Simma Liberman's: I Never Be Mean To Anyone Again

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8 He Died Alone But Tried To Reach Out One Last Time
When we get the news that someone close to us had passed away it is natural to feel shock and sadness. What makes matters even worse is when we hear that they died alone and were only discovered a few days later…
A woman, who had been separated from her husband, received a phone call from the police informing her that he had passed away. They had found him in his flat and concluded that he had died two days earlier. Minutes after receiving this terrible news her phone started to ring but when she went to answer it she saw it was coming from her husband’s phone. She answered thinking it might be the police calling from his phone but only heard static on the other side. What makes this story
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This one comes out of the late 1960’s.
Simma Liberman had just moved in together with her lover, a man named Johnny. The two were blissfully happy and planned on getting married soon. One night Johnny went out and a few hours later Simma received a strange call from him. The line was full of static and his voice sounded rushed. According to her account he said, “I just want you to know that I love you, and I’ll never be mean to anyone again.” She tried to ask him what was wrong but the line went dead.
A few hours later she received another call, this time from Johnny’s mother. She told Simma that Johnny had been shot and killed in his car earlier that night, long before she received the strange call from him.
3 Let Me Leave a Message
During the late 1990’s a woman named Betty started working at a new job. A few days into her new job her co-workers left her to answer the phones while they went out to lunch. While they Mary absentmindly answered one of her co-workers phones. A man on the phone asked for someone unfamiliar then corrected himself and asked for Mary, one of Betty’s colleagues. Betty explained that Mary was out and the man said, “Could you tell her this is her brother? I really missed her at the family gathering and I wished that she had

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