The Last Flight Out: A Haunted Flight & a Plane Crash That Keeps Repeating

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Taking a flight on an airplane can
be an uncomfortable journey as you're squeezed in

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like sardines and coach just to save
a few bucks. Who knows who you

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might sit next to. Usually they're
obnoxious or asleep. But what if you

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met someone that brought changes into your
life? You may have never imagined?

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What's that? You want to be
scared to? Come with me. You

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will experience tales over opera, who, ghosts and death. It is not

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recommended at the foot of week at
heart heart listen as in the dark it's

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more fun at that way way.
This is Weekly Squeaking. Hello, my

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spooky is It's Wednesday, and you
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and we have quite the chilling tale
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we better hurry. We have a
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a terminal, isn't it Well,
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you do not want to be left
behind on this flight. We'll get to

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that after these quick words from our
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Campbell. Zone one is boarding.
Everyone with a boarding pass and Zone one

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are cleared to board flight seven point
fifty two from Hartsfield Jackson International to Seattle.

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Please present your boarding pass and be
prepared to have carrions checked if they

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will not fit in the overhead compartment
or under your seat. The pretty petite

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blonde wearing the Delta name tag smiled
as passengers lined up to board the two

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hundred and eighty four passenger ready bowing
seven fifty seven three hundred. Sheila popped

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out her earbuds the sounds of Maria
Maria by Santana emitted from the tiny dangling

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speakers, and took another glance at
her boarding pass, hoping it would magically

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change zones from four to one.
She had two carry ons, and if

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her luck was per usual, she
would end up checking the overhead bag because

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a few inconsiderate passengers would overstuff their
allotments, leaving most of zones three and

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four in the baggage lurch. The
airport was crowded with your typical mix of

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people, business types with iPads and
laptops in hand, stressed out parents herding

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up their children, and more than
a couple of people that Sheila prayed would

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not be seated beside her because they
would overlap over a quarter of the way

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into her Economy class seat. Another
ten minutes passed before Sheila heard the sweet

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sound of now boarding zone four.
Sheila made her way past the smiling blonde

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that scanned her boarding pass and was
pleasantly surprised that she wasn't asked to check

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her carryons as she cleared the entrance
ramp and stepped into the jetliner. Okay

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twenty two Sea, Sheila mumbled as
she held her laptop bag out in front

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of her, with the Duffel bag
dangling behind as she navigated down the middle

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aisle finding her window seat. This
really is my lucky day, Shila thought

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to herself, as she was one
of the last passengers to board. In

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the compartment right above her seat,
there was a hole just big enough to

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stuff her Duffel bag, leaving her
laptop to be shoved under the seat in

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front of her. Sheila took her
seat, strapped her belt, and was

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asleep before the flight attendant gave instructions
on emergency exits and safety belts. This

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is the captain speaking. We have
now achieved an altitude of ten thousand feet.

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You may now use approved electronic devices. Please keep your seat belts fastened.

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Thank you for flying Delta flight seven
fifty two to Seattle. Hi,

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dear, I hope 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 turned to look upon

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the smiling elderly man, whose hand
was still gently placed on her shoulder.

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His were the 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 of many a roof on

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many a hot summer's day. No, sir, you didn't wake me.

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My name's Sheila Baker, she said, as she patted the man's fingers on

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her right shoulder with her left hand. I'm otis Thornton. The skinny seventy

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somethingter smiled at Sheila with teeth that, to her surprise, appeared to be

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all his one hundred percent and not
a spot of yellow on them. Pleased

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to meet you, mister Otis,
interrupted, No, mister just Otis,

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Sheila smiled and said Okay, Otis, looks like we have a little breathing

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room. Huh. Sheila patted the
empty seat that separated them, not that

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it would have made that much of
a difference if he was sitting in the

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seat right next to her. Otis
was a little over five six and couldn't

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have been any more than one hundred
and twenty five pounds. Soaking wet,

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he was immediately engaging with light green
eyes that shouted kindness. Sheila had to

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stop herself from reaching out and touching
the full head of neatly combed snow white

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hair. Oh, the pleasure is
all mine, Otis started. I don't

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get to sit beside beautiful women that
much anymore, well, not since I

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lost my dearest Ella. The kind
eyes told a story that Sheila desperately wanted

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to hear. Otis. I must
say that I am pleased that you will

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be my company on this flight.
Sheila shuffled in her seat so she was

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facing Otis directly and pushed a strand
of her hanging brown hair back behind her

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left ear. Well, thank you, Sheila, I'm an old man that

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likes to talk. Just let me
know if I start to talk your ears

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off and I'll be quiet well,
thank you, Otis. I am a

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thirty two year old woman that likes
to listen, so talk all you want.

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You might regret that invitation. Sheila. Otis's eyes lit up with the

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prospect of sharing his story with her. Try me, okay, here it

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goes, and Otis began. It
was the summer of nineteen fifty eight when

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I first laid eyes on Ella Stanton. She was working at the snow Cap

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as a roller waitress, and she
was very good at it. I remember

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hearing the wheels of the skates whisked
by on the asphalt as she left behind

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a sweet trail of lightly applied perfume
while she rolled to and fro and back

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and forth. Her auburn hair was
like a campfire at sunset, and her

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skin was fair and as soft as
a butterfly's kiss, at least as soft

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as how I like to imagine a
butterfly's kiss. I was a young man

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of three when she first smiled and
batted her brown eyes at me. You

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see, I helped my father back
in those days. He was a self

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made, hard working man. Otis
Thornton Sor moved to Augusta, Georgia,

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with my mother Genie, when I
was a toddler way back in the early

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forties. I take 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 hair used to be

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sandy blonde in another lifetime. Anyway, back to my angel, I remember

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my hands ached like the dickens from
laying shingles. On that hot July day

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when Ella rolled into my life.
I remember that I ordered a double cheeseburger

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all the way and a coke float. When Ella said, you sure are

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skinny? You think you can handle
the double? Did I mention my father

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was there with me? Well he
was, and he answered for me because

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my mouth couldn't speak the words outside
of the order that I had just blurted

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out. Yeah, I've 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. My father

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gave her an Eastwood squint with a
turned up grin and continued, I'll have

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the same thing, but I'll take
the coke without the float. From that

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day on, I visited Ella at
least three times a week, mostly without

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my father, although he would still
come along once in a while when he

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got the craving for the goodness of
that double burger. This went along for

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about two or three months before I
got up the courage to court Ella.

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My father told mother about Ella about
two weeks into me, missing too many

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home cooked meals. Then they were
both on to me. My mother wanted

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grandchildren as I was an only child. There was something about her lady parts

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that didn't quite work right after I
was born. I remember that she doted

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over me enough for four children,
so much as a boy, all the

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way up to and through manhood.
Ella's mother, Lucille, is where she

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got that auburn hair and fair skin. Her father, Thomas Stanton, worked

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at the True Value hardware store,
selling hammers, wrenches, nails and what

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not. All Ella got from him
was the brown eyes. I remember them

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staring through me the first time I
came calling on his youngest daughter. Ella

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had two older sisters that at the
time were already married off, Genie to

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some business man named Earle, and
if I recall correctly, Francine, who

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married a butcher named Steve or Sam
something that started with an S. Anyway,

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Ella was the last chickadee left and
Daddy Hawk certainly favored her over the

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two that had flown the coop.
Lucille took to me right away, but

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Thomas Stanton took a lot of coaxing. He had to meet my father to

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gauge my stock in upbringing. I
could tell from our first handshake that he

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favored the callous that had developed on
my hand. He knew from that first

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shake that I didn't have the hands
of a paper pusher or God forbid,

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an insurance salesman. Mister Stanton knew
I came by an honest wage from the

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sweat of my brow. That was
a wind for me right up front.

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Even with that, it still took
coaxing. Sheila, I hope I'm not

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boring you so far. Otis not
at all. It's the opposite. I

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don't want you to 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 stress of her

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life melting away as she listened to
the tail of Otis and Ella Okay,

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then and Otis continued. So Ella
and I married almost a year after I

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met her father for the first time. About a year after that, we

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welcomed our baby girl, Marilyn into
the world. Marilyn turned out to be

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a pediatrician. All of my work
on all those roofs with my father did

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that. That's something I'm very proud
of. Ella's father never saw our second

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child, Otis. He died of
a heart attack in his backyard weeding when

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Ella was pregnant with little Otis.
We went back and forth on the name

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for a bit, but my father
wanted to keep the Otis name going.

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And the truth of it was,
Thomas Stanton wasn't around to object, and

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my lovely mother in law, Lucille, well, she just fell to pieces

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and her baby girl, My wife, my sweet Ella, wasn't far behind

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on the falling to piece's train.
On top of it, she was pregnant

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with little Otis, with a toddler
at her feet, and the stress of

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it all was almost more than she
could bear. To tell the truth,

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looking back on it now, it
was, and I know this may sound

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selfish, almost more than I should
have been able to bear. But my

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father raised a pillar of strength.
And that's not just me boasting my dear

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I truly was like a block of
granite in those days. Thomas's funeral roll

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was on September twenty 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, folks

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hadn't heard of anything like postpartum depression. We just called it the baby blues,

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and Ella's father passing combined with it
didn't give little Otis much of a

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chance. I just didn't know it
back then. Ella's sisters came down for

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the funeral, but they sure didn't
hang around to comfort Lucille, let alone

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the birth of their new nephew.
I guess they were grieving in their own

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way, but they sure as hell
got out of Dodge before the soil in

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their father's grave had even settled.
I think the guy whose first name began

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with an S was 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 felt was required. It

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was a few months after little Otis
was born that Lucille started to come out

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of it, and it was all
due to little Otis. The baby blues

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and grief still had its lock on
my darling Ella. I had to keep

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food on the table, so I
stayed on rooftops with my father. My

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mother kept little Otis about a quarter
of the time, and Lucille kept him

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the rest of the time. My
mother could see that Lucille needed that baby

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more than she did, and although
I could see it hurt her to give

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up her time with little Otis,
she knew if Lucille couldn't hang on to

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that baby, then she wouldn't be
far behind mister Stanton taking up residence in

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Bellevue Memorial Gardens. A big thing
that helped was mother did spend a lot

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of time with sweet Maryland. Sheila. Next is the hard part. You

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still want to listen Otis. I
don't know what to say. Sheila was

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transfixed on the old man with the
green eyes and calloused hands. Just then,

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flight Attendant susy Q from who knows
where interrupted them. Peanuts are cookies?

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Excuse me, Sheila asked, because
absolutely nothing, Flight Attendant susie Q

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said registered in her brain. Otis
smiled with all his real teeth on display

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and said, I like the salty
peanuts please, and a coke if you've

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got one in that cart. I
do, replied susie Q. Miss anything

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for you, Sheila answered, salty
peanuts and a coke. Otis tipped the

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red and white can in Sheila's direction
as susie Q rattled by, and he

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asked, shall I continue? Yes, Sheila was too far in now she

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had to hear the rest of it, and Otis continued. Little Otis had

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the colic pretty bad, and I
was up many a night tending to him.

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Because of Ella's delicate state. My
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with Little Otis. If I could
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any given night, that was a
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three hours, and sometimes two.
It was November eighteenth, and it started

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with a cold rain. Ella was
clearing up the supper dishes, Marilyn was

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playing with her dolls on the living
room floor, and Little Otis was fast

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asleep on my belly as I watched
Cronkite fill us in on the state of

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the World. I can still recall
the smell of a fresh rain cropping up,

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and then the steady pelting on the
roof. Before Cronkite signed off,

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I was in the firm grip of
the sandman. When I awoke. Little

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Otis was no longer taking breaths on
my chest. At first I thought nothing

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of it. Ella had taken him
to his crib and put him down for

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the night. A fresh faced carson
was in the middle of cracking a joke

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when I turned the knob on the
old Zenith. I walked up the stairs

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to our bedroom, and I was
just as careful and quiet as I could

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be with every step. I had
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of sleep I had received in front
of them television, and if I was

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quiet, that night was going to
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me. I 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 my body. Sheila,

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this is where I could have made
a difference if I had only known.

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Ella was sitting in the rocker facing
the window in the far corner of Little

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Otis's room. The fire truck red
painted walls made it very dark at night.

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I remember the sound of the rocker
as it moved front and back while

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Ella gently rocked little Otis. The
window was cracked just a hair and a

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little chill filled the room, but
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her arms. I thought maybe she
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I remember that I smiled, relieved
that my sense of dread was a false

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alarm, and closed the door as
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did a bed check on Marilyn.
She was curled up with her raggedy andl

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thumb firmly placed in her mouth.
So I went to bed. Don't go

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away, weekly spooky. We'll be
right back. Ladies and gentlemen, this

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is your captain speaking. We are
about to experience some severe turbulence. Please

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remain seated with your belts fastened until
further notice. It's going to get pretty

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choppy, so make sure your belongings
are secured. Thank you for flying Delta

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flight seven fifty two to Seattle.
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the aisles, tugging on seat belts, flipping up tray tables, and checking

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in with the folks seated at the
emergency exits to make sure that they were

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still willing and to perform their assigned
duties if needed. All of a sudden,

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as if on cue, the seven
fifty seven shuddered violently. It sounded

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like it was getting nailed with a
million paintballs and took a sudden drop in

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elevation. Flight Attendant susie Q shrieked
as she momentarily left her feet, and

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if the drop had been just a
couple more feet, her head would have

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been carved in by the plains ceiling. Another stroke of luck for susie Q

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was that she brushed up against the
aisle seat that sure Handed Otis occupied as

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wade and momentum took her up.
Otis grabbed her by the waistband in her

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skirt with his steel grip and pulled
her back down. Susie Q fell hard

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on both knees from the sudden descent, but it was preferable to smashing her

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skull. She crawled on hands and
knees until she got to her seat.

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Her knees were all skinned up and
blood was oozing from the stocking, but

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she made it to her seat and
secured her safety belt. The creaking and

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cracking noises inside the flying 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 woods yet.

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I anticipate we'll hit more chop before
we settle back in remain seated with your

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seat belts fastened. Please, Otis, Are you okay? What you did

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there? Catching that girl? That
was amazing? Shila was falling in love

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with her 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 be fine.

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I was on a plane that almost
crashed once. But that's another story.

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You want me to keep going.
There's more to tell about me and Ella.

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Otis gazed at Shila with you have
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I would like to hear the rest. What happened to baby Otis?

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I rolled out of bed and remembered
it felt like I stepped on a thousand

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sewing needles standing at attention on the
hardwood floor. My hands might have seventy

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plus years of callous, but my
feet are still tender to this day.

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Ella was lying there, still lost
in her dreams, as I shuffled across

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the floor to grab my bathrobe.
I generally slept in my undershorts and nothing

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else. It was colder than usual
that morning, and the reason was apparent

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when I pulled the robe over my
shoulders. The window on the left side

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of our bedroom was fully opened,
and there was a little puddle on the

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floor directly underneath. So I closed
the source of the morning's frosty rise and

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turned back to find a towel.
I remember moving into the hallway looking just

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a moment to check in on Marylyn, and she was still nestled under her

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blankets, so I continued down the
hallway toward the towel closet. Just before

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I got there, I noticed that
the door to Little Otis's room was completely

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closed. We never left the door
to his room completely closed, so this

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got my attention right quick. My
breath got shorter the closer that I moved

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to Little Otis's door. The white
knob seemed to look at me, daring

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me to turn it, but almost
warning me not to. I hesitated,

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as I expected it to grow a
mouth and say, Otis, I wouldn't

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turn me if I were you.
But I did turn it, and then

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I stepped in. Every window in
the room was wide open, all four

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of them. The room was a
literal ice box. Water was everywhere,

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much more than any single towel could
pick up. Water splashed under my feet

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as I sprinted toward Little Otis's crib. I slipped in the water when I

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made a stubborn stop, and both
my feet flung out from underneath me.

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I landed with my ass on the
floor and my feet sticking out from under

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the crib. I grabbed the bottom
of the crib rail and pulled myself up,

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shedding the soaked bathrobe as I did. His little green eyes were staring

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up at me, and his mouth
was slightly open, as if he were

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still trying to suckle. I reached
down to grab my son, and his

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blue body was cold and stiff.
I'll never forget the sound it made when

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I pulled my blanket wrapped baby from
the crib mattress. It was almost like

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the sound of pulling apart velcrow.
I was looking into Little Otis's hungry eyes

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when I heard Ella mumble I'm sorry
in the doorway. Sheila, this was

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all my fault, it really was. I knew better than to lee leave

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her alone with Little Otis the night
before, lack of sleep overruled rational thinking.

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Not that I'm using that as an
excuse, because I'd gotten a good

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chunk of sleep for me that night
before I went to bed. I never

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turned to look at her. I
recall saying that I would take care of

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it, and she needed to leave
the room while she still could. She

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was wailing as she walked back down
the hallway. Little Marilyn was still snuggled

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in her blankets. Oh my god, Otis, what did you do?

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Sheila's hands were trembling at this point, but she didn't notice. Otis had

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her all the way in. Well, Sheila, I loved my Ella more

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than anything. And this is awful
to say out loud, but I loved

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Ella even more than little Otis or
Marilyn, and I would give my life

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without question for any of them.
The plane suddenly drops and the lights in

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the flying pill 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. The plane rattled

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like chattering teeth. The flight attendants
were breezing through the aisles, holding the

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sides of the seats as they moved
through, trying to make sure that all

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the passengers were secured. This is
the captain speaking. The chop we're experiencing

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is severe. Everyone remain seated.
Flight attendants included everyone in your seat and

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stay there if you have to use
the restroom. I would suggest you hold

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it if at all possible. This
turbulence is unpredictable and we are not out

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of it yet. No, thank
you for flying with Delta flight seven fifty

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two after this update. 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 out and grabbed

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him by the tips of his fingers
with both of her hands. Please finish

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the story, are you sure,
dear? I hear some fear in the

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captain's voice now, so he has
my attention. ODIs pulled both of her

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hands into his, and Sheila nodded
her head yes, and ODIs continued.

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Lucille was at the funeral, and
she said maybe two words to me.

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The entire time she was there.
There was definitely blame in her eyes,

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and it was always directed at me. I suspect that she went to her

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grave thinking I killed that baby,
and in a way she was kind of

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right. My father and mother were
there. My father never left my side

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for a second. My mother was
all over the place. She was babbling

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incoherently for most of the service,
and clung to my father's shoulders like a

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frightened kitten. My father stayed stoic
and strong for me to show me how

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to be a man. I appreciated
that more than he ever knew. Neither

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one of Ella's sisters showed up.
I'm sure mister s had something to do

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with Francine's 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 brother was gone,

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but she was still young enough to
forget. There was a brief investigation,

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but the baby's death was determined to
be accidental, bordering on negligence, and

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charges were within an eyelash of being
filed. There were questions on why the

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windows were cracked. They were all
just cracked when the investigator showed up,

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and there wasn't a drop of water
on the floor. The windows, even

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being cracked just a little in an
enclosed space with no heat, was enough

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to kill an infant when temperatures dropped
the way they had. The reason given

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for the cracked windows was the strong
scent of pine, a scent that I

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made sure was there when they showed
up. Remember, I loved Ella more

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than anything, and I was going
to protect her at all costs, even

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if that meant going to prison.
After the funeral, Lucille showed up on

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Christmas, Thanksgiving and a couple of
Maryland's birthdays, but every time she laid

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her eyes on me, I could
feel the flames of her hate. Then

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all at once we lost contact with
her. She moved away in the night

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one day and we never heard from
her again. To this day, I

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don't know where she ended up or
where she's buried. I suppose in this

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day and age, I could find
out, but why raise old ghosts.

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I had a long talk with Ella, and after that we only spoke about

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little Otis. 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 celebration with Marilyn every

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year, but as far as she
was concerned, her brother's death was a

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tragic accident. I saw Genese and
Francine a couple more times before I lost

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Ella, and both times weren't planned. Genie was passing through Augusta with her

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business man husband and popped in both
times. Francine came to get away from

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mister s the butcher once, and
she came looking to borrow money one other

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time. Then about this time last
year, I lost ella. Oxygen masks

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dropped and people were screaming and crying
on the seven fifty seven. The plane

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was in a sharp descent, and
for Otis and Sheila, everything seemed to

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be moving in slow motion. Sheila, do you hear the baby, ODIs

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screamed over the commotion. The oxygen
masks were floating in front of his face.

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Otis, put on your mask,
Sheila screamed, leaning over, discarding

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the rule to put your own mask
on before helping others. ODIs swatted her

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hands away. Sheila, I have
to get the baby, ODIs screamed as

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he unbuckled his safety belt. It
sounded like a freight train was barreling down

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the track position to take them out. Heads were tucked between knees. Flight

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attendants were screaming at people to remain
seated. The plane was almost in a

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full dive. ODIs pulled himself from
the floor with his strong hands and moved

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from seat to seat. The sounds
of babies cries got closer with each seat

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he passed. Most people were praying, some had their phones out, texting

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or trying to call their loved ones. He could hear Sheila screaming behind him,

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begging him to come back, but
ODIs pressed on. He was there.

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ODIs gripped the side of seat A
and looked into the green eyes staring

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back at him. Little ODIs smiled
at his father, and his father smiled

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back. Otis kept his grip on
the front of the seat with his right

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hand and unbuckled the child with his
left. He lifted his son close to

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him. All of the screams went
away. He could only hear Sheila.

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Otis turned and, holding his son
in one hand, made his way back

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to seat twenty two A. The
pilots were both unconscious. The cabin pressure

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alarm went unnoticed as they tried to
get the plane back on course, and

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it was too late when they fell
into La La land. Sheila, meet

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my son, little Otis. What
how Sheila started? There was a bright

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flash of light and all of the
shadows burned away into the white. The

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plane exploded into the side of the
Cascade Mountains just outside of Seattle. Then

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Sheila awoke and it began again.
Hi, dear, I hope I didn't

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wake you. A spindly old hand
reached across the middle seat and gently tapped

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on Sheila's arm as she turned to
look upon the smiling, elderly man still

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touching her. His hands were the
hands of a man who had seen their

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fair share of hard labor, the
hands of a man that had been on

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top of many a roof on many
a hot summer's day. Bellevue Memorial Gardens,

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Augusta, Georgia. Ella and Maryland
were at Otis and Little Otis's graveside.

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Marilyn was standing behind her mother's wheelchair
with a hand on her frail mother's

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shoulder. It had been a little
over a year since they lost Otis in

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that horrible plane crash, and Otis
had lost Ella and Marilyn. Marilyn,

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I have something to tell you,
Ella started, What is it? Mother

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asked Marilyn. Let's go to the
snow cap and I'll share it all.

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Ella wiped a tear from her eye. Okay, Mother, goodbye, Daddy

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and baby brother. I love you. Marilyn pushed the wheelchair up the incline

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as they passed. A middle aged
couple smiled as they walked by, holding

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hands. The tall man and his
wife stopped two plots away from Otis and

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Little Otis. The marker read Sheila
al Baker A bright light that will never

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burn out February twenty eighth, nineteen
eighty to November eighteenth, twenty twelve.

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Well, my friends, it turns
out that flight was going somewhere none of

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us could have truly imagined. Big
thank you to our good buddy Charles Campbell

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for the truly chilling story we had
tonight, and I'll be thinking about it

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quite a bit the next time I
buy a plane ticket to go somewhere and

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explore the world. Well, my
spookies, I really appreciate all of you

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for standing by me while I've had
a very hard start of the year.

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In the last two and a half
months, I lost both of my dogs.

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They were both seniors, and they
were well taken care of, very

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well taken care of. They were
my pride and joy and I love them

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so much. So it's hard,
but I do enjoy bringing you this show.

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It brings me a lot of joy. So don't work. You're spooky

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will not stop. And a reminder
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Craig came and visited us during the
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of fun. It was cool to
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memes, scares, jokes, whatever
you have, but now I gotta get

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out of here. So until next
time, for myself, for my producer

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Dan Wilder, my executive producers Rob
Fields and Mark Shields, and my composer

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Ray Mattis, talk at you late, Thank you for listening. Make sure

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to find your way back next week, but for now you are safe,

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trust me,