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 It's funny to me, just how many people, even people that know me very well, even my own family, that they were able to trick. Greed is such an unstoppable motivator, and they took full advantage of it. They continue to shuffle the money, which belongs to none of them, between them at will. Always taking the blame for the guilty party so that no civil suit can arise from charges brought.  It's rather ingenious, really. Diabolical, in fact. Still, you would think that someone would have a change of heart or second guess the wrong decision that they made. Then again, how can I expect them to understand just how wrong they have been when they first convince them that under no circumstances can they ever reveal what Ryan has done for them and that they can never return the money to me under any circumstances.  The sad part is, by the time they have been played a fool, they've moved on to the next set of marks and there can be nothing done to change what they did.  Jean...

With, or Without Personal Gain?

 It fit perfectly with their modus operandi. Someone else always takes the blame for the guilty party(s).  That way, no money can be notebooked away from them.  It's like a reverse Ponzi scheme.  
 I believe Elon took advantage of the situation. What I explained was that the master copy of the spreadsheet was taken after I suggested that Chris and Paul transfer whatever data they were asking me for a rewritable CD for onto the Compag Presario which I gave to Griff after it being given to me by Dave, who was given it by his brother Paul. Hence the two profiles, Dave and Paul. I never even got online with it and I told Chris who Griff gave the computer to, that he needed to erase the files on it before using it. They used it to copy the master copy of the notebooking software Excel spreadsheet off the laptop sitting on desk in the nook near the kitchen.  I wasn't familiar with the software, but I did notice the transfer took approximately 10 minutes. One or both of them edited the software before returning it to Ryan, via a new Hotmail account whhich ryan opened as a solution to the file being too large for Gmail, (which if you're not familiar, would be a massive document...

Weekapaug Inn

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 This is where I met Bernie Madoff in late May 1996. I was going to invest the million dollar check Jeffrey Epstein gave me, which Ms. Maxwell cut for me from the three per page check ledger belonging to Jeffrey. My check was after a missing check because she misspelled my name. Out of sequence by 1. 
 Now, one might argue that I shouldn't have put my info on LiveJournal. To this I content, it was all password protected and I made sure restart the computer after each use, to clear the cache. Also, this was before they warned of the dangers of using a public computer,  AND it was the only computer I had access to. Lastly, the policies for using said computers disallowed the abuse of any information contained on said computers. 

One more aye

The adults with "Britney" at Rockville Hospital were not her parents. Who were the adults with the 10-11 year old little girl with who my nurse, that performed the rape kit on me, was with directly before me???  Mind you, to this day, I've never had sex with a female. Not a little, not for a second. Not at all. Ever.  Whether a person complies with their molester's demands or doesn't, does not change the fact that they are being molested.  Not to mention, my mom opened our home to them as a safe haven and they took advantage of her and then me.  I balanced my mom's checkbook every week. We always had < 20 USD. No savings. 
 https://unfairpaul.blogspot.com/2025/03/how-does-this-number-appearimg-no-where.html Not sure why the video wont upload, but check it out on X: https://x.com/powcupertino/status/1906298829147963779?t=joGOT8hkrSKz3AkPDPeDIg&s=19 Elon is a little person in a robotic suit!! I kid you not. 

Let's settle it once and for all

 Surely, Customs must have a record of who they seized the collection from, trying to cross the border in Madawaska. Also, why weren't they arrested?? More poignantly,  who was in the vehicle directly ahead of or behind them?? Probably in a RAV4??  With Arizona plates. Surely there's footage of that. 
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When I tell you that I know what I'm talking about, you should trust that things may seem unimaginable, but there remains the possibility that I'm far less wrong then you might be comfortable believing.   
 10 U.S. Code § 921 - Art. 12 - wrongful appropriation is defined as taking or withholding property with the intent to temporarily deprive the owner of its use[](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/921 "1"). This could apply even if there is no intent for personal gain.
 I love how my roommate just throws away my food. Right in front of me, even. Hot sauce, that is a year old is still plenty good. She said it smelled like dirty dish water. Good thing it was Tapatio and not Chouloula, that stuff is expensive. She doesn't even use the stuff.  It makes me wonder if there is a certain type of dementia that some are effected by. It makes you forgetful but also very dismissive and easy to anger. I think some one in my family suffers from something similar. They don't recognize how impatient and  unreasonable they are becoming, or how flawed their memories are. And, their is no convincing them of anything. Stubborn is a gross understatement.  Far worse than a petulant child or morose teenager. Yet, aside from that they maintain their lives without ever calling attention to the disease. It is progressive, as far as I can tell. 
 The plantiff alleged that they had violated the eighth amendment — that no punishment.
 And Levi is patty Rausch's step son. Patty was Dave's wife. 
 I bet Jerome never even mentioned how close he came to federal prosecution for stealing the subsidy once before. 
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 Chris Ainsley is Paul Raymond Gardner Jr!!!
 And, if the plan all along was for Kathy to take the fall? And, if that didn't work then, Paul.  And, so on and so forth?  They really planned for every eventuality. Save for a big mouth.  Next I'm going to print it on flyers and put them on every surface I can in town.  It's really bizarre to think they can just be okay with what they did to me. It's unimaginable that they got away with it. Repugnant that they don't care what it cost me. What it did to me.  I was the only one that knew that our law got repealed and that was why the money vanished. One very important detail. 
 Ugh I am so disgusted. Pat, of Pat and Roger is who my roommate is. Yuck. How could I let myself be tricked like this. And by her?? Ryan was her ex step daughter. 

Graham Netanyahu

 Where did he go?  Bon Chance. 
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 Believe me, even someone as clever as myself can be driven to the point of insanity. They'd honed their guerilla war tactics for decades and they knew just how to make me dance like a puppet. Plus, they had their ace in the hole; completely unbeknownst to me, I had moved in with the enemy. My roommate was their devoted info leaker. An regular wolf in sheep's clothing. Benedictine Arnold. 

Same questions for everyone

 Would you say you were more or less transparent than me regarding this dilemma or any dilemma for that matter? Would you conclude your involvement contributed to finding a resolution or to the lack there of?   Who's best interest did your actions most represent?
 I'm self assured certainly, but to be so convinced that not even the truth can undermine your position, that, is real dedication.   
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 Who tf is this. That is the mirror in Debbie's trailer, and that is the missing Calvin Klein hoodie that went missing with my rock I found while burying Kathy's dog, Soda.  As of that experience weren't traumatic enough. Remember 99 only store parking lot?? It had that wallet from Mr Lovett from oregon, which I was planning on dropping in a mailbox for him. 
 Just because someone raised , does not mean they are related to you. Jim was the person Damienne was staying with in Fort Huachuca, but Paul Chasse is her father. 
 My entire life has been one disappointment after another. All strung together to resemble a life, but in actuality it is a tragedy.  The Red Roof Inn would not allow my electric bicycle inside my room. I told them I wad going to keep it turned upside down on a drop cloth and they still threatened to have me removed. So, that's why it was outside when Paul brought his two buddies to visit. One got my new pedals, and ether Paul or is friend got my debit card.  I asked the guy what the harm was having the bike inside and he said the grease gets everywhere, which I totally agree with. Still... 99 dollar extra wide carbon steel pedals that I just installed. Hadn't even tested rode. Then, I was almost late to circle k because I had to reinstall the original folding pedals.  The pedal had sheared off one of the two keys and I mentioned that I needed to make a copy, then someone at eon asked me to let them test ride my bike to compare to theirs which was the non step thru m...
 Who, I wonder, is Bricey or Bricely??  I remember Paul hashing someone with that look like whoever it was was about to blow his cover. 
 Robert Plourde was the name on the office space Edward lll rented after college. Attorney Plourde never really even existed as far as anyone can remember. 42 years of litigating and only one single review, anywhere. 
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Hold on a sec! Lucien is related to the Caron's??  Omg, Paul is Griffin!!  
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 Griffin was an inch or two shorter than me.  He fathered a child before he was 15. He also has a uniquely placed birthmark and is uncircumcised.  Paul called Griffin, Ryan, Bradley, and Josh, the Freshman class.  He introduced me to Ryan as Bradley's boyfriend shortly after moving from Forgeus ave where he stayed with his cousin and his cousin's partner, to Seneca Apartments.  No one questioned that Matthew spelled his own name wrong, twice? Or that notary licenses only last 4 years.  Or the blatant xeroxing?
 And what of the IGT settlement?? That was Ryan and Levi who i suspected commandeered that payout. Before that was the Del Sol voucher. And the endowment check. The winning lotto ticket. My tuition checking account.  My mom's jewlery. My rock collection rubies.  They made it impossible to pursue damages because they margined their assets and then sold their company to their co-conspirator.  An admission of guilt by any standard.   Mind you the court cases and shit from my father in Maine, all came on the heels of all of them being involved with the theft of my mom's Buick Roadmaster, Jayco pop-up, the StarCraft fifth wheel and Dave's 500lbs of marijuana. And, that wasn't the first time they had robbed Dave.   On another note entirely, why did Katherine always get invited to my birthday parties but never the other way around?  And, why did she get a present on my birthday every year??
 Who rented the tow behind uhaul trailer in Madawaska, right around New Years 2006?  I presume they returned it in Tucson, if that helps narrow the search?? And, who represented me in the EOE Court Martial/military tribunal?  Levi 

2003-4

 I worked for a temp agency called Pathworks, working at Circle K, mostly stocking the beverage coolers. We'd meet at the commuter lot at 6am and they'd use a big van to transport us each to our location for the day. It was to help ease all the students having the summers off.  At the time I was going to Eon as a youth. I got myself off the street and bought an electric bicycle for 1000 bucks Then, someone got in trouble for data mining information off one of the computers. It wasn't until much later I learned of the breach to my LiveJournal account. Blueboy. I wasn't even posting my entries publicly.  Just foe my own usage.   Not long after, my debit card went missing, the pedals off my bicycle got stolen. Then my whole bike, although they managed to leave the relocked bicycle lock which required a key to open and close, right outside Eon where the bike had been. Somehow, a second bike was bought using the missing debit card, but i couldnt prove who used it. Th...
 They convinced my father that I was some kind of scam artist by stealing a journal entry and sending it to my dad, as a letter asking for money. They made me out to be a bad person for something I never even did, for some scam they were trying to pull. My journal would have been in the home where Dave's box of money was stolen from in Manchester. Same place the knife I was given for being in Joe's wedding went missing from.
 I know it wasn't Jean lapore that you pulled a notebook on me for. Sandy Steele Noyes also lived in the same townhouse neighborhood. I know we weren't even within the line of sight their unit. And, I maintain Chris catphished me by using someone else's photo and being the aggressor of the situation. 
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF FEDERAL CLAIMS  PAUL RAYMOND THERIAULT  Plaintiff,   v.   THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,   Defendant.   Case No.: [                                                      ]   COMPLAINT I. INTRODUCTION  1. Plaintiff, [PAUL RAYMOND THERIAULT], brings this complaint to address violations of federal law, improper seizure of property, fraudulent activities, and abuse of authority involving federal actors or those acting under federal jurisdiction.   2. This case arises from predatory conduct, conflicts of interest, and deliberate actions that deprived Plaintiff of personal property and fundamental rights under the law. Plaintiff seeks relief for the tortuous and inhumane treatment endured as a result of these actions.   II. PARTIES 3. Plaintiff: [PA...
 How many predators would you attract before it became too much a burden to bear? How many times would it take to push you over the edge?  How much can a person be reasonably expected to endure?  How much would you be defined by those experiences? Then, to know, that they're inescapable. It's tortuous,  and inhumane.  I'm not asking for any more than what every person deserves and that is what is undeniably just, fair, and efficient. 
 I had my suspicions about the customs officer with a 520 area code call back number so when I went to the border, I was only hoping I beat them to it.  Then when I had to return to Connecticut unexpectedly and Della told me Levi left the same day as I had eight months earlier, I knew that he had wasted no time betraying me.  Upon arrival home, I once again contacted the police, only at the time I forgot the sheriff was my dad's former competitor and he seized the collection, knowing I had no way to collect it.   The sheriff happens to be Mikey Pelletier's brother and Mikey was my dad's former laborer of many years.  Mikey got mixed up with Dave Chasse, my mom's long time boyfriend and that's how he caught his fourth felony drug charge for Marijuana. He then received a Presidential pardon, after he, his girlfriend,  and his sister in law all lied for him saying he had been confined to a wheelchair since childhood. Mikey also claimed to have income from...
 Figure this. Until June of 2000, unless it was a school holiday or summer, I was in Connecticut. Not Arizona. Also, we only drove here. Never flew. 
Don't you think Damienne's dad would have said something if it weren't Damienne's cousin that had been staying with us when he came to pick them up, buy Griffin decided to finish out the school year staying with us??

2 Hyperlexics

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 Chris was the secretary of the GBM. That is  street gang FYI. Ryan ratted his own crew out for the ultimate unprosecutable position while still being affiliated through his secret relationship with Chris. 
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I think they figured out that if Ryan never noteboomed anyone after Ainsley became Ryan, then that would be the perfect trust. Ironclad.  Impenetrable. 

This was the building!

 Angel and Steven dragged me here on Valentine's Day weekend when Steven lived in the Martin Luther King Building. I asked Angel to get me a fountain soda at Circle K. He came back with a two liter. When I put my glass in the sink, there was a spoon with Pepsi on it. I woke up with 911 dialed unto my phone, but I never hit send. My pants were undone and I was face down on the bed. One of the bedrooms was open to the rest of thr home and they had security screen doors on the hallway entrances.  They made me sign a disclaimer to spend the night with a whole section blanked out. I signed my mom's maiden name. There was a camera set up on  tripod in the guest bedroom.  

Patriotism at it's finest

 My dad, an immigrant to this country, spent 35 years amassing that collection because he thought it showed his patriotism to collect American currency. In the end, they refused to return it to me. Not because it didn't belong to me. Not because I'd done anything wrong. Not because of anything, save for the fact that they chose to persecute me.  To unlawfully persecute and oppress me.  It never fails to amaze me how many officials will forgo the clearance of information. The top secret justification was, "it was worth too much money", although they did not have the statute number or penal code or whatever to cite.  Again, I have no military affiliation, so, I have no confidentiality contract or agreement, understood or otherwise.   Strongarmed by my own government, in the greatest nation in the world. The land of the free and home of the bravely taken advantage of.  This, only a year after being promised a resolution to my subsidy money and the misuse ...
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Is that Courtney Jones??  Wait a minute ute, at the time she protected Levi, because they were dating and then he is responsible for Brandi's death and she becomes a Fenton?? Seems rather shady to me. 9  

Circa 2003-5

 I wonder, did they ditch my mom's Connecticut,  handicapped license plate before committing those dozens and dozens of home invasions in Tucson? In the big white, Buick Roadmaster. 1997, I believe it was. 

Earshot

How long have you known Ian Foster for?
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I put 1

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 Ask Levi how many magnets he put on his pedal sensor. I put 1. That's what killed Brandi.   Ryan put 13 levels of encryption on the software. Failsafe, after failsafe to ensure what they had done, couldn't be undone.  That's how they did it!! They convinced Brandi to pull multiple notebooks simultaneously, then they claimed the money came from numerous people, but it was all the money stole from my company, all along. 
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 We came up with a new approach to insurance. Incentivisng healthful practices and allowing those who don't use their insurance as much as others, a way to use it as escrow. It was just a rough idea I brainstormed when the Obamcare debate was raging. 
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 I wonder how many tests that my roomie failed to make it to, have been charged to Medicaid or Medicare?  She missed every single one of her breast cancer tests, aside from the initial Ultrasound and MRI. She has missed her surgeon consultation twice, her Pet scan, her CT scan, her appointment with the geneticist. She's been in pain for for almost a year now, and still has not began treatment. Has been trying since June of last year to get herself treated. 

FBI

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This was the view from the Colorado hospital room I awoke in. There was snow on the mountain, in August!!  The FBI is never wrong. Even if they happen to be wrong, they are not wrong or responsible for any effect caused by their being wrong.  They told me it was the Carter family that stole my company's money. They told me it was Ainsley that cashed my lottery ticket. They told me that a reasonable,  fair, and amicable solution would be brought to the table. That I need not do anything further, (kind of a no-brainer when I already had activated the power of the executive branch. Looking back I wonder, what for).  They promised me no one would ever be allowed to notebook money away from me, ever again.  Despite their site having no option to add to, ammend, or withdraw a report, nor do they ever make contact with the complainant, or give any update as far as I can tell, I reached out to them hundreds of times a day, asking for their help. Asking for Agent Farris ...

Irony at its Finite-est

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 My dad told me that the currency collection was among the trailer full of items that he had released into the care of the three who volunteered to pick up the heirlooms while in Northern Maine for the family reunion. When the cops asked me what else was to be reported missing I had to call and ask my dad what all he had sent.  When they were stopped they had already taken some of the most valuable bills and coins from the albums. They had already done something with the remaining items, my baby photos included. Then, in his very dapper winter scarf, he went right up there and stole it again. They tried to say it was a notebook on my father, but why then did they steal it a second time?  And, if it were a notebook on me then why had customs returned it to the rightful owner, me?? I rest my case. 
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 Remember the time Levi told us about sneaking out with Paul Gardner and evading the police and sneaking back through the window just before getting busted?  At the time, I kid you not, there was a Top 40 song on the radio with a line that went; "If I picked you up, in the middle of the night, would you go with me".  Having just traveled 1700 miles by car, the story reminded me of the song, so I sang it to myself, innocently. They misconstrued that so dramatically,  that it tells me everything I need to know about who's being realistic. He's got priors. Also, how would a teenager, who was in town for a week, twice a year, without a license or access to a vehicle, pick anyone up in the middle of the night?  Also, most importantly, why would I pick up someone who terrorized me and I was scared of?? Come on now!  Two familial matched DNA contributors were found in my rape kit. If he was one of them, who is the other?  That is one thing which has eluded me...
 On top of which, I won't name names, but someone said that they had the time of their life and they'd do it the same again.  It is so disconcerting.  The stark cognitive dissonance. The cruel irony. Bitter betrayals. The casual carelessness. And, the egos that drive them. Tragic really. A regular tragedy. A love story turned dichotomy. A heart breaking calamity.  It just strikes me odd how you can still claim innocence, when I already proved that you falsified an alibi foe what you did to me.  You proved that I was right all along, because you wouldn't have even known that if you hadn't ripped my mother off!!  You want to dole out your backwards Old West justice, but that is bit how it works. You all were putting your nose where it shouldn't have been and you should be held accountable for even tampering with a sealed record.  I think that's the next avenue I'll pursue. Former assistant district attorney Nicol Green pulled an illegal notebook on me, a...

Nothing but Noyes'

This is how my mother's, sister's family rolls. Sandy took her brother-in-law,  my cousin Joe to get back surgery. They were gone one week. During that time, Levi spend the night at Barry Nelson's and Kristen spent the same night in Miike Mangificos tent. I was there when they ducked in and arrived back at Jimmy's before they exited the tent the next morning in Jimmy's yard. He had passed out in front of the fire pit pretty early on in the night. Joe found out that someone slept with Kristen and Jimmy took the blame for Joe's best friend, other than Kevin. Sandy broke up with Jimmy for something else entirely,  aside from the fact their marriage was already a failure, but she blamed it on Jimmy's indiscretion.  That week just so happened to overlap her conception window. And, Samantha has brown eyes, while Kristen and Joe and their parents, were all blue eyed. 

Rockville General Hospital

 The nurse who did my rape kit talked to "Britney" directly before me. Ask her how old the minor female was. The only Britney I knew was almost a year and a half old.  Therein lies your answer. Circa Freshman year I was 14 so 1996. 
 Regardless of what did or did not happen with mutual consent, this was ongoing for a year. At which time there were multiple red flags that should have warranted further inquiry. I do not accept the inept excuse that he was sleeping. He undressed me to whatever extent, molested me, and redressed me.  That is purely premeditated.  Furthermore, even a husband cannot engage in intimacy with his own wife if she cannot consent. Sleeping, inebriated, or whatever the case may be, no consent, means no.  They lack the necessary information. If key facts are withheld or there is deliberate deception, any apparent consent may be invalid.
 At every opportunity to right the egregious injustice, they took it upon themselves to take a direct, concise instruction and interpret it completely different than anyone else would. 

Phineas Timbermann

How did customs seize my colletion?

 Was it confiscated coming into the country, or going out?  Do you think I asked?? And, what of my baby photos??
 Not to mention the antique National cash register, the ten original Audubon drawings, the postage stamp collection, my hat from when I was a baby, the Vernon sweatshirt, my baby photos and who knows what else my dad gave to them to deliver to me. 
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 Someone wanted me stranded in Canada. Then, when I came back, Dave throws me out and changes the locks.  Katherine was working for my mom's cardiologist, who claimed she never ordered my mom to undergo open heart surgery, but if not her then who?? I even had Edd bring me to the container on our way through town, at 7am but Levi was no where to be found. Because, he was already in Connecticut.  Then, out of nowhere Katherine and her boyfriend are taking a trip to Madawaska, and taking Kathy's camper for just a few days trip.   
 Levi told us that he could fit a whole McDonald's cheeseburger in his mouth at the family reunion. I haven't seen it, so I doubt it. 

ROI

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 I guess I'll ask for my mom's medical records to be released, because she didn't even have a cardiologist appointment, she said. October 2006 Looks what's in the background. 

Bucal swab

 A bucal swab is a saliva sample. 

Five Milk Crates

 Levi never even asked why I was stashing the collection.  He probably thought it was for some nefarious reason, but it was simply because I was told I couldn't bring it into Canada. Eight months later, I returned, short notice, and there was no one there to open it when we passed through Madawaska.  My mom was scheduled to have open heart surgery the following morning, per her cardiologist, Dr Hazan (?) Duhan, which was it? Who Katherine worked for. That's it! Katherine Mary!!! My mom had had a cardiologist appointment before we left and she said she would see us in a year, so why then, at her six month did she need a stent put in and bypass surgery?
 They knew that the collection belonged to me. It had my name in every album. They knew!!

March 14

 Dr suess and one other person I knows birthday. 
 I remember how upset my dad was that Mikey's brother moved to town and had opened the exact same business as my dad had been running for more than a decade.  He then went on to become the chief of police.  But before that, I remember us going to a job early in the morning and giving a quote, but needing a material.  We were gone less than 30 minutes and when we returned, Mr. Pelletier and several laborers were already on the rooftop doing the job that we had just quoted, but for cheaper.  I prolly even remember the exact house it happened at. 

The East Lawn

 Eighteen years ago, I was invited to the White House to receive the findings if an informal federal inquiry into the whereabouts of the subsidy Congress passed into law and awarded to my company.   Prosecutor Farris met with me on the East lawn as President Bush and then First Lady Laura Bush had embarked on an embassy tour that morning.  I never even questioned who had opened the letter or what they may have done with that information prior to me receiving it. 
 Nope it wasn't Casey!  It was Courtney Jones!!!!

Top 99th percentile

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 For an eighth grader that struggled to fit in, losing that 611K dollar scholarship psckage was devastating.  I had won, but was denied the scholarship.  At one point Ryan claimed he did it so that the person molesting me wouldn't have access to me, but that doesn't really add up because even if I'd been given the overseas academy scholarship, he wouldn't have had access to me. This also proves Ryan knew about it all along.  Most people don't even know what the top 99th percentile means. It is the top 1% of a data set. The highest of that set of data. On two separate exams, administered statewide.  I even asked Laura and Mark if they'd received their results in the mail, like nine had come the day before the results were given in school. 
 Quinlan,  not Weaver. Casey Quinlan , I think.  That was the day i learned that Casey C. and the gang were not only lesbians but feminists as well.   
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  Katherine and Griffin!!
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 Looks like one of the Steele/Boiardi sisters, but claims to be Angie Theriault. 
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In the desert there exists this sort of need to take advantage of people. Almost as if, not doing so would be a sign of weakness, or a chip in their machismo.   
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Exonerate:clemency::pardon:immunity  

March Second

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They all had different motivations to lie for him, and that is what they decided to do.  Which proves that it is true. He is the only one that they all would have lied to protect. Paul Gardner.  Chris was Paul's boyfriend. Ryan was all about Chris' happiness. Josh was after Levi and Levi was Paul's secret boyfriend. So they threw me under the bus to both steal from me and to protect my former friend.  And, if I had to guess, I'd say Kathy noyes would say it was all her fault.   
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I guess no one can understand the amount of damage they've done. It is unprecedented. The level of influence required to enforce their own will over what every one of my family and friends know to be true. It is unbelievable.  The amount of planning and skill of social engineering, that was required to pull this off. The technical skill. The sheer amount of corruption and greed. If I hadn't lived it, I'd find it hard to believe as well. They chose loyalty over honesty.  They saw the truth as a weakness.