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On January 5th, 1975, a young 
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which had filled with jewels 
stolen from her wealthy 

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employer. 
When she came across a body she 

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saw it as a sign from God. 
She would later tell the police 

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imploring her to take a 
different path in life. 

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Perhaps it was indeed fate but 
more likely a bizarre 

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coincidence that this woman had 
chosen the same plot in which 

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Barrier, her stolen treasure as 
that in which I had buried 

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Oliver atanasio three weeks 
earlier. 

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When the story got out the 
employer decided to just fire 

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the woman instead of Prosecuting
her. 

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The discovery of the corpse was 
traumatizing enough, he told the

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newspaper, the rotting body. 
She discovered in a shallow 

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grave was that of Oliver? 
The fish attanasio, a capo Crime

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Boss of the Cristal de family. 
My family, the fish known for 

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his violent, erratic behavior, 
and fondness for women of 

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African American descent was in 
charge of some of the families. 

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Most profitable prostitution 
rackets in New York often, the 

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black prostitutes that worked 
for him turned up dead beaten to

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a pulp. 
Sometimes they've been tortured.

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The fish nicknamed that because 
of his General coldness and his 

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permanently sweaty forehead, 
always blamed some poor schmuck,

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have a client who was then 
beaten or killed. 

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But even the fish is superiors 
quickly, began to suspect that 

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their own man was behind the 
deaths. 

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Naturally, the senseless killing
her the business. 

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At some point, customers didn't 
return for fear of being blamed.

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For one of the murders, the type
of mutilations in specific 

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patterns and places in which the
women were founded support of 

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the idea that the fish was 
responsible for them because the

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Cristal de family had a fairly 
good reputation in the city. 

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The fishes wrongdoings damaged 
us a lot. 

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His father was an honorable man 
that had done well for the 

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family but he'd obviously not 
kept tabs on his son. 

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A spoiled fuck had grown up 
believing, he was entitled to 

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every piece of ass in front of 
them every Racket and every 

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goddamn Penny. 
Get his hands on. 

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It's a classic cycle in my 
business. 

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A man works. 
His way up. 

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Gets Filthy Rich and his son 
fucks everything up for him. 

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Well, not this time. 
First his father had tried to 

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talk some sense into him but 
when the killings continued, a 

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higher boss, ordered a hit. 
It was me, who got the 

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assignment? 
I killed him with two, 

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point-blank shots to the head, 
and buried him in a shallow 

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grave in Harriman, State Park. 
I'd killed a few men in my life 

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at that point, but I was proud 
to say. 

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It was always people who 
deserved to die because I could 

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never kill a citizen innocent 
people. 

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Unfortunately, the code of honor
that our family. 

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So strictly used to live by is 
eroding fast. 

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It's probably because of drugs 
drugs, fuck everything up. 

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Let me ramble about that some 
other time. 

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I feel no regret killing that 
bastard, son of a bitch. 

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He hurt women, really hurt them 
and just for sport, the sick. 

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Fuck if even his old man knew he
was a liability, he should have 

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expect the blood. 
If the girls he tortured were 

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white to the police would have 
nailed the fish a long time ago,

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but the pigs from the NYPD don't
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turn up dead. 
So someone from the inside and a

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did the Dirty Work? 
My friend, Larry helped me wrap 

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him in plastic after it was done
and Together. 

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We buried him in the dark. 
What got me was sloppiness? 

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The police found fingerprints on
the plastic, I wrapped them in, 

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what a fool. 
I was to forget to wear gloves, 

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Larry didn't either, but he 
wasn't in the police database. 

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So I was the only one that got 
something on. 

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I was lucky. 
My brother had this guy from the

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NYC D in his pocket, which meant
I learned about the arrest, 

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warrant filed for me right away.
I think my life to that pal. 

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He went out of his way to let my
brother know. 

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They had evidence against me 
solid evidence, that could nail 

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me in court fingerprints were 
something. 

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Even a Hotshot lawyer, couldn't 
get around. 

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My brother told me to go to a 
hideout. 

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Our family prepared in Los 
Angeles but my gut told me they 

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would still find me there. 
Besides that, I felt nothing for

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La. 
I'd read some Raymond, Chandler,

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novels as a teenager and I hated
the picture he painted of it. 

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So, I decided I'd go to Mexico. 
First, lay low for a while, and 

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from there, I take a flight to 
the Maldives since they didn't 

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extradite to the US. 
And I like the beach. 

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I was sure I could return at 
some point, but I didn't know 

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how long I had to leave for 
these charges were something 

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else, no, statute of limitations
on murder. 

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That this was how my criminal 
life and did. 

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It was almost funny to me, you 
know, I never planned to retire 

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before I was 50, but now I 
didn't really have a choice. 

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I was always fully prepared for 
something like this to happen. 

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Despite the fact, I never 
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always kept a small stash of 
money a fake passport, and some 

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valuable jewelry in a garage. 
The jewelry I could sell 

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anywhere for cash, all that 
stuff was hidden in a sports bag

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in my trunk. 
And I My life depended on it 

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now, but as long as my feet 
weren't on Mexican soil, yet I 

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was still in grave danger, even 
the patrol car stopping me for a

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broken taillight. 
Could mark my end at least in 

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Mexico, it would be harder for 
the police, for the feds to 

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track me because the government 
there doesn't allow Gringo 

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agents on their land. 
I decided I would take a flight 

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from Monterey after a few weeks 
and then drive out. it was going

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to be a hell of a road trip, but
it was my only chance I'd cut my

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hair shaved and taking a shower 
before I hit the road because 

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the one thing I know about 
running was that you had to look

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sharp as soon as I would start 
to smell or look at the shovel. 

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That's the moment. 
Gas station owner or some eager 

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Patrol, cop, trying to prove 
himself with smell me out. 

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At one point, I'd been driving 
for nearly twenty five hours and

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I started to feel like my mom 
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secret to a happy life. 
Was a good night's sleep. 

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Wait, till you're older, sleep 
is going to be the most precious

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thing in your life. 
Just wait a fluffy pillow is 

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going to be more important to 
you than decent coffee. 

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She'd said to me once, so I 
decided to take my mom's advice 

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to heart one last time. 
I thought it especially 

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important to since there was a 
chance. 

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I'd never see her again. 
So, So while I was on Highway 35

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and it just passed Austin and 
looked for a quiet Motel 

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sleeping in my car was too 
dangerous so I had to find 

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someplace quiet where people 
wouldn't bother me too much. 

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I just take a shower shave and 
get a few hours of sleep. 

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Finally I ran into a weathered 
Motel sign which led me to a 

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rectangular building. 
After a short Dusty path off the

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highway, I was delighted to see 
was an old cheap kind of Motel 

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The big bright, vacancy sign 
blinding my tired. 

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Eyes was the only decent looking
thing about the place. 

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No cars in the visitors parking 
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Just a white van. 
I presumed to be the owners. 

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I took the sports bag and my gun
out of the car and went inside. 

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Behind the counter was a 
middle-aged man reading a 

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magazine. 
I greeted him as 

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enthusiastically as I could my 
tired state, but he didn't seem 

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to hear me. 
I said, hi again, a lot of this 

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time but again, he didn't 
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Irritated. 
I rang the bell on the counter, 

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the man startled. 
By the sudden noise. 

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Put down his magazine and walked
over to me. 

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Without saying anything. 
He glanced at me, seemingly 

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annoyed by my presence. 
This was strange to me since the

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motel looked deserted and 
apparently, in desperate need of

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guests. 
Despite him being short and 

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bald, I somehow found his 
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I'll explain why. 
When I was 12, I ran with a kid 

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named Scotty fat boy. 
I got bullied a lot. 

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Most of the time he was a nice 
boy but he also got this dark 

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side. 
This one time to Irish punks 

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from down, the street, still a 
dollar from him while he was 

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walking to the grocery store, to
buy some Sugar Pops. 

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Afterwards he was mad. 
Like you wouldn't believe told 

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me he was planning on murdering 
them, try to picture it. 

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This 12 year old kid fed is pig.
Talking about murder. 

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I laughed it off naturally 
because these kids were a few 

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years older and could outrun him
even if he could magically lose 

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30 pounds overnight, I told them
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of it told him that the streets 
were mean sometimes that that 

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was just the way it was. 
Even suggested he asked his dad 

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to teach these boys a lesson 
instead of getting himself in 

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trouble. 
But no, this crazy son of a 

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bitch was determined to do it 
himself. 

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Two weeks later he asked me to 
stand guard while he lured. 

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One of those boys out flashing 
some cash while he knew they 

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were lurking around. 
One of the older kids approached

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him and commanded him to hand 
over his money where his fat ass

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would get a good old spanking 
but Scotty pulled out a stick 

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and poked this kid in a fucking 
eye, the worst thing was that he

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had sharpened it and Dan did 
that punk, learn his lesson. 

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He lost an eye for a fucking 
dollar. 

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Ever since then, I knew sky was 
trouble. 

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This Motel owner, he had the 
same weird dark energy as Scotty

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somehow. 
He gave me the price for the 

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night and then told me that they
were shooting a movie scene 

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later that night in one of the 
motel rooms. 

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Just so, you know, it might make
a little noise but nothing 

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major, they promised me. 
Great. 

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I thought to myself of all the 
motels in Texas, they were 

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shooting a fucking moving the 
one, I chose. 

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But I wasn't gonna leave. 
Now that would only raise 

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suspicion. 
What kind of movie I asked 

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faking excitement. 
He Shrugged and said some hard 

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house shit. 
He told me that aside from the 

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small film crew, I was the only 
other visitor. 

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He could give me the room on the
far Edge. 

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So I wouldn't be bothered by the
noise. 

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I nodded in agreement and paid 
and I followed him to my room 

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while we walked past the many 
doors and noticed, a weird smell

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coming from one of the rooms. 
It was punched Sharp. 

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Smell of bleach, a painful 
reminder, that if I have poured 

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a bottle of that stuff over the 
fish, I wouldn't even be in this

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shit. 
Like he was reading my mind. 

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The guy told me, one of the 
rooms had some kind of mold 

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problem and he was in the 
process of cleaning it. 

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He said that I should steer 
clear of the room, which I 

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thought was an odd thing to say,
since I had no business entering

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it anyway, but I just nodded 
feeling so tired that I only 

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really cared for the bid that 
was waiting for me. 

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The interior of the room was as 
shitty as I expected it to be, 

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the curtains were old and full 
of moth holes. 

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The place itself smelled of dust
and was decorated with outdated.

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Furniture and the badly done 
paintings of Seaside towns. 

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I looked at the big one above 
the bed Saint Louis was written 

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under it in small letters. 
Without saying anything else the

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man through the key on the bed 
and left. 

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I looked at myself in the small 
bathroom mirror and noticed that

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my eyes were red from 
exhaustion. 

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I quickly brushed my teeth and 
check if all my belongings were 

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still in my bag. 
Of course they were but I hit 

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the passport and the bundle of 
cash underneath my pillow just 

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to be safe. 
Despite my tiredness it was 

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paranoid but it was a good thing
because it needed to be. 

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I shouldn't feel safe, not yet, 
especially not in a motel but it

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was still safer than falling 
asleep behind the wheel I 

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supposed I set the alarm for 
5:00 in the morning and closed 

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my eyes. 
I woke up from the loud noise, 

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in the middle of the night, 
sounded like a scream, although 

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I was still fuzzy when I came 
fully awake, so I couldn't be 

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sure the clock and the bedside 
table told me was to am, 

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startled. 
I got out of bed and pulled away

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the blinds to peer out in my 
paranoid State. 

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I reasoned it must have been a 
police officer ready to tell me 

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to come out with my hands up? 
Perhaps the motel Clerk and 

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somehow recognized me and tipped
off the police I thought. 

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But when I looked out of the 
window, everything was quiet. 

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It was a clear night and the 
Stars speckled the black sky 

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like tiny little drops of paint.
And the light of the Moon, I 

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could just make out the desert 
mountains in the far distance. 

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Just what I decided. 
The noise must have been a 

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figment of my imagination. 
I heard it again. 

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Not has loud this time, but now 
I was sure it was a scream, a 

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chill. 
Ran down my spine, I pitched my 

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ears and waited for another 
sound to come, but it didn't I 

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thought of what the owner had 
mentioned that a small crew 

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shooting a movie scene, but why 
a scream and shouldn't have 

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wrapped up by then. 
I returned to bed and try to 

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fall asleep again, but I 
couldn't paranoia and anxiety. 

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Clouded my mind, it made me mad 
because I knew, I needed the 

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hours badly tomorrow and my 
final stretch to Mexico. 

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So I tried to slow my breathing.
Breathe, two, three, breathe 

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count of three, breathe? 
It was a trick to calm the 

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nerves. 
I learned from a soldier that 

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got drafted for Nam, he died 
like a month into his second 

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tour. 
Apparently, got scorched by our 

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own napalm. 
In the plane hadn't accounted 

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for an American unit. 
That was exploring the forest on

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foot, despite his pathetic in a 
meaningless death. 

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The little trick. 
He taught me lived on in me and 

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it almost got me back to sleep 
and I heard another muffled 

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scream. 
This time, I recognized it 

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unmistakably as female, it was 
the third one in less than 10 

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minutes and despite it not being
loud. 

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My gut told me that something 
weird was going on. 

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I buried my head in the pillow, 
but now the prospect of sleep 

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was completely lost to me. 
I doubted that the noises came 

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from a movie. 
Said, I remembered how vague the

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motel owner had been on asked 
him about it. 

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Somehow, I could sense that 
something sinister was happening

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quite close. 
I got out of the bed and picked 

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out of the window again, to see 
if I could trace the sound to 

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its place of origin, which 
couldn't be far. 

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I've always been a curious 
person but it was something else

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that Drew me to my window, 
something Primal and instinctive

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every cell. 
In my body told me to stay away 

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from it to go back to bed and 
least lay there with my eyes 

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closed for the remainder of the 
night, minding my own goddamn 

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business like I should. 
But up, I went, and I peered out

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of the window for a while. 
The motel room seemed even more 

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deserted an empty. 
Now in the cold bluish Moonlight

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no cars, no sound. 
Just the wind howling I stood 

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there for a few minutes and Son.
Nothing. but then, for the 

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fourth time, I heard a woman's 
muffled scream, I shivered and 

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wondered what the hell is going 
on. 

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I convinced myself that it 
wasn't that weird to take a 

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little walk around the property.
Just checking was going on if 

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anything. 
I put on my shoes and got my gun

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just in case. 
The cold, the night smacked me 

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in the face. 
When I opened the door, I 

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completely forgotten how cold it
get in the desert at night time,

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I shivered and started walking 
praying. 

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I was just being paranoid, the 
moon was big and bright and I 

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realized I'd never really looked
at it before, maybe because it 

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remained hidden behind 
skyscrapers. 

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Most of the time. 
Back in New York, It was big and

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round. 
If I squinted, I could see. 

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Its craters, like acne scars and
a pale face. 

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I walked past the empty motel 
rooms and wondered how on Earth.

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This place could stay afloat, I 
didn't have the sense for 

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business. 
The People by family extorted 

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were born with, but even I knew 
that this crappy little Motel 

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must have been a bad investment.
It was too far from the highway 

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to serve truck drivers 
profitable motels needed. 

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Lots of tired, hungry people 
passing by and a smiling young 

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hottie welcoming them at the 
door. this jointed, none of the 

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A single Cloud moved past the 
moon, as I looked around the 

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motel, which looked a little 
ominous in the dark. 

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When I passed the final room, 
the one that the fat man had 

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told me was being cleaned. 
I heard another muffled noise 

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seemingly coming from the far 
end of the motel, the room that 

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was furthest away from mine. 
I quickly moved to towards it to

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careful. 
Not to make too much noise. 

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I waited behind the window, 
which was largely covered by 

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blinds, but a small spot of the 
window wasn't covered. 

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I slowly moved to towards a 
didn't peeked inside. 

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What I saw was the face of a 
girl, her eyes, wet from tears, 

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and a piece of duct tape 
covering her mouth. 

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I hesitated for a second but I 
knew I just had to do something.

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I took out my gun and kicked in 
the door with two cakes. 

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Some guy I've never seen before 
stood inside, looking at me 

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startled, but my allowed 
entrance, he wore a pair of 

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panties over his face. 
He dropped the box cutter. 

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He was holding his right hand 
and with a dull sound dropped on

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the plastic sheets in which the 
entire room was covered. 

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His eyes were wide and almost 
comically panicky. 

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Like those of a kid caught in 
the act of stealing a cookie 

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from the jar. 
Then it felt as if time, Stood 

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Still in a split second. 
I took in the whole horrific 

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scene. 
In the left corner of the room, 

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which aside from the plastic on 
the floors was identical to mine

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set. 
A girl in your underwear tied to

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a chair. 
At the other side of the room 

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stood a camera on a tripod with 
another man behind it, it just 

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couldn't be a coincidence. 
I remember thinking that I 

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stumbled Upon A group of sick 
perverts, like the fish. 

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I could see what this was right 
away. 

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Some fucked-up snuff porn, set 
up without thinking. 

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I shot the bastard in the chest 
four times. 

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He fell down in the other guy, 
started baking. 

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I shot him in the chest and 
shoulder. 

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And I watched them both choked 
in their own blood. 

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I quickly ran towards the girl 
and pulled the tape off her 

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mouth. 
She started screaming. 

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Like I have never heard someone 
scream for a moment, I 

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considered calling 911 with the 
motel phone and then making my 

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way to Mexico. 
But then the motel owner 

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hollered something at me from 
the doorway. 

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I hadn't even heard him come in 
and put him a gun at him and 

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told him that if he moved as 
much as a finger, I'd shoot him 

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to explain yourself. 
What the fuck were you supplying

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here? 
I said It's, it's just it's just

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a movie. 
You started. 

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Of course I didn't believe them.
Shut the fuck up. 

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Do you think I'm a fool? 
I replied. 

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I look at the girl. 
She was still crying. 

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But in between her whimpering as
she repeated that she was an 

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actress. 
At first, I didn't believe her. 

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But she explained over and over 
again, that this was a film set 

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at the motel owner was telling 
the truth. 

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She was just an actress working 
on a scene for a low-budget 

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horror movie called desert 
death, I couldn't believe it. 

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I couldn't fucking believe it. 
I had mistaken a horror said, 

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for the real fucking deal. 
The girl kept begging me, not to

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harm her. 
The motel owner kept saying, oh 

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God, oh God, oh God, like a 
broken record, Me, and my gut. 

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I felt so fucking stupid. 
I could die! 

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I'd shot two innocent men. 
A director and the camera Man In

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Cold Blood. 
Desert death was quickly 

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finished by Warner Brothers 
after the news broke. 

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The studio was eager to make a 
quick Buck on the media. 

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Buzz surrounding the 
experimental, horror movie, that

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was now tainted by real deaths. 
The relatives of the deceased 

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director and cameraman protested
at first, but were hushed up 

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with 10% of the box office 
Prophets. 

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My name was all over the paper. 
And so was a head shot of that 

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actress. 
Mobster shoots up movie, Set 

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kills two or something along 
those lines. 

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Some journalists theorize that 
it wasn't an accident. 

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But a hit ordered by the New 
York mob, desert death was, 

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hastily released into theaters 
Nationwide and made Millions it 

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even got two sequels. 
Turning it into a trilogy. 

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The poor actress however hasn't 
been a movie since I read 

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somewhere that she manages a 
McDonald's now. 

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I made it to the Maldives in the
end after I fully realized what 

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I'd done, I ran to my motel room
to get my money into passport 

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and drove away. 
I told that actress and the 

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motel owner that if they called 
the police before five hours in 

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past, I would make sure their 
family wouldn't live to see 

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another day. 
Apparently, they believed me 

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because they gave me time to get
to the Border. 

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The FBI still looking for me, 
three homicides now, tied to my 

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name. 
But I chose the Maldives for a 

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reason. 
I know I can never leave this 

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country that the feds will 
arrest me as soon as I exit the 

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plane. 
At least I'm safe here. 

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But sometimes in my dreams I see
their faces, the faces of those 

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innocent man, I killed I feel I 
have to pay for my crimes at 

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some point in this life or the 
next The fish deserved was 

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coming to him, but I know, God 
won't forgive me for the other 

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