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At six o'clock in the morning, the telephone rang. I woke up but on the other side I heard no more than a breath. Thinking it was a mistake or some kind of joke, I just put down the phone and went back to sleep.

Later on, the phone rang again. It was five o'clock. "It can't be" I thought. I answered the phone but I couldn't understand a word. It seemed to be a language I didn't know. After a minute of an unknown speech I decided to hang up. When I was going back to bed I saw myself there. I was shocked. When I came closer, I saw that the other me wasn't breathing. "Am I dead?"

I felt terrified. I went around the house and I didn't know what to do, then I saw the gas was on. I turned it off and I felt no more.

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