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Hey, you've reached Dipper! I'm not here right now, but leave a message and I'll get back to you soon!
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But if this is paranormal-related? Hang up now, call back, let it ring exactly twice, then hang up again. Don't leave a message. I'll get back to you even sooner.

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But if this is paranormal-related? Hang up now, call back, let it ring exactly twice, then hang up again. Don't leave a message. I'll get back to you even sooner.

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wait hold on. Do you want the short version or the really long version?
[You know, before he babbles endlessly.]
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AN HOUR LATER, A TEXT NOVEL ARRIVES
So like I...made this girl Sara a tape. It was kind of embarrassing and the content is definitely not important but I went to go give it to her at the football game and chickened out and then Greg turned up and ruined my life by giving it to these popular girls who stuck the tape in her jacket!!
I couldn't get it back without her noticing so we followed her to this party where JASON FUNDERBERKER was apparently going ask her out and like I can't compete with that. Dipper you do't understand this guy is the TOTAL PACKAGE. but of course Greg ran in there anyway, but Sara and our friends were all heading out to the graveyard to drink and tell scary stories and stuff.
Did I mention it was Halloween? Wait, you knew that already. Nevermind.
Anyway so we followed them and...ugh, I should have just. Gone with them. They invited me? I just. I don't know. But Greg ran out to distract them and we got caught and THEN the police showed up and everyone scattered?? Me and Greg scrambled up a wall and I saw Sara find my tape and FUNDERBERKER LAUGHED at it oh my god.
So...we jumped over the cemetery wall so the police wouldn't catch us and landed on the train tracks that run behind them. I almost never see trains come through there? So we landed and Greg found the frog he'd been hunting all night and I. Uh. I...kind of blamed him for everything that happened. I lost my cool. I probably shouldn't have been that hard on him?
[It's easy to feel a lot worse about it now that he knows he almost got both of them killed.]
Then suddenly there's that train whistle I heard! The one I told you about? A big black train was heading right for us, and we jumped off the tracks, but like. The tracks are at the top of this little hill? So we rolled super fast down the hill, hit a bunch of rocks and then like. At the bottom of the hill is a little pond, and crashed right into it and sank.
That's when we started walking around the Unknown! We're not really there; we're drowning in a pond. It's hard to explain but like. We keep trying to go home? And I don't know. I can't really prove anything but I think as long as there's a "way home" we're still okay? Maybe?
Or I could be totally wrong and we could be ghosts forever doomed to haunt the forest. But...I don't think I am this time? Hopefully?
I don't know you're the resident paranormal expert.
HOLY SHIT WIRT
Wow. I'm glad you're okay. Or at least not hit by a train, okayness pending. It's hard to say because the Unknown sounds like some weird metaphorical purgatory but yeah, I'd say if you have a way home you probably aren't dead yet. Falling in a pond is a way less certain death than getting hit by a train, too, so you've got that going for you.
Did the tape have poetry on it or clarinet?
[Those sound like the sorts of things Wirt would be the most embarrassed about.]
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[A brief delay, and then:]
Both. It had both and it was super embarrassing and she's probably never going to be able to look at me again without laughing!
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Hey, if she can't appreciate poetry and clarinet she's probably not the right girl for you anyway. You want someone who gets your stuff.
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Plus thinking it through more probably also would have led to a lot less drowning in the long run?
[Probably.]
Thanks though. I appreciate it.
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Anytime, man. I'm glad you're alive.