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this is the dead of night it has nothing
to do with time it can happen in
sunshine or in Moonlight in the best of
weather or the worst for the dead of
night is a state of mind that dark
unfathomed region of the human
consciousness
from which all the unknown Terrors of
Our Lives
emerge the dead of night exists in all
of us and no one knows at what strange
unexpected moment it will make itself
known and so tonight For Your
Entertainment three
Tales one of mystery one of
imagination and one of
Terror how'd you get way out here well I
I'll tell you why I came one of the
fellas in town that buys eggs from you
said he saw an old wreck of a car oh
that it was in the barn so I figured
maybe there's something left of it you
know that I could put together well I
got one I don't think you'll think much
of it though I'm sure I'll never know
how I got to a time and place no one
else in the world remembers I only know
it started in a Sunday morning in an Old
Barn off the county
road my name is Frank Kell when it
happened I was a senior at Point College
in H B Illinois my
hometown oh my
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God it's a Jordan all right and a
Playboy Jordan Playboy I can't believe
it how long has it been
here uh happened in 26 as I recall what
happened this dude was racing a train
out on the County
Road and he tried to beat it to the
Grave Crossing and he didn't make it the
engine hit the rear wheel there and
flipped her over killed both him and his
girl Young Folks too weren't any older
than you are how
much
e let's you have it for
$100 Mis you got a
deal it's none of my business but uh
what do you want it for I'm going to
restore it go on make it run again more
than that I'm going to put it back just
the way it was in
1926 well she's all yours
now and so she was all mine right rear
wheel in spare hopeless wads of wire
Spokes and twisted rims the body caved
in and the motor a mess I didn't mind it
a bit I traded a went to name plate and
hub caps plus a Saxon Hood to a man in
Fairfield Connecticut for two Playboy
wheels and they arrived Rusty with some
of the spokes broken and loose but just
what I
needed and I restored that car sanded
off every scrap of paint took out every
dent and bump welded every tear and
burnished every weld it took a long time
but at last it was done
repainted every nickel plated part
restored reckel and replaced the seats
reupholstered everything complete to the
final missing part A Jordan radiator cap
which I traded at dusenberg
flooran just for the fun of it I decided
to put the old license plates back on
and even had the original ignition key
in its old leather case at least I
thought it was just for the fun of it
Frank you'll get a ticket using those
old plates it'll be okay just this once
mom I'm only going to
crestwell along the Old County Road the
Old County Road but why go that way you
can get there to crestwell in the
highway in less than 10 minutes I can't
go that way Mom why not
listen look at this car it's exactly the
way it was in 1926 I can't drive it in a
four-lane highway he back when this car
was new that old road was the highway I
bet it was driven there many a time
anyway that's where it has to be and
that's where I'm going to take it
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tonight it was Grand to drive along that
old road with the top down summer air
streaming over my face and through my
hair they're alive with the heavy
fragrances of Summer
Darkness I wasn't even thinking just
living and
enjoying I don't know when it happened
exactly but the first evidence of it
came when I saw those headlights moving
toward
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me holy m a
moon a moon
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Roadster a ha
Speedster get a
horse
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I've read about time with a capital tea
but can't say I ever really knew what it
meant however that night as I left the
Old County Road and drove into Creswell
I thought maybe I was beginning to
understand I remembered what someone had
once said I think it was Einstein or
somebody like that he compared time to a
winding River with all of us in a boat
drifting along between two high Banks
and we can't see the future just beyond
the next curve with they'll pass beyond
the Curves in back of us but it's all
still there as real as the moment around
us to which I now add my own theory that
you can't drive into the past in a
modern car because there were no modern
cars then and you can't drive into
1926 along a four-lane super highway but
my car and I
the way I felt about it anyway we're
literally rejected that night by our own
time moving along that Old Road through
the summer evening simply drifted into
the time my Jordan belonged
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to
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w
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oh
hey that's my
car
hey hey what do you think you're doing
this my car you on Str of sht what hey
wait a minute take it easy what
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car
it this Vince driving like a fool as
usual it's a good thing you weren't hit
young man that Vincent is the wildest
driver in the whole County one of these
days he's going to kill himself and that
girlfriend of his I wouldn't wonder was
that your car he took cuz sure look like
his no it was mine just parked it here a
few minutes ago then I heard the people
coming out of the theater and then
he's
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yes maybe I'll bring it
back why don't you get on to the Station
House and report it use our name if you
like we saw the whole thing no it's all
right I'm sure he'll bring it back thank
you for your
help afraid we didn't give you
much you changed your mind though and
decide to report it our name is
Dorset Dorset thank you good night young
man good
night my grandmother used to live in
crestwell I was a boy I used to visit
her and play with the boy next door but
he visited his grandparents their name
was
dorson I knew these people but they
didn't know
me of course how could they have they
wouldn't even meet me for another 40
years and I would be 12 years old then
and they would be in their 80s
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there was nothing I could do about the
theft of my car report it to the
police try to explain to them who I was
and where they could reach me show them
my driver's license with the date on
it somehow I knew my car wasn't coming
back so all I could do was
walk and wonder what I was going to do
now here in crestwell on a summer night
in
1926 30 years before before I was
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born I knew that I shouldn't have gone
there but I couldn't help
myself if I went up on that porch and
rang the bell a man or a woman would
answer it and maybe a 9-year-old boy
sleeping upstairs would call fall down
to ask who it
was a 9-year-old boy who one day was to
become my
father but I couldn't go up on that
porch and ring that Bell I knew that I
was here by sufferance or
accident I drifted into this time but
had no right to intrude on
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it
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you
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e
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I'd spent the night in crestwell a
visitor from another time and just as
mysteriously and unnoticeably as I
drifted there I was back again back
where I
belonged
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I met Helen mcau when school started up
in September something I still she was
in my economics class what's that a
sophomore I learned though I didn't
remember seeing her around before
looking looking now which in a way is
the point of my story well hi hi hi
Grandma have a good swim oh it's
beautiful you ready for a bite to eat we
sure are I'm famished you just dig right
in there's plenty for everybody don't
worry he will honey will you go get
those other sandwiches up there say
Frank alen tells me you're interested in
old cars yeah I've restor them you got
anything good going for you right now
yeah I'm working on Old dusenberg ah
that sure is a good old car yeah it is
but'll never replace the one that was
stolen stolen when was that nearly 6
months ago now maybe 50 years
what nothing
what kind was it probably never heard of
it it was an old Jordan
Playboy never heard of it kid I've got
one
no surprise and you thought I just
brought you over here so they could look
at you wait you've got a Jordan Playboy
it's not just an ordinary Jordan come on
it's in the garage I'll show
you I don't say it's in running
condition far from it but it's a Jordan
and a Playboy and I've had it since I
was is 20 years old beautiful oh Lord
that's a beautiful automobile yes it is
it surely is and I'm glad you think so
you know not many young people would
appreciate
it you know there's an old ad one of the
famous ads for the Jordan Playboy and
the headline reads somewhere west of
laramy goes on to speak of this bronny
graceful thing that Revels with a
Wandering wind and Roars like a caproni
bipe
say listen Frank do you think you could
get this thing
running oh for sure I restored mine
completely well then I want you to have
it it's all yours oh no I can't it's
Priceless no no no no no no now listen
to me if you can get this car running
and looking good again all I want is the
joy of driving it just one more
time
Mr mcau what what's the original uh
paint job on this well it used to be a
beautiful forest
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green I'm sorry I was uh I was just
picturing you driving it around when the
Jordan was
new car like this must be quite a
temptation to uh open her up now and
then now and then all the time oh if my
parents had only
known do you know that he almost got us
killed one night just before we were
married how
foolishness just plain
foolishness we
were racing the train we were racing it
was the thing to do in those days I
don't remember being asked we almost
beat it
too we were actually ahead of it and
then we came to the grade crossing no
Gates just the crossroad going right
across the
tracks and I started to turn and in that
last instant in the very last fraction
of a second I knew we couldn't make it
we were just too late
so I didn't turn and
we T along the road beside that
train the engineer leaning out of his
cab shaking his
fist cussing us out for all he was wor
where did that happen just outside of
town coming home from
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crestwell
listen did something delay you that
night I mean just a few seconds just
long enough so that you knew you
couldn't try and cross in front of that
train
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I don't
know like
what like someone uh running out in
front of your car and doing like
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this oh Frank I'm afraid not
why I don't
know just kind of figure that's the way
it
happened it's not
important you know I don't even remember
why we were incredible at
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night
there was no question now the license
plates were identical these are the
Jordan's old
plates yep the first ones that she ever
had if you had been killed that night
Helen wouldn't be
here
uh Frank we got to get going huh we
we've got to get going we're late oh
okay I'll get a running for you Mr mcy
fix her up just the way she
was give her a second chance
eh or
third I don't believe that the Jordan
Playboy is anything more than metal
glass Rubber and paint formed into a
machine
and yet I can't stop myself from feeling
that when that old Jordan was restored
by me given a second chance as it were
it went back to the time and place that
would give Vince mcau and his girl a
second chance too because someone on
that July evening of
1926 had dashed in front of their car
delaying them for 2 or 3 seconds I had
intruded on that time just long enough
for Vince McCauley to change his mind
about trying to cross in front of that
train live to marry the girl beside him
and eventually have a granddaughter
named Helen the girl I was one day going
to
marry and just like her grandparents did
almost 50 years
before we'd leave on our honeymoon in
the very same
car this brwy graceful thing which
Revels along with a Wandering wind and
Roars like a caproni bip
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plane my beautiful Jordan
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Playboy
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a
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Peter Peter it's all right it's all
right all
right Carl please go back to work don't
speak
now
sh it it isn't it's just a little my
it's nothing no God no Peter this I'm
going to
die I'm going not get Superstition I'm
going die L to me Alexis
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Alexis
oh cook inside you on your
way
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put it on the desk
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Carol it will do its work Dr Gia for my
wife yes sir it will reassure her that
is all I can expect of it
sir you do not believe that it will stop
I do not believe there's anything to
stop apart from a venomous insect or a
rodent sir we searched Madam's
room that will be all
Carol yes
sir uh
sir Marie and cook wish to be
discharged I've dissuaded them for now
but I don't know how long it will
last oh
Carl yes sir inform the servants that if
they do not stop telling the times
people what is occurred here they will
not have to seek this charge they will
be freely granted it yes
sir
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e
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oh
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hey
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man
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a
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Michael Professor I knew you would
come I going to tell you how pleased I
am to see you well what's wrong your
letter only said that Alexis was not
well let us talk in the study I imagine
you were surprised to see me answering
the door well I did wonder where Carl
was he's sleeping poor fellow he's been
doing the work of four all the other
servants have left why sit
down
did you notice how empty the streets
were yes I did where are all the
people huddling Terror stricken in their
houses I
expect I don't understand you saw what
is hanging on the windows and the
doors Michael I'm on the brink of
Madness Alexus is being destroyed by a
vampire
what each day she sinks
deeper I can't deal with
it I simp can't deal with
it Professor sit sit
down
please you've been been attacked as
well I I just don't know what to do
anymore I've had every inch of
Countryside
searched graveyards
ransacked Crips inspected
nothing
yet there is
something something which is draining us
of
life I can't see
it I can't hear
it I can't do
anything how can I save
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her
God how long has she been like this days
and days retrogression has been constant
Michael
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yes you'll be
fine just fine
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I don't understand why you didn't call
me sooner
Professor but never mind she'll be all
right now tonight we'll watch
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together
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this will help to keep us
awake thank
you Professor why don't you try to get
some sleep I'll watch for a while it
would do no
good once
Kidd scarcely tasted with that stench of
garlic in the air
yes my flesh reeks of
it I do not know what will happen to
this town until this this creature is
discovered and
destroyed people are paralyzed with
fear I just
wonder has it been anywhere else in the
village it does not need to go anywhere
else can find everything that it craves
Within These
Walls now when Alexis and I are dead
then it will go elsewhere the people
know that they're
waiting what about Carl have you ever
considered no no no he's as terrified as
we are he puts a cross around his neck
he seals the windows and the door of
his of his room with
garlic indeed he has even put one of
these monsters to rest
himself
no Carl will not endanger
us
I've It seems impossible that men of
science like
us I could science affect this this
horror science does not even believe in
its
existence if I was to get the topmost
men of science into this room they would
say my friend you are deluded there is
no such thing
as a
vampire
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Michael
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Michael
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oh
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Carl
Carl Carl
Carol it has come again oh dear lord
Carol is is it possible we search the
graveyards the Crips is it possible it's
still in this
house the attic the cellers I don't know
so I never thought of that sir look
Carol Serge it's our last chance one
more night she'll be
gone
I I'll look in
here
not
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here
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oh
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yeah
sleep well my
dear your nightmare is
ended
or will it just
begin when you learn that your lover is
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dead
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that's
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hello Ella oh hi how you doing
uh I'm fine did you just get in yeah a
couple of minutes
ago how was the flight it was
okay
good Elma what's wrong well nothing is
wrong nothing I'm just I'm a little
tired you didn't call your mother did
you
um no Elma please stop worrying about
me that's a good one how am I supposed
to do that after what we've been through
you mean since Bobby died you know I'll
never understand you what is there to
understand I mean you know for the last
two months if I so much as even hinted
that Bobby was gone I mean you you were
just getting all over I just wasn't
ready to accept that then I never should
have taken this
trip just stop worrying about
me not as long as you continue to keep
seeing those phony psychic and
spiritualists
do you
understand there won't be any need for
that
anymore Elma call your mother
please if you don't I
will all
right and you promise me that you'll do
it
yes John yes okay I'll call you
tonight
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I
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I command thee IR ronimus to do whatever
I desire for thou art conjured by the
name of the Everlasting living and true
God
helor come fulfill my desire and persist
unto the end in accordance with my will
I conjure thee by him to whom all
creatures are obedient by the ineffable
name Terra
graan by which name the elements are
overthrown the air is shaken the sea is
turned black fire is quenched the Earth
shut is and all of the host of things in
heaven of things in Earth of things in
hell do tremble and not confounded
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Uranus Prince of death return my son who
drowned by
accident I command thee return him to me
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now return my son to me my son who
drowned by
accident
I command
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the
hello
is someone
there
who is there
please
Mommy Mommy it's
me momy
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b b me it's you it's really you you're
alive
mommy please I'm so cold oh God I'm
sorry sure
Bobby
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Bobby my
love I was
so desolate without you you know how
desolate I was to I couldn't live
without you no Mom it's okay stop
mom
back how how Bobby how where where were
you what happened to you tell
me I woke up and and remembered who I
was left their house I walked my miles
and miles in the rain whose house what
house where what house the name
was green or green I I I don't remember
remember please M it's so
cold it is cold just a
minute God it is cold come on we'll get
those W things off you I'm going to take
care of you my
Bobby Bobby's home I've kept your room
just the way you left it I never touched
it come on sit right down
here there
now let's get that wet sweatshirt off
you okay now tell momy darning exactly
what happened well well I remember water
cold water and and I couldn't breathe
and I there were these people they they
found me lying on the sand and and they
picked me up on the beach yeah I knew
you didn't drown I knew it I knew it all
along
for the longest time Bobby I thought you
were
dead
dead but you're alive you're alive
you're really alive my baby is
alive oh you're so alive Bobby you're
alive you're
alive I'm so hungry we got to give my
Bobby anything Bobby wants my baby is
home in the morning we'll take you to Dr
Croswell okay why well to be sure you're
all
right tell me about those people you
said their name was green or green or
something I think
so I want to telephone them right away
in the morning find out why they didn't
call the police oh but they did Mommy no
they didn't or the police would have
called
us
us your father and
I where is he he's on a business trip I
can't wait for him to telephone oh boy
he's not going to believe
me okay Bobby now what would you like to
eat I don't
know oh come on some soup H C
cocoa I know one of your sandwiches you
like oh that is a good
idea if I told your father we were
eating tuna should
out want
me what
the how many doors in the
house what how many doors in the
house that's a funny
question I don't know I think you know
as well as I do there's the front door
right and the garage
door and the family room door that makes
three daring are you sure the was I
always a good boy
mommy of course you were a good boy and
did you love
me did I love
you I do love you darling from the
bottom of my and were you nice to me
Mommy why are you asking me these
questions you nice to me
momy yes of course I
was why was I in the water why did those
people find me on the
beach I don't
know I
guess you were playing out on those
rocks was I allowed to do that Mommy
no I told you not to you told me never
to play on the
Rocks
just don't want
it you said you were hungry and that is
fa I don't want
it okay you make a suggestion and then
I'll make you whatever you'd
like I want to play a
game
game Hide and
Seek you're tired why don't we get some
sleep and then in the morning I'll wake
up and we'll play every game you want
all right I want to play a game
now
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BBY ha mommy you have to find me
Barbie it's time for bed I want you in
your room right
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now Bobby where are
you
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this is no time for games you're cold
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bobie
Bobby
Bobby stop
this I want you to come right back
here
Bobby please don't do this to
mommy Bobby for the last
time
oh my
God
Bobby what are you
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doing aren't you glad the lights are out
out now Mommy that make the game more
fun
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uh you're going to hurt yourself in the
dark let's play hide and seek now
Mommy
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all right this is it the game's over no
more game for
it oh yes there will be
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mommy
Bobby stop
this that's the way you used to talk to
me isn't it Mommy
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please you're frightening me you could
have you could have hurt me before and
so I don't you realize
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that
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you almost killed
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me you going to fight
me you got to
fight
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help me help me Elma what John got my
God what's
wrong Elma what is it God John he's back
Bob's back Bob's dead Al no no no he
didn't drown some people found him down
the beach what are you talking about
he's alive oh please he's alive some
people found him what are you trying to
tell me he didn't remember who he he was
until tonight until tonight
listen John what is it there's something
what is it Elma I think I think he's
losing his mind I don't even recognize
him I don't know you know do you know
what he just did do you know that plant
at the top of the stairs top of the
stairs he just pushed that down on me
pushed it down pushed it down on me he
just
yes and now he's running around upstairs
in the dark in the dark he insists on
playing some game insist on playing some
game why are you repeating everything I
say repeating everything you
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say I fooled you didn't I oh you're not
very good at hide and seek are you Mommy
so let's switch places now now and I'll
find you okay Mommy I'm starting to
count
10
9
8
7
6 5 4 3 2
1 ready or not here I
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come
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they hide mommy I'm almost
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there is this where you are Mommy
are you hiding in the
kitchen am I hot or
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cold oh look what I
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found a big sharp
knif but where is
Mommy I know maybe she's in the closet
yes that would be a good
place closet is a good place to
hide isn't it
mommy isn't
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it
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wait I think I hear you
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upstairs you fooled me
mommy you made me think you were
downstairs when you were upstairs all
the
time well here I
come ready or
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not
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oh
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[Applause]
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Bobby knows you're in here
Mommy he's going to find you
shouldn't have hit him like that
Bobby Bobby didn't like
that so Bobby's going to punish
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you oh what's this
this just what I
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need
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Bobby's going to get
you Bobby's going to get you
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Mommy
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oh I'm coming to get you
Mommy
for
fold
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[Laughter]
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you
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for
he got to get out of here got to get out
of
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here no it's
not
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you li
mommy Bobby didn't drown by accident you
knew
that Bobby drowned
himself to get away from
you you see Bobby didn't want to come
back
Mommy no Bobby hates you
Mommy so he sent me
instead
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a
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is