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mandela factor something else i had

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something highly strange recently

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another incident in a lifetime of

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inexplicable experiences and

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i would appreciate any thoughts that you

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might share with me concerning this

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recent event

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i read the obits in my local newspaper

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occasionally

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as i sometimes worry that one of my old

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friends parents or someone i have known

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has passed on

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and i would want to express condolences

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my own parents died suddenly very close

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together

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and i know how important that

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expressions of sympathy can be

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the obit that i read last summer i

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noticed it because the woman was a

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prominent lady who was a high

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school friend of my mother's and also

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the mother-in-law of my son's cousin

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she had died of cancer and it was doubly

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sad because her granddaughter was going

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to be the queen of our local rose

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festival

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the following october of 2015.

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this is a great honor in our city and

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the woman herself had actually been a

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rose queen in 1955.

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her granddaughter is the daughter of my

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son's cousin james

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so my son and i discuss the news at

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length

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he was getting married in november of

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that year and was inviting members of

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that family to his wedding

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so i actually shared the news of her

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death with a few people

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and remember that well imagine my

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surprise when i read the local obits

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last week

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and saw that she had died recently june

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2017

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the story of her death was prominently

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featured and i read it in disbelief and

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utter shock

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again and again i call my son and he was

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confused as well

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as i had already reported her passing to

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him two years ago

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what can this mean did i have a visual

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precognition of her death

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two years before it occurred did i

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experience a

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time slip going into the future to

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redeer a bit

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or did time curve back on itself and

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confuse me with a double death

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this event has truly been worrisome to

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me

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i had the random thought that a distant

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great aunt of mine had passed

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and called several relatives to inquire

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about it

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no she was not ed but no one knew

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anything about her situation

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if she had recently been ill was living

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with her daughter

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she was 92 but eight days later i got

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the news that she had actually died six

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days after my phone calls

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scrub from reality in about 2007

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i became aware of an actor b using a

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single name

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i knew that actor but he worked under a

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different name in a slew of titles going

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back to the late 1990s

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i managed to find a connection via an

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interview or something along those lines

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that indeed backed up my memory that

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actor b was actor a

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but that he changed his name and was now

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working primarily in a different genre

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over time my memory of his earlier

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movies faded

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i could remember him in various roles in

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one he played a mad scientist

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his frequent co-stars the companies he

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worked for etc

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i always knew that actor b was actor a

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then a few years ago

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i stumbled across actor b and actor b

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was somehow not connected filmography

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wise to actor a

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though i was certain i connected them i

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did a search for actor a using old

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titles

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co-stars etc i could find nothing

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my memory of his prior filmography

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exists some of the characters he played

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scenes he did with certain actors etc

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but i found nothing

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as if his career started in 2007 even

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though it started a decade before that

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my job requires me to have a good memory

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on actors and movies

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i can look at a movie and tell you every

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actor's name and parts of their

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filmography

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i can usually tell you when they started

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etc this has baffled me for years

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i've spoken about it with my co-workers

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we've had other things happen that we

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cannot understand

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this includes the guy that runs the

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place but we always put it down to

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glitches in the program

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but this thing with the actor has always

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bothered me it's like an actor started

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in 1997 and worked through to the

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mid-2000s

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he appeared in less and less movies and

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eventually switched genres in 2007

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taking on a new name and changing his

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hair color from blonde to blonde with a

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dark streak

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somewhere along the way starting

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somewhere between 2007 and 2012

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any proof of his career prior to the

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name change dissolved

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as if his work in those movies also

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dissolved out of existence to the point

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where i cannot recall any titles but

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have a memory of the characters and

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scenes but nothing to back it up

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and this isn't like he was scrubbed from

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the net but more like he was scrubbed

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from reality

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a glitch in the matrix my experience i

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wanted to share involves a bit of a time

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slip or glitch in the matrix per sea

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it's not an overwhelmingly scary moment

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but it has definitely left me baffled

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for most of my life

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when i was in high school i was on the

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phone with my boyfriend watching the

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movie babe while lying in bed before

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going to sleep

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this was before dvds in digital tv so

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the setup was just a mini tv and a vcr

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plugged into each other and stacks of

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tape sitting loose on the top of the tv

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setup

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now as i'm on the phone i'm discussing

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the plot of babe with my boyfriend

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and i turned my back to the tv so that

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i'm facing away from the screen and

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towards my bedroom door

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i only laid that way for a few minutes

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but when i turned back towards the tv

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there was an entirely different movie

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playing i sat up suddenly

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slightly confused because i know i was

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just watching babe

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i suddenly started questioning my

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boyfriend on the other end of the line

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on what i said i was watching

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and he confirmed that i was going on

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incessantly about the mice from bay

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i then ejected the movie out of the vcr

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to see if maybe it could be a mistake or

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commercial

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i'm not sure why they'd be putting a

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commercial in the middle of a movie

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but still i did it anyway when i ejected

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the movie

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it was not bad but in fact an entirely

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different movie

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i then searched through a stack of tapes

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on top of the vcr

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i found babe hidden in the middle of the

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stack underneath two or three other

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tapes

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this was almost more than 10 years ago

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and if i'm honest

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i haven't watched the movie babe since

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then to this day

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i'm not really sure what happened and i

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cannot explain it away

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it's the only real experience i had that

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i can honestly not explain away with

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skepticism

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there were quite a few experiences in

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this house but none quite as baffling as

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this one

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it's possible that i was mistaken that i

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was watching babe in the first place

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but i don't know how i could be so

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mistaken as to carry on an annoying

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