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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General) North American (US General American - GenAM)Transcript
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extremely loud and incredibly close. Jonathan Safran Foer I time myself and it took me three seconds to open a lock. Then I figured out that if a baby is born in New York every 50 seconds and each person has 18 lakhs, a new lock is created in New York every 2.777 seconds. So even if all I did was open locks, I'd still be falling behind by 0.333 lakhs every second. And that's if I didn't have to travel from one locked to the next. And if I didn't eat and didn't sleep, which isn't okay if because I didn't actually sleep anyway, I needed a better plan. That night I put on my white gloves, went to the garbage can in Dad's closet and opened the bag that I'd thrown all of the pieces of the vase into. I was looking for clues that might lead me in a direction. I had to be extremely careful so that I wouldn't contaminate the evidence or let Mom know what I was doing or cut and infect myself, and I found the envelope that the key was in. It was then that I noticed something that a good detective would have noticed. At the very beginning. The word black was written on the back of the envelope. I was so mad at myself for not noticing it before that I gave myself a little bruise. Dad's handwriting was weird. It looks sloppy, like he was writing in a hurry or writing down the word while he was on the phone or just thinking about something else. So what would he have been thinking about?