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"Sissy, I'm remembering
your sweet hands on my scar.
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In a few minutes, I'm going to return
to the scene of our love.
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Last spring Debbie and I
left mountains of brown rice
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for the cranes to munch.
And they stayed at the pond
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longer than they ever had
in the past.
:58:30
This time, we're gonna try
a different diet on them
:58:33
to see if they won't stay
even longer.
:58:35
By the way, I'm visiting
the Chink once a week again.
:58:38
Now you know
my little secret, huh?
:58:40
Well, I hear that you
don't exactly sit at his feet
:58:42
listening to Bible stories.
:58:44
He's really something, isn't he?
The billy goat.
:58:47
I love you,
Bonanza Jellybean."
:59:07
Well, he's not
out of danger.
:59:10
But I think we can safely say
he's gonna make it.
:59:13
Now I'd be pretty
surprised if he didn't.
:59:16
However, there is evidence
of injury to the frontal lobe.
:59:19
And I have reason to fear
that this injury may be permanent.
:59:22
Brain damage?
:59:24
You mean he's gonna
be a vegetable?
:59:26
A vegetable?
:59:30
No, I wouldn't say that.
:59:32
We won't know the extent
of the injury for some days.
:59:35
But there is
a genuine possibility
:59:38
of severe and lasting
behavioral defects.
:59:41
I wouldn't classify it in
the "vegetable" category, however.
:59:47
Thumbs that not once
in a lifetime
:59:49
had been raised in anger,
:59:51
that had often known bliss
but never violence,
:59:54
that were wound 'round
with artistic skill and athletic glory
:59:58
now had been reduced
to the status of weapons.