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Good morning, True seekers and true crime junkies. Welcome back
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to another episode of Hit the Roadjack Finding the Zodiac.
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I'd like to welcome to the show today. Lindsay mcbrair. Hey, Hey,
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I'm excited we're finally here. I know, I feel like
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every time I do a pre record, I'm so out
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of whack and then so excited when I come back.
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I'm not sure I'm not going to stumble over my
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own words. Oh yeah, Oh my goodness. So we are
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now just going to climb into Nora's diary in nineteen
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well it's the end of nineteen ninety five, of course,
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and it says nineteen ninety six dress begins. So I
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kind of want to remind everybody that the John Binney
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Ramsey note came to me again from an anonymous person
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who slipped in, dropped the letter off, made probably some
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small talk, and was gone and out the door again.
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And when they dropped that letter off, of course, it
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looked much like the Zodiac communications in a lot of ways.
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It had similarities to both the Atlanta, Georgia child killer cases.
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Many of the different notes that we saw the Channel
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nine newsletter. There were just so many different communications that
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the elusive disguised handwriting was consistent with. And when I
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got to the third page, I actually found formations of
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letters that were in fact what I know Jack to
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write like. And I perceived that to be a misdropping
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of letters, if you will, because it literally when you're
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learning to work with disguised handwriting, and especially if it's
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of any type of length, people will naturally revert at
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some point in time back to their own handwriting, unbeknownst
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to themselves, because it's very taxing on the brain to
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keep up a disguise. So when we're working with disguised handwriting,
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we start at the bottom and work backwards. And in
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that very last paragraph on John Benet Ramsey's ransom note,
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we saw some letters that were not consistent with the
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rest of the formations throughout the letter, and they look
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much more natural, which I'm sure everybody will agree once
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we get there. So after examining this handwriting, I took
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it to Dennis and I talked with Dennis about it,
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and he said, no way to net You're wrong. Jack
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could not have been part of this. He was with
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us in California in during Christmas and the holidays, so
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there's no way he could have done this. So I
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kind of took that with a grain of salt. Okay, well,
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maybe there are the people out there that are using
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some of the formations like Jack. I kind of set
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it a side when about my research looking through more
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of the belongings, and I stumbled across this nineteen ninety
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six diary of Nora. So on November eleventh, we know
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that Jack takes the family, Charles and Nora to California
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for the holidays because not only is it Thanksgiving, but
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it's also Charles's birthday. And then of course they were
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to stay all the way through the holiday season, which
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was kind of strange because with Jack's mom in a
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care home, he up and leaves when we know he
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has this kind of perverse love for his mother, where
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he's constantly back there. He wanted to be the man
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of the house at one point when his father died,
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and he wanted to sleep in her bed, was the
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story that I was told. Now, I don't know how
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much of that is true, but it kind of shows
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what they presumed, or at least profiled in the zodiac cases,
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that there was a perverse love for his mother. Yeah,
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so why he would up and leave during the holidays
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of what may potentially be her last holidays on Earth
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kind of sets a different example for me, right, I mean,
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you would think that you would want those last minutes,
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those last moments, And so what we're going to talk
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about in this story also seems a little odd in
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the fact that a he was willing to take the
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family out of the state where Mom is being you know,
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keptain in a nursing home away from her, and into California.
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At the same time he then picks up and leaves.
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And that's what we're going to talk about today. So
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diary is headed by what.
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Right no California for the calf and Charles's birthday on
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November twenty fourth, girl's birthday Birthdake Carl I.
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Don't know why but it seems sounds muffled. I'm not
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sure if if it's just mayor I don't know.
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Is that better? Are you not able to hear me?
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Yeah?
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Yeah, yeah, that did it?
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That helped.
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Okay, So Charles's eighteenth birthday, they had birthday cake on
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November twenty fourth and ice cream for Charles. Garrett was
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there at Denny's. And I'm not sure what it's a
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oh Dennis enjoys now. On November twenty seven, three days
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after Charles's birthday, she labels this, Jack had to go
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back to Texas today. Got a fax from Dolores. Granny
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wasn't doing so good. She was combative and confused, wasn't herself.
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Jack was worried about her. He went back. Charles and
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I stayed in California. So that tells a different story.
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Right now, we've got a concern to Jack going back
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to Texas for his mom, but he wasn't to concern
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Jack when he left to take the family away for months,
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not just a couple of days to California. His intentions
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were to stay there all the way through New Year's Eve. Basically,
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So I'm kind of back and forth. And you can
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also see this green writing that's coming up here on
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the right hand side, that literally is bleeding through the
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backside of the paper. We go to talk about, Yeah,
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we're going to talk a bit about that because there's
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some dating inconsistencies in this diary. There's some additions. It
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looks like she literally filled this out after the fact.
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So I'm not sure how well we can actually trust
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some of the information that we're seeing, but i just
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want you guys to know that this was literally it's
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like she goes back and writes a week and a half,
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two weeks later, or even in some cases much later,
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as we're going to see in here, based on the
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way this is set up and that this is being written.
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So I'm believe and it could.
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Be that, like couldn't you know, maybe it's not nefarious,
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because I mean there's been times where I've uh, you know,
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wrote in my journal when I'm journaling and I've forgot
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a couple of days or like a week because I
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just and I just like put it off and put
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it off, and then I'm like, Okay, I gotta go
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back and fill in that.
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You know what I'm saying. But are you feeling back
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in or are you just adding to at that point, saying, oh,
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by the way, last week this happened.
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Well now, yeah, but I feel like I would I
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usually would say forgot to notate what happened this or
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what I found out on this week and this day,
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because I always put the dates on my research and stuff,
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so you know, I would definitely say something on those lines,
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you know.
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Okay, So it looks to me like she almost even
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pre set some dates in here if this were the case,
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because we have the top of the next page of
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the diary on November twenty eighth of nineteen ninety six.
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Then the very next date after that actually says and
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I know you're going to see them more predominant overwriting,
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which is the sixteenth, but this actually says December twenty five,
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nineteen ninety six. Then she goes bashing back. Yes, then
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she goes back and back dates it to the sixteenth.
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And I don't know that this is her overwriting. I'm
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assuming that it is. But again here we see more
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of this green writing that has been obviously added after
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the fact, So she is clearly not even finishing consistent
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thoughts when she writes things down. So it says December
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twenty fifth, And I want to say personally with if
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I wrote down, if she didn't pre write the dates,
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let's say November twenty eighth for Thanksgiving December twenty fifth,
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maybe she thought these were the only entries that she'd
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write in there, and she preached that in but then
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came back and corrected it. So I'm giving some leeway
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here and playing devil's as.
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I was gonna say too, like she maybe just wrote
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down the next dates for her next writings.
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Right, but nobody confuses December twenty fifth, right, now, that's
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not a date we mess up. That is a date.
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So we also see over here to the right, December
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twenty fifth, Christmas Day again, So she wrote down December
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twenty fifth, then came back and wrote the sixteenth. It
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says Jack comes back to California, got sick for two weeks,
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flew and cold. We are staying now. The added part
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after the fact, in a different pen color, is we
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are staying till around one fifteen ninety seven. So Jack,
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and this is one of Dennis's reasonings for why he
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believed that Jack was with him during this whole entire time,
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as he said that Jack got sick and he vividly
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remembers having to move Jack. He actually was evicted from
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his apartment or his place at this particular point in time,
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and he Enjoyed needed to find a new place, and
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on Christmas Eve they were forced to move, and he
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said the first thing he moved was a bed to
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the new place to put Ja in it, because Jack
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was too sick to be up and around and moving.
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So I'm just gonna read the portions of this diary
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and then we'll take it from there. So on November
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twenty eight, Thanksgiving, had dinner at Dennis and Joy's, just
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the four of us, Charles, Me and Dennis and Joy.
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Dennis got mad at Joy. Joy went upstairs, upset. I
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went outside upset. Also a nice dinner ruined. This is
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a very obviously toxic family, always having some types of
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issues or it least me an ability to get along.
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And it doesn't make any sense. Why. Well, I know
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Dennis so.
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Well, and I think that also it has to do
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with so many different things going on, and once that
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it creates conflict, right like so and so's got this,
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and so and says got this, and so one says
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got this. And they're trying to do every like like
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it's like chaotic because if everyone wanted to do something
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or having to do something at the specific tom.
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Well, and it may be in the stress of them
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being evicted and having to get out that you know,
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everybody is upset and fighting. I don't know when they
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received the eviction notice. This seems rather early on November
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twenty eighth for it to be a thirty day notice,
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and they moved on December thirty first, But anything's possible, so.
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Then, and they been on the train. They did it
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on Christmas Eve. That's crazy. That was a main landlord, right,
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I mean, that's the first thought I had, like, wow,
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you can wait till after Christmas.
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You know what's interesting is I'm not even sure that
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her diary reflects this move. But as we go through it,
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I'm rereading it, basically for the first time in about
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ten eleven years since the first time I read it
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and put it into this presentation, I haven't touched it since.
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But so that has been changed. From December twenty fifth
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to December sixteenth, Jack comes back to California, got sick
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for two weeks. On December eighteenth, Dennis and Joy have
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been evicted. Okay, so now we see when the eviction
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from the house on fair Oaks have to be moved
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out in it says in five days, and that would
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have made it. That would have made it before Christmas. Yeah, yeah,
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that had made it. Yeah. See, so there's something really
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wrong with these date sequences. I'm telling you, guys, some
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of this stuff is not making any sense. So December
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twenty second, Jack is at the new house. She's properly
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dated that five days forward. On the twenty second, Dennis
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and Joy and Charles been working round the clock, mostly
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trying to get out of the old house and into
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the new one. Now, Dennis's recollection was that this occurred
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on New Year's Eve. So we are now looking at
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a journal which a she did not do on the
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dates in which it actually occurred. She went back and
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filled in a bunch of stuff, then went back and
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refilled things in and changed dates on stuff. So December
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twenty fourth, got the tree back up, yesterday was up
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in the old house, moved it in the car. Geneva's birthday,
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got her a cake, they came over, went to Connie's.
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I believe it says four get together was good. December
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twenty fifth Christmas Day, Dennis, Joy and Charles gone somewhere.
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This morning, Jack and I went to Dawn's and Eileen's
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I visit a while. We couldn't find anything open for dinner,
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so went home and ate only thing there was to
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eat in the house, top Ramen. Later on, Dennis and
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Joy and Charles opened Let's see if I've got that next. Nope, okay.
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I didn't continue after that because I was really focusing
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in on this particular entry in the diary. But this