"I believed him, " said Cleveland, who was then asked if the crew were offered paid expenses home.

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And he said it in such a way, with this kind of spontaneous conviction, that I believed him.

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My first thought was that a guy like Swartz was going to get suspended from school (I believed him to be a student).

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He just kept saying it was his cold and I stupidly believed him.

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But neither Susan nor Lynn seemed right for a Quaker girl converting to Catholicism, as I had been in the process of doing with Father James, wishing to fill the long empty hours with something commensurate with my desire and because I loved him and believed he would like me better with a name like Mary.

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About 25 minutes later and 22 miles to the northwest, the suspect is believed to have carjacked someone -- and shot him -- in Tustin near I-5.

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