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Who: Ada Mulrine and Vicky Frobisher
What: Transcript of Witch Weekly broadcast.
Where: WWN studios.
When: Shortly after the Boot murder.
Status/Rating: Complete / PG



Vicky: All right, listeners, we need to get serious for a minute. Some horrible stuff happened on Friday, and I think we need to talk about it, because I for one don’t like the way the conversations have been going.

Ada: And you’re not the only one. There has been a lot of discontent expressed about the way the media has been handling things recently. And as a member of the media, I can’t say I’m much happier. So today, we're going to talk about Allison Boot.

Vicky: And not about the way she died or who killed her or anything like that. ‘Cause here’s the thing that it seems everyone is forgetting in all this: a woman died. So while we all have our opinions about those other things, we’re not talking about them today. We’re going to talk about Allison. About who she was, how she lived.

Ada: Because that’s the thing: she lived. She was a person, not just a victim. That seems to be getting lost in all of the noise these days. And I’m not saying that the on-going case isn’t important, or that the accused aren’t important. They are. But so is Allison, and she shouldn’t be forgotten.

Vicky: We asked Allison's husband Derek and son Terry to tell us about her, and she sounds like a pretty amazing person. Yes, she was a Muggle--and I know some of you are wondering why we're focusing on a Muggle, but she was a person and we can't forget that just because she couldn't do magic. Her husband and son are both wizards, and we were told she loved watching them do magic, but that isn't why she matters. She matters because the world is worse without her, because her students at school are going to miss their teacher and because she's never going to get to help her husband her something done at the last minute again.

Ada: She matters because she was a person. A human being. Muggle or magical, people are people. And yes, before someone with an agenda points it out, I’ll admit that as a muggleborn witch I have a very personal stake in addressing that fact, but that just means I’ve seen both worlds, and I can tell you that people are people. We’re a hell of a lot more similar than we are different. And the loss of any one of us matters, whatever our heritage, whatever skills we possess. Allison was, by all accounts, a great woman. One who didn’t deserve what happened to her. One who doesn’t deserve to be a footnote in our stupid purity wars, a name with no detail but her death attached. So when you think of Allison Boot, think about her this way: she loved books, and she loved jokes, and she listened. Which is a hell of a skill to have, listening. She was real and she was wonderful and she was loved, and she shouldn’t be gone.

Vicky: Listening is a fantastic skill, and Allison not only listened, she heard what people needed. She knew when and how to push, but never went too far with it. She was great at nurturing like that, a skill she took to the garden too. She was a great gardener who loved working with plants and nurturing them, just like she loved nurturing the children she taught. Allison Boot was a teacher, a mother, a friend, and a wife, but she was so much more than that too. She was so many things to so many people, and we need to remember her.

Ada: So remember her, listeners. Remember her. The person and not the headline, or the byline, or just the senseless crime. Remember Allison Boot.