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Trudy: Now at Howard Johnson's, she orders clams and a chocolate soda and begins sorting her Post-It Notes from her last meeting with the aliens. She describes humorous findings about: Peking Man, death by thirst, death by hanging, and truth. She describes that walking upright came about to facilitate masturbation, and talks about the evolution of humanity from hunter/gatherers to partygoers. She discusses the origin of language, suggesting it may have originated because of an utterance of pain, or perhaps because people felt the need to complain. Talking led to gossip, Trudy says, and then to paranoia and war. She says the aliens worry about stress, even more than the actress does. She describes the aliens as getting emotionally attached to the people whose minds she visits. She says she was disappointed when she went shopping for souvenirs with the aliens. She relates that the aliens favor the unity of humanity. In parting, she mentions that to impress them she's taking them to see children playing the violin. Then she moves to a Los Angeles yard sale in 1985...

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