Mouse Skeletons

This week we shine a light on a few skeletons in Bestie's closet - and in her bird aviary.

We don't want to spoil anything before you've had a chance to listen, but whatever you do, don't let her anywhere near a Popper.

This one's a little longer than usual. You're in for quite a ride.

And remember, if you think you know us - no, you don't!

Episode Transcript

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I've known my bestie for fifteen yearsnow, but what was she like before
I met her? Welcome to Diaryof my Bestie, where she reads to
me her childhood diaries. All namesand identifying places have been changed to protect
the innocent and the guilty. We'realso staying anonymous, so if you think
you know us, no you don't. Welcome back to Die of my Bestie.
Hello, Bestie, Hello bestie,how are you? I love Nick

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very much. So love Nick,and I'm liking Nick a little bit myself
too. But I also have greatfears for Nick being a fourteen year old
boy and the history of the diaries. So I'm fascinated to see where Saturday
afternoon goes. Okay, So SundayNovember five, ok okay, so recap

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okay twelve sixteen am? Oh sovery early in the morning okay slash late
late night early morning yet? Soyou haven't gone to sleep Saturday night yet?
Okay? All right, Okay,dear Diarie, Well my mind is

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made up. I'm definitely staying withNick. Okay. Context Well, last
time I said that I really lovedhim, and then I said, or
do I? Okay, all right, yep, I'm sore. Yep,
I'm thinking old person I'm thinking oldpersons staying with as in like, oh

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yeah, we're going Oh no,Okay. We sat in each other's arms
most of the afternoon. It wasreally peaceful. He never tried anything,
well, not anything I didn't wanthim to do. Okay, explain well,

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given that it was the afternoon andin the middle of the skating rink,
it was probably just kissing. Okay, all right, yeah, yeah,
I just watched the most stupid movie. So the whole thing of like,
you've just had this big snog session, You've given it a line or

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two in your diary, and you'relike, a yea, by the way,
I watch a really dumb movie.Okay, all right. Anyway,
Nick doesn't know what he wants todo when he leaves school. Okay,
I'm really tired, so I'll gonow and write later. Okay, all

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right, okay, so later stillSunday. Hi, I got with Nick
again today. He loves me,yeah, and respects my virginity decision.
Okay. See, these guys realnymphs, were asking us how old we

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were, etc. They said,to me, are you a virgin?
I said yes, And Nick saidand she's proud of it. They said
to Nick, are your virgin?And I said no, he isn't.
And they said, so you've hadsex before and Nick said yes. Then

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they said to me, are yougoing to let him root you? And
I said no? And they saidwhen are you going to? And Nick
said not until she's married. Sohe must respect me because he knows he's
not going to get anything, buthe's still going out with me, so

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logic. Here's another conversation. Me, do you like your brother? Nick?
No? Me? What about yourother brother? Nick? No?
Me? What about your sister?Nick? Not her either? Me?

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Your parents? Nick no Me?You mean to say you don't like anyone
in your family? Nick No,I only like you. Okay, that's
a great thing to say, butalso a troubling thing to say. But
yeah, okay, yes, Andhere's another conversation. And this is going

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back to those n informoniac boys whowere talking to us earlier. How come
you're going with her when she won'tfuck what's the point? I mean,
there are plenty of girls around herewho will fuck you, So why her?
Nick? Because I love her?Okay, I'm not getting my hopes
up here, but okay, Miketold everybody what I told Kimberly Bruce about

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Nick's tongue. Okay, how doesMike know because obviously Kimberly, well,
yeah, his girlfriend. So I'veconfided something in Kimberly. She's told Mike,
and Mike's told everyone. Thanks Mikeglab her mouth. See ya.
I definitely do love Nick. Sothat was the weekend, Okay. So

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I did have those conversations with Nickwhen they seemed to go okay, and
we made out a few times,and we love each other, okay,
all right, and he defended yourhonor in public, so okay he did,
yeap. So start of a newschool week. How much am I

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not going to like Nick at theend of this? Just so I know,
without giving too much away, Iyou know, I said previously,
I'm still friends with him today,okay, okay, okay, okay,
I'll take that, okay. Monday, November sixth, nineteen eighty nine,
Dear Diary. At lunch today,I was talking with Trent, David,

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Dennis, and Deborah about sex andgetting with people and about Nick and me.
Trent said Nick would fuck anything witha skirt on. I don't know
if this is true. Or not. And Trent also said that he reckons
me and Nick will have had sexwithin the next two weeks. Okay,

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did Nick bang a lot of people? I don't think so, Like he
definitely wasn't a version, but he'dprobably only had sex once or twice.
But I really want to find outif this is true or not, so
I will have to ask Nick aboutit tomorrow that if you too will have

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sex in the next game, orthat he's he'll do anything with the skirdle,
we'll best get every all those questions. Yeah, okay, all right,
there's a lot of lessure writing goingon between me and Kimberly Bruce and
that is Mike's girlfriend. Yeah,because there's two Kimberly's that's yeah. Yeah,

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so this would be she's become abit of a big sister figure.
Yeah, so Jamaican Kimberly. Yes, cool. Okay, I found a
freshly laid dove's egg on the Averyfloor and I'm trying to hatch it.
I might ring doctor Rob. Questionfrom the audience, did you have doves?

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Okay, just double checking in caseyou found random dove egg in because
I know you had budgies and stufflike that just checking out. So at
this point I would have had thebudgies, and I added a quail and
some diamond doves, some ringneck doves, and some finches. Okay right,

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yeah, had quite a few.And this is all because of knowing doctor
Rob and getting a lot of experiencewith stuff, and then him hooking me
up with different birds. And wellthat was my next question. Where does
one go to buy a dove?Is there a one hundred doves that you

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call? He gave me the doves, okay, all right, so he
had doves, yeah or else theycame into the surgery and he needed to
find a home. So he stilldoes them. No, like I don't
know, sorry to say two ofthe doves didn't make it. Meanwhile,
chitching and going now for dinner.Okay, oh people, Because remember he

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was an av and expert, that'sexactly. That just proves my point.
More than he knew that, heknew the going price of birds, and
he knew how to trade him.Oh sorry, two doves. Two doves
have gone. That's one hundred andtwenty bucks each. Thanks. I think
it was kind of his way ofsaying thanks for all the help that that

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I gave so paid you in birds, Okay, yeah kind of. Did
you have to buy the birds offhim? Or were you given birds?
No, he gave me. Okay, that's right there. So I bought
the quail because I got that atlike Sunday market type thing, as one
does. Yeah, but the featuresand the doves were all from the just

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the one quail? Yeah, justone. Aren't you supposed to do birds?
And pairs depends on the bird.Okay, quail seemed pretty happy.
I had it for a few years. Yeah, cool yep. Tuesday,
November seven, nineteen eighty nine.Okay, dear Diary, I went up

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to Nick today and said, straightout, have you been fucking around behind
my back? Okay? I thinkbecause of the anything with a skirt on?
Okay, and they're dancing with thegirls at the social okay, okay,
a bit of context clues, butstill fairly I've got some suspicions,

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I think. Okay. A funnylook came over his face and he said,
no, okay. I told himto ring me this afternoon, but
he hasn't yet. Okay. Andfrom his contextual clues, it's like,

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oh, my girlfriend's just come offand ask if I'm screwing other people,
and it would out of the definitelywould have been driven by some insecurities on
your point. And yeah, forsure, Jasmine is now going out with
Daniel Weatherstone, Okay. Shelley Butleris going with Steven Horner and she still

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doesn't use tampons. Okay, Okay. I'm not sure what a choice in
menstrual products has to do with anew boyfriend, but I'm wondering why you
feel the need to Joel about it. Adam Winter hates Tammy Shilling, okay,

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and the comedy company is on tonight. There you go. I have
some knowledge of that. Tracy gaveme some tam PACs at school today because
I thought I had my rags butI didn't. All right, that was
nice tampon talk, Yes, verynice. Way gotta go. Okay,

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that's it. Now we're skipping afew days, okay to Friday, November
ten, nineteen eighty nine. DearDiary. I still love Nick and he
still loves me, so I guesswe resolved the fucking around behind my back

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issue. To be fair to youngNick, it wasn't an issue. It
was you just going Nick's gone whoaOkay, hang on like fine, I
defended you in front of the nymphomaniacsand now, yeah, Damian Jones is

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staying the night here. He's changeda lot since I liked him. He
talks to me like a normal person, not just a friend's sister. So
this is Mike's friend, Yeah,one of Mike's friends who is in so
I think at this stage Mike isin grade eleven, Damien Jones was in

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grade twelve, and they would havebeen near in graduation by now. Yeah.
Yeah, but they were close becausethey both were into music, like
played guitar, and we're in schoolmusicals together and all that kind of thing.

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Actually, I think they played ina band together for a little while
too. Well, you had alot of friends from skating, which crossed
grades as well. So yeah,yeah, I suppose being in a town
of the size you were in,you couldn't be that picky and cheesy with
who you were friends with because therewasn't enough people do not that many.

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Yeah, but when the subject ofHeath Gerald came up, I left the
room. Apparently Heath's been telling allthe year twelve that he got off with
me in his car, but thankgoodness, no one believed him. Is
this the first time Heath has beenmentioned? It has and this would have

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been in the Garfield diary. Okay, all right, okay, so would
you like some backstad please very much, so as fast as possible you can,
okay. So Heath Geralton was ingrade twelve and I started to get
to know him during that year's schoolmusical okay, okay, And we started

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hanging out a fair bit outside ofschool as well, and talking on the
phone a lot. And we weren'tdating in the official sense of the word.
But we did go places together asokay, like I don't know the

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lingo, so go places together asin Wilshire we go to places or go
places. We went for a driveto nature reserve and had a picnic okay,
like an actual date. Ah sonot when for a he had an
actual picnic, not like we wentto So we were dating, but we

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weren't a couple. Does that makesense, you know, kind of in
the American way how they go outon a date to see if they get
on. And then we also wentto the drive in nothing ever happened between
us of any kind of physical orsexual nature. Your age was But this

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is where the issue lies. Okay, all right, at the time,
I was in grade eight and Iwas twelve. I hadn't yet turned thirteen.
He was in grade twelve and hehad already turned eighteen because he was
driving. Yes, so six yearsdifference an eighteen year old and a twelve

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year old. Yes, so okay, he was half as old as you
are. Okay, all right.It was a bit and like the weird
thing about it is that everybody wasokay with that at the time. My
brother was okay with it. Myparents were okay with it. Yeh.

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They never forbid me to see him. It was always like, hey,
Mum, is that okay? IfI go to the drive in with Heath
and it was like, oh,yeah, well he's one of Mike's friends,
he must be a nice guy.Off you go. See when you
would dating him was what's the what'sthe year difference between Mike and Heath?

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A year or two? Okay?So mm hmmm. It's it's uncomfortable,
extremely and you know how Mike isa dipper dubber and a big protector of
me. But even he was okaywith it. Yeah, there's something that
is yea hard to talk about.It with getting litigious. But yeah,

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so we used to have these reallylong, like hours long telephone conversations where
we would like hint at maybe makingout or something, skirt around it without
actually saying it, okay, okay. And we had this big long conversation
about it before we went to thedrive in, and the gist of that

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was, Okay, we're going tomake out at the drive in. Okay.
So we went to the drive inand we were watching we watched.
It was a double feature. Itwas pet Cemetery and Child's Play. Okay,
and a quick, quick, quicksidebar. You know what pet Cemetery

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is about. I've never seen itbefore. Okay, Well there's well it's
a horror movie. There's a catin it. Okay. So we're sitting
in this car watching this movie,horror movie about a cat, and this
cat suddenly ran across the bondom ofthe car. Okay. It was like
a federal cat that hung out aroundthe drive in that I was really creepy,

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but okay. Yeah, so hedidn't really technically try anything on,
but again, and it was thisskirting around it, kind of hinting at
it, and I was kind ofscared because I'm like, yeah, this
was all fun and games when wewere talking about it on the phone,

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But now we're actually in this cartogether at night, and this is eighteen
year old and there's me. I'mlike, what the hell am I doing?
I don't really want to make outwith this guy. So after the
movies we went for a drive andhe went to this very well known makeout

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spot car makeout spot, right stopthe car and I'm just sitting in my
seat like, oh my gosh,what's going on here? What's going to
happen? And he says to me, do you remember what we talked about
on the phone last night, tryingto bring the topic up again, and

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I said no, I was drunk, okay, because I just didn't want
to admit I didn't want to talkabout that. I didn't want anything to
happen. So I was like,I'm just going to pretend to that.
Yeah, I don't remember the conversation. And he was like, great,

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I've just made a really really bigfull of myself tonight. And he got
really really angry and he turned thecar on and he like did this big,
weally screachy thing and sped off downthe road and almost kind of went
off the side of the road atone point and it was really freaky.
And then he drove me home andhe let me out and I slammed the

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door because I was angry with himby this point because he'd been driving like
a maniac. And then he squealedoff down the road and I didn't really
talk to him after that. Yeah, okay, yes, ah, how
to thread this needle. I can'tthread this needle with any type of That's

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so last episode we talked about Nickand his root quest. Sounds like this
guy was on a root quest andhad told other people that he was going
to get with you in all theways he wanted to, and well he

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told everybody he was successful because itsaid he told all the year twelve's about
getting off with me in his car. Yeah. That's the thing I'm saying,
is like he was. The thingis he was putting out all the
signals. You being twelve, wouldn'thave got those signals. But he basically
basically took you to a double featuredrive in horror movie and then take you

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to a makeout spot. He toldother people that it was going to go
down on what was happening, andhe was just frustrated he couldn't execute it
because he knew that he couldn't goback to his friends and say, oh
I failed with the twelve year old. Ah yep, so, but why
would he want to tell people thathe was planning on executing that with a

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twelve year old or that he hadthat's the ikey vart not to excuse it,
but everyone else seemed to be okaywith it. True, so maybe
the idea or she's only twelve,And I don't know how much of a
mature eighteen year old he is,because that's the age is a physical a

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number of years. He may nothave been emotionally eighteen. Yeah, so
I don't think so. And Ialso don't think he was. He had
much luck with the ladies, sothat this could have been like he was
you weren't a threat to him?Yeah, and you were or I was

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interested? Yeah to nobody else?Yeah, without getting too far into the
thing, but it's just like,yeah, that is not a great situation
for it an eighteen year a legaladult to be going to the driving with
a twelve year old Bayard, Yeahyou don't have to so yeah, explicit
about it, but yeah, reallyyeah, so I left the room after

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that finding that out because I waslike, yeah, no, I don't
want to know, and to sortof not did. I would hope that
Mike push back on that narrative thatwas being spent. Oh well it said,
thank goodness, no one believed himso as in believed heith Yeah,

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my, I know, hindsight's twentytwenty, but I would at least hope
for some spirited pushback rather than no, we don't believe you, as in,
like you, dude, that's prettymessed up. Maybe the reason no
one believed him was because Mike pushedback on that and was like, dude,

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that's not cool to say that crapabout my sister. I think the
best of Mike, as I oftendo or pretty much always do it,
and likely in my brain, hepushed back hard and was the catalyst for
it not being believed. But stillthat's a messed up situation, very messed
up, but also just I guess, a good example of what was acceptable

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at the time that shouldn't have been, but it was and it's not now,
and that's a good thing. WellI think not even was it acceptable,
Like I know, it's it's splittinghairs, but not that it was
acceptable, but there wasn't an issuewith it. Yeah, so if someone
said, hey, I'm going totake I'm eighteen year old, I'm going
to take your twelve year old daughterout on a date, and expressed it

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in those stark terms, then yeah, it's like, that's that's messed up.
But if it's just like an evolvedthing, and they could ever think,
hey, not that Mike's vouching forhim, but it's like, oh,
it's Mike's friends. So Mike's notMike's a great guy. He's not
going to be friends with someone whois nefarious. So yeah, and that

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might no, but Mike didn't activelygive him endorsement, but that could have
been just like, oh, noflags ar raised. That's what I'm trying
to get at. No red flag. Yes, yeah, yeah, okay,
all right, well so that's thatstory. Okay, well that's a
that's a pretty hardcore story. Itis, yeah, very much, thank

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goodness, Yeah goodness is okay,well well done for example, again,
well done for your agency, andyeah yeah again. Yeah. So it
was still a bit of a skisituation to get in. I'm not saying
it's not I'm just like, yeah, in this situation, handled it,

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handled it as well as a thirteenyear old girl probably could at twelve twelve
year old, Oh twelve, Yeah, you're right, and at twelve year
old in someone else's motor vehicle,where I'm positive people who were in charge
of you didn't know you were goingto this other place after the movie.

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No, no, I would havejust been going to the movies. Yeah,
so that it's I don't mean tobring the mood down, but that
was a fairly even without casting dispersionson heath, that was a scary situation.
Yeah, it was. You didwell. We prowd of you.
Thank you. So after all thatheavy talk, I say, I've turned

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into the most hellhilarious girl. I'mgoing to use lots of my jokes at
skating tomorrow. Nice. Oh yes, like dad joke level jokes. Oh
they'll probably filthy. Yeah, mustgo bye. Okay, then I skip

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Saturday. Interesting Now it's Sunday,November twelve, nineteen eighty nine, dear
Diary. Dad has gone into stateuntil Thursday. That would have been for
work. I dropped what a word? It's as bad as pash Nick you

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dropped, Nick m Well, Okay, I'm sure I know why this is
an acident. I was going,Yes, yeah, it would have been
on the Saturday. Oh no,it could have been I'm not sure if
it was Saturday or Sunday. Couldhave been either. I don't seem to
say I was going with him forall the wrong reasons. I mean,

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he doesn't even believe in God anyway. I sort of like Aaron and Jay.
Okay, I'll just have to ringMetabank private and get my whiplashed sorted.
Okay, all right, okay,but I definitely want to be sure

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of my feelings before I decide toask either one of them out. Sounds
to me like you should have gota priest to examine them first, because
it's you've got this Nick, Who'swho is? Yeah? Nick is Nick
is Nick? And he seemed tobe halfway decent. H Yeah, okay,

(29:02):
but oh well, we went outfor almost your agency, which is
good. Yeah. But you know, I'm always proud of you asserting your
agency and everything like that, soI'm not I'm not heartbroken by the next
situation. But it's like, yeah, maybe maybe you need to there's a
religious question, like that's probably thething in your five questions you should have

(29:26):
asked him, should have included aquestionnaire about right, Yeah, and God's
obviously a big part of my life, so that would make sense that I
want any serious boyfriend to share that, and I can't. And my last
amount of grace for Nick is likehe's fourteen. It's like you're you're coming,

(29:49):
and not to not to blame you, You're coming at him like,
all right, I love you wantto be with your rectinal life, and
you're going to share my faith andeverything like that. Nick's like, gun,
I like scanning you boobs, Soyeah, I want to play tackle
red rope. What you gotta gone? Hey, I'm not eighteen, So

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yeah, so that's the end ofthat. Okay, all right, So
two new suitors on two? Arethey brand new characters or any returning characters
or yeah, they're both new.I've not mentioned them before. It's just
like all the effort that went intoNick, like all the all the legit
logistical effort alone the game of telephonesort of the trading and the things,

(30:38):
and after the previous one with allthe not even the passion, but it's
like it's all the like the guybeforehand, where was the ships? In
the dark and never meeting, andit's just and then it's like, yeah,
now you dropped. It's like,oh yeah, the lead up was
more exciting than any relationship itself.I know the relationship had some exciting bits,

(31:02):
but it's just like, right andnot again. Not to defend Nick
and and take away your agency,but I kind of wish Nick had done
something really bad to deserve all thiseffort to go, yeah, you dropped,
So no little anticlimactic Yeah, I'mglad you're enforcing your own agency,

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but still thank you. Yes,but still Jamie found out that Robbie still
likes me. Shit. Okay,all right, we're back on the back
on the Robbie roundabout. Okay,there's been a lot of fighting, et
cetera going on at Skating Lady lately. Bill and Kerry split up. Apparently

(31:53):
they had been engaged. Now Billis going with Marissa and he's chucked out
of skating for life, which supposedlyhas something to do with my big brother.
Well, hang on, cool,rewind what was that sentence? He's
been chucked out of skating? Yeah, and carry split up. Kerrie is

(32:17):
Meghan Harrison's big sister. Okay,and she's she works at the skating rink
with Mike, okay, and she'sfinished school. I think she's been out
of school a year or two.So, yeah, she was going out
with Bill. Things were pretty seriousand they had been engaged. But now
he's dumped her, found a newchick. He's been chucked out of skating

(32:43):
for life, all skating everywhere,just this rink, just the rink's board
somewhere, and a big council ofdudes with hoods walking around going or and
they're just if they've stuck his nameup on this tablet, say he's band
from Live or from all Skating.Like he goes out and he gets a
pair of skates and skating down theroad. Someone pulls up and goes,

(33:07):
nah, you bear from all skating, mate, now all skating. Sorry,
And it supposedly has something to dowith Mike. Okay, Yeah,
the reason that Bill's chucked out,Okay, not the reason they broke up.
Yeah, okay, so yeah,although that would that would be some

(33:28):
scuttle But if Mike was the reasonthey broke up, when Mike's with Jamaican
Kimberly, yeah, so but no, something completely different, which I don't
elaborate on. So I don't know. I can't remember what that was all
about. It must have been prettybad for him to be banned from the

(33:50):
venue, yeah, yep. Butalso everybody who worked there, and you
know, some of us who skatedReggie. We're a very tight knit little
family. But so still, like, that's it like to actually ban someone
unless there was an egregious upset offenselike maybe he was maybe he was told

(34:15):
he's not welcome as opposed to hewas banned. Yeah, that could be
true. Leah dropped Paul for Dennis. Okay, so Paul's back on the
market, and now Dennis is takenokay, yep, and Jake, Luke,
Arlowe and everyone are going to bashPaul up because he used Leah for

(34:39):
wheels question mark? Question mark?Question mark? Right? Am I guessing
that Leah could get him discount skatingequipment. Maybe Paul convinced Leah to give

(35:00):
him the wheels off her roller skates. Okay, I don't know, but
Lea's dropped him now anyway, andnow he's going to get bashed up for
something that he did before she evendropped him. And then it says all

(35:21):
very confusing there was there's some scuttlebuttle there's something that's happened there. Yeah,
anyway, now Paul is going withChristy Okay, then whiplash on this.
I'm glad you've written it down becauseI wouldn't be able to follow it
if you told me this. Okay, all right? And yep we is

(35:45):
Paul the bad guy here? Reallydon't know, and and we've sort of
just left Robbie in the dust,going Robbie is still interested in me?
Oh crap? And then yeah,I don't think I can. Yeah,
but it didn't end that badly,did it. It's just like a no.

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But I would have known it wasa lost cause not being able to
see him and everything else. True, it wasn't gonna work, okay,
yeah right, yeah, anyway,I don't have much else to say.
I don't really love anybody except God, even though it doesn't seem like it.
Anyway, I'd best be going bylove me. Ps you break up

(36:32):
with Nick, because like, Idon't think it could be too upset with
you. I was like, isn'tokay, dude, And like you could
have you could have gone another sixmonths. It would have been fine.
I would have been happy. Therewas a chances I might be getting a
puppy for an early Christmas present onDecember fifteen, which is the next overnight

(36:57):
skate. Okay, all right,so the sliding doors moment. What if
God sent you to bring Nick tohim and now I've just spoilt it all
by dumping in. Oh, notspoiled it all, but basically it's just
like it's like this miraculous out ofnowhere comes this night and shining armor and

(37:23):
gone, and he's respecting your virginityand all that stuff, and he's slept
around with all this guy and thenhe's met you and he's gone, you
know what, this is the oneand da da da da da, being
very un fourteen year old boy andthen you've come in and go nah,
and God's looking down, gone whatwait, hang on? What what it's

(37:46):
like? You could have been?You could have been the changer He said,
get this boy and turn him goodand yeah, and I'm like nah,
Now, like he's bang a fewpeople and like he promised not to
bang me, and like, yeah, no that's fine. Nah, You're

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dropped. You dropped, Nicky dropped. Wouldn't it be funny? Now if
Nick was a priest. That wouldbe the funniest thing in the world.
It would, But he's not justnot not that it's meant to keep you
awake up at night, but like, there could have been you could have
been his path. You were youwere, you were the road that Paul

(38:34):
was on. You were Damascus.That the road Paul. I don't know
the Bible quote. I'm just pullinghim out, but that sounds about right.
Wasn't there a conversion or something Paulon the way to Domasticus? Yes,
on the road to Damascus. Youcould have been that road for Nick.
Sorry, I was nixt Damascus.Yeah, I'm sorry, Nick.

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We we like Nick. Nick.Nick to this stage hasn't done anything egregious
to make him not a exactly,he hasn't marked a letter in a negative
way. No, he just wasn't. He wasn't that. He wasn't your
lobster at the time. Correct?Okay, okay, Well, this is

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the highs and lows of this episode, the very dark and scary lows of
this episode. But for now we'regoing to move on. Yes two Tuesday,
November fourteen, nineteen eighty nine,Dear Diary, I definitely like Aaron

(39:44):
Seely but I'm not sure how muchhe's in Natasha's form class. Okay,
so this is Natasha that I don'tlike. So form classes in our high
school were made up of a fewpeople from each grade. Okay, so

(40:07):
multiple grades in each form class.It was kind of a way for the
older students to mentor the younger ones. Yeah. So he is in grade
twelve, he's about to graduate highschool, and I'm in grade eight.
Is more you look back. It'snot that the age different isn't huge,

(40:35):
but it's sort of like the olderkids or something. And I guess that's
you being the younger person in theskating group and people being more being older
in that skating group. Yeah,okay, but I did sometimes like younger
ones like Stuart. Yeah no,it's just you see the pattern of like

(40:57):
there's no no easier way to sayyour friend's brothers, your brother's friends.
Yes, that was people more aroundhis age. Maybe that was just,
yeah, maybe because I was justexposed to them and hung around them a
bit, and they were a lotmore mature than they didn't treat you people

(41:20):
in your grade. Yeah, yeah, yep. So he's in Natasha's form
class and he signed my yearbook inthree places obviously means something. We're going
on a history school. I thinkthree places, not just one. Come

(41:43):
on, we're going on a historyexcursion tomorrow. During form class this morning,
mister Carver, let us see therats. So my form class was
in a science lab yep. Andthe rats were used for biology, for

(42:07):
dissections. Yep. They were crowdedinto small cages. The bottoms were piled
two inches high with shit. Theycould hardly get at their food. The
water level in the bottles was extremelylow, and the whole room smelled like
rat. That was quite a nicesmell, though, And there was a

(42:29):
freezer chocolate block full of dead ratsin individual plastic bags. Okay, so
were they breeding rats or were they? Did they get the rats live and
then froze them? They bred themjust so that they would have a steady
supply of rats for dissections and stuff. Yeah, but yeah, didn't weren't

(42:51):
very well kept. Yeah. Afterall this rat talk, I say,
I love Aaron's honey. Bye,okay, okay, very very direct,
Okay, Yes, nothing for Wednesday. Next is Thursday, November sixteen,

(43:17):
nineteen eighty nine. Dear Diary,I still like Aaron and he knows it.
Okay, don't know how he knowsit, because I didn't say.
Today. We had a one anda half hour assembly in the hall.

(43:39):
The exchange students had to get upand say a thank you and farewell speech.
Okay, understand. Yeah, soyeah. There were quite a few
exchange students that year. I thinkthey were six to eight yep, and
they had been there for the entireyear. Oh okay, so it was

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a yeah, okay, yeah.Cassie Garnet and Tasha Gray were bawling.
I almost was, did you needThey were both from America. Oh,
they were the kids going back.Okay. They were in Grade twelve and

(44:20):
Cassie was in my form class.Okay, so I've got to know her
pretty well that year. Tomorrow Ihave to give a farewell speech to Cassie
in form class. It goes likethis, we hope you have enjoyed your
stay in Australia, because we've enjoyedyour company and we're really going to miss

(44:42):
you. We'd just like to takethis opportunity to wish you the best of
luck in the future, a Safetroyhome, Merry Christmas, a happy New
Year, and maybe we'll see youagain. One day. Okay, all
right, sob solid speech, yes, a little bit emotional about this,

(45:04):
and then we tie everything up withI love Aaron. Have we spoken to
Aaron at all? Probably not?And we skip Friday and then on to
Saturday, November eighteenth, nineteen eightynine. Dear Diary, guess what Adam

(45:30):
didn't turn up at skating today andI could just cry because I miss Cassie
Garnet. Okay, so I thinkAaron might still have been sick from the
formal because grade twelve. Okay,yep, yep, so that would have

(45:51):
been senior formalo. Yeah, nomore news. Sorry, I love Aaron.
Okay, Aaron's enjoying all your allyour love, and yeah, I
don't think he enjoys the word okay. Yeah. Now we skip a little

(46:19):
bit like five days, I think, which is quite a big gap considering,
but it is the not nearing theend of the school year, so
it could have been busy with schoolworkor whatever. But it's suddenly Thursday,
November twenty third, nineteen eighty nine. I still love Aaron. I've made

(46:44):
a lot of guy friends now.Jerry Morecombe, Nathan Schroeder, Greg Horner,
Jason Godwin, Martin Barredale, CameronScott, Anthony Hansen, Dudley Johns,
et cetera. Okay, that's ayeah. So these are all blokes
in my grave? Okay, yeah, how many are they going to keep

(47:07):
coming back as new candidates on none? Okay, don't you think? Yeah,
Jerry wants to go with me,though, puke, even though he's
going with Michelle McCartney. Okay,So to get him off my back,

(47:28):
I asked him out and he saidmaybe, and then he made all these
funny questions like are you frigid?Then he said he didn't know if he
could go with me, which spoiledthe whole plan because I was going to
go out with him for one dayand then drop him tomorrow so he'd leave

(47:49):
me alone. Okay, So strategicdating a tactical strike. Yeah, okay,
so instead of just saying no,I don't like you, this was
easier somehow. Okay, all right, so it's it's relationship nepalm. Okay,

(48:15):
yeah, yeah, and I likehow of like he's listed in my
list of guy friends, and thenwhen I say he wants to go out
with me, it's suddenly puke.Yeah, although it could be like it's
like Mike. It's like, ohyeah, Mike's my friend, but Mike

(48:37):
now wants to go out with me. He's like my brother. Yuck.
Yeah, that could be it.Yep. I think the best of you,
and that's probably what he meant.Probably see. Yeah, I love
Aaron. Okay, still going withAaron? Okay, okay, mm hmm.
I don't think I've seen him atall since he finished school, but

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I still love him. Okay,Okay. Saturday, November twenty sixth,
nineteen eighty nine, Dear Dary,I got into Rory's band. Rory is
a guy at skating. He's alead singer. No, it's differently,

(49:25):
he hung out with different friends.Yeah, I'm lead singer. Rory is
drummer and he has some friends whoplayed bass, rhythm, lead, and
saxophone. Okay, so I gotinto this band. I did an audition.

(49:46):
He'd never heard me sing, butI was in this band. Okay,
all right, Okay, cool,see where this goes. Apparently a
call came over on take forty tome lots of love from Aaron. He's

(50:08):
going skating tomorrow. Okay, okay, so take forty. That probably would
have been Take forty Australia. Yep. Take forty Australia. Yeah, yeah,
but our like it was on ourlocal radio and they would put out
shout outs during the countdown. Yep. Yeah. So apparently, yeah,

(50:34):
something to me, lots of lovefrom Aaron. Apparently because I didn't hear
it, somebody told me, didthey heard it? Okay, all right,
So it wasn't necessarily that Aaron andthis bestie true or whoever told me

(50:57):
could have been lying. I couldhave just made it because that that also
too is sort of it was acountrywide the top forty was. If it
was it was just in your justin your city, then yeah, but
yeah, a bit different. Whoknows. I don't know how I know

(51:24):
he's going skating tomorrow, but that'swhat I've written, He's going skating tomorrow.
There has to be some because heknows things about you, and there's
things that that you know about him. There has to be some information thing.
It's not not the Kimberly Mike connection. But Kimberly is in Grade ten.

(51:51):
Mike knew Aaron, but they weren'tvery close. So I'm really not
sure. But I think if youspeak to Kimberly about this and then kimberly
speaks to Mike, and then Mikeknows things. They might not be close
friends, but has information about it. Possibly. Yeah, I mean your
brother would have taken an interest inthe people you like, so keeping an

(52:13):
eye out for you, sometimes annoyinglyso and sometimes annoyingly not, as we
have just covered. Yes, soyeah, okay, all right, Paula
is giving me a baby cockatail.So this is just a skating person.

(52:34):
So you're becoming a collector, acollector of other people's birds. Yeah.
She didn't go super regularly, andnot for a long time, but regularly
enough that I was friendly with her. I'm tricking her into believing I have
an older brother called Daniel, okay, and a different one than your brother

(53:01):
Michael. Yeah, I say you'vegot a third You've got a second brother.
Apparently I've got an older, olderbrother. Okay, a lie that
is quickly and easibly verifiably false byyour actual brother who works at the place

(53:22):
there's lies being told at. Interesting. I'm allowed to go to Kallana with
Deborah on the holidays. Okay,this would be a holiday. So Kallana
was a beach, yeah, okaytown. Yeah, and she used to

(53:42):
go every year with a couple ofother families and they would all stay at
the same caravan park for like twoweeks, okay, and she always had
stories about like so much fun stuffthat she did there, and her parents
were like, you should invite bestiealong, And my parents are like,
yeah, cool, get her outof our hair. Yeah, exactly.

(54:07):
So I was pretty excited about that. Okay, yep. I watched Anne
of Green Gables tonight, Kindred Spirits, etcetera. So that would have been
on TV, and of course ifit was on TV, I was gonna
watch it. Okay. There's agecko in the front garden. Random.

(54:32):
Okay. We had like an indoorgarden just inside the entrance of our house,
so it would have been on thewall. Oh yeah, in the
in that little garden, the fancyin the fancy garden. Bit. Yeah.
Yeah. At skating, the callouson my toe burst and bled all

(54:55):
over it poured out ow. OhI remember this. I didn't think it
was ever going to stop. Ah. Okay, So all three your skates
and every because you had your ownskates. Yeah, I don't think I
remember my sock being very worse forware. I don't remember it being in

(55:20):
my skate though. Okay. Yeah, last night Blue said kiss kiss kiss,
okay, blue being my budget,yes, Budge, Yeah, so
I was very excited. Yeah,he said that. I used to go

(55:42):
up to the cage and say kiss, Kis kiss, and he'd come over
to the to me and like tapmy lips with his beak. Okay,
all right, he was so cute. Yeah, Okay, So now it
says Sunday, November twenty sixth.I just said Saturday, November twenty was
supposed to be Saturday, November twentyfifth. Now it's Sunday, November twenty

(56:07):
six Apparently another call came over Takeforty the other night to me and the
rest of the skating crew from Fiona. Okay, hmm. I don't know
who's telling me this because I didn'tlisten to it that night. So I'm

(56:31):
wondering if someone's telling me stories.Yeah, so you can't verify it what
people said. Yeah, and whowould have told you this? I don't
know. Yeah, it sounds itsounds weird. Interesting. Yeah, I'm

(56:58):
going to Deborah's dance concert on theninth of December. The Kolonel Holiday is
from January sixth until January the twentysecond or twenty third, that would have
been close to up to school.So yeah, so yeah, good part
of the month. Yep, Aarondidn't come skating. What is Aaron doing?

(57:22):
Who doesn't know about a thing?How dare he not do the thing
he's supposed to do that he doesn'tknow he's supposed to do? Yeah,
exactly rude. Rory and Tim,who's playing lead guitar in the band,
are coming over next Sunday for amini jam and a chat. Okay,

(57:46):
band discussion of which you're the leadsinger at thirty? Yes, names for
the band, I've thought of DynamicCommotion and static pandemonium Okay, solid names,

(58:07):
but also to I just realized youwere just thirteen, not like aged
into thirteen. You'd just gone fromtwelve to thirteen. Yeah okay, yeah,
that's a something something big to puton a thirteen year old. Okay.
Yes, Dennis Collins supposedly likes me, but I doubt it. He's

(58:29):
going out with Leah. Oh okay, yeah, this is the the because
the dude who went the other girldropped. This was because the dude who
dropped the lee got used for thewheels wasn't that right? Okay? Yeah,
bye, Paul, Paul, that'sright, dropped Paul to go with
Dennis. Oh she dropped Paul togo out with Dennis. Oh yeah,

(58:51):
all right, yeah that makes sense. Okay, okay, exam start Tuesday.
Okay, all right, so stressfor you? Reflected in entries first
big end of year exams in highschool Monday, November twenty seventh, nineteen
eighty nine, did diary My homemack exam is tomorrow spew okay, because

(59:19):
we know how I feel about homeech. Well, that's the thing with
the home ch exams. It waspretty easy. When it was cooking.
I wouldn't know how much it waswas sewing. This was theory, okay,
But because I hated sewing so much, it was also like, didn't
really want to do theory exams aboutsewing either. True, okay, true,

(59:44):
I'm doing bust increasing exercises. Ineed to go on a diet.
Okay, break that down for me. I'm guessing it was like similar to
you are you there? God,it's me Margaret. I must, I
must, I must increase my bust. Would there have been a Dolly magazine

(01:00:07):
involved in this? Somehow very likelyokay, Dolly doctor was the best.
Okay, yep. So you're tryingto make your babies bigger and and the
rest of me smaller apparently while togo on a dosh and to get to
thirty kilos. So yeah, whichI dropped pretty fast because I never spoke

(01:00:31):
of it again well after after yourfirst day of Like, I've only had
a gay time and some drinks andI smashed some pizza and three garlic breads.
Yeah that's a corn chip, that'srights. Yeah, okay, Yeah,
Rory hasn't rung. Rory hasn't rungRory from the band? Are we

(01:00:55):
liking Rory now? No? Buthe's supposed to a ring so that we
can organize this meet up. Yeah. Yeah. Someone heard another call on
take forty to me from a secretAdmira far out. But they used to

(01:01:17):
say first names, didn't they.Yeah. Okay, so I really do
think someone's having a lend of mevery much. Yeah, because it's very
unlikely. I found two new hidingplaces on the tank stand and on the

(01:01:40):
back car port roof was hiding athing you like to do. I used
to just sometimes like to go toa spot where nobody could find me.
To read or chill or whatever.Nothing too weird, but no, just
like my little quiet spaces where Iknew nobody could come and interrupt me or

(01:02:04):
whatever. Okay, yep, yeah, this afternoon I found two mouse skeletons
on the avery floor. It's agood hardcore. Yeah. It had a
dirt floor, and sometimes mice wouldactually burrow up through the floor into the

(01:02:28):
avery to eat, like the seedand whatever. I don't know why suddenly
they were two skeletons. Oh.Actually, I won't go into this in
detail because I do mention something aboutthis in the kind of near future.
But just maybe keep the mouse skeletonsthing. Okay, that's intriguing in your

(01:02:52):
mind, Okay, because it's justkind of occurred to me how it might
have happened. I prefer to keepmouse skeletons braid rather than eighteen twelve year
old. So yes, thank youfor that. I might find a really
cute guy at Kolana. If I'mstill not going out with Aaron. I
probably will be going with Aaron,though I'm getting him an ID bracelet for

(01:03:15):
Christmas. Even if I'm not goingwith him. Aaron is unaware of this
at all. Is that right,he knows I've have a crush on him.
Okay, because we discussed earlier inepisodes about people saying that they were
going with you and you had noidea. No, okay, but I

(01:03:36):
still don't think i've spoken to himsince he left school. Well is like
ten days now. Yeah, tobe fair, I don't think you've spoken
to him at all since he's leftschool. But were you having conversations with
him before he left? Oh?Yeah, I mean he I used to

(01:03:58):
chat with him at skating and hesigned my yearbook in three places. Okay,
all right? Yeah, so yeah, we'll see. Is he a
returning character? We don't know,we'll find it, okay, all right,
interesting okay yeah. Jues Day,November twenty eight, nineteen eighty nine,

(01:04:23):
Dear Diary, The homework exam waseasy. Tomorrow I have history and
music exams. Yeah, apparently NathanSchroeder is scared of me. Why is
this, I don't know. Buthe's one of the boys I listed as

(01:04:44):
my male friends. Well, youcan be scary at times, but in
a good way. I take itback to our early conversation a couple of
episodes ago, where your your motherwould have to stand on tiptost to scratch
my kneecap and I was a littlebit Yeah. Yeah, maybe you come

(01:05:04):
from that stock so you you project. Yes, maybe it's like little dog
syndrome but in humans. Yeah.Yeah, I had potato scallops for lunch.
Nice solid choice. Mm hmm.Rory still hasn't wrung people at school.

(01:05:27):
Reckon, I've got the hots forhim. Yeah, I'm wearing perfume
at school every day. I'm stillon a diet. I'm still on diet.
I just had potato scallops for it, smashed a few. I'm a
diet though. Yeah, the potatoesvegetable. Yeah, maybe that's it.

(01:05:51):
Okay. Ella Parkfield wrote me lettersduring exams, so we had well,
in these lower grades, we hadexams in classrooms. We were like split
up into various classrooms, and you'dhave someone in grade eight sitting next to

(01:06:13):
someone in grade nine, and youwould sit in those places for the entirety
of the exams, so he couldn'tcopy off each other because you're all taking
a different test. Yeah, andif you didn't have an exam on in
that particular session, you just hadto sit at the desk and study it,
okay, or whatever. So that'swhy we would have been writing each
other letters because Ella was in gradenine. Okay, right, yeah,

(01:06:39):
Arnold Coat was sitting in front ofme. I was trying to write kick
me on the back of his shirtin in biro just looking at your face
in the back of his shirt inbiroes. Why am I finding this so
funny? It's really mean. Whywould I only scared of me? Oh,

(01:07:00):
by the way, I'm just taggingthis dude's shirting pen. Okay,
I'm sweet Indison, who could bescared of me? Here's an example of
total chaos activity. But okay,it's not that bad because I only got
as as far as k I seethat. I only stamped him a little

(01:07:23):
bit here on, I only wentin half an inch. I had a
whole tinge blade. It only wentin half an inch, Like, okay,
yeah, just write and kick onthe back of someone's And also to
you've requested violence against someone, it'snot just like a it's like, no,
physically do me how And he probablywould have gotten trouble from his mum

(01:07:47):
exactly own his shirt. And you'relike, oh, who wrote a baking
shirt? All this is young littlegirl sitting behind me, and she obviously
did it, and you would havegone, I was studying, I was
doing my exams. You can't blameme. So he just would have been
stuck with also getting kicked in theass and his mom being angry at him,

(01:08:13):
poor Arnold, and then and thenArnold's mom sitting there with the nappy
sand trying to get this stuff outof his shirt wouldn't be able to do
it at all, so he wouldall forever for the end of the year
have faded kick written on the backof his shirt, omo a little on
the stain and the rest in thewhole lot. Yeah, And unfortunately for
Arnold it didn't work and he wouldjust luckily only had a few days left.

(01:08:38):
I'm sorry, Arnold. Arnold wouldhave had to wear a school jumper
to cover the kick. Poor Arnoldwould have sweltered in summer and got dehydration
or cramps, so he's kind ofsleep at night going aha, I'm cramping
up all because you're like, whydon't people scared of me? I'm dying

(01:09:04):
all right. Nick Major spread aroundschool that I dropped him because of my
religion. Spread Nick accurately reported thefacts of the case, like why did
you drop him because I wasn't religiousscuttle button and no, No, that's

(01:09:29):
literally what happened. Yeah, Igot the school musical video back. I
can't wait to watch it. Wereyou in it? Ah? Yeah,
but only in the chorus. Yeah, but still I wanted to watch it.
I still love Aaron. Okay,poor Nick, He's like, yeah,

(01:09:56):
she dropped me, because how doyou report such an accurate and concise
summation of why we broke up?Yes, that's exactly what I readed around.
I mean, I'm back a littlebit on team Nick where he could
have said, oh, she wasall this stuffy. He's gone like,
yeah, no, I struck mebecause I wasn't religious. Five points to

(01:10:17):
Nick's house. I'm going to saythat. Yeah. Wednesday, November twenty
nine, nineteen eighty nine. Doyou diary? My history and music exams
were easy? Maths and science examstomorrow. Sorry, I just kind of

(01:10:43):
read ahead. Did you finish theEmmy on the back of my back or
something? No? It kind ofplays okay, right, yeah, Yeah,
Yvette Williams is a bitch because she'sserious. She seriously hurt Natasha and
didn't even care. Okay, sothis is Natasha that I don't like.

(01:11:06):
Yeah, but I don't like seeingher get hurt either. Okay, did
did she get to keep me writtenon the back of her shirt or something?

(01:11:27):
I remember how I said that NathanSchroeder was scared of me and I
didn't know why. I'm a littlebit scared of you. He Yay.
I squirted my poppa all over Nathan'sstuff, will coat and any hair.
Yeah, okay, this is theissue I have with it. Yes,

(01:12:00):
he was scared of you for whateverreason. He and you were puzzled to
why he was scared of you,right, you journaled about it. Then
the next day you've gone, youknow this dude who's scared of me?

(01:12:24):
I'm just going to nail him witha popper. I mean, it's not
even the fact that his fears wereunwarranted. He documented and then executed.
I hit on this man, Anddid he do anything to deserve this,
this pauper explosion. Probably not.So I not only think that his fears

(01:12:48):
are justified, I think they mighthave incited you to violence. Maybe I
was drunk on power. We drunk. I was scared of You're in love
and trying to date this dude whodoesn't even know it, who's not in
school with you, And you're torturingpoor people by riding on their back or

(01:13:09):
squirting with poppa. You're out ofcontrol and someone needs to stop here you
find it. I want to knowsomething, though, You've got dead You've
got dead mice at the bottom ofyour cat's cage. Is that what I'm
supposed to That's what I'm most scaredabout. As you said, hey,
remember about the rat skeletons, Andnow I'm thinking about these two tortured blokes

(01:13:30):
that go like, what's she goingto do with these skeletons? Is someone
going to have a rat skeleton sandwichor something? Oh, I don't react
like that, because that's not adenial. I have a question, Okay,
it said I squirted the popper allover his Duffel coat. Yes,

(01:13:53):
why was he wearing a Duffel coatat the end of night? Because people
are walking around riding kick me onthe back of shirts. It's an endemic
that needed to be addressed. Andlike I said, with Paul Watsy's face,
he would have had to wear ajumper to protect himself. All these
mothers has gone there some crazy personrunning around scaring our sons. They need

(01:14:14):
to protect themselves. This coat wasthe bulletproof vest of kick me signs,
which is which you asked the question. Now, which makes it worse.
It's gone from teasing to straight bullying, like, Haha, why are you
wearing a coat in the middle ofsummer. I'm just gonna nail it with

(01:14:36):
Papa. So not only can younot wear it, but you go home
and go this little girl squoted paperall over you know, the girl that
I told you I was scared aboutthat. I've been in therapy for weeks
about. Yeah, she got metoday and dufficats had to be dry clean.

(01:14:58):
You shouldn't shoke him in the washingmachine, and hopefully you knowing that
fact, would have prevented your ruthlessand savage attack on him. But no,
it just motivates you. Apparently you'renot only his hair buddy's coat,
and you purposely It's not like Isprayed it on his coat. You've gone
no, no, I've nailed thatDuffel coat, knowing how hard it is

(01:15:19):
to clean all over his Duffel coat. And so so he's gone home and
told his mom and his mom's likeI want to have to take the dry
cleaners and gone to the dry cleaners, run into this other dude's mom who's
there to get his shirt dry becausehe's got pedal over it. And you're

(01:15:40):
a menace to this town. Yeah, you know. It's the the short,
innocent looking onunes that you've got tolook out for. And if Aaron
doesn't doesn't fly straight and suddenly startgoing out with you soon, I'm scared
for his life. You're getting namedyou're getting name things, to getting identification

(01:16:04):
badgers for him for Christmas, becauseI'm sure we'll be going out by then.
We better be, oh, Isaid, even if we're not still
getting him, because if he's notgoing out, are you getting him an
identification tag for his wrist or atoe tag? He's going to join the

(01:16:27):
mouse skeleton exactly right, Do youremember those mouse skeletons. Your Dad's going
to come out, look at thebottom of the bird cage and there's going
to be two rat skeletons and Aaronskeleton going with a nice little wristband on
his wrist. That's the identifying speech. Left. Dad's going to be like,

(01:16:48):
she's done it again. The poormice. She nailed the mice now
she's moved to human flesh. Yourdad's going on work trips to basically hide
the evidence into state. And that'sprobably why this guy from the band isn't
calling you, because your brothers warnedhim off. Like she's on a rab

(01:17:09):
page. But we were only lether be the singer so she won't kill
us. You're a menace to society. Now. The whole idea of this

(01:17:30):
project was so you learned some newthings about me. You know what I
said before, that we lived toofar away and we should drive up two
hours to do that. Maybe that'sa blessing in disguise. Maybe the only
reason I've survived these fifteen years isdistance. Maybe he sure don't want to

(01:17:53):
be You asked me to. Youasked me to bring bug cocases up to
eat and have a nug party.And maybe I'll bring the Sarah Lee and
then nuggets rather than justing. Okay, I mean, okay, all right,
well okay, it's dangerous now.Yeah, so moving on. Yes,

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Rory still hasn't wrung. Can't blamehim, Okay. I saw a
mini piano guitar in the Dick Smith'scatalog for only thirty nine dollars, although
thirty nine dollars in this day's moneywas about eight hundred bucks keita, so

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they used to be called kita.Yeah. I want to get it for
Christmas and take it to Kolana onbehalf of the crap out of pulled Debra's.
I was about to say, asparents ourselves, I can say on
behalf of us, No, thirteenyear old, no, Look, will

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I get it for Christmas? We'regoing to have to forond. I don't
mind you getting a Christmas as longas no one provides you with batteries.
I'm going to just play it silently. That's probably even more creepy. It's
like I wrote it. I wrotea love song to Aaron, just playing

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on a non working keyboard. Speakingof I wrote Aaron a letter and Mum
was posting it for me this morning. Okay, nice, I was mean
to Linda. I don't have tosay anything. It's like, this is

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this is your villain turn, thisis this is your every Some people have
a rebellious age. You have astraight out rebellion like villain page. So
Nick dropped me because of my Idropped yes, because of my religion.
And now I'm maybe like Nick's goinglike, yeah she maybe Nick was like

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not, why did you break up? Or she dropped me because of my
religion? He's probably going around,why did you break up? She dropped
me because of her religion? Shewas a religious one, actually really quite
evil. I was mean to Linda, but I feel really bad about it,
so I have to apologize. Okay, so I have some content.

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Why are you her? No?But Linda was. She featured in my
entries on school camp where she waskind of annoying. She had some disabilities,
and even on camp, I wentand annoyed her. So this isn't
making it better. You were meanto a disabled person, but I felt

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bad. I didn't feel bad aboutNathan or Arnold's, but I felt bad
about Linda. Okay, yeah,so I'll have to apologize. Deborah dropped
Peter, but they're still friends.I don't think I had mentioned that she
even had this. You didn't,you said, like, yeah, it's

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okay. I love Aaron Seeley.Okay, okay. Thursday, November thirtieth,
nineteen eighty nine, Dear Diary,The first baby budgie for summer has
hatched. Well, last day ofspring anyway, Ella Parkville is really nice.

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So again, that's the year nine. Who's sitting next to me during
it exams? Deborah likes Nick Majora real lot your Nick Major. Yeah,
okay, She and I hate Natashajust like to remind listeners there's keeping

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an ear out for two dead rapskeletons. But yeah, okay, continue
we hate her, but yesterday Icalled someone a bitch because they heard her.
I don't know. You also madefun of disabled girl, So let's

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not give you a medal just yet. So Debrah and I hate Natasha,
but we're not telling her the ultimatelet her hang Yes, we'll let her
hang out with us for the restof this year, but next year will
be different. Ha. We don'tlike you, so we're going to punish
you with our friendship here and thennext year we won't be your friends,

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but won't tell you why. Yeah, okay. Tomorrow is Mike's last day
of school for the year. He'sgoing to twelve next year. Yeah,
so I get to sit in thefront on the way to school for the
rest of the year. We usedto take it in turns. Yeah,

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so I just had I had aflash forward of after everything we've talked about
you and him catching the bus.And now now that he's he's finished,
you've weaseled your way up and threatenedenough people where they have to let you
sit in the front of the buslike the don in the marthas like she's
going through it. Okay. Mumor a friend's mum used to drive.

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But when mum drove us, whichwas usually usually, she would do the
morning school run and this other person'smum would do that afternoon. So Mike
and I would take turns about whogot to sit in the front. One
week it was me, the nextweek it was him. Okay, because

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he was finishing school before me.That year I got to have the rest
of the year in the front seat. And on Mike's behalf, turning up
at school and your little sister hopsout of the car in the front seat
and you hop out of the back. Not the not the coolest look.

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He probably wouldn't have cared, though, Yeah he will, Yeah he would.
He was in a band. Sucks. Sucks for him too, But
he also didn't want to cross youbecause he knew that you've killed and he'd
kill again. Funny you should mentionhe was in a band because it says
his band are still together and theyplayed in the school hall at lunch time.

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Aren't you supposed to be the leadsinger of this band, not that
band, Rory's band. Yeah?My maths and science exams were easy.
I have a pe exam tomorrow.Rory still hasn't wrung. Okay. I

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finished my costume for dad's work Christmasparty tomorrow night. I love Aaron Seeley.
Okay. So why are you gettingdressed up for your dad's Christmas party?
Oh? Because it was a familything, okay, and this particular
one had cad athene, which wasthe first Christmas Okay. So I made

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a costume out of an old sheet. Please tell me you had to teach
owel on your head? I probablydid, you know. I can't remember,
but I probably did. I justknow that I've just made a thingy
out of a sheet and a beltbecause photo of me with a classic ta
tail on the head yep? Soprobably yeah. Uh. Friday, December

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first, nineteen eighty nine, doyou diary? Went to the Christmas party
in my costume. Everyone else wasdressed up too. There was hay everywhere.
We ate with our fingers and usedlettuce leaves as plates. Funny how

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back then, thirty or so yearsago, that was like all that was
exotic and and right now it's like, yeah, we're just going to go
have like Vietnamese or something like thatand have rice pepper rolls and stuff.
So yeah, we ate with ourfingers fancy. Oh, I bought some
hate and let us high for thebirds. You bought some or stole some?

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Oh, because Dad was pretty highup, it was probably okay,
thought you said. Yeah, Yeah, Dad played Santa. I got a
pack of men's handkerchiefs. It likethey weren't labeled. It was like a

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lucky lucky dip type of thing.Dad got a hand mirror with a rose
painted on the top. So Ithink it was Mum pulled a present out
for Dad. It's like, oh, Dad's not here, he's gone to
the bathroom or whatever, so I'llbetter get a present for him when he

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comes back from playing Santa. Yeah, so he got the hand mirror with
a rose painted on the top.And yeah, yes, we did swap.
Yeah. Most of the adults gotdrunk and we all danced to really
loud music. Everyone had fun atmy table. One of Dad's colleagues told

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me to block my ears so hecould tell a dirty joke. M please
tell me how I could still Icould still hear him. Okay, yep.
The joke was, why can't womenbe air fighter pilots? I'm sure
this is aged perfectly fine. Pleasetell me because when you do a g

(01:28:43):
turn a tampon weighs thirty killers.Well, I that's really not I don't
see the joke in it, butthat's really not bad. That's kind of
education. And I don't know howaccurate it is, but I thought it
was funny. And now I'm thinking, is that a thing? Is that?

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Actually? Is there a protocol inthe Air Force for female fighter pilots
pulling HYGI terms? You're gonna haveto look it up. I don't think
I want to put those search termsinto my brow's history if I'm honest,
knowing how Facebook and everything, Basically, yeah, do we know anyone?

(01:29:27):
Maybe do we know a fighter pilot? Go and ask Maverick that joke lacks
enough humor to actually kind of beaccurate. What started out as like,
oh did you know? It waslike, oh, you want to hear
this joke? It was like,yeah, I don't know why he made

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me block my ears because it reallywasn't dirty. Well, to be fair,
we said a couple of episodes again, you don't talk about having a
period yet say true, it couldhave been in that Maybe that was.
It's just not a thing you talkabout, especially in front of kids.
And and maybe and given the recentepisodes, an adult male represent acknowledging that

(01:30:17):
someone's probably too young to be involvedin some things, I'm not going to
push back on. I mean,small kudas to that person. If the
joke wasn't funny, at least hegoes, you know what, this is
probably not a situation you should beYeah, my parents would have been okay
with me hearing that though. Well, but again the situation we spoke about,

(01:30:42):
Yeah, no, that's the problem. That was the problem. No
one stopped and went, hey,you know what, this is weird weird.
So after all that fun I've written, I'm tired. Yes, yes,
I would be too. I loveAaron of course. Yeah. And

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that's where we'll leave it, please, because this has been a long episode
of just some possibly deadly relevant revelationsabout bullying and just like, yeah,
I want if only you were intouch with this person who you read on

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the back of you could ask,hey, I am not I'm not friends
with Poppa dude either, because theyprobably ran away and ran far, far
away. And it could be thefact that when he was going through and
said Abi's Facebook, you've come upas suggestion and she and he's had that
flashback sort of seemed like no,not her block straight away, so she

(01:31:53):
can't see me. I might actuallylook him up on Facebook and not to
send a message, just to see, just to see what they're doing.
Now, Hey, do you rememberme? No? No, no,
no, not again. Maybe geta friend to approach, like, hey,

(01:32:13):
just yeah, whatever happened to that? How much? What I'm interested
in is how much trouble did heget into from his mom? Mm hmm
yeah, because probably never know No, but that would be interesting, is
like you came home and like becauseshe would have known who you were potentially

(01:32:36):
probably and all school photos and stufflike that. It's like, who did
this that one? And looking tinnytiny you going like this one trying to
get to thirty kilos and this littleone is terrorizing you. You don't you
don't know, mom, You justyou haven't seen that look in her eyes,

(01:32:59):
that glint she she dropped the loveof her life because he didn't believe
in her. God like she shehas zero chill, none. Ah,
it's been it's been an exhausting,eye opening insight into Okay, well yeah,

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so hopefully we get to I'm justhoping Aaron realizes he's the he's a
source of affection of someone, becauseI can get out while he's still kidding.
He's traveling along this world not knowingthat he is being desired and borderline
stalked. So hmm, okay,well, thank you Besty for that.

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I remind everyone about our Instagram.Yes it is at Diary of my bestie.
Please come and join us. Andif you don't want to be turned
into a mouse skeleton, and ifyou feel safe enough to express your childhood
traumas of being bullied by people whowork innocent and cute on the outside and

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terrors on the inside, a littlebit like a moguai perhaps very perfect,
perfect analogy. Okay, we'll seeeveryone next episode. We will, Bye bye,