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I lost my job recently and signed up for this plan thinking it was full health insurance, now I'm seeing online that this Good Health Distribution Partner thing is just limited indemnity. Am I still able to apply for actual health insurance somewhere else or am I screwed here? The customer service people I spoke to made it seem like this was a full health plan but I think it was just a sales tactic. Am I right, is this just limited indemnity? Am I still able to get health coverage through my Qualifying Life Event?

As we see in the movie, Gladys appears to be quite old, from her use of the word "Consumption" to the idea that she can reverse her aging, it's clear she's lived longer than humans can naturally live. So, where did she come from, and how did she get so evil? I know a prequel is in the works, so I'm going to make a few predictions.

This theory came to me when I was listening to the podcast Behind the Bastards. They did an episode on Georgia Tann, and in the early part of the backstory they discussed how orphans were treated in the United States in the mid 1800s. There was a system called the Orphan Train. It was a rather cruel system in which orphans were taken from cities and sent into rural areas to perform farm labor for families living in the more unsettled parts of the country. Not all of these children were actually orphans, some were the children of poor families, sometimes the children of immigrants. While this was not always a bad thing, and some kids were put into loving homes, many of these children suffered in the homes they were placed in as the families they were placed with mostly saw these children as free labor, not part of their family. Children often suffered physical abuse, neglect, malnutrition, and much more. The stories of abuse, if you look them up or listen to that episode of Behind the Bastards, are horrific. This system operated from the 1850s to the 1920s. And this, I believe, is where Gladys's story begins:

Gladys, or whatever her name was, was an Orphan Train kid.

She was an orphan who never knew her parents, sent by the Orphan Train to a rural, isolated farm and abused by the family she was placed with. This is why she grew so spiteful and malicious. She was never shown kindness or empathy, only ever abuse, and grew to hate and resent the family that effectively owned her. The farm was remote, and had little contact with the outside world aside from dropping off whatever crops/products they produced for transportation elsewhere, so Gladys had no one to turn to to help her out of her miserable situation. She might not even originally have a name, the Orphan Train system would often just make up names for the children in their possession, and maybe Gladys's adopted family never gave her one of her own either.

This is the part that I'm now missing: I don't know where the tree comes into things. Gladys's powers seem to come entirely from the tree and her other gear, she doesn't seem to have been born with any magic powers. At some point she comes into possession of the tree and learns how to use it. Perhaps she simply finds it, or learns some sort of dark ritual that conjures it, perhaps through a prayer to a darker force that exists in the Weapons universe.

Either way, she gets the tree and learns to use it. She quickly weaponizes her abusers, subjecting them to unspeakable horrors. Perhaps she makes her adoptive parents eat each other, or just torments the family with various physical harm every day simply because she hates them. But she keeps some of the family alive to keep running the farm in their weaponized state. To whatever rural community exists, the family seems to have dropped off the face of the earth, but whatever products they have to sell keep getting dropped off so people don't ask questions, the family just becomes one of those local urban legends that no one digs too deep into, only spreading rumors. Meanwhile, Gladys is delighted to remain on her farm, tormenting her former tormentors, abusing her former abusers, as much as she wants, for seemingly forever.

This is where my theory gets a LOT darker. As time goes on, Gladys ages. She does what she can to sap the life force from the family members, but it isn't enough. Using her powers, she makes them reproduce, and weaponizes generations of new victims, making her age much slower as the decades pass, but not fully reversing her aging. Eventually, the inbred offspring of her victims are infertile, and she has no choice but to abandon the farm. She does learn from what little she knows of the community around her that there is a woman living alone, an older woman. This is the real Aunt Gladys, Alex's Great Aunt and his mother's Aunt. The real Gladys is beginning to suffer from dementia and does not have all of her memory, making it easy for Witch Gladys to pretend to be an old friend, and live in Real Gladys's house like they're much younger and are roommates or something like that, all the while Witch Gladys learns Real Gladys's mannerisms to mimic her.

Once Witch Gladys has befriended Real Gladys and learned everything she can about her, Witch Gladys weaponizes Real Gladys and steals her identity in order to manipulate her way into the life of the Lily family. Perhaps the real Gladys is a bit kooky and eccentric as well, with an odd taste for wigs and makeup. Witch Gladys, with minimal knowledge of the outside world and how it works, takes on this persona not really knowing how odd it seems to most people, maybe knowing she's considered a bit strange but ultimately disarming, and contacts the Lily family claiming to be the real Gladys, and says her health is deteriorating and she has nowhere to go. Thus, her entrance to the plot begins. This also explains why she tells Alex "we're leaving" towards the film's ending. She likely has a plan to return to the old farmhouse and start over from scratch.

At the end of the movie, it merely says that Alex goes to live with another Aunt, this is likely not the long-weaponized and likely dead true Gladys, but rather an actual Aunt who is a sibling of either of his parents, since the real Gladys wouldn't be his Aunt but rather his Great Aunt and would likely be dead by now from neglect.

This theory answers a few of the unanswered questions left behind by the movie:

• Where did Gladys come from?
• How did she get to be so evil?
• Why did she specifically mention that she can make people hurt and eat each other?
• Why does she use outdated terms like "Consumption?"
• Where was she planning to take Alex?

Anyways, that's what I think we'll get out of her origin story, or something similar. I know it's really awful and grim but ever since I first heard about the Orphan Train system, my mind connected the dots. I'd like to know what you all think.

As we see in the movie, Gladys appears to be quite old, from her use of the word "Consumption" to the idea that she can reverse her aging, it's clear she's lived longer than humans can naturally live. So, where did she come from, and how did she get so evil? I know a prequel is in the works, so I'm going to make a few predictions.

This theory came to me when I was listening to the podcast Behind the Bastards. They did an episode on Georgia Tann, and in the early part of the backstory they discussed how orphans were treated in the United States in the mid 1800s. There was a system called the Orphan Train. It was a rather cruel system in which orphans were taken from cities and sent into rural areas to perform farm labor for families living in the more unsettled parts of the country. Not all of these children were actually orphans, some were the children of poor families, sometimes immigrants. While this was not always a bad thing, many of these children suffered in the homes they were placed in as the families they were placed with mostly saw these children as free labor, not part of their family. The stories of abuse, if you look them up or listen to that episode of Behind the Bastards, are horrific. This system operated from the 1850s to the 1920s. And this, I believe, is where Gladys's story begins:

Gladys, or whatever her name was, was an Orphan Train kid.

She was an orphan who never knew her parents, sent to a rural farm and abused by the family she was placed with. This is why she grew so spiteful and malicious. She was never shown kindness or empathy, and grew to hate and resent the family that effectively owned her. The farm was remote, and had little contact with the outside world, so Gladys had no one to turn to to help her out of her miserable situation. She might not even originally have a name, the Orphan Train system would often just make up names for the children in their possession, and maybe Gladys's adopted family never gave her one of her own either.

This is the part that I'm now missing: I don't know where the tree comes into things. Gladys's powers seem to come entirely from the tree. At some point she comes into possession of it and learns how to use it. Perhaps she simply finds it, or learns some sort of dark ritual that conjures it, perhaps through a prayer to a darker force that exists in the Weapons universe.

Either way, she gets the tree and learns to use it. She quickly weaponizes her abusers, subjecting them to unspeakable horrors. Perhaps she makes her adoptive parents eat each other, or just torments the family with various physical harm every day simply because she hates them. But she keeps some of the family alive to keep running the farm in their weaponized state. To whatever rural community exists, the family seems to have dropped off the face of the earth, but whatever products they have to sell keep getting dropped off so people don't ask questions, the family just becomes one of those local urban legends that no one digs too deep into. Meanwhile, Gladys is delighted to remain on her farm, tormenting her former tormentors, abusing her former abusers, as much as she wants.

This is where my theory gets a LOT darker. As time goes on, Gladys ages. She does what she can to sap the life force from the family members, but it isn't enough. Using her powers, she makes them reproduce, and weaponizes generations of new victims, making her age much slower as the decades pass. Eventually, the inbred offspring of her victims are infertile, and she has no choice but to abandon the farm. She does learn from what little she knows of the community around her that there is a woman living alone, an older woman. This is the real Aunt Gladys, Alex's Great Aunt and his mother's Aunt.

Witch Gladys befriends the real Gladys and weaponizes her, then learns everything she can about her in order to manipulate her way into the life of the Lily family. Perhaps the real Gladys is a bit kooky and eccentric as well, with an odd taste for wigs and makeup. Witch Gladys, with minimal knowledge of the outside world and how it works, takes on this persona not really knowing how odd it seems to most people, but knowing it seems to be disarming if not somewhat strange, and contacts the Lily family claiming to be the real Gladys, and says her health is deteriorating and she has nowhere to go. Thus, her entrance to the plot begins. This also explains why she tells Alex "we're leaving." She likely has a plan to return to the old farmhouse and start over from scratch.

At the end of the movie, it merely says that Alex goes to live with another Aunt, this is likely not the long-weaponized and likely dead true Gladys, but rather an actual Aunt who is a sibling of either of his parents, since the real Gladys wouldn't be his Aunt but rather his Great Aunt and would likely be dead by now.

This theory answers a few of the unanswered questions left behind by the movie:

• Where did Gladys come from?
• How did she get to be so evil?
• Why did she specifically mention that she can make people hurt and eat each other?
• Why does she use outdated terms like "Consumption?"

Anyways, that's what I think we'll get out of her origin story, or something similar. I know it's really awful and grim but ever since I first heard about the Orphan Train system, my mind connected the dots. I'd like to know what you all think.

For those unaware, the GTS can still be accessed. Is there anyone out there willing to trade me some of their team that they used to win the Battle Tower through 100 battles? I have gotten to 50 but do not have the right mons to get all the way to 100. If anyone has done so and is willing to trade, let's coordinate and use GTS to get this done. I have event Pokemon to trade in return. This is the last thing I need to do before getting all stars on my trainer card.

Throughout the course of The Office, Michael hates Toby more than potentially any character has hated another. It's never clearly explained why in full detail. Michael hates HR in general for trying to stop him from making the office fun, and I believe this mindset has to do with Michael and Todd Packer.

It's shown that Michael and Packer used to work together, and used to cause chaos both for their coworkers and their clients. Packer did things that could potentially get the company sued, like holding a guy's head in a toilet after the man interviewed for a job. A solid argument could be made that a lot of the unlikeable elements of Michael's personality came from Packer.

What we've also seen is that Dunder Mifflin is willing to overlook a lot of BS in the name of profit. They were fine with Meredith sleeping with a supplier in exchange for a discount. So, assuming Packer was making a lot of money for the company, and we know Michael was a good salesman as well, they ignored the two men's behavior as long as they could.

Here's where I present my theory: At some point, Packer did something totally inexcusable, hard to say what, but given his behavior it's not hard to speculate he would offend someone important, or do something that could put the company into legal jeopardy. Whoever Todd Packer offends demands he be fired. This is where Toby comes in: Toby, working on behalf of corporate, knowing the demand for Packer to be fired and knowing firing him will hurt the company's profits, arranges for Packer to be transferred to a traveling sales position. This has multiple benefits:

1. They can claim to have fired Packer and he won't be there if the offended party goes to look for him.

2. The company still makes money from Packer's skill as a salesman.

3. Packer isn't still hanging around Scranton to cause chaos with Michael even after being fired.

Thus, Michael harbors an unending hatred of Toby for transferring his friend and fellow rabble rouser, Todd Packer, away from him for most of the year, only stopping by very infrequently. From then on, Michael hyperfixates on the idea of Toby being the embodiment of evil and the most anti-fun person possible, causing Michael to get mad at Toby for everything.