Mind Webs - A Child Is Crying
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Mind Webs - A Child Is Crying

B2Upper-intermediateNovember 4, 202631 min
  • Documentary
  • Fiction & stories

A surreal sci-fi series exploring speculative concepts, dreams, and philosophical what-ifs. Each episode is a cerebral journey into the mind’s deepest questions. This episode includes AI-generated content.

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I'm going to the DONG! This is Michael Hanson. This half hour, our story comes from thrilling wonder stories, copyright 1948 by Standard

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Magazines Incorporated. It's John D. McDonald's, A Child is Crying. His mother, who was brought to New York with him, said at the press conference that Billy was a very bright boy, and there wasn't anything else his parents could teach him.

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The schoolteacher back in New Mexico shuttered delicately, looking at the distant stars, and said it seemed to her as if everywhere she went and everything she did, she could feel those eyes of Billie's watching her. Bain, a notorious pseudo-psychiatrist, wrote an article loaded with cliches in which he

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