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NELL GREENFIELDBOYCE, BYLINE: Hey, Maddie. So listen; I have a question for you.
SOFIA: OK.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: If I asked you what comes to mind when you think of lightning and life, what would you say?
SOFIA: Lightning and life (laughter) - maybe Frankenstein. You know, that lightning got them where they were going.
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COLIN CLIVE: (As Henry Frankenstein) It s alive. It s alive. It s alive. It s alive.
GREENFIELDBOYCE: All right. Yeah, that s what everybody thinks of. But today, I have a different story about lightning and life. And this one starts about five years ago in Illinois, not too far from Chicago, in a family s backyard where something strange happened.
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