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Hello, my spookies. It's your host and narrator Enrique Cuto
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here bringing you another little bit of terror that made
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twenty twenty four so damn special. This is a story
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that if you missed out on it last year, you
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really need to give it a listen. And if you've
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heard it before, maybe it's time to hear it again.
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A story by our good pal and Horror for twenty
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one podcast host Charles Campbell. It's all about getting on
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an airplane and realizing that your destination may be more
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than you realize. So kick back, relax and enjoy this story.
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And I'll be back here on Wednesday with the fourth
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installment of the Spin the Bottle series. But now enjoy
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the last flight out by Charles Campbell. Zone one is boarding.
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Everyone with a boarding pass and Zone one are cleared
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to board flight seven fifty two from Hartsfield Jackson International
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to Seattle. Please present your boarding pass and be prepared
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to have carrions checked if they will not fit in
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the overhead compartment or under your seat. The pretty petite
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blonde wearing the Delta name tag smiled as passengers lined
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up to board the two hundred and eighty four passenger
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ready bowing seven fifty seven three hundred. Sheila popped out
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her earbuds the sounds of Maria Maria by Santana emitted
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from the tiny dangling speakers, and took another glance at
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her boarding pass, hoping it would magically change zones from
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four to one. She had two carry ons, and if
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her luck was per usual, she would end up checking
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the overhead bag because a few inconsiderate passengers would overstuff
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their allotments, leaving most of zones three and four in
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the baggage lurch. The airport was crowded with your typical
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mix of people, business types with iPads and laptops in hand,
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stressed out parents herding up their children, and more than
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a couple of people that Sheila prayed would not be
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seated beside her because they would overlap over a quarter
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of the way into her Economy class seat. Another ten
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minutes passed before Sheila heard the sweet sound of now
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boarding zone four. Sheila made her way past the smiling
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blonde that scanned her boarding pass and was pleasantly surprised
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that she wasn't asked to check her carry ons. As
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she cleared the entrance ramp, and stepped into the jetliner.
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Okay twenty two CE, Sheila mumbled as she held her
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laptop bag out in front of her, with the Duffel
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bag dangling behind as she navigated down the middle aisle
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finding her window seat. This really is my lucky day,
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Sheila thought to herself as she was one of the
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last passengers to board. In the compartment right above her seat,
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there was a hole just big enough to stuff her
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Duffel bag, leaving her laptop to be shoved under the
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seat in front of her. Sheila took her seat, strapped
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her belt, and was asleep before the flight attendant gave
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instructions on emergency exits and safety belts. This is the
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captain speaking. We have now achieved an altitude of ten
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thousand feet. You may now use approved electronic devices. Please
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keep your seat belts fastened. Thank you for flying Delta
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flight seven fifty two to Seattle. Hi. Dear, I hope
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I didn't wake you. A spindly old man reached across
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the middle seat and gently tapped on Sheila's arm. She
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turned to look upon the smiling elderly man, whose hand
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was still gently placed on her shoulder. His were the
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hands of a man who'd seen their share of hard labor,
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the hands of a man that had been on top
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of many a roof on many a hot summer's day. No, sir,
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you didn't wake me. My name's Sheila Baker, she said,
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as she patted the man's fingers on her right shoulder
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with her left hand. I'm Otis Thornton. The skinny seventy
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something smiled at Sheila with teeth that, to her surprise,
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appeared to be all his one hundred percent and not
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a spot of yellow on them. Pleased to meet you,
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mister Otis interrupted, No, mister, just Otis. Sheila smiled and said, O,
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k Otis looks like we have a little breathing room. Huh.
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Sheila patted the empty seat that separated them, not that
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it would have made that much of a difference if
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he was sitting in the seat right next to her.
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Otis was a little over five six and couldn't have
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been any more than one hundred and twenty five pounds.
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Soaking wet, he was immediately engaging with light green eyes
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that shouted kindness. Sheila had to stop herself from reaching
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out and touching the full head of neatly combed snow
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white hair. Oh, the pleasure is all mine, ODIs started.
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I don't get to sit beside beautiful women that much
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any more, well, not since I lost my dearest Ella.
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The kind eyes told a story that Sheila desperately wanted
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to hear. Otis, I must say that I am pleased
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that you will be my company on this flight. Sheila
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shuffled in her seat so she was facing Otis directly,
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and pushed a strand of her hanging brown hair back
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behind her left ear. Well, thank you, Sheila. I'm an
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old man that likes to talk. Just let me know
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if I start to talk, your ears off and I'll
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be quiet. Well, thank you, Otis. I'm a thirty two
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year old woman that likes to listen, So talk all
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you want. You might regret that invitation. Sheila. Otis's eyes
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lit up with the prospect of sharing his story with her.
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Try me, okay, here it goes, and Otis began. It
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was the summer of nineteen fifty eight when I first
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laid eyes on Ella Stanton was working at the Snow
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Cap as a roller waitress, and she was very good
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at it. I remember hearing the wheels of the skates
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whisked by on the asphalt as she left behind a
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sweet trail of lightly applied perfume while she rolled to
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and fro and back and forth. Her auburn hair was
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like a campfire at sunset, and her skin was fair
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and as soft as a butterfly's kiss, at least as
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soft as how I like to imagine a butterfly's kiss.
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I was a young man of twenty three when she
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first smiled and batted her brown eyes at me. You see,
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I helped my father back in those days. He was
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a self made, hard working man. Otis Thornton Sor moved
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to Augusta, Georgia with my mother, Genie, when I was
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a toddler, way back in the early forties. I take
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after my father in the way that I'm built, spindley
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and all. But I have my mother's face and my
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hair used to be sandy blonde in another lifetime. Anyway,
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back to my angel. I remember my hands ached like
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the dickens from laying shingles on that hot July day
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when Ella rolled into my life. I remember that I
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ordered a double cheeseburger all the way and a coke float.
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When Ella said, you sure, are skinny? You think you
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can handle the double? Did I mention my father was
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there with me? Well, he was, and he answered for
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me because my mouth couldn't speak the words outside of
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the order that I had just blurted out. Yeah, I've
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seen him eat four thick pork chops with just as
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many mashed taters at home and still be hungry, young lady.
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My father gave her an Eastwood squint with a turned
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up grin and continued, I'll have the same thing, but
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I'll take the coke without the float. From that day on,
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I visited Ella at least three times a week, mostly
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without my father, although he would still come along once
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in a while when he got the crazy for the
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goodness of that double burger. This went along for about
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two or three months before I got up the courage
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to court Ella. My father told mother about Ella about
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two weeks into me missing too many home cooked meals.
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Then they were both on to me. My mother wanted
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grandchildren as I was an only child. There was something
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about her lady parts that didn't quite work. Right after
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I was born. I remember that she doated over me
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enough for four children, so much as a boy. All
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the way up to and through manhood. Ella's mother, Lucille,
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is where she got that auburn hair and fair skin.
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Her father, Thomas Stanton, worked at the True Value hardware store,
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selling hammers, wrenches, nails and what not. All Ella got
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from him was the brown eyes. I remember them staring
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through me the first time I came calling on his
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youngest daughter. Ella had two older sisters that at the
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time were already married off, Genie to some business man
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named Earl, and if I recall correctly, Francine, who married
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a butcher named Steve or Sam something that started with
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an s. Anyway, Ella was the last chickadee left, and
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Daddy Hawk certainly favored her over the two that had
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flown the coop. Lucille took to me right away, but
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Thomas Stanton took a lot of coaxing. He had to
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meet my father to gauge my stock in upbringing. I
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could tell from our first handshake that he favored the
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callous that had developed on my hand. He knew from
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that first shake that I didn't have the hands of
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a paper pusher, or god forbid, an insurance salesman. Mister
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Stanton knew I came by an honest wage from the
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sweat of my brow. That was a wind for me
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right up front. Even with that, it still took coaxing. Sheila,
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I hope I'm not boring you so far. Otis not
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at all. It's the opposite. I don't want you to
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stop until you tell me everything. It's a long flight,
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and your story has me hooked. Sheila could feel the
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stress of her life melting away as she listened to
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the tale of Otis and Ella. Okay, then and Otis continued.
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So Ella and I married almost a year after I
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met her father for the first time. About a year
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after that, we welcomed our baby girl, Marilyn, into the world.
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Marilyn turned out to be a pediatrician. All of my
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work on all those roofs with my father did that.
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That's something I'm very proud of. Ella's father never saw
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our second child, Otis. He died of a heart attack
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in his back yard weeding when Ella was pregnant with
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little Otis. We went back and forth on the name
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for a bit, but my father wanted to keep the
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Otis name going. And the truth of it was, Thomas
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Stanton wasn't around to object, and my lovely mother in law, Lucille, well,
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she just fell to pieces and her baby girl, My wife,
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my sweet Ella, wasn't far behind on the falling to
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piece's train. Don't go away, weekly, spooky, We'll be right
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back on top of it. She was pregnant with little Otis,
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with a toddler at her feet, and the stress of
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it all was almost more than she could bear, to
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tell the truth, looking back on it now, it was,
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and I know this may sound selfish, almost more than
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I should have been able to bear. But my father
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raised a pillar of strength. And that's not just me
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boasting my dear. I truly was like a block of
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granite in those days. Thomas's funeral was on September twenty
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second in nineteen sixty two, and little Otis was born
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just two days later, on the twenty fourth. In those days,
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folks hadn't heard of anything like postpartum depression. We just
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called it the baby blues. And Ella's father passing combined
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with it, didn't give little Otis much of a chance.
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I just didn't know it back then. Ella's sisters came
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down for the funeral, but they sure didn't hang around
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to comfort Lucille, let alone. The birth of their new nephew.
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I guess they were grieving in their own way, but
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they sure as hell got out of Dodge before the
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soil in their father's grave had even settled. I think
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the guy whose first name began with an S was
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behind Francine's early departure. I just don't think Genie was
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strong enough to hang around a minute longer than she
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felt was required. It was a few months after little
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Otis was born that Lucille started to come out of it,
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and it was all due to little Otis. The baby
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blues and grief still had its lock on my darling Ella.
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I had to keep food on the table, so I
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stayed on rooftops with my father. My mother kept little
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Otis about a quarter of the time, and Lucille kept
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him the rest of the time. My mother could see
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that Lucille needed that baby more than she did, and
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although I could see it hurt her to give up
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her time with little Otis, she knew if Lucille couldn't
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hang on to that baby, then she wouldn't be far
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behind mister Stanton taking up residence in Bellevue Memorial Gardens.
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A big thing that helped was mother did spend a
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lot of time with sweet Maryland, Sheila. Next is the
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hard part. You still want to listen? Otis, I don't
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know what to say. Sheila was transfixed on the old
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man with the green eyes and calloused hands. Just then,
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flight attendant susy Q from who knows where interrupted them.
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Peanuts are cookies? Excuse me, Sheila asked, because absolutely nothing
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Flight Attendant susye Q said registered in her brain. Otis
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smiled with all his real teeth on display, and said,
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I like the salty peanuts please, and a coke if
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you've got one in that cart. I do, replied susie
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c miss anything for you. Sheila answered, salty peanuts and
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a coke. Otis tipped the red and white can in
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Sheila's direction as susy Q rattled by, and he asked,
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shall I continue? Yes? Sheila was too far in now
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she had to hear the rest of it, and Otis continued.
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Little Otis had the colic pretty bad, and I was
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up many a night tending to him because of Ella's
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delicate state. My days with Father always started early, and
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with Little Otis, if I could get four straight hours
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of good sleep on any given night, that was a blessing.
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Most nights, it was closer to three hours and sometimes two.
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It was November eighteenth, and it started with a cold rain.
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Ella was clearing up the supper dishes, Marylyn was playing
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with her dolls on the living room floor, and Little
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Otis was fast asleep on my belly. As I watched
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Cronkite fill us in on the state of the World.
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I can still recall the smell of a fresh rain
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cropping up, and then the steady pelting on the roof
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before Cronkite signed off. I was in the firm grip
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of the sandman. When I awoke. Little Otis was no
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longer taking breaths on my chest. At first I thought
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nothing of it. Ella had taken him to his crib
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and put him down for the night. A fresh faced
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Carson was in the middle of cracking a joke when
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I turned the knob on the old Zenith. I walked
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up the stairs to our bedroom, and I was just
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as careful and quiet as I could be with every step.
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I had just gotten a gift in the few hours
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of sleep I had received in front of the television,
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and if I was quiet, that night was going to
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be a six or seven hour snoozethon for me. I
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stopped just outside of Little Otis's door and pushed it open,
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when a very real and sudden sense of dread filled
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my body. Sheila, this is where I could have made
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a difference if I had only known. Ella was sitting
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in the rocker facing the window in the far corner
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of Little Otis's room. The fire truck red painted walls
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made it very dark at night. I remember the sound
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of the rocker as it moved front and back while
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Ella gently rocked little Otis. The window was cracked just
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a hair and a little chill filled the room, but
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Ella just kept rocking with Little Otis in her arms.
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I thought maybe she had finally gotten over the baby blues.
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I remember that I smiled, relieved that my sense of
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dread was a false alarm, and closed the door as
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quietly as I had opened it, and did a bed
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check on Marilyn. She was curled up with her raggedy
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hand all thumb firmly placed in her mouth. So I
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went to bed. Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking.
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We are about to experience some severe turbulence. Please remain
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seated with your belts fastened until further notice. It's going
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to get pretty choppy, so make sure your belongings are secured.
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Thank you for flying Delta flight seven fifty two to Seattle.
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The flight attendants made a quick walk down the aisles,
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tugging on seat belts, flipping up tray tables, and checking
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in with the folks seated at the emergency exits to
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make sure that they were still willing and able to
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perform their assigned duties if needed. All of a sudden,
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as if on cue, the seven fifty seven shuddered violently,
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It sounded like it was getting nailed with a million paintballs,
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and took a sudden drop in elevation. Flight attendant Susie
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q shrieked as she momentarily left her feet, and if
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the drop had been just a couple more feet, her
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head would have been caved in by the plain ceiling.
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Another stroke of luck for Susie Hugh was that she
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brushed up against the aisle seat that sure Handed Otis
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occupied as Wade and momentum took her up. Otis grabbed
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her by the waistband in her skirt with his steel
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grip and pulled her back down. Susie Q fell hard
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on both knees from the sudden descent, but it was
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preferable to smashing her skull. She crawled on hands and
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knees until she got to her seat. Her knees were
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all skinned up and blood was oozing from the stocking hose,
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but she made it to her seat and secured her
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safety belt. The creaking and cracking noises inside the flying
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capsule started to subside as the turbulence began to settle.
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This is the captain speaking. We aren't out of the
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woods yet. I anticipate we'll hit more chop before we
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settle back in. Remain seated with your seat belts fastened. Please, Otis,
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are you okay? What you did there? Catching that girl?
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That was amazing? Sheila was falling in love with her
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elderly companion. I'm fine, dear. I've been on many of
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these flights in my lifetime, and I've seen worse. We'll
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be fine. I was on a plane that almost crashed once,
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but that's another story. You want me to keep going.
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There's more to tell about me and Ella. Otis gazed
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at Shila with you have to let me finish the story. Eyes,
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I would like to hear the rest what happened to
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baby Otis. I rolled out of bed and remembered it
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felt like I stepped on a thousand sewing needles. Standing
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at attention on the hardwood floor. My hands might have
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seventy plus years of callous but my feet are still
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tender to this day. Ella was lying there, still lost
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in her dreams, as I shuffled across the floor to
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grab my bathrobe. I generally slept in my my undershorts
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and nothing else. It was colder than usual that morning,
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and the reason was apparent when I pulled the robe
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over my shoulders. The window on the left side of
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our bedroom was fully opened, and there was a little
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puddle on the floor directly underneath. So I closed the
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source of the morning's frosty rise and turned back to
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find a towel. I remember moving into the hallway looking
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just a moment to check in on Marylyn, and she
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was still nestled under her blankets. So I continued down
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the hallway toward the towel closet. Just before I got there,
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I noticed that the door to little Otis's room was
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completely closed. We never left the door to his room
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completely closed. So this got my attention right quick. My
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breath got shorter the closer that I moved to Little
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Otis's door. The white knob seemed to look at me,
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daring me to turn it, but almost warning me not to.
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I he hesitated as I expected it to grow a
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mouth and say, Otis, I wouldn't turn me if I
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were you. But I did turn it, and then I
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stepped in. Every window in the room was wide open,
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all four of them. The room was a literal ice box.
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Water was everywhere, much more than any single towel could
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pick up. Water splashed under my feet as I sprinted
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toward Little Otis's crib. I slipped in the water when
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I made a stubborn stop, and both my feet flung
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out from underneath me. I landed with my ass on
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the floor and my feet sticking out from under the crib.
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I grabbed the bottom of the crib rail and pulled
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myself up, shedding the soaked bathrobe as I did. His
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little green eyes were staring up at me, and his
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mouth was slightly open, as if he was still trying
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to suckle. I reached down to grab my son, and
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his blue body was cold and stiff, did you hear that?
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Better check the locks on your doors weekly, Spooky, We'll
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be right back. I'll never forget the sound it made
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when I pulled my blanket wrapped baby from the crib mattress.
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It was almost like the sound of pulling apart velcrow.
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I was looking into little Otis's hungry eyes when I
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heard Ella mumble I'm sorry in the doorway. Sheila, this
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was all my fault, it really was. I knew better
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than to leave her alone with little Otis the night before.
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Lack of sleep overruled rational thinking. Not that I'm using
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that as an excuse, because I'd gotten a good chunk
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of sleep for me that night before I went to bed.
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I never turned to look at her. I recall saying
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that I would take care of it, and she needed
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to leave the room while she still could. She was
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wailing as she walked back down the hallway. Little Marilyn
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was still snuggled in her blankets. Oh my god, Otis,
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what did you do? Sheila's hands were trembling at this point,
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but she didn't notice. Otis had her all the way in. Well, Sheila,
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I loved my Ella more than anything, and this is
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awful to say out loud, but I loved Ella even
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more than little Otis or Marilyn, and I would give
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my life without question for any of them. The plane
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suddenly dropped again, and the lights in the flying pill
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box flickered. The sounds of nervous passengers rose, and there
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was the cry of a baby somewhere about ten rows up.
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The plane rattled like chattering teeth. The flight attendants were
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breezing through the aisles, holding the sides of the seats
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as they moved through, trying to make sure that all
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the passengers were secured. This is the captain speaking. The
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chop we're experiencing is severe. Everyone remain seated. Flight attendants
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included Everyone in your seat and stay there. If you
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have to use the restroom, I would suggest you hold
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it if at all possible. This turbulence is unpredictable and
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we aren't out of it yet. No thank you for
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flying with Delta flight seven fifty two after this update.
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This update was to keep your ass in your seat
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and don't move, so says El Capitan Otis. Sheila reached
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out and grabbed him by the tips of his fingers
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with both of her hands. Please finish the story are
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you sure, dear? I hear some fear in the captain's
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voice now, so he has my attention. Otis pulled both
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of her hands into his, and Sheila nodded her head yes,
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and Otis continued. Lucille was at the funeral, and she
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said maybe two words to me. The entire time she
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was there, there was definitely blame in her eyes, and
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it was always directed at me. I suspect that she
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went to her grave thinking I killed that baby, and
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in a way she was kind of right. My father
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and mother were there. My father never left my side
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for a second. My mother was all over the place.
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She was babbling incoherently for most of the service and
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clung to my father's shoulders like a frightened kitten. My
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father stayed stoic and strong for me to show me
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how to be a man. I appreciated that more than
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he ever knew. Neither one of Ella's sisters showed up.
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I'm sure mister s had something to do with Francine's
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no show. Genie I never knew why she didn't make it.
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Marilyn was still a toddler, and she noticed her baby
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brother was gone, but she was still young. Enough to forget.
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There was a brief investigation, but the baby's death was
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determined to be accidental bordering on negligence, and charges were
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within an eyelash of being filed. There were questions on
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why the windows were cracked. They were all just cracked
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when the investigators showed up, and there wasn't a drop
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of water on the floor the windows, even being cracked
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just a little in an enclosed space with no heat,
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was enough to kill an infant when temperatures dropped the
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way they had. The reason given for the cracked windows
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was the strong scent of pine, a scent that I
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made sure was there when they showed up. Remember, I
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loved Ella more than anything, and I was going to
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protect her at all costs, even if that meant going
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to prison. After the funeral, Lucille showed up on Christmas, Thanksgars,
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in a couple of Marylyn's birthdays, but every time she
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laid her eyes on me, I could feel the flames
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of her hate. Then all at once, we lost contact
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with her. She moved away in the night one day
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and we never heard from her again. To this day,
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I don't know where she ended up or where she's buried.
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I suppose in this day and age, I could find out,
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But why raise old ghosts. I had a long talk
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with Ella, and after that we only spoke about little Otis.
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Every September twenty fourth, we'd get a cake, candles and
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say a prayer for our lost child. We shared the
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celebration with Marilyn every year, but as far as she
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was concerned, her brother's death was a tragic accident. I
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saw Genie and Francine a couple more times before I
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lost Ella, and both times weren't planned. Denie was passing
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through Augusta with her businessman husband and popped in both times.
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Francine came to get away from mister s the butcher
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once and she came looking to borrow money one other time.
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Then about this time last year, I lost Ella. Oxygen
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masks dropped and people were screaming and crying. On the
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seven fifty seven. The plane was in a sharp descent,
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and for Otis and Sheila, everything seemed to be moving
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in slow motion. Sheila, do you hear the baby? Otis
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screamed over the commotion. The oxygen masks were floating in
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front of his face. Otis, put on your mask, Sheila, screamed,
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leaning over, discarding the rule to put your own mask
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on before helping others, Otis swatted her hands away. Sheila,
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I have to get the baby, ODIs screamed as he
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unbuckled his safety belt. It sounded like a freight train
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was barreling down the track position to take them out.
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Heads were tucked between knees. Flight attendants were screaming at
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people to remain seated. The plane was almost in a
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full dive. ODIs pulled himself from the floor with his
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strong hands and moved from seat to seat. The sounds
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of babies cries got closer with each seat he passed.
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Most people were praying, some had their phones out, texting
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or trying to call their loved ones. He could hear
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Sheila screaming behind him, begging him to come back, but
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ODIs pressed on. He was there. ODIs gripped the side
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of seat A and looked into the green eyes staring
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back at him. Little ODIs smiled at his father, and
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his father smiled back. Otis kept his grip on the
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front of the seat with his right hand and unbuckled
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the child with his left. He lifted his son closer
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to him. All of the screams went away, he could
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only hear Sheila. Otis turned and, holding his son in
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one hand, made his way back to seat twenty two A.
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The pilots were both unconscious. The cabin pressure alarm went
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unnoticed as they tried to get the plane back on course,
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and it was too late when they fell into La
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La land. Sheila, meet my son, little Otis? What how
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Sheila started? There was a bright flash of light and
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all of the shadows burned away into the white. The
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plane exploded into the side of the Cascade Mountains just
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outside of Seattle. Then Sheila awoke, and it began again. Hi, dear,
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I hope I didn't wake you. A spindly old hand
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reached across the middle seat and gently tapped on Sheila's arm.
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As she turned to look upon the smiling, elderly man
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still touching her, His hands were the hands of a
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man who had seen their fair share of hard labor,
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the hands of a man that had been on top
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of many a roof on many a hot summer's day.
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Bellevue Memorial Gardens, Augusta, Georgia, Ella, and Marilyn were at
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Otis and Little Otis's graveside Marilyn was standing behind her
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mother's wheelchair with a hand on her frail mother's shoulder.
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It had been a little over a year since they
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lost Otis in that horrible plane crash, and Otis had
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lost Ella and Marilyn. Marilyn, I have something to tell you,
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Ella started, What is it? Mother asked Marilyn. Let's go
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to the snow cap and I'll share it all. Ella
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wiped a tear from her eye. Okay, Mother, goodbye, Daddy
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and baby brother. I love you. Marilyn pushed the wheelchair
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up the incline as they passed. A middle aged couple
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smiled as they walked by, holding hands. The tall man
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and his wife stopped two plots away from Otis and
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Little Otis. The marker read, Sheila Alice Baker, A bright
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light that will never burn out February twenty eighth, nineteen
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eighty to November eighteenth, twenty twelve. Whether it was new
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to you or you were revisiting it was, I hope
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you enjoyed that story as much as I did. Make
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sure you're subscribed on your favorite podcasting app because there
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are more fears to come in the new year. We're
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just getting started. Twenty twenty five, the sixth year of51300:33:14.880 --> 00:33:20.599
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