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Have you ever had or heard of
someone having an imaginary friend during that it's

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completely normal and that this children will
eventually grow out of it. Well,

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what if it doesn't go away.
In today's episode, you will hear one

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of the most terrifying accounts of an
imaginary friend. Don't listen alone. My

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name is Edwin and here is Charlotte. It's true scary story. This all

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started when I was about five in
two thousand and five Norwalk, California.

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I was living with my grandparents because
my parents were kind of separated at the

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time. I feel like that made
it even worse. There's a lot of

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negative energy. Around that time.
I started seeing an imaginary friend, is

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what my family called it. I
thought she was real. We used to

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have this huge hallway. At the
end of the hallway was this closet.

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One day I just opened it.
There she was. I just started talking

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to her every day. My family
just let me go because I didn't have

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a lot of friends in the area. But then they started asking me more

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questions about her. Why is she
here, what does she look like.

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I didn't like to talk about it
much because she had told me not to

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say anything to anybody or something bad
would happen. I'm not exactly sure what

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would happen, but she just said
not to. My siblings started picking on

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me about it. They just kept
about asking you, what does she look

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like? Where did she come from? I eventually told them her name is

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Sarah, Sarah. She is older
than me, hen or eight. She

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where's a dredge, has long brown
hair. I don't really know what her

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face looks like, but there you
go. They continued to tease me,

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as siblings do. Everything was fine
for a while until she started scaring me.

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She even told me, I told
you not to say anything. This

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is what you get. She would
slam doors, flicker the lights. My

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grandma that I lived with, she
was very religious. She didn't believe any

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of that. She just thought,
oh, it's the wind, it's electrical.

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She'd brushed it off. It still
scared me. One night. They

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got so bad that one night my
sister was teasing me about it. She's

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sitting on the bed, still going
on about how I'm stupid for having imagine

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her friends. She was like,
where is she? She's not even here.

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I pointed to the bed right next
to her that she was sitting on.

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She looked over you could see the
indent of someone sitting in the bed

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with her. She starts screaming and
running to my grandparents, and I got

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in trouble because I thought it was
funny. She kind of deserved it,

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in my eyes. It worked out
after a couple of years. In two

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thousand and seven, two thousand and
eight, I moved out of my grandparents

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and moved in with both my parents
in Long Beach, California. It wasn't

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a great environment. There's a lot
of arguing. It was a very dysfunctional

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household. It just got worse with
that. I feel like spirit speed off

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of negativity. I was just on
my own. I didn't have any friends

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yet. I just went back to
talking to Sarah. I was seventy eight,

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so I was still able to do
that and not look weird. After

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a while of living there, I
got friends, and I never really talked

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about Sarah with them. I thought
it was weird. Sarah didn't like that.

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She continued to hurt me, just
scaring me, throwing things, touching

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me. It was very chaotic.
That house that we lived in in Long

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Beach had a lot of different others, spirits, the negativity, it just

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made it worse. We had one
that I considered to be a pervert.

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I have a lot of sisters.
He made us feel like we were being

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watched when we were getting dressed.
He would touch specific parts of our bodies

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that were private. It was just
weird. I feel like they both worked

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together to make us feel scared all
the time, Scared to walk out of

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our rooms at night because we thought
something was there. It was a really

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old house. We would just hear
creaking back and forth through the hallway,

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just someone walking. The door made
a certain sound when it closed, kind

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of squeaked. We would hear something
trying to open it. We would hear

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the squeak. We just have the
TV going. We didn't want to hear

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the noises anymore. You never felt
like you were alone. There's just always

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someone watching you in that house.
Me and my sister's beds were side by

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side, real close to each other
because the room was super small. One

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morning, I was waking up but
still sleep I heard scratching, like when

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you run your fingers on the bed
really fast, like a spider. I

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heard that coming towards my neck super
fast, and then it scratched me on

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the back of my neck. I
thought it was my sister because we were

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so close, she could easily grab
me from her bed, but she was

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asleep. I woke up and explained
to her what happened. She didn't relieve

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me. We didn't look at my
neck to see if anything was there,

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but it burned, it felt hot. Something touched me. We just didn't

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know what to do. We just
brushed it off and continued on living there.

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We were there for a while and
we moved up to the Riverside area

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in two thousand. We got a
new house. We thought nothing could be

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there because it's new. Nobody was
there before us. It was like new

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beginnings. For the first month or
two, it was just me my mom

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that moved up here and my siblings
stayed down in Long Beach. My mom

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would sleep in the living room.
We didn't have any furniture at the time.

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We just moved in. I slept
in my room because I had my

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first room. One of the first
nights that we were there, while I

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was in my room, I had
the TV on. I was minding my

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own business and I heard someone jiggling
the door knob. I thought, Oh,

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it's just a mom walking, she's
going to sleep I didn't think about

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it. I didn't want to bring
that kind of energy into the new house.

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I didn't want anything to happen.
I don't think I told my mom.

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I didn't even tell my siblings.
I just kept it to myself.

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My siblings moved in, and my
oldest sibling moved in with her best friend.

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Everything was great. It wasn't negative. My parents weren't together, they

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were separated, no arguing. It
was really nice. Then my older siblings

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and her friends they started messing with
Wuiji boards, not doing it properly,

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asking the wrong questions, things about
themselves, stuff that you're not supposed to

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do, and not taking it seriously. They started asking questions about Sarah.

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I wasn't there for any of the
sessions that they had. They just would

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tell me about it. I didn't
like messing with that stuff. After they

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start doing that, we started to
get a lot of issues. Doors opening.

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We had a laundry room. We
had lights in there, but it

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just felt so heavy and dark all
the time. There was just something in

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that room. We would always hear
the dryer door opening and closing. My

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little sister, she was three at
the time, she was seeing something.

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She started talking to something. We
asked her to describe her to us.

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She said that she had really pale
skin, really beady black eyes, and

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red hair. No clothes or anything
that she ever described. It was just

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so creepy. When we asked her
to describe her, we were sitting in

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our formal dining room that we turned
into a toy room. She was facing

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the window that was behind me and
my sister when we were asking her.

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At that window, we had a
toy kitchen. When we asked her,

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or is she can you see her? She points right behind us at the

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kitchen playset. Yeah, she's sitting
on the playset. She has red hair,

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she's pale skin, she's sitting right
there. We are like, what

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do you mean? How is she
sitting? Is she sitting like us on

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our butts like normal? And she's
like, no, no, I'll show

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you. She gets up. She
goes on her little chair on her feet

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and her hands lunging trying to get
to us. It freaked us out and

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we just stopped the interrogation. We
didn't want to scare her at all.

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She never gave her a name.
To my knowledge, I don't remember her

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giving her a name, but every
once in a while we would catch her

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talking to her whatever, and we
just let it go. A little bit

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after that, we were in the
main kitchen living room area of the house.

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We have an air conditioning vent in
that room. Out of the blue,

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my little sister just starts scream crying. We're like, what happened?

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Which are you okay? She's just
pointing at this air conditioning event. She's

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like, she's in there, cool, what are you talking about it?

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She's like that girl with the red
hair. She's in there, she's watching

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me. She's always in there.
We could even calm her down. I

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think we ended up covering the event
with paper or something so she wouldn't look

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at it. It just freaked her
out. Then we stopped talking about it.

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We would tell her, don't talk
to her, just ignore her.

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She is bad. We were around
her more, we gave her more attention

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so she didn't have to talk to
her, and eventually she grew out of

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it. It lasted a year that
she was talking to her and eventually she

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just stopped. Maybe two or three
years after she said that she didn't remember,

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so I hope she doesn't remember.
In the same timeframe of my sisters

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playing with the Ouiji board and all
of that. I started getting really bad

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nightmares that started to get sleep prolysis
for the first time. My nightmares were

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Sarah just scaring me constantly, and
I just wake up like in the movies

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how they wake up, and they're
just like all the time. I would

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have the TV on to help me, I'd have lights on, I had

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a night light like. I just
couldn't sleep. It was just horrible.

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I got so scared to sleep on
my own that I ended up giving my

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room to one of my sisters and
I slept with my brother. Everything stopped.

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I didn't have nightmares, I didn't
have sleep prolysses. But eventually I

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had to move back in in my
room because I got too old to sleep

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with my brother. When I went
back into my room, it just started

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again. I started getting sleep prolysis
nightmares. Or one of my nightmares.

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I was in this warehouse slicking room. There's this little girl, which I

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believe is Sarah. She just looked
different to me. She was about to

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do a handstanding. I yelled at
her, don't do that. You're gonna

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hurt your head or something. We'rem
a concrete something of that sort. She

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slowly put her hands down and looked
at me. Right as her hands got

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to her side, she lunged and
start screaming at me. I woke up

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instantly, and I could hear the
echoing of the scream. I didn't go

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back to sleep. I think I
woke up about five am. It got

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so bad that I would see Sarah
constantly in my room. When I was

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younger, I didn't see her as
often. I just would talk to her

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and I would hear her talking to
me. But now I was seeing her.

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It wasn't the little girl that I
always saw. One night, I

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was trying to go to sleep,
at the corner of my room, I

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saw this really palm dark figure,
its shoulders on the ceiling. It was

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hunched over. I turned the light. I looked up over there, and

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it was just my backpack or something. That's probably just my eyes play tricks

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on me in the dark. Turned
light off. It's still there. I

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eventually forced myself to go to sleep
and forget about it. But it really

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scared me, and I started talking
to my very religious grandmother about it.

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She was like, oh, well, when you see things like that,

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just call on God or anything.
And I'm not very religious. I tried,

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and I just it wasn't me.
It just it never helped me.

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It just it didn't stop. Soon, even more people begin to detect that

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something isn't right and begin to do
something about it. The rest of her

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stories coming upward after this stay with
us, my sister she had this friend

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that started coming around and would tell
us, Oh, it's kind of weird

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in here, there's something off.
We never told her the specifics of me

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having something follow me, or about
anything that happened along Beach. I remember

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one day she came over and she's
like, we need to cleanse the house.

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Put salt on the windowsills and the
doors that will keep things out.

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We did that and it made the
house feel a little better, but it

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was still very eerie feeling. And
then we would see that something was pushing

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the salt off of the windowsills.
We would just go home and it would

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be gone. We'd have to redo
it every day. It just happened.

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We told her, and she's like, Okay, that's weird. We just

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kept on googling things, what we
can do and anything that we could,

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but it just never really worked.
She came over and she was asking us

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questions, did you guys have a
grandpa that passed away? Yeah, that's

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my dad's dad. She described him
to a tea and we have no pictures

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of him. She told us,
look, don't say anything, but I

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am psychic. But I don't like
doing it. I'll do it for you

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guys, because you guys really need
the help. She just kept on describing

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people that she saw around the house. Aunts, uncles, grandparents and all

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that. She gets snee she holds
my hands. She's like, let me

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just look at you for a second. Let me read your palms. Whatever

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she's doing. She was like,
okay, can you step out of the

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room real quick. I walk out. She's with my sister talking to her,

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and she called me back in.
She's like, so, did you

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know that you have this little girl, Sarah right. I was like,

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oh my god. Yes, we
never told her about it. She described

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her perfectly, the hair, the
dress, everything perfectly. She told me

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she will hurt you, not always
physical. When you're really sad, she

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will make you even sadder. If
something's going on, she's gonna make it

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worse. She will play mind games
with you. She'll drop something, you'll

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hear it and you'll go look for
it, but she already put it back.

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She makes you feel like you're going
crazy. Also, she's not a

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little girl. I hope you know
that. She's this really tall, dark

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figure. You've seen it and I
was like, yeah, I have.

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That's wild and she's like, yeah, that's her true form. She'll show

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it to you. You got to
do something. She's really trying to scare

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you if she shows you that.
I was really freaked out. How do

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I get rid of her? And
she's like, you can, but I

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mean you don't really have to.
She's not going to do anything to harm

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you. And I'm like, okay, then it's fine. I don't think

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I want to anyways. Sarah can't
physically do anything to me in a sense.

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She's not a devened. It's also
one of those things I've had her

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for so long, got used to
it. It's kind of like, ah,

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just keep her like it's okay.
She never really told me how I

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could get rid of her, and
I never really asked her because I wasn't

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really looking towards that was scared.
For a while after that, I didn't

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want to see it because I didn't
understand that there was differences. I didn't

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understand that there's different things. I
thought, it's a little kid. It's

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a little kid. But when I
started seeing the big shadowy figure before she

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had told me this, I figured
it was Sarah. It felt the same,

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but it was darker. I tried
to really ignore it. That's what

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she told me to do. She
just told me, like, ignore it.

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I didn't see her as often,
which was nice. I feel like

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she just comes in waves. But
I lived there from middle school until I

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graduated high school. Eventually my dad
moved in with us, and he brought

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a lot of negativity, a lot
of arguing. My siblings moved out.

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I was alone with my little sister. She was in kindergarten. I didn't

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have a lot in call with her. I was seventeen. I was always

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super depressed, but made it worse. I was still having my sleep prowesses.

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It was a very chaotic time for
me, and eventually I moved in

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with my mom's mom, my grandma. One of my sisters lived there with

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me and my aunt and uncle.
Everything was fine, we were okay and

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like it was a little bit after
my grandpa had passed, so the house

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was just a little different because he
wasn't there just an empty feeling? I

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guess. Me and my sister were
full time caretakers of my grandma before I

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got a job. We spent a
lot of time with her. I wasn't

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really seeing anything. Nothing was happening. Then my grandma passed away in twenty

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eighteen, so I only had a
year with her before she passed. Before

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she passed, she was downstairs hospice
care. We had a baby monitor on

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her to make sure she was okay. We just want to make sure she

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was okay. A couple days of
watching her and we go down the next

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morning and she would tell us,
like, I heard Grandpa walking to me.

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My grandpa walked a specific way and
we would hear it. Once in

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a while he dragged his feet.
We would hear that dragging, that shuffling.

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She was like, I saw him
standing there. He's been watching over

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me. And this is someone who
doesn't believe in even your family coming to

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visit you. She would tell us, like, I see him. When

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she passed, we didn't hear anything
of them. It felt like they were

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truly just gone. We were happy
for them because they wanted to be together,

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so it was fine. But after
she had passed. That's when we

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started hearing more things, feeling more
scared. The kitchen had a bar,

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and beyond the bar was the living
room, and in the back of the

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kitchen was this other room. And
we called this the Gold Room because my

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grandma decorated it in gold. Every
time you were in the kitchen washing dishes,

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something was in that gold room.
We would see things, something watching

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us from the bar. We'd look
at it and he'd run away. We

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thought it's just the cat. We
had a black cat, so we thought

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it was the cat. But no, it would be as a full figure.

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We couldn't make out what it was. We just called it a boy.

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Everybody saw him in the house.
My aunt and uncle, they didn't

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really believe it, but they would
be like, oh, yeah, we

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saw him. One night, it
was me and my sister. We had

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a friend over and we just kept
feeling like we were just being watched.

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We were downstairs in the living room
and we felt this heavy feeling. I

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don't remember why, but we ended
up walking into the Gold Room. No

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lights were on, and in the
corner it felt so heavy you couldn't even

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really hear what was around you.
It was so muffled and so heavy.

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You would walk out of it and
you feel fine. It's hard to describe

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as like a void radio static.
It felt fuzzy. That one friend that

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had told us about Sarah, and
we had went to her and told her

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about it, and she was like, don't go in that. You can

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make more issues if you go into
those things, because there are things trying

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to take your energy. We believed
her, obviously, but we were like,

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oh, it's not that serious.
And eventually it was just like a

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big boom of problems. One night, I was the only one in the

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house. Everyone had left. I
was upstairs the upstairs balcony. You can

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see into the gold room. It's
like in the same space. I just

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kept on hearing a conversation, a
man and a woman talking. So I

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go downstairs feeling brave. Maybe someone
left a TV on downstairs or something.

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I checked the rooms. Nothing,
It's pitch black down there. I go

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back upstairs. I just hear it
and it's getting louder. I'm thinking someone's

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in the house. At this point, I called my dad. I'm really

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scared. I don't know what to
do. I'm all alone, and he

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was like, well, I'll just
go pick you up and you can come

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back here. And I was like, no, I have to stay here.

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I just wanted you to know that
there's someone here. I also didn't

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want to go because me and him
had so many issues as I was like,

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no, I'll just stick it out. And it just kept on getting

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louder. I couldn't hear exactly what
they were talking about, but you could

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hear them going sh every time they
said it sounded closer. I just grabbed

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the animals. I had a dog
in my cat. I go into the

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room, close the door, lock
the door, turn on the TV super

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loud, remained quiet, and just
went to bed. I didn't want to

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deal with it. My family came
back the next day. I told them.

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They're like, oh, yeah,
nothing, it's fine, you know,

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it's okay. I'm like okay.
I eventually got my own room.

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I had my cat with me and
I put a bell on her. We

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live in an area that there's a
lot of coyotes. I didn't want her

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to get out. Some nights,
I would hear the bell downstairs. I'd

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be like, oh, she's just
running around. I heard the bell go

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off downstairs. I heard her bell. I was like okay, let me

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go grab her. I get up
out of my bed, open the door

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to let her in, and she's
in my room on the floor right there.

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I just locked my door, went
to bed. This happened several times.

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I got the courage to go downstairs
and see what was making that noise.

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I go downstairs. I'd bring my
phone light. I'm walking around.

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I go through the kitchen and living
rooms and everything. I don't see anything,

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so I'm just gonna go back upstairs. I go to walk upstairs,

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and next to the railing for upstairs, I look right there and there it

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is a huge black figure looks exactly
the way I've seen Sarah and hunched over.

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I'd stop in my tracks. I'm
like, oh my god. I

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felt like screaming. I wanted my
sister to come down to help me.

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I just couldn't say anything. I
was freaking out. I was just sitting

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there looking at me. I'd run
upstairs, lock my door. My sister's

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room is right next to mine.
I call her and I'm like, you

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will not believe what I just thought. We go downstairs. Nothing after that.

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I never went back downstairs when I
heard the bell, because I knew

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that it was gonna be something luring
me out to get scared. We would

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hear the doors closing downstairs. It
was always downstairs, not so much upstairs.

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And our friend that told us about
all of this, she came over

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once, so she's like, you
have a couple spirits here. One of

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them is Sarah, another one I
don't know who it is, but they're

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not bad. Then you have this
man that just walks around. He doesn't

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really do anything. He's just lost
and he won't scare you. But the

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only one that will is Sarah.
It just freaked me out. Me and

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my sister just knew not to go
downstairs at night. It just felt like

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you were walking into a different world
at night. It was horrible. I'm

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doubt of that house, and I
didn't really see as much after that.

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Where I live now, I don't
really see. But every time I go

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to my mom's house, it's constant
that ear of I'm gonna see something.

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Once in a while, I still
catch myself talking to Sarah randomly, just

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like going throughout my day, and
I'm like, this day is great today,

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right, Not talking to myself,
I'm talking to Sarah. I need

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to stop because the more I talk
to her. The more I give her

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a presence, she's gonna come out, and I don't want her to.

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I don't want to get secured.
I don't want my new house. I

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don't want this to be bad.
Sometimes I see her in the new house.

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She scares me, but I brush
it off and I'm like, no,

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if she scares me, she wins. I don't want her to because

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she'll come back in a weird way. It's kind of like a comfort because

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it's been so long. I haven't
seen her all of my life. Pretty

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much, I just grew up with
it. It's just like a really like

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close friend. I've never really gotten
over. My sleep problem is because of

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it. It's a constant thing.
I just have to live with it.

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Because I don't really know how to
get rid of her. It's just gonna

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make it worse. You're giving it
more energy, and then what if in

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that process I get another thing?
And I don't want anything else to follow

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me. I'd rather just leave it
the way it is. Let me know

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