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[SPEAKER_01]: Dan is in zone the night, welcome to another episode of the macabre, the terrifying.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Tonight, let's play the good night game!
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[SPEAKER_01]: Our protagonists are three siblings faced with the unfortunate task of cleaning their childhood home after their last living parent, their father, passed away.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Among his effects, they discover stacks of journals he had been keeping for decades.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Within them, he records the strange events that occur after midnight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and the birth of the good night game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This story is called Not Tonight, and was written by M.M.Saint.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Mrs. Handley found him on the upstairs landing, a little afternoon.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He had missed their usual Sunday coffee, and wasn't answering his phone, so she let herself in with the spare key he'd given her years ago.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The medical examiner put his death sometime between two and four in the morning.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad was 73, and took medication for high blood pressure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The previous afternoon, he'd cleaned leaves out of the gutters despite his doctor's repeated instructions to stay off ladders.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He unslept upstairs since his hip replacement.
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[SPEAKER_01]: His bedroom was off the living room, close to the kitchen and downstairs bathroom.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My old room had been his office for 15 years, though he kept the narrow bed under the window for guests.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma's room held Christmas decorations and moms to sewing machines.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthews had a treadmill with a laundry basket on it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The evening after the funeral, the three of us were in the kitchen sorting mail when Emma said, he probably went up looking for something.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew checked the date on the orange juice before putting it back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: At two in the morning, they gave us a two hour window.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We don't know when he went up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Good at her had something, I guess, a mouse, the furnace.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was halfway through a sympathy card from somebody at dad's bowling league.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not my room anymore.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew shut the refrigerator.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's still call it your room.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma pushed several envelopes across the table toward me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: These are yours.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We had been doing some version of that since Monday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The funeral home needed another signature, nobody knew the password for Dad's cable account, and his dentist had called to confirm an appointment for Thursday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Every company wanted an account number or another copy of the death certificate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The mail kept coming.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We left the upstairs rooms until Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma wanted mom's sewing machines.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew had claimed the drill press and most of the garage, and I wanted the oak desk in my old room.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma looked at it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: How are you getting that downstairs?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad got it up here?
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[SPEAKER_01]: He took the door off.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew crouched to look at the hinges.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We could do that again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I told Tim my wasn't taking the bedroom apart for a desk and started on another box.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma had already opened one marked taxes 2010 through 2014.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The tax folders were sitting on top of a stack of black and white composition books.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad had always kept one around.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I remembered them beside his chair and on the kitchen counter, sometimes on the dashboard of his truck with the year written on the cover in blue ballpoint.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'd never wondered what happened to them when they were full.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There were more than 30 in the box.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Were these journals?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma asked.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sort of.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He wrote things down.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew opened a later volume in the middle and read for a minute.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Blood pressure, furnace filter, oil change, Patriots, and that sounds right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I picked up the bookmarked 1987.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad's handwriting had barely changed from the birthday cards he'd sent me as an adult.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Small block letters, dates underlined with a ruler.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Most entries concern appointments, mileage or something in the house that needed fixing, but every few pages one of us appeared.
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[SPEAKER_01]: At four, Matthew had called yogurt, milk pudding.
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[SPEAKER_01]: At six, I'd tried to fix the toaster with a butter knife.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad had written, Daniel's still alive, toaster, less fortunate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma read it over my shoulder.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He screamed at you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't remember that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You cried.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was six.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew looked over from the closet.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Why were you fixing a toaster?
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[SPEAKER_01]: No idea.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A few pages later, Dad had pressed hard enough with the pin to leave faint impressions on the next sheet.
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[SPEAKER_01]: August 11th, herded upstairs at 114, asked all three before bed, all three stayed in bed, no doors opened.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I read it aloud.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew stopped taking shirts off hangers and asked what Dad had heard, but there was nothing else on the page.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma took the journal and read forward until she found another entry five days later.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Daniel asked why we play the game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Told him fathers are allowed to be ridiculous.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad used to say that whenever we complained about the good night game, he put us to bed, stepped into the hallway and closed the door.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A few seconds later, he knocked three times.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Are you mine?
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[SPEAKER_01]: We answered.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Not tonight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And Dad came in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Some nights he said he'd try again tomorrow.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Other nights he complained that nobody in the house belonged to him, and asked what he was supposed to do with all the cereal he'd bought.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew couldn't manage the whole answer when we started, so his version was not night.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad would open the door and tuck him in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We kept doing it after all three of us were old enough to complain.
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[SPEAKER_01]: By the time Emma went to college, the question had become a family joke.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She sometimes called home and opened with, are you mine?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad usually answered, unfortunately, what do you want?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Father on, Dad had written,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew heard me while I was downstairs, called for me, stayed in bed until I came up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew took the book from me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I remember something like this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was in bed and heard him outside the door.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He asked the question, I answered, and then he asked again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think I answered three times before I started yelling.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And Dad, I heard him come up the stairs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew sat on the corner of the desk while I went on reading.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A few weeks later, Daniel said yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: God out of bed, stopped him before he reached door.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Practice to answer again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Stayed outside room until morning.
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[SPEAKER_01]: beside the binding he'd added.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He does not remember hearing question the first time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad was sitting outside my room with an old camping blanket around his shoulders, and one of the sofa cushions behind his back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I woke before morning and could see him through
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[SPEAKER_01]: Good spot?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I told him to go to bed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I paid for this floor, I'm gonna get some use out of it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I rolled over and went back to sleep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma asked whether he'd ever explained why he stayed there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Not that I remember?
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[SPEAKER_01]: He probably didn't ask, Matthew said.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Probably not.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We went looking for the earlier books.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad had started keeping them before any of us were born, and the first several years were his work schedule, mortgage payments, mom's headaches, repairs to the house, and lists of things they meant to buy when there was enough money.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The first entry, like the others, was dated November 6th, 1985.
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[SPEAKER_01]: To OADAM, woke to my voice upstairs, I was in kitchen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad wrote more the following morning.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Asked Emma what happened.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She says I came to her door and asked if she was mine.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She said yes, God out of bed, door opened before she touched it, hall empty.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No more yes after lights out, kids stay in bed, giving them one answer so Matthew can remember it, not tonight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Below two notes about Emma's door latch he'd added, make it funny so Matthew learns.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew read the page twice before setting the journal on the desk.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't remember that night, Emma said.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was two.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew said.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't remember him teaching me any of it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad never gave whatever he heard a name.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He recorded the time where he'd been what one of us reported hearing and whether a door had opened.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The entries were more frequent when we were young.
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[SPEAKER_01]: As the years passed, months sometimes went by without one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Then I found mom's name.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Daniel heard Ellen, used answer, called for me, stayed in bed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She had been dead 11 months by then.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Her voice came from the hallway after I'd gone to bed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Danny?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I sat up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Daniel sweetheart, I fell, open the door.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I said.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not tonight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: she waited a few seconds?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Dan, you're honey?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Open it!
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[SPEAKER_00]: I need you!
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[SPEAKER_01]: I shouted the answer that time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad came upstairs, carrying the baseball bat he kept beside his bed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He opened my door himself and stood there before he came in, looking past me toward the window and the closet.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Later, while he sat on the edge of my mattress, the bat was propped against the wall beside him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma closed the journal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I need to stop for a bit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew looked at the stack.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, let's eat!
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[SPEAKER_01]: We took the books downstairs and ordered Chinese.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew opened a bottle of dad's wine, Emma found three glasses that didn't match, and we ate from the cartons because most of the plates had already been packed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: For a while, we talked about other things.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma's airline had changed her flight home.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew showed us pictures from his daughter's school play, and I told them Owen had been lobbying Claire and me for a drum kit since June.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew was looking at his cell.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I live in that house too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna kill him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: By him lessons first, Emma said, maybe he'll hate drums.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That is the first useful thing anybody has said all week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew reached across me for the soy sauce.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I moved it beside his elbow.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's right there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We finished eating with empty cartons spread across the table, and one of Dad's cabinet doors hanging open.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma eventually picked up another journal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Good Night game became less regular once we were teenagers and then disappeared.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad kept riding when he heard something in the house.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In March 1998, Emma was away at college.
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[SPEAKER_01]: 136 a.m. footsteps in Emma's room.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She is its school.
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[SPEAKER_01]: When upstairs, before I reached door, heard Emma say, not tonight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad stopped there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sometime later, he'd returned with a different pin and added, did not open it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma left the book open on the table.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She finished her wine and sat with the empty glass in front of her before taking it out to the back porch.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew waited a while, then followed her.
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[SPEAKER_01]: When they came back, Emma sat in the same chair and pulled the journal toward her.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There were fewer entries after we moved away.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad had begun calling us if he heard one of our voices instead of going toward it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In 2022, Emma crying in hall, called her, she's fine.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Stayed downstairs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma kept her hand on the page.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He called me that night.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew was clearing the cartons.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it was after midnight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought he'd fall in or something because he kept asking if I was all right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What did he say when you told him you were?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Go back to bed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He wouldn't tell me why he'd called.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She looked down at the entry.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was annoyed with him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew took her empty glass to the sink.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The note books from Dad's last few years were thinner, some weeks he wrote nothing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We found the previous year's volume upstairs with the others, but the current one was where his active note books had always lived, in the drawer beside his chair with two pins, his reading glasses, a crossword book, and several envelopes he'd opened with his thumbnail.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma brought it to the kitchen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The first pages contained a blood pressure readings, the oil delivery, a loose gutter and Mrs. Hanley's noisy furnace?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Owen appeared twice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad had taken him fishing the previous fall, and was still annoyed that my son wouldn't touch a worm.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Daniel's boy expects fish to respect vegetarian bait.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma laughed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He complained about that for months.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Owen told him warms had rights.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The entries became more widely spaced as we reached February.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad wrote that his hip bothered him when the weather changed, and that he needed new tires.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Mrs. Han lay brought soup over and forgot the container, so he'd washed it and put it beside the front door.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Two nights before his death.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The next entry was dated early Sunday morning.
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[SPEAKER_01]: 216, her Daniel upstairs, went to bottom of stairs, Daniel standing at top about four years old.
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[SPEAKER_01]: First time I saw one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He said, Dad, am I yours?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I said, yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Do you know what the worst kind of malevolent ghost or monster or entity is?
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[SPEAKER_01]: A patient one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, one detail I appreciate about this story is that the monster is never given definite boundaries or abilities.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No limits.
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[SPEAKER_01]: often, when you can give a name and boundary to the monster, it loses a lot of its power.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But this one seemed to really only require one thing, per mission.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you enjoyed this story, please check out more stories from Immsaint on his sub-stack linked in the show notes, or by putting on our playlist of his stories over on YouTube.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Please leave us a comment, even a short one that helps us reach new viewers, and I just love reading them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Whatever you do, don't forget.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Not tonight, and don't fall asleep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dan is in zone the night, welcome to another episode of the macabre, the terrifying.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Tonight, let's play the good night game!
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[SPEAKER_01]: Our protagonists are three siblings faced with the unfortunate task of cleaning their childhood home after their last living parent, their father, passed away.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Among his effects, they discover stacks of journals he had been keeping for decades.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Within them, he records the strange events that occur after midnight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and the birth of the good night game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This story is called Not Tonight, and was written by M.M.Saint.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Mrs. Handley found him on the upstairs landing, a little afternoon.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He had missed their usual Sunday coffee, and wasn't answering his phone, so she let herself in with the spare key he'd given her years ago.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The medical examiner put his death sometime between two and four in the morning.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad was 73, and took medication for high blood pressure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The previous afternoon, he'd cleaned leaves out of the gutters despite his doctor's repeated instructions to stay off ladders.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He unslept upstairs since his hip replacement.
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[SPEAKER_01]: His bedroom was off the living room, close to the kitchen and downstairs bathroom.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My old room had been his office for 15 years, though he kept the narrow bed under the window for guests.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma's room held Christmas decorations and moms to sewing machines.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthews had a treadmill with a laundry basket on it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The evening after the funeral, the three of us were in the kitchen sorting mail when Emma said, he probably went up looking for something.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew checked the date on the orange juice before putting it back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: At two in the morning, they gave us a two hour window.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We don't know when he went up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Good at her had something, I guess, a mouse, the furnace.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was halfway through a sympathy card from somebody at dad's bowling league.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not my room anymore.
02:44.648 --> 02:46.289
[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew shut the refrigerator.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's still call it your room.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma pushed several envelopes across the table toward me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: These are yours.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We had been doing some version of that since Monday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The funeral home needed another signature, nobody knew the password for Dad's cable account, and his dentist had called to confirm an appointment for Thursday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Every company wanted an account number or another copy of the death certificate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The mail kept coming.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We left the upstairs rooms until Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma wanted mom's sewing machines.
03:25.883 --> 03:31.847
[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew had claimed the drill press and most of the garage, and I wanted the oak desk in my old room.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma looked at it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: How are you getting that downstairs?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad got it up here?
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[SPEAKER_01]: He took the door off.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew crouched to look at the hinges.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We could do that again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I told Tim my wasn't taking the bedroom apart for a desk and started on another box.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma had already opened one marked taxes 2010 through 2014.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The tax folders were sitting on top of a stack of black and white composition books.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad had always kept one around.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I remembered them beside his chair and on the kitchen counter, sometimes on the dashboard of his truck with the year written on the cover in blue ballpoint.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'd never wondered what happened to them when they were full.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There were more than 30 in the box.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Were these journals?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma asked.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sort of.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He wrote things down.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew opened a later volume in the middle and read for a minute.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Blood pressure, furnace filter, oil change, Patriots, and that sounds right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I picked up the bookmarked 1987.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad's handwriting had barely changed from the birthday cards he'd sent me as an adult.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Small block letters, dates underlined with a ruler.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Most entries concern appointments, mileage or something in the house that needed fixing, but every few pages one of us appeared.
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[SPEAKER_01]: At four, Matthew had called yogurt, milk pudding.
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[SPEAKER_01]: At six, I'd tried to fix the toaster with a butter knife.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad had written, Daniel's still alive, toaster, less fortunate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma read it over my shoulder.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He screamed at you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't remember that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You cried.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was six.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew looked over from the closet.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Why were you fixing a toaster?
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[SPEAKER_01]: No idea.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A few pages later, Dad had pressed hard enough with the pin to leave faint impressions on the next sheet.
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[SPEAKER_01]: August 11th, herded upstairs at 114, asked all three before bed, all three stayed in bed, no doors opened.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I read it aloud.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew stopped taking shirts off hangers and asked what Dad had heard, but there was nothing else on the page.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma took the journal and read forward until she found another entry five days later.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Daniel asked why we play the game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Told him fathers are allowed to be ridiculous.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad used to say that whenever we complained about the good night game, he put us to bed, stepped into the hallway and closed the door.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A few seconds later, he knocked three times.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Are you mine?
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[SPEAKER_01]: We answered.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Not tonight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And Dad came in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Some nights he said he'd try again tomorrow.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Other nights he complained that nobody in the house belonged to him, and asked what he was supposed to do with all the cereal he'd bought.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew couldn't manage the whole answer when we started, so his version was not night.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad would open the door and tuck him in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We kept doing it after all three of us were old enough to complain.
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[SPEAKER_01]: By the time Emma went to college, the question had become a family joke.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She sometimes called home and opened with, are you mine?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad usually answered, unfortunately, what do you want?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Father on, Dad had written,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew heard me while I was downstairs, called for me, stayed in bed until I came up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew took the book from me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I remember something like this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was in bed and heard him outside the door.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He asked the question, I answered, and then he asked again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think I answered three times before I started yelling.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And Dad, I heard him come up the stairs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew sat on the corner of the desk while I went on reading.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A few weeks later, Daniel said yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: God out of bed, stopped him before he reached door.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Practice to answer again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Stayed outside room until morning.
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[SPEAKER_01]: beside the binding he'd added.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He does not remember hearing question the first time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad was sitting outside my room with an old camping blanket around his shoulders, and one of the sofa cushions behind his back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I woke before morning and could see him through
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[SPEAKER_01]: Good spot?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I told him to go to bed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I paid for this floor, I'm gonna get some use out of it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I rolled over and went back to sleep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma asked whether he'd ever explained why he stayed there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Not that I remember?
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[SPEAKER_01]: He probably didn't ask, Matthew said.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Probably not.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We went looking for the earlier books.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad had started keeping them before any of us were born, and the first several years were his work schedule, mortgage payments, mom's headaches, repairs to the house, and lists of things they meant to buy when there was enough money.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The first entry, like the others, was dated November 6th, 1985.
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[SPEAKER_01]: To OADAM, woke to my voice upstairs, I was in kitchen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad wrote more the following morning.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Asked Emma what happened.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She says I came to her door and asked if she was mine.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She said yes, God out of bed, door opened before she touched it, hall empty.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No more yes after lights out, kids stay in bed, giving them one answer so Matthew can remember it, not tonight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Below two notes about Emma's door latch he'd added, make it funny so Matthew learns.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew read the page twice before setting the journal on the desk.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't remember that night, Emma said.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was two.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew said.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't remember him teaching me any of it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad never gave whatever he heard a name.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He recorded the time where he'd been what one of us reported hearing and whether a door had opened.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The entries were more frequent when we were young.
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[SPEAKER_01]: As the years passed, months sometimes went by without one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Then I found mom's name.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Daniel heard Ellen, used answer, called for me, stayed in bed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She had been dead 11 months by then.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Her voice came from the hallway after I'd gone to bed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Danny?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I sat up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Daniel sweetheart, I fell, open the door.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I said.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not tonight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: she waited a few seconds?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Dan, you're honey?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Open it!
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[SPEAKER_00]: I need you!
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[SPEAKER_01]: I shouted the answer that time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad came upstairs, carrying the baseball bat he kept beside his bed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He opened my door himself and stood there before he came in, looking past me toward the window and the closet.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Later, while he sat on the edge of my mattress, the bat was propped against the wall beside him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma closed the journal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I need to stop for a bit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew looked at the stack.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, let's eat!
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[SPEAKER_01]: We took the books downstairs and ordered Chinese.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew opened a bottle of dad's wine, Emma found three glasses that didn't match, and we ate from the cartons because most of the plates had already been packed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: For a while, we talked about other things.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma's airline had changed her flight home.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew showed us pictures from his daughter's school play, and I told them Owen had been lobbying Claire and me for a drum kit since June.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew was looking at his cell.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I live in that house too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna kill him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: By him lessons first, Emma said, maybe he'll hate drums.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That is the first useful thing anybody has said all week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew reached across me for the soy sauce.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I moved it beside his elbow.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's right there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We finished eating with empty cartons spread across the table, and one of Dad's cabinet doors hanging open.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma eventually picked up another journal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Good Night game became less regular once we were teenagers and then disappeared.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad kept riding when he heard something in the house.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In March 1998, Emma was away at college.
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[SPEAKER_01]: 136 a.m. footsteps in Emma's room.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She is its school.
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[SPEAKER_01]: When upstairs, before I reached door, heard Emma say, not tonight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad stopped there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sometime later, he'd returned with a different pin and added, did not open it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma left the book open on the table.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She finished her wine and sat with the empty glass in front of her before taking it out to the back porch.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew waited a while, then followed her.
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[SPEAKER_01]: When they came back, Emma sat in the same chair and pulled the journal toward her.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There were fewer entries after we moved away.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad had begun calling us if he heard one of our voices instead of going toward it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In 2022, Emma crying in hall, called her, she's fine.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Stayed downstairs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma kept her hand on the page.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He called me that night.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew was clearing the cartons.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it was after midnight.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought he'd fall in or something because he kept asking if I was all right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What did he say when you told him you were?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Just good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Go back to bed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He wouldn't tell me why he'd called.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She looked down at the entry.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was annoyed with him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matthew took her empty glass to the sink.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The note books from Dad's last few years were thinner, some weeks he wrote nothing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We found the previous year's volume upstairs with the others, but the current one was where his active note books had always lived, in the drawer beside his chair with two pins, his reading glasses, a crossword book, and several envelopes he'd opened with his thumbnail.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma brought it to the kitchen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The first pages contained a blood pressure readings, the oil delivery, a loose gutter and Mrs. Hanley's noisy furnace?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Owen appeared twice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad had taken him fishing the previous fall, and was still annoyed that my son wouldn't touch a worm.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Daniel's boy expects fish to respect vegetarian bait.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Emma laughed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He complained about that for months.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Owen told him warms had rights.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The entries became more widely spaced as we reached February.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dad wrote that his hip bothered him when the weather changed, and that he needed new tires.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Mrs. Han lay brought soup over and forgot the container, so he'd washed it and put it beside the front door.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Two nights before his death.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The next entry was dated early Sunday morning.
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[SPEAKER_01]: 216, her Daniel upstairs, went to bottom of stairs, Daniel standing at top about four years old.
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[SPEAKER_01]: First time I saw one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He said, Dad, am I yours?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I said, yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Do you know what the worst kind of malevolent ghost or monster or entity is?
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[SPEAKER_01]: A patient one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, one detail I appreciate about this story is that the monster is never given definite boundaries or abilities.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No limits.
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[SPEAKER_01]: often, when you can give a name and boundary to the monster, it loses a lot of its power.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But this one seemed to really only require one thing, per mission.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you enjoyed this story, please check out more stories from Immsaint on his sub-stack linked in the show notes, or by putting on our playlist of his stories over on YouTube.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Please leave us a comment, even a short one that helps us reach new viewers, and I just love reading them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Whatever you do, don't forget.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Not tonight, and don't fall asleep.
