Board Thread:Season 42/@comment-24603302-20170903003024/@comment-26725365-20170903064737

==Clifford’s Rites of Passage ==

I’ve never done a Rites of Passage before and I’m crazy-excited to finally do one! I love music so I’m going to post a song lyric that reminds me of you and then talk about our experience in the game together or any thoughts I may have. If I didn’t get to meet you in the game I apologize if I don’t have much to say but I want to honour and respect everyone who played. Thank you!

Anna
“ You get ready, you get all dressed up  To go nowhere in particular  Back to work or the coffee shop  Doesn't matter 'cause it's enough  To be young and in love  <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">To be young and in love” <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">It’s always hard to be the first one out, especially in an all-returnees season. You were obviously cast for a reason and you, just like everyone, wanted to make the most out of your last stand. I’m sorry that didn’t happen for you. I hope that doesn’t stop you from riding in a sweet car with the windows down, hair to the wind, being wild and free. You seem like you have a great spirit about you.

<span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Brett
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“We could be friends <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">We could be friends <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Put your head on my shoulders”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Hey dude! Sucks we didn’t get to play together but I think you’re getting the better deal because you’re playing with my wife Lindsay instead! I’m pretty sure you’re the same Brett in her BBORG game right now. Right? You were someone at first glance I was excited to meet in the game. I think you would have been similar to Chris where you’re just charming, super fun socially, smart and cunning. Too bad you went so soon. But yeah...we could totally be friends.

<span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Erin
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“What’s the worst that I can say? <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Things are better if I stay <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">So long and goodnight <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">So long and goodnight”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Erin, you were our leader and my first vote of the season. I actually don’t think I would be this far in the game had I not voted you out that night. You were so strong-willed and there was an air of unpredictability due to you big move the game before when you flipped on your original tribe. That’s a hard reputation to come into a game with and I know a lot about heavy reputations. I knew voting you out was the right move for me though. You were trying to make an all-girls alliance the night before when making a functioning vote chat with a mix of us guys and gals. There was a confusion on whether you were trying to create an alliance with that vote chat or not but you cleared that up on your way out, it was just a vote chat, not an alliance. If that all-girls alliance worked out it would have meant trouble for me if there wasn’t going to be a tribe swap. I had to do what would be best for my immediate game instead of risking being on a short pecking order. I want to see you back for sure. I just don’t want to go up against you! Respect.

<span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Tyson
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“ <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">We must talk on every telephone <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Get eaten off the web <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">We must rip out all the epilogues <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">From the books that we have read <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">And to the face of every criminal <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Strapped firmly to a chair <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">We must stare, we must stare, we must stare”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Never met you Tyson but are the rumours true? Were you voted out with an idol in your pocket? I’ve been told that story throughout the season and often thought people were trying to throw me off their scent but the Phaluai idol never came to be! Realllllly sucks to be voted out with an idol in your pocket. Same thing happened to Jaylen in my first season and he was playing a strong and steady game. Pretty cool you found an idol so early though.

<span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Konstantinos
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“Thunder, thunder <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Thunder, thun', thunder <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Thun-thun-thunder, thunder, thunder <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Thunder, thun', thunder <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Thun-thun-thunder, thunder”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Dude! Sorry I didn’t get voted out sooner so we could start our own exit interview show called Two Beards, One Cup: The Kos and Cliffy Show! You were such a wild-man personality! Pure THUN-THUN-THUNDER! I tried giving you a heads up that you were the vote but you didn’t believe me. Then you threw me under the bus lol. I feel like the season would have been 10x crazier if you stayed (and that’s a good thing) just not for those of us that are trying to win against a rabid bear that wants to eat us alive!

<span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Alietta
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“I was born a unicorn <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I missed the ark <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">But I could have sworn you’d wait for me”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Your vote sent ripples through the other tribes. NO ONE was expecting you to go that early and all the stories floating around at the F17 double-tribal make it sound like you were not only here to play but you were going to make the game more dramatic than it already was! You were the unicorn of Survivor: Last Stand and it’s a shame you went extinct because you’re one-of-a-kind!

<span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Annabelle
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“If I had wings like Noah's dove <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I'd fly up the river to the one I love <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Fare thee well, my honey, fare thee well”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Annabelle, you were my first real ally in this game, and no one knew we were working together. While I was building a relationship with you, I was also building a relationship with Yannick. We tried hard to find an idol for you that night to try and save you but we simply didn’t have the votes and the tribe’s reason for voting you out was because you were quiet due to being in a few games at once. I wish you got to play longer, I know how much this game meant to you. It was so sad to say goodbye to you.

<span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Nathan
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“Where are we? <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">What the hell is going on? <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The dust has only just begun to form <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Crop circles in the carpet” <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">You got voted out in one of the craziest tribals of the season and got Malcolm’d. You were a serious social and challenge threat that would be better to get out sooner than later. I really didn’t have a good grasp at what our relationship could be because you were acting social with me yet telling others that I told Jenna that Miguel was the vote. We had that conversation about building trust and that was my hint-hint to try and get you to just fess up so we could have a clean slate but it never came! That’s okay. There was so much going on that tribal I don’t know how anyone could trust anyone tbh. I really like you and wish I could have had a serious go to work with you as an ally.

<span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Miguel
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“ <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I'm sending out a searchlight <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Shine it out until I find you, oh <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Can you bring me back to life <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">When my heart's in smithereens”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I knew you had a hard road ahead of you but I was so sad to see you go! You were so fun and sneaky! Yannick and I were actually terrified of you early on because you’re one of those players who get more dangerous the deeper they go. But that didn’t stop me from wanting to play with you. I’m was happy the vote was Nathan and not you but sad to see you go out immediately after. You were in such a tough position. I’m glad we met. You’re a really good dude. I hope your schooling is going well. And thanks for getting me the name of my favourite Chilean bread! Hallelujah for Hallullas!

<span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Julez
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“Tears on the mausoleum floor <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Blood stains the coliseum doors”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Julez...we all want to know….WHAT HAPPENED! Similar to Tyson and Alietta, I only heard of your demise through whispers around the campfire at night. It sounds like you burned hot but flamed out? I’m sure you can tell me the whole story after the game. It’s a shame we never really got to play together and that’s twice now we didn’t get to see our full potential together! We were in a TBORG game together that I had to leave due to a death of a friend. So when I saw you in Last Stand I was like YES! We get our chance to see our full story play out! Then you got voted out and I was like damn. Rumour has it there was a Friendship Idol in your pocket. I could have been that Friend you played the Idol on! Lol all the best, Julez.

<span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Taylor
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“ <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">All the soldiers say <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">It'll be alright <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">We may make it through the war <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">If we make it through the night <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">All the people, they say: <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">What a lovely day, yeah, we won the war <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">May have lost a million men, but we've got a million more <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">All the people, they say.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Your vote-out feels like a soldier’s death and I feel like CRUD about our last conversation. When I saw you were on a tribe with Jake and Jace, I told you to team up with Pris and Sim to take out one of the two. It was your opportunity to take out a threat early but we underestimated how close Jake and Sim were. The better play for that round would have been to target Jake over Jace and see if Jace and Pris would vote with you. It was a rock and a hard place though. Because you were in the S&S alliance with Jace but also in the chat Chris made planning a move against Jace. I know the vote was initially supposed to be Sim but I don’t know if Jake would have let that happen or not. Not at that point of the game. And even if Jace was the vote, he had an idol and decent instincts. So I think the way the cards laid out was just the perfect shit-storm. It was great playing with you.

<span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Eva
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.488;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:10pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“I don't eat <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I don't sleep <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I do nothing but think of you <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">You keep me under your spell (3x)”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Okay… I actually wrote this one last. I’ve been thinking, talking, writing about you all season. I know, I know. My second biggest regret in the game is talking to you before the vote. I knew you were planning my blindside far in advance and was deathly afraid of repeating the past. (For those who don’t know, Eva and I played our very first game together on Johnny’s ORG and had a very emotional relationship/arc in the game.) Maya told me you approached her with 9+ hours left to the competition about blindsiding me so I felt it was safe to say the original plan of you voting with me and Yannick and Rhi wasn’t going to happen and I didn’t want to compromise Maya voting  for  me by trying to vote against her so that’s why I didn’t talk most of that round. Then we talked in the last two hours briefly, after I already voted, and I sincerely thought Rhi had an idol or advantage (which I believe she did, she had a Vote Spy, but I don’t know if she got it at that point of the game or not.) But I wish I never talked to you. You wrote me and my idol/advantage fear made me pretend like I felt like I was the vote and accepting my placement at F13. That must have left you feeling shitty afterwards especially because it was similar gameplay to our first game. At that very moment in time I thought that was the best way to play it. If I could do it all over again, I wouldn’t have read your message. I would have just left it alone. My only fear there was you would take my silence as a sign and use an idol or advantage to save yourself and knock me out. But you targeting me isn’t even your fault. It’s my fault. I came into this game, and the moment I saw you, I just said FUCK. Because there was no way, after playing with me, watching me from the VL, interviewing me on my strategy after BBAS and after I hosted you in Modern Empire that we would be able to trust each other or work together AT ALL. We are way too familiar with each other’s gameplay. And we came with a history so that was tough. You had actual friends in the game and I didn’t. When you showed me the vote Jake made for me, I got Chris to leak it because I wanted to polarize you. I wanted to take a clear shot with a shoddy cover-up so you would be faced with a decision to try and take me out or not when we went to tribal next. What you don’t know is that I thought I was going until the tribal results were posted. I know Maya came to me with the information and promised me the world but I still thought she was voting with you. I didn’t understand why she would keep me tbh. Now comes the hard part. There was a lot of moving parts to that vote that made it particularly hard for you. I won’t state any of that here because that’s yours and I want to respect your privacy. It was enough of a perfect shit storm for you to block me. You have unblocked me since but have not re-added me to Facebook which sucks but I respect your decision. The thing is… after Johnny’s ORG you said you wanted nothing to do with me and that you would never forgive me. And then one day… you forgave me. And since then we got to pee on Sean Fox in the Hunger Games and I represented you on your run for ORG President while you were battling a crippling meth addiction. I got to watch you grow and see how the ORG had a positive impact on your personal growth and self-image. You know the ORG has done the same for me. Helped me with my sobriety and made me more assertive. To the point where I was confident enough to leave my day job and pursue stand-up full time. We have had similar paths to a certain degree but at the same time, in Survivor, we’re too toxic for one another and may have to apply the Alex Lopez rule (we have agreed not to play a game together ever again. Which is the right decision.) You and I are kind of what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. You’re badass though. Keep doing your thing and all the best going forward.

<span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Hannah
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“If she wants to dance and drink all night <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Well, there's no one that can stop her”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">LOL omg Hey Hannah! You were just so unpredictable for me! I just pictured you as this fun-dancing-ball-of-energy that was going to whip through the game. You had a lot of relationships and people wanted to ally with you. It was terrifying to think of you as a long term ally because I knew what you were going to do! You told me right away that you wanted to vote out Yannick and I didn’t want to vote him out. In fact, I wanted to go to the very end with Yannick. I didn’t really lean too much into it. I just kind of left the conversation for the morning but then I woke up with you being paranoid and distrusting and I feared you. And I really feared that no one saw how much damage you could do if you were left in the game longer. AND I REALLY FEARED THE FACT THAT PRIS AND JENNA FLIPPED AND WE ALMOST WENT TO ROCKS!!!! You and I had a great conversation after the fact and I’m sorry our game goals didn’t align. After you were voted out Felix wrote me and all he said was two words: “You twat.” lol

<span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Chris
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“ <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I started a fire and I watched it grow <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">And now it burns out of control <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I want you bad <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I need you bad” <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">DAMN DUDE. That fucking sucked. Oh hey! My first time dropping an F bomb in this whole Rites of Passage thingy. That’s surprising. I’m usually a sailor around these parts. When you were voted out I had no idea that Jake A) found and idol and B) that you would be the target. I was of the understanding that if he was going to idol someone out it would be Jace at that point in time. He did mention you, but moved on, and then came back to you. He saw you as a threat, which of course you were! But I still wanted to play with you. We were JUST AT THE BEGINNING of stirring up shit together and you made it fun. When you played Jake’s parchment on me during the F17 vote, everyone freaking out was really intense on my end but then going into the chat where you were just laughing your ass off and telling me not to buckle under the pressure was probably episode of the season for me. We were working secretly together and no one knew and when I came on, you were already voted out. I didn’t even get to say goodbye. Thanks for starting a fire with me dude. You’re awesome.

<span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Sim
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">"This is Major Tom to Ground Control <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I'm stepping through the door <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">And I'm floating in a most peculiar way <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">And the stars look very different today”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">I will be straight up with you Sim. I was bewildered by your game and a little personally hurt. On the one hand, the way you played the Erin vote was masterful and I was so happy that you stayed and that Jenna and I got to help you stay. At the temple, I checked in with you to let you know that Taylor’s got your back. Just looking out for a homie. But I think your friendship with Jake superseded all that and when we got to merge you didn’t talk to me much and I resented you for it because I felt like we were legit allies. There was criticism on my part about your activity in the game but I know that ended up striking a personal chord with you because we were going as far as saying you didn’t belong in the game. I went as far as to make a VL confessional changing the lyrics of Eminem’s Stan to be about you and your inactivity. When you mentioned that those conversations bothered you I eased up and meant my apology. I don’t know if a lot of people understood that side of our relationship that we were early allies. The game took on a life of its own at F13 and your vote-out was maybe one of the messiest votes of the season. A majority group voted for Jace. One side of the tribe thought it was a split vote between me and you. Where you were going to get two votes and then I was going to get the rest. The plan was tto play Yannick’s idol. So we played his damn idol and put our votes on Jace, not knowing everyone else was too, to tie it up between you and him, and then BOOM Jace plays HIS idol and you go out on two votes. It was so freakin’ messy. I hope you at least appreciate going out in such an iconic tribal. Sorry for any rough feelings between you and me dude.

<span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Jenna
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“ <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">'Born on your feet, running <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Forest fires underneath your bed”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">You had it rough in this game. Your last words kind of nailed it. Everyone was either working with their friends or allied relationships already formed. Yannick and I ended up on the same tribe with each other all the way to merge and I had that working trust with him. You and I early on had plans to be a solid two together but I think I got weary of you during the F17 vote when Nathan started telling people I told you that Miguel was the vote at that moment in time. And then everyone else was kind of pinning things on you and whether it was true or not didn’t fully matter because you just had this target on you that never truly went away and I think the target being on you in the first place was a little unjustified. However that didn’t stop you. You just kept running, kept avoiding the vote, flipped, flipped back, hung on for dear life, and then you got blindsided. You and Pris had the most interesting alliance in the season because it was a forced alliance based on circumstances and doing what was best for your own survival. I know the initial flip was scary to all of us but I really did respect the move. Why let dominant d-bags steamroll your game all because they deem themselves important? (Shoutout to Sim for that line!) Yeah, you played your own game, I respect it, and found it super hard to play with/against. I know you went out with no hard feelings, just mild confusion, but I really hope I can still use your cable password after this game is over lol. Heroes Vs Healers Vs Hustlers is coming out and I feel like it’s going to be so good. The cast looks sicks. Looking forward to talking to you about the game once this is all over.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">[to be continued]