Luyện nghe bài hát Tragic Events - Part II

Are you crying,

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

I know,
I them too.
Especially this of year, Evelyn.

The is 1991,
Terminator 2 is the highest-grossing at the Box Office,
the first Super Entertainment System has just been released,
and 70 years of Communist rule
the of Soviet Socialist Republics has collapsed.

And on a chicken just outside of Claxton, Georgia,
twin sisters are for their supper.

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

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

One clear day,
during the sixth year at the farm,
McClock does not at meal time.
Night falls and still he appear.
The girls and the chickens cry out hunger.

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

Finally,
desperate to find food and concerned the whereabouts of their guardian,
the twins free from their cage.
house is locked tight,
but the girls find the hose, which quenches their thirst.
Still half with hunger,
make their way out to the road.

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

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

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

The are welcomed by Mrs. Deborah Bulgar, the fifty-two-year-old podiatrist, (?)
(Well, hello, girls!)
a of enormous 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,
which neither she nor the twins themselves are ever able to keep straight.

(Eva, Lynn.)

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

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

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

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

(Hello, your name?)

Her is Sandy.

(I'm Sandy.)

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

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

The twins remain in the underwood for the greater of two long, miserable years.
Without Sandy to them,
they are ostracized and abused by the girls.
(What are YOU at, four-eyes?)
The photo sessions fewer fancy costumes,
and over time uncles become more peculiar.
(Did I ask you to talk?!)
The twins begin to a disturbing tendency
for girls, much their dear friend Sandy,
to quietly disappear from the around their twelfth or thirteenth birthday.
The sisters brace for something 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, step right up, see amazing human oddities, 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 traveling
is the twelfth touring circus in North America.
Former salesmen, Dillard and Fullerton,
their enterprise 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 circus is harder than their at the underwood.
There is always to be done.
In to their 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 to be their uncles.
(Hello!)
(Hello!)
(Hello!)
But still, overall,
early days at the circus are happy times for the twins.

Every night to the delight of across the country,
the girls appear in the center ring, singing and a ukulele,
atop Bimba and Kimba - the world's known conjoined twin siamese elephants.

The twins they have found true soulmates in Bimba and Kimba,
who affectionately refer to as 'Elephant, Elephant'.
This special bond by the pachyderms,
who fondly nozzle the girls with trunks
and seem to delight in them rides.

The and the elephants are inseparable.

the help of the Alphonso the Arresting, the animal trainer,
(Like this!)
the tend to the elephants,
feeding and them daily.

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

For the next two the twins can only stand by helplessly,
as their companions become sicker and
and displaying obvious signs of memory loss.
The few days are almost unbearable.
With Bimba and Kimba's confused, sad
looking up at the girls with anguish,
but no of recognition.

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

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

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

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

(Get on damn ball!)

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

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

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

The second group operates under the acronym - the Society for the Preservation of Linked Identical Twins.
A organization,
working to discredit the of FASSTEN,
SPLIT that conjoined 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 to kidnap 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!)

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