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"Before I could rise the sound stopped, and he turned, turned as a huht shoulder He wore no grin or uely startled look

"As I rose from my chair he vanished

"The :

" 'I know all the words you knoords you type Pops dead like Lynelle and Sweetheart Dead, gone, not in the body Sadness Spirit gone Body left Body washed Body painted Body eone Why does life leave body? People say don't know I don't know Quinn sad Quinn cry Aunt Queen cry I aer Don't forget Rebecca is bad Danger to Quinn Quinn will leave Goblin ¡¯

"Immediately I typed out the answer 'Listen to me,' I said aloud as I wrote 'I will never leave you The only thing that could part us is for me to die, and then, yes, one, I don't knohere Now ask yourself again, Where did the spirit of Lynelle go? Where did the spirit of Sweetheart go? Where did the spirit of Pops go?¡¯

"I sat waiting and there was no answer

"Then the keys before an to move He typed out: 'Where did these spirits come from?¡¯

"I felt a tightening, a keen sense that I had to be careful I wrote: 'Bodies are born into the world Remember when I was a newborn? A baby? Bodies are born into the world with the spirit in them, and when those bodies die the spirit leaves ¡¯

"Silence

"Then the keys ain: 'Where did I come from?¡¯

"I felt a dull fear It was the panic breaking through, but it was so more as well I typed out:

" 'Don't you knohere you came from? Don't you knoho you were before you became my Goblin?¡¯

" 'No ¡¯

" 'You ,' I typed 'You must have been somewhere ¡¯

" 'Were you somewhere?' he asked 'Before you were Quinn?¡¯