He said: "I wish that I was somewhere else. I don't want to be here even though this is where I live; where I've always lived. These are the streets I grew up on and these are the people who are my tribe. These are the smells that I have lived with all my life. I've seen people get born here, and I've seen people die here. There is a bit of me everywhere here. But, I don't feel like I can stay here one more day. I'm being strangled by hands that I can not see. I need to leave here before it is too late. I want to leave here. I have to leave here, now. I wish that I was somewhere else."

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She said: "I can't tell you where we'll end up, only where I think we should go. I can't tell you what will happen when we get there, only what I know about what has happened before. It could be dangerous because some of the tribes are ancient enemies of each other and they kill each other for no reason all the time. You have to be aware of where we are not and where we are going. You must be aware all of the time because sometimes that is the only way to survive. If you have fear in your heart or if you are afraid what will happen to you once we get there, let me know now. We are going into this together. We will fight it, if you have to, together. You must be strong or you will die."

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He said: "You know? It's weird and hard to explain. When men grow older, they spin faster. I don't know it that's true about women, but I know that it's true about men. Their energy or chi as the chinese call it begins to spin faster and faster with each year. I think it confuses some men. I think that find it hard to live in a world that in spinning ever faster. You can sometimes see it in their eyes. Some men have a certain look in their eyes as they age and they being to realize that their lives are literally spinning faster and faster and they really want it all to slow down, and even to stop, but they can't control the spinning and they can't stop it, so they just try to find a way to accommodate what is going on while they wait for that moment when the velocity is great enough to spin them out of life and on to the next adventure, wherever that is."

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He said: "I feel like I can talk to you. I feel like I can talk to anyone, really. It's because I like people. I'm curious what they're thinking about; what they're feeling right now. People usually always have something interesting to say; something to build a conversation around. So, I'm not shy about just jumping in and seeing where it goes. Even politics; I can even go there when I'm talking to someone I just met. I find that it's easier for someone to talk to a total stranger than it might be to talk to someone else. Like a husband or a wife or a close friend, because those relationships are pretty well defined. But talking to someone new, someone you don't exactly know, well, that can be totally open because you probably won't ever see or hear from that person again. Sometimes it's just safer to talk to a stranger."

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She said: "Ya know? The sun always sets a little later here that elsewhere. I always think that it's because the gods are watching us watch them at that time of day. It's the time of day that is best for dreaming, and thinking quiet, personal thoughts about what life is, and how lucky we are here in the land of fading light. I like to pull out my chair and sit in the quiet and watch the light moving across the water and across the land and then watch it fly away into the heavens to rest, as we all must, until it is time to rise, rested, ready to color the world anew."

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He said: It wasn't what I wanted, but it was what I had, so I tried to make the best of it. I was never certain what, exactly, they wanted from me. I mean, I tried to make it right, to make them happy, but I never really knew what was going on. They were always after me to do this, to do that, or whatever. Sometimes I thought that I'd just go crazy with all of the stuff going on. They weren't so crazy about each other sometimes and sometimes I wasn't all that high on them because they were always after me to do stuff; and I just wanted to be left alone. Is that too much to ask, do you think. Just leave me alone."

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He said: "Nobody wanted to, but we all did it. We all tried to impress the rest of the guys, especially the guys who were going on to College somewhere. We didn't want to be seen as a wimp or anything. We wanted to be tough, with lots of attitude and stuff. We wanted the older guys to know how tough or whatever we were and that no matter how messed up the other guys were, we could be more messed up. It was like an extra long 'double dare' thing. I don't remember now who saw the girls first. It could've been any one of us. Probably the older guys asked them to come over and join us. I don't know who said what first. They looked real cute and seemed happy to have someone, you know, like admire them or something. The two of them were obviously friends, out for the night. Poor things. They stumbled on us. I guess we were drinking a little. Anyway, one thing kept leading to another and that's how the whole horrible thing started. Oh, God, I'm so sorry. I guess messed up bad. I guess I'll live with this now for the rest of my life. Nobody wanted it to turn out like that. I don't know why it did."

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She said: "You know? It's just easier to leave than it is to come in in the first place. First of all, when you leave him, you don't have to worry about all that luggage to pack up. You just go."

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She said: "I knew for certain that it really was him. I didn't want to make a mistake at this point. I had been looking for him for so long and it was hard to keep control of my emotions at that point, but I was pretty certain it was him. I had carried his image in my head for months. I had planned and re-fined the plan and prayed that sooner or later I would find him, and suddenly it looked like it would all come to an end. I was almost ill because my heart was beating so fast. Just a week previous, in New York, I had found someone who would make me a remote devise. All that I had to do now was to attach the radio bomb to his car and wait for the right moment, the right place, to put an end to the story. He had taken away from me the only things that mattered to me: my kids. He had taken my kids. I had the phone that would trigger the "package". All I had to do now was wait. All I had to do now was now screw up."

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"We hear bagpipe music. We are watching a group of six Vietnamese men walking in single file. They are on a sidewalk in a tree lined suburban neighborhood. Each man carries in his hands a while plastic bag containing groceries. They are talking to each other as they walk. The camera pulls back slowly. As the walking men recede into the distance, we see more of a large, sun dappled lawn, populated with widely placed mature trees. There is a man dressed in in a kilt, playing the bagpipes under one of the trees. He is some distance from the men on the sidewalk, and is facing them. A woman on a bicycle turns from the street onto a long, curing driveway running along the right side of the lawn. She rides up to the front of a large manor house. She has sunflowers in a basket on the front of her bike. She goes inside. A phone rings.

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He said: "I woke up thirsty. I had to drink several glasses of water before I could even speak. The room was hot and my clothes were damp with sweat. I could clearly hear my breathing and feel my heart beat. I didn't so much feel ill as disoriented. Where was I? It looked familiar but wasn't. How did I get here? I didn't know. I just woke up in this place, thirsty and hot, although it looked somewhat familiar. I tried to remember what happened last night, but nothing significant came to me. I watched something on the box, ate a small meal around 8PM, read a little, and then turned the lights off about midnight, when it was so very quiet. Then I woke up here, in this place, thirsty. What happened to me?"

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