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“Think about it, Audie,” Dr. Venn says. “You were able to insert your mind into your former body. But Halli’s mind had already taken up occupation there. And each time you were suddenly ‘pulled’ out of your body, as you described it to me, you felt excruciating pain. That was your interpretation of it, correct?”
“Yes.” It was obvious that was the problem. The first time, Halli was so excited to find me inside my old body, she practically screamed with delight. That shocked me out of the experience. Then the second time, I was in a quiet, dark room with Daniel, having a long conversation with Halli and Professor Whitfield, when suddenly Sarah and Jake and Bryan burst into the room. Once again I was violently pulled out of the experience and felt like my brain was splitting in two.
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