Invitation to a Gunfighter
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Tell me something. The truth.
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I never lie.
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I...
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I have this feeling that you...
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that you are playing with us, all of us.
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And...
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that you really don't intend to do
what you've been paid to do.

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Is that a question or a request?
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I'm not sure.
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Maybe both.
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First smile.
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First in a long time.
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Much longer since I've laughed.
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My mother used to scold me
for laughing too much.

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Is that why you stopped?
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My mother died, and my father.
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When the war reached us here,
I don't know, one day I stopped laughing.

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You were not born here.
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New England.
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In a white town in a green valley.
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I wish we'd never left.
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This came from New England
with Crane's family.

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Nothing good
comes from the savage South.

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I'm not one of those Northerners
who despises the whole South.

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We knew a family here that...
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Well, a Southern family.
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They were wonderful people.
Warm, kind, happy.

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Your second smile.
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You didn't answer my question.
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Will I do what I have been paid to do?
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What would I gain by answering it?

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