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After 100 Years, the Mysteries of the Winchester House Endure
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Carly Severn (in scene): Where are we, Olivia?
Olivia Allen-Price (in scene): We are just outside the entrance to the mansion tour at the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose. And I’m so excited to be here. I have been here before, but it’s been a really long time.
Olivia Allen-Price:The Winchester Mystery House is one of those places that’s in all the tourist guidebooks. A spooky historic attraction that’s kinda like Alcatraz, or riding a cable car, in that many people who grew up here know about it — but have never visited.
Announcement (in scene): The Walk of the Spirits tour at 12:10 is departing at the front of the house on the front porch.
Olivia: One crisp fall day in the South Bay, with Halloween just around the corner, reporter Carly
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Safe Houses
The first time I fired a gun was on a Monday at an indoor range in South Houston. I was nine years old. I know it was a Monday, because Monday was Ladies Shoot Free Day, which was both financially prudent and my father’s day off from his job at a county hospital. I shot a Taurus .22-caliber J-frame revolver, which he says is a good gun for small-handed and small-framed people, though as a child I was what he describes as sturdy, a word he still uses for me as an adult.
When I walked into the range, accepted the earmuffs marked LADIESand the pair of me-sized yellow shooting glasses, I was on my way to being an adult, though I was still a child with tiny hands, thin wrists, and an unfortunate haircut—picture bowl cut plus perm. The earmuffs sagged around my head, and the yellow shooting glasses slid down my nose with each kick. On the targets, each .22 round left a hole smaller than a pupil, but a couple of groupings were adjacent to the bullseye. I took•
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