| I can see the cops coming! They're a good
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| | call!
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| thousand feet away. I can clearly make
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| | "Hey, how'd ya know the fuzz was there?"
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| out their uniforms and swinging
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| | my buddy pressed me as we arrived safely
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| nightsticks. How can I be seeing this?
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| | back at our car.
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| I didn't dare mention it to my fellow
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| | "Uh, I just knew somehow. A guess, I
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| underage drinking mates lounging with me
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| | guess," I muttered, covering for myself
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| on the grassy knoll in the park. Am I
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| | as best I could under the circumstances.
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| making this up? Projecting it somehow
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| | "Well, a pretty good one, man. We'd be up
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| into my vision? Forcefully, I shook my
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| | the creek if they caught us. Thanks.
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| head back and forth in an effort to free
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| | You're all right. We should have you
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| my mind of its strange perception.
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| | around every time we go drinking."
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| But the view of the two police officers
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| | Ah, music to my ears. And so my young
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| remained in my sight, as they sauntered
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| | career as a drinking guard began!
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| closer and closer to our drinking den. In
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| | My friends, at sixteen, were older than I
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| fact, to my further astonishment, I saw a
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| | but still under the legal drinking age of
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| much wider perspective as I swiveled my
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| | eighteen in New York State. I was fifteen
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| gaze within the picture before me. I can
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| | and considered myself really lucky to be
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| see myself!
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| | included in this older gang at a time of
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| Frantically blinking my eyes open and
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| | life when acceptance and belonging was
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| shut trying to erase this impossibility,
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| | paramount. And to have access to liquor
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| I still found myself staring at my own
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| | through their connections was heaven for
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| physical body on the ground next to my
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| | me.
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| beer buddies. The place from which I was
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| | I would do almost anything to please
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| viewing was about forty feet in the air!
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| | these guys and stay tight with them. I
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| As I shifted my attention to look at the
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| | mused to myself, My newfound super-vision
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| looker, I saw an airborne body in the
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| | is coming in real handy. If we got busted
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| form of a luminous shimmer, much like a
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| | for underage drinking, we'd all get
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| ghost is portrayed in a movie. Then, with
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| | grounded by our parents, not to mention
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| the ease of a mere thought, I discovered
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| | getting in trouble with the law. I've got
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| I could shift my point of view from my
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| | to keep this good thing going!
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| physical body on the ground back to my
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| | On that fateful night, my need for
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| ethereal light body in the air. Using my
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| | approval prompted me to keep expanding
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| eyes in my subtle body, I surveyed the
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| | this burgeoning, new skill that I
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| scene again from my perch in the air.
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| | stumbled across in the line of necessity
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| Am I making all this up? Do I want to
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| | and opportunity.
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| impress my pals so much, I'm concocting
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| | As I played with my prowess as a night
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| an extrasensory perception to allow me to
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| | watchman for the gang, I realized I was
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| warn them of an oncoming bust? My
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| | doing more than clairvoyance, "clear
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| frenetic self-questioning came to an
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| | seeing." Each time I playfully sent
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| abrupt halt as I heard one of the
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| | myself out to scan the scene for police,
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| officers whisper to his colleague, "Do
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| | I was having a bona fide out-of-body
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| you hear that noise? There are some kids
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| | experience. I didn't have a name for it
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| in the park."
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| | then, but I sure knew I was doing it! I
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| Whether I was conjuring my supernormal
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| | was right on the mark every time I called
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| sight and hearing to court favor with my
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| | a cop alert. My skill was valued by the
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| friends or not, I needed to act-and
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| | friends I valued. Literally, I was flying
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| quickly. "Hey, guys, don't ask me how I
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| | high!
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| know, but there are some cops right up
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| | Since my teenage discovery, I've
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| the street and they're on to us. Let's
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| | continued to explore out-of-body
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| split." My three inebriated friends and I
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| | adventures. And I always laugh in
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| quietly sneaked down the hill and out of
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| | admiration when I look back on how God
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| the park under the helpful cloak of
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| | tricked me into developing my first
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| darkness. By a nanosecond, we
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| | natural spiritual ability.
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| successfully evaded detection as we heard
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| | (c) 2004, Keith Varnum. All rights in
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| the policemen slashing at the bushes with
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| | all media reserved.
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| their billyclubs right behind us A close
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