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Had I materialized my creature from outer space—I believe that is a current term, scoffed at and ridiculed—however, if I had materialized this image you would have really opened your eyes. Lines of communication were open and the entity merely slipped through, or partially through, momentarily. Even the shape of the features, never clearly glimpsed, were space distortions necessary to come through on this plane at all. As a stick thrown into the water seems distorted to those who watch, so this image thrown into your plane seemed distorted to you. But the distortions were what gave it any features at all. Without them, the distortions that is, you would have seen nothing.
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Your brother was born on the 22nd of April, I believe in 1671 (I wrote 1871 in an earlier session. See page 49.), and died at the age of 9. I do not believe that the church is still standing or that any records will be found. His eldest sister who is your present mother had a picture of some sort, a miniature in a locket, but it was with her when she drowned. Lack of record should not be taken to ridicule the validity of these facts, since many people today could not find their own birth certificates.
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