Unknown Broadcast | "The Smile"

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Ah, I see your back.
Good to see you, my dear,

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So good to see you. Yes, I do have a story to play

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you tonight. I'm glad you sat
in front of your radio and fiddled with

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that little knobby thingy until you found
me sitting here and enjoying myself because you're

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joining me. Usually it's just me
all alone here. But of course,

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now that I have this little microplight, we can spend an evening together every

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night if we want. And I
will be here every night for him,

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for you, and I do appreciate
that you wait up for you, know,

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so why don't you get comfortable.
I'll get you something to drink,

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something hot, I'm sure would be
much appreciator. You get comfortable, put

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on a blanket. I know it
can be very cold in here. Or

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what's that? Oh no, no, no, don't worry about that.

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Just relaxed and listen. Are presents
come in and welcome? I'm temmy grimes.

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Some mysterious happenings cannot be explained.
Some need no explanation. Some are

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so incredible that even were I to
find the reasons, the causes, the

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wise, the wreforce, it would
still escape all understanding. Such a tale,

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the mystery that presents to you today. It is called the Smile.

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Whenever I see it, I feel
as if it's draining my life away.

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You saw it today, Bill,
This thing you call the smile, I

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see it every day. I see
it now. I want to see it

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too. Turn around. It's behind
you. It's right outside the lighthouse window.

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Growled, Lord, you're right,
it's there. You do think I

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was making it up? Well,
I I didn't know what to think.

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It does look like a gigantic smile
in the sky, and it's killing me,

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our mister drama. The Smile was
written especially for the Mystery Theater by

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G. Frederick Lewis. It's farre
as Tony Roberts. I shall return shortly

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with that one. A ring at
the door grown. A woman puts down

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her violin and opens the door.
The telegram is delivered. The woman's slender

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fingers slit open the yellow envelope.
She glances quickly at the name of the

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person who sent it to her.
It's the name of a man she hasn't

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seen in ten years, a man
she has been separated from her husband.

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She closes the door and returns inside, reading the telegram. Aloud. My

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dear Grace, I'm sure you're surprised
to hear from me after all this time.

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I wonder if you are still teaching
the violin. I imagine you have

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not remarried, nor have if we
couldn't make it together, I don't think

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we could with anyone else. The
woman puts down the telegram as if she

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can't bear to read further, chucks
her violin under her gin and plays,

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and then no, she has to
read the rest of the telegram, whether

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she wants to or not. So
we separated because we could no longer live

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together or needed one another. But
Grace, now I do need you.

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I need your help. I'm not
working at all, no writing nothing.

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I'm staying with Uncle Wilbur at his
place on Chesapeake Bay. Remember, Wilbur,

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can you come and see me as
soon as possible, Grace? I

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believe I am dying and only you
can save me. Yes, I remembered

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Uncle Wilbur, who could forget that
crotchety, opinionated old salt used to having

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his own way, the same instant
obedience he demanded when he was captain of

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his own ship. I stood on
the deck as we crossed the Chesapeake Bay

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to Rober's place. Now a retired
sea captain, he tended a lighthouse which

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kept him near the water and out
of trouble. I could see the two

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of them standing at the point.
At least I could make out two figures

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as an ail and supply cutter.
Brought me closer and closer to an adventure

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I never thought i'd lived through,
Wilbert, Is it still up there?

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I thought you were looking at the
boat. Bring him Gracehouse here to the

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lighthouse, Wilbur, I'm asking you
something much more important. Is it still

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up there? Do you see it
up in the sky? Yes, Bill,

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I can see it still there.
I thought by now you've come to

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terms with the fact that it's always
there. It's not your imagination or mine.

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Sometimes it comes and then it goes
away again. I was hoping it

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would go away today. Do you
want Grace to see it? I do,

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Yes, Yes, you're right.
That's why I sent for her.

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I want to talk to her about
it. Well, you talk to me

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about it. Seems to me we
talk a lot about it. Why doesn't

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it let me alone? Why me? I see it too? Bill?

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I know you do want to go
over. I know I know e,

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but it isn't doing to you what
it does to me. To you,

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it might be just another strange shaped
cloud in the sky. Doesn't affect you

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the way it affects me. That's
true. Well, let's get down to

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the dock. I think about Grace's
armor is about to pull in. It's

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killing me, whether it's bringing the
light out of me. Whenever it appears

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wherever we are, I feel weaker. I know, will I know.

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We'll just have a long talk about
it with Grace. Let's godd on now

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and help him tie up the cutter. Of course, at the time I

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didn't say one word, but I
can tell you now. I was shocked

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as I stepped ashore at Lighthouse Point. I was so shaken to see how

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much Bill had changed I could hardly
speak. He was no longer a young

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man of forty. His hair had
turned snow white. He looked sevenly.

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He took my suitcase and cut her
cast off, and an hour later I

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was alone with Bill, sitting in
the lighthouse kitchen, just the two of

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us, having sandwiches and coffee.
Grace, you look marvelous. I'd quite

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forgotten what a beautiful girl I was
once married to well, actually there were

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still legally married, but I take
it as a compliment just the same.

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Hm, did you take these sandwiches? I'm afraid not. Ah, that's

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Uncle Wilbur's department. Uh huh.
And what's your department in this lifehouse keeping?

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And I'm not doing much of anything, I'm afraid, uh sort of.

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Uh, I don't know. I
guess you might say I've gone to

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pieces as it were. Well,
that's hard for me to believe. And

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then like you always in the middle
of things, and you were always off

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covering a war or a or a
peace conference. Are you doing much writing

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now? I'm not doing any.
My last assignment that I can remember well

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for the syndicate was uh. It's
funny, I can't remember. You can't

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remember. Was it that long ago? No, No, not at all.

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It's just uh uh it just slipped
my moment, and that's all.

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Let's see. It was uh,
yes, oh, yes, I I

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did a feature on Tibet. That's
an extraordinary kind of life. They live

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up there in the mountains of the
Tibetan. No I read it. I

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did. That was a wonderful story, Bill and and you lived up there

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with him and the hamalayas. Oh, yes, yes, I did it

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for how long? Ah? Yes
I did? I said for how long?

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Bills? How long did you live
in Tibet? Why? Bill?

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Are you listening to what I'm saying? You keep looking out the window?

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Is there something out there? No? No, not there? Not yet?

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Grace? What do you mean not
yet? I asked you how long

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you spent gathering that material into bed? Time passed as it never passed before.

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I I can't say how long,
Grace. And that was the last

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piece of writing you've done. Yes, that was a but that was over

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a year ago. What have you
been doing since? I guess you could

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say I've been running, running,
running away? No, no, running

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for my life? Bill? Are
you being serious? Why do you think

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I asked you up here to the
lighthouse? I've never been more serious in

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my life. Listen to me.
We were married for ten years, and

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some of them are good years,
and we separated. In fact, we've

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lived apart as many years as we've
been married. Now tell me what is

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it you're running from. You won't
laugh when I tell you. It's the

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smile. At least that's what I
call it. That's what it looks like.

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All right, I'll go along with
that. There is smile that you've

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been running away from. What does
it look like? Well, I can't

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quite describe it because so much feeling
goes with what I see. Er when

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I see it, ger Grace,
believe me, it is actually as if

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I am looking into a giant face
that is smiling. Only I can't see

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the rest of the face. I
can't see the eyes or the nose.

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All I see is the smile.
And when did you first see it?

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I'm not sure exactly when. As
I said, I was in a place

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where time expands and contracts in an
unusual way. You said you were in

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Tibet. Yes, so I can't
tell you when, but I know exactly

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where I had just left. The
monastery, the one on the highest peak

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in the Himalaya, is a place
that is always in the clouds. The

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sun, the moon, the day, the night has never appeared there.

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Only the intensity of the light varies. The people go around like people under

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glass, like people moving in milk. I think that's why they always wear

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such bright clothing. You were telling
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I had had an interview with the
high priest, and I walked out the

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door of a stone chapel of a
little rise, and I looked up and

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suddenly the clouds seemed to separate,
and I could see blue sky, which

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I had not seen in literally months. And up there in that sky was

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this, this faceless face looking down
on me. And from that moment until

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this, unless I close my eyes
to shut it out, day or night,

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I always see it. And then
you see it now? Yes,

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had you do anyone about this?
I mean than Uncle Wilbur. He sees

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it too well, certainly he sees
it too, just as I do.

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I brought it here. I brought
it with me where I am there.

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It is as you talked to anyone
else about it, a doctor, a

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psychiatrist. It's not in my imagination, Grace. I'm not saying it was.

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I'm just wondering if you had discussed
it with anyone. Be I am

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not out of my head. It's
not a ghost. It's there. But

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it's what a smile is doing to
me that frightens me so terribly. I

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should think. So you still think
it's something I'm haunted with. It's more

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than that. It's killing me,
Grace. That's why I need you.

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I need someone I can trust,
someone who once loved me, who will

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believe what I say When I say
it's killing me. I try to look

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away grace. It draws me to
it. It's draining my life from me.

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Have you seen it today? It? Every day? I mean,

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I know it's there. Could you
see it right now? Matter of fact,

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I do. Right outside the window
behind you, Bill, I'm going

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to turn around. I want to
see it too. Go ahead, it's

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clearly visible. It's up there,
i'd say, about a thousand feet overhead,

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a lord in heaven. You're right, I should think I was making

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it up. I didn't know what
to think. It does look like a

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smile, but it's strange. It's
like a shadow without substance behind It doesn't

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affect you, you're sure? No? No, not at all? Is

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it always in the same spot?
It never is? What do you mean?

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Does it affect me? It doesn't
make you feel any differently after you've

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looked at it for a moment,
any weaker. No. Oh, it

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doesn't harm Uncle Wilbury either, only
me. Where is Wilbur? Oh?

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I expect he's outside somewhere. This
isn't much of an island. You're can

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walk around, and there's no time
at all. It's told me here for

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the lighthouse, so he won't have
gone far. I'm gone if I know

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what it is. Grace bothers the
heck out of Bill. Wish it wouldn't

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uh, some natural phenoma mountain,
That's all I didn't think, Uncle Wilbert.

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Bill says it makes him feel weaker. He keeps telling me that.

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No, Wilbury doesn't deny the existence
of a smile, but he says the

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idea that's making me feel weakest.
Something on the side of my head.

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Oh, it's uh, is there
all right? Along the face of it.

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I'd say it was some kind of
light refraction or cloud density. I

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don't know why it disturbs Bill as
much as it does, but if it's

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all right with you, Uncle,
I'd like to stay on here a few

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days and see if there's anything that
can be done about it. My dear

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Grace, I don't know whether Bill
has told you or not, but it

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was my idea I suggested that you
send you that telegram. I've always thought

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you were a sensible person, and
we all need your help. I'm sure

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there are those listening who already have
made up their minds how this can be

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happening. Three people have seen the
smile, Grace, Uncle Wilbill, and

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Bill. But Bill suffers debilitating we
cuen when he sees it. I should

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be back shortly close. He took
the smile itself when I returned. That

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to Grace. Fenchurch, a music
teacher, has been separated from her husband

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Bill for ten years. He is
a writer, or was until an assignment

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took him to Tibet, an assignment
from which he apparently never recovered. It

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affected his mind, aged him,
turned his hair white, and ever since

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he has been haunted by a shape
that clouds his days, something that appears

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near him that he calls the smile. He has retreated from the world to

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his uncle Wilbur's lighthouse on Chesapeake Bay, and it is there that this strange

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story unfolds. Uncle Will. But
I have the feeling that you're not very

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sympathetic to what's troubling. Devil.
That's not so. I'm just sick and

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tired of seeing the darn thing around
Bill. You tell her about our three

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weeks off, No, and' Grace, I'll tell you. You know.

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They give us lighthouse keepers thirty days
off a year. And someone else's rotated

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to your spot. So with this
smile thing, Uh, Bill and I

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thought, okay, uh, we'll
give it a run for its money.

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See if it really followed him all
the way from Tibet, See if it's

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really dog in his steps. Well, we took one week up in the

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mountains, uh, the cabin of
a friend of mine. We went on

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hikes, went fishing, and uh
he sure enough, we hadn't been there

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for three days he found us the
smile right spread across the roof of our

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cabin. Mm. And then we
took a week at the shore. It

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sound us there, but where it
really hurt, where I realized it was

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hard to kill me and uh,
now, just wait a minute, Belle,

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where it really got to move was
the week we spent in the city.

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We saw some shows, visited with
some friends of Wilbur's old navy days,

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buddies I hadn't seen years. I
began to loosen up. It was

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great for me. I started getting
ideas for stories and articles. Yeah,

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Bill thought this apparition finally left him. Well. Next to last night,

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we stopped off at a bar on
the way back the hotel. It was

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a darnedest place. The bar had
no ceiling, and the walls. He

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went straight up into the sky.
You know that glow that hangs over a

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city at night. There was that, and right there over my head,

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grinning down at me. There it
was a smile. I had a hard

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time in getting him back the hotel, but I did. People thought he'd

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had just one too many. So
even when both of you got away from

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the bay and the lighthouse, it
wouldn't let your be. No, it's

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never left me since I try not
looking at it. Sometimes I make believe

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it's not there, and I feel
free. But when it leaves those rocks

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where I think it lives way offshore
and starts coming this way, I know

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it's lying and wait for me,
and it won't stop smiling and till I'm

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dead. Bill, you said something
a moment ago about it comes from the

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rocks. I say, the past
two months, I swear it seems to

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come from And could you find it? At five or six in the morning,

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just about daybreak, it leaves the
rocks that are just at the edge

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of the horizon. Can you show
me from where we were standing? Oh,

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your seals that jut out just where
the sun's going down yes, from

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there, a larger than a small
black curve on the water seems to lie

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there on those rocks. And then
as the sun comes up, it starts

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towards me. We went fishing one
morning, real early, came chasing after

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our boat like some giant kite chased
us. Good, then we'll chase after

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it tomorrow morning, while it's still
dark, we'll take ourselves across the bay

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right out there to where you say. This smile of yours starts from.

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Oh uncle, you've got a boat, haven't you sure? I have a

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great little sailboat, use it all
the time. Well, that's fine.

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Then tomorrow morning, agreed, Why
not? I'm game. See that microsky

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that means good selling weather. Tomorrow
we'll take ourselves smile up. The following

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morning, the moon was still out, the day was calm. Wilburt told

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me we had over two hours before
sunrise. Bill was walking from the house

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to the dock, his arms loaded
with sails and jugs of coffee and boxes

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of sandwiches i'd made. It's gonna
be a great day to be on the

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water at Grace. Now, I'll
tell you that it's so calm, it's

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like glass will there be enough wind
to take us care across where we want

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to go. I built this little
red double myself. She is so well

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balanced a bucket of air could carry
her for miles. Speaking of balance,

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let's wait till Bill gets out of
earshot. There there he goes back into

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the house grace. He finally see
a load of I fear him and said

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to you yesterday is because I'm trying
to act as normally as I can whenever

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Bill is around me. Now,
it's perfectly true that I see that darn

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shape up there in the sky,
and uh, I read you have.

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The people who live on the bay
have seen it, you're saying, and

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as I do. But it's a
phenomenon, and that's all. It's not

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out to get Bill. I don't
know why he believes it's his own personal

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devil out to bewish him, draining
his life away, as as he says.

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And frankly, he's doing all this
pishing to himself. He's coming out

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the door. Mmmm. Uh,
he's gotta go around the back door locker.

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H Anyway, that's why when you
said, let's take a boat out

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and head for those rocks and see
the dawn smile before it gets up in

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the morning. I could have shouted
for joy, uh, but I act

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cool as if, uh, well, why not, let's see so I

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didn't know what else to do.
Bill is a young man, He's on

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a forty, and he looks so
old and tired. It just hurts me

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to see him like this. Mine
is a curious thing, right, I

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think it can influence us anyway.
We want to go from total sanity all

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the way in the opposite direction.
And it's been known you can stop a

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heart. I'm worried because supposing Bill
has the will to die in this phenomenon

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which we both see you too,
is he using that to kill himself without

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knowing it. We hoisted sail Bill
at the tiller, steering, I stayed

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to midships, and Uncle Wilbur handled
the sails. We headed straight for those

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rocks. The smile hadn't yet put
in an appearance, but then neither had.

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The lighthouse got further away and a
pinkish glow started to come up over

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the horizon. Kee five nose even
with the highest rock, Bill and the

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one that's getting justice touch a summer
grace, any particular ideas what you want

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to see when we get there is
that just a large pile of rocks.

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Has anyone ever been over there?
Are the caves? Or is it an

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island? You just really can't tell
looking through these binoculars. Yeah, and

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I was taking all my harbor charts
last night, and I hate to confess

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this to to land lovers that I
could not locate those rocks. The nearest

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marker is Bowie number nine, which
we will probably see if we sail around

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it. That bill steady with a
tiller, I'll eat it off on the

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sail. Well, then let's do
that. Then let's sail right around it.

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If it's an island or a pile
of rocks or whatever it is,

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well, we'll do the best we
can. We'll just take it slow and

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easy and try to keep from running
the ground. One of them. Grace,

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there's something pulling at the tiller and
I was pulling it out of my

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hands. Does it feel like we
filed up built on a line or on

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the underwater cable let until a goo
for a moment? Heading is a wreck

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down there? I couldn't see,
thought about watch out, Grace, stop

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were speeding around leve it built level? Hold that time I'm long on the

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sails. So oh, that same
darn feeling what doing what they get when

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he sees when they see the smiles, he safe way hold on the tiller.

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He is dady lived around in circles. It's the same feeling crawling all

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over me. He does nothing there, he's no sign to get in the

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cells leaving my fit field. There
is long smile anywhere in the side where

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it's come to bear somewhere I feel
so weeet whee grace. Make these rope

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fast for men, Just wind them
around where I stopped doing. I've got

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to take the car. Now,
what's the matter. Well, you been

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a wrong for WI being sucked anyway, that's far across the killers. I

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don't know how long it took,
Go go, brit to get control of

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your rote, to free it from
the vortex that was whirling it around.

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But as soon as we were clear
of that and I managed to pull delloment

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chips and Robert gave the orders of
what I was to do with the sales,

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and I just did what he said, and gradually he drifted to the

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shadows where the water was still.
Yeah, trouble is we're not moving Wednesday

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done. I have drappie anchors who
we won't drift too far? How's our

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boy race? I just keep reading
my handkerchief and put it on his forehead.

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M. How's he breathing? I
was taking his very deep breaths,

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as if he's in a strange kind
of sweep. His eyes are tight shut.

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Yuh raise somehow. We gotta get
this boat moving and get down along

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the coast as fast as we can
to a hospital. There's no wind.

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Well, if we can't use the
sails, we'll use our arms. Stow

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down the floorboards are two pairs of
oars, and he will help yourself to

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one and put him in the overlocks. And you know how to road,

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don't you? Of course I do? Uh good, I'll take this pair

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and do the same. We'll start
due east. Uh take your place from

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me. We're gonna head for that
buy to see it. M. That's

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due east about two hundred yards across
the bow. Think with the black berry

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about number nine pair, and from
there we'll change directions southward. Weber.

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Look. Look over there there's a
small red sailbo just like ours, with

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two people rowing, and their sails
are down just like ours. Huh,

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that's the questions. But look at
the man and the woman. Help her

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look at them. The man looks
exactly like you, and the woman she

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could be me. It's a fascinating
concept. But somewhere in this world that

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exists dupre kits of ourselves. Taking
this one step further, which one of

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the identical two pays for the other
sins or crimes or reaps the rewards?

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Who are those rowing in an identical
red sailboat? Is there an identical man

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lying in a dead faint in the
bottom of the other boat as well?

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And what does this have to do
with that peculiar marking in the sky?

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The smile that has been an ne
nesis of the man they hope to get

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to the hospital. I shall return
shortly with actree. A man and a

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woman are rowing at the calm sailboat
as quickly as they can, because in

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the center of that boat lies another
man with white hair, a man in

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danger of losing his life. This
man is Bill Fenchurch, who has been

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pursued since he left Tibet by a
form in the sky. He calls the

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smile. Will is certain positive that
this smile is draining away his life,

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whether engineering or not. The two
with yous? Do believe his life is

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in their hands? Yeah? Why
said Grace? Careful as you roll?

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Not only because something might hit us
below the waterline, but and there's hot

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morning light distances of deceiting's what about
that red boat being rote by people who

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can look just like us? Eh? Possibly possibly, yeah, just like

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the desert. Maybe a millorage praise. Wray's coming too. Oh his eyes

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are rope coming. Eh. How
you feel belt? Uh? Kind of

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uh shaky? What happened? Hey? You stay right where you are.

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You're getting a ride. The wind
died down, so Grace and I are

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using a little or power or what
dumb thing that I do? Oh?

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Oh, I wouldn't call it dumb. And we just got caught up in

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the whirlpool back there, and you
lost control of the tiller. I'm not

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sure whether it came around hit you
and knocked you out, or if you

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fainted some other reason. Anyway,
now we ship shape again and we're heading

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back. So we're running away again. Well, we're not running for the

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Smile, if that's what you mean. The sun came up with it an

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hour ago and we didn't see it. The Smile never showed up an say,

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Grace, I feel a wind coming
up. Shop your ears and head

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for the tiller. Right, I'll
run up some sail, and you keep

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a steady on buoye number nine.
So you guys didn't see it, said,

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we're not running from it, said
I can't last on longer. Why

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are you lying to me? He's
taking me weird. We're over in the

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sky. Will you would hadn't made
it, Stare had made it, We're

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lost. The Smile was there,
spreading the edges of its evil mouth over

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the top of our red mast,
like a two sided tennant. I had

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never seen it that closely. It
seemed to be talking wordless movements coming out

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of its opening and closing mouth.
Wind shipped us along. I kept my

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eye on the marker. Boy.
I knew we had to get build of

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the hospital, that his life was
in danger. Hey you there, red

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sailboat, watch up well ahead,
Robert. It's the same red selva we

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saw before. Can't you see us? Oh my ears on the water.

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I've never seen anything like it.
That is, if they own the bay,

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come charge and cross our bar like
that, say Grace. If you

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hadn't hung on at that tiller,
they were to cut us in the half.

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It's just sure a dumb knock.
I didn't know what I was doing.

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I was so mesmerized by the fact
that it was the same red sail

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boat we'd seen before. They didn't
care, They absolutely didn't they. And

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you know what I think, I
don't think they even saw us. That

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there's three people on board. You
did notice them too? Uh? No,

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I can't say I did. I'd
have recognized any of them. I

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would have reported. The two men
and a woman at the tiller. I

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could see it all so clearly.
Two men, one standing by the mast

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raising the sail, just like you
were, Wilbur, and the other man

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sitting down in the center of the
boat, just like Bill's doing. And

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the woman at the helm. She
had on the same T shirt that I'm

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wearing, identical blue with red stripes. Are you sure you saw all that

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in that instance? And the man
sitting down in the chip said the same

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wife about blue. Oh what do
you make of it? Oh? I

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sure don't know. That road and
the people in it were duplicates of ourselves,

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everything but the same. I watched
them as they rounded the rocks,

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doing in reverse just what we had
done. But there was just one difference.

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The smile wasn't over us anymore,
it was floating over them. Now

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who were they? Were they us? I don't know how long it took,

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it seemed ours, but we made
it down the coast, pulled into

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a town dock, and Uncle Wilbur
and I, somehow between us, got

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built to the hospital. We waited
they'd taken him immediately to intensive care,

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and finally a doctor came out and
took us into an office. Which one

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of you is related to William Fenchurch. I am doctor, I'm Grace Frenchurch.

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He's all right? Are you his
wife or his sister? Well,

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actually i'm his ex wife, not
even that we separated ten years ago.

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We each went our own way,
but we're still legally married. Then it's

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to you, missus Fenchurch, that
I must offer my condolences. Oh no,

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there was nothing we could do.
Believe me, the entire emergency staff

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did everything humanly possible. I'm still
trying to piece together what could have caused

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mister Fenchurch's death, But tell me
how did it happen? He was barely

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alive when you brought him in,
and well, his heart simply gave out

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there was no way of reviving him. How old a man was he,

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Billis was just forty. Did you
say forty? You mean he was only

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forty years old, Yes, forty, responded like a man who'd undergone shock

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or some complete trauma. I'm sorry, missus Fencer. There's no point in

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your remaining here now. If you
and mister Wilbur would care to return tomorrow,

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we should have much more information.
The next thing I remembered was it

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was morning. I couldn't quite absorb
what had happened. I got out of

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bed. It was not my own
bed. I went to the cabinet where

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I keep my music in my violin. It wasn't there. And then suddenly

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I remembered, of course I wasn't
home. I had received a telegram from

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Bill, I hadn't talked to in
ten years. Please come to Uncle Wilbur's

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lighthouse. It said, I think
I'm dying, Bellow Britain. And then

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it all became clear. Grace you
are, yes, Uncle Wilbur. I'm

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up. I'm just dressing. I'll
be right down. Of course, it

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was early in the morning, and
the three of us we're going to take

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the red sailboat and go out to
some offshore rocks to find something? What

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was it we were after I got
dressed and I came down to the lighthouse

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kitchen still dark outside. Wilbread made
coffee. Oh Grace, I was just

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about to go up to your room
and knock on your door. Don't you

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remember when you wanted to get an
early star to sail out to the rocks.

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Billow was left too. I had
to wake him up. He's getting

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dressed now, Wilbur. You are
going to think that I've taken by my

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senses, but I simply cannot remember
why we planned this excursion. You're joking.

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It was your idea. It was
the smile, now, I remember

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the smile that's been Haunt and Bille
ever since he came back from Tibet.

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Oh of course, Oh, please
forgive me. I knew it was something,

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now, Uncle Wilbert, do you
believe in second sight of precognition?

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Precognition having seen something in advance to
it's happening. I don't want to go

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out on the boat this morning,
and I don't want you to, or

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Bill. I think that we should
all stay here. Well. Talk about

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a woman changing her mind? Would
you mind telling me why a grace.

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Yes, I either know of something
that will happen to the three of us,

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or I've dreamed something that I don't
want to happen. As we sat

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there, I recalled every incident as
it would be happening, from our conversation

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on the dock as we loaded the
boat, to Bill manning the tiller,

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to arriving at the rocks, getting
caught in the whirlpool, then Bill's fainting,

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the wind, dying on us that
are starting to row, and being

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almost cut into by an exact duplicate
of our red sail boat in which we

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were traveling three people exactly like ourselves, and then finally ending up at the

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hospital too late to save Bill's life. Oh, I want to say,

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of all, is it certainly wasn't
extremely vig nightmare. So you for one

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y y don't believe it will happen? Of course not. We are going

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to track down a smile I was
agreed to yesterday. You had a vivid

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dream race, that's all. It
was hard for me to believe it was

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only a dream. I wish I
could have convinced you, going grace,

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warning everybody it's going to be a
beautiful day. Mm I think the Lord

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you're alive. No, I said
exactly the same thing to myself when I

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got up this morning. By the
way, I've been standing on the stairs

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for a few minutes, and I
want you to know I heard everything you

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were telling. Wilburgh. I'm glad
you did a biddle. I thought it

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very entertaining, didn't you. The
way Grace told it, one could almost

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believe it. You can't believe that, Wilburgh, cause I had the same

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dream. If it was a dream, h. I wanna show you both

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something, and now, Wilbert your
knowledge. I haven't been out in the

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skiffs since we painted it, have
I you mean since we painted red?

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No, no, we haven't.
I'm not sure it's completely dry this morning,

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but we'll see. Uh. When
you called me and woke me up

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this morning, there was red paint
on my sheets. U. I.

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I looked at my hands. I'm
turning them over now. Say you can

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both see my palms. H that's
wet paint. Oh s well, I

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must have been holding the tiller.
Oh. I don't understand this. Uh

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well, Uh, I'll have that
cup of coffee too, al right.

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I had red paint in your hands. Could have only gotten there if But

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why don't I remember if I was
there with the two of you, just

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as Grace says it happened. Uh, here's a coffee, thanks Uncle.

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Why don't you remember? I don't
know if you don't, Uncle, Wilbur,

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would you take another look at Dell
before? Look at him closely?

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And I say he looks pretty good. In fact, we and I remember

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seeing him. Oh, I feel
very good, strong, waring to go.

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Bill, you look a thousand years
younger than when I got here.

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Say, what are you doing here
anyway? Grace, not that I'm not

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all for it. It's a nice
surprise. You don't remember inviting me here

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to Uncle's lighthouse. Yes, I
do, sort of? Or do I

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till this dream or whatever it is
that we lived through you and I very

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close to the end of it,
an identical little red sail boat crossed ours

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and took with it what you used
to say had been haunting you. Oh

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yes, yes, the smile in
the sky. I wonder why that upset

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me so much. There and in
that other duplicate red boat were three people,

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duplicates of me and of Wilbur,
and of you, the old you,

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the old Bill who was sick and
who needed me was in that other

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red sail boat which disappeared and which
we never saw again. And why it

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existed I don't understand. But what
I do know is that you are here

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and very much alive, and your
eyes are sparkling, and you look very

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distinguished a with white hair. Thank
you. In fact, i'd say you

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are the bill friend Church. I
remember when you and I were first married.

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Uh uh, it does looks like
a man with a new lease on

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life. I feel that way.
I sort of feel like, uh,

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life is something to smile about.
I think it's pretty safe to say that

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what we've just heard is not an
identical dream, is dreamt by two people.

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I'd say that it did happen,
and somehow everyone concerned is giving a

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second chance. And as for that
mysterious, fateful entity that appeared as a

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smile that sort of worries me.
Before ringing down the mystery theird curtain,

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I'd like to say just this.
It is somewhere in the world that is

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such a cloud casting its shadow as
the smile, because it's smiling at someone

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else, not you. For me, I should have been shortly when I

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was a kid. Thanksgiving dinner was
fun. All our relatives would come with

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part of the dinner. Mom cooked
the turkey, someone else would bring a

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vegetable salad or dessert, and add
Helen, Well, she was my favorite

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relative. She always brought the Whitman
sampler. But everything in that sample was

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delicious. And you know, my
favorite chocolate's back then. Oh, I

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could go for a little bit of
chocolate right about now. Uh, they

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don't deliver it here, unfortunately,
But I am happy that we got to

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enjoy the story together. You seem
positively chilled to the bone, and not

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just because of the temperature. Ask
these stories. They do tend to get

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to meet. I listened to them
every night. I used to listen to

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them all by myself until you came
along into my life. I'm very grateful

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for you. And by the way, if you want to reach out to

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me, talk to me directly and
you don't have access to Aluiji board,

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you can send me an email.
The Internet reaches untold depths. You can

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send me an email at Weird mysteriespod
at gmail dot com. I'd love to

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hear from you, But now,
my dear, the sun will be up

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soon. The wind is dying.
Down. I think it's time for you

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to get into your warm, cozy
bed, and for me too, well

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go back to wherever it is I
came from. I'll see you tomorrow night.

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