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- Page 7: In memory of Eileen Myrna Baker Fin
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- Page 16 and 17: It turned out that one of the guys
- Page 18 and 19: 3 As Diane Vance drives through the
- Page 20 and 21: 4 “Date of birth?” “December
- Page 22 and 23: exact. Each of them felonies. It’
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- Page 26 and 27: Early in the lake season, before Me
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- Page 30 and 31: once. The hermit appeared to have t
- Page 32 and 33: Unabomber. None of these hermits re
- Page 34 and 35: times, he tried meditating. “I di
- Page 36 and 37: There were three visiting rooms, an
- Page 38 and 39: Here’s what he had written in a l
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- Page 42 and 43: 11 My goodness. Knight had created
- Page 44 and 45: caterpillar droppings or downed lea
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- Page 48 and 49: As a young boy, when the lilacs blo
- Page 50 and 51: and headed north. He listened to th
- Page 52 and 53: classes and were highly educated. H
- Page 54 and 55: a true hermit. “I can’t explain
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15 To commit a thousand break-ins b
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The crime scenes themselves were so
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food area, there was no odor. Knigh
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spoke of “unbounded love” for h
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17 It wasn’t reading or listening
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signals that are fired directly int
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chocolate, whipped cream, and red w
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19 Knight was sensitive about being
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edspring could sound like fingernai
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20 The cabin owners of North Pond,
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ut hasn’t tried a dozen hours alo
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other animals, chiefly due to their
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coming to a close, the sound of sur
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simply existed, for the most part,
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23 Conscious of time’s flow or no
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Knight stood. He had on a black ski
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24 The ice fishermen did not believ
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Meng-hu. “No historical hermit, e
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gravity of the proceedings, they mi
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librarian, and he shakes his head v
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emotional one day and said, ‘I wi
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27 He’s shaved, the wild whiskers
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elieves, is a painless way to die.
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oom. A tiny cabin, roof caved in, i
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Gratitude For patience and understa
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Larry Stewart Jeff Young Phil Dow J
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A Note on the Reporting The Kennebe
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Annie Dillard, The Diving Bell and
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