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TIL a Disney Cruise worker vanished from a cruise. She was seen looking distraught on camera then vanished. Disney were uncooperative & claimed she fell overboard despite the fact there was no bad weather & she was last seen in the opposite end of the ship to where they claimed she fell.

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