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Clips from The War

""Never goes anywhere but where your feets take you."
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""Onliest money ever belonged to you in the whole world"
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""was $20 you got yourself in a birthday card"
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""from your uncle last year. ""
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"But it really wasn't for my birthday, really."
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"It was for laying over his lap,"
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"letting him spank me with my underpants down."
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"Now here you come along, shoving me in the back of the room"
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"where I's can't even see good,"
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"which means I probably not gonna graduate this summer neither."
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"Just 'cause you read"
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"how some white man say life be like a bowl of cherries,"
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"I gots to come up with something to fit his saying."
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"Well, fine. I'll just write down how happy I'm gonna be"
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"to get 20 more dollars on my birthday."
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"Never mind what he got planned for me this year."
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"And I'm gonna write how maybe the new man my mama's seeing"
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"might stop drinking and treat me nice."
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"And maybe he gonna adopt me and take us off the welfare."
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"And at the end, I'm gonna be sure and put,"
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""Life sure is a bowl full of cherries. ""
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"But to tell you the truth, Miss Strapford,"
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"I think you and that book and this whole class"
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"be a bowl full of shit!"
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"Go to the principal's office."
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"Now."
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"Didn't you hear a damn word she said?"
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"Excuse me?"
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"She told you the best truth she knows."
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"And you don't got no right to put her out or call her a liar neither."
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"My mama says folks who treat people bad"
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"only do it because they're ignorant."
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"So I'm gonna help you."
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"She's gonna sit up front where she can see from now on."
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"She ain't gonna go by "colored girl" no more neither."
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"You're gonna learn her name."
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"I don't know about you, but all my friends have names."
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"And this just so happens to be my best friend."
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"Her name is Elvadine."
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"My daughter knows the difference between cruelty and insensitivity."
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"So I wrote my memoirs for Miss Strapford."
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"And the summer just drifted on by."
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"Dad got his union card and a job pumping water"
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"out of an abandoned portion of the Foothill Marble Mine,"
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"two counties north of us."
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"It was a good job 'cause there was three million gallons of water to pump."
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"I hear they ain't been working in this section of the mine"
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"for 20 years now."
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"It's kind of spooky, really."
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"Let me get it."
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"What was that? I don't know."
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"Moe!"
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"Help!"
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"I can't move."
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"All right, let me see."
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"Stephen?"
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"Am I all right?"
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"All right, this is not gonna feel too good."
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"No, no, Stephen. Stephen, it ain't no use."
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"Ain't no use. Best go. Get out of here while you can."
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"You know I can't do that."
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"You still owe me $3 for gasoline."
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"I want you to know,"
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"if I gotta break your leg into 10 pieces, I'm taking you out of here."
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"Oh, thanks. That makes me feel a whole lot better."
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"Third time's the charmer."
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"Grit your teeth and get ready to swim."
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"All right, don't move back there. Keep apace."
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"Move them back, move them back."
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"My name is Lois Simmons."
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"Stephen Simmons is my husband. Is he all right?"
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"I don't know. I hope so."
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"Move back!"
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"Get out of the way. Move over!"
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"Moe. Moe!"
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"Oh, my God! What happened?"
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"Stu?"
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"He saved my life. Your daddy saved my life."
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"Hey! Dad! Dad, what happened?"
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"Let me see him."
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"Get back. We're in a hurry. You all right?"
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"Get back, son. Dad! Dad! No!"
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"Dad!"
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"Dad!"
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"Dad!"
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"Is he gonna live?"
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"I've heard of others like him that have pulled through,"
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"but I gotta tell you,"
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"what's keeping him alive hasn't a thing to do with medicine."
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"He's got massive thoracic injuries,"
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"one of his lungs is collapsed,"
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"he's hemorrhaging, his heart's bruised awful bad."
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"Dad."
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"Oh, Dad."
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"They say he should've died instantly."
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"They didn't know my dad. And he hung on."
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"Stu never said much about that day."
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"He just went straight over to the tree house and started in on it."
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"For the rest of that day and most of the night,"
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"he kept himself busier than a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest."
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"I guess around dawn, Stu finally passed out."
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"Meanwhile, little John D. Rockefeller"
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"just kept on hoarding his loot,"
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"biding his time till he seen a chance to spend it."
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"Do you have a bag?"
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"And spend it he did."
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"Arliss! Leo! Willard!"
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"Get your good-for-nothing carcasses over here!"
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"Look at him, every last one of you, look at him!"
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"He can't even move, for Christ's sake!"
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"What's the matter with him?"
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"Well, now, you tell me!"
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"I don't know. Ice cream coma?"
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"He's your goddamned brother! You're supposed to take care of him!"
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"If your mama could see how you's treating him,"
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"she'd come down from heaven and kill every last one of us!"
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"I ought to beat the hell out of every one of you"
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"for letting him wallow in the dirt like that!"
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"Now, get him cleaned up before the ants carry him off!"
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"And from now on, if any of you leave this yard without him,"
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