The Idiot - Chapter 2

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New York Times game subscribers get full access to cross-play. Our first two player game. Subscribe now for a special offer on all of our games. In the early morning hours of July 28, 2022, when the FBI showed up on five or six in the card, they knocked on another door, too.

For so many knock. And when they told me the FBI, I took it with it for me. This is for so many. So I started like literally physically shaking.

I started thinking I had a motorcycle being devoted. You know, and I think they saw that I was so scared. And they told me, come down. We hear about Alan.

Yes, and Alan. My cousin, for so is X. And they said to me, Alan has been arrested. I said, OK, for what?

What happened? And I said he's arrested for murder for hire. I'm like, what's that? Like, maybe no sense to me.

And then the girls told me she's like, this is going to be a bit shocking, but he hired somebody to kill you. You know, it's, you know, when you run water through a sieve, that's how I felt like I was receiving the information. It came in and went out. I didn't understand it.

It wasn't like I couldn't put all that information together in one sentence and it made me sense. Alan, murder me. By the time we're taking this interview, it had been almost a year since Alan was arrested. We're in for sale department.

Not the one where she was the one she was supposed to kill. The someone was a safe house. And others that someone who was looking for some of the first to use in public records were legal, or legal databases, wouldn't be able to find. The apartment was on quite a street, where the house is a dragless together and sidewalks have hazardous bottles.

The place was a little dark, little cramped. Sometimes you can tell when the person used to live in a different kind of space. The furniture was a bit too large. There's a little herself with that place.

She's very tall. In the same street, people literally turn around to look. She's in a more room and more light, and an audience larger than me and recording equipment on catch. For solace 42 at the time of this conversation, she comes from her family and some public.

Her father was in the group and she's long-term together, Robert and Bobby. Her son had worked at the fashion model. She didn't expect to be a single mother with two kids living in semi-hiding in house with brown carpeting and refrigerator with the death valve. Talking to me now, she was still trying to absorb but this was hard for very tailored international romance ended.

Me? That was trying to cause a lot of the gun. Her hair was a bit of a safe house while the kids were at school. That's in her to start the beginning.

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I began with the stories for History. So can you tell me what you saw in Alan when you first met him? Wow. I think like most people that meet him.

The first time you meet him, he's very charismatic. This was when you went. And the party in her right, the capital is in Baba. Alan was there in business.

So if you're not an advertisement opportunity, so you're going to be an algorithm. You're so smart. Is my son does every once, he was an egg, who knows how to talk to people. And did that seem appealing?

It did. I was 30 when I met him. It seemed very appealing. And it was like very different from anybody that I had met.

So different was interesting. He came from a very different part of the world, which I knew nothing about, which was also exciting. And it's own regard. It wasn't exciting.

It was convenient to me. Alan wasn't able to pursue it. The way someone comes from the Baba movie. She could protect her desires onto him, including her desire for success.

But someone was working at a new life magazine. And it launched the Baba's hangover fashion. She wanted to like that was looking fast, like Alan's. And it's through that Alan's going to not make big, fast money and spend it.

Oh, it's going to work. I'm like, OK. And get up and go. Just like at the drop of the hat.

And then we'll go here and there and there. And there. So it was very exciting. The only strange thing that happened at the beginning of our relationship when his mom came.

Right. One of the pickups that happened early on in a room is she brings a giant red flag. That's how I never do. Now I can put a few months into the relationship.

She joined Alan herself 100 to the countryside. We went on a trip to Kariba. It's a big lake in some way. And I think it was like on the second day or something.

We had a disagreement like a fight. And he left our room. And I didn't know that he had another few in his mom's room. And I found him later.

I was walking past her room. And she had these doors that opened outside. I just looked in. And I saw him like lying on her bed.

And she was like lying there, like stroking his hair. I found that. I thought that's so weird. I was like, wow, this is a grown man.

And it seemed a little too intimate for me. In my culture, I guess maybe because we were very distant. You know even hug. You wouldn't hug your father.

Because it's a little too intimate. So for an adult to be lying on his mother's bed. And for her to actually, it just seemed very peculiar. I saw that.

And I was like, OK. You see, then in Alan's relationship was always very close. When Alan was going to college in a muskle, all the while living with his mother, we used to say that he was missing out on Dinyon. When he moved in with a girl from Ukraine, we joke that he finally got far enough from then that tabulation.

It was like a joke about his mother. That's not a joke at all. We're so unknown of this, of course. But for all she knew, we're all in came from 37 year old men and she went to their mothers after fighting with their girlfriends.

And their mothers come for them by striking their own hands. About a year after they met Alan the first person that was found her to ask her to have a marriage. They went through modernized version of the Ebola. The customer where they were expecting room is a price for his bride.

And now they're considered married in the mother. It's supposed to look at the new Alan better. She's something's wondered about things. And you know when you hang out with the person for a while, at the beginning, the story is on to her job.

And then after a while, it's like, oh my god, he's telling that story again. And this time it's got a little bit more added in it. You know, so it started to become like that. For instance, I don't know how true this is.

But this is a story that he liked to tell during the 9, 11, when 9, 11 happened. He said that he was working for a law firm that was in that building and that he only escaped that whole situation because he didn't go to work on that day. And I just kind of found it like, hmm, and every research to check. But I just had my doubts, very serious doubts.

I still have serious doubts. I don't know. Do you know? Alan did have an internship at the Royal State Center.

But that was the Center before in Alabama. Although as I told her, the story Alan told her was familiar. I think I know. And that's a true story about another cousin, and I'm going to be like, oh, my god, is you see?

So I was right. So that's another slide. And then there were many more. Both were so I now want to give each other bad behaviors.

It's a pretty typical conflict of transgressions. Whether either of them was right or whoever was right first, it's clear that things get bad fast. Obviously here, in this interview, this is for so sick. But much of it should tell me.

She has also laid out illegal writers. They're a lot in both US and developing courts. And in testimony related to her custody cases. And eventually her testimony in Alabama is murder for her trial.

In the first year of their marriage, there's some was born. And we get on calling, oh, or we need an elder to his name and take. Soon after it was born, we're still in Alabama. We're going to go first time.

Then they go back together. Then they broke up. Then they go back together. And I was no longer living in Zimbabwe full time.

He was spending more time on the show. So the relationship now came into serious verse. Separations and transformations, all sorts of over-the-the-the-the-the-the fights. We're still looking for him to get him.

But six months into the pregnancy, she had a miscarriage. She lost so much blood that she had to stay in hospital for two weeks. And then we're still in the security game. This time she was hospitalized for a month.

She was a five months pregnant. We're still in the tournament, they have an ability. She couldn't get nothing else. Talking about it, she used the words desperate.

And then we're still in the competition. And we're still in the competition. And then we're still in the competition. And we're in the competition.

The competition started to carry their child. So they moved to Moscow. Alabama's a huge bit of apartment in the center of the city. Their landlord was a famous art gallery.

And the partner itself had been featured in various magazines. From Moscow, we're still continuing running her businesses. They were starting to convince me in the space of her already. After two attempts, the circle threatened.

But we're still in a relationship. We're still in a relationship. And now the original reply was lying higher than all of them. My uncle and the Muslim and Moscow too.

She was always around. He was always very clear about what you wanted. And she always got what you wanted. Especially from her.

she would make him do things or she would yell, have a tantrum and he would have to change plans. So many times we made plans and you'd have to change them because his mom wanted to do something different or she felt left out, etc. And I was seen in a three-time term, but I seen that when I came to an orphan, then offered her away. Like, on almost every holiday that we went on, I don't know if you recall, she was always with us.

That was not because I enjoyed having her around, but it was because I knew that if she would make his life harder, then she didn't come. And I didn't want to make things more difficult for him, so I gave him. How long did that last time? The entire marriage.

My uncle and my dad were the ones talking for the fuckers. They should talk to me about her first little bit before I was arrested. There's one time she asked me for advice. How did I get a person out of her life?

I can't stop answering. She seemed to come back. Several years after that exchange, Brazilian owned moved to Moscow with Alan, and this was known as a particularly sort of especially when I came to Alan. She wanted to basically keep his parents.

She wanted to be involved in in-depth decisions, which school he went to, what activities he did. And she would assert her involvement through Alan. So Alan and I would discuss one thing and then tomorrow you'd come back and be like, oh, actually, let's do this. I don't know.

I'm like, why? When you're talking to your mother, you know, to be so obvious that, okay, no, his mother said something to him. She does not agree with the decision that we made. In things like that, I would just go to the right and I would just be like, no, and then I would just go ahead and do what I thought was best.

What would initially agree on? For instance, Brazil has ended in like the triangle preschool in the chain Alan had chosen for three-year-old home. So one day, Brazilian turned to a researcher to a doctor to find an Alan had taken out of the preschool and put him in a restaurant where he couldn't understand that the kids and Brazilian community gave her the teachers. Brazil reversed the system, but she thought it had been written all of it.

Did you feel like the man I was trying to push you out of his life? 100,000%. Thanks for being Brazilian Alan continued in their familiar cycle of injury, and there's also physical violence, which Alan doesn't deny. Brazil had had enough Alan pride himself in the complicated problems.

But the things were still at the end of the question that she was the one who could be practical interest. She was about to have a baby with a surrogate in a strange country while her marriage was on my part. And she said just know that you could get through it. She was stuck in Moscow, but she didn't have to stick with Alan.

So I just told him, okay, that's fine. You will continue to do what you're going to do, but do not come here. You're not like husband's anymore. I do not.

I'm done. I'm done. And he actually said to me, oh, I don't think that you're serious. I don't think you can leave because you're like this lifestyle too much.

I was like, you think that my sanity is worth any kind of lifestyle? They tried them together for the gender department. They didn't work. Alan started staying with Anna and what used to be our grandma's apartment.

At the time there baby, who we were going to call him Elle was born in November 2018. We're still rotating someone new. Eventually, Alan seemed to get used to this operation. It was even starting to talk about their post-art post-art future.

One day, he suggested they could own them to the United States. But it's all about that network. She could get on a way, become American entrepreneur. And then, just a few days after this conversation, we're still going to text on some problem.

In terms of what happened next, she doesn't have to mention the support and the violence attribute. It managed her restaurant, like what? She had to go home for a few days to do a crisis. She put it on the phone, and she said, but I was like, you're old.

I was seven months. I was going to go home for just four days. When she landed back in Moscow and turned on her phone, it painted with a bunch of little passengers. He said, okay, let me look and see what this is.

It was like a lot of messages from him. And then I opened it and it's like my heart. It just, I actually had to go to the bathroom. I just burst out crying.

The message is in front of someone that Alan had left the country without and that was with her. And after she goes herself, herself was to the front. Everything is gone. Alan did clean out the entire place.

All the furniture, the walls were bare, closet, and empty. These details were new to me. And you could go to the old horse. But I didn't realize that Alan had gone scorched earth on the surface of herself.

So he actually took all your clothes or somebody clothes? He took 90% of my clothes. He packed a suitcase for the clothes that he thought I would need. He said that these are the things that you were going to need.

Here's what Alan had determined for someone would need. Some casual clothes and two person sneakers. His mind was like, she said, maybe, we'd move out of the parking lot and move into our grandmas, that's not my college. But which I mean half of some college.

But which I mean two small rooms in the kitchen outside of the city where no one's eating us. Can you describe the house? Oh, yes. I speak the way.

In his message to me, he wrote to me because he was no hot water at some point there at the house. He was like, oh, we fixed hot water. So you don't need to worry that it's going to be cold because winter was coming. We fixed hot water and there is the oven.

You will be able to stay warm through the winter. And by oven, I mean, for the morning, so that maybe could keep part of that space. It's not a winter-based house. But he is in, at the end of June, thinking about you staying there through the winter.

Yes. How did that make you feel? I thought it was absurd because I actually obviously had no idea the length or the extent of his plans. Personalized travel to my place of the Moscow.

And then according to lawsuits, police reports and court testimony, we're still getting aware of all things happening with the business of Shane Allen-Share in Zimbabwe. She learned that she'd been removed as a record company that owned a property there. The property where Shane Allen had a house in their business and now her business is working for us now. And they were told that the property was recently put up for sale.

Soon for sale says she was struggling to get access to money. Later in federal court, Allen confirmed he and his business colleagues had a similar movement from their company and then he had canceled her debit card. It is almost a way of, you know, when somebody strips you of your humanity shows you that you're not in control of anything. You've taken my child.

You've taken the clothes off my back. You've taken my home. You're breaking me down completely all in one go. It's insane.

I have thought that this was all about, oh, about her control. The school's going to end the books of red. But now that I was talking to Priscilla, it sounded like Allen was really going after her. I don't know how she heard.

Priscilla said she knew why. Because she chosen to end the marriage. In one of their fights, Allen had told her that it wasn't fair. That it broke up her life with a better and his work divorced.

It was loaded disagree exactly. Her calculations showed the same thing. I had, oh, I had kids. I had business.

Everything was going wrong. The only negative was him. So when I got rid of him, I essentially got rid of the only negative that I had in my life. Which would mean that my life would not improve.

I was happy. I was frustrated for him. Because he was not ready to give up this relationship or to let go of everything. He felt discarded.

So he took a very badly as though I had thrown him away and he was in pain and I was not in pain. I was at hand happy that this was finally over. So he didn't think this was fair. But what do you think of the planals at this point?

So it was a disjointing. From the moment she landed on Allen, Allen got the barrage of what happens to his from Allen. But so he had a single goal to get a whole battle. She found herself in an adventure with me or just an nightmare.

The kind where you're trying to get somewhere but he's getting away at these things that we're in bigger and trying to wack her way through them. And it goes on and on and on. First she had to get out of her for that. She needed to get else documents.

That's a finance. Now she can believe, but she can go speak to the United States. She and Allen both needed visas and for that person who needed to go to Zimbabwe to apply at the USMCA. Let's start happening next.

It's a disjointing and I'm not going to be able to hit every out. Every attack, every action, every police report, every court here, and every arrest that make up a summit. All of them, for so believe, were destroyed by Allen. Some of it I should say, Allen's a nice.

I'll know where I can when court documents and witnesses call me for those accounts and where they don't. But these are the highlights or low lights I guess. As soon as we're in the moment, we're so able to stop and say what the hell is shooting at the ground. I immediately moved back into our house.

So Allen hired some bouncers that came and attacked me like these huge guys. They beat me up and threw me off the property and told me if they came back, they would harm me. This was covered in Zimbabwean press. A photo of the other, the bloody eye was stopped across multiple new sets.

In one new story, due to facilities relative to say they were during the attack, claim in storm property and traffic them. It's not clear who these men were, who they worked for. Allen denies they hired them. The property was not being managed by Allen's lawyer and one of his business partners.

They didn't want to talk to this story. But the whole thing was hiring and the message was clear. Get out. I didn't leave.

They came back. Try to do the same thing. I still didn't leave. And consistently after that, things kept happening.

Drugs were planted in my house as well. cocaine. I can confirm facilities relative to the game possession during this period. I cannot confirm this guy came as mounted.

But I'm personally on trial for this road. She was a good. The news article quoted the judge saying whoever took off the police had closed the door. I was like, oh, okay.

So obviously she no longer went for any walks. We typed in security more. And then I was picked up after dropping her off at school. One morning, I was like, oh, I was 15 months old to nursery school.

One of the police asked for police. And I called my lawyer. I told him what was happening. I called a driver that I had with her car.

He needed to win. And he picked up in the net and they drove him to the prison. Yes, to the prison. For someone years to be able to keep her eyes on hell.

And as it turned out, it was younger than two, but they asked to be incarcerated with her in prison with some free floors in the running wire. And my lawyer told me that he had just been served some documents that Allen filed applying for immediate custody, which means that it was basically all planned that they would probably steal. He would get caught with allowing him custody and then he would probably leave with her whilst I was incarcerated. Personally, also that's the fighter at Allen's trial.

That he was behind the whole thing. According to the Obama and court documents, there's also a responsibility related to the property dispute. During her time in jail, purposes were evicted for good. After two weeks, Priscilla and Allen released.

Allen denies that he orchestrated anything. He did five capacity of all of his business, Priscilla was arrested. But he said those just had a concern for Allen and her well-being. Priscilla had been back in some early four months and she had already been beaten up and hit it for set of business, arrested, and arrested again.

So this is March 2020? Is this just for the pandemic? I was so lucky because March 30th is when lockdown began. I got out that weekend just before.

March 30th. Meanwhile, on the other side of this line, it was after the break. It was May 20th and Allen filed for custody of all the case was all because of COVID. Priscilla's American were half-hour case under the hate convention, but those two was on hold there.

They both waited for thousands of hours to barely relieve from her negative circumstances and Allen and her Massachusetts, perhaps frustrated by being unable to pursue his nasty claims. In the meantime, he was working on sort of schemes to bring a short load of PPE to the United States. Remember the resources of masks and other protective equipment? The scheme didn't work out.

During the first year of the pandemic, all of us had more time in Cape Cod. Maybe we were brothers and college remotely. We were my kids and Allen and Allen and Allen was in frequently. We might not get on Mr.

License. Oh, we came and issued the guest. We all got closer. The rest of the world we see it.

In the summer 2021, we saw the word that our hate condition was finally scheduled for hearing US district court in Boston. We saw the lower range for these at the rest of the money to get ourselves to the US. It happened two years since Allen took off from Russia. So when was your court day?

It was on the third August. I arrived on the first August and I think Allen was a very surprised to see me. The lower had won her at the hate convention case for two weeks or months. And now she also had to do with Allen's custody case in family court.

But it all surely drowned out. But to personally just come into the US, it felt like a victory. Finally she was in the same country as her son, she would see him. For most of the time, we found out that this operation personally had only some radical contact with him.

In the early phone calls he seemed fine. Happy on sight of her new venture in America. But then he began asking her when she was coming to get him. These conversations got too hard.

Once or so, it was back in the rubbish decided that she said to me to put O on shelf. While she worked on a fancy hate convention case, instantly getting herself an L from one day to the next. I had never seen a couple of times before all of this started. Once was in 2018, just a year before Allen left her with O.

Allen owned for Silicon University in New York. Allen was running around with water cash, released tax cash. From what I understood, it's been a decade and a half living cash economies. And now he was trying to be established himself as financial citizen of the United States.

He was opening bank accounts and brandishing Chinese debit cards like there was some sort of achievement. I remember this little loss as it was O. Never left her side. This was for Silicon University in the US.

Back then I didn't think much of any of this. Not about Allen's general agitation, which has apparent indifference to the way he was like in China's family trip while he was busy. And he was the O. Head of Transportation and he was an installation engineer in relation to Priscilla.

He was just four years old. Something's like that. Then that kid was 20 away from his mother. Now he was eight.

And when I got off his life, I passed one out for Silicon. When did you see him for the first time? I saw him that weekend on this Sunday for the first time. It was so strange.

I always can't remember how I felt. I know I didn't cry. I couldn't cry. I think I just looked at him.

I just stared him for a while. Can you describe that meeting? And you had to meet outside of that place? We met at a little tea house in the town where Allen was living, conquered.

His cold conquered tea cakes actually. So he was sitting outside. I saw him sitting there and he was sitting by himself. Allen was inside to the shop.

When I approached him, I could actually see that he was he just seemed so small and so scared. What if her little boy been thinking for the past years? Why did he think his mother was about him? What did Allen tell him?

Oh, knew that there's other stories about her. I think I was in his mind. And I kind of felt I felt hopeless in a way. You know, I just did hi.

I didn't try to touch him because I could tell that he was scared. So I just said hi. And then I just sat next to him and I let him kind of come to me. Do you remember anything?

He asked me for this part that he used to like, like he kind of he had loved it since he was a baby. And he called the blue part. He just said to me, did you bring blue parts? I said, yeah, they made it in some power.

And I had carried it with me. He asked me to make it fine. Like immediately. And I did like an old cop with his warm water.

I made it fine. And he ate it. And I knew that he would slowly remember me and things would get back to where they were if you could remember some things like that. Yeah.

Allen has filed for full legal and physical custody. And he's lost it. He claimed that he was like, let me go to hell and take an elton's about it. With that, it's consent.

He portrayed herself as a cocaine user and serial burglar who could barely say out of jail. She gave her a volatile country with high crime and unstable economy. Oh, and then she mentioned the possession of by farmers and some other and he's still at the end of my racism. Again, all this, herself was acting for the sometime or something.

The judge was elected to visit over two hours last week. After three months, we're so sorry to get over over in the results. These were still awkward. What was this weekend now?

I could go work with the doors and bros and had a pension for old movies. That wasn't every way he's opposite. Plump, boisters, her English was money, but this didn't stop her from making clear demands of everyone she met. Mostly to get picked up.

They gradually got more comfortable with one another. What was getting to know, El, herself was getting to know. And on December 20th, finally, the federal judge ruled in the heat and moved to case. He didn't have a certain objectary, but he wrote in his decision that Allen had brought out those messages without his consent.

herself could take a sign into family court now, if she had given him. The day after the federal judge made his ruling, herself got called from her lawyer. They were sounded worried. Allen had brought his consent to the family court.

And she said, I could put someone else out of time. I was, and I called her yesterday. I dropped him off at the way. She said, can you talk to him about today?

Or Allen? She's not. I was supposed to be a school. But he was not.

I'm supposed to look out at the school. The school told her that Allen had told him the morning that I was sick. I needed he started trying to call. And he started to keep it up and then cut off right away.

And then I tried to call again. Then I tried to call Allen. He wasn't picking up. I texted him.

And he was like, he won't message me back later. And I said to him, I'm supposed to be a **** from school today. Why did you tell me he was sick? I just spoke to the school.

He didn't respond. And then he became unavailable. I called my lawyer and I told her. And I said, okay, drop whatever you're doing.

Drive to family court. In law right now. I was in Worcester than our way. For some reason, where are you?

Or are you going to listen? Or are you going to listen? She quickly drafted some documents, some emergency orders and an affidavit. And she drove like the wind.

And at that time, you know, they're closing up. And the judge is clerk was like, oh, what is so urgent? She was like, no, this is urgent. This is the child that's been abducted before.

This needs to happen now. We have to get in front of the judge now. We saw the judge and so she issued the orders. The order that we applied for was a stop order.

Like for him to not leave message. He says if he has that message, he says for him to return to put him on a no fly list and to alert all authorities to stop him if they see him. Now someone has to make sure I will know this operator. The police are going to us as normal.

Of course, the police are going to block this number and he's right. He's lower. I was totally hilarious. That's the whole thing.

But happy on my way. I think we still think, thank you. We're still trying everything. Including sending copy of the judge's orders.

My father essentially is going to hurt to use her old Zimbabwe number to send the order by what's out. And within minutes, two of the checkmarks appear indicating that I will have read the message. Because it's just about her old Zimbabwe number two. There's only a few and a half years trying to get her son back and he was gone again.

So the investigator who was in charge of the case in Congress started calling calling calling calling calling Alan Allen. Allen wouldn't respond. Then he left him away. So he was going to call the F.E.I.F.

He didn't answer. Alan immediately called him back. I actually have an email that Alan sent him. Do you want me to show it to you?

Of course I have. So yes, here is the email. T.S. Argentina.

We'd like to read it. Sure. Thank you for your call earlier today. I would like to clarify a few items.

First, I turn it when you hit the key. This was remarkable document. Alan acknowledged that the detective advised him to communicate his lawyer. But he was determined to make his case.

According to him, this was not a given. They have a home master just as Alan's name was mine. They decided to buy a limb there and all his toys are there. So of course they become back.

They just not accounted for short one certification. They've been too much location not good for the kids. You're just taking care of things. So yes, in case you missed it, Alan acknowledged that they can hold out of the country.

But surely the police detective would understand the police detective was investigating this as a case of possible denying. Oh my god, there's more. In page two, you can imagine my distress and disbelief when an ox bar tape were which I know very little tells me to surrender my son to an unknown fate. To the extent that you have free time on interest, oh, this extensive documentary support.

Alan wrote that Alan was with a person that was not doing so also. She moved a time on the past in half years. Her mother had been arrested on drug charges and the baby had even spent time in prison from her. Right.

Alan was using the facility. I had to go through Zimbabwe to pay her sent irresponsible unto the parents as a parent to a parent. You tried to protect her kids from harm. Please feel free to call her right with any inquiries.

Kind of guards. Alan, wow. Would you like to interpret this? Remember those stories that I told you he's so excellent at weaving.

This is another classical example of that story. If you're an outsider reading this, it sounds plausible. It sounds actually very logical. If you have no idea of the fact you'd say, okay, wow, this woman must be awful.

This night is time to save his child and it will seem to make so much sense without the facts. What struck me about this letter is that Alan was a lot of way. It's acknowledging that this is a quarter. But seems to assume he can convince police detective.

It's okay to violate it. Seems to stupid. So have this. So delusional.

That the only logical explanation I can think of for this ideological approach is that Alan actually believed that he didn't come out. Maybe he, for one, believed himself. To be so the most frightening thing about the letter was that Alan clearly had no intention of coming back in time soon. After the friends are trying to get the quarter and reach Alan, and after this email, she's going to wait.

Christmas came out in the New Year's. And still, they were gone. It turns out that NNN-O and N-O sent a couple weeks of vacation in Canada, staying at a fancy hotel, skiing. Then they headed to the Montreal Airport.

They took its one. From the time three of them entered the traditional airport, law enforcement were tracking them. When Alan and NNN-O pressed aboard, the agents told them to wait by the gate. It sat down, and pretty soon the group officers appeared.

From where they can gather, there were eight or more of them. Seem we had them nowhere. One officer came out from behind and lifted the open air, straight out of the seat, and over the back. Another gun in front of NNN-O, walking through access to Alan and O, and the rest of them, some Alan on the ground and hand-con.

There's a lot of young. On the ground, on the ground, was what O remembered hearing. Then the officers led O away. His dad was lying on the ground, faced down.

His grandma was screaming too, and trying to hand him things. The officers led him to take a violin. Now, whenever the subject of Canada comes up, O says they hit a wonderful vacation there, and love us now. He never mentions what happened to the airport, and I don't want to ask him.

But from what I can gather, he must have been terrified for his dad. The officers were looking to see Alan wear it whilst they were temporarily held at the airport. And perhaps, I don't know this for sure. He come down to it.

Then the officers took it faster, family. They would look after him and the officers would still come and get him. And so he was in foster care for two nights, and I spoke to him on the phone, but you know, he was just being like, you know, just acting like a heavy normal kid that he wasn't eating. That's what the woman was taking care of him, like told me.

She's acting like he's okay, but he's not eating. We still didn't have Canadian visa, so she couldn't just fight on her child to pick out O that day. Instead, she had a friend drove to the border. It's a drive that normally takes about four hours.

I was knowing, so she took them forever. They didn't talk at all. They didn't listen to music. They just drove.

At the border, we still had to wait for someone to drive O over to the US side and hand him over. Like a mother's movie's about a person to swap. Her still says O was just to turn the enable self until they got him to the car. As soon as we closed the door, he just started talking.

It's like he erupted, and he just started talking and crying and explaining to me what had happened. And he asked me why it had to happen. And then he asked me if I had sent them, because Alan told him that I was the one who was trying to get him. The subject, of course, was that it was a result called the police who messed it out.

So I was responsible for him being slammed down on the ground like that. And I had to explain to him that, you know, when I wasn't able to pick him out from school, it was already a bad thing. So I don't decide on my own what happens. But it's the same way that they are rules at school that you have to follow.

It's the same thing in life. They are rules that you have to follow. And if you don't follow them, you get a time out at school you have to sit in the corner. So that's what I did about him.

He didn't bring you back when he was coming back. And so right now, he's going to be on time out. I'm trying to imagine this. They're dragging away from the Canadian border.

It's snowing. For so is it's awesome. She's sick with COVID too. She's under last two and a half weeks trying to find her child again.

Because Alan has taken him again. After all, we're selling through. First in Russia and then in the bubble. But this drive from what's the time point.

I was in the car with Priscilla and Alan's in the tension counter. Who knows what Alan is? For the first time in two and a half years, no one's having to be feeling her son. In fact, after Alan has so grossed by whether they're temporary custody units, Priscilla and now his bully went to the class to do well.

And I'm trying to imagine what would I do in this situation? What would you do? Would you have a straight up bastard? Or would you say that he was taking time out because he broke in the rules like in school?

I suppose we still expected Alan to be in the kids lives after this despite all of them. But then six months later, when Alan was arrested for hiring someone to murder her, she continued taking him from can care with a way she talked to the kids about him. She said that he was arrested because he broke the rules again. And almost a year later, when we were talking to her little house, she still hadn't told the kids that Alan had tried to have her kill her.

Part of it was that she hadn't figured out how he talked about it. I don't scare the kids. But that wasn't all of it. There's all told me that she wasn't only protecting kids.

The one thing that you also need to know is I don't hate Alan. So I'm not motivated to say, oh, he's like this, he's like that, I don't hate him. I feel sorry for him for some reason. It's an odd feeling.

I feel sorry for him because I feel like it takes a certain level of sadness or deep, like very, very deep unhappiness with yourself or with who you are to allow yourself to do some things, to care so little about the outcome of or like for you to be evil, you cannot think very high to yourself. And I think you probably suffer more as an evil person when you are, and the things that your capable of, and having to live with that in your mind every day. That is some unattainable level of, of big, from it. So far, explain.

It is so hard to explain, but this is how I genuinely feel. I tried to understand how she could feel that way towards someone who tried to have her killed. I thought maybe she just allowed him. She had told me that she still felt something for him.

And that part of her was hoping that we had done more than true. The some explanation would emerge, but would make her feel a little safer and safer. I think most of my family would still think for some reason it was too. Some piece of evidence that wouldn't have gone right Alan necessarily, would be able to sit down and see a little less harm.

Although she was thinking, she might not just to me honestly. I figured the one thing that we could announce it was Alan Strab. That's next time, on Adiet. The Adiet was reported in the company and got some interviews by Daniel Kinner, put on David's input and lead to a new individualist leaders.

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