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“SYD WAS HAUNTED, YOU KNOW?”

“I BECAME involved with Syd through my girlfriend at the time, Jenny Spires; she and Syd were childhood sweethearts. When he’d been younger he was of course very charming, the life and soul of the party, but by that time he was very withdrawn, living in his mother’s basement in Cambridge.

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