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[Assistant] Every year the rubber harvest in Cambodia grows by 6 to 7 percent. And end to this growth is not in sight.


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[Assistant] On the edge of the plantation, the next field is being burned off to clear the vegetation and make space for even more rubber trees. For even more rubber for car tires.


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[Assistant] In 2018, the automotive supplier had a turnover of 44.4 billion euros. No one here wants to be interviewed.


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[Assistant] But they do at least give a written reply to some of our questions.


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[Assistant] Continental uses natural commodities conscientiously and develops, promotes, and implements sustainable and responsible sourcing of natural rubber across the value chain. The statement continues.


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[Assistant] Continental is aware of its responsibility and aims to make an active and responsible contribution to promoting sustainably produced natural rubber.


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[Assistant] Continental also refers to its code of conduct. Since 2011, all our suppliers have had to agree to abide by our business partner code of conduct.


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[Assistant] To the German Rubber Manufacturers Association, the WDK. Many tire manufacturers are among its members. It's headquartered in a villa in the city center.


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[Assistant] Boris Engelhardt is WDK's managing director. The lobby group also has a code of conduct. It sounds good at first.


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[Assistant] The WDK and its members recognize their social responsibility to their own company, to customers and suppliers, to the environment and to society.


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[Assistant] Like Continental, the other market leaders, Bridgestone and Michelin, also don't want to give us an interview. We try our luck in Hanau, near Frankfurt.


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[Assistant] Where the world's third biggest tire manufacturer is based. Goodyear. But we have no success here. Goodyear simply responds with a written statement.


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[Assistant] Goodyear doesn't buy natural rubber from Cambodia. We source less than 5% of our global requirements for natural rubber from Thailand.


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[Assistant] We offer retread tires for commercial vehicles and aircraft, reducing the use of natural rubber.


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[Assistant] But why does Goodyear retread the tires of commercial vehicles and planes and not the tires of private cars, which make up the vast majority of vehicles?


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[Assistant] We visit Germany's only big retreader for automobiles, Reifen Hinghaus. Here, worn down treads of tires are peeled off and replaced with new ones.


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[Assistant] In Germany, there's no legal obligation to recycle tires.


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[Assistant] Obeke Julius has to source most of the old tires that he needs from France or Spain.


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[Assistant] Of course, the retreading process also requires fresh rubber, but about 70 to 80 percent less than is needed to produce new tires.


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[Assistant] Tire retreads have an image problem, as Obica Julius knows all too well.


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[Assistant] We would also be interested in finding out why police in the city of Recklinghausen decided against retread tires. And here too, our request for an interview was declined. Instead, they issue a written statement.


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[Assistant] But Recklinghausen police don't say why a retread wouldn't be up to the job.


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[Assistant] We travel to the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein to one of Germany's few independent tire testing laboratories. We have an appointment with an expert, Peter Kleingar.


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[Assistant] I decided to go for retreads this time, and I wonder how my workshop will respond. First of all, the tires have to be balanced.


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[Assistant] This time I've opted for sustainability. I'm also confident they're safe too.


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[Assistant] I'm breaking even. I don't like my numbers. But bowls coming up. Brad, we're making a little comeback here. So let's get to today's bet. The first one. Guardians favored by one and a half runs over Detroit. Bieber on the bump.


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[Assistant] I like the guy a lot. Okay, what's the third one? Will the Celtics close out the heat tonight? They're favored by eight and a half points at home. Jay's the loner on this.


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[Assistant] I'm not a scorekeeper. Can we get his drops? According to Pro Football Focus, he played 13 games between two teams. According to Pro Football Focus, two drops.


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[Assistant] Apply online at precast.com slash careers to learn more.


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[Assistant] Contact us today to learn how you can get great healthcare benefits that your employees will love and save money too.


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[Assistant] So, I say this all with this caveat. Alright. Okay.


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[Assistant] I think me and Daquel are friends now. He watched the whole show last week. He texted us. He called me after the show. He wanted to know the inside joke we were going on, which we're not going to say. So I have a theory that I've always wanted to present to an NFL player. So Daquel, I need your opinion on this. Then I'll tell you my top five cause they're related. I have a theory.


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[Assistant] That all defensive players play defense because they weren't necessarily


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[Assistant] Because there are some elite, cool quarterbacks, Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson, the list goes on and on. But for every one of those, there's a Daniel Jones and there's an Eli Manning.


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[Assistant] Uh, Johnny Stanton played Dungeon and Dragons yesterday. Oh yes.


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[Assistant] Earlier, before we started, we actually went one-on-one with Johnny Stanton for 60 seconds on some non-football related questions. And we've been joking about playing this for three weeks. Hey Steve, let's play 108 and react.


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[Assistant] Why? Because I had a wife who needed killing, and you had a husband who took care of it?


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[Assistant] Why don't you ask the police for your husband? He seemed to know the password.


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[Assistant] You got the wrong man. I was her husband. I-I strangled her. It all came back to me just now. I'd forgotten. Because I was drunk when it happened. Because I wanted to forget. But tonight I relived it. You gotta believe me, doctor.


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[Assistant] You ask him to call Mrs. Bennett, Mrs. Kirk Bennett. Hollywood 7-1246.


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[Assistant] Yeah? Not all pussy. A lot of pussy's gross.


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[Assistant] That's correct. Hey, so as a young black man, what did that song, Kick Push by Lupe Fiasco, do for you?


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[Assistant] So how did you feel about like ice cream, BBC, that whole wave?


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[Assistant] No man, Antoine was, I mean, Antoine was that nigga, but Terry was like...


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[Assistant] God to me. Yeah, shout out Terry man. Everything bro, him on bam. I got no more respect for Terry, I wanna work with Terry.


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[Assistant] Hey, fun fact right here. Terry Kennedy is shouted out on Drake's So Far Gone album at the end. What'd he say? He said shout out Terry Kennedy. Terry Kennedy. Where? Yes. Look that up. I can't believe I missed that. Yeah, shout out Terry Kennedy. I've never even heard that album. Is Drake hurt? Yo, don't, no Drake Slender, bro. Fuck Drake, fuck Drake.


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[Assistant] Who do I look up to? Who do I look up to? Who do I look up to? Who do I look up to? Who do I look up to?


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[Assistant] She got too many followers, like yo, shout out all the public figures out there. Don't do shit, we got a fat ass and some titties. Wait, but like, how many followers?


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[Assistant] Hey, that porn star last night did not know who the fuck Kendrick Lamar was. Who? Which porn star? In the video, she's like, who is this?


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[Assistant] The platform is there. If you're using their platform, you're not truly giving it to the people. You're giving it through them, nigga.


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[Assistant] Oh, no, no, no. What like, oh. YMCMB. No, no, no. Like my favorite, like what the biggest group, like, I'm saying Atlantic. No, I mean like I think I fuck with Drake and them heavy.


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[Assistant] I mean it makes us go harder though. At the end of the day they gonna take the check over shining light. You know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] Yeah. And you get now, we're in the age of co-sign, my nigga.


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[Assistant] You get a nice enough cosign, you get an OVO one, a good music one, a note jumper one, like we in the age of the cosign. That's a good idea.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, I've seen a picture of him. I think she, I know he was doing stuff with like dipset and shit like that. Yeah, but I also, yeah, he was interned. I think you're interned for Kara Civil too. Oh, okay. Yeah, which is pretty dope.


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[Assistant] You can definitely do more than one thing. You can be a renaissance man right now. Like, people really won't hold you. If you convince them enough, like, yea, actually I can do this a little bit and people are fucking with it, you can do whatever the fuck you want.


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[Assistant] Do you get supreme? Do you get pussy from working at supreme? You get resell and pussy.


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[Assistant] Glorious moment ever. I see you two niggas and like, ayyy, we in here, bitch.


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[Assistant] Alright, most of y'all may, alright, I've been seeing a lot of comments, let's start off with that. Yeah. The comments, they always say like, uh, who's this new guy in my life? Yes, I am Adam Shooter.


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[Assistant] I make music and shit, but you know what I'm saying. I'm really, I'm not really out there doing it yet, cause I'm still working on a lot of shit that I'm really like focused on.


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[Assistant] Even when he introduced me to all his homies and shit, like everything was always so crispy, everything was A1, so I rock with that type of shit, you feel me? Niggas look out for you, you look out for them.


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[Assistant] They say Alex is to be tried and shot. They say that you'll sentence him. It'll be your words that send him out.


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[Assistant] Yo. That's the snow off the roof. I have no man anymore to push it down.


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[Assistant] No? What about your own girls after the last war? A man could choose among them for an egg or a slice of bread. Do you expect me for nothing?


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[Assistant] When you love something, never lose it. Understand little one? You must keep it safe, close to your heart.


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[Assistant] Only your constant fretting over my state of affairs. I've no time to play games with you.


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[Assistant] It's clear. You're worried for the girl.


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[Assistant] It seems your little friend is gone forever.


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[Assistant] Come now, with VIPs. You know, nothing says you've made it in life like a private helicopter.


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[Assistant] Jean. If you've made it this far, that should be enough. You're back to your old self.


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[Assistant] This is where we finish what was started so long ago.


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[Assistant] The Lumen Sages!


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[Assistant] They were our counterbalance as overseers.


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[Assistant] Between us, there was a law that was never to be broken.


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[Assistant] It stated that the intersection of light and dark would bring calamity to this earth.


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[Assistant] The disaster this caused sent the clans into a spiral of chaos that continues to be felt to this day.


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[Assistant] You. You did it.


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[Assistant] It is our charge as witches to protect the treasures of the clan by any means necessary.


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[Assistant] Even if it means burning every inch of this island to a crisp.


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[Assistant] Ceresa. Payonetta. Time is of the essence. This can wait no longer.


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[Assistant] We fought for this stone. And because of it, everyone died.


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[Assistant] The Desire of Ages, Chapter 47. Ministry.


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[Assistant] Who were already searching far and near for Jesus.


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[Assistant] And even the nine apostles would not understand the scene until after Christ had risen from the dead. How slow of comprehension.


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[Assistant] is seen in the fact that notwithstanding all that Christ had said of what was before him,


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[Assistant] They queried among themselves what the rising from the dead should mean.


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[Assistant] They asked no explanation from Jesus. His words in regard to the future had filled them with sorrow.


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[Assistant] They sought no further revelation concerning that which they were feigned to believe might never come to pass.


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[Assistant] As the people on the plane caught sight of Jesus, they ran to meet him.


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[Assistant] Greeting him with expressions of reverence and joy yet his quick eye discerned that they were in great perplexity. The disciples appeared troubled.


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[Assistant] A circumstance had just occurred that had caused them bitter disappointment and humiliation.


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[Assistant] While they were waiting at the foot of the mountain, a father had brought to them his son to be delivered from a dumb spirit that tormented him.


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[Assistant] Authority over unclean spirits to cast them out had been conferred on the disciples when Jesus sent out the Twelve to preach through Galilee.


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[Assistant] Now, in the name of Christ, they commanded the torturing spirit to leave his victim.


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[Assistant] The disciples, unable to account for their defeat,


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[Assistant] felt that they were bringing dishonor upon themselves and their master.


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[Assistant] And in the crowd there were scribes who made the most of this opportunity to humiliate them.


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[Assistant] Pressing around the disciples, they plied them with questions, seeking to prove that they and their master were deceivers.


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[Assistant] Jesus and the three disciples were seen approaching and with a quick revulsion of feeling the people turned to meet them. The night of communion with the heavenly glory.


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[Assistant] The saviour came to the scene of conflict and, fixing his gaze upon the scribes, inquired, What question ye with them?


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[Assistant] But the voice is so bold and defiant before we're now silent.


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[Assistant] I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit, and whithersoever he taketh him, he teareth him.


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[Assistant] The Kavillian scribes, the perplexed disciples, he read the unbelief in every heart.


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[Assistant] And in a voice filled with sorrow, he exclaimed, oh, faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? The boy was brought.


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[Assistant] And as the Savior's eyes fell upon him, the evil spirit cast him to the ground in convulsions of agony.


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[Assistant] Seeking to hold his victim under his control. Angels of light.


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[Assistant] And the host of evil angels unseen were pressing near to behold the conflict. For a moment.


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[Assistant] The father told the story of long years of suffering and then as if he could endure no more exclaimed, if thou canst do anything, have compassion on us and help us. If thou canst, even now.


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[Assistant] With a burst of tears, realizing his own weakness.


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[Assistant] Jesus turns to the suffering one and says,


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[Assistant] The multitude are amazed at the mighty power of God while the scribes defeated and crestfallen turn sullenly away.


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[Assistant] If thou canst do anything, have compassion on us and help us. How many a sin burdened soul has echoed that prayer, and to all, the pity in Saviour's answer is, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. It is faith


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[Assistant] But many feel that they lack faith and therefore they remain away from Christ.


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[Assistant] Let these souls in their helpless unworthiness cast themselves upon the mercy of their compassionate savior. Look not to self, but to Christ.


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[Assistant] He who healed the sick and cast out demons when he walked among men is the same mighty Redeemer today. Faith comes by the word of God, then grasp his promise.


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[Assistant] You can never perish while you do this. Never.


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[Assistant] In a brief space of time, the favored disciples have beheld the extreme of glory and of humiliation.


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[Assistant] They have seen humanity as transfigured into the image of God and as debased into the likeness of Satan.


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[Assistant] And has been proclaimed the son of God by the voice of the radiant glory.


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[Assistant] They have seen Jesus descend to meet the most distressing and revolting spectacle.


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[Assistant] The maniac boy with distorted countenance gnashing his teeth in spasms of agony that no human power could relieve.


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[Assistant] The victim of Satan from the earth where he is wallowing and in health of mind and body restores him to his father and his home. It was an object lesson of redemption. The divine one from the father's glory stooping to save the last. It represented also the disciples mission.


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[Assistant] Not alone upon the mountain top with Jesus in hours of spiritual illumination is the life of Christ's servants to be spent. There is a work for them down in the plain.


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[Assistant] Souls whom Satan has enslaved are waiting for the word of faith and prayer to set them free. The nine disciples were yet pondering upon the bitter fact of their own failure. And when Jesus was once more alone with them, they questioned, why could not we cast him out? Jesus answered them, because of your unbelief. For verily I say unto you,


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[Assistant] You shall say unto this mountain, remove hence to yonder place and it shall remove and nothing shall be impossible to you.


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[Assistant] Their unbelief that shut them out from deeper sympathy with Christ and the carelessness with which they regarded the sacred work committed to them had caused their failure in the conflict with the powers of darkness.


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[Assistant] Instead of strengthening their faith by prayer and meditation on the words of Christ they have been dwelling on their discouragements and personal grievances.


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[Assistant] In order to succeed in such a conflict they must come to the work in a different spirit. Their faith must be strengthened.


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[Assistant] Faith that leads to entire dependence upon God and unreserved consecration to His work.


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[Assistant] Can alone avail to bring men the Holy Spirit's aid in the battle against principalities and powers, the rulers of the darkness of this world and wicked spirits in high places.


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[Assistant] If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, said Jesus,


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[Assistant] You shall say unto this mountain, remove hence to yonder place and it shall remove. Though the grain of mustard seed is so small.


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[Assistant] It contains that same mysterious life principle which produces growth in the loftiest tree.


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[Assistant] The obstacles that are piled by Satan across your path.


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[Assistant] Today is the day of the pig, which is a good day. That's why we need to start clearing now. We want to start on a good day.


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[Assistant] Then we'll come back in about two or three days time to start clearing properly.


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[Assistant] I live in Phongsalee, where there are many different ethnic groups. I'm not just limited to the Acha.


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[Assistant] They will move to town, I believe, but I'm not sure if my brothers will go too.


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[Assistant] The governor said,


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[Assistant] I'll do my best to get a high score on the leaving exam so that I can go to university.


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[Assistant] I'd like it though, but who knows? In the end, my financial situation will determine whether I can go to university or not.


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[Assistant] She was sick all the next day and on Saturday went home, quite tired of her fortnight's fun. I'm glad to be home, she said to her mother and Joe.


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[Assistant] After telling them how she was dressed up like a doll, drank too much wine, and was ill afterwards. She had laughed while telling them the story, but her face still looked worried at the end.


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[Assistant] Said Mrs. March, smoothing Meg's cheek, which suddenly became rose-red. Yes, Meg said slowly.


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[Assistant] I hate people saying and thinking awful things about us and Lori. Then she told them the gossip she had heard. What rubbish! said Joe.


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[Assistant] How stupid to think that Mother has plans and that we are kind to Laurie because he is rich and may marry one of us one day. He'll laugh when I tell him. No, Joe, said her mother. You must never repeat wicked gossip.


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[Assistant] Do you have plans, Mother? asked Meg. All mothers do, dear, said Mrs. March.


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[Assistant] But my plans are different from Mrs. Moffat's, I suspect. I want my daughters to be loved. And I want people to think well of them. I want them to marry well.


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[Assistant] But not to marry rich men just because they are rich.


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[Assistant] I'd rather you were poor men's wives, if that meant you had happy, peaceful lives.


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[Assistant] But your father and I believe that we'll always be proud of our daughters, whether they are married or single.


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[Assistant] You will, you will, said Meg and Joe, together.


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[Assistant] I felt absolutely hideous in the morning. I hadn't slept well. My arm burned and my head ached. It didn't help my outlook that Edward's face was smooth and remote as he kissed my forehead quickly and ducked out my window.


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[Assistant] I was afraid of the time I'd spent unconscious, afraid that he might have been thinking about right and wrong again while he watched me sleep. The anxiety seemed to ratchet up the intensity of the pounding in my head.


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[Assistant] Edward was waiting for me at school as usual, but his face was still wrong. There was something buried in his eyes that I couldn't be sure of and it scared me. I didn't want to bring up last night, but I wasn't sure if avoiding the subject would be worse. He opened my door for me. How do you feel?


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[Assistant] Perfect, I lied, cringing at the sound of the slamming door echoed in my head.


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[Assistant] We walked in silence, he shortening his stride to match mine. There were so many questions I wanted to ask, but most of those questions would have to wait, because they were for Alice. How was Asper- Jasper this morning?


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[Assistant] What had they said when I was gone? What had Rosalie said? And most importantly, what could she see happening now in her strange, imperfect visions of the future?


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[Assistant] Could she guess what Edward was thinking? Why he was so gloomy?


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[Assistant] She didn't s- she didn't have to keep pace with a sloth like me, but she wasn't at the table waiting with a tray of food she wouldn't eat.


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[Assistant] Edward didn't say anything about her absence. I wondered to myself if her class was running late, until I saw Connor and Ben, who were in her fourth hour French class.


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[Assistant] Where's Alice? I asked Edward anxiously. He looked at the granola bar he was slowly pulverizing between his fingertips while I answered. She's with Jasper. Is he okay?


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[Assistant] He's gone away for a while. What? Where? Edward shrugged, nowhere in particular.


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[Assistant] And Alice too, I said with quiet desperation. Of course, if Jasper needed her, she would go.


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[Assistant] Yes, she'll be gone for a while. She was trying to convince him to go to Denali.


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[Assistant] Denali was where the one other band of unique vampires, good ones like the Colons, lived. Tanya and her family. I'd heard of them now and again. Edward had run to them last winter when my arrival had made forks difficult for him.


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[Assistant] Laurent, the most civilized member of James Little Coven, had gone there rather than siding with James against the Colons. It made sense for Alice to encourage Jasper to go there.


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[Assistant] I swallowed, trying to dislodge the sudden lump in my throat. The guilt made my head bow, and my shoulders slump.


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[Assistant] I'd run them out of their home, just like Rosalie and Emmett. I was a plague. Is your arm bothering you? He asked solicit-slicit-sly.


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[Assistant] Who cares about my stupid arm? I muttered in disgust. He didn't answer, and I put my head down on the table. By the end of the day, the silence was becoming ridiculous. I didn't want to be the one to break it, but apparently that was my only choice, if I ever wanted him to talk to me again.


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[Assistant] You'll come over later tonight? I asked as he walked me silently to my truck. He always came over. Later? It pleased me that he seemed surprised. I have to work. I had to trace Miss Newton to get yesterday off.


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[Assistant] Oh, he murmured. So you'll come over when I'm home, though, right? I hated that I felt suddenly unsure about this.


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[Assistant] If you want me to, I always want you to. I reminded him, with perhaps a little more intensity than the conversation required. I expected he would laugh or smile or react somehow to my words. Alright then, he said it indifferently.


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[Assistant] He kissed my forehead again before he shut the door on me then he turned his back and loped gracefully toward his car. I was able to drive out of the parking lot before the panic really hit.


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[Assistant] That didn't matter. I'd still see Alice at school. She would have to come back for school right? And she was at my place all the time anyway. She wouldn't want to hurt Charlie's feelings by staying away.


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[Assistant] No doubt I would also run into Carlisle with regular- regularity.


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[Assistant] In the emergency room. After all, what had happened last night was nothing. Nothing had happened. So I fell down. That was the story of my life. Compared to last spring, it seemed especially unimportant.


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[Assistant] James had left me broken and nearly dead from loss of blood, and yet Edward had handled the interminable weeks in the hospital much better than this. Was it because this time it wasn't an enemy he'd had to protect me from? Because it was his brother?


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[Assistant] Maybe it would be better if he took me away rather than his family being scattered. I grew slightly less depressed as I considered all the uninterrupted alone time. If he could just last through the school year, Charlie wouldn't be able to object.


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[Assistant] He could go, we could go away to college, or pretend that's what we were doing, like Rosalie and Emmett this year. Surely Edward could wait a year. What was a year to an immortal? It didn't seem like that much to me.


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[Assistant] I was able to talk myself into enough composure to handle getting out of the truck and walking to the store.


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[Assistant] Mike Newton had beaten me here today, and he smiled and waved when I came in. I grabbed my vest, nodding vaguely in his direction. I was still imagining pleasant scenarios that consisted of me running away with Edward to various exotic locales.


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[Assistant] Mike interrupted my fantasy. How was your birthday? Uh, I mumbled I'm glad it's over. Mike looked at me from the corners of his eyes like I was crazy.


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[Assistant] Work dragged. I wanted to see Edward again, praying that he would be past the worst of this. Whatever it was exactly, by the time I saw him again. It's nothing, I told myself over and over again. Everything will go back to normal.


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[Assistant] The relief I felt when I turned into my street and saw Edward Silvercar parked in front of my house was an overwhelming, heady thing, and it bothered me deeply that it should be that way.


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[Assistant] I hurried through the front door, calling out before I was completely inside. Dad? Edward? As I spoke, I could hear the distinctive theme music from ESPN's Sports Center coming from the living room. In here, Charlie called. I hung my raincoat on its peg and hurried around the corner.


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[Assistant] Edward was in the armchair, my father on the sofa. Bold had their eyes trained on the TV. The focus was normal for my father, not so much for Edward. Hi, I said weekly. Hey Bella, my father answered, eyes never moving.


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[Assistant] Neither one seemed to notice. I could feel something, panic maybe, building up in my chest. I escaped the kitchen, the pizza held no interest for me. I sat in my chair, pulled my knees up, and wrapped my arms around them.


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[Assistant] The sounds of male bonding and banter continued from the TV set.


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[Assistant] I tried to get control of myself, to reason with myself. What's the worst that can happen? I flinched. That was definitely the wrong question to ask. I was having a hard time breathing right. Okay, I thought again. What's the worst I can live through? I didn't like that question so much either. But I thought through the possibilities I'd considered today.


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[Assistant] Staying away from Edward's family. Of course, he wouldn't expect Alice to be a part of that. But if Jasper was off-limits, that would lessen the time I could have with her. I nodded to myself. I could live with that.


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[Assistant] Or going away. Maybe he wouldn't want to wait till the end of the school year. Maybe it would have to be now. In front of me on the table, my presents from Charlie and Renee were where I had left them. The camera I hadn't had the chance to use the colons sitting beside the album.


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[Assistant] I touched the pretty cover of the scrapbook my mother had given me, and sighed, thinking of Renee.


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[Assistant] Somehow, living without her for as long as I had did not make the idea of a more permanent separation easier. And Charlie would be left alone. Here, abandoned. They would be so hurt.


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[Assistant] We'd come back, right? We'd visit, of course, wouldn't we? I couldn't be certain about that answer.


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[Assistant] I leaned my cheek against my knee, staring at the physical tokens of my parents' love.


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[Assistant] I'd known this path I'd chosen was going to be hard, and after all, I was thinking about the worst case scenario. The very worst I could live through. I touched the scrap book again, flipping the front cover over. The little metal corners were already in place to hold the first picture.


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[Assistant] It wasn't a half bad idea to make some record of my life here. I felt a strange urge to get started. Maybe I didn't have that long left in forks.


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[Assistant] I toyed with the wrist strap on the camera, wondering about the first picture on the roll.


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[Assistant] Could it possibly turn out anything close to the original? I doubted it, but he didn't seem worried that it would be blank. I chuckled to myself thinking of his carefree laughter last night.


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[Assistant] The chuckle died away. So much had changed, and so abruptly. It made me feel a little bit dizzy, like I was standing on an edge, a precipice, somewhere much too high.


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[Assistant] There was a bed, rather than a crib, but she would recognize the quilt draped untidily over the top. It had been a gift from Gran.


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[Assistant] There wasn't much else I could do tonight. It was too dark outside, and the feeling was growing stronger. It was almost a compulsion now. I would record everything about Forks before I had to leave it.


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[Assistant] Change was coming, I could feel it. It wasn't a pleasant prospect, but when life was perfect the way it was, not when life was perfect the way it was.


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[Assistant] I took my time coming back down the stairs, camera in hand, trying to ignore the butterflies in my stomach, as I thought of the strange distance I didn't want to see in Edward's eyes.


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[Assistant] I was sure there was no chance that I had caught Edward by surprise, but he didn't look up. I felt a brief shiver as if something icy twisted my stomach. I ignored that and took the picture. They both looked at me then, Charlie frowned. Edward's face was empty, expressionless.


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[Assistant] What are you doing Bella? Charlie complained. Oh come on, I pretended to smile as I went to sit on the floor in front of the sofa where Charlie lounged.


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[Assistant] You know mom will be calling soon to ask if I'm using my presence. I have to get to work before she can get her feelings hurt.


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[Assistant] Why are you taking pictures of me though? He grumbled. Because you are so handsome, I replied, keeping it light. And because since you bought the camera, you are obligated to be one of my subjects. He mumbled something unintelligible.


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[Assistant] Hey Edward, I said with admirable indifference, take one of me and my dad together. I threw the camera toward him, carefully avoiding his eyes and knelt beside the arm of the sofa where Charlie's face was. Charlie sighed.


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[Assistant] You need to smile, Bella," Edward murmured. I did my best and the camera flashed.


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[Assistant] Let me take one of you kids, Charlie suggested. I knew he was trying to shift the camera's focus from himself. Edward stood and lightly tossed him the camera.


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[Assistant] I went to stand beside Edward and the arrangement felt formal and strange to me. He put one hand lightly on my shoulder and I wrapped my arm more securely around his waist. I wanted to look at his face, but I was afraid to.


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[Assistant] Smile, Bella, Charlie reminded me again. I took a deep breath and smiled. The flash blinded me. Enough pictures for tonight, Charlie said then, shoving the camera into a crevice of the sofa cushions and rolling over it. You don't have to use the whole roll now.


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[Assistant] Edward dropped his hand from my shoulder and twisted casually out of my arm. He sat back down in the armchair. I hesitated and then went to sit against the sofa again. I was suddenly so frightened that my hands were shaking. I pressed them into my stomach to hide them.


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[Assistant] Put my chin on my knees and stare at the TV screen in front of me, seeing nothing. When the show ended, I hadn't moved an inch. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Edward stand.


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[Assistant] I'd better get home, he said. Charlie didn't look up from the commercial. See ya. I got awkwardly to my feet. I was stiff from sitting so still, and followed Edward out the front door. He went straight to his car.


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[Assistant] Bella, what are you doing? Charlie asked, surprised to see me standing there alone and tripping.


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[Assistant] Nothing. I turned and trudged back to the house. It was a long night, with little in the way of rest. I got up as soon as there was a faint light outside my window. I dressed for school mechanically, waiting for the clouds to brighten. When I had eaten a bowl of cereal, I decided that it was light enough for pictures.


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[Assistant] I took one of my truck and in the front of the house, I turned and snapped a few of the forest by Charlie's house. Funny how it seemed, didn't seem sinister like it used to.


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[Assistant] I realized I would miss this. The green, the timelessness, the mystery of the woods, all of it. I put the camera in my school bag before I left. I tried to concentrate on my new project rather than the fact that Edward apparently hadn't gotten over things during the night.


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[Assistant] Along with the fear I was beginning to feel impatience. How long could this last?


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[Assistant] Edward whispered the correct answer under his breath and then went back to ignoring me.


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[Assistant] At lunch, the silence continued. I felt like I was going to start screaming at any moment, so to distract myself, I leaned across the table's invisible line and spoke to Jessica. Hey Jess, what's up Bella?


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[Assistant] Could you do me a favor? I asked, reaching into my bag. My mom wants me to get some pictures of my friends for a scrapbook. So take some pictures of everybody, okay? I handed her the camera. Sure, she said, grinning, and turned to snap a candid shot of Mike with his mouth full.


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[Assistant] A predictable picture war ensued. I watched them hand the camera around the table, giggling and flirting and complaining about being on a film. It seemed strangely childish. Maybe I wasn't, I just wasn't in the mood for normal human behavior today.


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[Assistant] Uh oh, Jessica said apologetically as she returned the camera. I think we used all your film. That's okay. I think I already got pictures of everything else I needed.


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[Assistant] After school, Edward walked me back to the parking lot in silence. I had to work again, and for once I was glad. Time with me obviously wasn't helping things. Maybe time alone would be better. I dropped my film off at the thrift way on my way to the Newtons, and then picked up the developed pictures after work.


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[Assistant] At home, I said a brief hi to Charlie, grabbed a granola bar from the kitchen, and hurried up to my room with an envelope of pictures tucked under my arm.


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[Assistant] Ridiculously, I still half expected the first print to be a blank. When I pulled it out, I gasped aloud.


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[Assistant] Edward looked just as beautiful as he did in real life, staring at me out of the picture with the warm eyes I'd missed for the past few days. It was almost uncanny that anyone could look so, so beyond description. No thousand words could equal this picture.


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[Assistant] I flipped through the rest of the stack quickly once and then laid three of them out on the bed side by side.


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[Assistant] The first was the picture of Edward in the kitchen. His warm eyes touched with tolerant amusement. The second was Edward and Charlie watching ESPN. The different in Edward's expression was severe. His eyes were careful here, reserved.


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[Assistant] The last was the picture of Edward and me standing awkwardly side by side.


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[Assistant] Edward's face was the same as the last, cold and statue-like, but that wasn't the most troubling part of this photograph. The contrast between the two of us was painful. He looked like a god. I looked very average and even for a human, almost shamefully plain.


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[Assistant] I flipped the picture over with a feeling of disgust. Instead of doing my homework I stayed up to put my pictures into the album.


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[Assistant] With a ballpoint pen, I scrawled captions under all the pictures, the names, and the dates. I got to the picture of Edward and me, and without looking at it too long, I folded it in half and stuck it under the metal tab. Edward sighed up.


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[Assistant] Edward still hadn't come over. I didn't want to admit that he was the reason I'd stayed up so late, but of course he was. I tried to remember the last time he'd stayed awake like this without an excuse, a phone


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[Assistant] It was hard to remember, even remember the reason for all this mess. My birthday already felt like the distant past. If only Alice would come back, soon, before this got any more out of hand.


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[Assistant] But I couldn't count on that. I decided that if I couldn't talk to him today, really talk, then I was going to see Carlisle tomorrow.


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[Assistant] I had to do something. After school, Edward and I were going to talk it out. I promised myself. I wasn't expecting any excuses. He walked me to my truck and I steeled myself to make my demands.


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[Assistant] Now, he asked again, opening my door for me.


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[Assistant] Sure, I kept my voice even, though I didn't like the urgency in his tone. I was just going to drop a letter for Renee in the mailbox on the way. I'll meet you there. He looked at the fat end of the rope on the passenger seat. Suddenly, he reached over and snagged it.


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[Assistant] I'll do it, he said quietly, and I'll still be you there. He smiled, my favorite crooked smile, but it was wrong. It didn't reach his eyes.


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[Assistant] Okay, I agreed, unable to smile back. He shut the door and headed toward his car. He did beat me home. He was parked in Charlie's spot when I pulled up in front of the house. That was a bad sign. He didn't plan to stay then.


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[Assistant] Come for a walk with me, he suggested in an unemotional voice, taking my hand.


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[Assistant] I didn't answer. I couldn't think of a way to protest, but I instantly knew that I wanted to.


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[Assistant] I didn't like this. This is bad. This is very bad. The voice in my head repeated again and again. But he didn't wait for an answer. He pulled me along toward the east side of the yard, where the forest encroached. I followed unwillingly, trying to think through the panic. It was what I wanted, I reminded myself.


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[Assistant] The chance to talk it all through. So why was the panic choking me? We'd gone only a few steps into the trees when he stopped.


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[Assistant] I took a deep breath too. This was an acceptable option. I thought I was prepared, but I still had to ask.


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[Assistant] Why now? Another year? Bella, it's time. How much longer could we stay in Forks after all? Carlisle can barely pass for 30, and he's claiming 33 now. We'd have to start over soon, regardless.


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[Assistant] His answer confused me. I thought the point of leaving was to let his family live in peace. Why did we have to leave if they were going?


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[Assistant] I stared at him, trying to understand what he meant. He stared back coldly. With a roll of nausea, I realized I'd misunderstood.


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[Assistant] When you say we, I whispered. I mean my family and myself. Each word separate and distinct. I shook my head back and forth mechanically, trying to clear it. He waited without any sign of impatience. It took a few minutes before I could speak.


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[Assistant] Okay, I said, I'll come with you. You can't, Bella. Where we are going, it's not the right place for you.


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[Assistant] Where you are is the right place for me. I'm no good for you, Bella. Don't be ridiculous. I wanted to sound angry but it just sounded like I was begging. You were the very best part of my life.


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[Assistant] The world is not for you. My world is not for you. He said grimly.


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[Assistant] What happened with Jasper? That was nothing, Edward, nothing. You were right, he agreed. It was exactly what was supposed to be expected.


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[Assistant] You promised. In Phoenix, you promised that you would stay. As long as that was best for you, he interrupted to correct me. No. This is about my soul, isn't it? I shouted, furious, the words exploding out of me. Somehow it still sounded like a plea. Carlisle told me about that.


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[Assistant] And I don't care, Edward, I don't care. You have my soul.


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[Assistant] You can have my soul. I don't want it without you. It's yours already." He took a deep breath and stared, unseeingly, at the ground for a long moment. His mouth twisted the tiniest bit. When he finally looked up, his eyes were different, harder, like the liquid gold had frozen solid.


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[Assistant] You don't want me? I tried out the words, confused by the way they sounded, placed in that order.


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[Assistant] No. I stared uncomprehending into his eyes. He stared back without apology. His eyes were like topaz, hard and clear and very deep. I felt like I could see into them for miles and miles, yet nowhere in their bottomless depths could I see a contradiction to the word he'd spoken.


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[Assistant] Well, that changes things. I was surprised by how calm and reasonable my voice sounded. It must be because I was so numb. I couldn't realize what he was telling me. It still didn't make any sense. He looked away into the trees as he spoke again.


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[Assistant] Of course I'll always love you, in a way, but what happened the other night made me realize that it's time for a change.


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[Assistant] Because I'm, I'm tired of pretending to be something I'm not, Bella. I am not human. He looked back, and the icy plains of his perfect face were not human. I have let this go on much too long, and I'm sorry for that.


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[Assistant] He turned his earlier words around and so I had no argument. How well I knew that I wasn't good enough for him.


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[Assistant] That's what you want. He nodded once. My whole body went numb. I couldn't feel anything below the neck.


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[Assistant] I would like to ask one favor though, if that's not too much, he said. I wonder what he saw in my face, because something flickered across his own face in response. But before I could identify it, he'd composed his features into the same serene mask


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[Assistant] Anything, I vowed, my voice faintly stronger as I watched his frozen eyes melted. The gold became liquid again, molten, burning down into mine with an intensity that was overwhelming.


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[Assistant] Don't do anything reckless or stupid, he ordered, no longer detached. Do you understand what I'm saying? I nodded helplessly. His eyes cooled, the distance returned.


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[Assistant] And I'll make you a promise in return, he said. I promise that this will be the last time you'll see me. I won't come back. I won't put you through anything like this again. You can go on with your life without any more interference from me. It will be as if I'd never existed.


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[Assistant] My knees must have started to shake because the trees were suddenly wobbling. I could hear the blood pounding faster through the normal behind my ears. His voice sounded farther away. He smiled gently.


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[Assistant] Don't worry, you are human. Your memory is no more than a sieve. Time heals all wounds for your kind.


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[Assistant] And your memories, I asked. It sounded like there was something stuck in my throat, like I was choking. Well, he hesitated for a short second. I won't forget, but my kind. We were very easily distracted. He smiled. A smile was tranquil, and it did not touch his eyes.


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[Assistant] Alice isn't coming back, I realized. I don't know how he heard me, the words made no sound, but he seemed to understand. He shook his head slowly, always watching my face. No, they are all gone. I stayed behind to tell you goodbye.


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[Assistant] She wanted to say goodbye but I convinced her that a clean break would be better for you.


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[Assistant] I was dizzy. It was hard to concentrate. His words swirled around in my head and I heard the doctor at the hospital in Phoenix last spring as he showed me the x-rays.


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[Assistant] You can see it's a clean break. His finger traced along the picture of my severed bone. That's good. It will heal more easily, more quickly.


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[Assistant] I tried to breathe normally, I tried to concentrate, to find a way out of this nightmare. Goodbye, Bella, he said in the same quiet, peaceful voice. Wait, I choked out the word reaching for him, willing my dead end legs to carry me forward.


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[Assistant] I thought he was reaching for me too, but his cold hands locked around my wrists and pinned them to my sides. He leaned down and pressed his lips very lightly to my forehead for the briefest instant. My eyes closed.


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[Assistant] I could not do anything else. I had to keep moving. If I stopped looking for him, it was over.


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[Assistant] I walked and walked. Time made no sense as I pushed slowly through the thick undergrowth. It was hours passing.


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[Assistant] As I lay there, I had a feeling that more time was passing than I realized. I couldn't remember how long it had been since nightfall. Was it always so dark here at night? Surely as a rule, some little bit of moonlight would filter down through the clouds.


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[Assistant] Chinks in the canopy of trees and finds the ground. Not tonight. Tonight the sky was utterly black. Perhaps there was no moon tonight. A lunar eclipse. A new moon.


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[Assistant] It was black for a long time before I heard them calling. Someone shouting my name. It was muted, muffled by the wet growth that surrounded me.


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[Assistant] Sometime later, the rain woke me up. I don't think I'd really fallen asleep. I was just lost in an unthinking stupor, holding with all my strength to the numbness that kept me from realizing what I didn't want to know.


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[Assistant] The rain bothered me a little. It was cold. I unwrapped my arms from around my legs to cover my face. It was then that I heard the calling again. It was far- farther away this time and sometimes it sounded like several voices were calling at once.


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[Assistant] I tried to breathe deeply. I remembered that I should answer, but didn't think they would be able to hear me. Would I be able to shout loud enough?


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[Assistant] Suddenly, there was another sound, startlingly close. A kind of snuffing, an animal sound. It sounded big.


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[Assistant] I wondered if I should feel afraid. I didn't. Just numb. It didn't matter. The snuffing went away. The rain continued and I could feel the water pooling up against my cheek. I was trying to gather the strength to turn my head when I saw the light.


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[Assistant] At first it was just a dim glow reflecting off the bushes in the distance. It grew brighter and brighter, illuminating a large space unlike the focus beam of a flashlight.


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[Assistant] The light broke through the closest brush, and I could see that it was a propane lantern.


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[Assistant] That was all I could see. The brightness blinded me for a moment. Bella, the voice was deep and unfamiliar but full of recognition. He wasn't calling my name to search. He was acknowledging that I was found. I stared up, impossibly high it seemed, at the dark face that I could now see above me.


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[Assistant] I was vaguely aware that the stranger probably only looked so tall because my head was still on the ground. Have you been hurt?


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[Assistant] I knew the words meant something, but I could only stare bewildered. How could the meaning matter at this point?


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[Assistant] Bella, my name is Sam Uly. That was nothing familiar, there was nothing familiar about his voice. Charlie sent me to look for you. Charlie, that struck a chord. And I tried to pay more attention to what he was saying. Charlie mattered, if nothing else did.


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[Assistant] The tall man held out a hand. I gazed at it, not sure what I was supposed to do.


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[Assistant] His black eyes appraised me for a second, and then he shrugged. In a quick and supple notion, he pulled me up from the ground and into his arms. I hung their limp as he loped swiftly through the wet forest. Some part of me knew that this should- knew this should upset me, being carried away by a stranger. But there was nothing left in me to upset.


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[Assistant] It didn't seem like too much time passed before there were lights and deep babble of many male voices. Sam Uly slowed as he approached the commotion.


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[Assistant] I've got her, he calls in a booming voice. The babble ceased and then picked up again with more intensity. A confusing swirl of faces moved over me. Sam's voice was the only one that made sense in the chaos, perhaps because my ear was against his chest.


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[Assistant] No, I don't think she's hurt, he told someone. She just keeps saying he's gone. Was I saying that out loud? I bit down on my lip. Bella, honey, are you alright?


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[Assistant] That was one voice I would know anywhere, even distorted as it was now with worry. Charlie, my voice sounded strange and small. I'm right here, baby. There was a shifting under me, followed by the leathery smell of my dad's sheriff jacket. Charlie staggered under my weight.


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[Assistant] Maybe I should hold on to her, Sam Uley suggested. He walked slowly, struggling.


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[Assistant] I've got her, Charlie said, a little breathless. I wished I could tell him to put me down and let me walk, but I couldn't find my voice. There were lights everywhere, held by the crowd walking with him. I felt like a parade. It felt like a parade or a funeral procession. I closed my eyes.


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[Assistant] We're almost home now, honey. Charlie mumbled now, and then I opened my eyes again when I heard the door unlock.


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[Assistant] We were on the porch of our house and the tall dark man named Sam was holding the door for Charlie. One arm extended towards us as if he was preparing to catch me when Charlie's arms failed. But Charlie managed to get me through the door and to the couch in the living room.


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[Assistant] Dad, I'm all wet, I objected fubely. That doesn't matter, his voice was gruff, and then he was talking to someone else. Blankets are in the cupboard at the top of the stairs.


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[Assistant] Bella, a new voice asked, I looked at the gray haired man leaning over me, and recognition came after a few slow seconds.


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[Assistant] Dr. Grandy? I mumbled. That's right dear, he said. Are you hurt, Bella? It took me a minute to think that through. I was confused by the memory of Sam Uley's similar question in the woods.


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[Assistant] Only, Sam had asked something else. Have you been hurt? He'd said. The difference seemed significant somehow.


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[Assistant] Dr. Kurandi was waving. One grizzled eyebrow rose and the wrinkles on his forehead deepened.


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[Assistant] What happened to you? He asked casually. I froze under his hand, tasting panic in the back of my throat.


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[Assistant] Did you get lost in the woods? he prodded. I was aware of several other people listening, three tall men with dark faces, from the push.


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[Assistant] Other deep voices rumbled from the kitchen and outside the front door. Half the town must have been looking for me. Charlie was the closest. He leaned in to hear my answer. Yeaah. I whispered. I got lost.


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[Assistant] The doctor nodded, thoughtful, his fingers probing gently against the glands under my jaw. Charlie's face hardened.


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[Assistant] Do you feel tired? Dr. Gurandi said. I nodded and closed my eyes obediently.


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[Assistant] I don't think there's anything wrong with her. I heard the doctor muttered to Charlie after a moment. Just exhaustion. Let her sleep it off, and I'll come to check on her tomorrow.


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[Assistant] He paused. He must have looked at his watch because he added, well, later today actually. There was a creaking sound as they both pushed off from the couch to get to their feet.


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[Assistant] Is it true? Charlie whispered. Their voices were farther away now. I strained to hear. Did they leave? Dr. Colin asked us not to say anything. Dr. Grandy answered. The offer was very sudden. They had to choose immediately. Carlisle didn't want to make a big production out of leaving.


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[Assistant] I felt his fingers on my forehead and then the weight of another blanket. The phone rang a few times and he hurried to catch it before it could wake me. He muttered reassurances in a low voice to the callers.


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[Assistant] We found her. She's okay. She got lost. She's fine now. He said again and again. I heard the springs in the armchair groan when he settled himself in for the night. A few minutes later, the phone rang again. Charlie moaned as he struggled to get to his feet, and then he rushed stumbling to the kitchen.


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[Assistant] I pulled my head deeper under the blankets, not wanting to listen to the same conversation again. Yeah, Charlie yawned. His voice changed. It was much more alert than when he spoke again. Where? There was a pause. You are sure it's outside the reservation? Another short pause.


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[Assistant] But what could be burning out there? He sounded both worried and mystified. Look, I'll call down there and check it out. I listened with more interest as he punched in a number.


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[Assistant] Hey Billy, it's Charlie. Sorry I'm calling so early. No, she's fine. She's sleeping.


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[Assistant] Thanks, but that's not why I called. I just got a call from Miss Stanley, and she says that from her second story window, she can see fires out on the sea cliffs. But I didn't really... Oh, suddenly there was an edge in his voice, irritation or anger.


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[Assistant] And why are they doing that? Uh huh. Really? He said it sarcastically. Well, don't apologize to me. Yeah. Yeah, just make sure the flames don't spread. I know, I know. I'm surprised they got them lit at all in this weather.


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[Assistant] Is something burning? It's nothing, he assured me, just some bonfires out on the cliffs. Bonfires, I asked. My voice didn't sound curious, it sounded dead. Charlie frowned. Some of the kids from the reservation being rowdy, he explained.


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[Assistant] Why? I wondered dully. I could tell he didn't want to answer. He looked at the floor under his knees. They are celebrating the news. His tone was bitter. There was only one piece of news I could think of. Try as I might not to. And then the pieces snapped together.


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[Assistant] Because the colons left, I whispered. They don't like the colons in the bush. I'd forgotten about that.


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[Assistant] Polettes had their superstitions about the cold ones, the blood drinkers that were enemies to their tribe, just like they had their legends of the great flood and the wolf men ancestors. Just stories, folklore, to most of them.


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[Assistant] Then there were the few that believed. Charlie's good friend Billy Black believed, though even Jacob, his own son, thought he was full of stupid superstitions.


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[Assistant] Billy had warned me to stay away from the colons. The name stirred something inside me, something that began to claw its way toward the surface, something I knew I didn't want to face. It's ridiculous. Charlie spluttered.


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[Assistant] We sat in silence for a moment. The sky was no longer black outside the window. Somewhere behind the rain, the sun was beginning to rise.


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[Assistant] He left you alone in the woods, Charlie guessed. I deflected his question. How did you know where to find me? My mind shied away from the inevitable awareness that was coming. Coming quickly now.


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[Assistant] Your note, Charlie answered, surprised. He reached into the back pocket of his jeans and pulled out a much abused piece of paper. It was dirty and damp, with multiple creases from being opened and refolded many times.


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[Assistant] When you didn't come back, I called the colons and no one answered. Charlie said it in a low voice. Then I called the hospital and Dr. Grand told me that Carlisle was gone.


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[Assistant] Where did they go? I mumbled. He stared at me. Didn't Edward tell you? I shook my head, recoiling. The sound of his name unleashed a thing that was clawing inside of me. A pain that knocked me breathless, astonished me with its force.


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[Assistant] Charlie eyed me doubtfully as he answered. Carlyle took a job with a hospital in Los Angeles. I guess they threw a lot of money at him.


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[Assistant] sunny LA, the last place they would really go. I remembered my nightmare with the mirror, the bright sunlight shimmering off his skin. Agony ripped through me with the memory of his face.


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[Assistant] Someone had been in the house to leave a note for Charlie, a note that would lead him to find me. From the minute that I'd realized this, a horrible suspicion began to grow in my head. I ran to my room, shutting and locking the door behind me before I ran to the CD player by my bed.


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[Assistant] Everything looked exactly the same as I'd left it. I pressed down on the top of the CD player, the latch unhooked, and the lid slowly swung open. It was empty.


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[Assistant] The album Rene had given me sat on the floor beside the bed, just where I had put it last. I lifted the cover with a shaking hand. I didn't have to flip any farther than the first page. The metal corners no longer held the picture in place. The page was blank except for my own handwriting, scrolled across the bottom.


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[Assistant] Edward Cullen, Charlie's Kitchen, September 13th.


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[Assistant] I felt the smooth wooden floor beneath my knees, and the palms of my hands, and then it was pressed against the skin of my cheek.


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[Assistant] Now I'm hoping I did this right. It has been a long time since I've played Modded Wii Sports Resort. It was about a year ago that I was golfing on Modded Wii Sports Resort Golf last. I did a video golfing in the 510th.


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[Assistant] Mile per hour wind mod. And that video was incredibly popular. I don't recall ever doing anything very successfully in 510 mile per hour winds. So I wanna go back to it today.


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[Assistant] To try to get a hole in one in five hundred and ten


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[Assistant] If I actually deployed the mod correctly, I'm not 100% sure. I'm a little worried that I screwed something up, but we'll see.


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[Assistant] Whose hole is the best hole here to get a hole in one? This looks like the perfect hole to get a hole in one. Resort B was a good choice. So these are 510 mile an hour wins.


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[Assistant] And I guess it's probably just gonna be me playing this hole over and over again until I get a hole in one. This is very sensitive. Wow, that was a perfect hit, but that is...


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[Assistant] That is still not even remotely right. The issue is I can't go right into the wind because then it won't go forward. I need to go forward to some degree, but not, but play the angle enough.


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[Assistant] Well, the wind actually helped me. See, it's, I think it's actually almost impossible to go forward. I think this is the kind of wind I need here. Man, that wind is so loud in my ears. Even with this wind, I need to kinda aim this way.


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[Assistant] That's the closest we, the closest we've been. The ball went across the green.


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[Assistant] Come on, bitch. Make it! Hold up! Aww, man.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's, that was realistically the closest we had.


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[Assistant] Why doesn't it give me the good wind six times in a row instead of the bad wind six times? It keeps giving me wind in my face. That's... I don't know how many times in a row.


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[Assistant] It did. Whoa, Jesus. Oop, now bounce all the way back to the hole. This is the wind I think that we can get it on.


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[Assistant] And what I think I need to do is just chip it this way a little bit and let the wind push that bitch all the way to the hole.


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[Assistant] Well, kinda like that, but a little better. The, the ocean. The water is a...


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[Assistant] Is a problematic thing about this all.


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[Assistant] I wonder if there's, there's probably a better hole to do this on. Honestly, why don't, why don't I investigate that? Why don't I investigate if there's a better hole to try to get this on?


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[Assistant] Oh lord. Resort B had a good one. How about Resort A? That should be easier, right? A becomes before B. This is part 4.


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[Assistant] As long as the wind's behind us, we can definitely make it to the hole on a par four. This is the wind we're looking for, let's see...


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[Assistant] Let's see what happens here. Solid cock as well. We may never know what happens. Okay, it went over the hole.


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[Assistant] I love how it gets so big and out of proportion.


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[Assistant] When, when it, it looks like it's not that far, but it really is. The ball maintains the same size, but is really, really far away. The, the, uh, the, the,


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[Assistant] How do you put it? I don't know. The, the depth perception. The ball doesn't understand depth perception. What if we hit it way over here?


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[Assistant] It saved us and made that a pretty normal shot. I have to hit it way over here and then hope it blows all the way. See, it still blew too much. That tree.


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[Assistant] The tree is the only thing that saves me, but at the same time, it doesn't save me enough. I need that tree to throw the ball at the hole.


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[Assistant] Absolutely, never gonna- oh, nope nope. Classic A. Classic S. This is a straight down the middle- oh, and the wind is right at our back, hold up.


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[Assistant] Hold up, hold up, hold up. Don't screw this up. Oh boy. Push the ball to the hole. Hold up. In the hole.


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[Assistant] The tree blocked the view, it went in the hole. Trust me. That's pretty much what we need to do. Here we go. That might be too much power again. No, it's, it's not enough. Keep going, bitch!


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[Assistant] Oh my god. That's how you do it. That is how, that is how the hole in one happens. This is how the hole in one happens.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, that wind must normally be... So we need like this power. Oh, fuck me. And then what is that? What is that frickin' right leaning floppycock we got going? And now of course we don't get that wind.


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[Assistant] Now I-I screwed up the ultimate opportunity by frickin' leaning my shaft. Yeah, we got it back again. STOP!


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[Assistant] I need to focus on that. I'm, I'm very thankful though, this seems to be a very common win. It's too much.


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[Assistant] Ohhhh Nelly. Oh Nelly, that would have been it if it was the right aim.


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[Assistant] That would have been it. Now we're getting the opposite of wind right behind us. And it's called wind in my face. Here we go. So I'm gonna go a couple ticks this way.


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[Assistant] Oh nooo! Oh wow. We weren't even that close. Wait, no, we were close.


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[Assistant] We're still a little too far left. Meaning we gotta aim more right?


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[Assistant] Okay, I do wanna take one shot into the wind right at me and see, see how far this goes. Oop. Freakin' floppycocked it.


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[Assistant] The boomerang ball. It actually went forwards though. I'm surprised it even went that far. Man.


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[Assistant] We went from getting that right win every other time to never ever ever ever ever ever.


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[Assistant] I just can't get it. What is the RNG on what wind you end up getting? Obviously there's zero RNG on what mile per hour it is right now, but what is the RNG?


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[Assistant] Isn't this the same one I just tried before? We'll try it again. Stop doing that. Stop doing that. You make me waste my time when you do that. Then it's definitely not gonna work out. Ah, we finally got it again. So I gotta aim.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna aim kinda in line with that. I have a little bit of a, I have a little bit of a, a thingy right now. No.


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[Assistant] No. How do I, how do I stop curving? Just stay still. Just stay there. No.


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[Assistant] Welp, and I did it still. But maybe that's what we needed. Time will tell. And we went too far right.


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[Assistant] Maybe if I didn't have that little frickin' five degree right hand lean. I like the approach if we- if we just don't- oop, too much. No.


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[Assistant] Okay, this time we did left, which is probably not, probably no bueno in the bueno. Wait.


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[Assistant] We may never know how close that was thanks to pine tree. That had to be really close.


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[Assistant] But once again, since I had that little left lean, I think that's what frickin' threw it off. Oh, thank you for giving me another chance. Okay, stop frickin' leaning.


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[Assistant] I like Wii Sports Golf a lot more, where you don't gotta fuck with this goddamn... ...Leany McLean face.


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[Assistant] Oh boy. Oh brother. That's a lot of power.


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[Assistant] Who decided, hey, let's put the, let's set up the camera here.


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[Assistant] I can't, I can't swing and not do that, so tell me what I'm doing wrong.


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[Assistant] Well, that was close, S. That's a bit of power though.


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[Assistant] I can assure you that despite our lack of seeing what the hell happened, it didn't happen.


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[Assistant] Too much! It's too much sauce. How saucy are we getting? Wait.


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[Assistant] Aww. Well, I don't know, it could have been pretty close, but...


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[Assistant] Is this plus button going out? Hey! I'm pressing pause!


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[Assistant] My plus button is unresponsive half the time now. I can see the wind, uh,


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[Assistant] The wind lines now and I already know that it's gonna be wrong. This one, this one's good. Uh, I can already tell if it's gonna be right or if it's gonna be wrong.


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[Assistant] Oh, poopy buttholes full of poop.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we, we, we over hit it. Thank you, myself, for doing that. All that time spent is wrong.


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[Assistant] To get the right wind. Ah, this one might be good. Yeaah, this is good, this is good, this is good.


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[Assistant] I gotta stop cranking it. Ooh, ooh. Oh, this one might not even get there though.


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[Assistant] Come on, ball. Make me proud, ball. In the hole, balls! So that one was a little too far right.


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[Assistant] Close. One tick to the left was in the hole. Okay, I feel like I'm one more tick left.


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[Assistant] Keep em loose, keep em loose this time. Loosen the buttholes.


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[Assistant] How do we end up more right? How do we end up more right than last time? Nevermind, we're not loosening them up anymore.


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[Assistant] Fucker those things up and fucking bear down. I'm becoming a fucking meteorologist right now. I can tell the wind direction before we get- it's coming- ooh, no. Yeah, it's fine. Er, yeah. Coming at us. I knew it was one of the ways, that's a crosswind.


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[Assistant] I-I am a Wii Sports Resort Meteorologist now. That one's not straight behind us, but it's a little off. That's a cross.


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[Assistant] Frigging, call me to predict your golf game weather before you even get in the game.


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[Assistant] The hole moves. The hole definitely moves. So this time the hole is more left.


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[Assistant] So, honestly, I don't even know if the whole placement is here. I don't even know if we can make it in because of that bunker. So we're gonna try different aim here.


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[Assistant] Maybe we still bounce over it and get it in.


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[Assistant] To the right. That, that pin is so left. So we're not only fighting with the correct win.


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[Assistant] Because now look at the hole, the hole moved a little bit more right and forward. We're also fighting with the right hole. Okay, so this time we got the right wind in the right hole.


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[Assistant] Son of a biscuit. See that's the wrong hole. I already saw it was the wrong hole. This is the right hole. Actually this hole looks like a third position.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I think there's three positions. There's left middle, right middle, which is where it's at right now. And then bottom. Bottom.


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[Assistant] It can be on the left of the green, right of the green, or middle of the green.


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[Assistant] This is the right position again, which is okay. We can do right or middle. Left on the green though.


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[Assistant] Is no bueno. So now I'm trying to look at the hole. Here it is. Right wind. Oh. You butt hole.


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[Assistant] I see the wind coming, you know, it's, it's, it's perpendicular with me. But then it's the one that's blowing at me instead of blowing behind me.


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[Assistant] Okay, is this at me or behind me? At me again! Come on! You've given me three at me's. Oh. You've given me four at me's before one behind me.


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[Assistant] All you gotta do is bitch. Okay, so now this one is the one more to the right. Which I think is the one that I need to follow this line here. I believe this is the easiest one to get the whole on one.


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[Assistant] Based on my calculations. Ooh, it's strong. Not too strong, I don't think. Ooh, it's too strong.


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[Assistant] Rounds, or holes, or whatever you want to look at it, that are...


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[Assistant] Cor- are the right ones, are the one you're looking for. And this time it's at the middle, so this is the one that we wanna stay a little bit more left.


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[Assistant] I believe maybe this is the one that's actually easiest to get the hole in one.


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[Assistant] Good power, good power, good power, good power. Ooh, maybe a little light. Oh no. Oh, suck my cock!


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[Assistant] I think we had a pretty good lie. I just need a little bit more power. A lot of bit more power. We got a lot of bit more power.


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[Assistant] Oof, that might be just a little bit not enough power.


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[Assistant] It doesn't matter, it won't, it was, nah, nah. It was gonna go too far left.


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[Assistant] Yeah, nice on, but we wanted a nice off in, in the hole. Okay, our, our swing sucks again. Okay. We were, we were doing good at not doing that for a while.


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[Assistant] Oh, we didn't get the, oh, oh, but that was, that was perfect power. Look how close we are.


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[Assistant] We did the same goddamn thing. I did the same thing again.


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[Assistant] That tree makes me nervous though. Ooh, we got more power too. Well, it went more right.


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[Assistant] Pretty sure it went to the right of it, but that little bit more power keeps it more right.


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[Assistant] So if we aimed it as we did before, it might've been in the hole. I am getting this set up so many times now that I think it's a sign that I have to make it in the hole.


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[Assistant] Oh boy, that's not enough. Not enough sauce! Dude, you got a whole fucking 20 piece with no sauce!


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[Assistant] I'm gonna guess that was right at the hole too.


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[Assistant] Okay, so this is the one that's a little bit more centered, so we're gonna wanna go more over here.


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[Assistant] Good, good, good bitch, good. Now go in the hole.


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[Assistant] I don't know if that's enough. That's gonna be close. I don't think that's enough. I think this is the plot that-


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[Assistant] Dude, all you needed to do is fall in the hole there, ball. And I would've fucking loved you. I would've shoved you up my ass as a sign of gratitude. If, if that, if you went in the hole there. This is it. This is it. This is this, this is that setup again.


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[Assistant] Can I hit it the same way a third time and actually have the right line?


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[Assistant] Oh no, this one's going a little short. Oh wait, no, no, no.


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[Assistant] Instead, I had the wrong power. I had, I, I hit it just, you know, I lost an ounce of weight since my last shot. So I had a little less power in the shot and it didn't get there.


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[Assistant] I know I can do this though. I know I can do this. The question is, what is my will? How strong is my will of patience?


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[Assistant] To keep restarting. To get the right wind and holes set up again. Wait, is this it? No, this is at me.


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[Assistant] You know, this is the annoying part.


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[Assistant] Is getting the right win? I enjoy this and we got it again.


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[Assistant] This is the same one as the previous three, in wind and hole placement. Oh boy, we definitely had enough power this time.


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[Assistant] Okay, I'm getting, I'm getting pretty sick.


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[Assistant] Here we go. Here we go, this has gotta be it. This has gotta be it, or you can suck my tit. Well, we're just gonna see what happens. Too much.


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[Assistant] There's still a chance. If you hit it hard enough, there's at least a chance. And that chance goes flying to the right.


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[Assistant] If you hit it too little though, there's no chance at all, you know? You'd rather hit it too strong than too weak.


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[Assistant] I want this. I want this more than I've ever wanted something before.


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[Assistant] I want this hole in one. I know I can do it. We got so-


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[Assistant] Close, but it is, it is such a game of frickin'.


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[Assistant] Just the smallest margin of error. Trying to get this ball all the way down this long hole.


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[Assistant] In a 510 mile per hour wind, and this is, this is it. This is it. This is it. This is it. If I can just hit it the right power, I'm not practicing swinging anymore.


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[Assistant] I think that's just a little too light. Yeaah, I think that's a little light ranch dressing right there. Or is it? Oh, keep going.


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[Assistant] Why? Why do you, why do you do this to me?


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[Assistant] I, at some point I gotta stop. I've, I've been going at this for a long time and uhm,


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[Assistant] I dropped so many f-bombs, that whole- that whole thing is just gonna be no way. With a big bleep. I'm hyperventilating. That- that-


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[Assistant] Wow, I haven't had a moment like that in so long. Wow! That felt good.


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[Assistant] I think I technically have to play through these. I want this to count, right? I want this whole in one to like, be recorded.


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[Assistant] Like in, in, in the record books. So, I'm gonna play through these halls.


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[Assistant] My hole in one is going to be devastated by the, probably give up that these other two holes are going to be.


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[Assistant] I might as well putt because there's no sense of going in the air.


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[Assistant] You wouldn't think I just got a hole in one. I don't even have my, like, I don't, I don't give a shit right now. I, I got my hole in one.


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[Assistant] I'm, I am, I am so ecstatic and I cannot believe.


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[Assistant] That that happened. I can't believe that happened.


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[Assistant] Does that give up? No. Get, get this over with, please.


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[Assistant] The fact that it happened on my last shot, the shot I was going to be done either way, I-I just cannot believe it happened like that.


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[Assistant] A wet one. A wet dream. Quite literally, my ass is very sweaty. How are we not at give up yet?


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[Assistant] We've gone out of bounds like seven times. There it is. Oh, there we go. We got a hole in one. And then, uh, a nine and a 15. For a total of plus 13. Unbelievable. Stamp earned a hole in one. There it is.


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[Assistant] It's official. It's in the books. It happened. You saw it here, and I'm done.


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[Assistant] At that moment, the head of the Black River clan that had descended to fourth place jumped onto the platform and questioned loudly, but the King of the Northern Kingdom you mentioned, Roland Wimbledon, is not Imogen's. How could he rule the entire desert? Here it is, Ash's Thought.


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[Assistant] This is one of the key problems that they have to deal with if they want to put the southernmost region into the prefecture of Grey Castle. I'll see how Echo handles it.


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[Assistant] Echo looked at him and asked peacefully where the three gods emissaries who used to rule the desert. Majans?


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[Assistant] Her voice was not high, yet with the help of her magic power, it traveled to everyone's ears. The head of the Black River clan was startled when he heard it. Uhm, well, we all know that the answer is negative.


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[Assistant] Echo noticed a silence, so she looked under the platform and said, the three gods emissaries were real giants. It's said that they didn't have uniform looks.


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[Assistant] One of them had four feet and three hands and another had more than one head. Undoubtedly, they were not modgins.


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[Assistant] At this point, she began to speak in a much higher pitch. The few words left by the emissaries have become principles that are abided by all iron sand people of the Majin clan.


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[Assistant] The loss carved onto the slate tells us about the desert rulers. One is being blessed by the three gods. The other is opening up boundless oases and keeping all the clans away from hunger, thirst, and death.


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[Assistant] Anyone who could accomplish any of those can become the ruler of the southernmost region. The discussion in the crowd quieted down.


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[Assistant] Nobody wanted to object the laws left by the three gods emissaries at the land of fire.


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[Assistant] In fact, the holy duel was a way to decide power distribution originated from the loss.


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[Assistant] But the three gods emissaries did bring Greenland to the desert. The head of the Black River clan did not want to be neglected.


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[Assistant] He pointed at Echo and raised his voice. It's said that 1,000 years ago, this area was an oasis. Is the King of Grey Castle capable of that? Don't be deceived by false benefits.


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[Assistant] Anyone who owns that kind of power is not different from the deity.


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[Assistant] So as long as he could bring new oases to the San nation, you'd admit that his majesty is qualified of ruling the southernmost region and consider him as the chief, right? Echo said with a smile. That's right.


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[Assistant] Not only me, I'm afraid all the other clans would agree with me.


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[Assistant] The head of the Black River clan kept his mouth shut for the first condition and took most of the audience's opinions as his own.


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[Assistant] Indeed, His Majesty can't convert the southernmost region into a green land, but he's willing to take our land into the territory of Grey Castle and offer us residences near lakes and forests to keep us from the threats of thirst and sandstorm forever.


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[Assistant] Echo returned to the platform and said word by word, This is the promise His Majesty made.


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[Assistant] He'll bring you a new oasis. The vast and rich northern area is exactly the boundless green oasis whose color will never fade.


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[Assistant] Everybody was startled and could barely believe what they had heard. Thuram was equally shocked. This is the real purpose of the Osha Clan.


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[Assistant] That is the meaning of the new oasis and new order iron axe mentioned.


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[Assistant] It has always been every Majin's dream to live in an oasis that is forever green.


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[Assistant] Such a temptation is unimaginable, especially to those small clans that are too weak to grab a piece of the Iron Sand City.


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[Assistant] Although big clans might be hesitant and unwilling to see a drastic change in the southernmost region's order, they could not prevent the transmission of this message. Probably within half a month, this astonishing message would spread through the entire desert by the clansmen on spot from every silver stream oasis. No, this is absolutely nonsense.


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[Assistant] It's a lie, a fraud, the head of the Black River clan shouted.


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[Assistant] Have you forgotten the tragic ending of the Black Bone Clan and the Sandstone Clan?


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[Assistant] Didn't they die out and become extinct because they easily believed what Garcia, the Queen of Clearwater, said? Offering us an oasis and the source of water? The cunning northerners will never do that.


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[Assistant] They'll only give you a pond, or a piece of land as big as my palm, making you fight for these resources unceasingly as you did in the southernmost region where you have to work to death for them. Thorum imperceptibly side.


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[Assistant] If it were before the holy duel, this speech could have suppressed people's aspirations, but it's too late now. In five duels, no one was killed.


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[Assistant] The merciful image of the Osha clan had spread through the small oasis.


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[Assistant] People could easily imagine that the Northern Kingdom's king who was supporting Osha was equally merciful.


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[Assistant] Obviously, someone merciful would not oppress the Sand Nation people as the Queen of Clearwater had done.


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[Assistant] Even challengers like Blackbone and Sandstone were willing to sell themselves cheap to Garcia, which was an indication of how attractive a land of survival was to them.


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[Assistant] Even if it might be a trap, some clansmen would like to take the risk.


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[Assistant] If the King of Greycastle sincerely wished to take the southernmost region into his domain, those pioneers would definitely become the examples for other clans to follow.


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[Assistant] As long as it started, the northwards migration of the whole San Nation would become inevitable.