Broken Brain

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Broken Brain

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Jan 3, 2012

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These voice messages were left on my friend Danny’s phone by his dad. They are two of my all-time favorites. We’ll never know how the second message ends. The machine cut Danny’s dad off mid-message.

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Jan 3, 2012

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