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<v Speaker 1>The National Broadcasting Company presents Radio City Playhouse Attraction two.

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<v Speaker 1>Before we raise our curtain, we'd like to take time

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<v Speaker 1>for a small speech. It amounts to this, thanks, thanks

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<v Speaker 1>very much for your many, many, very wonderful letters in

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<v Speaker 1>praise of our opening play long distance. Bowing to your wishes,

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<v Speaker 1>we promise we'll repeat it later on in this series.

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<v Speaker 1>Tonight's play is titled ground Floor Window. It was written

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<v Speaker 1>by an extremely talented young author, Ernest Knoy, with Bill

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<v Speaker 1>Redfield starring as Danny, and directed by Harry W. Duncan.

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<v Speaker 1>Here is Radio City Playhouse Attraction two, Ground Floor Window.

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<v Speaker 2>I've been sitting in this ground floor window of ours

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<v Speaker 2>for twenty three years. Yes, ever since I can remember.

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<v Speaker 2>I've watched the girls playing POTSI on the sidewalk, the

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<v Speaker 2>boys playing stickball, dodging the cars, shooting marbles in the gutter.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm twenty three, now twenty three. It was six years

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<v Speaker 2>ago that I first saw you, a few with a

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<v Speaker 2>new upstairs tenants. There was a big yellow moving van,

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<v Speaker 2>the furniture, your father managing everything. I remember the first

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<v Speaker 2>words your father ever said to me. The first words

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<v Speaker 2>your father ever said to me were.

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<v Speaker 3>Hey, you, You and the window. There's seven ninety one. Huh,

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<v Speaker 3>I said, is it seven ninety one?

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<v Speaker 2>He's asking him, but he's dopey. Yeah, what do you know? Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>he's a regular goop just sits there all the time.

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<v Speaker 2>I can't see, Like I said, he can't even talk straight. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>seven ninety one. All right, you're moving in? Huh? Yeah?

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<v Speaker 2>Say the goof there. He ain't dangerous or anything, is

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<v Speaker 2>he him? Nah? He can't even got a chair. His

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<v Speaker 2>ma even has the tiest shoes for him.

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<v Speaker 3>No, kidd Yeah, okay, rupee, this is the right place.

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<v Speaker 2>We're home in the window, pops.

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<v Speaker 3>Never mind, Now go find a souper and get the

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<v Speaker 3>key to the apartment.

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<v Speaker 4>He looks so funny.

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<v Speaker 2>Go on, you heard me find a soper. All afternoon,

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<v Speaker 2>I watched your father and another man carrying furniture and

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<v Speaker 2>trunks into the house. It was dark before the truck

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<v Speaker 2>finally pulled a word. The kids on the block were

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<v Speaker 2>shooting bottle caps under the street land, and the ice

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<v Speaker 2>cream man had been around twice. Jenny getting lazy.

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<v Speaker 5>Let me fix you for this.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh no, Ma, not yet. I'll stay up a while.

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<v Speaker 5>You had a long day, Denny. You should riff Ma

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<v Speaker 5>all day, you said, by the wo, let me alone?

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<v Speaker 5>Will you you want? I should get you some ginger.

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<v Speaker 2>It's called I don't want nothing, Ma, Just leave me alone,

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<v Speaker 2>so you'll call.

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<v Speaker 5>When you want to go to bed. All right, all right?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah ma, all right?

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<v Speaker 5>Huh p.

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<v Speaker 4>My name is Ruth. I moved in today upstairs.

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<v Speaker 2>I saw hey, you amount if?

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<v Speaker 4>I said, on the stoop by your win?

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<v Speaker 2>No, what you mean, Dan?

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<v Speaker 4>What's wrong with you? You make funny faces?

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<v Speaker 2>Well, I can't help it.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm Janser Papa. When he asked you a question this afternoon.

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<v Speaker 2>I have trouble talking sometimes.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh can you walk?

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<v Speaker 2>No?

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<v Speaker 4>Will you run over?

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<v Speaker 3>No?

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<v Speaker 2>I was born like this.

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<v Speaker 4>You ain't really don't be, are you.

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<v Speaker 2>No, it's just I was born with.

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<v Speaker 4>That lady in the blue dress. She's your mother, ain't she.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 4>My mother died last year. She had double pneumonia.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh that's too bad. Can a doctor do something else

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<v Speaker 2>for me?

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 2>Well, my mother took me to the clinic when I

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<v Speaker 2>was four. They told her they couldn't do anything.

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<v Speaker 4>That's awful. What is it?

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<v Speaker 2>Well, the doctor said, cerebral palsy. That means something isn't

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<v Speaker 2>there in the park. That tells the muscles what to do. Oh,

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<v Speaker 2>that's what makes me make funny faces all the time.

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<v Speaker 4>You don't have to tell me if you don't want to.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, I don't mind you. You won't laugh at me, though, No,

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<v Speaker 2>I will laugh the rest of the kids on the

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<v Speaker 2>block do right. I'm used to it. I guess they

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<v Speaker 2>call me dope be dad.

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<v Speaker 4>That isn't fairly netful, is it.

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<v Speaker 2>No, it isn't my fault, Rupie, Ruthie.

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<v Speaker 4>I gotta go upstairs tomorrow day.

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<v Speaker 2>Good night, Ruth.

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<v Speaker 4>Who's dods?

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<v Speaker 5>Who are talking to?

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<v Speaker 2>Denny?

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<v Speaker 5>Girl from upstairs, the one who moved in today?

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<v Speaker 3>Uh huh, she should shame herself with such a dirty face.

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<v Speaker 2>Her name is Ruth.

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<v Speaker 5>Such a nice neighborhood.

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<v Speaker 2>She looks straight at me, Ma, So she looked at you,

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<v Speaker 2>the one I should put you to bed. Oh no, no,

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<v Speaker 2>that's all right, Ma. I want to sit up a

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<v Speaker 2>while longer. You go ahead. I want to think. I

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<v Speaker 2>watched you grow up, Ruthe. You washed your face now,

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<v Speaker 2>and soon those long black braids gave way to a

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<v Speaker 2>sort of soft tangle around your face. You went to

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<v Speaker 2>Douglas Junior High School with the kids from the block,

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<v Speaker 2>and after school. You used to sit on the high

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<v Speaker 2>brownstone stoop just outside my window and report on the

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<v Speaker 2>day's activities.

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<v Speaker 4>The teacher don't like me, Dan right and go to

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<v Speaker 4>the whole class, she said, I didn't do my homework.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, did you well?

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<v Speaker 4>Not exactly. I tried.

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<v Speaker 2>You went to the movies instead. I saw you go by.

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<v Speaker 4>Skip asked me to go. I don't see what good

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<v Speaker 4>algebra does anyway.

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<v Speaker 2>Did you have a good time with Skip?

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<v Speaker 4>I guess so. We had a soda after you never

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<v Speaker 4>seen a movie?

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<v Speaker 2>Have you done well? Ma was gonna take me once,

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<v Speaker 2>but she couldn't get anybody to carry me.

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<v Speaker 4>It was a swell picture.

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<v Speaker 2>I'll see one someday.

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<v Speaker 4>What are you doing when I'm in school, Danny?

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know. Watch the street, I guess.

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<v Speaker 4>Don't you read well?

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<v Speaker 2>I can't turn the pages so good. I used to

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<v Speaker 2>have a teacher come twice a week, but not anymore.

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<v Speaker 4>See I know what I'll read you Saturday afternoon. I've

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<v Speaker 4>gotta read. I'm in Hope for school anyway, and I

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<v Speaker 4>just as soon read it.

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<v Speaker 2>He Ruthie that Skip calling you.

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<v Speaker 4>Let him come over here if he wants anything.

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<v Speaker 2>Hey, what you're doing Ruthie just talking, So don't be Dad.

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<v Speaker 4>He passing you shut out?

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<v Speaker 5>That's all right, sure day, don't mind, do you?

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<v Speaker 2>No? We're old friends, ain't we?

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<v Speaker 1>You?

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<v Speaker 4>Never mind, Skiff, you shut up anyway.

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<v Speaker 2>Poor girls are crazy, ain't they? Danny? Danny agrees with me.

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<v Speaker 4>Why don't you go away?

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<v Speaker 2>Skip, I'm going, I want to say, Ruthie.

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<v Speaker 6>Uh, all the kids in school are going up the

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<v Speaker 6>river on the dayline Saturday.

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<v Speaker 2>You're coming, ancient, I don't know, won't cost much. Look,

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<v Speaker 2>i'll tell you what. You come with me and I'll

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<v Speaker 2>get your ticket.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, I was gonna read to Danny said, we're going

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<v Speaker 4>to Damn Mountain.

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<v Speaker 2>Joe Bogga's father's giving a hot talk for the whole bunch.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know, Sims swell Ruth. Yeah, it's a lot

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<v Speaker 2>better than just sitting on a stoop reading all afternoon.

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<v Speaker 4>I don't know yet.

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<v Speaker 2>Skip.

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<v Speaker 4>I'll let you know.

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<v Speaker 2>You went to Bear Mountain with Skip, Ruth. I wanted

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<v Speaker 2>you to Skip. Was supposed to be very funny. He

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<v Speaker 2>had an imitation of the way I talk and how

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<v Speaker 2>my face moves. I never saw it, but all the

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<v Speaker 2>kids in the neighborhood laughed. Every time. Saturday afternoon, I

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<v Speaker 2>watched the little kids unscrew the top off the fire

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<v Speaker 2>hydrant and run around under the water. I thought of

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<v Speaker 2>you on the boat, with the wind blowing through that

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<v Speaker 2>short tangle of hair. I think I enjoyed that trip

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<v Speaker 2>more than you did. He came home way after twelve alone.

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<v Speaker 2>The night was hot, and the whole street seemed to

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<v Speaker 2>be weighed down under a smothering blanket. You sat on

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<v Speaker 2>the stoop, and even in the dark, I could tell

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<v Speaker 2>you were crying.

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<v Speaker 4>I am not crying. It's just hop.

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<v Speaker 2>Well. I didn't mean anything, Ruth. Then you have a

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<v Speaker 2>good time. Well, how come Skip didn't bring you home?

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<v Speaker 2>Your father will be awful, man, I don't care. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>what's the matter? You are crying? Ruth.

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<v Speaker 4>Nothing.

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<v Speaker 2>Then something happened on the trip.

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<v Speaker 5>It was Skip, wasn't it, Oh, Danny?

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<v Speaker 2>He made quite of the way I talked.

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<v Speaker 4>I tried to make him stop, but he wouldn't. He

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<v Speaker 4>only did it because.

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<v Speaker 5>They all lasted. Danny, it was awful.

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<v Speaker 2>You mustn't mind.

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<v Speaker 4>Slapskip as hot as I could, and then I ran

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<v Speaker 4>into the cattle.

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<v Speaker 2>Please don't come home with him.

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<v Speaker 4>I couldn't stand it. Danny as long as island.

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<v Speaker 2>They don't mean anything, Ruth. It's just that I'm different.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't cry, Ruth. Please?

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<v Speaker 4>Is that you, Rookie?

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<v Speaker 2>It's Papa. He's been to Connolly's bar. I saw him

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<v Speaker 2>go by around ten.

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<v Speaker 4>Ruth, answer, Papa, Danny's drunk. What'll I do?

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<v Speaker 3>Didn't I tell you to get home before midnight?

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<v Speaker 5>Papa?

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<v Speaker 3>Didn't I say before midnight, didn't I?

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<v Speaker 2>Mister gawer, what do you want a Well, Ruth was

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<v Speaker 2>here talking to me. Oh she was. She was talking

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<v Speaker 2>to me. She was, She was back around eleven. Why

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<v Speaker 2>are you lying half with it.

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<v Speaker 1>Like that?

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<v Speaker 4>Why you little Ruth?

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<v Speaker 2>I want to get upstairs before I beat your head on.

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<v Speaker 2>Mister Gower. You shouldn't do that, you overgrown idiot.

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<v Speaker 3>If I didn't know that, your mama has to even

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<v Speaker 3>wipe your nose for Yeah, I stay away from Ruthie, See,

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<v Speaker 3>I don't want her hanging around here.

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<v Speaker 5>Well, just stay away, Denny. That's what goller? Coming home

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<v Speaker 5>drunk again, Denny, Denny keop crying, No, mar what's then?

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<v Speaker 5>Can I do something for you? Annybody? You're crying nothing, nothing,

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<v Speaker 5>all right? So let me fix the pillow behind your back.

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<v Speaker 5>It's all crooked.

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<v Speaker 2>Mars stopped, Denny. I can't stand it any longer. Let

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<v Speaker 2>me alone, Let me alone, Let me alone. But my

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<v Speaker 2>mother fixed my pillow and brought me a glass of

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<v Speaker 2>water and wiped the tears out of my eyes. I

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<v Speaker 2>sat at the window, staring out at the street. That

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<v Speaker 2>night I dreamed I could walk.

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<v Speaker 5>I was with you, walking by the ocean.

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<v Speaker 2>We were running, hand in hand, sort of floating over

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<v Speaker 2>the sand, running running, and then suddenly I fell. I

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<v Speaker 2>couldn't get up, and you looked down at me and

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<v Speaker 2>said quietly, cripple. I was screaming when I woke up,

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<v Speaker 2>and my mother came running. She insisted on sitting up

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<v Speaker 2>with me all night. I didn't dream again after that.

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<v Speaker 2>You didn't come every day. You had a job after school,

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<v Speaker 2>and I'd see you go out in the morning with

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<v Speaker 2>your books and come back late in the afternoon. You

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<v Speaker 4>Hello, Danny, isn't this a scort?

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<v Speaker 2>You're tired?

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<v Speaker 4>Sometimes I think you're lucky, Danny. I get so worn

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<v Speaker 4>out in the store I fall asleep over my homework.

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<v Speaker 2>It gets tiring just sitting too, Ruth.

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<v Speaker 4>See you know what I mean, Danny. Here, I'll straighten

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<v Speaker 4>a pillory. Wll me that you call it, Danny. It's

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<v Speaker 4>all twisted there.

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<v Speaker 2>I couldn't reach it.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm sorry, Dan, I didn't mean that. You know.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh it's all right, Ruth. I never mind when you

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<v Speaker 4>You're different from the other boys. I know, Danny, not

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<v Speaker 4>only because you're crippled.

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<v Speaker 2>It's sorry.

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<v Speaker 4>I mean, it seems like I can always talk to you.

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<v Speaker 4>Papa doesn't seem to understand understandy Sometimes I think you're older.

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<v Speaker 4>There is on the whole block that's real. I mean,

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<v Speaker 4>I don't know, I Danny, why did you seem kind

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<v Speaker 4>of good?

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know.

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<v Speaker 4>I mean, it seems so so old, old, as if

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<v Speaker 4>you knew what was right. Oh, Dan, you always let

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<v Speaker 4>me talk to you.

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<v Speaker 2>Ruth.

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<v Speaker 4>I get so tired. I need you to talk to Danny.

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<v Speaker 2>You sat on the stoop with your in your hands,

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<v Speaker 2>looking like all the sorrow in the world, and then

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<v Speaker 2>you looked up and smiled at me, and I could

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<v Speaker 2>see tears in your eyes, and I was glad, Ruth,

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<v Speaker 2>glad you wanted me to listen while you poured out

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<v Speaker 2>the troubles of your eighteen year old heart.

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<v Speaker 1>The war was over.

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<v Speaker 2>Now there was a big welcome home streamer stretching from

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<v Speaker 2>our house across the street to seven ninety four. Who

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<v Speaker 2>is that? It was Skip Parson on the sidewalk at

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<v Speaker 2>the foot of the stoop. He stood looking up at

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<v Speaker 2>me with his feet apart, leaning on a sort of

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<v Speaker 2>steel cane that reached up beyond his right hand and

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<v Speaker 2>clamped his arm by the elbow. Hi, Danny, Hello, Skip,

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<v Speaker 2>swell to see.

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<v Speaker 4>You while on the stoop.

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<v Speaker 2>Hello, Skip, how you Rufie? I guess I kind of

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<v Speaker 2>joined your club? Danny there, I'm sorry, Skiff. Well, I

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<v Speaker 2>still got the leg, even if it is all scrambled up.

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<v Speaker 2>How you've been?

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<v Speaker 4>Danny?

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<v Speaker 2>All the same? You look great, I mean, except for

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<v Speaker 2>the leg.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>But the surprise is Ruthie. She wasn't pretty when I

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<v Speaker 2>went away. I'm sure you are, isn't she?

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<v Speaker 1>Danny?

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<v Speaker 2>You ought to know. I leave it to you.

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<v Speaker 4>I guess never mind what the rbs Skip?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, free beers Mostly they're good, but at least accord.

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<v Speaker 2>At Connley's. Did you notice me weaving? That's the combat

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<v Speaker 2>infantry badge, isn't it. Yeah, I'll tell you a secret.

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<v Speaker 2>It's the only one that means anything to me. The

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<v Speaker 2>other stuff is the sweet, beautiful ladies off their feet coming.

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't think of it. I guess I should have

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<v Speaker 2>when you got home just in time, Skip, Ruth graduates

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<v Speaker 2>high school tonight. Hey, that's swell. Congratulations.

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<v Speaker 4>What you should have told me?

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<v Speaker 2>I'd have brought your prison or something, maybe flowers. Why

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<v Speaker 2>don't you go with her tonight? Skip, Mister Gower's working.

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<v Speaker 2>Ruth won't have anybody there wasn't goofy.

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<v Speaker 4>You need somebody in the audience to clap when they call.

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<v Speaker 2>My name, holding handed passons, I called me, how's this?

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<v Speaker 4>I gotta go get dressed now. Oh, your flowers are swell, Danny.

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<v Speaker 5>I'm glad in about an hour or maybe a little

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<v Speaker 5>longer outside a hurry.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, I gotta shave see you, lady, Danny, have a

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<v Speaker 2>good time. Skip. I saw you go off together to

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<v Speaker 2>the graduation. It was almost dark, and the street lamp

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<v Speaker 2>went on just as you passed under it. Our Skip

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<v Speaker 2>was wrong. You weren't pretty, but the light caught the

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<v Speaker 2>white flowers and your dark hair. They danced when you

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<v Speaker 2>tossed your head and waved to me.

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<v Speaker 5>That's the gower girl going to graduation. Yes, Ma, I

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<v Speaker 5>think her father would come home to go with it.

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<v Speaker 2>He's working, working, not working.

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<v Speaker 5>A girl graduates only once. Who's dot with her?

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<v Speaker 2>Skip Parson, he came home today.

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<v Speaker 5>I already heard the shame of his legs. Such a

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<v Speaker 5>strong boy.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh she looked nice, Ma.

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<v Speaker 5>She ought you made me buy expensive enough flowers. So

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<v Speaker 5>much money for a little girl like that. Oh my, Still,

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<v Speaker 5>you're right. Her father wouldn't get them in on graduation.

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<v Speaker 5>A girl should have flowers.

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<v Speaker 2>They were pretty. She had them in her hair.

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<v Speaker 4>Lucky.

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<v Speaker 5>Skip came home, so she had someone to take her.

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<v Speaker 5>Everybody's got as troubles the whole world, nothing but troubles.

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<v Speaker 5>So you want ice cream the next time the man

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<v Speaker 5>comes around.

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<v Speaker 2>He came home late. I heard you both laughing quietly

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<v Speaker 2>as you turned the corner, and when you passed under

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<v Speaker 2>the street lamp, I saw the flowers in your hair,

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<v Speaker 2>wilted and yellowing. Skip had tucked one of them under

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<v Speaker 2>his infantry edge like it was a button. Home, Dan, Hey, Dan,

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<v Speaker 2>he's probably in bed, Danny, what do you want to

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<v Speaker 2>wake him?

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<v Speaker 4>For to tell him about graduation.

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<v Speaker 2>Give him a break. Let I promise it didn't keep

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<v Speaker 2>till morning. Danny won't mind.

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<v Speaker 4>See. I wish she could have been there.

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<v Speaker 2>Why did I clap that? Really?

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<v Speaker 4>Skip? It's oh, Danny's been something sort of special to me.

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<v Speaker 5>Oh, Skip, it isn't fair.

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<v Speaker 4>Why should he be like that? It isn't fair. Hey, hey,

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<v Speaker 4>take it easy.

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<v Speaker 2>It's graduation night.

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<v Speaker 4>He said he was graduate with me.

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<v Speaker 2>Sure Danny's okay?

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<v Speaker 7>Say say you're not in I mean Danny's Oh, Skip, Ruthie,

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<v Speaker 7>let's walk out of the river.

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<v Speaker 2>It's earlier. I can't.

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<v Speaker 4>Papa will be home from work soon. You'll get mad.

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<v Speaker 2>You've got lots of time, after all, you only graduate

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<v Speaker 2>high school once. So I really promise Danny was up

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<v Speaker 2>here to end. But the old man doesn't come home

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<v Speaker 2>till three.

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<v Speaker 5>What do you say?

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<v Speaker 4>All right? Always came, Lucy.

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<v Speaker 2>They're drooping anyway. You might as well throw them away.

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<v Speaker 4>No, I'll fix the pin. I want to save them.

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<v Speaker 2>We can make it to the river and back before

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<v Speaker 2>your father comes home. I'd heard you when you called, ruth.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know why I didn't answer, but I waited

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<v Speaker 2>up till you came back. I wanted to be sure

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<v Speaker 2>you got home safely. I was afraid your father would

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<v Speaker 2>come home and find you still out too, But he didn't.

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<v Speaker 2>It was a week later when Skip came by again.

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<v Speaker 2>He was wearing his old suit from before the war,

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<v Speaker 2>but his arm was still braced against that twisted steel

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<v Speaker 2>half crutch. He pulled himself up the high stool. Wow,

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<v Speaker 2>it's quite a climb. Why if I sait awhile? No, Danny,

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<v Speaker 2>You've got to help me me. I know, I got

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<v Speaker 2>a nerve. All afternoon I sat in Conley's bar trying

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<v Speaker 2>to figure out how I had to right. What's trouble, Skip, Well,

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<v Speaker 2>remember when I was a kid, I used to call

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<v Speaker 2>you a dope, Dan, Yes, I remember Ruthie socked me

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<v Speaker 2>for at once.

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<v Speaker 7>I was imitating you on the boat coming down from

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<v Speaker 7>them out and see all off and sucked.

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<v Speaker 2>I knew about it. Well, kids are like that, Danny.

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<v Speaker 2>You know that, don't you. I didn't mean anything special

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<v Speaker 2>I was. I was just you know, there isn't any excuse. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't mind anymore.

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<v Speaker 6>Look, I know it is anything like it. I mean

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<v Speaker 6>my leg in your trouble, they aren't in the same class.

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<v Speaker 6>But this morning I saw two kids following me down

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<v Speaker 6>the street, making like my brace with a steak.

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<v Speaker 2>You'll get used to it. No, that isn't what I mean.

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<v Speaker 7>I try to figure out how how I come up

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<v Speaker 7>to ask you to help. I wouldn't have had the nerd,

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<v Speaker 7>but Ruthie told me you always were a friend, Ruth.

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<v Speaker 2>Ruth, Yeah, I need you, Danny. You're the only one

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<v Speaker 2>who can help I. What's the matter? Nothing? You see?

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<v Speaker 2>It's an old man. He wanted to see anybody goes

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<v Speaker 2>crazy every night when he's working. Because I can't tell

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<v Speaker 2>where she is. She's scared of him, Danny, What do

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<v Speaker 2>you want from me? I gotta see you, Danny. I

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<v Speaker 2>just got it. She's gonna meet me over at the park.

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<v Speaker 2>She told her father she's gonna read to you. He'll

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<v Speaker 2>ask you, Danny. You've got to tell him she was

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<v Speaker 2>with you. I didn't know what to say to Skip, Ruth,

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<v Speaker 2>so I stuttered like I always do when I get confused.

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<v Speaker 2>Skip sat by the window and told me how pretty

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<v Speaker 2>you were. You weren't really pretty, Ruth, even on graduation

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<v Speaker 2>night with my flowers in your hands. I wanted to

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<v Speaker 2>tell him there were lots of prettier girls, so many others.

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<v Speaker 2>He could walk, he could find the others. Why did

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<v Speaker 2>he have to come to me? Why did I have

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<v Speaker 2>to help him? He stopped by my window before you

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<v Speaker 2>went to meet him. He sat on the stoop the

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<v Speaker 2>way you used to.

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<v Speaker 4>How do I look to him? Oh?

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<v Speaker 2>Fine, Rufe, just fine.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm going over to the park to meet the sick. Yes,

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<v Speaker 4>I know, Oh, Danny, I love him. What's the matter, Danny?

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<v Speaker 2>This gets a good guy.

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<v Speaker 4>He wants to get married and go to California. He

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<v Speaker 4>knows a job out there where his leg won't matter.

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<v Speaker 4>Only it wasn't for Papa.

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<v Speaker 2>Can't you just go anyway? Yeah?

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<v Speaker 4>But Skip and Papa don't like each other, Danny. Why

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<v Speaker 4>is Papa like he is? He's not really bad. He

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<v Speaker 4>worries about me that way, you know, And Danny, he

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<v Speaker 4>don't need to worry. Why can't he be nice? Danny?

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<v Speaker 4>Why can't he? Ruth, You've always been a friend, Danny.

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<v Speaker 4>I've always been able to talk to you. Remember when

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<v Speaker 4>I said I wanted to talk to you always, rum, Ruth.

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<v Speaker 2>I can't even talk right hardly, even.

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<v Speaker 4>If you couldn't move, walk or anything. You were my

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<v Speaker 4>very best friend on the block. You were my best

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<v Speaker 4>friend in the world.

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<v Speaker 2>Danny.

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<v Speaker 4>You could tell what I was thinking. You knew it

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<v Speaker 4>without my saying anything. That's what I love about Skip, Danny.

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<v Speaker 4>He's so gentle and sweet like you. Sometimes I think

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<v Speaker 4>that you're Ruth. Danny. I'll write your offer.

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<v Speaker 2>You're you're not going tonight?

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<v Speaker 4>Are you tomorrow? Maybe?

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<v Speaker 5>If Skip what I I hope you'll be happy, Ruth bens.

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<v Speaker 4>Your head up, Danny. Well, your face feels hot, Danny.

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<v Speaker 4>Are you all right at your fever or something?

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<v Speaker 3>No?

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<v Speaker 2>No, I'm alright far it's so hot, Danny.

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<v Speaker 4>Tomorrow I'll say goodbye like always, just like I was

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<v Speaker 4>going to school or something. But you'll know, Danny, that

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<v Speaker 4>don't goodbye?

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<v Speaker 1>Danny.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh, Daddy, Who are.

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<v Speaker 5>You talking to?

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<v Speaker 2>Denny?

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<v Speaker 5>Somebody's bothering at me, Danny. What's the matter why you're crying?

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<v Speaker 5>That's no way for a man's wax. A man a

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<v Speaker 5>man who can't even button his shirt or tie his shoes.

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<v Speaker 2>What kind of a man is that, Denny?

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<v Speaker 5>What kind of a man that drools and.

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<v Speaker 2>Stammers when he talks like a baby?

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<v Speaker 5>Denny, Your mom isn't you're my son? I lived in

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<v Speaker 5>the house with you for twenty three years. Oh please,

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<v Speaker 5>let's skip past. He went two years to award. Danny,

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<v Speaker 5>your wall went onsome when you were born.

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<v Speaker 1>I know, I know.

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<v Speaker 5>Your Ruth. She's going away, but you've still got to

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<v Speaker 5>live for heaven. So she goes away, Danny. It didn't

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<v Speaker 5>take courage till the twenty three years sitting in a

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<v Speaker 5>window watching the world run and play games.

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<v Speaker 2>A man?

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<v Speaker 5>Could there be more of a man?

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<v Speaker 2>Mama? I love her, So now I sit by the

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<v Speaker 2>window and watch the street all day. I watched the

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<v Speaker 2>girls jumping rope and the boys playing stickball. You wrote me, Ruth,

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<v Speaker 2>but I didn't answer. This is the letter I write

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<v Speaker 2>in my head. Even if I wanted to, I couldn't

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<v Speaker 2>put it on paper. I'm twenty three years old and

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<v Speaker 2>I can't hold a pencil in my hand.

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<v Speaker 1>That was Ground Floor Window Attraction two Radio City Playhouse,

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<v Speaker 1>as written by Ernest Connoy and directed by Harry W. Junkin.

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<v Speaker 1>Bill Redfield starred as Danny, and other members of the

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<v Speaker 1>cast included Bernard Grant, Marilyn Erskine, Anna Karen, and Arthur Q.

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<v Speaker 4>Bryant.

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<v Speaker 1>The music was composed and conducted by the to roy Shield.

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<v Speaker 1>Radio City Playhouse is supervised for the National Broadcasting Company

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<v Speaker 1>by Richard P. McDonough. Next week, the Radio City Playhouse

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<v Speaker 1>presents of Unsound Mind, written by our director Harry W.

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<v Speaker 2>Duncan.

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<v Speaker 1>It is the story of Myra, beautiful, gracious, charming and

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<v Speaker 1>without a soul. It is the story of Caleb, her

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<v Speaker 1>war wounded husband, and of Jeff, the other man in

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<v Speaker 1>her life. We sincerely hope you will be with us

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<v Speaker 1>next Saturday when we bring you of Unsound Mind by

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<v Speaker 1>Harry W. Duncan. Attraction three, Radio City Playhouse m Robert

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<v Speaker 1>Warren speaking. This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company.

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<v Speaker 4>Mm hmmm