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Card 069 of 9802026-09-27 issue

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The Second Impact, with its paperwork attached

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A chaptered fictional crash narrative anchored to an Aurora, Illinois, 1995 police report and its accident-photo sheets.

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The fiction notice specifies that the source report does not say Sherman Doss’s family was killed; the story invents that loss and its surrounding events.

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The page identifies the source file as a March 17, 1995, crash report for Eola Road at Montgomery Road in Aurora. Its prologue and four chapters use the report as a framework, then add a family, dialogue, thoughts, and deaths that the notice explicitly attributes to invention. The page also points readers to a complete PDF described as containing accident-photo sheets; the extracted evidence does not establish whether that file can be opened.

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