Thursday, October 30th
 (dictated 2:32 am, Oct 31) 

     I woke up a little before eleven, 
guzzled down a cup of coffee, and off  
on patrol we went.                     
     Everyone had another little tea   
party, and like the other two nights,  
Beth was also at the center of this    
one.                                   
     I loved it and had to laugh,      
because keeping all this secret, for   
* all that time, seems so stupid now.      
     Usually, I had a hard time doing  
two things at a time, but these        
patrols, and the ones Beth and I did   
every night and weekend, were the      
exception.                             
     I could think or talk about other 
stuff and still be aware of everything 
around me and react if anything was out
of place or just didn’t look right. I  
also replayed it the next day while    
mindlessly dumping or unloading cages, 
just in case I missed something.       
     The only exception to that        
exception was when Beth let the arch-  
enemy thing slip. I almost lost my     
ability to concentrate with that one.  
     Luckily, after Beth let that one  
slip, no one brought it up again, not  
even Rhonda.                           



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