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made it home. She was surprised because her children were already in bed sleeping, and the house was quiet and dark. When she saw the time, she became almost hysterical at the very thought that she had been gone so long. What might her children have thought? At that point Candy’s life began to fall apart. She was suddenly so emotional that she couldn’t stay on an even keel from one minute to the next. She became almost uncontrollably obsessed with the man in the building, believing he was her “soul mate” one minute, and that he was a government spy the next. This was related to her belief that, a government spy the next. This was related to her belief that, somehow, the government was “watching” her. She felt that somehow she must find ways to be with this man because the government was using him against her, and they were really meant to be together. Then she felt he was watching her, and she had better avoid him. Immediately following this event, her husband was in an auto accident with another woman in the car. Any reservations she might have had about the break-up of her marriage dissolved, and the relationship disintegrated rapidly. It was at this point that I first met her. In other words, she must have made her trip to the swamps at almost the exact time the series of synchronous events began to Candy apparently knew the abduction encounter scenario from reading or other sources. She thought she had experienced some sort of encounter with “Space Brothers”. She was convinced that she had been given a message during her encounter, and that it was important for her to remember it to share with mankind. Trying to get the story out of her in a linear way was like pulling teeth. The subject was so laden with emotion that it was difficult to make anything out of it without stopping her repeatedly, backing her up, and having her describe things in a sequential way. I didn’t want to jump to any conclusions because I still held out for the possibility of other explanations. Based on the series of events, I thought it was also possible that she had been given some kind of “date rape” drug by this man who took her to the Indian mound with rather more ordinary - if But Candy held firmly to the idea that the man had hypnotized her, that he was a government agent, and that the government was watching her because she was “chosen” by the aliens to deliver a message. Why or how he would be involved in her abduction if he were a government agent wasn’t exactly clear, and certainly didn’t make any sense. Candy knew it. She agreed with a rueful laugh that she knew she sounded crazy, and it was clear that she was close to the edge. She most 121 High Strangeness — Part One manifest in my own life that led me to meet Candy! reprehensible - intentions.