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Underground eXperts United
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[ Don't Drink the Water ] [ By Jason Gurley ]
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Don't Drink the Water
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by Jason Gurley
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On a day bright with sunshine that glittered and danced in raindrops that
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lingered in leaves and spiderwebs, Harvey Rosenthal kissed the glass over
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his dead wife's photograph, then dumped the contents of a nearly-empty box
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of laundry soap down his throat and gasped and fought and died.
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Two blocks away, at 1441 South Brentwood, Linda Greene signed her name
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to a letter addressed to her long-deceased parents, then sat back in a
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patchwork recliner and carefully sawed at her delicate wrists with a
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serrated carving knife.
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Stevie Vanguard, laughing as the wind ruffled his new haircut, rode his
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Schwinn over the edge of Sellers Bayou and fell seventy feet to the dry
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creekbed below. He never stopped laughing.
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"Three," Mike Roberts repeated. "My God."
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"But there's more," Garrett Thomas replied, producing a stack of folders
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marked Confidential from the folds of his lab coat. "Seventeen in four
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days."
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Roberts sat down, patting his forehead with a paper towel. "Seventeen,"
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he breathed. "That includes these three?"
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"Yes."
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"And the media?"
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"Allensville has been quarantined for twenty-four hours," Garrett
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answered, consulting his clipboard. "The news crews are speculating on
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everything from tuberculosis to Ebola to yellow fever. All unfounded."
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Roberts plunged his fingers into his graying hair.
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"Testing hasn't been mentioned anywhere in the news, sir," Garrett
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ventured.
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"I just never imagined simple water testing leading to these extremes.
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There are no other explanations?"
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Garrett shook his head.
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"Hospitals?"
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"Insiders are seeing the discharge of five or more terminal patients each
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day," Garrett said.
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"Cancer?"
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"And leukemia. Even a slight improvement in three late-state AIDS
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patients."
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Roberts sighed. "But seventeen..."
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"Should I give the order to cease testing, sir?"
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"God." Roberts hesitated, then: "No. You know that sets us back a
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half-dozen years and a quarter of a billion dollars. No." Roberts closed his
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eyes. "Continue."
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And in Allensville, two more lights went out.
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