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Native American Diary Entry
Diary Entry #192
April 23rd 1865

This experience has been one of the most outlandish and eerie that one could of imagined. Most things in life can be explained rationally and with little thought to the reason or logic behind them, however what I have experienced is quite the conflicting to what I would usually be inclined to think. There must be some type of phenomenon that makes one feel as though one has left the natural world. These occurrences leave no room for logic, rationalization or justification.

They are the supernatural elements that seem to exist within the realm of the natural; my poor fellow the subject of such an occurrence was distraught, confused and anxious it is his death that has kept me awake at night thinking of

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