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DEAD END
Bowling Brook Apartments, Laurel, Maryland
It became apparent that staying in the NSA dorms could not go on too long without a visit home. By the time Jana got back to her apartment, she was exhausted. With all the anxiety of losing Stephen Latent and her friend Gilda, the stress was beginning to pile up.
And weighing equally on her mind were the statements Waseem Jarrah had made to her. Jana wished she had been able to record those first phone calls. He said some strange things and she knew they meant something but had no idea what.
When Jarrah had finally stopped questioning her childhood, he had used the phrase “a voice like thunder,” and the word “come.” To her it had seemed as though he were either quoting something from memory or reading a script.
Between those cryp
