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The room illuminated once more. This time it was stronger. Everything had become visible as though it were daylight. Her jaw clenched.

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It took me several long moments to open eyes that I didn’t remember closing and turn them towards the direction of the voice. It was still dark in the room – much darker than should have been possible, given that it was still the middle of the afternoon – and very little was visible. And yet there, in the corner of the room, I saw a shadow, just a touch blacker than the rest of the darkness around it, reaching for my mother.

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“He’s having the most beautiful experiences. Nobody can hurt you or harm you. But to believe that they can is you releasing your own truth.”

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“He wanted to live a life that was the opposite of what society shoved down our throats.”

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“To live in ignorance is… not only disrespectful to what we each have been given, why we’re on the planet right now, but also keeps us from being what we came here to be. He wants for people to connect with… something higher. And to do it now. Before it’s… too late, he’s saying.”

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“He wants to talk about spirituality. And the beauty of what we call ‘God.’ And I’m feeling so much devotion in my heart for this. Just pure… love.”

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“I have mixed feelings about her, too. She shows me to two sides… since connecting with her, she has a feeling that has remorse, and I feel a side that takes responsibility… and then a feeling that I feel has a relief.”

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“And I’m also hearing that, what you have to understand is that, what seems like them throwing people under the bus? Was… um… it was a way to, uh, so, that they got — because all these people were, privy to the information, it was also a way to balance and check.”

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“She’s telling me that she didn’t do anything wrong. I think she’s saying that to, to help us understand that — she understands. That none of it was her fault.”

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“She wants you to lighten up to. She just said it. You need to lighten up too. She’s telling me you gotta come down to her level… we gotta get… childlike.”