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Tired of the everyday grind?

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Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure?

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Want to get away from it all?

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We offer you...

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Escape!

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Escape!

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Designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure.

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You are standing in inky blackness looking up a long flight of stairs.

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At the top of which lurks something unbelievably evil.

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While in the moving shadows behind you, coming closer to you is the shadowy figure of something that could only come from a nightmare.

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Listen now, as escape brings you Antony Ellis' terrifying story, I Saw Myself Running.

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Who threw the magazine section, sweetie?

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No, but it's all right. Here.

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Well, then if you're not through...

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No, you'll have it.

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Thanks.

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Want the woman's page?

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No, thanks.

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Freddie.

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I had the strangest dream last night.

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Oh? Anybody we know?

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Don't be funny.

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If you stop reading for a minute, I'll tell you about it.

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Okay.

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I was scared.

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Why didn't you wake me up?

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Why? It wouldn't have been any good.

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It's the funniest thing.

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It was a nightmare, I guess.

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You know, the kind where you see yourself running away from something or from somebody.

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Too much beer.

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I want to ask you. It's very important.

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What, darling?

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Do you notice how sometimes in a dream, everything is happening to you,

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and then suddenly you find yourself standing there watching it, watching yourself,

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and you say to yourself, it's a dream.

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And I don't have to be frightened because in a minute I'll wake up.

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Well, I guess so.

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Something like that, I guess.

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Well, last night, a lot of other nights, Freddie.

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It's been different.

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It starts the same way, like any other dream, I suppose, but then I'm running away.

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Somebody I don't know is following me, and then there are two of us, both me, running.

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Mm-hmm.

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Coffee still hot?

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Freddie.

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So, honey, I don't know anything about dreams.

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If you're asking me what I think it means, I don't know.

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Offhand, I'd say that last bottle of beer.

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Coffee.

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Thanks.

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Freddie.

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Mm-hmm.

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Nothing.

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How do you explain a dream?

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You don't. You can't.

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At first it frightens you, and then as the morning passes, it fades, and by lunchtime, it's forgotten.

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Freddie and I went to bed early that night.

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I think I was a little surprised when it began again.

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I didn't realize I was asleep yet, but it was there, the same as the last time.

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A face, only a face, not unkind, not anything.

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And it was so far away, and around it was a piece of cardboard with circles drawn on it.

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The face in the center, and it went round and round, first only a dot, and then it came closer, and the noise came with it.

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Everything was spinning so much it made me dizzy, but I could always see it right side up.

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It was very close to me, and the face was somebody I'd never seen before.

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It was a man, I think, and I knew that he didn't care, and I wanted to cry.

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Then it was gone.

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I was alone in a big hall, and I thought I'd seen the place before, but I couldn't have done because I knew it was only a dream.

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Even then, I knew I was dreaming because I could see myself.

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There was a wide staircase going up into a dark place that was higher than any place I'd ever seen.

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I was at the foot of the stairs, looking up, and my face was frightened.

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I saw myself open my mouth to say something, to call upstairs into the dark.

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Don't come down, please don't. I don't want to see you. I'm afraid. Don't come down.

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But I'd never heard myself before, not really. I'd always thought I'd said things in dreams, but not this way, not so that I really heard.

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And the voice wasn't my own. I found myself looking up the staircase with her, and there were two of us standing next to each other, touching.

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I could feel her hand. It was warm.

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Don't. You mustn't come down.

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Who is it?

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I don't know, Susan. I never know. But it's up there, in the shadows.

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It's too dark. I can't see anything. What does it look like?

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Well, listen.

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You can hear it. I'm afraid. It'll come down soon, and I'll try to run, but I won't be able to get away. It's always the same.

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This is a dream. It's a dream. I'm having a dream. I can wake up now, if I want to.

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I'll be here alone, then. You always leave me here alone.

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That's silly. How can I leave you alone when you're me? It's only a dream. I can wake up now.

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Oh, no. You've got to stay this time. Look up there. It'll be coming down in a minute. We'll have to run.

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I won't run.

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I always do. I have to.

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No. I want to see it.

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It'll kill you if you stay.

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How do you know? You haven't even seen it.

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It'll kill me, too. I'm afraid.

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This is a dream. There's nothing to be afraid of.

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It's coming down. Run. Run.

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We ran, both of us, and all this time, and all my dreams.

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That girl I'd seen hadn't been me at all.

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And then the Great Holland Staircase weren't there.

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We were in a lovely garden, and it was very quiet, except for a single bird.

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And it sang strangely and sadly.

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Why do you dream?

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What a silly question. Everybody dreams.

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If you didn't dream, I wouldn't have to be here. I wouldn't be afraid all the time.

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There's nothing to be afraid of. It's warm.

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So peaceful. Look at the roses. And the caterpillars.

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I'm afraid of caterpillars.

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I used to be. I'm not anymore.

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I'm still afraid of them.

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I remember the first time you dreamed of them.

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You'd been frightened when one crawled on your hand.

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You were very small then.

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That's the first time I had to be afraid of them.

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That was a long time ago. I don't mind them now.

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I do. I mind everything you think you've forgotten.

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Look. There's one crawling on my shoe.

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Will you squash the caterpillar? I can't. I'm afraid.

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All right.

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What is this place?

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It's an airplane.

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I've never been in an airplane before.

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I know. I'm afraid of them.

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I'll fall out.

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And it'll be such a long time for me to know that I'm going to die.

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I don't want to fall.

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Hold on to me. You won't fall.

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It's only a dream.

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You see, Freddy's the pilot.

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And he can't fly. I know he can't.

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You keep saying that.

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Why?

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It's only a dream.

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It doesn't matter to you. You can wake up. I can't.

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I have to stay. I have to live with this all the time.

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Where are we going?

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I don't know.

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Look. The plane's breaking up.

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We're going to fall. We're going to fall now.

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It'll be all right. We've got our parachutes on. I know.

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You have to count to three or ten and then pull the ring.

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I've seen them do it in the movies.

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It'll be all right. We'll jump.

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No, I can't. I can't.

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We've got to.

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It's such a nice floating sensation.

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I had no idea we were so high.

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I've got to count to ten and pull the ring.

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One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

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I can't find it.

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I can't find it.

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It won't work.

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I'm going to die.

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I'm falling.

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I'm going to die.

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Honey, honey, wake up.

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Susan, wake up.

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You're dreaming.

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Susan.

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Freddy.

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Freddy.

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No, no, no, no. It's all right.

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You're okay now. It was a nightmare.

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Turn on the light.

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There.

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See?

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I was falling.

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I fell out of an airplane.

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I was going to die.

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Oh, darling.

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It was that TV show we watched.

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Freddy.

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It's all right.

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I love you.

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You don't have to be afraid.

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You're right here.

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Everything's fine and it's nearly 4 o'clock.

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Come on.

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You climb in with me.

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Freddy.

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I don't want to dream anymore.

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I'm afraid.

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It was like last night.

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The other night.

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But worse.

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Now listen, Susan.

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Freddy, look at me.

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Do I sound the same?

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Honey, you're...

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Do I sound the same?

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There's two of us.

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When I go to sleep, when I dream,

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there's another woman there.

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That's who I've been seeing all these years.

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It's not me.

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It's someone else.

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She's there all the time.

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Freddy, I don't want to dream anymore.

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Something's going to happen.

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I'm afraid.

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Now, back to escape.

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Freddy took me to the doctor

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and I tried to tell him about the dreams.

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And when I found out that he was dead,

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he told me about all the dreams.

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And when I finished, he examined me,

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tested my heart, blood pressure.

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Then he said...

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Susan, you're tired.

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That's what's the matter with you.

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But I haven't been doing anything to be tired.

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Really, I haven't.

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You're overwrought.

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It could be a vitamin deficiency,

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any number of little things,

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but it's not serious.

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You're in good shape.

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And what you need is to get away for a few days.

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I feel all right.

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It's just that dream.

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The girl, the one who looks like me.

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It's only because you're tired

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that you have the dream in the first place.

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Now, I'm going to give you a sedative to take

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just before going to bed.

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A few nights' good sleep,

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and you'll be fit as a fiddle.

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I don't want to dream anymore.

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That's all.

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He patted me on the arm, smiling.

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Freddy smiled.

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And I took the little box of sedative pills

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home with me.

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I couldn't tell them.

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I couldn't make them understand.

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It wasn't just a dream.

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It was something that was happening,

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really happening.

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And that night, I decided that I wouldn't sleep.

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I'd stay awake.

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And if I was awake, I couldn't dream.

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After Freddy was asleep, I got up

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and went into the living room.

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I got a new library book,

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and I began to read.

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It was 11 o'clock then.

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Oh, he must have...

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I almost did.

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I wish we had something to make me stay awake.

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This is silly.

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I'm a grown woman.

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Why should I behave like a child?

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But I'm afraid...

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Who is she?

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That girl?

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It's not a dream.

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And because it's not, I'm not going to sleep.

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I'm not.

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I'm not.

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Do you wonder what time it gets light?

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It'll be easier when it's light.

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I'll read some more.

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Make some coffee.

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At seven o'clock, I got back into bed

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and pretended to still be asleep when Freddy got up.

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I heard him making coffee, then he came back in,

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kissed me, left for the office.

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Somehow, I stayed awake the whole day.

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I tried to buy something at the drugstore

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to stop me from sleeping,

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but they wouldn't give it to me without a prescription.

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And then, Freddy called to say he had to entertain

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some out-of-town people that night.

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After that, I had to lie down on the living room couch

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because I felt sick.

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It was eight o'clock.

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I won't.

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I won't.

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I'm not going to go to sleep.

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I'm not going.

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I won't.

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I won't.

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No, but I don't feel well.

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I just got to lie down a little while.

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But I won't sleep.

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In a minute, I'll feel all right.

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And I can get up.

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In a minute.

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Just a minute.

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I'll wake up in a minute.

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I'm so tired.

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There's that big hall again in the staircase.

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I can see her looking up into the dark.

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You didn't come last night.

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I know.

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I was waiting here.

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It didn't come down, though.

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I was waiting up there.

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You couldn't have been here.

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You're only me in a dream.

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And when I don't dream, you're not here.

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I'm always here.

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I have to see the things happen.

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Things don't really happen in dreams.

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It's imagination.

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No, it isn't.

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Look up there in the dark.

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It's up there, waiting.

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Soon it'll start to come down.

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How do you know?

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It does.

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And we'll have to run.

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I can't see it.

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Perhaps if we didn't run and we saw it,

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we wouldn't be afraid anymore.

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Oh, no.

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Listen.

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It's going to come down.

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I know it is.

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We won't run.

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We'll wait for her.

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I can't.

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I'm afraid.

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You're me.

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I'm not afraid now.

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You can't be.

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Look.

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The darkness at the top of the stairs seemed to move, take shape.

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I heard her screaming.

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I saw myself screaming.

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But it wasn't my voice.

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It was the girl I stood next to.

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And slowly, painfully, she turned away from the stairs and tried to run.

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It was like a slow motion picture.

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Her legs moved, but she stayed in the same place.

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Then the darkness started to come toward us.

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It swirled down the stairs and there was a figure in it and a face.

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But the mouth of the face wasn't a mouth at all.

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It had no form.

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And the face changed and grew bigger, came closer.

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Around it, an awful blackness.

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And I saw myself running.

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Ah!

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Ah!

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We were standing in a narrow stone passageway.

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It was cold and damp.

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And the other girl who wasn't me was holding a gun.

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We both were.

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And we looked behind us because around the corner, out of sight, it was following.

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I heard the telephone ringing and I couldn't understand how there could be a telephone in that place.

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I'm tired.

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I can't run anymore.

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We'll rest for a minute.

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I wish somebody would answer the telephone.

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You do it.

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It sounds like my telephone.

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How can it be?

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Because this is only a dream.

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And if I wake up, I'll answer it.

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It's on the table at the end of the couch.

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I can wake up and answer it.

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No, you can't. I won't let you.

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I'm not going to stay here alone.

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I've got to wake up.

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You can't now.

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But listen, we've got to run again.

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It'll catch us now.

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Hurry!

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I felt the cold horror behind us.

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And I ran following a twisted passageway.

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And I knew the telephone had been my last chance, my last chance to wake up.

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And I hadn't.

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I couldn't.

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There's a light ahead.

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It won't dare to follow us into the light.

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Are you tired?

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Are you?

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No.

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It's funny how we seem to almost float.

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I'm not tired at all.

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I don't think we need the guns now.

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I'm going to throw mine away.

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I'm not.

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I'm afraid of guns.

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I used to be.

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I'm not anymore.

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Wait a minute.

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Those two men.

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You see?

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In the entrance?

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Yes.

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I wonder whether they're...

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Maybe they'll try to stop us from getting out.

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I've got the gun.

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Oh, I shouldn't have thrown mine away.

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We'll be all right.

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Come on.

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It's Freddy.

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Freddy and Dr. Peters.

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I know.

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Freddy!

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Freddy!

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It's me, Susan.

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Stay where you are, Susan.

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Don't come any closer.

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But it's following us.

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We've got to get out.

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You'll have to go back.

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No!

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Go back, Susan.

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Go back into the passage.

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No!

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No!

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You can't come out anymore, Susan.

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But I must.

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Let me talk to them, Susan.

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You let me talk to them.

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I'll take care of it.

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You'll see.

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I saw her walk slowly to the entrance.

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To where it was light.

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And there was sunshine.

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And the three of them talked very quietly.

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I couldn't hear what they were saying,

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but I knew it was about me.

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And ever so faintly,

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I heard the sound of the thing

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that was waiting somewhere

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in the blackness of the passage.

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She was pointing at me.

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And Freddy was laughing.

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And it made me angry.

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So angry that I forgot to be afraid.

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I ran over to them,

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and as I did so,

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they blocked the entrance,

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linking their arms to keep me back.

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She's told us all about you, Susan.

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It's taken a long time to find you out.

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Stop it.

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There's no such person.

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She's me.

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She's Susan.

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This is only a dream.

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I can wake up whenever I want.

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Stop it.

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Stop it. It's true.

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Ask her. Ask her.

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She'll tell you.

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My dear Susan,

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how can we ask her

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if you say she doesn't exist?

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You're tired.

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Overwrought.

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I'm not.

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You mustn't say that.

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It isn't true.

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Please, let me out.

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I'm cold.

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I'm afraid.

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You've kept her down here all your life.

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Now because you're afraid and cold,

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you expect us to let you out

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and make her go back inside.

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Freddy, it's me.

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I'm your wife.

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Freddy.

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I've always been fair.

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I want to be fair this time.

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Oh, yes.

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We have to be fair.

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Sue, what do you think?

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Should we let her out?

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Oh, no.

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She'll only wake up and leave me here.

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I want to wake up this time.

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Let her stay.

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You're crazy.

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She's not Susan.

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I am.

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She's nobody.

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She's in the dream.

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Stop it.

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Please.

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We have to be fair.

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We really do.

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If you only weren't so tired,

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so overwrought.

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I suggest we take a vote.

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Yes, that's eminently fair.

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A vote.

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I think so, too.

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We'll vote yea or nay on the proposition.

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That's the way it's done at board meetings

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in my office.

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Yea or nay.

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We let her out.

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Yea.

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We don't let her out.

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Nay.

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Sue?

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Nay.

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Doctor?

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Nay.

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And I cast my vote.

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Nay.

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The vote has been taken and duly recorded.

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You can't make me stay here.

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I won't.

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I won't.

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I think that you'd better talk to her, Susan.

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You're a woman.

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It's better that way.

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The doctor and I will wait for you outside.

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All right.

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Don't be afraid.

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I'll be right back.

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Don't be afraid.

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You don't have to be afraid now.

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That comes later when you have to go back into the passage.

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When I wake up.

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You can't wake up.

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Never.

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You're not alive.

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I want to tell you something.

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When I wake up, I'm not going to be like you.

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I'll never dream ever again.

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You're going to stay here alone, just the way

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I've always wanted you to be.

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You can run.

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You can run and never be able to escape.

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But I shan't come here to be with you.

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Listen.

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It's waiting for you.

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Can you hear it?

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No.

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Please.

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Don't make me.

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Please.

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You'll get me.

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Please.

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They won't get you if you keep running.

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But you mustn't ever stop.

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I'm afraid.

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Start.

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I'm afraid.

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Oh, please.

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Don't make me go back.

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I'm chosen.

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I've got to wake up.

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Please.

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I'm afraid.

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It's too dark.

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It's too dark.

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I've got to run.

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Run.

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Run.

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Run.

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Run.

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Run.

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Run.

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Run.

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Run.

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Run.

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Run.

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Run.

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I think I'll wake up now.

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Susan.

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Susan.

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Oh, Belly.

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Are you all right?

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Susan.

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Mm.

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I called you, but there was no answer.

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I was worried.

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You all right?

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Feeling better?

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Mm.

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Oh.

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You look better.

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Say, you know what?

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I've arranged to take five days off from the office.

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We'll go up to the mountains.

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That's what the doctor ordered.

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How about it?

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Ah, it sounds wonderful, friends.

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I figure if we...

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Suze.

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Yes, darling?

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Your...

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Your voice.

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It sounds funny.

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My voice?

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Well, it's me.

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It's the only voice I've got.

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But it...

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It doesn't sound like you.

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Are you sure you're...

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Oh, silly.

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How can it be me and not sound like me?

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Oh, you are silly.

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Give me a kiss.

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Suze.

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What's the matter with your voice?

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Music.

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Featured in the cast with John Stevenson and Edgar Berrier.

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Editorial supervision is by John Messon.

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And the special music for Escape is composed and conducted by Lee Steven.

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Next week.

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Steven.

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You are standing on the bridge of a transceiver.

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A ship captain sailing through the vast emptiness of the ocean.

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Follow the deck below you.

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The crew.

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The best of the gang of cut-throats and murderers.

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Awaiting for a signal that will get them your ship.

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And bring you...

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Your death.

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So listen next week when Escape brings you Anthony Edison's exciting story, The Clam.