Lawrence Singleton and the attempted murder of Mary Vincent — Transcript
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- 0:00that's a story right yeah right and I
- 0:02could be lying I could be thinking of
- 0:04some other case and you're probably
- 0:05talking [ __ ] but I love the way it
- 0:07sounds right that's what people like
- 0:09about me am I telling you the truth I
- 0:12really don't even know but I can deliver
- 0:14it sometimes okay so so so so so so so
- 0:19uh I've got Lawrence Singleton and the
- 0:22attempted murder of Mary
- 0:25Vincent um I don't really have much on
- 0:28Lawrence besides he was born in Tampa
- 0:31Florida in the
- 0:341927 July 28th
- 0:371927 um and he worked as a merchant
- 0:39Seaman in California which seems like a
- 0:41pretty boring job I I'm going to be
- 0:44honest I don't even know what that means
- 0:46you just hang out on a ship it's those
- 0:48huge like cargo ships that just take
- 0:52those big like metal crates that's some
- 0:54people's stuff from one place to another
- 0:58you're stuck on a ship but that may have
- 1:00been for the best he probably should
- 1:01have just stayed away from people so
- 1:04whoops I hit my
- 1:07microphone okay it's uh September 29th
- 1:131978 Mary
- 1:15Vincent is hitchhiking to Berkeley
- 1:19California from Nevada cuz her parents
- 1:22worked in you know the cinos in Las
- 1:24Vegas and she was like you know it's the
- 1:2870s I don't want to live my life life
- 1:30here this stinks where do you go in the
- 1:3270s you go to Southern California you go
- 1:35to California so and you do hit Tri
- 1:37there that's right yeah now I found a
- 1:40whole lot of information that was
- 1:42different in every single Source
- 1:45interesting so I
- 1:47found like some stories that sounded
- 1:49really good other stories that just
- 1:51sounded like why why did this story even
- 1:55start if this was the case it seemed
- 1:58like so stupid tell good stories then so
- 2:01I mean I kind of stripped it down okay
- 2:03to like
- 2:05so Singleton picks up Mary she's only 15
- 2:09years old that sounds right sure so like
- 2:11one of the stories started that Mary was
- 2:14with her boyfriend and Lawrence stopped
- 2:17and he was like I only have room for one
- 2:19passenger but he was driving a van and
- 2:22it was empty it was just him I've not
- 2:25heard that version I thought she was
- 2:27traveling alone yeah I could be wrong
- 2:29though I'm just going to if she was
- 2:30traveling alone so all right uh
- 2:33Singleton picks up Mary Vincent and uh
- 2:36she just dozes off I don't know how you
- 2:38get into a stranger's vehicle and you
- 2:40end up just going to sleep it's the 70s
- 2:42you trust everyone pretty much so she
- 2:46came to and she realized that they were
- 2:48heading in the wrong direction so she
- 2:50starts freaking out and she's like We're
- 2:53going the wrong way you missed an
- 2:54important turn off apparently and he's
- 2:57like all right calm down I just wasn't
- 2:59paying attention so I guess he turns
- 3:01around and they start going the right
- 3:03way
- 3:05again she dozes off again smart and he's
- 3:09like I need to pull over because I need
- 3:10to pee which is fair yeah he's like I
- 3:15can't wait until we get to the next rest
- 3:17stop so she's like fine he gets out to
- 3:20pee she follows because she needs some
- 3:23fresh air well you know somehow he
- 3:26sneaks up on her and knocks her out I
- 3:28saw in certain places is that it was
- 3:30with a sledgehammer but I find that hard
- 3:32to believe I feel like you just [ __ ]
- 3:34kill
- 3:35someone that's fair I feel like the
- 3:37story I've heard is that he did like hit
- 3:38her with a sledgehammer but I've never
- 3:40like I never like I didn't stop to think
- 3:43about it you know well you have to I
- 3:45mean no if someone if someone hit you
- 3:47with a regular Hammer I'm assuming it
- 3:50was over the head to knock them out well
- 3:53you could very easily kill someone with
- 3:55just a regular Hammer maybe it was a
- 3:57gentle
- 3:58tap have you ever held a
- 4:01sledgehammer probably
- 4:06not okay anyways things just kept going
- 4:10downhill for Mary because she was tied
- 4:13up thrown into the back of the van and
- 4:15raped repeatedly pretty much all
- 4:18night so then he stops the vehicle this
- 4:22is later on down the road okay literally
- 4:25just down the road sure pulls her out of
- 4:28the van she's laying on the side of the
- 4:30road and he proceeds to start hacking
- 4:32off her arms like just above the forearm
- 4:35area so she's bleeding out he's assuming
- 4:38that she's going to die so he takes her
- 4:42down a cliff it's about like 30t I saw
- 4:45some places where he just left her some
- 4:48sources were like he just kind of rolled
- 4:50her down the hill and was like she's
- 4:52going to die I'm just going to leave
- 4:55another source was like she got stuffed
- 4:57into a sewer pipe that way no one would
- 4:59see weird so I don't know I think I've
- 5:01heard a different version than two of
- 5:03those are what you've heard really but
- 5:06maybe I'm getting to ahead of myself so
- 5:07I'll let you keep talking and then okay
- 5:09if you don't tell what I think I heard
- 5:10I'm going to share it anyways because it
- 5:12makes the story more interesting even if
- 5:13it's a lie that's fair all right so
- 5:17anyways uh she she's in a a ditch a
- 5:21large ditch regardless of how it happens
- 5:24and he drives off um she does not die
- 5:28she's bleeding out and she's naked so
- 5:31what do you do to stop the bleeding on
- 5:32your Stumpy arms that are left you just
- 5:35Ram them into the mud sure okay you know
- 5:37so no you didn't go too far the what
- 5:39I've heard uhhuh is that she willingly
- 5:42like went down the cliff to get away
- 5:43from him but like w he like hacked off
- 5:45one arm and she tried to fight back with
- 5:47the other and like had a grip on his
- 5:49shoulder or something and then he like
- 5:50went for the other arm but then her like
- 5:52her hand grip was still holding on to
- 5:54him I don't know the validity of that
- 5:56story that was just what I think it was
- 5:59like based on the story it might have
- 6:02been
- 6:03like like in one of those TV shows where
- 6:07okay I mean it would make for a good
- 6:09picture I can see like the arms like a
- 6:10reenactment yeah I don't know I might
- 6:13just be talking hor [ __ ] who knows okay
- 6:16but just imagine
- 6:18that okay so now she's she got up to her
- 6:22feet her her stumps are all muddy and
- 6:25bloody and she's still naked just I just
- 6:29imagine she just looks like a horror
- 6:30show right now and from some of the
- 6:33sources that I saw she climbed up out of
- 6:36the the ditch that she was in and she's
- 6:38walking down the road and she actually
- 6:40encounters people that just look at her
- 6:42and they're like no thanks well that was
- 6:46both of our thoughts polite so about 3
- 6:50miles down the road she finally finds
- 6:52some people
- 6:54that uh give a [ __ ] I guess and they
- 6:59take her to the
- 7:00hospital so what would you
- 7:02do I don't
- 7:04know I assume it's 2020 and I have a
- 7:07cell phone and I can just call the
- 7:08police I would probably just stop and I
- 7:10would just be like let's get you some
- 7:13help I probably wouldn't be like get in
- 7:16my car right well I don't want to I it's
- 7:20going to sound insensitive say that I
- 7:21don't want to clean up that mess yeah
- 7:22you're not going of get that out all
- 7:24that mud and blood and I don't know also
- 7:28though I've had almost at my like
- 7:30parents house when I still live with um
- 7:33a guy stopped along the side of the road
- 7:34in Winter one time clearly with a broken
- 7:36down car or something and he was trying
- 7:38to flag me down and I was like no [ __ ]
- 7:41politeness you're a man you're dangerous
- 7:43I'm going to keep driving and then I
- 7:44told my dad and my dad's like that's
- 7:46fine you shouldn't stop for man that's
- 7:47not your problem like thank you Dad but
- 7:49at the same time one time when I got my
- 7:51car stuck in Winter I willingly got in
- 7:53some strange man's truck and he was
- 7:54going to drive me
- 7:56home okay that's pretty dangerous I
- 7:59survived this time turned out though
- 8:03that where my car was they told me I
- 8:04couldn't keep it there I was like no
- 8:06thanks for the offer but I'm going to
- 8:08stick with my car until I can figure it
- 8:09out cuz they're going to tell me in like
- 8:1210 ft deep snow yeah that's an
- 8:15exaggeration but all right I'll shut up
- 8:17I never would have guessed that that's
- 8:18an exaggeration 10 ft of snow mhm we
- 8:21don't live in I don't know alas even
- 8:24have 10t of snow I don't know I've never
- 8:27been there I don't [ __ ] think so
- 8:30they
- 8:32could anywh who uh in the hospital or
- 8:37out of the hospital I'm not exactly sure
- 8:40uh she ends up giving a detailed uh
- 8:43description of Lawrence to a sketch
- 8:46artist which was pretty much everywhere
- 8:49and then he was recognized by one of his
- 8:51neighbors and arrested it was pretty
- 8:55uneventful the way that went down um so
- 8:59he was sentenced to 14 years in prison
- 9:02which was the max Allowed by California
- 9:04law at the
- 9:06time the judge though that was over the
- 9:08case was like you know if I had the
- 9:10power I'd send him away for the rest of
- 9:11his natural life but he wasn't allowed
- 9:13to do that um isn't it I'm interrupting
- 9:17but isn't it kind of because he didn't
- 9:19actually murder her because she survived
- 9:22even though clearly intent was probably
- 9:23to murder maybe I don't know I could
- 9:27again just be talking I think California
- 9:29laws were kind of just pulled back at
- 9:32the time because later on there is a law
- 9:35passed because of him oh yeah okay I was
- 9:38getting there I was getting there and I
- 9:39said I'm interrupting unbelievable okay
- 9:44probably won't be the last time now this
- 9:46is a part that I don't really understand
- 9:48because there was a civil judgment that
- 9:50Mary Vincent won against him for two and
- 9:52a half million dollar but she would she
- 9:55never got paid for it because he was
- 9:59like unemployed in poor health and said
- 10:02he only had like $200 to his name I
- 10:05don't understand how any of that
- 10:08works maybe it's one of those things
- 10:10where like if you are working your pay
- 10:12slowly gets docked over time until it's
- 10:15paid out it doesn't have to be like all
- 10:18upfront I don't know sure but I don't
- 10:21know either okay like go to prison for
- 10:2314 years but you owe this girl like $200
- 10:26million figured out $200 million what
- 10:28did you 2 million two and a half I
- 10:31rounded up okay so we're actually going
- 10:34to be rounding down because he was
- 10:36paroled after only eight years in prison
- 10:40good behavior
- 10:41bud but there's probably less
- 10:43opportunity to hacksaw people's arms off
- 10:46yeah he was a teaching assistant too he
- 10:48was a good
- 10:49boy
- 10:50[Music]
- 10:52okay but okay so he was paroled to uh I
- 10:57don't know if I'm going to say this
- 10:58right but cont Costa County California
- 11:01sure whatever um except anywhere he
- 11:05tried to go there were
- 11:07protests imagine you know people didn't
- 11:10want this guy around so he ended up
- 11:12having to stay on a trailer on the
- 11:14grounds of the San Quinton state prison
- 11:16for the rest of his time onom baby yeah
- 11:20so he just lived in a like a single wide
- 11:22trailer on Prison ground sounds nice
- 11:25like a real [ __ ] boss so he had had
- 11:29this weird problem where everything that
- 11:32he did wrong he would twist it around in
- 11:34his head and make himself believe that
- 11:37he did nothing
- 11:38wrong okay so the entire time he was on
- 11:41trial he
- 11:42legitimately didn't understand why he
- 11:45was in
- 11:46trouble I don't know how you do that
- 11:48some form of Personality Disorder yeah
- 11:50and I don't know what that is I was
- 11:52hoping you could shed some light on it
- 11:53but guess
- 11:55not no I'm not like a licensed
- 11:57psychologist my goodness
- 11:59just cuz I read a few
- 12:01textbooks okay whatever all right
- 12:05so on that subject the County prosecutor
- 12:07at Singleton's trial says this is a
- 12:10quote he has not taken responsibility he
- 12:13lives in a bizarre fantasy land and equ
- 12:14quits himself each day he doesn't accept
- 12:16his guilt and won't resolve never to do
- 12:19it
- 12:20again that last part's a little hard to
- 12:22say but pretty much he just doesn't get
- 12:25it and you'll see that later too um so
- 12:29after
- 12:30this um is whenever the Singleton bill
- 12:34was introduced which introduced the 25
- 12:36years to life sentence in California so
- 12:39I think there was so much uproar over
- 12:41his release and the fact that he wasn't
- 12:44just put away for life to begin with was
- 12:47just
- 12:49crazy oh I also um Mary Vincent was at
- 12:53the trial mhm she kind of seems like a
- 12:56badass but he uh finished his parole up
- 13:00and he moved back to Florida and he's
- 13:02living with his
- 13:03brother but um in 1990 he was convicted
- 13:07of theft twice for get this a $10
- 13:12disposable camera and a $3
- 13:15hat
- 13:17huh interesting so that landed him 60
- 13:20days and two years for each of those
- 13:23respectively in the spring of
- 13:251997 uh Singleton would go on to murder
- 13:28another woman
- 13:29and it was uh a sex worker this time
- 13:34roxan Hayes he was a lonely depressed
- 13:3770-year-old man and he was
- 13:39like why don't you come over to my place
- 13:42and she's like I need to you know feed
- 13:44my kids
- 13:45sure so uh the police found the body
- 13:49stabbed multiple times in like the upper
- 13:51body area and her face yeah now
- 13:57um Singleton's
- 13:59testimony in this case was that they
- 14:03were struggling with the knife and she
- 14:05accidentally stabbed herself multiple
- 14:06times in the face in the stomach the
- 14:09chest and the
- 14:10face H he he claims seems unlikely yeah
- 14:14he claims that after they were done they
- 14:18were both naked in his living room
- 14:22okay and he paid her and then went to
- 14:26get her a $10 bill for a cab ride cuz
- 14:30he's a
- 14:31gentleman don't look at me like that I'm
- 14:34just
- 14:35thinking so he goes for his wallet he's
- 14:40handing her money and she reaches for
- 14:42his wallet apparently okay he goes to
- 14:45grab it back and she grabs the knife
- 14:47laying on the table conveniently that
- 14:50was there because who doesn't just sit
- 14:52on the couch and have vegetables on
- 14:54their coffee table and they're just
- 14:56cutting it up while they watch TV don't
- 14:57tell me how to live my life
- 14:59[Laughter]
- 15:01so yeah they just he kept trying to get
- 15:05this knife away from her and you know
- 15:06she stabbed herself multiple times I
- 15:09don't think so he never did it and then
- 15:12he goes on to say that after she
- 15:15realizes that she got stabbed I don't
- 15:17know how you don't realize it adrenaline
- 15:20she's like hold me so so they so they
- 15:24lay down on the couch no like like he's
- 15:28he's embracing her right now I don't
- 15:29know why I'm doing like the arm thing
- 15:32but you're just picturing a man holding
- 15:33a dead body yeah well dying body dying
- 15:36yeah dying okay and then he's like we
- 15:39need to get you to a hospital cuz you
- 15:42know he's a good guy you know he doesn't
- 15:44want her to die he's all right I'll pay
- 15:45the C take it to the hospital he's like
- 15:47petting her he's like we need to get you
- 15:48to a hospital I can't have you be dying
- 15:51on
- 15:54me so they get up and try and walk
- 15:57shocker she collap Colles and [ __ ]
- 16:00dies well go
- 16:05figure now again Mary Vincent flies all
- 16:10the way from California good to Florida
- 16:13to testify against him he was sentenced
- 16:17to death this
- 16:18time except M anticlimactic ending he
- 16:22dies of cancer before anything can
- 16:24happen always do how unsatisfying in
- 16:272001 he just not that I
- 16:29necessarily for or against the death
- 16:31penalty that's a lorded question I don't
- 16:34know M someone else can think about that
- 16:37but they got it in
- 16:39Florida and then this old man's just
- 16:42like I'll beat you to it yeah probably
- 16:44save the taxpayers some money a little
- 16:47bit I think that's how that works
- 16:51right I guess so I mean I I think the
- 16:55people pay
- 16:57for that stuff you mean the the death
- 17:00penalty like or
- 17:03treatment no the death penalty oh yeah
- 17:06they pay for it yeah definitely see I'm
- 17:08learning I don't think they have it now
- 17:11though in Florida I think there's only I
- 17:14know Texas still has it I feel like
- 17:15Florida has to have it that's where all
- 17:16the weird stuff
- 17:19happen I'm looking it up I'm looking it
- 17:25up yeah I
- 17:27don't I don't know
- 17:29if it's they still have it in Florida
- 17:32okay so they still have I mean this was
- 17:35in 2001 it wasn't that long ago yeah
- 17:37actually I guess it was a while ago it
- 17:41was 19 years ago that's about as old as
- 17:45I am I don't like this
- 17:48thought yeah how does does that make you
- 17:51feel old it doesn't make me feel old yet
- 17:53oh
- 17:54no yeah I really don't like glad we're
- 17:56having this moment this [ __ ] sucks
- 17:59I don't like it at
- 18:01all okay
- 18:03anyways wait wait wait wait wait what
- 18:07were you boarded the
- 18:118S okay that answers my
- 18:14question
- 18:1589 okay you can't round that one up to
- 18:1890
- 18:2089 I was basically born in 2001 when
- 18:23this
- 18:25happened don't don't even okay
- 18:30no I'm a millennial I just made the cut
- 18:33off I don't like this I do whatever all
- 18:37right um now the way Lawrence tells his
- 18:41story about roxan
- 18:44Hayes he was like he painted the picture
- 18:47as he didn't want her to
- 18:49die so he just wanted to stab her a
- 18:52little bit just a little bit a couple
- 18:54times it never hurt anyone do you think
- 18:56when it came to Mary Vincent do you
- 18:59think it was premeditated do you think
- 19:02he like got up and he's like I'm going
- 19:03to try and find a hitchhiker and kill
- 19:05them or I don't know I guess I've never
- 19:08thought about that based off the version
- 19:10of the story I know I guess there's room
- 19:12for some storytelling with it yeah just
- 19:16a little bit you would
- 19:18think he must be screwed up a bit if he
- 19:20just had available
- 19:23tools what kind of line of work was he
- 19:26in I don't well he was um he was is that
- 19:28Merchant Marine oh right is that though
- 19:32something you would be like hacksaw like
- 19:34tools in your van while you're driving
- 19:37around it's not uncommon to have some
- 19:41like if you have a van or like a truck
- 19:43it's not uncommon to have certain tools
- 19:45cuz from what I understand is he cut her
- 19:47arms off with like a hatchet oh okay a
- 19:50hatchet so it seems fairly reasonable to
- 19:53have a hatchet that seems a little more
- 19:55believable for some reason compared to a
- 19:57hacksaw now a sledge Hammer I don't
- 19:59believe normal people carry a
- 20:00sledgehammer around in their
- 20:02vehicle and she was also tied up so he
- 20:05had rope on him or or twine or something
- 20:08I would think that he knew he was
- 20:09capable of it and maybe it was something
- 20:11he had been thinking about and maybe was
- 20:12just waiting for the right
- 20:14moment that's fair cuz so maybe that he
- 20:17didn't necessarily plan that day like
- 20:18I'm going to go drive around maybe I'll
- 20:19find a young girl hitchhiking and then I
- 20:21can yeah cut I'm sure there lot there's
- 20:24a lot of Hitchhikers
- 20:25in maybe he was just planning on finding
- 20:28a stranger can have to rape and then
- 20:30like go and kind just got escalated and
- 20:33he's like well since I have this
- 20:36stuff I don't
- 20:39know
- 20:40uh okay why do you think he would leave
- 20:44her without making sure that she was
- 20:47deadz I chopped her arms off well yeah
- 20:52but now I don't know if I would have
- 20:54thought of that if I was in her
- 20:55situation to like jam your stumps down
- 20:58in mud to stop the
- 21:00bleeding I probably would have just been
- 21:02a huge [ __ ] and just laid there and die
- 21:04I was going to say IID probably just lay
- 21:05in the ditch and
- 21:08die maybe I'm wrong I don't I don't know
- 21:12but I feel like someone chopped off my
- 21:14arms and' be like just [ __ ] kill me I
- 21:17don't want to live like this she went on
- 21:19to like create her own Prosthetics and
- 21:22stuff like that she's an inspiration so
- 21:24good for her you know I wouldn't get
- 21:26over that I would cry until I die and
- 21:27then I'd be like I have
- 21:30[Music]
- 21:33drugs never mind I'll shut up what no I
- 21:36just going to say like not drugs for
- 21:37fine drugs to like just knock me out and
- 21:40kill me okay you know well those are
- 21:42kind of fun drugs
- 21:44well it depends on what you're
- 21:47into
- 21:49whatever but still I just wonder if he
- 21:52would have been able to get away with it
- 21:55if he had just made sure that she was
- 21:57dead
- 21:59so like possible that if he just
- 22:02properly killed her yeah or it's like
- 22:04maybe
- 22:06he maybe he assumed that she was going
- 22:08to die and he didn't want to finish her
- 22:10off because it would have been harder on
- 22:12his conscience well she rolled all the
- 22:15way down that ditch or he pushed her
- 22:16down there I don't he's probably like I
- 22:18don't want to go down that ditch maybe
- 22:20it was a complete accident like she
- 22:22accidentally rolled down there and he
- 22:23was just like ah
- 22:25[ __ ] so he just got in his vein and left
- 22:29I I'm just guessing that he assumed
- 22:33there's no way she's going to survive
- 22:35she's going to bleed out she's not going
- 22:36to get up and flag someone down now I
- 22:40don't know if you came across this in
- 22:41your research and I could be thinking of
- 22:42something
- 22:43else but I
- 22:45believe with an like a high chance of
- 22:48being
- 22:49wrong I
- 22:52believe that I'm wrong but in this story
- 22:55I think the the couple that was like
- 22:57driving by that picked her up they were
- 22:58like on their honeymoon or something
- 22:59they're like we got to save this person
- 23:02they're they need help that's a story
- 23:04right yeah right and I could be lying I
- 23:06could be thinking of some other case I
- 23:08you're probably talking [ __ ] but I love
- 23:10the way it sounds right that's what
- 23:12people like about me am I telling you
- 23:14the truth I really don't even know but I
- 23:17can deliver it sometimes as long as you
- 23:20make it sound believable you can just
- 23:21get away with saying whatever you want
- 23:23that's what I do yeah especially at work
- 23:28hi how long should I cook this for um I
- 23:30don't know I would try this and see if
- 23:32it works just take the temperature and
- 23:34if it's not bleeding so I think you're
- 23:36okay just keep checking it like every
- 23:37five minutes and then whenever it's done
- 23:38it's done what's the hard about that you
- 23:41dummy just imagine that for like aund
- 23:45customer questions on like Christmas
- 23:48listen I don't want to talk about that
- 23:49right now I don't want to think about it
- 23:51kind of just makes me want to just some
- 23:53of us haven't been on
- 23:56vacation okay that sounds like a uo
- 23:58problem not me some of us have built up
- 24:00anger that it just keep putting off back
- 24:03of my
- 24:04mind it's going to be fine some of us
- 24:06worked with a terrible person for one
- 24:08more week while you were on
- 24:11vacation I mean I I had a great week I
- 24:15don't know what the problem is at least
- 24:17I got some new best friends this
- 24:21week I I don't know what to say about
- 24:24that if one of my new best friends knew
- 24:26that we did this he'd punch just both in
- 24:28the face I
- 24:30think well now I don't even know who
- 24:32you're talking about now the boss
- 24:35dog
- 24:37oh okay like you two trying and have fun
- 24:39outside of work
- 24:41[Laughter]
- 24:44bam just one fist for each of us just
- 24:48we're both just
- 24:50dead I would survive I'm de no I think
- 24:53you would just
- 24:54[ __ ] you would crumble
- 24:58I mean I wouldn't uh I wouldn't do any
- 25:00better so that's i' fight back okay well
- 25:04what time are we at I don't know I've
- 25:06just been talking I feel like we're
- 25:08probably about the time frame sure yeah
- 25:12okay well I don't really have anything
- 25:13else and I'm out of
- 25:15questions I see what you meant about the
- 25:17questions do you like that I'll try it
- 25:20next time I can't promise it will be
- 25:21good I think it's
- 25:23okay I'm just saying for myself okay
- 25:27I'll I'll keep reminding you you know
- 25:30for motivation sure I know you need that
- 25:33yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
- 25:34yeah so so so okay okay okay bye bye bye
- 25:38bye bye bye bye bye bye bye
- 25:40bye that's a proper ending
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