[When You Live Like I Done]

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maul 'fox; iIIL LL I DO?
When you live like I done people J.ve you a line all the time,
all day long wherever you're at. All day lceif, everybody's givin
everybody else a line, and after a while without thinkin much about
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you are civin somebody u line just like everytme else is doin only what you're really doin is just givIn yourself a line I guess,
'cause nobody is listenin to anylody.else these days awOhow, every-
body's just tallein to hisself in a way. Like my boy -friend Katz
used to comnent, whenever you think you're eorewin somebody take
u look around and you'll see it's just you gettin screwed as usual
SCA@ as always. So you got to 'ae. real careful. You cot to lie to
everybody, you can't believe nobody but still sometimes you got
to .),eliavol somethinc that somebody says, but most of all you got
to lie to yourself. That's the main thing. Sometimes you oan take
a chance and talk straight to somebody else but when you live like
1 done you can't ever ston kidding yourself a second or you're
through. It'd just take all the heart out of you, you'd get blind
drunk and blow your top. :Al you got to be more careful. What you
say to yourself even L4TIO than what you say to oops and doctors.
I went into a house on 13th and Indiana, that tyke in prohibi-
tion years. Then over into the big one on 22nd and ';',Wbush that

used to be the Four Deuces you know than over to 19th and Dearborn.
After that I got transferred to the Paris that's the Paris Hotel
mean, on South State, and then around the *corner to the Best. The
Best Hotel I mean, you know, Van Buren and Piymouth Court, around
there, they call it the Harvey now. Just like they painted up the
front of the old Revere BOW* and call it the Hubbard. I was in the
Best when I got sick. I been on the bum ever since I got no money to
go to a real hospital, and I krmmr what they do to you in the County.
They give you the black bottle.
All at once I owed everybody and I couldn't figure out why.
They charge you four times over for everything. You got to pay for
the towels, for the music, for the lifebuoy, for the guys who stay
overtime, for guys who lose money somewheres else and think they lost
it in your outfit, for the high-school kids who *ow up with two
dollars even and carfare and then forget and put a nickel in the
slot madhine. Then you got to give them carfare, you got to pay off
the doe who finds out you're sick, a sasibugik just to let you off, a
fin to the bondsman when the house is pinched and still you aren't
really sure you want to get out. Even when some duke tells you about
some job in a bigctfice, you don't try for it. You got no heart for
it.
We all know what kinds of jobs girls like us get anyhow. Twelve
hours a day for six dollars a week at Goldblatt's maybe. 1 can make
that in six minutes, sick as I am, and I don't feel I'm making a

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fool of myself any more one may than another: I'll have a house
of my own someday, managing one that is, keeping an eye on things,
see3ng that the girls stay sober and the drunks don't cause trouble,
being able to think faster than cops and doctors and such. I'll go
to work maybe for some Jew with a dozen houses and drew down sixty-
five a week because i got experience and I can think so fast. Say,
1 know the city and every night sergeant in it and all the ins and
outs. And the dame who vent to work for sight or twelve bucks a
monk, all she's getting now is fifteen, if she's still got a job
at all. and I'll bet she looks like a wreck besides, worried all
the time and more than likely Lot u couple kids and a drunken bum
in a room somewhere to take oare of. I bet she expects every day
to Let fired and who cares if she does or not? She knows that
too. :Axt take me now, I've Eot friends, people I've gotten out of
jail, people I've
loaned money to, women whose bills I paid, guys
tbr,t I perjured myself BOr I Gould go to any one of them tonight,
they wouldn't ask no questions, just give ne now much 1 asked for.
lut I don't figure I'm down that far yet, I figure I got myself
into tie, I oan get myself out. That's how I always figure.
It aint momen like re. ends up on the street, no sirree. It's
the department store dames wix) 7ut in twenty years and the -11:t the
rate that end up that may, not as Arlo :Co been outsmartin doctors
anC coppers since uo was 1-nybe fourteen fifteen yearn old. I'll
tell you somethin€ you m*ye don't know now. The old hers holdin

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therseelves up tqf the bar -nil at 4 A*M* and ousels set the lom
lean they're fifty years old and go jompin off roots or the Itatio.
sipal Pier and *row staff like that e• thomes the aims been livin
boost all their lives. 4, kind got a little business of bar oun
semewhors. releinabishens mops1 gain to dor* regular as olookm.
vest:and raisin hor sister's tido or moyhe one or too of her omm
and raisin on ,r114. so nobody duet Asko smokers of them*
don't mean it's no bed of roles** bad alright, but it
aint so worse, take it all in oll, nor no better neither. than the
ant racket that girls sithout folks or sehoolia son get into. Mhos
girl got nobody oho oar** and she got to quit sada after 4th
grads liho I done. it doe" mattorimadh, &at line she goes 1st*, she
ends up prettying& the some low every time* Mhether she Oires out
to sank some sollegmesdreis noels and ear& bar tor lot or nin a
ydocoms in a bar or top looks in a *hoe towbar,. shose bowl to tido
a beating in the sod* ti. smartost just take it lying down. You
lost longer that vey*
I don't believe iztwation going to After& befOre they're fee".
It's smart to be a seekor ems people take dire of am old fool, but
they just gong up on a young ono* That's 'souse a young ono still
got something to rime esouroe, but a old one got main left*
Not happens next? Oh. almost amything* ftme bookkmeper comes
alag. soy. takes you out a ample times, threw nowt right and left.
you tako on aportaisot with him* The nest morning somebody starts

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knooklog, early. Mots there? Pollee* Tourism's an sohosslsr,
and if you got no 'mart mouthplows to clear you, up you go as am,
accessory. Then it's the ammo thing ell over again: somebody oub.
side buys your parole and you owe him half your lift whRM you get
out. Hoek into a house then, if you eon still get in One'. If you
emit find frionds right off and you're flat, -awn, I At hong
around under the UM street El until 1 got enough to rout a roes
for a weak on Indiana and piskedup,ohat I would, without prOteetion
or anything*
A room you know. itazie room* It's all the same, it's not
yours aoyhow* It's a Jew undertaker's one hour, &imp offloo.bRy's
the next* Then It belong to some plople.fased punk hitehhiking to
Hollywood 'you really thihk I look like Giorgio Raft?' he asks yoU.
Or a Swede milkman just crowing off duty and his horse waiting for\
him downstairs* Es$11 show you the hares from the window. 'Soo him.
That's Old Med. Le took a prim ono. at the stock show* If it moil
he'll feel warmer.* So it don't matter, so far as your own self gess,
ohether it's a funny place an the near north side or a dump spam-
*lean or filthy as a *Upham,. It slut your anyhow. You keep it
clean just beeause some of then might no some bum* if you don't.
And that's fanny they all want it to be °lean* Can you featuro
that? They maybe oems from some dump that aint been saapt•in a malt
and the bask of his seek that greasy it's enough to make you pop your
°oak's** But he want m to be olean, and the bed to be clean, and

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the room to be clean say, mould you believe it, some of thews
wont even stand for you talkin dirty. They'll tell you you're too
nice a girl to be usin such language. Did you ever hear anything
like it in your life? Have you got any idea now crazy people are?
Min, I mean? Do you know they'll do anything,absolutely anythine
Even the weakest, the most foolish of them. Last night I hoard
the couple next door having a argument. The partitions °mg rotty
thin in these gapes, I can hear every word they bey, all the time*
They're not home holm most the ti. They were arguing becalms be
thought be had won a 26 -game downstairs but the girl had cheated
him and his wife hadn't been watching or something. H. thought she
should of kept track of his tosses. Es was on her nook about it 1e
whole they were undressing for bed, and after a while I hoard her
crawl into bed she sleeps on this side, by the well and him still
nagging, like be was standing by the window looking dawn into the
street and thinking up things to hurt her, like idly don't she let
her foot, come to a head and lance it. She has trouble with her
skin, why he said that. After while though it got real quiet, I
was in bed mylielf and could her breathing, she fill off to sleep
right off and him still talking to hisself over byths window, y.
ing to get hissolf as sore as he really wanted to be. Mien he
couldn't make it he at sore for real, be must of just walked past
the bed, reached over and busted her spas in the mouth,dniher
sound asleep like that. Can you imagine anything like that? She

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shamed me the next (ley, two of her (shoppers were loose and she vas
still jittery, like anyone would be, being woke up with a poke in
the jaw that way.
She said even before she got evoke she was out of bed tryim to
get her hands am him...not knowin ems she dreemin yet or was it real.
just like instimet like animals :tom knew. and he got a real bang
out of her don that, some reason. She ruine4 her only elate night.
gawk, too, she said, it cot blooded up all down the front from her
+shoppers knocked loose.
I suppose that use about the only think eould make him feel good.
he just mooted off down the hall to mike a night of it then, and Oa
mat beck to bed and rolled and tossed until I knoeked an the mall and
eked her couldn't she sleep, she should came in roam 1 couldn't
sleep either. So she come over in that blooded up nightgawneilt ledb.
god like it Watt been mashed tor a month anyhow. and just set there
and wipe her teeth on her sleeve owe a while and tell me she don't
know what's getting into her Harry, he didn't used to be like this.
And that's the kind of this you're supposed to keep yourself
slam and nice for, like your roam is supposed to smell like flowers
for. Well, there's only one kind that I ever net, and that's, the bad
kind, airry ant no bettor nor no worms than the next one, they're all
the use 1-limosier-ooms. rim the\, r mottcht rtt to kill, a big
geed -lacing guy, and*langside hin-y(littIe shabby env, like his *Mee
bey. The big fellairvented a smfal lot -and moved money around and

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the floor like he was a mmmkey or something. I fe111 sorry f6.4,
little fellow, but I didn't say nothing till heyins slams a niipu
he *olds*, the big guy's sooty was ememtIrtigit. And sure en44gh,
give me t teenty-dollar bill and wants seWbuok baek1 I said I
&Int got it auk he said he'd oath the twenty downstairs than, and
went out the backend told the lan4Zady t, call a cop. Of course
he was gone when 'got bask uRptairs. A bookie caught up with h
though, pulling the .i\Ame Ir'not three blocks down the street,
o'
gat him tossed in the Than it turns out the big guy's
gSod all the time, 92 jus a little racket them twt worked up
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dee., whores such, and s suing the cab company for
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arrest, Se wont collect. Agit haekie'll kill then botL if
they delft et out if the neighborh"sd though, and there aint a Sop
diresied who wont lend him a hand, eithe Cops are aortal down on
that kind.
You'd think Pella& would be the one to remember a girl, wouldn't
yout I mean the ellas being the (me who's having all the fen, and
her just seem n one right after another all night long, it seems like
he'd remember shot she looked like better than she'd remember him.
It aint that way though, it's the other way around. To think I
forcot one si gle fella Say, I could recognize them Fr n six years
bask I bet, and the dutchman who was up here last night emendet know
me fr Hedy Le Harr right now I bet. I'll tell yo: why thst is. I
figured it out. It's because they're all alike, and they're all

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different, and yo:, can't fGrget one of ther because ,c have to yet
the best of him as soon as he come in the rtco- and takes off is
cap. And nobody .don't for:et anybody that they Kot to e the
best of.
This 19th and Dearbor territory, that's been my territory for
years, eve v before I got on the bum. Say, I know every window, every
all.., ever, bust -out lamp, every car -line, ever: newsboy, every
direr ttors, every cop, every C inatan say, I even notice where
somebo tossed cut a civarette apain.t a wall an; the next day
t e ,uind has Lies the snipe into the middle of the street. I've
walked this corner at 4 am and 4 pm, summer and winter, sick and
well, blind drunk and store sober, sometimes so hunrry I'd have to
walk sla so s -tt to fold up the pavement and --c:t ulled in, and
ci-ce with a mnth's,rent paid i Gvanoe and thirty dollars in a
Ihrst uncer my arm.
I too; that off a halfwit kid used t, follew me around, an it
turned out he stole it ofx h s ol lady. U d, I'vemet guys who
wants things •Y(7 'ouldft't think cc pie outside of a crazy house
we. id think of
",hen there's the madam, w .0 steals and cheats and keeps track
ot your crint an ro:Ine:s and het- the key to ,our room. T -u leave
it wit her when you fk downstairs for a coke, and ,ou ask her for
it, real politr-like, whet you came back up.
There was,earlsan, who awned the house and ectc like I wrs
dirt under his feet if im.ytime and come grining like a cat at me as
soon at it got ark ut. Mere *vs Pritilcrl the delicatessen owner,
who ov,rchar e me ,,:ay in and ua out for cver a Tar and then
wcnldn't muc, as recornise me at on the street. Say, don'tihink

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1 don't rerembrr them kind. There vr• sEtash, a Polack cop when
I was on 22nd, he'd pull me i If I didn't slip him a fin, and BA'
he was j,.st sort of old guy run elow•tor daytimes in the loop
coric‘heres he'd always be hanr-in arc nd in tie hack booth at
John O'Connor's tnvrrn %.aitin for m t nt pie-eyeo so he could
some win( r .-uy to i t my Tura e or t 1. me off s may:here e where
he., both -e their vay wit 7,e for a while alter I'd passed
fut•
c ubc(' t., tell tho r L,t.y ic Iv. my husland and
len'i Le: Lel' t ine *Lon nr's ur.s the only place
or 22nd m; (re lit w P-00,1, I ,-uoss apt.n liked me because I
.ac Iris., t 0. e 'idn't care, i et pie -eyed, in
pram th-r cci.. t 01.1 ,-leve ter man. lie wouldn't even let
k r,i3 C r rtn
crt,r1: all L,
1 wot.<1., n't c
c ulcf. 9 t even lc me jet
:"st.:, "'JO I• .11. it: haAo hilne whether
ant hi- or nct, o.. U. LI.. crar'ly Ike I an.
et b at u throe ;it II Ate vc a. It around volewheres•
en
ite unprotected woman, aui 0 a Loure I MCCOI, unless
Lc.
T;au /11,c real name is Abe
flou, ic uLed tc, U a re ler ur at La ina fro -to or ce a. while
ond tne 1.a,-le-Fouthrr than and he ha., to :ear
moccasins t -v. r ounestlay night.
i'r dq r.,d tr r4' ti•OUri 1-.10 1( n r there /13 enoug for hamburfers
an I.((r, ht.c don't clie for r.ott.s,z.. t. ice the, row. Ihve seen
other Wc,ir fit f,iuck with thew nasty little fair:: Icind, -they're

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just titer, little dors that re j :I es meta: t the people who
feed e as they are tc stranv:ers, r 0.1 qui ck with their fists.
a little it, o dame mune ot Lin cr ho cot a Filipino he:pin
hor out SeturJ i hts. ?lot fer ne, ti.s.lcs, therm flips are a
little to, handy witl, Jo -lives for Ila".e one around. 0 no. It
a: ere.. o the kin. &linos- di- Sc in ftiond Roxy's can. 1.:e
V.7 s a Li fellow, na,..c o Leon, and ho got half blind up North Llark
o t. i I can't aloh;•,, 'ex.; just told me. Sane Filipino fellow
keit counti• I -,r Leo v.hen Leo-. w layin- 26, an. Leon would -et
all en'. he:, d cry- c t another r lace and try
ly•
4.0 e. an
r.:where he -r.t th:..e, Utile kli.1 follered him,
rin an: e.cur:tin _for L just eroilin, for trouble. On account
rta:bet Leo:: r.r..r. s• Li enc v.nr. so little, I don't -now. Anyhow
fi.-.:11.1; Leo. lurked 1.. •.•t_stot slu ane the fur butted
heti elan _re- 1.r. dn't eve- ;,et a
littic ILLS: 11,, ncoc clear ol ced off and
_ cw, fun
'Sc, t
I or s I o. t a rar,
1r :-y co.] le weeks,
at: nc 14.,-1 lc
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3er TC t z- e,
re:
utreet, c o the
L.' I e.r I-4/ p ik nt Ten and
trle -T11
si ell. I s; ny /.1 week': we e:
i our' ern Ca 1 14 r sli cr:: rink' 11-•.• t borro“ the "oney
fc.!. c,' a e ;i1, r t %%iv 1, I pot Bruno hen-
c 1.e h an o a,::2 1 cc.; ldoll et TIC of
'V C
'Jut it lor't our mar 1:1). make evcrythin s ad, even

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if he is a bit rouc,h. TV h t 'eectro
for -cards tc Cunday afternoon when
:,OU G.:6118 ni -ht after night looking
Yo
Can
•-e.' leaping tirtnik till
Monday anorninr, a..r.t r i.n. it stint x man or the cops of the
l!zr..!lady or the Loand of licalth. It': or co any, Your boy -friends.
And )1, don't natter if they 're ot.n r ol.1 or &yells frca liinnetka
Lr Polack, frc av'noo. E e o: her.. bar am n •,efore they
01 their ca i and scxneti, es one '11 toss a roll C-12 the bed and
e]i you j.t tc 1,elp yours, -1.. It don't matter-iwhen they r et to
y,r2r s,) etimes. I've had black
thi a, t rab yo yo :now for a week. That
wae jt.. t fro; onh unk too, 1.e cidn't look
stroll I ran -le a cot. j el I-0er to show yot you
can't alicsr.,'s tell.
tell, loll jot. a -el. in ml -;er it ai.,t even human t.c.
expect c tomar ti et lie. to 1-11 the time, not eve, panties:ling
rettl2 c! cd a&l u ei use, !II ebl.e 1 ac a tin slopcan, nicht
after rd:i:t ci.er ni .1.. ant .to t. There's mer. it -A fit tr
li-c, th...tbt.all. t aLL do is I ye, all tie time, every day,
o -;c1 hi cr.::: ob.: oh t.h., rue it. a clean lire th, of sleep
rdtlio ro, l it TI IvithOU t la:cot-kin even -Etna you f
"it" c' -L._ see Li -,-ain, y rcal c_rateful
st,or:t it an. o.,nt, L CO t. jv so -e11. --e? They're the kinc buys a
r or) *z an,' zit: Lacr rcal atfsfie -like taitin for
r I r,.t. 1 r uts fr,r hii. v..- did it Lart, in the first ylace,

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avef•theart? The first time tell b ,ut. ;hot. I het you
re -rot it sometimes now, d %/oil? n',, d he man -e it
any' (iv? Ire o c rry? Pid of' tryin so ething
else, ott 3 out cf the K2: the v Fir: of it
sCes..n.,5 t;-.a.i "j 'm ;our frie•. svi etie, jut look ;ow
sorry' l a for an( tell me all." jusi like in
;Iiert". :,one fish told me to other cay. I told him he was
lyin r wont t, hel, at all, ho unit a Lit sorry, he
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",low many kin s thrélls sz. sip; ose.: t. i•ive you
any} ow?" I him, "It
:Four al
Lon', srmetnin to Lo bac:, and thrill
al. L :1 1., bu, closer: Frenc action
pictures ,e• GI throwinc ;,-)ur mone:,. °way on beer for me," I
tole him.
th a t .ys somet i more. The:, don't
even 1cm. themseh-,, t L; Z.. er a euy all far ed out, say
v.e L c c dor fr3 pstri-: nnt 1,,oped he h -s to rest
t; e boot, a min Jte an' -:c a Fi;ot. 'That m re could you rive
anyone I iL shap till, he vont s core. I tell you, there's nu
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isfyin *107-, and thfl, .z.nt, rant do. -,it any more than yeu
the; zl•.:/, vent. Tiero ain't one o" the' you
so! maybo not then for oil I know.
t: nni ty Lin' 1711 Fond ls i ;.is vest. Gne of them
,aire ono., an ;ulf sixec, _arryin' a tennis
a( J.c t. mt. even a ittle. He %as isle from sit tin
o '_v Su: iencil under a Ii: s,mc-vher,..-s all dey, he

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neimr even seen no golf links. "All 1 t= do is tale, he
says, Can you feature that? All he -.lint:, t du is talk. "Okay
hurley, thuv.'s awra.rht with me, if t ;Jai you one all the way
fro -flinnetka for. I says I woni cDt.-1 ,ott no less."
1.011, n vcr %A:0,dt: .e 'ley if I'd of Itnew what
AIC 3..k.ant byttalkin. Ilc j t. wantee t, sweni r -as all, in front of
a wrnan, th is. ell, I nev r I ,9 r.'t MOW 1 hal he 1.as at.
e et c ur an(' 1 ()Ile r me setlin :lawn r I Leo an, bc-- -an
tel in :le, in a, real voice ai 1ir, iahs, a thing I was. lie
unki.nd, :.t- jut,L, yarned me it kirer it. I -t aybe
la ir I -1--e r r wed frul Ian us e in his I re. 1 -ht
:r --utt bur
cone tin -.1 1 or e t cle me el n -t. Ile
never evt. thus. In of., 1 ct a lit".11- n: f irri and then it
str,..ek rre fbnly Dr 1 11(1; hiu. liir. c no oer 11-1-11e
-nke I 4.'UT ii0 It j C se pre tenrtee he t..ar urtbi my
feelin-s pretty bed. .et.lue; t t lt•r nev. ones.
it nu tic a ]ittie ham; nt' I 'coke aslarnod f;a' :4:2N, tint
t i s funny 11(, I -Lo' t, c cn rimed vt t he seyin€
ho blusliec ant- Lc a etLan, sore but 1.hen I lonke0 hurt an'
c. the:. he ot ric of ;c se am: elt like a real little
Lan. ell, t .e Yr:. the eacieut vt oilur!. I ever earned, but he
r carte k.
r jz31-1, ot it all out ol lie system, rtill quiet
$15. co -le :A- raw: touel:ct it c• 1: .11 vie an exTra f i Meer cents
ir rr,Lent clown 1,hc. tui rE I ike a real little rentleman.

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Dc you knov what I think? I 0c jurt like to bet you that sometime
01 ,or thbt little fellow is coin t tr, t.„ look me up arsin.
Is ji torin,. it all u) oi t a alb at tha little pencil...pushing
ni Lis. Only, hp won't be ablr to li. no, and that Idnd wouldn't
wont tc, eve a nev. cirl every t me. I ;lir first one to swear at.
%%aro. me al" t o tir e.
l'e Jodi, mc rf a boy, r.exer did leern is name, we just called
i-utc! &lid let. ii L -u at -het. 1,(_' couldn't slave been over twenty
and l‘cke, likc hi ri.ayl,e run of. I rola r cam oolle;-e town like they
riownsta'c. e hoL1 a 1r8eraity 1*) anuw hi sa_ thinrs out
ef 'uoovs. o r 11 undert,- 1.11(.. hno, that oa Benkowski,
c i. to ayi he 1.^.f, E., just uttin• on an act, when
the be: .1 c' bool--t 1 itt:' r like to her him say them,
t _nc'r c fun, e he me•ant 'limn° raid he VMS
Trhail on ,.t ur, L)1.. so, UM_ b s n boot
I.t• 1 •C f irct nalt-Lh iIa t
rl:. eeE. 1. Lo eh, t nor
c reclzi-3. ever Vic e e of
it.. _c r ur
oi,or ,ius, ss bi et" turacers. j, r. as trien 4,
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f :well so r,iu i .ife at- t'l boy
...art- e.• rO mi. 1 co so Them r.c: I on ceurod, an
r 1,:n' L let aI t of v,,i!rih1, eten mtlee. re Collo. La:. I'd
ic.11cr onc, U.LItt t, the 7. .A. o niiosh, on thc n t ni
P (1:( a; .5101 7,1•ore the ;iris Fr.- f.tay, em t rv.xt
5 A bo c lieret• eh& (me ni ..t stAyec: ol al' ;•t he

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hooks in him then :or fair. efore morniiv he was tolling him haw
co ii eq more. And t o fri cr:in on 4 s sleeve and remnant:
le Wu id vet iore, lots more.
hruno r P de to taLe him to the l'reamland Smoke Shop, a weed joint
oIer oh nth, and us so( us Le were ul 410 after that he began whining
MR ryin/ o ny tceC. The_ ht: ri/rod op% the Luck ci his vent., and
I reeli i‘sdnit el,en h-{un to &lend. And it ms all stole, it was
all :tole, evry last dollar of it. I told him tc. rut it beak real
I w s the.: Loareo of ill t muo money. But he
Oidn' t }luxe no 1 la t.5 tL put it I oess, with his vest ripped all to
hel ii e thai ono kept cryinc ol noel, and asking no to take it,
tc make myself happy, to rumemheq• hi thln.-s like that. And I
war, afraid, there ant; the, much, andafraid not t, account of Bruno
Lehind the door. ft.en 31f o i3ocarki ,rat hufTing my knees and
I avec) sow b 1 s noer p low, cone reason, and f runo COMO
lnyin fr. ed htnc f r fair. I wit. I could Le sure
right not Lhm AvAc Ltoi. never (uit c Ci. o!1 It was just the old
arrvH e u) I mer. Lut he mlist of, hn coulOn't have leen that green.
,rino j hG)d int ti tny vent alork not saying a
A Ord "J a. L.r Leu, wit!, eon," Prune says.
t* d,!L: odo wit the boy?" I asked 1:runo a oul le weeks later.
r t .3. Io tAt e 1/4 to hi he r aid, I thought to
'o a likely ttory."
1i hi ore 1 rot cic I act. l'runo ['again an. he said IP I
dlcr'l !nation my puss he'd throttle Tar for sure. Anti he vculd of
too. L. I lept et.;11. I was afraid ever to look in tLe papers. I
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Maybe he did put the boy on a bus. It's possible. I really
didn't Lima, no time to care mue. way or another, there was sose..
thil- new every day in tllose days. And '12 got to take oars of
numLor one you know. Yo rot to be real careful. siou cot to look
niter jourbelf.'