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It started with kitchen cabinets opening by themselves, then a
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painting that seemed to know the house the future, and
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the two women standing in front of it. By the
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time the figure inside the painting started moving, well, it
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was already too late. What's that you want to be scared?
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He Come with me. You will experience tales over our room,
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ghosts and death. It is not recommended for the week
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at Heart listeners in the dark, it's more fun at
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that way. Way. This is Weekly Speaking. Hello, my spooky
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is It's Wednesday, and you know what that means. It's
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time for a little spooky in your weekly. I'm your
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host and narrator, Enrique Kuto, and thank you so much
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for joining me for another Terror tale as we make
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our way toward our four hundredth episode, which honestly is
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kind of surreal but very exciting. And I want to
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mention if you're in the Columbus, Ohio area this weekend,
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and nineteenth. That's Saturday and Sunday, so stop by and
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A house can feel safe for years, familiar walls, familiar rooms,
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familiar routines, and then one day something changes. A cabinet
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opens on its own, a strange feeling settles over the room.
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A painting appears to hold details no one should have
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known to put there, And once you realize the thing
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staring back at you from the canvas is staring back
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for real, there's no pretending it's just your imagination. Anymore,
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So get cozy as we get spooky. I Painted a
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Witch by Bruce Haney. How does a house just become haunted?
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We've lived here for almost ten years. The house is old,
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but you wouldn't think a ghost would be shy and
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wait nearly a decade before showing itself, Jenny told her
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neighbor over on their weekly girls' night. Tell me again,
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what do you think you saw? Danielle asked. Danielle wasn't
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like Jenny's other friends. They shared a similar education and
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were close in age, But just like that old song,
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Danielle was a little bit country while Jenny was a
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lot more rock and roll. Jenny had blonde hair and
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Danielle was a brunette. They were even opposites in their
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choice of partners. Danielle was married to a fairly conservative man.
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Jenny was married to a woman who used to spray
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paint anarchist symbols on the sides of buildings in her youth.
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They made friends through their partners who were in the
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same bowling league, so while their partners were out knocking
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over pins, they would stay home watch reality TV, share
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TikTok videos, and kill a box of wine. When they
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first met, Danielle was wearing pink camo cowboy boots and
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a Miranda Lambert t shirt, while Jenny was still rocking
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her worn Doc Martin's and a bikini Kill shirt. So
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neither thought they would get along. But now Girls' Night
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was the highlight of their week, a time when they
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could relax and complain about the previous week. Jenny once
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explained it to her husband, it's like therapy, but you
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get to drink. I already told you what happened, Jenny said,
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via text, that doesn't count. Come on, I want to
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feel the spookies. Danielle replied, fine, I'll tell you again
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what happened. Jenny said, okay, tell it slow and dry
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out the tension. Danielle laughed while turning off the lamp
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next to her. It's not funny. I know, I know,
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but it's been a boring week, Danielle said. I was
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in the kitchen and the cabinet opened up behind me.
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Jenny said flatly, that's not how you tell a scary story.
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Danielle complained, let me tell you your own story properly. That way,
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when you tell others, it won't bore them to death.
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You don't need another dead person haunting you. We don't
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know if it's the ghost of a dead person, Jenny added, right,
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it could be the ghost of a living person. Danielle joked. No,
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I'm not saying that. I'm just Jenny gave up. Okay,
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let me tell you the story. Let me know if
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I get anything wrong, Danielle said. Jenny agreed. Danielle slouches
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her shoulders. So my name is Jennifer, but most people
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call me Jenny. I'm a beautiful and powerful woman in
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the prime of my life, Danielle said, which made Jenny laugh.
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What are you doing what I said to interrupt me?
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If I got a fact wrong? Are those not facts? Fine? Fine? Continue.
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Jenny poured herself a glass of pink rose from the box.
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I had just arrived home after a grueling day at work,
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and all I wanted to do was drink a glass
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of water, prepare a light snack, and get out of
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my power suit. I do not wear a power suit,
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Jenny declared. It was black pants and a blouse. Danielle
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cleared her throat as I was getting ice from the
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ice maker built into my fridge. Because I'm a bougie bitch,
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Jenny laughed. I'm not bougie. I'm a punk rocker. Danielle continued.
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I felt an uneasiness that I couldn't quite place, so
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I looked around the room just in time to see
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the cupboard creak open on its own. I walked over
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to inspect it to see the cause. Maybe it was
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too full and something had shifted. This isn't any spookier,
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Jenny interrupted, you're just adding details, sh I'm just about
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to get to the good part, okay. So I was
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at the cupboard looking at it. It was only half
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filled and with cups. Nothing had shifted, nothing could have
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opened it. Jenny made a yawning motion with her hand
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and over her mouth. Then I felt it. It started
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at the base of my back, as if someone had
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rested their palm there. I looked behind me, expecting to
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see my beautiful wife Jenny burst out laughing. Maybe Jenny laughed.
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Danielle got up and walked to the kitchen, miming as Jenny,
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But nothing was there, said as she walked to the
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cupboards and touched the last one on the right. It
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wasn't that cupboard, it was the middle one, Jenny said.
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Danielle walked over and touched the middle one. Jenny shook
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her head, yes, and Danielle continued to tell Jenny her
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own story. So I looked back at the cupboard and
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it was now closed, but then it popped back open.
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Danielle made a dramatic opening of the cupboard. Ah, she yelled,
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and then laughed, that's what happened, right. Jenny set her
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glass down and joined Danielle in the kitchen. So I
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thought maybe I had closed it already, and maybe I had,
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but then it popped open again, So I was relieved.
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Jenny said why. Danielle asked, well, I thought if it
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happened again, it must just be a bad hinge or something.
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Makes sense. Danielle said, do you want me or you
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to finish the story? Danielle asked, you can do it,
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Jenny said. Danielle mined the actions as she told the
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last part, but then the next one popped open, and
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then the next, Danielle said, paused the storytelling to open
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every cupboard. Then the rest popped open all at once.
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Danielle said, while making a big opening gesture with her hands,
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that's what happened, right, Yes, Jenny said, that is spooky.
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It scared the hell out of me, Jenny added, and
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this just happened today. Yep, so did the other thing,
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Jenny said, can you show me sure? The two turned
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around to make their way to her study. Behind them,
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they heard a loud noise, and without even looking back,
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they knew all the cupboards had popped open again. Danielle
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and Jenny both dropped their glasses and screamed. Moments passed
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as the two waited to see if anything else would happen,
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but nothing did. They both laughed nervously. That is quite spooky,
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Danielle confessed, I told you, Jenny said, while grabbing a
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broom She handed the dustpan to Danielle, who helped her
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clean up the broken glasses. Once that was done, Danielle
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made moves to close the cupboards. Leave them. It's just
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going to pop them open again. Don't give it the satisfaction,
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Jenny said, Okay, let's go look at your hobby room.
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I prefer to call it my study. Jenny corrected, you
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are a bougie bitch. Danielle and Jenny opened the door
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to the study. It was a small room, but well organized.
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On the right wall was a bookshelf that housed all
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their books, her art books and her wife's books. Her
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partner's sections were full of graphic novels and young adult
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books from the eighties and nineties, lots of R. L.
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Stein and Christopher Pike. On the left side were two
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nine cube shelves filled with plastic containers with various art supplies.
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Next to them was the painting. Jenny had started painting
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only a year ago. Before that, she made small polymer
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clay sculptures, and years previous to that, she put out
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a punk rock zine called pit Girl, a zine about
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her life as one of the few punk rock girls
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in her town. The tone of the zine changed after
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she met Sarah. Her stories of isolation transitioned into stories
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of a budding romance and their adventures as they built
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their life and careers together. Each issue came out with
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a bigger gap in between releases. Eventually a year had
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passed without an issue coming out, and she let it go,
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always swearing to go back and make a final issue.
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The painting was what they were in her study to
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look at. Wow, Danielle said, yeah, it's Danielle began way
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better than my skill, Jenny finished, I wasn't going to
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say that. Danielle gave her a little smile, But, yeah,
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that is an incredible piece of art. I painted it
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this afternoon. That's incredible. A painting like that should take
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days at least, not an afternoon, and not at my
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skill level. What does it mean, Danielle asked, I don't know.
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The painting itself was an image of a woman in
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white sitting at a table in a mid eighteenth century
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home reading a book. She has various small containers all
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around the room. In her time, she would have been
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called an herbalist or a witch. Every detail was clear,
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including the titles of the books on the shelf behind her,
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books that neither of the two women knew were real
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publications or not. That is strange, Danielle stated, Yeah. She
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pointed at the painting. Did you notice that, Danielle asked,
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pointing at the mirror that hung on the wall in
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the painting. Jenny had to move closer and squint her
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eyes to see that in the mirror reflected were the
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two of them looking in? Why would you paint us
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into the painting, Danielle asked, I I didn't know. I did, sure?
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Really look again, you're wearing the exact outfit you're wearing
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right now. How would I have known that? Danielle looked.
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She was right. She didn't tell Jenny at that moment,
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but the top she was wearing was new, and in
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the paintings she was wearing her opal earrings, which she
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was wearing now. They too were new. Her husband had
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bought them on their trip, and this was the first
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time she had worn them around Jenny. She was hoping
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that Jenny would notice and compliment her. Then she would
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tell her the story of the little shop they found
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and how kind it was for him to get them
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for her. The other strange aspect of the painting was
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the art hanging up in the background. The woman was
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a painter as well, it seemed, and all of hers
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were of different homes, some modern, some ancient. The longer
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I look at this painting, the weirder it gets. This
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might be your masterpiece, Danielle said. Maybe. She stared at
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the painting some more, But is it really mine? Jenny asked,
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did you paint this before or after the kitchen incident?
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Danielle inquired, why look at her paintings that one on
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the left looks like your kitchen with the cabinets open.
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Jenny looked again, what the hell you're right? Then she
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looked at the other two paintings in the background. One
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was of the strange woman sitting on a couch, which
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looked like hers. But the last image was the worst,
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Jennifer gasped after looking at it. The woman stood over
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a body that was lying on the ground. Because of
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the style represented and the shadow work, it was hard
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to tell whose body it was. Jennifer knocked the painting
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over in frustration. Woe there, Danielle exclaimed that woman painted
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herself in my house. Jenny yelled, calm down, Remember you
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painted everything on that canvas. How could Jenny said, before
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stopping after hearing a sound in the other room, A
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squeaking sound came from another Is it ten already, Danielle asked,
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thinking that Jenny's partner was home now, Jenny said, looking
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at her fitness tracker watch in a whisper, Jenny said,
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that sounded like somebody sitting down on the couch, right, yeah,
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Danielle agreed. They both looked down at the picture to
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see the small painting within the painting where the woman
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was on the couch. They both gulped when they noticed
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that the woman who had been sitting at the table
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reading was now looking up and smiling. Now it was
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Danielle's turn to freak out. She slammed her foot through
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the painting, ripping it nearly in half. The couch squeak
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was heard again, followed by the sound of feet hitting
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the ground and then footsteps. Jenny looked over at Danielle.
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What do we do? I don't know, Jenny replied flatly.
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They both listened, trying to figure out if the steps