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... to this place as remote as i'd ever been, a very small town called grenza.
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about 30 miles east of elkins.
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i was too young and dumb to cancel the trip, even when i got a weather report for grenza and the surrounding area that was promising significant snowfall.
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last hour and a half of driving was all isolated mountain roads, and by noon the car was slipping.
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i was getting really worried, but i'd reached a point where going back seemed it would be as dicey going forward, so i just pushed on. the last 10 miles-
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... i was scared to go any faster because i was afraid of wrecking.
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it was as deep in the mountains as i'd ever seen a place.
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i spotted the bed and breakfast, but it was down a steep driveway-
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... and all i could do was turn in the direction of the skid until i came to a nice soft rest.
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the woman who i'd called for a reservation-
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... technically, laurel and i would be the only people in the legal town limits of grenza that weekend.
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their population had been 130 and now there were only 24 residents. aside from laurel and the dietrichs-
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cold and disrepair, here's the most telling statement about the condition of the place.
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it wasn't like anyone was going to break into this place.
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i just put a chair in front of the front door and she would know not to come in.
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that i got for trying to choose the absolute cheapest place i could find.
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then i looked up at all that white nothingness in the sky. and
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up at the rows and rows of trees to the north-
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then i made a terrible mistake.
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... i was farther away from my world than i'd ever been, and that was okay.
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it would have to be now.
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i stopped in at the main house to ask laurel if i could maybe get a sandwich to tie me over for the next few hours.
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she actively tried to talk me out of walking any further than the mill.
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so dejected, i was left to feel like i was abandoning her.
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by the looks of them, mostly done by local people.
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it read, walking people go back.
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she seemed to think about that for long moment before she answer.
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... ever come again, and that she put the painting up-
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sometimes when it felt like they were watching or they were near-
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... something i couldn't deal with.
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i thanked her for the sandwich and i told her i'd be there for dinner at 5:30.
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i headed down something called wildberry lane, which branched off acorn road toward the woods.
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i walked past the historic mill in the little old house where the region's first printing press had been housed.
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but not before a short trail branched off it to my left
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a lot of the tombstones tilting askew.
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the most recent death seemed to be 1980 or so.
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the little place was sadly, pretty somehow lying under the snow.
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at one edge of the cemetery was a monument off to itself-
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... about five feet high, standing beside a tree.
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it was the skin of a long snake.
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but it was just an illusion of the snow clinging to them.
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i brushed some of it away, and i read these words-
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"no attribution." leaving the cemetery-
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a genuine fear of everything around me, of what might be in the woods.
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... in the cemetery on the silent road,
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... that trudge back up wildberry lane was steep and painful.
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it was irrational, but it was persistent.
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twice as i went up the hill, and then a third time-
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there were three wreaths hung on the railing.
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... based a few feet apart from one another.
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i cut around the mill and actually stood on the lawn of that little house, trying to make out the name on the mailbox.
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yes, the name was dietrich.
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laurel had said. by the time i got back to acorn road, my ears and fingers were numb from the cold, even-
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... stared at the window with the two houses. i could just barely see up acorn road.
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shuttered. i decided to go to my room and sleep until dinner.
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as soon as i began to drift off into those warm quilts,
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... i heard an engine, what sounded like a small car out on acorn road.
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i was afraid to turn on the light. i was afraid of what i might see if i did.
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for 10 minutes. i just lay there wondering why i was coming apart. and then i-
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... road, barely visible, not the slightest sign of human presence.
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... to call for a tow truck.
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i had no intention of spending the night here with the thought that by midnight i'd be going-
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... insane with the feeling that the town around me was-
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crossed the porch and i found the front door still unlocked.
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... i went in and i shut the door fast behind me, shivering.
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i called out laurel's name and i didn't get an answer.
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a clock on the wall told me it was 8:15.
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8:15. somehow i'd slept for five-
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already plowing route 33, which led west to elkins.
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he said he didn't think it would be a problem to get to grenza by 11 or so.
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more than anything i wanted to keep talking.
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i even considered making more calls to see if i could somehow find someone who could come get me right now-
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... but that seemed like it would be too much a shot in the dark.
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... saw the note on the end table beside it.
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laurel had written it. it said, "mr. kind-
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sorry, i've left. i've gone to my sister's house in morgantown.
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you didn't answer. she'd left.
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with her only guest waiting for dinner.
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she'd left on dangerous roads, in freezing cold, to drive to a town.
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i wrapped my scarf around my face and they opened the front door again.
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i had the insane thought.
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would tell whatever might be above me that i had returned, that i was coming back into the bedroom.
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i sat in the middle of the couch that sat facing acorn road. it felt better when i was in the dark.
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was: you are completely alone.
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where laurel had told me she picked flowers for the guests breakfast tables in summertime.
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the street lamps were bent from age and the constant oppressive wind
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head began to throb. i started to suffer a phenomenon from books i'd read.
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on acorn road, out of the blind spot to the east.
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straight ahead. he had a beard, i remember.
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even feel the cold.
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this man was looking up at the sky as he walked.
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wearing a long, long, dark, gray or black dress.
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had no arms. otherwise, he was just like them, and he-
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... moved down acorn road. they were oblivious to what was on either side of them.
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wiping the sweat off my face.
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i propped myself up just enough to be able to slide the window back down-
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resting my head back. i couldn't even turn it to keep an eye on the window, because to do so brought my cheek-
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... there. it became an awful test of endurance.
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i was wheezing, my lungs were in agony.
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the tow truck i'd called appeared at the top of the slope, and instead of the darkest scenario coming true-
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