Luyện nghe bài hát Tragic Events - Part II

Are you crying,

No... Well, yes.
I was just about Sandy.
And Bimba and Kimba.
I them, Evelyn.

I know,
I miss too.
Especially time of year, Evelyn.

The is 1991,
Terminator 2 is the film at the Box Office,
the first Super Nintendo System has just been released,
and after 70 of Communist rule
the Union of Socialist Republics has collapsed.

And on a chicken ranch just of Claxton, Georgia,
twin are waiting for their supper.

The farm is old and operated by McClock,
an man with a fascination with Civil War weaponry.
McClock's chicken farms produces over 140, 000 chickens a
and ships wings, thighs and legs all over the continental States.

Despite the success of his business,
McClock a solitary life,
never marrying and several of the chicken houses himself.
A man with a not entirely bad heart.
McClock never knew how to best take care of the young girls who came his life shortly after their birth,
so he raised them the only way he how -
in a two foot by two foot cage,
on a diet of mash, crumbles, and egg booster.

One clear day,
during the twins sixth at the farm,
McClock not come at meal time.
Night falls and he doesn't appear.
The and the chickens cry out from hunger.

pass, and the chickens in neighboring cages begin to die.
The smell of rotting poultry permeates the air of the hot, barn.

Finally,
desperate to food and concerned over the whereabouts of their guardian,
the twins break from their cage.
McClock's house is tight,
but the girls find the garden hose, quenches their thirst.
Still delirious with hunger,
they their way out to the road.

Little time before a dusty black Cadillac Coupe DeVille drives by and pulls over.
A tall, mustachioed man with a kindly face out of the vehicle.
He at the girls
(Hello)
and presents them the first candy they have ever tasted - a Twix bar,
which share in silent, odd delight.
The do not feel at all uncomfortable when the man leads them gently into the dark, spacious trunk.

In the following days the are transferred into the trunks of several other cars (Hello)
by many other kindly, (Hello) men (Hello)
until reach their final destination at a lakeside lodge in Manitoba.

The underwood lodge is a collection of cozy, waterfront cabins with an attached park along the shores of lake Winnipeg.
It is also the world headquarters of Flowers Entertainment,
specializing in the production and distribution of photographs and VHS for clientele with unique tastes.

The girls are welcomed by Mrs. Deborah Bulgar, the podiatrist, (?)
(Well, hello, girls!)
a woman of proportions,
who lives with her own three children in the main of the underwood.

Upon finding that the have no names she christens them Eva and Lynn,
names which neither she nor the twins themselves are able to keep straight.

(Eva, Lynn.)

The twins' at the underwood are relatively comfortable,
they are cared for,
the is delicious,
and are many other girls their age.
Once a week, sessions take place,
convivial affairs involve make-up,
a wide variety of up costumes
and new games.

Every few days Mrs. Bulgar introduces the girls to one of many uncles.
(Eva, Lynn, say hello to uncle, Mark.)
(Heeey.)
uncles,
seemingly in number,
travel from all the world to visit their nieces.

The girls don't always their new uncles,
but Mrs. Bulgar is always quick to remind
that 'family is family' and 'blood is thicker water'.

The conjoined sisters are not popular amongst the girls,
however, one gentle resident, a few years their senior, befriends them and takes them her wing.

(Hello, your name?)

Her is Sandy.

(I'm Sandy.)

She has soft blonde that reaches down to her knees.
Everyone she looks like a mermaid.
Dressed daily by Mrs. Bulgar in trademark fishnet stockings and attire,
is by far the most popular girl of the underwood.
She has so uncles
that the lose count.

Every after dinner and chores,
tucks the young sisters into bed and tells them fantastic stories
until fall peacefully to sleep.
(And after three long weeks at sea, John Luke (?) the sailor spotted land.)
But these happy do not last.
Shortly after the third Christmas under Mrs. Bulgar's care,
disappears,
to return.

The twins remain in the underwood for the greater part of two long, years.
Without Sandy to them,
they are ostracized and by the other girls.
(What are YOU at, four-eyes?)
The photo involve fewer fancy costumes,
and over their uncles become more peculiar.
(Did I ask you to talk?!)
The twins begin to notice a disturbing
for girls, much like their friend Sandy,
to quietly disappear from the underwood around their or thirteenth birthday.
The sisters brace themselves for terrible.

One autumn, when the are eleven,
an old man, who speaks only Spanish, takes the twins into a large orange van and them to their new home.

(Step right up, right up, see amazing human oddities, freaks of nature! Be warned, people with heart condition, children, women - We will accept no responsibility for fainting, reoccurring nightmares, or death.)

Dillard and Fullerton, elusive and illogical show
is the twelfth touring circus in North America.
insurance salesmen, Dillard and Fullerton,
distinguish their by procuring the most shocking specimen of the grotesque and unusual.
Their small administrative works tirelessly
to combat legal actions and public of animal cruelty
and human trafficking.

Life in the is harder than their time at the underwood.
is always work to be done.
In addition to chores of laundry and sweeping,
Mr. Dillard insist that the twins many hours each day practicing their act.

(What are you standing for?)

The girls are of the clowns,
of whom, by amazing coincidence,
also happen to be uncles.
(Hello!)
(Hello!)
(Hello!)
But still, overall,
these early days at the circus are times for the twins.

night to the delight of audiences across the country,
the girls appear in the center ring, and strumming a ukulele,
atop Bimba and Kimba - the only known conjoined twin siamese elephants.

The feel they have found true soulmates in Bimba and Kimba,
who they refer to as 'Elephant, Elephant'.
special bond reciprocates by the pachyderms,
who fondly nozzle the with their trunks
and seem to delight in giving rides.

The twins and the are inseparable.

With the help of the Alphonso the Arresting, the trainer,
(Like this!)
the twins to the elephants,
and grooming them daily.

But one August morning,
and Kimba refuse to take their food.
Due to the unsanitary conditions of their
and an improper diet of popcorn and candy,
the elephants have contracted a rare form of diphtheria,
by early onset Alzheimer's disease.

For the next two weeks the twins can stand by helplessly,
as their companions become sicker and
and begin displaying obvious of memory loss.
The last few days are unbearable.
With Bimba and confused, sad eyes
looking up at the with great anguish,
but no of recognition.

And on one grim day
the sisters' sixteenth
Elephant dies.

The funeral is the same day,
a grisly affair at an industrial trash behind a Home Depot
in Dodge, Iowa.

The are devastated.
Without and Kimba life is but a terrible and meaningless void.
They resign themselves to living out the of their hollow existence
in mourning.
The emotionally exausted sisters fall from within the circus.

No longer willing to sing and their ukulele,
the girls are dressed in a pink tutu and to balance on a giant red ball,
an impossible for the conjoined sisters.

(Get on damn ball!)

The audience roars with each time they awkwardly fall.
discomfort is increased by a pair of radical groups ,
who have taken an in the twins.
night in most major cities, protesters assemble,
nosily waving signs and slogans in front of the Box Office.

The first faction claims to represent an called 'FASSTEN' - the Foundation for Always Separating Siamese Twins Everywhere Now.

Citing the bible, FASSTEN vehemently believe
that it is the of the Lord that all conjoined twins
be separated and to live individual lives.
Wielding surgical saws and blunt carbon knives,
FASSTEN members chide the ticket for supporting the abomination of god.

The second group operates under the acronym SPLIT - the Society for the Preservation of Identical Twins.
A organization,
working to the claims of FASSTEN,
SPLIT believes that twins will play a critical role in the second coming of Christ.

The are terrified by both groups - the knives and saws make them very nervous,
and SPLIT members make threats to the girls
and take them to where they will be kept in a place of darkness until the rapture.

One day before a Sunday matinee in Sacramento, a chaotic brawl erupts the two factions
and one member gets alarmingly close to the twins with a hacksaw.

(It's the of the Lord!)

Stricken fear,
the sisters decide that are no longer safe at the circus.
That night, they make a resolution - to leave the and Fullerton traveling show
forever.