I Couldn't Breathe and I Remember Feeling Like I Was Falling Asleep

Samla igenför upp till 40 långivare så du kan få bästa möjligheter. När livet växer finns vi här. This episode contains subject matter that may be disturbing some listeners. Listener discretion is advised. That's when he told me he didn't take me to rob me. He had um sexual needs and I was there to fulfill them. Real people. The wounds were like somebody taken a branding iron and branded me. It wasn't blood, it was it was melted flesh and body parts.

who faced death. I couldn't breathe. I'm losing it. I'm l and I just everything just tunneled out and t lights out. And live to tell how. And then he would um offer me dinner watch a movie, um and he would write me again before I he would put me in the box for the night. This is I survived.

It's June 1998 in Kokomo, Indiana. Anita is a 21-year-old who lives with her parents. She has just finished college and is working the afternoon shift at the post office. My mom came in on the morning of June 23rd. and woke me up, told me I need to be up and doing stuff and, you know, just graduated college and wanted to sleep in. And at that time she left for work and I went back to sleep for a few hours. By 10 a.m., both of Anita's parents had gone to work.

And the next thing I know the telephone's ringing and the door um there's a knock on the door. And I answered the phone, ran over, answered the door, and Victor Steele was at the door. Anita had previously worked at a gym where Victor Steele was a member. Just kinda kept to himself. Wanted someone to hang out with or wanted a girlfriend, that kind of feeling. The gym closed in May of ninety seven.

So I hadn't seen Victor Steele in over a year. I just woke up, it didn't have time to hit me on why I was Here. He asked for a glass of water. I know he rode his bike. It was really hot out that day. It just it never really dawned on me that. Hey, why is he at my house asking for a glass of water?

I had stepped on a tack on the way of the door and I bent over to clean up the blood from my toe. Then I felt this shock in my back, um an electrical current and I started screaming and fighting. I didn't know what was going on. my mind just went like in panic mode. I was what was that? What's going on?

I didn't know what it was. Um he hit me again and I could just feel the electrical currents and I'm still fighting and at that time he reached around the front of me and um when he reached around that's when I could see it was a stun gun. And when it hit me, um, then I lost all control of my legs and fell to the ground. When I fell to the ground he put his knee in my back.

and um started tying me up and yeah my mind's like, What is going on? And he starts talking, he says, I'm gonna rob you. I need money. Um, I need to know when where your bank account is, what your PIN numbers are He tied me up with zip ties, he put my hands behind my back and put those on, um my hands and my feet, and um told me he was very serious about this, um, and pulled a handgun out.

even um unloaded it like to show me there was bullets in it and put it back in and um he's shaking the whole time and I'm just like put it away. Put I believe you. I believe you're serious. Because, you know, he's shaking and I'm thinking, uh any time this could go off and he could kill me by accident.

He put the gun away and he said, You know, I'm gonna go get the money and your purse and stuff and I'm thinking it's all gonna be over in the next few minutes. He's gonna be gone. And he tells me he has to take me with him. Steele forced Anita into the trunk of her car and drove off. Um it was over a hundred degrees out that day.

Uh I was already sweating profusely and I'm thinking I've got to get some energy, you know, to try to kick the seat in and get out. Then he pulls into a driveway, I can hear the gravel, and I hear a garage door open and shut. And then I panicked'cause I thought he's left me here to die. And a few minutes passes and my mind's still whirling and he comes back and opens the trunk. And that's when he told me he didn't take me to rob me. He had um sexual needs and I was there to fulfill them.

My hands were still bound. He had sat me on his lap and made me start kissing him. He's probably like five ten, um, overweight. white male with beady eyes, um, greasy hair, you know, just dirty. And I just I mean it f felt like I was kissing a toad.

you know, I think growing up and just being a female, I always just thought I'd rather die than be raped and When it came down to it, I'm like, I wanna live and whatever I have to do to get myself out of this situation, I will, you know, and especially when he said, If you don't comply, I'll just kill you and find someone else. Well, why have two families suffering?

He raped me repeatedly in the garage and then he um started packing'cause he told me he was taking me somewhere. He put me in the truck and I was allowed to sit in the front, but my hands and feet were bound. And he just started driving. He took all these country roads, wouldn't take any interstates. And, you know, I just kept trying to think of escape plans and what to do.

Steele told Anita he was driving her to Wisconsin, two states away from her home in Indiana. On the way to Wisconsin, he said um he hoped that I would forget about my family and fall in love with him.

We drove about ten hours to La Crosse, Wisconsin, and that's where he had rented a place he was gonna open as a used bookstore, and he took me into that facility. And there was a three by five metal wardrobe cabinet laying on the ground. And um he told me that's gonna be my bed and you know, he was like and you need to get in it and he cut the straps off my arms and he let me get in it and I could hear him doing something at the top, you know, his way of walking it and

You know, for that moment I'm like, I'm safe. You know, I'm away from him. I'm okay. You know, the box became my safe haven. on the morning um after we got to Wisconsin he took me out of the box and he raped me. Um and then wanted me to play games with him and watch T V kind of things like a girlfriend would do. And then, you know, he would rate me again.

Um, he would put me in the box for a while, then take me out to be raped again, and then he would um offer me dinner, watch a movie, um, and he would rape me again before I he would put me in the box for the night. On the second day he opened the box and it was just like the same routine. He let me go to the restroom, he rate me, we played games. Yeah, everything was board games. Um there was, you know Monopoly, um card games, cribbage.

You know, it's a balanced system. It's like play games, be raped. Well, what's gonna win? So I would play as many games as he wanted, watch as many movies as he wanted. Um I don't like sci-fi, but I sure acted interested in it.

I knew if I lost every game, he would know I was just playing. Um, so I just tried to lose the majority of the time, let him win. He would talk about how, you know, he enjoyed playing games with me Just kinda you know, I think just trying to get me convinced that, you know, this could work and we would be happy together.

And you know, in my mind I'm thinking, um, d were you not taught that's not how you go about getting a girlfriend? You don't just take one? I really just figured it was gonna go on until i I gained his trust. I found a way to escape or the police found me. Because I knew people were looking for me. Um that night when he put me in the box.

Um, I was okay with it. Um, it became my safe haven. Uh when I was in the box I knew he couldn't touch me, he couldn't hurt me. I I had time to pray, I had time to think about my family. Third day was basically like the first and second. You know, he would take me out, let me go to the restroom. Rate me, feed me lunch, rate me, play games, watch T V and rate me again and then put me back in the box for the night. I thought every day that I might die. Um I this guy is obviously

Crazy. He could snap at any minute. Um, when I become unuseful to him, he's gonna he's just gonna dispose of me. Every time he would put me in the box he would say if you try to get out, I'll I will kill you. He said if you try to make any noise, scream for help, I will kill you. Uh he told me he would make fake noises, he would play tapes.

He would try to do things that would make me think other people were in the house and if I screamed for help he would kill me. I never knew when he left or when he was there. So I had all these ideas of how to get out of the box, but my fear was he was gonna be sitting right there waiting and testing me and that he would just kill me when I got out. The eighth day, um he opened the box and let me go to the bathroom and he raped me, and then

He put me back in the box because he wanted to go get some lumber supplies. While he was gone, you know, and of course I didn't know if he was really gone or not.

Yeah, I hear this loud noise on the door and um the door gets kicked in, like you can hear it and it's like, please search warrant. And I say nothing because it sounded so much like it was, you know, a T V show. Yeah, I was scared enough of him, of all the threats he had made that You know, I had to think this could be a tape and that if I scream for help then he's gonna kill me.

I hear him go, first room clear and I thought, What if it really is them? And and they're they're gonna leave and not find me and you know, I'm starting to panic. then they actually come into that room and I can hear they're like in here.

Suddenly the doors of the metal box were opened. When they opened it there was like five police officers all in squat gear, they're all standing over me and I'm like I'm just like thank God take me home. Just And one guy just scooped me up and wouldn't even let let me walk and I mean, you know, it was over.

The police were from her hometown of Kokomo, Indiana. They immediately called an ambulance for her. Wouldn't they um put me in an ambulance? I'm just, you know, I'm bawling, I'm, you know, hyperventilating and You know, they're they're trying to calm me down. They're like, It's okay, it's over now and I st you don't understand. I'm like, I haven't cried in eight days. And I and it just all released

Anita was found because a neighbor had seen Victor Steele at her house in Indiana eight days earlier. The FBI placed Steele's mother under surveillance, and when he phoned her, they found his exact address in Wisconsin. During the trial he wanted to be his own attorney. So he was allowed to question me and he tried to make it seem like there's no way he could have done it and his defense was that I was in with the police and the FBI um because I hated him and we made up this whole scenario.

Victor Steele was sentenced to life plus 25 years with no chance of parole. The judge said it was one of the worst crimes she had ever dealt with. I survived because I have a message that needs to be sent out to other women that you can get through this, everything's gonna be okay, and you know, life goes on. There's there's wonderful things out there for you.

I was able to use my mind to really just think everything through and that allowed me to stay calm and keep him calm. I think because he was so nervous, I felt like, you know, I really had to go the other way and keep him calm or he was gonna do something stupid. Anita's abduction and rescue are still used as a case study to train FBI agents. I played the what-if game for a long time, um, until like my therapist

And the police said, You did everything right. You're here, you're alive. And um and if you continue to do the what if It's gonna kill you. And I could really tell like you you get depressed'cause you're like What if I would have tried to escape or I could have done this different or you know, and it really emotionally will tear you down. So I had to learn real quick that they're right, I'm here, I'm alive, and everything's gonna be

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It's July 1990 in Mount Whitney, California. Jim and older brother Glenn decide to climb Mount Whitney with their friend Khalif. They plan to hike to the top of the mountain and back down in a day. I'd always known about Mount Whitney. It's the highest mountain in the lower forty-eight states. It's about fourteen thousand five hundred feet. And uh so that's that's pretty significant.

It was this gorgeous morning. It was um totally still, no wind. Um as we as pilots often say, it was severe clear. After four hours of hiking, Jim, Glenn, and Khalif reached the final stage of the ascent. We were approximately five hundred feet from the the summit and it's starting to get a little bit dark, starting to feel a little bit of wind. And i it it felt like maybe a a thunderstorm might

you know be upon us. All of a sudden it started to rain. I remember seeing these raindrops hitting and splattering on the rock around me, and they were the biggest raindrops I've ever seen. It was like a cup of water per drop. The three hikers reached the summit of Mount Whitney at 2 p.m. The Whitney Summit has a lot of big boulders on it and it's very bleak. I mean it's just boulders. And then

On the very top, of the very summit is this this hut. It's an old stone building that was constructed at the summit of the mountain. Over a hundred years ago. The shelter had an old wooden door in the front and I remember barging through. and there were ten people already in the shelter with us joining the people inside. We filled the place. We were relegated to the back corner where There had been an old stove apparently in the shelter.

We were all crammed in there pretty tightly. And I remember there's a fellow sitting in the middle. Uh he was his name was Matt Nordbrock. Physically being in the center, he was also kind of the center of conversation as well. And so then at one point I remember Matt counting heads and said, geez, there's thirteen of us and and yesterday was Friday the thirteenth. And it it was we were all kind of joking about that a little bit. Somewhere along the line.

we heard a a distant, very distant rumble. And you could hear the r the rain on the roof, the tin roof. We really weren't talking about the weather much, we were just having a good time. All of a sudden I remember hearing what sounded like the loudest explosion I had ever ever heard in my life. I mean it just the the air just exploded. I felt this incredible jolt through my body. And I remember seeing a flash that that just filled my head.

And knowing that something was terribly wrong, and trying to scream, trying to say something. And that all happened in an instant. I felt something, I saw something, I heard something, and that was a bolt of lightning that hit the shelter we were in and and came in and hit me. And that was the last of my recollection. When the lightning struck, I didn't see any any flash of of lightning. Um I just heard these these loud, piercing little bangs. And it was almost like uh a bunch of

small, sh very sharp explosions, multiple explosions, like somebody was shooting a machine gun. And I remember thinking, gee, what in the world could that be? My first concern was, geez, what how is Jim? He was to my left, uh sitting right next to me. And I try to look towards him and then realize, well, nothing on me is moving. I mean my eyes were were moving, but I couldn't move my head, I couldn't move any of my limbs. And so I'm going, Uh oh, this this is not good.

And then some seconds later, uh, I realized I could I could move a little bit. So I I kinda rolled over and look at Jim and he was unconscious. He was just out his his Eyes were open, he was staring up uh at the ceiling, and I thought he was dead. Uh when I looked at Jim, uh his his eyes were open, but they're kind of rolled back and uh he wasn't breathing and so I thought he was dead. Glenn immediately began to give Jim CPR.

And after doing that maybe four or five, six times, uh, he started to breathe. But there was a lot of chaos going on and people were saying, Well, we gotta get out of here and I'm saying well, I'm not gonna leave Jim Uh and he's obviously not going anywhere because he's unconscious. Glenn's friend Khalif and another hiker volunteered to go down the mountain to get help. Glenn began figuring out what had happened during the lightning strike.

uh poking out of the roof is this uh tin uh pipe with a little co uh cone on the top which is a stove pipe. And uh that that point actually is literally the tallest point in the continental United States. The stove had been removed, but the metal pipe still protruded inside the hut. When the lightning gets to that point, it's gotta go someplace. And I I sure that it went down Jim's back and and part of my

Shoulder and back. I remember the most surreal episode of waking up from this unconsciousness. I had this intense, intense pain in the center of my body and my core. I felt like maybe I was or maybe I wasn't alive still. Jim was unconscious for for probably about 20 minutes and started to move kind of as though he had spasms in his back or something like that. And we go, Well that's sort of a good sign. At least he's moving around.

As I woke up from my unconsciousness and I opened my eyes, I saw all these other eyes looking down at me, but but of course the the eyes that I saw first were my brother's eyes and he had this look of Relief on his face. So we just kinda sat him down and uh explained to him. what had happened. Lightning had struck. He'd been uh unconscious and that um Khalif and another fellow had gone down for help. I looked over at my shoulder and here was a big black hole in the jacket.

And it was pretty uniform, it was pretty round. And that's where the lightning bolt had literally hit me. There was no blood. Um I had terrible wounds, but the wounds were literally cauterized. They were uh like somebody taking a branding iron and branded It wasn't blood, it was it was melted flesh and body parts. After Jim uh got up and seemed to be uh pretty well okay, my focus then kinda turned to well what else is going on in the in the shelter.

in in the room and I I realized that this other fellow was down and and I come to find out later it was it was Matt Nordbrock. And I just remember it was it was chaos because C PR was being performed on Matt. And um, you know, we didn't know his status but he wasn't breathing and his heart wasn't wasn't working. Uh

at fourteen thousand five hundred feet, there's hardly enough oxygen for you to breathe yourself, let alone rescue breathe for somebody. So people would work on Matt for a couple minutes and then they'd be completely exhausted. So It was a tag team effort. We worked at on Matt for quite some time, uh about four hours, uh, and we were all pretty pretty worn out both uh physically and and emotionally.

We would peer outside and and it was clear now. And it had cleared because it started blowing. The wind started blowing so hard.

All of a sudden we started hearing something that was was not natural. It was a a a rhythmic sound. And pretty soon it got louder when we all went running outside and and here At at not much higher than I level two S is this helicopter hovering. So there was this huge relief that that Somebody's here for us. And then we watched them for a minute and they couldn't do anything for us'cause they couldn't land. And uh he was getting buffeted about quite a bit. And so I just went out there to try to

direct him in and also to kind of act as a as a wind vane. And at about that time the helicopter peeled off and disappeared below the the horizon of the mountain. And we're going, Oh, that's great. What's you know, I guess he's not gonna be able to land. So we all of a sudden felt like there was our rescue and there they just flew off. And so with that we we We're back to square one and we we felt completely isolated. Here we are.

fourteen thousand five hundred feet above sea level and we felt like we were on the moon. We had no idea what was gonna become of us. We probably had been sitting in the shelter for about another ten minutes or something. And all of a sudden the door flew open. And here was this guy in a flight suit. I mean, it it was the greatest feeling I had ever had because he was our rescue. And it was all business. He

I think I r remember him saying, you know, Who's injured? And right away everybody pointed at me and he walked over and he and he assessed me quickly. And no no ifs, ands or buts. You're going. The rescue helicopter had been able to land further down the mountain. he basically threw me in the back of the helicopter. Glenn ran out with me and and

I don't ever recall telling him I loved him before, but I certainly do at that point in time. And it was pretty emotional. And I I just knew he was a good in good hands and uh it was kinda a poignant moment but Um gl glad to see that he was gonna sleep in a bed that night.

The EMT actually had to stay in order for Jim to get on the get on the flight back down. They were that close in terms of of their payload. So in a way we were kind of disappointed that he couldn't take Matt off as well. And I recall after the helicopter left, I was working on him and he was still he was still warm and he was still

supple and we w just weren't gonna give up. So the helicopter took me off the top of the mountain, and there was was the beautiful town of Lone Pine, some ten thousand feet below. He said, We're we'll have you at the hospital in a couple minutes. When I when I saw Jim in the hospital it was just it was such a relief that to see him. He was in bandages from, you know, his shoulders down to his ankles.

Uh so in in in a way he kinda looked like a a a mummy. He was mobile, he was getting around just like his normal self and uh it was great to be down on the ground uh w with him. It was it was a good moment. The medics were unable to revive Matt. It really kind of cast a paw on everything. Um we're so happy to be down and so happy that we were in relatively good shape, but to have lost a guy up there um was tough.

It's hard to see, but uh the lightning bolt entered me right here. This was a big uh tennis ball size, burn. and started here and then it just grounded out throughout my body, wherever I was touching the the floor and the walls of the shelter. This looked like a smashed tomato over here. I had very severe burns on my shoulder blades and on my side and back my pants and my underwear look like I was shot with a shotgun. Uh just literally hundreds of holes.

going through something like this up up on Whitney, I realize how how precious life is and that at any moment, um, it could be over. And so You want to live life to the fullest and and uh don't get caught up in the details or little petty things. I survived because. I was lucky and I also never gave up hope. And when we were on top of the mountain, as bleak as it felt and looked,

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It's July two thousand four in Miami, Florida. Sabray is working as a propane delivery driver, filling up gas tanks at people's homes. One day, she is told to make a delivery off her normal route. I pulled up to the address, found the address, pulled up to the address so that my back of my truck was, you know, right where it should be so I can just pull the hose down the driveway.

And for some reason I just I was sitting in the truck and I glanced up This guy was crossing the street diagonally right in front of my truck, like not less than ten, fifteen feet in front of my truck when he just stopped and our eyes met for a split second. And I just got this feeling like, all right, I'm not getting out of my truck. I don't know where that feeling came from, but I just no, I'm not getting out of my truck.

I stayed in my truck. I kept looking at him. He turned around and walked back in the same direction he'd come from. I found that very odd. But at the same time I thought m I was struggling with okay, maybe I'm being you know, I'm being paranoid, but I'm staying in the truck. He disappeared around the corner. I finished my paperwork in the truck and I decided, okay, he's out of the area, he's not around. Let me go do my my delivery. And I remember just

For some reason, walking backwards up the driveway, which I never do. The the best efficient way to drag that hose up that driveway is throw it over your shoulder and leg work. And I just decided to walk backwards up that driveway'cause I just was still feeling a little creepy, but I no you're being silly. But let me walk backwards up the driveway anyway. I got to the

Connected the hose to the top of the propane tank. I flipped the switch on the hose to let the propane start filling, and that's when I felt an arm around my And I got picked up in the air. I remember getting slammed against the house, the back of the house, and I realized. This is Someone's choking me. And I remember

struggling to grab the person that was behind me, but they were s positioned directly behind me. I couldn't reach him with my hands, nothing I there was nothing I could do. No matter which way I reached, I couldn't grab onto anything. and I remember losing I couldn't breathe and I kept trying to gr grap my breath and I couldn't. And I remember feeling like I was falling asleep.

And I remember you g I I got you get this seashell noise. The only way I can describe it is it's a seashell noise in your ears. Like a like a humming, I guess when you put a seashell up to your ears, and every your vision tunnels out. And I just felt I literally felt the life go out of me. I just felt I just felt so helpless. I'm sorry. And I kept thinking that this is when I got up this morning, this is not what I thought was gonna happen. This is not

at all. What I had this is not this was not part of my plan. This is not happening, not today. I can't believe this is and I and now all of a sudden I'm like, this is really happening because I just felt the whole life God I mean you get that. seashell noise in your ears and everything just sort of tunnels out like like you're losing c I couldn't breathe. I couldn't breathe. I'm losing it I'm and I just everything just tunneled out and lights out.

And the next thing I remember, I'm laying I'm I thought I was home in bed. I thought I was late for work, because I kept hearing this voice yelling in my ear like get up, get up like But I couldn't see. And when I started to be able to see, I realized, wait a minute, I'm not home in bed. I'm looking at the back of a house, and I sort of just peeked out of the corner of my eye and I see this. I see the guy that had just had crossed my front of my truck earlier.

and he straddled over me, with one leg on each side of me, going through my my fanny pouch. My reaction was to reach up without even thinking about it. I don't remember even thinking about it. I just remember reaching up as hard as I could and grabbing him by the testicles. And thinking to myself, because this is how silly your mind gets, God, he's wearing baggy shorts. I hope I reached up far enough. And that really pissed him off. Really pissed him off. He went up behind me.

I was in a seated position at this point, my legs out in front of me, and he's got his arm around my neck again, and he is lifting me up in the air and dropping me, and I'm thinking to myself. This son of a is trying to snap my neck. And I'm holding on with both arms for dear life and he's lifting me up and s trying to snap my neck and and

for some reason the thought that comes into my head is play dead. Play dead. Play dead over and over, play dead. And I did it almost exaggerated. Like I couldn't believe he he fell for it. I I just I exhaled so loud and went limp, like so exagger I just went. And I felt him just let go, just a little bit. I had my chance. I slid over to his right shoulder.

I bit down as hard as I could at his arm. I reached up with my hands and I stuck my hands right in his face and just raked his whole face. My finger ended up in his mouth. I thought he I literally thought he had bitten my finger off. I thought he had bitten my finger off because I didn't feel the end of it. And I remember all of a sudden I'm I'm on my feet.

And we're we're we're going at it. We're we're struggling, we're wrestling. He throws me up against the back of the house, puts his arm round my neck, and just starts wailing We're struggling, he's he's he's hitting me, he's just wailing on me, broke my nose. I have a shattered kneecap. I didn't feel it I at this point I don't feel anything. And I remember

He's just for a split second he stopped and he looked me right in the face and he said give me the effin money. Sabre is carrying almost one thousand dollars in her pocket. And my response again, without even I was just I was just at this point I'm so mad. I'm so mad. I just looked him right in the face and I said, you know what? F you. We went at it again. I'm blocking his punches, trying to punch him back. He's punching me.

I realized that there's a door next to me. The b I guess it was the back door to the house, and there had been people in the house which I didn't know. The lady opens, the door flies open, the woman comes out, and she's yelling on the phone. He's gonna kill her, he's killing her. He's killing her. All I remember is him grabbing the pocket of my shorts and ripping down and and I had put the money which was cash.

stuffed it into a bank envelope so it was a nice little you know pouch of money. And I remember it going up in the air, like in slow motion, and we're me and him were both looking at it. And I swat it with my hand. And where does it land? The woman on the phone it lands right in her chair. She runs in the house.

He wants he's done with me. He runs in after her. And for some reason, instead of running off to get police or get help, I turn around and run in after him. By the time I catch up, he's got her by the neck. to give to give me the money, gimme the money. And I remember just punching between his arms and hitting him right in the chin and hearing his his teeth hit together. And there's a couple of teenagers in the room. One of the teenagers had the phone.

She opens the front door and starts yelling at him to get out. The police is coming, get out. I remember him grabbing his shirt and wiping his face and walking up the driveway giving us a look, like like taunting us, and and then he took off. The next thing I know, the cop showed up.

And they were on their walkie-talkies and they had caught him like two blocks away. Sabray was taken to identify the suspect. I walked right up to him, I looked him in the face. And I said to him, R Remember my face. Remember this face because I'm gonna be your worst nightmare. I'm gonna c go to every court hearing that you ever get brought to. I'm gonna be there. I'm your worst nightmare from this day forward.

Sabray suffered a shattered kneecap, broken nose, bruises, cuts, and bites. He was HIV positive. He had he had full he had it full blown AIDS. And every month going for the AIDS testing, I had to be reminded all over again that this idiot still had this this power over me. Luckily, I never show I never came up positive.

Ronald Holloway had just been released from prison after serving 18 years for armed robbery and murder. He was sentenced to another 20 years in prison for his attack on Sabray. I survived? Because it was him or me and it wasn't gonna be it wasn't gonna be me. Not that no. It was either him or me and it wasn't gonna be me. It wasn't gonna be me.

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