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SUBJECT: Am I an Abductee? FILE: UFO1080
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PART 4
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I can't recall exactly what day it was, but Jim, my lover and companion
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of ten years, confronted me as soon as he had awoken, "You haven't
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gone out this morning for anything, have you?" "No, honey," Ireplied,
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still dressed in my nightshirt and sitting at the computer, "does
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it look like it?" "Well the door is unlocked," he informed me.
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I got up immediately, and Jim demonstrated that both the dead bolt
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and the doorknob latch were undone. I thought about the matter for
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a few moments and said "Are you sure you didn't open it when you
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got up? I remember double checking it before I went to bed, and
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it was already locked." Jim replied, "I remember checking it before
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I went to bed also, and it was locked then too." After a few moments
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he added, "It's possible that I may have unlocked the dead bolt without
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thinking, but that wouldn't explain why the doorknob latch is undone."
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(The door handle has to be turned to open the door from the inside
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before the doorknob latch is undone, and we never open the front
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door in the morning until we're ready to go out, since we do not
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subscribe to any newspapers. If for some reason we want to check
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on the weather, we always open the sliding balcony door. Neither
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Jim or I would think of opening the front door while still in our
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nightclothes.) The matter was out of my mind within a few minutes,
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but Jim was not about to let the subject drop. He made me call the
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manager that afternoon to ask if they or any maintenance people had
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been in our apartment without our consent. The manager assured me
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that they had not, and said that they would always consult us before
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such an intrusion.
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Jim became obsessed with the matter, and forced me to recreate every
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step I had taken the night before. After all the thinking he made
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me do, I just became more sure that I had checked the lock at night,
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and certainly had not opened it in the morning. Before going to
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bed the next night, Jim stacked two spare stereo speakers up against
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the front door, so that if someone were to open it, they would come
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tumbling down and alert him. Jim is a very light sleeper; he had
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served in the armed forces during the Vietnam War, and his father
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was a policeman, which may help to explain why the thought of someone
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breaking into our apartment bothered him so much. I also noticed
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that he made sure the baseball bat was within reach of the bed that
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night.
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The following morning, I awoke first. I stumbled out of bed and
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headed for the computer, my morning ritual. Along the way to the
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den, I noticed that the stereo speakers Jim had so carefully set
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out the night before were strewn across the floor. I guess the seriousness
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of the situation didn't hit me at first. It took me a few minutes
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before I decided to go back into the front room and check the lock.
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One would think that I should have been alarmed at the prospect of
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someone breaking in, but honestly, my thoughts were only about how
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alarmed Jim was going to be when he discovered the situation. I
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checked the door, and it was locked. I told myself that the speakers
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had somehow accidentally fallen over in the night, and I stacked
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them back up again, hoping that I could conceal it from Jim.
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I returned to the computer, but couldn't concentrate on what I
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was doing; my conscience was bothering me. Jim and I have an extremely
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open and honest relationship, much more so than any married couple
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I've ever met. I went back out and put the speakers as I had found
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them, deciding to let him know the truth. I'm not sure what Jim
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really thought. He found it hard to accept that the speakers had
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fallen over without his hearing them. Further, he questioned why
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the door was locked from the inside, and yet the speakers had been
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knocked over. He thought my behavior was particularly odd, in that
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I had initially tried to conceal the fallen speakers, but then put
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them back as I had found them. At any rate, we never discussed the
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subject again, and I was glad! I just wanted to forget about the
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whole thing. Every night for several weeks, Jim jammed the plastic
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runner up against the front door, but nothing else unusual happened.
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End of Part 4
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**********************************************
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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