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However, the pieces started to come together after family, including his wife, Heather, 32 and son Owen, 15, joked after helping look for the missing earbud and hearing something was wrong with his throat, that maybe he swallowed it. Brad, from Worcester, Massachusetts, said: My wife mentioned it when I came in and we laughed about it, but something just clicked and I got a weird sinking feeling that I'd swallowed it in my sleep. At that point, I putzed around for another 10 minutes
