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☆PLEASE NOTE: Previous discussion has proven that there is exactly one moral of this story: Make love when you can. It's good for you. Yet another is "Whenyou're dead, you're dead." And some bothersome depressing folks saying: "Weare what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend tobe." Why do they have to be such worry warts? They really bum me out.

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TRANSCRIBER'S CERTIFICATEI certify that the foregoing is a correct transcript from the record of proceedingsin the above-entitled matter.

Attendee comments during playback have been omitted.

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[BEGIN TRANSCRIPT]

PSYCHIATRIST 1:

You will be given a transcript of the seven tapes I am about to play. We are recording andtranscribing this meeting. Each tape contains an interview between Dr. William Fink and a manwho identifies himself as Howard Campbell. However, no records have been discovered to indicatethat a man named Howard Campbell exists. We have two documents he gave to Dr. Fink. We donot have the journals or manifestos discussed, which the patient, Richard Wilson, reportedly read.Dr. Fink’s license to practice medicine has been indefinitely suspended. Our task is to assess if thesituation is contained, or if additional liabilities to the hospital may arise.

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31, 2003DR. WILLIAM FINK:

January 31, 2003, Howard Campbell giving background on Ward 3 patientRichard Wilson.

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Tell me about Richard inviting you to Hawaii. When did you get here?

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. A week earlier, at my home in Atlanta,I got a certified letter with a first class ticket to Hawaii. Richard had included a note, “Let’s spendChristmas together.” I wasn’t expecting what he prepared for me.

DR. WILLIAM FINK:

What do you mean?

HOWARD CAMPBELL:

He didn’t answer his hotel room phone. He left no message at the front desk,but I was registered as a second guest, so they gave me a key. On his door hung a “Do Not Disturb”sign. Intricately bizarre barely begins to describe what I found inside.Hundreds of books were everywhere: some neatly stacked, others spread out over the carpeting—conspiracy novels, Sufi poetry, books on philosophy and everything from saltwater aquariums toquantum psychology—with hundreds of DVDs, along with papers and pictures. Each grouping of material formed mini-constellations. Centered on the dining table, on a tower of papers, was a note,“Howard, I hope you will find the accommodations amenable. If you are reading this, I have eitherescaped or am being held captive. Back Men found me.”

DR. WILLIAM FINK:

Nurse Oglethorpe didn’t put any of this in her report.

HOWARD CAMPBELL:

I was in a bit of a state of shock. But, I knew I could tell you the details nowwhen we finally met. Bucky created an event for me to experience, and more carefully chosen thana casual glance would glean. He was…