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Solve Presents Penance

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Part one,

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Holding my breath hair Terrence. Well,

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all I can taste here is your math, Rebecca. It's

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clever jargon covering up naked stats.

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Sorry, if I couldn't make city council

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holding fatigue sexy enough for you,

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give me a bigger bite. I'll show you a better scoop. Glad

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you said so, I've got here

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handwritten letter we received this morning postmark

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from an Amish town. You may recognize. I

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wonder where they got our address. A letter

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reads a lot like you try anonymous

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in style or signature, both

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dream source material. It tells

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of a young man returning from his rum

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springer. That's like an army spring break,

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right, a mild analogy. Rum springer

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is a year of no consequences on the outside before

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baptism nails you down for good. Well, anyway,

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one week later, the kid kicks the bucket,

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just shy of eighteen. If we print

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an obituary, his family is not likely to read it. It's

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not a no bit. There's a story here, see

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for yourself. Letter writer says

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the death is mysterious, no cause anyone can

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name. Yeah, Well, with the Amish, there's no autopsy,

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no cause, no story, at

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least not for me. This can only be your

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story. I've lived in Pennsylvania my whole

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life. I've seen the shunned return. I didn't come

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to my senses and leave Terence. I

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was excommunicated. Do I need to

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spell out the rude Latin for you? If

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you want a shot at the big leagues, investigated

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pieces, verticals and undercover

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stint is the best way in. And this would

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be the easiest chamillion of your career. Sure,

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just crawl back to a town that spit me

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out as a minor break two decades

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of silence with my father. Easy?

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Yeah, thanks, but no thanks.

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The funerals in two days. Sleep

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on it. I'd drive you there, help with

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any additional research. Oh, you'd

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really do that for me? Did

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this is Rebecca Ramer? Shoot it or

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lose it? You

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have no new messages? Fighting

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broke out overnight between rival factions

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along the Israeli Syrian border. Screw

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it, morning,

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sunshine. Did you spotify

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Amish hands for our drive? I thought

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it would pick you up. Let's

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just go

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backt light. We've got more buttons than bonnets

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these days, not much to pack. Hey,

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you can't smoke in here.

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You deprived me of this one joy before throwing

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me to the wolves are horridly

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wolves. You've never met my father? What

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about your mother? I'll trained midwife managed

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to climb me out before my mother passed. Jeez,

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I'm sorry. So you and your dad

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lost your mom and then each other. Funny

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thing. Much loyalty is rooted

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fifty ft in the ground like no wider than haystraw.

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You think cancel culture is bad, one

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misstep in Amish country and you are cast off.

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Makes mean tweaks seemple point. Hey,

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maybe this will be a good thing, reconnect with family.

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I don't have a family. This

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is a job. So where's

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your first stop? Well, I can't go to my father's

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dressed like this, basic harlot. I'm not going

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to find out who wrote that letter. First take

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the hard copy. Handwriting

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might come in hand. Okay,

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this place hasn't changed, almost

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like they condemned that kind of thing. I'm a phone

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call away if you need anything, anything

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you hear, Yeah, best

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I proceed on foot from here. Blessed

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day. Raber. Wrong,

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we go wrong, we go pop

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out. We'll spin you in his bag. Coming

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Rebecca Raper at

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my doorstop Sunday surprise. Were

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you seen walking over here? I'd

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venture no, but that likelihood on these texts higher

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the longer I stand at your door and blue jeans. Of course,

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Come in, Come in. I've

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prayed for this, me too,

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you know me, big time prayer, fake

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some holiness for me. Kids.

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This is mother's oldest and

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dearest friend, Rebecca. Hello,

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they're as beautiful as you described in your letters.

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Speaking of letters, I need to ask you about

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something um in private.

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Yes, certainly, come, let's

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get you a change of clothes. All

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right, that's up? What is this forbidden drop

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by all about? You want the undergone answer

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always, I'm an assignment.

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We got an anonymous letter into my paper

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about the boy who just passed. It's

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beyond digestion. One of the

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shlock twins. Just kids,

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really, he was a twin. Do

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you think there could have been any foul play? You're

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asking if the boy could have been murdered? Whoever

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wrote this certainly think so, honestly,

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Rebecca. Not everything has to be a damn story.

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We'll get the mouth on you do influence.

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I'll be it from a distance. Can

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you think of anyone in town who might have written this

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letter, I

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couldn't guess. But if

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you want to have access to everyone in town

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all in one place, the funeral, Yeah,

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I know, but I can't come close

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to that church without repenting, Mary, more

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like you can't come close to repenting without that

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church. Well, in that case,

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how about those humbler threads. My closet

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is all yours. You are an angel,

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and I brought you a little

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something. What

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is it? Battery

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powered? Too hard to find nowadays?

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You are trouble. I never

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learned crowded

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procession, and you forget the comforts

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of community. Everyone will

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be out today to support the Schlocks in their time of Greek,

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including your father while

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he is the town bishop. That would make

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sense, yes, but

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with a few other additions. I

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dare not mention it in our letters for a risk of upsetting

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you. But he remarried after

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you left. Amity a

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widow from the town over. Oh,

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she's quite amiable, biddingly I'll

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be the judge of that. She has her

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own son. LEVI a bit

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of a brick. What can you do? And

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also get your

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st last horses out of my lane. Hey,

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Craig, is our funeral procession making

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you laid for your pedicure, stupid

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dudgy. What's

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with the asshole in the Pontiac? Not

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an isolated incident. I'm afraid that

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Englishman has always been a problem.

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We're almost there. You'll do well

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to start minding your language.

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You should you doing here? Are

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you okay? Fina?

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Your father? Good dog? Good

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Mariah ship? I think

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I changed my mind. We've come this far. No, Rebecca,

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Hello, Father, Hello, Bishop,

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we'll be inside. Come on, kids,

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it's you and you

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dressed. Yes. Time

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has warmed me to tradition. I suppose what

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are you doing here? I came here to repent,

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Father, repent

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what I

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thought you'd be glad. I'll be glad

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when I sniff out the truth behind this little stunt,

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said Jesuster was followers, please

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excuse me, Bishop Thomas

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Schluck, A beautiful

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boy taken too soon or

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perhaps right on time? Are

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you a g standard? Now? They

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are? When it's the Craper Preacher service, preacher

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King, we call him there. He

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tends to form close bonds with the boys. Worse

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hardships had stung our shores, and

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they are sure to again. God

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asks us not to search for

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the div in order in this but to trust

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that there is one, especially

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when it tastes as tenuous as ever.

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Yes, he

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was really just a boy. You didn't

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so sad so

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one morning he was just found lying

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on the ground. You'd have

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to ask Silas the twin. Yes,

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he's the one who found on this There

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he is now talking to the preacher. Well,

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the intros now are never Rebecca, be

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delicate. You know me best

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not to concern, and you went out of respect for

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your brother, understood, sir

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Silas. My condolences. Thanks,

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Sorry, who I thought I spotted

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you in the pews, Rebecca or nonrepenter?

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Hello, Silas,

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meet Matthew's long lost daughter. The

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bishop has another daughter, another

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daughter. I should

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go find my parents. Nice

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to meet you, Rebecca. Peace

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out or with you or

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whatever. The boy's

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got a curious grief in him.

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Some do it

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sounded like you were close with his brother. You'd

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find none as pure as

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pious? Was that still

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the case when he came back from his rum? Springer never

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the most? So what's

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this line of questioning? You didn't even

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know him? No, certainly

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not like you did. Mm

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hmm. If you'll excuse

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me, Rebecca,

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Uh, oh

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my, you are our Rebecca,

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aren't you? I'm Amity,

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though I don't presume you've heard of me. She

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hasn't, not until very

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recently. It's nice

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to meet you, Amity. And this here's

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LEVI say hello, Hello,

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Matthew, Rebecca.

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This is our daughter, Emma.

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What a pleasure it is to meet you, sister.

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We've heard such things. I can

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only imagine you've done more than just

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that from what I can gather. Sorry,

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where are my manners? You'll come back

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with us for lunch. I wouldn't

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impose, we insist. She

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hasn't repented yet, Emity, she's

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still family girl.

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Come on, my mamma, you know

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what? Sure I could eat m

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apologies. The seller isn't a bit of a

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state as with my father, your

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parents. Your father's in shock at

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warm. Here take these

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cans? Wow? Is

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it possible? But I actually missed can beats.

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The rest of us are thrilled beyond our wits.

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Emma, though she's a bit boy

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crazed as it is. So if you could just, you

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know, keep an eye on your influence, that would be

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that would be just peachy. Dear

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Lord, thank you for this food, but

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thank you most of all for the fresh company we

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keep in the eating of it. Our

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long lost child of God returned to

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us, and am Rebecca.

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I want to know all about so many things.

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What it feels like to put contact lenses in It

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blows my hair back, really, I mean

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when I bit doubt and the sorcery

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that is a hair dryer. Rebecca doesn't want

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to talk about the very world she just left behind

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forever, now, does she? We

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They the English are just

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like you and me, but with one eye

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on the devil at all times. Matthew,

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I'm not hungry. I'm going to the

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barn. Oh,

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don't mind your father. We'll have you squared

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away with the preacher and all will be well in no time.

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He seems up to his eyeballs already with grief.

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Thomas sounded like a very special young man, him

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and all the others. The

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others. Mother's talking about

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the curse. I'm sorry, did you say curse?

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It started before I was born. Even cow

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boys healthier than horses gone overnight

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in the same way Thomas's death marks unlucky

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thirteen. Oh my god, gosh,

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if you could, Rebecca. Um.

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Some believe that acknowledging the curse at all just

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continu is the madness so Mom's

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the word on a dozen dead teenagers.

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There's nothing to be done. These

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boys dropped like flies. No one can think

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of any good reason. Maybe

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it's nature telling us. I

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don't know what. With

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Thomas gone, there hasn't been one young man to reach

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his baptism in the past, at

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least since I came to town. Obviously,

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with LEVI were sensitive

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to it. Silas is alive and wrong

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the one beacon you're saying, Silas

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is the only boy in this town who has lived to see his eighteenth

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birthday in two decades. Call

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it a curse if we must, though,

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all that black magic talk does is rid us of any

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responsibility to get to the bottom of it, which

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we will because

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we must. Yeah.

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Rebecca Raber was played by Alice Lovek,

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Terrence by Blaine Gray, Matthew

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Raber by Jim Hannah, Amity

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Raber by Carrie Kawa, Silas

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Shrock by Dmitri Todd, Preacher

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King by Bradley Fisher, Kenny

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by Devon Matthew McKee, Emma

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Raber by Brady Ryder, Levi

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Raber by Chad Roberts, Mary

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by a rouned Stores. This

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episode of Solve was written by Shannon

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Riley, directed by Corey

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Serge Executive produced by

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Corey Serge Executive

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produced by walp Omer and Sterling Barnett.

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Casting by Daisy Laura. Audio

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production and post production by Salt

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Audio Production manager

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Liz Lamay. Recording engineers

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Hope Brush and John Schmidt. Original

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music and score by Nathan Turchon, Editing

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and mixed by Zach Jurich, Assistant

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editor Hope Brush. Sound

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designed by Eric Rachelson. Script

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supervisor Marilyn Miller