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 		Thanks. Now let's take it to a different topic.
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 		From the post regarding the break in to Don's office: what Angie found:
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There was a notepad next to the phone and I tried that trick with the
edge of
the pencil to see if there was something that had been written on the
preceding
piece of paper. I found “June 23”, a list of names – Willingham, Dobbs,
Sprague, next to the names was “ask Donna”.

There was an empty manila file folder under the blotter. The label
reads “Diana
S. Medical Records”...


OK, so it looks like this is still pertinent - AND it looks like Kendra isn't going to have luck finding them? Confused I wonder if they're computerized as well as having a hard copy. Or, if there's a way for Kendra to figure out the topic of the visit from the billing code.
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 		> Dear Dr. Kendra,
>
> Are you ok? I was hoping to hear from you sooner. We haven't heard from
> Dale either and I'm worried about both of you. Please write soon, even if
> it's just to let us know you are safe.
>
> Lynn


Dear Lynn,

THE AMUSEMENT PARK WAS THERE. I don't know how to explain it. I've been
trying to come up with some logical explanation, like we didn't go to the same

place, but I know that's not true.

I need to talk to someone about this. Could you give me your phone number
where you'll be Wednesday night? Maybe I'll have a better handle on this by
then and can explain it better.

-Michelle

Michelle Kendra, MD
Inpatient & Outpatient Psychiatry
Princeton, NJ Headquarters
Klepsydra Mental Health Facility Network



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 		From me to her:
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Michelle -

I'm betting that the Amusement Park was there, instead of the cemetery.
Heh. Changes everything, now, doesn't it!

Now you see why I wanted more information on Diana, and on what happened while Bruce was in Klepsydra and talking with Dale. No single bit of this makes sense alone - there's some bigger confusing and frankly mystical story happening.

How do you fit into it? I think that the most interesting (to me) outstanding issues are the meanings behind Dale's hypnosis session and the medical bill that Diana generated.

One of my contacts received mail that mentioned Diana's records, possibly in a manilla envelope in Don Marzano's office. That's not what I would expect, since the records should be safe within the medical records department.

Can you work, possibly in conjunction with Dale, to generate the proper authority to get copies? I can imagine that Dale would be able to give permission to access his late wife's medical records and that we can learn more from there.

And why in the world would Don Marzano 1) be interested in Diana and 2) have a folder with her records at his place. Curiouser and curiouser.

After you've recovered from the shock of seeing Ash Grove Park, can you tell me more about the expedition and your take on Dale's status? I'm glad to have you as a trustworthy contact in the midst of this whole confusing fairy tale.

Dan
and her reply:
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Dear Dan,

You're right. We went to an amusement park, not a cemetery. I feel like the
rug has been pulled out from under my stable world. I even asked some of the
people who were working there if they knew anything about a cemetery ever being
on the spot, or if they had heard of a cemetery that was also called Ash Grove
Park, but nobody knew anything.

Now that I know Dale's not completely delusional, I feel I should help him and
you more than I have been. I've got an idea to see if I can get a copy of
Diana's medical records. I didn't want to mention it before because it's not
completely above-board, and it also involves pretending to like one of the most
annoying people I've met. We had a joint HIPAA training session a while back
with Greatwater General staff. I ended up at a table with what I call a Group
2 person. Most people, upon learning I'm a psychiatrist, either instantly
become very guarded assuming that I'm analyzing everything they say (Group 1),
or think that I'd be happy to provide them some free therapy in the course of
our conversation (Group 2). Unfortunately, people who don't do either are more
rare (the much smaller Group 3). This annoying Group 2 woman, who works in the
Records Dept. at GG, spent the entire session trying to tell me about her
relationship with her boyfriend, and what did I think about her relationship
with her father and how it affects her boyfriend, and her dog died when she was
eight and could that be involved, etc.

Anyway, at the end of the training, she insisted on swapping business cards and
has called me several times since wanting to go to lunch. As I'm sure you've
guessed, I was never available. If I call her up and invite her to lunch on
Thursday, I have a feeling she'll probably take me up on it. Plus, I think
I'll have a lot of patient no-shows on the day before the holiday, so it's a
good day to do it. I can mention that I had requested a copy of Diana's file
and my request apparently never got there. since she works right there, maybe
she could make a copy and bring it with her? The patient is deceased, I'm
treating her next of kin and he's signed a release (I won't mention that it's
for his information, not hers), so I think I should be able to quell any
suspicions she may have. I can promise to fax release forms later, or bring
them with me to lunch and then "forget". In any case, do you think that might
work? I'm not sure if getting Dale to sign a release is the right thing for
him right now--I have no idea why Diana went to the doctor, and it may not be
good for him to know, depending on the reason. If he signs a release, he will
expect that I'll tell him why she was there.

Oh, and have you seen anything with a sort of castle symbol on it in the course
of your helping Dale? There was a flag with that on it there at the park, on
top of the fortune teller's tent. I'm curious if it means anything or if it
was just a random decoration. Also, inside the tent was the same grafitti that
was being spray-painted around Aglaura--the circle with the smaller circles on
it. It was painted right on the inside of the tent.

-Michelle
Hey, look at that! Action!!!!! Shocked
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 		She asked for my phone number, and I've provided it. (1-800-POPCORN) Smile

Anything anyone wants me to specifically ask about? I'm gonna see if I can get some free counseling out of the deal...
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Quote:
I'm gonna see if I can get some free counseling out of the deal...


Laughing

I forgot to ask her about Sarah. We still don't know if Sarah was discharged, died, or is still a patient at Klepsydra. I know we asked her to find this information before but I don't think she tried too hard. She might be willing to try harder now. Or did we get an answer and I've just forgotten it?

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 		From Dr. K's email...

Quote:
Oh, and have you seen anything with a sort of castle symbol on it in the course
of your helping Dale? There was a flag with that on it there at the park, on top
of the fortune teller's tent. I'm curious if it means anything or if it was just
a random decoration


From Phyllis's description of Sarah's hidden painting...

Quote:
And, that painting. It is a self-portrait of Sarah as a young girl
beside a tall, dark-haired man with piercing, penetrating eyes. Perhaps, she rendered
it from an old photograph, I don't know. I don't recognize the man; it is not Hamilton,
her adoptive father. This man is
distinguished, intelligent; Hamilton was not. The setting is no room in this house.
It is somewhere else, before she came to this town, perhaps. There was some kind
of symbol in the background, a
flag, a banner; I could never make sense of it. I felt – without any
evidence at all – that the man was her father.


And from another email from Phyllis to enaxor who asked about the symbol...

Quote:
You asked about the symbol in the painting: It was rendered vaguely without much
detail but it looked to me like a castle tower. When I could take my eyes off the
man in the painting, I often stared at it trying to summon some meaning from it and
failed.


Could these be the same flags, linking Digitalis and Sarah? Is Digitalis Sarah's father? The Pm's seem to be feeding us a bunch of hints about this.
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 		Sent this today:
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Wow. You may have heard by now that there have been two bodies found in the Aglaura area: Sal Marzano and JD Willingham. Awful, and frightening in a way.

I think everyone's waiting for coroner's reports to come out. But, you know as well as I do that those are formal, legal documents designed to stand up in court to scrutiny. They might not tell the REAL story. Can it be time for me to impose on you again to see if you can find out what really happened to those poor guys? I'm thinking that, if there were something - unusual - about their deaths or bodies, that a coroner wouldn't record it for fear of 1) being thought incompetent or 2) being brought to court and being asked to recount his "weird" findings in public.

What do you think? I don't know what sort of access you have to stuff like this, but that poor coroner is really having to work over time lately with these two men and Diana and Meaghan. That can't be good...

Dan

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 		Something "special" about Diana or her pregnancy w
and got this quick reply, with another facet to the story
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Hi Dan,

I heard something on the news about this. This can't be good. As to looking into this further, frankly, I'm not sure if I can do anything. I'll have to do some checking and let you know.

I do have something else for you, though. I've been looking through Diana Sprague's records pretty closely, and there's nothing unusual there. Bloodwork normal, routine visits. Except for one thing that happened while she was giving birth to Meaghan. The delivery was normal, the baby healthy, but then Diana started to hemorrage as the placenta detached. The medical team immediately went into emergency mode to stop the bleeding, but then it suddenly stopped on its own. The obstetrician had no explanation for this. Further examination found no problems, or any evidence that anything had been wrong to begin with. Obstetrics isn't my area of expertise, but I can say with confidence that things like that just don't happen.

I'll let you know about what I can get from the coroner, if anything.

-Michelle

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 		This morning, I sent this:
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Michelle,

There's a bot that's been trying to converse with us, and is related distantly to some work that Dale Sprague was doing. It tries to mimic human conversation. It was developed by someone else who's a business contact of Dale's. It seems to have some knowledge of Dale's story and we're gradually working our way through it.

As I asked it questions, I ran through a list of names to see how it reacted. Here's what happened when I mentioned yours:

dmax: Michelle Kendra?
Shadowtalk (turing): Dr. Michelle Kendra works at Klepsydra, a mental facility where Dale was detained. She can help unlock his memories.
Shadowtalk (turing): She can help him.

Weird, eh?

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 		Receiving no reply, here's another message in a bottle:
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Michelle,

Rumor has it that you've taken a leave of absence. True? Good for you!

I wanted to give you an update on something about Dale's story. Apparently, there is a faction of folks looking for a "wand" which may also be that neat medical symbol that we have on our logos. Also, there are suggestions that it was created by Sarah Wyatt. I'm wondering if, since Sarah did have stay in Klepsydra, you might have seen something like that or known someone who received it as a gift from Sarah. I would imagine that it would have an abstract quality to it, but could still be considered a wand of some sort.

Does that ring a bell?

Also, I'd sent you an interesting transmission from an artificial intelligence that's part of this story (it calls itself Shadowtalk or Turingprinciple) and it had suggested that you would be able to unlock Dale's memories. That was weird, but it made sense, too. I'm hearing that Dale and you might be in contact. Have you had any luck with Dale and his memories, whatever they might be?

Amazing how, from being a peripheral observer in this, you've become very important. A dubious distinction. Now I know why they call you The Amazing Kendra...

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 		Late update from Kendra
Interestingly, I must've had a problem receiving mail at some point. I got this today:
Quote:
Dan,

Well, apparently you didn't get this last message I sent, because it bounced
back to me today. Maybe some server didn't get rebooted after the power
outages?

I never met or worked with Sarah Wyatt, so she didn't give me anything.
Sorry.
And artificial intelligences think I can help people? Well, I guess I'll
take
what I can get. Dale has been spending a lot of time on his Turing
Principle
program. He thinks it can do research more safely than we can with less
chance
of being traced. Maybe he put in a few choice thoughts of his own when he
was
programming it....

In any case, Dale has "recovered" more memories. I can't confirm their
veracity, of course, which is why hypnosis isn't my favorite treatment
option.
He does not believe that his parents are his birth parents. He recalls
another
woman sometime before the age of five that he thinks is his birth mother.
This
may be some archetype of "mother", though. It's really unclear.

Dale has also been wanting to work on the time when he saw Sarah. She was
standing over him with a piece of paper with writing on it in one hand, and
was
saying something. He hasn't been able to get what she's saying, though.
He's
determined, however, and insists that we need to keep doing this until he's
got
what she said.

I'll let you know when we've made some more therapeutic progress. And maybe
this time the message will actually go through.

-Michelle


Michelle Kendra, MD
Inpatient & Outpatient Psychiatry
Princeton, NJ Headquarters
Klepsydra Mental Health Facility Network


----- Forwarded message from mkendraSPLATklepsydra.net -----
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 15:50:32 -0700
From: mkendraSPLATklepsydra.net
Reply-To: mkendraSPLATklepsydra.net
Subject: Re: on the lam
To: Dan Sonnier <dmax@mac.com>

Dan,

I'm with Dale in the "safe house" he's got set up. We've been working a bit
on
his memory, trying to see what we can get him to remember. No success as of
yet. More recent events involving Tracie seem more difficult to get at--he
seems to have a lot of guilt surrounding her kidnapping, even though I do
not
believe he was involved. If I did, I wouldn't be here with him now. He
says
he's got a plan to get her out. I don't know any details, though.

Tomorrow we're going to pick up a package that Sam sent. Dale says it's
very
important. Of course, he's been saying that about a lot of things lately,
but
I am curious as to what it is.

Sorry for being so brief, but Dale seems to think it's better if I don't
spend
a lot of time logged on to the Klepsydra system right now. I'll try to
write
more in a few days.

-Michelle

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