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    “I found out Dave and I was pregnant the next day. That was the baby I lost, not Cal”
    “Adrienne,” I said, keeping my voice as low and calm as I could. “I’d like to hypnotize you again. Perhaps we can discover what else happened that night.” I had some private doubts as to whether or not the hypnosis would work if she was drunk.
    “I don’t think so,” she said, immediately drawing in on herself. She crossed her arms over her chest and withdrew, like a threatened sea anemone.
    We talked about other things for a while, I asked her about Cal, and she told me he was starting kindergarten in Rhode Island; that he had a cousin very close to his own age and they had a wonderful time playing together. As she spoke of her son she became more animated.
    Finally, she withdrew again, re-crossed her arms on her chest, and said “Okay. You can do it.”
    What I present to you here is an actual transcript of our conversation.
    JG: The moon is full, and you have stepped out of your car. What happens next?
    AG: I walk. It isn’t far, and the dirt road hasn’t grown over much.
    JG: And then?
    AG: Then I see the opening of the mine.
    JG: What does it look like?
    AG: Like a cave…like a big, black gaping mouth. I wonder if bats will fly out at me.
    (fidgets, frowns.)
    JG: What next?
    AG: Light. Everywhere. White, brighter than the moon by a million times.
    JG: Is the light coming from one place? Do you see a ship?
    AG: A ship? No, it’s…there’s light, my whole world is light and I can’t move. I can’t move…why can’t I move?
    JG: Relax (I make my voice soothing here, trying to calm her. Sometimes they can forget that they’re safe and sound at home. I reminded her of this, and after a moment, her breathing returned to normal. When she spoke there was only a slight tremor in her voice.)
    AG: I started floating. Up. At least I think it was up. I couldn’t even move my eyes, and all I could see was white. And then there were men around me.
    JG: Men? What kind of men? What color was their skin?
    AG: They looked so normal except their eyes. There wasn’t any love in their eyes. No affection, no compassion. They were flat and dead.
    JG: The eyes, were they big and black? Almond shaped?
    AG: No…they were normal looking. At first.
    (This doesn’t fit with the standard abduction scenario. Abductees from all around the globe universally agree on what the visitors look like, and nine times out of ten they don’t look like humans. But sometimes I get reports that the visitors look like people. More on that later.)
    AG: I’m on an examining table. I’m naked. My clothes are gone, and I was freaking out before, but now I don’t care. I’m as placid and dead as the men around me. I feel like I’m at the doctor’s, there’s this one guy at the community health center who seems like he really doesn’t like being there, everything is clinical and impersonal. That’s what all these guys are like. Then the table breaks apart under my legs and takes them with it…like the table becomes a Y shape, and now my legs are spread. Something inside me. (She squirms in her seat again.)
    JG: (I am starting to wonder if she isn’t misremembering a rape, or a crime committed by earth denizens.) Are you aroused?
    AG: No. (The corners of her mouth draw down into a frown. She isn’t faking. The people—usually women—who are faking will say yes, they’re aroused. Adrienne looks agitated with me, I take it to mean she’s telling the truth.)
    JG: Then what happened?
    AG: Like the doctor’s. They pulled it out and went about their business. Just ignored me. The table moved and my legs went back together. I tried to sit up but I couldn’t. Then I was in bed, with Dave.
    * * *
    The next day, Adrienne had terrible cramps, could feel something in her stomach, and on a whim, bought a pregnancy test. It came back positive. Dave refused to take a paternity test and left her, and she never found out whose baby it was. A month