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There are all these murders going on in the Bay
Area now, with remains of bodies
washing up near where I walk the dogs. I didn't do it! I heard a
roommate's answering machine once, back when I lived in Alameda,
with an anonymous man (and sometimes, woman) threatening her and
her boyfriend Enrica for having an affair. "God will punish
you!" the unimaginably venomous voice said. Later I heard that
same voice on TV, slightly flattened. It was a UC Berkeley professor
who (along with his wife) had been assaulted shortly after the answering
machine tapes had been made. Well, there were no more messages after
that! That was the good side. My roommate's married boyfriend, who
at the time was the Berkeley Waterfront Commissioner, (4.) went
on to murder his best friend, (2.) to whom he had carelessly
confided, (3.) who told the police (1.) he had assaulted
the professor and his wife. That was the bad side.
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