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    "ocrText": "-2-\nS:\nOkay, is there any other time during the weekend I could meet you\nif you wanted to do that, or are you going to be too jammed up?\nK:\nWell, we could conceivably do it Sunday morning.\nS:\nGreat. If you tell me where, I'll be there.\nK:\nOh, I could come by your place actually.\nS:\nWould you like to have brunch? So we could be alone?\nK:\nYou see, that's my uncertainty always on Sundays is\nlet me check.\nS:\nIf I know that you can do it sometime Sunday then I will keep the\nday free and I have to go out of town for one day, and I'll go out of town\nSaturday.\nK:\nOh, no, no. Or do you want to come down for dinner? Could you\ncome down for dinner tomorrow night?\nS:\nUnfortunately, I can't. I would bend every effort to but this is a\nvery tough time for me. Do you think we could do it Sunday?\nK:\nWell let me try for Sunday. I don't have to make any acute\ndecisions, but what I would like to\nS:\nJust sit quietly.\nK:\nis to just get, you know, the categories of thought straightened out.\nS:\nRight. That's what I would want to talk to you about because you\nare a very important and dear person and it must be murder being where\nyou are at this moment. It's probably worse in many ways than\nK:\nWell, it's so heartbreaking. You know, it's easy to spit on these\nguys but they tried to do what they thought was the right thing and\nS:\nI know it.\nK:\nand they just got in over their heads, and the more they tried\nto recover, the worse.\nS:\nThat's right. They were on a treadmill.\nK:\nThe worse it became.\nS:\nYeah, well, look. I'll do what you wish. I will be here next week"
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