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Hold on just a second.
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l want to tell you something.
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Something l never told anybody.
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When l was about 1 2,
l had a paper route.
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Crack of dawn every day.
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Wasn't many houses
around here then...
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...so l had to cover quite a lot
of territory...
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...and l used to cut through
the woods on this little dirt road.
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And one morning, l was riding
through there...
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...and l heard this noise.
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Sounded like a rabbit or something,
you know, caught in a trap.
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And then l realized it was coming from
one of the houses set back in there.
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l kind of walked over there...
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...and didn't seem like anybody
was home, so l walked on up.
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lt had, you know, chicken wire and
barbed wire around the bottom of it.
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l figure to keep the critters out,
you know?
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And then all of the sudden, l saw
these fingers coming through the wire.
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And l put my bike down...
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...and got down
on my hands and knees...
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...and l looked under there,
and there was this boy about my age.
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l don't know what was wrong
with him. Something was.
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They used to keep him under there.
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And l looked right at him.
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He looked back at me.
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We just sat there staring
at each other for a while.
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l ran that route for two years,
Mary Helen.