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     My eyes were completely teared up. Dr Hultz stood up and walked past me into the side room. I heard the tap run for a few seconds, turn off, and his slow careful voice offer me some water. Despondently, I shook my head. He put it in my hands anyways.
    "I am going to ask you a few more questions," he said in his slow way. I nodded with a small shiver. There was silence except for the slow deep breathing of Doctor Hultz. I waited patiently for him to speak again. When he did, he went right to the point.
    "What is it exactly that you do?" he asked. I kept my eyes on the floor, not able to produce an answer immediately.
    "I look at people and. . . know," I said finally, my voice soft like a breeze through young eucalyptus leaves.
    "Would you mind looking me in the eye and extrapolating?" he said ceasing his slow and constant pacing in front of me. Warily, I looked up and saw.
    "I look into somone's eyes and see everything they have seen, heard, smelled. Every single sensation they have felt, even if they don't remember it. All their experiences are in my head. Every last secret-I know."
    It was the most I had said in a few days. But everything was true. The last of Hultz's memories flashed through my head, and I looked down. My head was spinning. Hultz stood silently watching me shake with misery.
    He was silent for a long moment before beginning his pacing again. I knew he felt violated.
     "When you say every single thing, do you mean it?" he asked.
    "Yeah," I said nodding, "Every Thought and word spoken. Everything that has ever happened to a person." I sighed slowly, fighting back tears.
    "How long have you been like this?" he asked. I raised an eyebrow sadly.
    "I dunno... Maybe almost a year," I answered, my voice sounding weak. I took a sip of my water, letting it trickle cooly down my throat.
    "And at first, did you always know everything or was it more gradual?" I stared at my hands, grasping the paper cup of water.
    "At first I only saw a few things, but now I just see it all." I cleared my throat and dranked the rest of the water. Hultz was silent for a moment.
    "Have you forgotten any of it?" he asked in his slow deep voice. I shok my head. "So that means that you've remembered everything in your life also?"
    I nodded again.
    "Hm," Hultz sighed. "Do you have the same reaction with pictures?" he asked me.
    "Sometimes," I answered after a pause. Only some people's photographs were clear anough to see.
    Hultz was silent.
    "Prove it to me," he said. "Tell me what I'm thinking right now." I warily looked up into his eyes.
    "Hot chocolate," I told him. "And somewhere in the back of your head, you're replaying when you broke broke your arm on your tenth birthday."
    Hultz raised an eyebrow as I looked down.
    "That's impressive," he said. I didn't respond.
    "Well I think that's enough," Hultz sighed, walking past me and to the door. He gestured for me to step out.
    Hailey was leaning against the wall waiting for me.

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     My eyes were completely teared up. Dr Hultz stood up and walked past me into the side room. I heard the tap run for a few seconds, turn off, and his slow careful voice offer me some water. Despondently, I shook my head. He put it in my hands anyways.
    "I am going to ask you a few more questions," he said in his slow way. I nodded with a small shiver. There was silence except for the slow deep breathing of Doctor Hultz. I waited patiently for him to speak again. When he did, he went right to the point.
    "What is it exactly that you do?" he asked. I kept my eyes on the floor, not able to produce an answer immediately.
    "I look at people and. . . know," I said finally, my voice soft like a breeze through young eucalyptus leaves.
    "Would you mind looking me in the eye and extrapolating?" he said ceasing his slow and constant pacing in front of me. Warily, I looked up and saw.
    "I look into somone's eyes and see everything they have seen, heard, smelled. Every single sensation they have felt, even if they don't remember it. All their experiences are in my head. Every last secret-I know."
    It was the most I had said in a few days. But everything was true. The last of Hultz's memories flashed through my head, and I looked down. My head was spinning. Hultz stood silently watching me shake with misery.
    He was silent for a long moment before beginning his pacing again. I knew he felt violated.
     "When you say every single thing, do you mean it?" he asked.
    "Yeah," I said nodding, "Every Thought and word spoken. Everything that has ever happened to a person." I sighed slowly, fighting back tears.
    "How long have you been like this?" he asked. I raised an eyebrow sadly.
    "I dunno... Maybe almost a year," I answered, my voice sounding weak. I took a sip of my water, letting it trickle cooly down my throat.
    "And at first, did you always know everything or was it more gradual?" I stared at my hands, grasping the paper cup of water.
    "At first I only saw a few things, but now I just see it all." I cleared my throat and dranked the rest of the water. Hultz was silent for a moment.
    "Have you forgotten any of it?" he asked in his slow deep voice. I shok my head. "So that means that you've remembered everything in your life also?"
    I nodded again.
    "Hm," Hultz sighed. "Do you have the same reaction with pictures?" he asked me.
    "Sometimes," I answered after a pause. Only some people's photographs were clear anough to see.
    Hultz was silent.
    "Prove it to me," he said. "Tell me what I'm thinking right now." I warily looked up into his eyes.
    "Hot chocolate," I told him. "And somewhere in the back of your head, you're replaying when you broke broke your arm on your tenth birthday."
    Hultz raised an eyebrow as I looked down.
    "That's impressive," he said. I didn't respond.
    "Well I think that's enough," Hultz sighed, walking past me and to the door. He gestured for me to step out.
    Hailey was leaning against the wall waiting for me.