBrun family. Now however,


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[Assistant] It had been turned into a vacation spot for the wealthy residents of New Orleans French Quarter.


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[Assistant] So that more of them could come and enjoy the island.


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[Assistant] Many small cottages were built around the house.


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[Assistant] All of this provided Madame Le Brun with enough money to live a very easy and comfortable life.


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[Assistant] Mrs. Pontellier started to talk about her father's farm and her childhood in Kentucky.


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[Assistant] She told Robert about a letter she had just received from her sister, who was going to get married.


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[Assistant] It was already time for her to change clothing for supper.


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[Assistant] It seems like Leonce's pool game is going well. She said, while preparing to leave.


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[Assistant] Robert had not thought Mr. Pontellier would return.


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[Assistant] Robert walked over to where the croquet players were. He played with the Pontellier boys, who liked him very much.


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[Assistant] Jason ordered his men to stop at the next island they found to repair the ship.


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[Assistant] After landing on a small island, everyone set out to find food and fresh water.


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[Assistant] Hercules and his good friend Hylus went into the forest to cut down trees to get wood to fix the Argo.


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[Assistant] Though the island did not have any people on it, the two men thought that they heard singing. The two men went deeper and deeper into the forest, searching for tall and strong trees to cut down. As they walked, the sound of singing grew louder and louder. It was beautiful. Hercules warned Hylus to be careful.


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[Assistant] There are many powerful ghosts in this world, he said.


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[Assistant] Still, Hylus was curious about the singing and wanted to find out where it was coming from.


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[Assistant] While Hercules was cutting down a tree, Hylus wandered deeper into the forest until he found a pool of water.


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[Assistant] He listened closely and it seemed that the singing was coming from deep within the water.


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[Assistant] Bending down near the edge of the pool, Hylas stared down into the water.


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[Assistant] The sound of singing grew stronger and he saw the faces of three beautiful women rise up under the water.


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[Assistant] Hylas felt like he was in a dream and reached his hand into the water to touch the beautiful faces. The women put out their hands and held his and sang a soft song that made Hylas feel happy and sleepy.


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[Assistant] Slowly, they pulled Hylas down into the water.


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[Assistant] Hercules had heard the singing change and had run to find his friend.


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[Assistant] He arrived at the pool just in time to see Aheiles' feet sink below the water.


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[Assistant] Hercules jumped into the pool and searched for his friend, but neither Hylus nor the women could be found.


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[Assistant] For two days Hercules waited by the pool for his friend.


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[Assistant] Finally, he returned to the Argo and told the other men the sad, strange story.


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[Assistant] The mad had a funeral for Hylas and then left the strange island.


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[Assistant] You were still quite near. I had my eye on you the whole time.


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[Assistant] An old ghost will come from out of the sea and look for the best human to join him for a short time in the mysterious world in which he lives.


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[Assistant] He comes at twelve o'clock at night, and only if the moon is bright.


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[Assistant] Up until this year, he has never found anyone who was good enough. But this year he has chosen you.


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[Assistant] And it's possible he may never remove this wonderful feeling you now have.


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[Assistant] In the future, you may find that being with humans is quite boring and unpleasant.


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[Assistant] Oh, but it's dirty. Your kids must have been playing with it.


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[Assistant] Do you realize how late it is now? Will you stay out here for a long time?


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[Assistant] Am I to wait for Mr. Pontellier with you?


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[Assistant] Why do you bring so much emotion to this relationship?


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[Assistant] I won't bother to give you an excuse for not seeing you.


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[Assistant] Just assume that I've tried several times, but never found you home.


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[Assistant] It's like you want me to show you where I've been hurt just so that you can look at it and nothing more.


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[Assistant] I've been trying not to love you ever since we separated last summer.


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[Assistant] But you were all that I could think about while I was away.


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[Assistant] And it hurt me to think about how impossible it was to have you because you are married.


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[Assistant] That kind of thing has happened to other people before. I came back fully intending to pursue you.


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[Assistant] Because I realized how wrong it would have been for me to do that. Even if you wanted me to, it still would have been wrong.


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[Assistant] Please, stay. Don't leave me now.


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[Assistant] Ha ha ha, Madame Ratignoli is jealous.


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[Assistant] Maybe I want someone to be serious with me for once.


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[Assistant] Well, it's not fun hearing such things from a woman.


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[Assistant] However, I think it's more possible that I will take myself seriously before she does. But I appreciate your suggestion.


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[Assistant] No, she's at the beach. What's the matter?