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[UPDATE] ethan [Nov 6]
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enaxor
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 		I live in Beaverton, OR, just outside of Portland. I will try and get to the Multnomah County Lib in the next couple of days. If someone else can get there sooner, please post.
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vanman0254
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 		Ill check fountain square

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aqualung1105
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Kejej wrote:
It looks like it's written with both a pen AND a pencil?

Who would do that? Not me - I'd either use a pen OR a pencil!

Does it mean anything?


IŽd say this means Ethan (?) wrote these notes down on different occasions, like a treasure hunt from loc to loc, finding clues at each to the next one.
If the "non-removal clause" refers to the clues it looks like some kind of orientation race...

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BrianEnigma
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enaxor wrote:
I live in Beaverton, OR, just outside of Portland. I will try and get to the Multnomah County Lib in the next couple of days. If someone else can get there sooner, please post.


Similarly, I am in Lake Oswego, OR, just outside of Portland--but have a guest in town this weekend and probably will not get a chance until Monday or Tuesday. If someone has not yet gone, I will give it a shot then.

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bakntime
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 		Has anyone considered e-mailing someone at Cornell to check out that lead? I have a friend who graduated from Cornell, I'll ask her if she knows anyone that is still attending.

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Omnie
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 		One of my friends from high school goes to Cornell...I don't know if she would appreciate me asking her to go do something like this just for a game, though. Heh, especially since we haven't really been in contact for several months. I could try if we're really desperate, I guess. It would be a bit weird, though.

Heh, I came close to almost going to Cornell myself... if only I had realized how useful it would have been! Hehe...unfortunately, I'm nowhere near Ithaca now.

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XtRaVa
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 		just search for the books online...i mean you can buy them from amazon, surely somewhere on the net you can read them for free. what are we hoping to get from these books?

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taniwha
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XtRaVa wrote:
just search for the books online...i mean you can buy them from amazon, surely somewhere on the net you can read them for free. what are we hoping to get from these books?


Since we were given specific books at specific libraries, one might assume that those particular books have clues in them.

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XtRaVa
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 		Yeah, it must be something to do with the places too, coz you could prolly get all those books in the same library most likely. Hmmm Smile

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LokiNZ
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 		Also, there's definitely something pretty freaky happening with Ethan if he has a double out there (it reminds me of a similar scene in Fight Club). I wonder if his double might be James Avery.

I had speculated that Ethan and Dina might be the missing people (aka James Avery and ex-wife, who have a son), but Dina states in her weblog that they have no children - which would rule them out.

But this double of his could be the one that Beth talks about in one of her emails here:
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=22839

I think there are 4 possibilities:
i) Someone has made a duplicate of Ethan
ii) Ethan has multiple personalities
iii) Ethan is living a double life - when he's away from home he pretends he's someone else
iv) Ethan has a long-lost twin (sounds like a bad soap opera though)

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yeahyeah
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 		Within the next 30 minutes I have a friend of a friend heading down to the Santa Monica Pier, lets hope there really is a clue there.. Otherwise I'll have some explaining to do..
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yeahyeah wrote:
Within the next 30 minutes I have a friend of a friend heading down to the Santa Monica Pier, lets hope there really is a clue there.. Otherwise I'll have some explaining to do..


Wow! Goin all out here. If it takes going this extra mile to solve this, more power to ya. Very Happy
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taniwha
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 		I wish I could go down to the Santa Monica pier. Crying or Very sad

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Omnie
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LokiNZ wrote:
I had speculated that Ethan and Dina might be the missing people (aka James Avery and ex-wife, who have a son), but Dina states in her weblog that they have no children - which would rule them out.


Yeah, with this new update, I'm starting to get more and more convinced that they are the missing Averys. Lots of little hints point toward it. As for Dina not having a child...this is in the source code:

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Do you have or want children? How do you picture yourself as a mother or father? Is it similar to how you remember your own mother or father?
I don't think I ever wanted children. There was no primordial tug, no epiphany upon inhaling the powdered scent of a friend's 3-week-old, no nesting instincts. I say was. Perhaps I am not so sure now. <!-- not sure not sure not sure but oh god, I read this question days ago and it's still causing me great distress. I can't help it - these tears from the pit of my stomach, the loss I am feeling that is ever-so-slightly detached from my reality. I wanted him and needed him, and had him, right here, with me. He is gone. He was never mine. Taken from my life as if he never existed. Ruffling his hair, the top of his head warmer than mine - he's been playing around, he's been out with friends, he's been drinking too much soda, he's got bright sparkling eyes and he is there for us. He is there, in our home, a mind like a trap, cutting a fine literary figure in his flannel and his ratty old gym shoes. I miss this person I have never known. I can feel the absence ... here. Right behind my eyes, right in my heart, an ache that supercedes the pale yellow-green of spring, the glory and joy of singing, the flat of my hand against cool varnished wood. I've been looking all this time. I've been sleepwalking through unfamiliar terrain. I am held here inside four times two times three times 5 walls. I miss him so, and I want him back. -->

(I know that's been found, btw, I'm not claiming credit for it.) Very Happy

Other clues that spring to mind:
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I had many friends as a kid, and a lot of the time they felt like an additional family - we were all so close, especially in high school. I wonder where so many of them have gone. How did we lose touch?


Quote:
Both parents have passed on, sadly. I try not to think about it too much. My mother was an amazing person - resilient, somewhat stoic, but loyal and true like no other human I've ever known. Her dedication to her values and the people she loved was a model for me in life from my teen years on. My father, hale and hearty, was the artist with a businessman's attitude. He - he was a musician, too. He taught me violin. He did. There was a piano in the front room. <!-- what the hell? I used to have to dust it every single Saturday, when we did chores. I had to make sure I had practiced all of the pieces he'd put in a yellow folder inside the bench. Each piece, three times, at the very least. The sun would slant in through the curtains, a glow that would fill the room and make each note soft and it would ring through the air with a resonance that astounded me, even as a kid. That I could place an index finger on a smooth ivory key and press, and I'd be making music. Mom used to watch me, she would stand with an armload of books or newspapers or research materials - on her way to another room to work, and she'd watch me, listening with all her heart. Sometimes I'd forget the whole world, but I could feel her there, listening and absorbing my attempts at making Chopin run like cool water and desperate laughter. The years I spent drowning in music - how could I forget? The singing strings of the violin, the pizzicato plucks that gave me a blister on my finger, Suzuki feet and resin dust tickling my nose. Scherzo scherzo scherzo andante adagio scherzo scherzo scherzo. The world is a scherzo. This must have been a dream stuck somewhere - how do I not know any of this now? Until now? This front room, this loving mother, this father who has apparently passed down music and love and passion of the depth of humanity through art - when I have only found music this past year? What is happening to me? -->


There's more...obviously the whole Ethan thing.
I also think there's some evidence that Caesar is their long-lost son. I don't really have time to go into it now (gah, I wish I did!), but as soon I get some free time I'll list all the hints that are pointing toward that conclusion. For one thing, Ethan's little paper has the word Caesar on top...there's more, though.

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