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A family of five is sitting at the dinner table. By the end of the night, one of them is going to die. None of them know this because it hasn't happened yet. As they sit around the dinner table this is what they say. “So Jeremy, how was school?”, his dad asks. “It was fine, Dad,” Jeremy replies seemingly annoyed. “Well, I don't know about Jeremy, but I had a great day. The whole class loved my science project on the physics of roller coasters!,” Sarah said, excited to share the good news. “That's great, honey,” her mom said...
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“Detective James, get in here!”, called my boss. He does that every day, I’m pretty sure he thinks I’m an intern because he only ever wants me to go on coffee runs. I walked into his office. “Yes, Detective Patterson?” “I need you to drive down to the lab, and see if you can get me a lead on that new missing person case.” Seriously! After six months of intern work, I finally have a case! I went to the science lab downtown. When I got there everything was in disarray. I turned on my voice recorder and said, “Clearly there was a struggle....
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