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Every evening Heidi locked up the store down in gastown, crossed the street and hailed a cab. Night after boring night it was the same thing. Lock up cross the street catch cab. Her poor putrid life had become nothing more than a broken record. Almost on the brink of suicide, Heidi decided she would try to shake things up a bit. It was on that fateful night, her life changed forever. Heidi decided to walk home.

And so it began. Heidi locked up, crossed the street and walked past the cab that was waiting for her. Up the street and around the corner ... This isn't so bad she thought. This is actually kind of fun. Finding the thrill seeker in her, she decided to proceed down the next alley way... Eyes darting all around she saw a world she did not recognize. Sights, smells and most importantly sounds. She heard footsteps behind her. Clod clod clod... The sound was exhilarating and she felt her heart start pumping faster and faster, out the alley and onto the sidewalk, new noises, cars driving past, cabbies honking at aggressive drivers and down the next alley way she went... Clod clod clod was the sound again. Heidi's heart raced faster still.

Was she being followed? She pondered turning onto another sidewalk... Don't look back. Don't look Back. This was just too exhilarating, she had to find out and so down the next dark alleyway... Clod CLod CLOD !!!

Heidi turned and saw him. He looked extremely familiar yet she did not know who he was. Before she could utter a word, Heidi received the most painful kick between the legs she had ever received. She was on the ground in an instant, writhing in pain when this familiar person began to speak.

"You don't remember me do you? You fucking bitch, I have been stalking you for the last 18 years. Seeing how your life is so pathetic I almost gave up, but I knew, just once you would give me a chance to wreak my revenge. Yes, it is I, Igor. You thought it was so fucking funny in the first grade to kick me in the balls. Well it fucking HURTS don't it?"

And with that, Igor turned and skipped on down the street like the fag he had become.