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🗓️ 23 August 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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When Caro saw a gift box in her kitchen, she knew she was in for a surprise. But some gifts come with a price.
Thank you, Caro, for sharing your story with Spooked!
Produced by Erick Yáñez, original score by Dirk Schwarzhoff, artwork by Teo Ducot
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0:00.0 | Snap Studios. He paid me put the kettle on to make a cup of tea. I told him pay me what you owe for I don't |
0:20.8 | work for free. |
0:25.0 | He promised gold and silver. |
0:29.0 | If I could wait a day or three. |
0:32.0 | But first he said that I should sit and he would make the tea. |
0:37.0 | Listen to Spooked. |
0:41.0 | Stay tuned. From K K-QED and PRX, you than the laugh, even more than her grin, more than anything. |
1:18.0 | I remember the scent. |
1:22.0 | Her scent. |
1:28.0 | The first time a woman tells me, she loves me. |
1:49.8 | I'm 19 years old when she whispers, listen, you don't have to say anything back. I just want you to know that I love you. I do say something back because I love her too. I, and I breathe in that essence. |
1:57.4 | Her signature smell. |
2:01.2 | I ask her what it is, she tells me a cologne called white shoulders, which is ironic because |
2:10.6 | her shoulders are chocolate. |
2:15.0 | It's not too much later, |
2:17.0 | but I have to tell her that I'm planning to move away |
2:22.0 | the study abroad in Japan for a year |
2:27.1 | and after this confession for a while we pretend together that I haven't said anything at all. |
2:35.0 | Even as I apply for my passport, |
2:38.0 | purchase language, flashcards, and extra pairs of shoes |
2:42.0 | the night before I go to the airport, we hold hands. |
2:50.0 | Then she takes out a silk scarf, presses her cologne, white shoulders into it, |
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