Pat Balters

A few years ago, Sadie did something that went beyond mimicry. Jim says he doesn't exactly remember the first time it happened.

A few years ago, Sadie did something that went beyond mimicry. Jim says he doesn't exactly remember the first time it happened.

A few years ago, Sadie did something that went beyond mimicry. Jim says he doesn't exactly remember the first time it happened.

thing right now because I'm like blanking out but it probably went something like this Jim's just out in the neighborhood one day he's got Sadie in her little backpack cage and something happens that sets Jim off I don't know a car cuts him off at the crosswalk and immediately Jim starts getting that tingly feeling yeah and then in the split second fraction of a moment before Jim starts to talk himself down like he does calm down Jim calm down he hears calm down Jim

thing right now because I'm like blanking out but it probably went something like this Jim's just out in the neighborhood one day he's got Sadie in her little backpack cage and something happens that sets Jim off I don't know a car cuts him off at the crosswalk and immediately Jim starts getting that tingly feeling yeah and then in the split second fraction of a moment before Jim starts to talk himself down like he does calm down Jim calm down he hears calm down Jim

thing right now because I'm like blanking out but it probably went something like this Jim's just out in the neighborhood one day he's got Sadie in her little backpack cage and something happens that sets Jim off I don't know a car cuts him off at the crosswalk and immediately Jim starts getting that tingly feeling yeah and then in the split second fraction of a moment before Jim starts to talk himself down like he does calm down Jim calm down he hears calm down Jim

From Sadie. Exactly. She says it first? Yeah. Wow. Like she knew what was in his mind or inside him, like before he even did anything. Oh yeah, she knows. She can sense that. How do you suppose that was happening? I don't know.

From Sadie. Exactly. She says it first? Yeah. Wow. Like she knew what was in his mind or inside him, like before he even did anything. Oh yeah, she knows. She can sense that. How do you suppose that was happening? I don't know.

From Sadie. Exactly. She says it first? Yeah. Wow. Like she knew what was in his mind or inside him, like before he even did anything. Oh yeah, she knows. She can sense that. How do you suppose that was happening? I don't know.

Which kind of blew my mind. Yeah. But Sadie didn't do it while I was there. So I left Jim this tape recorder and I asked him to try to get something like this on tape. Just so I could prove it to people.

Which kind of blew my mind. Yeah. But Sadie didn't do it while I was there. So I left Jim this tape recorder and I asked him to try to get something like this on tape. Just so I could prove it to people.

Which kind of blew my mind. Yeah. But Sadie didn't do it while I was there. So I left Jim this tape recorder and I asked him to try to get something like this on tape. Just so I could prove it to people.

A week or so later, I got the tape back.

A week or so later, I got the tape back.

A week or so later, I got the tape back.

And Sadie was on there saying all kinds of things, like hello. Hello. Hello. She said her name. Sadie. She said good girl. Good girl. Things that I could imagine Jim saying to her.

And Sadie was on there saying all kinds of things, like hello. Hello. Hello. She said her name. Sadie. She said good girl. Good girl. Things that I could imagine Jim saying to her.

And Sadie was on there saying all kinds of things, like hello. Hello. Hello. She said her name. Sadie. She said good girl. Good girl. Things that I could imagine Jim saying to her.

Not really. But I thought if it happens as often as Jim says it happens, that someone in his neighborhood must have seen it.

Not really. But I thought if it happens as often as Jim says it happens, that someone in his neighborhood must have seen it.