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The last time I saw my mom
and dad, I was eight going on nine...
:55:19
eight years, six months,
and three days,
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almost as old as you are.
:55:25
They were going on tour,
leaving me behind for the first time.
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They didn't want me
missing any more school.
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When they came to my room
to say good-bye,
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I wouldn't open the door,
so they left.
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I fell asleep.
:55:40
The next thing I knew...
:55:43
...my nanny was waking me up
in the middle of the night
:55:45
telling me
their plane had crashed.
:55:48
- You're lucky.
- Lucky?
:55:50
That you were mad.
:55:53
When you're mad,
you don't miss people,
:55:55
and if you stay mad,
it's like you never knew them at all.
:55:59
That way you don't
have to feel sucky about it.
:56:02
You were lucky.
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Night.
:56:10
I wasn't mad, Ray.
:56:13
I was confused.
:56:16
Everyone was talking to me,
:56:18
and I couldn't understand
a word they were saying.
:56:22
Then their voices
became a blur...
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...and soon I couldn't even
recognize their faces.
:56:30
They were like these blobs.
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Then they started
to grow fangs...
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...and their eyes
became green.
:56:40
I knew I had to run away.
:56:44
I packed my knapsack,
:56:46
got on the train,
looked up at the map,
:56:49
and decided that I wanted
to live in Coney Island.
:56:53
I thought
it was gonna be a real island...
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...and I could hide away there like
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.