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an experiencer's realization of events i

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was working alone finishing a house at a

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fairly remote area near littleford

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british columbia

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keeping my own hours the house had wood

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heat

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the time was mid-winter in 1988 with a

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foot of compact snow on the ground

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i worked out of a small wood shop close

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to the house

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my schedule was somewhat erratic so i

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kept a log book of what type of work was

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done

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and how many hours labor i had performed

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each day

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this book was updated daily or at least

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every other day

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i had been working there about five

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weeks i had been off to town the

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previous weekend

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picking up supplies and had returned

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sunday night

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monday i was working in the shop and

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things were going well

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the next thing i remember i was standing

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in the house confused as if i had just

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come out of the fog

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i did not recall how i got there i just

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seemed to appear

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the house looked dusty and unlived in

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like when you come home from a holiday

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and no one has been around

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i felt i could not get my bearings as if

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i had just had an electric

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shock i could not figure out what day it

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is i turned on the radio and it was

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friday morning

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about 10 30 am i tried to reason out

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what was going on

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to get my bearings and i could not oddly

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my log book was open to that day

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friday what have i been doing i asked

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myself

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i turned the book to thursday and there

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was nothing written

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oh well i said to myself this

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occasionally happened

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usually i write every day i turned to

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wednesday

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nothing i was starting to worry i had

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never missed two days before

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i turned to tuesday and nothing monday

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nothing i went to the previous

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friday before going to town and looked

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at the work written

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this was the last work done i could

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remember nothing from monday noon

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i checked the shop and everything was as

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it should be as of monday

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nothing has been done since monday noon

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back to the house

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the food i packed in the fridge sunday

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night had not been touched

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the firewood i stacked sunday night

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against the house was there so there was

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no wood burned yet the house was not

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freezing

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the house was in a state of stasis not

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cold but not warm

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i examined myself and i was warm and dry

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i had not been out in the snow

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i looked at my vehicle and the tracks in

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the snow i could see that i had not

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driven since sunday

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and no one had driven in there were no

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footprints in the snow but

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mine i was not hungry or dehydrated yet

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i was wearing the same clothes as i was

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on monday

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i was not smelly or dirty i now feel

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that i was under post-hypnotic

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suggestion because a voice in my head

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said over and over i must have been here

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working i must have been here working

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on and on within an hour of appearing

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back on monday i falsely wrote in work

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hours for the missing four days

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this still bothers me since i pride

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myself on my honesty

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during the writing i knew i had not done

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the work because there was nothing done

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the work was linear one step after

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another and i was clearly inventing

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false labor

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yet i continued i kept this log book for

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years

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yet my falsehood was so effective that i

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could not identify which week this

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occurred

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eventually i threw the book out since i

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could not decipher it and it just

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bothered me more

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life went on and i convinced myself that

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it had just been fatigued

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in spite of the surrounding evidence six

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months later i had a dream where i was

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back

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and i knew it was the monday of the

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event i was in my shop and a voice and

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my head told me that i should go to the

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lake

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it seemed like it was my idea i walked

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to the lake and looked up

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there was a hole in the sky somewhat

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like an enormous saturn

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it was as if i could see through to the

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stars as if a portal

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the stars were brilliant and dense i was

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confused as to what i was seeing

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not a solid object but a void i stared

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then the thought came

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i'm seeing a ufo i was happy and excited

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i had always wanted to see one the

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millisecond i had the thought an

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electric shock shot through me from my

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head to my toes

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and i was awake sitting up in my bed

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this all happened at the same time

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i immediately realized that i knew what

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happened the winter before

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oddly enough i had not even been

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daydreaming or lost time in 2013

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i was driving back from a visit to my

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mother's house

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about 60 miles a trip i made around

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three times a month

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part of this involved driving along the

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a13 in essex

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uk this evening still daylight i was

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driving westbound

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i passed over the turn-off for tilbury

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and one mile later

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past the exit for greys and a further

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mile took me to the point where the

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lakeside shopping mall

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traffic joined the a13 this is an area i

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know very well

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and have often been shopping in the

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lakeside mall another half mile took me

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over the m25 motorway

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and onto the final stretch home suddenly

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i realized that something was wrong

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whether traffic had been light to medium

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it had now become very light and i

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noticed that i was crossing over the

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tilbury exit or flyover

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i had suddenly lost two and a half miles

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of travel the radio was still playing

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the same program

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and i was driving in the correct lane at

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a normal speed

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about 60 miles per hour with the nearest

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traffic probably about 200 to 300 meters

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both in front and behind

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i have never used drugs and drink very

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sparingly never before driving

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nothing out of the ordinary has ever

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happened to me before

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i have always put it down to a brain

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fart and have never really shared this

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with anyone before

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take it as you will accept reject

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call me a storyteller this is a true

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strange sounds and lost time i was

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fishing at the end of may beginning of

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june 2009

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where i was fishing was the middle of

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nowhere the odd farm

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but no shop saw pubs i settled down for

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the night about 1 30 or 2 a.m in my

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bivvy tent when a strange thing happened

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i heard like a chitter chattering

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talking but loads of voices at same time

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i couldn't make out what was being said

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but it scared the crap

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out of me my brother was in the next

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swim so i went to see if he knew what it

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was

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but i couldn't move for the life of me

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it was like i was frozen to my bed chair

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i couldn't shout or anything i've never

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felt like this ever before or after

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it was like time that flashed by as the

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next thing i remember it was 6am and was

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just

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getting light now i have started to have

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dream like flashbacks and see things i

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cannot explain

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the main vision is of a three-fingered

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hand pointy finger like a lizard claw

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but the strange part is what would be

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the palm of the hand is an opening with

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tiny wiggly things going all the way

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around it

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and more recently i've started seeing an

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eye it's jet black tea drop shaped and

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like a greenish brown skin tone

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i don't know if this is linked but me

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and my missus were trying for another

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baby since 2005 without joy

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then my partner fell pregnant within two

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weeks of this happening and my babe was

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born with a rare genetic disorder

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only 80 cases in uk i don't know if it's

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anything to do with this or not

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in fact i don't even know if anything

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really happened to me

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but it is playing in my head i don't

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drink or do drugs

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i don't think i'm going mad but do

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sometimes wonder

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time loss my friend and i were hanging

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out at my house

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it was about noon and we were talking

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about something and decided to go for a

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walk down the street

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we would have said up the hill and back

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there was a dip in the road

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and then the road went up a hill we

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would often walk it when we were bored

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or talking about something

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this was probably the same time period

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as the lights between 1987

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and 1990 and it was in the summer

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because i remember wearing a t-shirt

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my dad asked us where we were going and

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i told him just up the hill and back

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he said not to be gone for too long

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although i don't remember why

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he and i walked up the hill and back it

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was at most

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15 minutes but when we got back my dad

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was furious and said he was about to

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call the police since we'd been gone so

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long

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had he not looked so mad i would have

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thought he was joking

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then he said my friend had to get home

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because either his grandma or mom was

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freaking out and kept calling

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i used to wear a watch back then and

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looked at it

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only about 15 minutes passed so i was

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even more confused

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but when i got inside the house all the

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clocks were almost

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four hours later than my watch i

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remember going up and down the hill

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countless times that summer with my

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friend trying to figure out what

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happened and neither of

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us could thinking about it that was

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probably the summer of 1989 or 1990

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because my friend and i stopped hanging

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out shortly after that

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if you have a suggestion or an