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Either kids, it's me, mister
creepy apasta. And before we get started

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on tonight's story, let me tell
you about Midnight Mytch. Midnight Myths is

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a game I actually worked on.
I did the coding for this along with

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my friend General Drowned for a game
jam, the first one we ever did,

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as well as this is the first
game that we ever did. If

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you guys would like to check it
out, it's for free on itch dot

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io. I'll put a link in
the description down below. Just want to

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let you guys know about it and
see if I can get some opinions on

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the first game. If you guys
liked this, what you want to see

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more of or if you want me
to do more games in the future.

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And now onto tonight's story. Ralph
walked a lot, like every day a

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lot. He lost his car a
few years ago during the pandemic, not

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because he couldn't pay for it,
but because he had a habit of driving

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drunk and the cops took his license
after the third time, so it didn't

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make a lot of sense to have
it. He had walked ever since and

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it kind of helped with his sobriety. He was a bit of a mess

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before that, drinking a lot,
throwing up to work hung over, eating

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too much fast food. But the
walking had helped him drop a lot of

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weight and had kind of made him
not want to drink. Walking while you

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were drunk was kind of miserable,
and when walking was your means of transportation,

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you get pretty good at avoiding things
that left you unable to do it.

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Ralph was coming into town on Tuesday, walking up the sidewalk that led

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from the trailer park that he lived
in to the grocery store when he saw

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the first sign. It was a
normal enough white sign with big block letters

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the top that read missing. The
thing that stopped him was the face that

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looked out from the sign. It
was a guy of about three hundred pounds,

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fitting hair pulled back into a ponytail
in deep bags under his eyes.

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He was a deeply unhappy man,
a man who looked like he was just

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looking for a hole to die in, and if it had a beer in

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it, then all the better.
The eyes that stared out of that poster

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looked like the eyes that stared from
between the bars of a drunk tank,

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and they had more than once.
Ralph reached out and took the sign,

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staring into the eyes that he hadn't
seen in years. He was looking at

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himself, just a past version of
himself, a version two or three years

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out of date. Out of date
was a good way to describe it.

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Like spoiled milk missing Ralph Gilbert,
address nine seven three to three earring Way,

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Trailer seventeen, last seen April twenty
third, twenty twenty three, walking

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along the shoulder of the road,
Call filibuster Sheriff's office with any information,

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cash reward, possible cash reward.
Ralph thought it was weird to think that

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someone would be willing to offer a
cash reward for someone like him, but

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he supposed it was possible. The
friends he had now certainly valued him more

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than his bitch of an ex wife
or or either of his ungrateful children,

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had more than the family he had
left two for that matter. He put

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the flyer back up, thinking it
was weird that they hadn't just come out

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to the house to see if he
was there. He had been there for

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a week after the the what he
thought the night that something happened, something

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Ralph couldn't really remember. He kept
walking up the street, enjoying the later

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afternoon as it dwindled towards dusk.
This was his favorite time to walk.

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He thought the weather was hot even
for early May, and he spent most

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days inside due the heat and the
way the sun had made his eyes hurt.

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Lately, the evening walks were about
the best thing for him, and

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he couldn't wait till autumn came and
he'd stand to walk during the day again.

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The last thing he wanted to do
was lose his progress. Two thy

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twenty one had been a pretty turbulent
year for Ralph, but not all of

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it had been bad. He had
started noticing the walking was making him lose

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weight and that he felt better about
being more active. He would have been

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very easy to sit on his couch
and feel bad about it. He had

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certainly done that for a while,
but as his food ran out and the

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money had gotten from the disability payments
it started to dwindle. He knew he

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was going to need to do something. That was how the walking had started.

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Walked to the grocery store, walked
to McDonald's, walked to the twenty

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four to seventh pill that he worked
nights at, and walk home After a

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while. People in the trailer parks
started noticing that he was walking, and

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they would offer to pay him if
he would walk their dogs. Pretty soon,

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Ralph had a bunch of MutS on
leashes and he became known as the

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dog Man. Soon people came to
walk their dogs with him, and Ralph

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felt like he finally had friends.
He hadn't had friends since high school,

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and the ones he had then had
never led him into anything healthy. These

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guys were walking with him, helping
him find shoes that wouldn't pinch his feet

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and give him blisters, suggesting pants
that wouldn't give him a heat rash,

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And one day Ralph hopped on the
scale and discovered that he had lost fifty

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pounds. By twenty twenty two,
it was one hundred, and by the

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next year he was at one eighty
and feeling better than he ever had.

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His trips to McDonald's were down to
once a week, His dog walking was

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making enough money to keep his bills
paid and his fridge filled, and Ralph

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felt better than he had in years. He had felt like that right up

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until last week, when something had
happened. As Ralph came into town,

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he saw more of the signs hanging
on the poles, and was a little

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curious as to why no one had
come to the trailer to check on him.

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If they were so worried he had
been there all week, they could

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have come and knocked. Ralph had
been kind of out of it the last

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week, though, and he was
worried that he might have something he barely

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remembered stumbling home after whatever had happened. Ralph hadn't liked that. He reminded

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him of being drunk and out of
control again. How many times had he

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stumbled into the trailer after a night
of drinking to find that he couldn't remember

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how he got in there. He
sat on his couch just looking at the

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dark television, and suddenly he wondered
where the groceries had gone. That was

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when he remembered that he'd been carrying
groceries. He'd been coming back from the

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Forest Hill grocer, bags bulging in
his hands, and he had come around

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the corner Mathis and curve. Then
he didn't know. Something had made him

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squint and he thought, shit,
there goes my milk, and then he'd

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been walking back into his trailer.
As he walked into town. Now he

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saw more missing posters and it started
to give him the creeps. Watching his

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own faces, his false face looking
back at him was eerie and he wanted

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to rip them down. He was
here, he was alive. Why were

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they looking for him? He wasn't
missing. He was walking up the road.

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He passed people, sighed, eyeing
them as if expecting to be recognized,

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but they just walked right past him
without a look back. That was

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weird. Ralph thought, Yeah,
he'd been gone for a week, but

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people surely hadn't forgotten him that quickly. He'd been sitting in his trailer for

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a week before he thought that a
walk had seemed like a good idea.

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It was weird. The food should
have run out by now, but Ralph

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really hadn't been hungry. He'd moved
between the living room and bedroom like a

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sleep walker, sleeping like he hadn't
done since he was three hundred pounds of

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lazy couch potato. He hadn't felt
like he needed to eat anything either,

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though, and that was rare.
Despite his weight loss, he still had

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to manage his prodigious appetite. He
couldn't even remember drinking water that whole week,

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and until he'd gotten up to walk, you'd worry that he was catching

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the flu. He had wandered around
in a daze, just kind of existing,

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and it made him feel good when
the afternoon had finally called to him.

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As he walked towards the supermarket,
however, he suddenly wished he had

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stayed at home. Sitting in the
parking lot of forest Till Grocer was a

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green Ford focus. It became the
focus of his terror. Shouldn't have been

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that way. It was just a
car, but there was something about it

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that made him stop and stare.
His legs felt made of lead, and

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his bowels would have turned to water, except he remembered that he hadn't done

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that all week either. If that
made sense, he supposed nothing going in

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meant nothing coming out right. It
didn't matter. After a week of no

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food or water, Ralph should be
dead, and that thought seemed to move

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him. At long last. He
was suddenly walking towards the car, his

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eyes falling on a dent in the
front bumper that was a fresh stent.

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Though Ralph didn't know how, he
knew that the door of the car was

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open, and Ralph climbed into the
back seat like a sleepwalker. He sat

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there, waiting for something to happen. Feeling kind of silly. This was

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stupid. The owner of the Focus
would come back and ask him what the

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hell he thought he was doing.
He'd call the cops, Ralph would go

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to jail, and then he'd be
in big trouble. Well, Ralph thought,

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at least then they would know where
he was. Ralph supposed they could

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take the signs down if he was
sitting in jail. Finally, after an

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indeterminate amount of time, the owner
came up with groceries and brown paper bags.

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He was a young kid, maybe
twenty twenty two, and when he

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opened the back door he set them
inside without comment. Ralph watched him move

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around in the front seat and climb
in, cranking the car and driving off.

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The further they went, the more
sure Ralph was that the kid would

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see him. The kid would look
in the rear view mirror, see Ralph

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sitting there and freak out. He
might have a wreck and Ralph Ralph would

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feel terrible about that. The longer
they rowed without the kid commenting on his

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presence, the stranger had all felt. Ralph leaned towards the kid a little,

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meaning to tap him, but as
he did, he caught a look

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at the rear view mirror and stopped. The back seat in the mirror was

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empty, except except for the groceries. That's when he remembered, and suddenly

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Ralph wasn't in the kid's focus anymore. Suddenly he was back on the side

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of the road, near the guardrail
of Maths and Curve, and he could

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see the headlights in his eyes again. The kid had been going too fast,

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hot rotting around, and his tires
had screeched as he hit Ralph.

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Ralph's groceries had gone everywhere, his
milks squishing under the tire as his lettuce

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rolled under the guard rail. The
kid had come out to find Alf lying

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across the guardrail, moaning and groaning
as he lay dying, The head had

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thrown him back, bringing him to
rest against the metal rail that had broken

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his back. He looked the kid, begging him to help him. In

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his panic, the kid had done
the only thing he could think to do.

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He pushed Ralph over the side of
the rail and into the drop below.

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It was night now and Ralph was
looking over that rail again. He

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couldn't see his body down below.
He'd fallen into the bottom and likely been

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picked clean by scavengers, but he
knew it was down there. Ralph would

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likely go on to be a town
legend, someone who had just disappeared one

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day after making a slight splash and
filibuster. But for now all he could

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do is look down into the ravine
and wonder what to do next. He

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had read some ghost stories when he
was younger, wrote a for you when

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he got older, but it wasn't
every day that you belcome one. Something

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wafted past him on a straight wind
that when Ralph caught it, he realized

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it was one of the missing posters. An idea occurred to him, and

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he thought, maybe maybe he wouldn't
have to stay a mystery. Officer Vermas

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stood by the guardrail, ready to
catch the kid if he decided to take

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a nose dive. It was pretty
high he might opt for a short flight

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over a lengthy prison sentence, but
Vermas doubted it. The wind pitched his

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hair just as it did the officer's
jacket, and he pointed down, almost

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accusingly as he turned to the kid. And that's where you pushed the body

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over, Vermos asked. The kid. Tiler Mischion nodded before being taken back

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to the station in the back of
a different squad car. Vermis sighed that

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was going to be some hard canvassing, but they'd find Ralph Gilbert when they

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had gone to the kid's house.
He had as good as confessed on the

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spot, and that had made it
all very easy. He was repentant,

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very sorry, and very young,
and some soft hearted judge who'd probably not

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insist on the death penalty for him. He was unlikely he would never operate

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a motor vehicle again, not unless
the state prison let him run a tractor

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or something. He supposed it would
have to be good enough. It was

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weird, though the police would have
probably never known about the accident if it

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hadn't been for the tip they'd gotten. Looking at Ralph's picture on the front

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of the poster, Vermus remembered the
night they'd taken his license. He'd been

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a bad drunk, but he'd turned
it around, and Vermis hated that he

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had to end up like this.
It was a bigger shame that the kid

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had to ruin his life by a
moment if he had attention, and those

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were the brain He flipped it over, looking at the odd writing on the

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back looked like he had been done
with mucus, except it was a fluorescent

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green and the slime they used to
dump on the kids and the show his

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boy had watched when they were younger. He didn't know what it written it

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and he didn't care. They could
take Ralph Gilbert out of the unsolved case

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file put him in the closed case
pile. That was good enough for him.

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The message read green Ford focus dent
in the front bumper. Kid hit

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Ralph Gilbert about a week ago on
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Don't let him rot down there hither. Kids. It's me mister Kippasta,

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and I just wanted to tell you
thank you so much for watching tonight's video

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or by listening to tonight's episode of
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as many updates as I would like
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and things just kind of get really
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family, but hey, I wanted
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