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I have thought for the last two years that this
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event was a Mandela effect, but after
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finding this sub, I am starting to
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think maybe it was a glitch. Anyone
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else have something so blatant happen?
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I'm hesitant to tell this story.
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No one believes that even my husband who
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saw the whole thing, but here we
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go. My neighbors directly
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across the street from me, they're married and
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expecting a baby. The wife is a tiny
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blonde woman, very Caucasian, very
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tiny build. We wave to each other daily,
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and yell salutations across the street.
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She goes into labor and they leave for the hospital.
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A week later, I see the car has turn
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so I bake some cookies to take over and congratulate
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them. What a good neighbor?
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Another day or two goes by and I see
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a thick brunette lady outside with a
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baby and I wave, assuming it's a relative
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that's come to help with the newborn. A
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few more days passed and I see the husband
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outside with the brunette and the baby,
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so I take the cookies over.
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It's her. It's
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the wife. Same name, same
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personality, and same demeanor, except
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now she's a thick, kind of tall brunette Pacific
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Islander. The husband doesn't acknowledge any
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difference. She talks to me and treats me
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the way always has, but it's a totally
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different person. My husband noticed
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as well, we made some jokes about him wife
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swapping at the hospital But since he can't
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wrap his brain around it, he starts to
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believe that she's always been this person
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even though he clearly remembers her teeny
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and blonde. I feel like everyone has
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lost their minds. It's been almost two
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years since that shift and she's still
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a thick tall brunette. And
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then I feel like maybe I've lost
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my mind. My only consolation is
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that my husband remembers it too if
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only vaguely. Dude,
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I see Caucasian people.
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Update number one.
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So I showed the picture I found to her.
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So So she so she found a picture.
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So this all happens. You know? And of course,
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everybody jumps into bake. You know,
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what is going on in this situation? They ask if
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they if they have if she has any pictures
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of this woman of her neighbor from
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what she believes she originally looked
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like and she found this picture from a
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church group where the looks like
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how she remembered. So update
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number one. So I showed the picture I found
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of her to my husband last night he's
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a little bit of a mess about it. The man is
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not a conspiracy guy at all,
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but he remembered her. He started asking
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some questions and tossing around ideas about
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what could have happened. I convinced
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him to go to the church this morning and
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attend their service. I spoke briefly
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with the pastor and said my neighbor had recommended
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that I attend. He was grateful she was sending
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people his way, even though get this,
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she hadn't attended since she had the
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baby. She apparently changed churches
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to one a little closer when she gave birth.
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So I don't know where to go
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next except for putting some feelers out in
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the neighborhood and finding an excuse to hang
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out with her. I would just go up to this person
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and show her this blonde Caucasian
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person. Is this you? Get
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ready. Update
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number two. I'm sorry that took
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so long. I didn't want to update until I
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had spoken directly to my neighbor.
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So I endured the heat all week
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and spent way too much on flowers to plant
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in an attempt to run into my neighbors.
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The old lady next door doesn't remember the
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neighbor's wife having blonde hair, but her
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middle aged daughter does. She said,
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that was a couple years ago. I don't
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know why she went so dark. I thought it would
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wash her out. When I pointed out that it
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wouldn't wash her out because her complexion is
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tan now, she looked confused and said
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that maybe she had been tanning because
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she did look darker. I pushed
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it a little further and asked if she also
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seemed taller, but she seemed stuck on the
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fact that the very Caucasian blonde woman
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had gotten tan enough for such dark hair
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to look natural. She gave me several
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reasons, but didn't seem convinced I
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also spoke to the changed ladies'
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next store neighbor and mentioned her having
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blonde hair. Neither he nor
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his wife remembered her ever being blonde.
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They both agreed she had dark hair on
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move in day. Yesterday, I
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finally cornered changed neighbor lady
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outside. She pulled up with
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groceries, and I offered to help carry
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them with her. I started talking
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about the church and how I had spoken with the
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pastor. She said some really nice stuff
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about the church, but also that she needed a church
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closer. That's why she had switched.
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When I pointed out that her new church was
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actually farther away, she
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said she had never actually measured it, but
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it seemed closer. I pointed out
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that her old church was in our town and
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her new church is in the next town over
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and she said the back roads just make it
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seem shorter. Some red flags popped
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up here because the back roads around here are
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long windy roads that circle around our
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town and pass by all the farmland. It
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doesn't ever make things quicker. It's a
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nicer drive, sure, but it always adds a
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good chunk to the drive time. Also,
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the new church is in the middle of the town,
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two streets over from main street.
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So if you take the back roads,
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you actually have to circle back to get on
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the main roads, to get to it anyway. It
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would be much more convenient to take
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a direct route using the town roads that
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connect the two towns. It's almost
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a straight shot from the middle of our town
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to the next town over. I don't know
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why that bothered me, but it did.
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After a little while of small talk, I
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brought up the hair. I said that I was
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trying to go blonde to hide some gray
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that I have coming in and did she have any
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tips? She laughed and said the
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last time she was blonde, she was in high
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school and it was a mess so she didn't recommend
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it. I pointed out that she was blonde
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right before having her baby and she
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got really weird, almost
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defensive and said she hadn't. She
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had only tried to go blonde that one time in
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high school and it turned orange so she died
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it back immediately. I told her I chalked
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it up to pregnancy brain because she was
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definitely blonde while she was pregnant. She
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ended the conversation shortly after and
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thanked me for my help, but you could tell
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she was annoyed with me. Dude,
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this woman is, like, measuring skulls
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and, like, checking the neighbor and, like, be, like,
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a has the property value gone down?
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I didn't agree I didn't agree
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to live next to somebody who was in Caucasian.
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What the fuck is happening? This is the
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most oh,
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my god.
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So guys, not super sure what
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I've learned other than the girl next door
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to me, old lady's daughter, and I are going to
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have another chat. she made
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me feel like she remembered, but she couldn't
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wrap her head around it. I'm going back to
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the church on Sunday to poke around and
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talk to some more people. Any more ideas?
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Never live next someone who's on Reddit.
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That is the fucking answer here.
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These people are insane. Just how
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how bored Do you have
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to be in your own life to go? I mean, this sounds
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like a crusade that went on for
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years. At one point of the pose, she says
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it's been two years after they had the baby. So
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this woman is sitting, you know
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you know, sitting looking out her
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window going, what's changed? Is it
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I I remember her different. Yeah. This
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is like this really is is a
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twenty first century version of rear
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window, which lags it out,
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but But instead of some of being murdered,
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someone someone doesn't doesn't appear like
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you remembered, and so you're trying to investigate
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the what's what the hell is going on? Except in
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rear window, you know, he had
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the excuse of, you know, being
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confined to his bedroom by
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disability. This case, he's just
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combined to his bedroom by Internet
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brain. They're just you're you're stuck into
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the Reddit, and you can't let it
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go, and you're letting it radicalize you slowly.
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That's the twenty first person rear window.
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And that and the amazing thing is is that
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this woman, she didn't just straight
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up, go up to the person, be like, hey,
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I'm losing my mind. I think, like, I thought
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you looked you know, you looked totally different, but
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then after you had that Or show her the picture. Yeah.
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Sure her the picture or whatever. But instead,
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she's going to the flower store, she's buying
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flowers, she's staying outside in
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hopes that they run into her, you know, she
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offers to help carry groceries, you know,
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so that maybe she can She's she's
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playing detective, and I'll tell you what guys.
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The the replies to this story
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are are not helping because one of
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the most popular replies says
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this. Some federal
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agents are in undercover marriages. Maybe
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they needed to switch one with their bio partner
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as maternity leave. Maybe it was a
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case if they switched from their assigned partner to
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keep it somewhat plausible. Who cares if you sound
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a little insane? rather than
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no pregnant wife. And then bam,
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baby shows up out of nowhere. That would be
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more noticeable to blow their cover.
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What? And then the person below that writes
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this. I surmise that this is
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what went down. Man, if I was o
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p, I'd figure out some way to invite the woman
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over to my home. When she was inside,
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I just flat out say, quote, hey,
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so I know for sure that you aren't the same
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woman who lived here before, I'm not a dumbass.
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If she's a cop, you will simply be killed
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or incarcerated or have your memory watch
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Or the couple will move, but that's just
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my insane truth or die approach. No.
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Don't do any of these things. Leave
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your neighbors alone. You fucking read it,
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brained idiots. Yeah. If your
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neighbor looks different, move
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on with your life. Yes. find
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something else to do, then try to
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trap them over in your home. Look,
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my wife and I Look, I'm
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not gonna lie. we gained quite
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a bit of weight during COVID. There
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might be a glitch in the matrix,
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a subreddit user across the street
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that's like, man, you know, when they
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moved in, it was a very attractive
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in shape couple. And now
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they've been they've been they've been
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replaced by too too thick too
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sick peep too sick. You
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know, I I started taking hair pills
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at the beginning of the at
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the beginning of pandemic. And as
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a result, much of many of my bald
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spots have grown in. So maybe there's a
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subreddit post, yeah, when he moved in, he
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was basically totally
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bald, but Now when I see him, he's got
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hair on top of his head. I wonder,
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it's gotta be some sort of federal
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agent. I think as usual, these episodes
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are covering Jake's brain. Yeah.
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So nothing. It's a nice
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brain. Everybody wants to come inside the
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madness. Yeah. Everybody wants a little peek
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inside the madness every now and again.
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Are we sure like, the hair pills don't make the hair
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grow down into the brain? Like
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roots like roots of an old
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tree just like completely messing with
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the frontal cortex. My
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and the title is pretty
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