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SUBJECT: Am I an Abdutee? FILE: UFO1077
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PART 1
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Three weeks ago I went camping with my best friend, the special
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type of friend to whom you can tell anything, no matter how incredible
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it may sound. I had planned the weekend carefully; we spent two nights
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nestled in the heart of an old-growth redwood forest at an environmental
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campsite, far removed from the distractions of our ordinary lives
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and of other noisy campers.
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Within the secluded comfort of our wilderness setting, I proceeded
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to tell her exactly what was on my mind: "I think that I may have
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been abducted by extraterrestrials!" After regaining her composure
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over the initial shock, she listened as I recounted, in depth, the
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numerous events which led me to consider such a preposterous idea.
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I tried to illuminate my experiences by drawing parallels to recent
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books which had been written on the subject, since my friend was
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totally ignorant in the matter. The campfire near its end, my body
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growing tired after hours of discussion, she left me with one basic
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thought when I had finished my tale: "Books by people like Whitley
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Streiber and Bud Hopkins sell so well because people empathize with
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the main character.
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They are people who desperately want to believe that they too have
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been a part of the experience, and have touched the unknowable."
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My friend obviously felt that I was deluding myself. It is true
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that I have had a life-long interest in the subject of UFOs. I have
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read a vast number of books written on the subject over the past
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ten years. The first UFO book I'd ever read was in the eighth grade,
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one about George Adamski. Even earlier, in 1969, I was preoccupied
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with drawing pictures of "aliens" during the art period in first grade.
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Stretching back to the earliest limits of my memory, I can recall
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when, in 1964 or '65 at the age of 3, I ran screaming from the room
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in terror as I watched an "alien" on an episode of The Munsters.
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Of interest is that I had never been the least bit scared of any
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of the regular Munster characters, but the sight of an extraterrestrial
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absolutely horrified me.
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My life has been dotted with minor strange anomalies, all of which
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I have filed away as "unsolved mysteries", and forgotten. I usually
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deal with problems that way. When any conflict occurs in my life,
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I tend to ignore it first, hoping that whatever it is will blow over,
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so I can forget it. If the first step fails, I usually try to find
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a book or two on the subject which might help me. When a book doesn't
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provide me with the necessary tools, I usually discuss that problem
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with a friend. It would seem like I have such a problem now, and
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I am discussing it with you. Something has been eating away at
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me for the past six months or so, and I'm not sure exactly what it
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is. In one semester, my grade point average has dropped from an
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outstanding 3.56 over the past 76.5 semester units in college, to
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a rock bottom 0.00 for the 1990 Spring semester; I failed every class!
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Also, I have taken to drinking far more often than I should. I have
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this fantasy that if I've had a few glasses of wine before I go to
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bed, then I'll be useless to the nocturnal visitors, and they will
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not bother me. That might seem to be the case, because I have never
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had an unusual nocturnal experience after drinking. (Of course I
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realize that there are probably people in New York who are convinced
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that crossing their fingers will keep wild lions away! In other
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words, my statement is an illogical syllogism, in which the premises
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do not warrant the conclusion.) Additionally, my sleeping pattern
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has changed drastically. Over the past six months or so, I have
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avoided sleeping each night until I was utterly exhausted. Currently,
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I am staying up until about 5:00 am, and sleeping until 1 pm. Although
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I desperately need the extra income from a Summer job, I have avoided
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getting one because I knew it would mean going back to a normal sleeping
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schedule.
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I put to you the following dilemma: Has my life-long interest in
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UFOs finally caused me to go off the deep end, whereby I have deluded
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myself into believing that I may have had numerous abduction experiences?
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Or, have I truly been subject to numerous abductions throughout my
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life, and my way of dealing with it has been to investigate the phenomena?
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At this point in time, I would consider either hypothesis equally,
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but I desperately want to know which is the cause, and which is the
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effect! In the following paragraphs I will relate my experiences
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as accurately and as unbiased as I am able. It is my hope that someone
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reading this will provide me with further insights, or that this
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document will spark further investigation, so that I can finally
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know the ultimate truth behind it all, not only for my own peace-of-mind,
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but for others who may be in a similar situation.
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End of Part 1
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