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There was the scrape of the rotten apples across the metal floor.
There was Marcus forcing me to watch videos while he insulted me, followed by his mother laughing after she thought the recording device was gone.
The most important file had been created on the morning of the dinner.
I had started recording when I heard them outside the cage discussing the guest list.
Marcus’s mother asked, “What if labor starts tonight?”
Marcus answered, “Then everyone upstairs will remember she was already gone.”
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After a pause, his mother told him to repeat the visiting-family story before dinner so the guests would hear it more than once.
That recording changed the meaning of the entire evening.
The dinner was not simply bad timing.
