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who's likely about to close up the market to see if i could sit in on the weekly late night folk jam session.
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and then he asked me why i hadn't popped into the market that afternoon.
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and i told him i'd gotten sidetracked by some real strangeness that i should have explained to him sooner.
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and i'd been tethered to the phone.
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i said, "no, i didn't leave the house today."
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i turned the lamp on beside it and i sat.
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that's all there was to it
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i thought about the shacks and temporary structures in those woods.
S
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a little cabin that was the storefront for a sword maker when the fair was on.
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feeling suddenly that i was meant to have rented this house.
N
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see what happened. my car keys were already in my pocket.
N
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3.6
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my wallet, i tucked into my jeans and i got up and i walked into the outer hallway, which was still dark.
N
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3.6
3.2
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i wouldn't feel better now until i was at grover's and i wasn't above heading from there directly to the nearest hotel, 20 miles away.
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two hours by then, a full two hours.
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2.8
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i was safely out of the line of sight that began from the front door and stretched straight up the 14 carpeted steps to the top floor.
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3
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then window panes flanking the front door.
N
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1.8
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someone was sitting on the welcome mat down there in the foyer.
N
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with their back against the door just sitting.
X
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-listening for any sound. i turned my head-
X
2.8
2.8
4
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i locked the door, frail as it was, and i stood there in the dark.
X
2.8
3.6
3.6
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fully charged. i stepped into the shower stall as far away from the doors as i could get.
N
2.8
3.4
3.2
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-and i called 911. and how hard it was to bring myself to utter a single word-
S
2.8
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3
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and each syllable i uttered, blocked out an instant of sound that might have been life and death to me.
S
2.2
3.2
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then just quiet. the endurance test of my sanity began.
S
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3
3.4
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that was bad. so i drew the shower curtain closed to conceal myself totally.
S
2
3
3.2
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it's quite something, the sounds that came to me in that quiet.
S
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in unnoticeable ways. that's at some point i lost my mental clock.
S
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but there must have still been a couple of minutes left when there came from down below.
N
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muffling an angry male voice.
N
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3
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it felt like i'd never be able to close them again.
N
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i was just barely able to hear that same deep male voice call out.
N
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3.6
3.6
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it was safe to come down.
N
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3
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convicted drug dealer and someone who had been acquitted of murder in st. paul.
S
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2.2
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[inaudible 00:05:35] lay dead on my staircase, halfway up. face to the ceiling.
S
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3
2.8
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and who had pulled up at my house just in time to intervene...
S
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3
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but he didn't. it wasn't that he was voluntarily giving himself up.
S
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i think that like me-
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one of them dead, one his killer.
N
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2.6
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and what a coward. i still remember how...
X
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3
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power looked up the staircase at me...
X
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with a mix of disgust and wonder-
X
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-at the awful tricks that life plays on us.
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3
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when i was younger, i got hit with a community service sentence for an active cemetery trespassing.
N
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and the judge gave me the assignment of spending 40 hours cleaning the graffiti from an old, old train tunnel that doubled down as a bike pathway-
N
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a weird smelling solvent and a wire brush and rubber gloves and a dust mask.
N
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to dim the weak orange color, 35-
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-years of graffiti had to come off.
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no caption done in just a few strokes of very old paint.
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sometimes the wind would get caught up in the tunnel somehow and whistle for a minute and then die.
S
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had hauled all the way in there.
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there was someone there 50 yards away.
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standing just outside the entrance.
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there was a man and a woman holding hands.
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just turn back to my business.
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they hadn't gone anywhere.
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there they still were. so i very intentionally tried to screen them out and work on the stone in front of me.
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look up, but not otherwise.
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and eventually they were just not there anymore.
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was pretty high. this one was done just like the other two.
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except it was partially covered by other graffiti.
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bout aa half hour later, i looked toward the north end of the tunnel and...
N
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there they were again, that couple.
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i suddenly felt very afraid.
X
3
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same spot, same behavior, not walking forward.
X
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3
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and i hadn't seen them approach the tunnel.
N
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understand why it was i was so scared to call out to them.
S
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i couldn't bring myself to make a sound because-
S
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-making a sound might somehow cause something to happen.
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this time i did see them turn and walk away down the path.
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i felt like reading up on anything i could find about the tunnel.
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internet didn't produce much on the topic.
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and to my amazement, it was about local lynchings.
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involving a man named ralph tanner and his girlfriend.
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melody march, both 21 years old.
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it came out that they'd had a suicide pact.
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she had stepped in front of a train coming through the tunnel where i had spent the last several nights.
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but the last second, he had lost his nerve and only watched as she was struck.
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while awaiting trial, he would walk down the tracks and then-
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i never found any proof that this part of the story was true.
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just that they were real people with a real pact.
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and tanner had been sentenced to a few years in prison-
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-where he hung himself. i suppose the faces could have been done by anyone.
N
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feel almost silly talking about them
S
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smooth pavement laid down for bicyclists and hikers.
X
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my footsteps seemed so loud somehow.
N
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3
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the nearest house to that part of the trail was three quarters of a mile away.
S
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i was scared from the first moment i set foot on the path that night.
X
3.2
3
3.2
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my neck was stiff and sore from fear.
S
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3
2.6
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my head was pounding. i couldn't even listen to music. i just scrubbed till my hands ached as they did every night.
S
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just scrubbed and tried not to look around.
S
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sometimes the wind caused a little gathering of leaves to whip together in a spiral of-
N
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4.6
4
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and it made me tremble for some reason.
X
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and i saw the face on the stones beside a bunch of oversized and-
N
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messy, random dollar signs somebody had drawn.
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several times, and when i turned
N
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i saw them again. i saw the couple, but-
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3
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this time, they were standing inside the tunnel, just by a few feet.
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they started to walk toward me this time, hand in hand.
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fear. there was suddenly a taste in my mouth like-
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gasoline. weird, peppery almost.
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