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Free… E… Nelson Mandela!… For those of you who don’t know… Nellie… Was a South African… Freedom fighter… Imprisoned during her shameful period of Apartheid… Later released… And her first serving president… In the new era of freedom… Those of us who remember… These events… Find it difficult to fathom… Why the world would condemn… Racial apartheid… Yet condone the medical variant… Of this reprehensible… Mind disease?… These days, however, Nellie… Is famous for lending… His name to a slightly different… Yet, no less controversial… Phenomenon… The Mandela Effect.
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This phenomena refers… To what we might want to call… Not necessarily… False memories… But certainly… Somewhat skewed memories… So named… Because many people believed Nellie… Had in fact died in prison… In the Eighties… Rather than having been released… And becoming president… Now if one person believes such a thing… And no others… And the memory is inaccurate… It is fairly easy to dismiss… But in Mandela Effects’… And there are an increasing number of such things… Whole rafts of people corroborate the belief… In question… Which does lead to interesting speculations…
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The first question… To leap out at us, perhaps, is… Are all these people… From a parallel universe… In which their mistaken belief… Did actually occur… And if so… Then how… And when… Did they arrive in this universe… Where it palpably didn’t?… If you have been following… Our torturous tale… So far… A very obvious answer… To the second question… May have immediately presented itself… Two Thousand And One… But can we be more precise?… Why, of course we can… September… Eleventh… Which being the case… May even allow us to have a stab at the first question… Some sort of rift?…
France & Vincent 