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Lucas where have you been I have been  waiting for you for like about two hours
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I'm sorry that I was talking with my friends  and I didn't realize it was already late
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you didn't realize don't you know  it's dangerous to be out so late
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yeah I know but I was with my friends  I think you're exaggerating that
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exaggerating then let me tell you a story  you will change your mind after this
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it all happened when I was a child I used to  play with my brothers and sister in the park  
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well it was not a park it was more like a cliff  
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we used to go there because it was full of  sand we could play different things there
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we also played with our neighbors there were a lot  of children in the neighborhood we used to live  
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anyway we used to go to that Cliff every afternoon  
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we went there at three or  four in the afternoon until
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five or six in the afternoon it was a regular day  I remember that day clearly my dad had arrived  
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from work with my brother he used to take  him to work because he is the oldest brother  
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they used to arrive at 2 pm when my dad  arrived we my siblings and I asked him if  
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we could go to play to the cliff as usual he said  we could go but first we had to wash the dishes  
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we didn't like washing the dishes  of course but we have to do it
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after washing the dishes we were allowed to go to  play so I called my friends my neighbors in this  
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case and we went to our favorite place to play  we were like seven or nine children more or less
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we arrived to that cliff it was more like a  small Mountain because it was a little big  
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we went there and started playing hide and seek  
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my brother Jeremy and I went to hide behind  one of the mountains it was not very far
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when we were there waiting for  our friend to find us we saw a man  
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he was just standing there  about 100 meters from us  
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we thought he was one of our friend's  fathers so we didn't pay much attention to it
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minutes passed and no one came looking for  us we were starting to get bored in fact  
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we torrent the city man who  was standing in the distance  
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but he wasn't there anymore we even  thought that we had imagined him
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and then he has maybe been a ghost so we got  scared and started running to the place where  
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my other friends were of course we lost the game  but we didn't care much about it we were shaking
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with all our friends that we had seen a strange  man standing there and that he was looking at us  
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they started laughing they  said that we had imagined it  
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but we knew we had seen him they didn't believe us
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we continued playing and  we didn't see the man again  
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at about five in the afternoon we went  back home to have dinner we also told  
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my dad that story I mean that we saw  a man standing there and looking at us
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and that suddenly he had disappeared but  my parents didn't believe me either they  
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said I had just imagined that and  I started thinking that maybe yeah  
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maybe they were right and I had imagined him
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so I just forgot about it the next  day we went to the same place as usual  
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but this time we went with our bikes we  love to ride our bikes on that mountain  
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there was only one bike or My Brother and Me
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so we normally had to share it I  didn't have any problem with that  
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so we started playing hide and seek  again but this time with our bikes  
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so we went to the same place there  back in the mountain we were hiding
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suddenly we saw that man again this time  he was closer to us like 50 minutes from us  
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that's why I could see him more clearly  
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it was real I hadn't imagined him he  was a tall man with beard and long hair
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we thought he was homeless because  his clothes were very dirty and we  
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could hardly see his face because  his hair was all over his face  
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he was there standing and looking at  us again he looked very weird seriously
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but he never came close to us so we  just stayed there right in our bike we  
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kept playing the whole afternoon as usual  then we realized it was very late for us  
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we normally went back home  at five in the afternoon
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but this time it was half past six  
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it was almost night we had been so entertained  playing that we had not realized the time  
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I told my brother to ride his bike and that I  could run to home that way we could arrive earlier
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so I started running and left  my brother behind with the bike  
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when I turned to see him there  was a man standing next to him  
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that was the same man we had seen before  this time he was very close to my brother
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he was next to him I didn't know what was  happening but suddenly my brother started crying  
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that man had taken his bike so  I ran back to him to help him  
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I couldn't let that man  steal our bike of course not
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when I got there I told him that was  our bike and that he couldn't take  
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it or we will call our parents he said  he didn't care he took the bike anyway  
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we started screaming calling  our friends so they can help us
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then the man took the bike  and also took my brother's  
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arm he said he had a place full  of cookies and candies for us  
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with more bikes new bikes and that he wanted  us to go with him of course we didn't go
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I wanted to run to my house but he was  holding my brother's arm I was so scared  
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I didn't know what to do I just took a  stone and threw it to the guy the rock  
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fell on his head and he started  bleeding he left my brother's arm
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I took my brother and ran to  a place my other friends were  
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I didn't look back at all I  just wanted to see my friends  
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I was very very scared suddenly we found  our friends and we told him about the man
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this time the man was there standing and bleeding  so everyone believed us this time they started  
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throwing more rocks to him so he left running  we took our bike and went back home that day
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I had to explain my father what had happened this  
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time my friends were there so he  believed us and my brother too  
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we never went to that place to play again and  probably it happened because it was very late
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now do you understand why I get mad at you for  arriving late also with my brother and my friends  
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playing but there are always bad people everywhere  we always have to be careful son I'm just worried
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you're right Dad I'm really sorry  I will never stay out so late again
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yes I hope so now go to take a  shower because we will have dinner  
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I hope you liked this story if you could improve  your English a little more please subscribe to  
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the channel and share this video with a friend  thank you very much for your support take care
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