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Hello?
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Miss Richards.
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You're late.
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I'm sorry.
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Gussie said
you was a real good lawyer.
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Yeah. Now, she's explained
some of this to me,
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but there's still
a lot of holes here.
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She tells me you'd like to
reinstate your parental rights.
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You gave your child
up for adoption.
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Now you want him back.
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No, I never gave my child up
for no adoption.
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You left him in an alley.
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You abandoned him
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and made no effort
to find him again.
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Legally, that's the same thing.
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Well, that's 'cause
I thought he was dead.
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No one ever sent you any letters
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informing you
of his whereabouts?
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Nope.
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Or of the Lewins'
intent to adopt him?
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Mm-mmm.
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Now, Miss Richards,
you know
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you couldn't read very well
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before you went into
the rehab program.
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You sure you didn't throw
away any official papers?
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No. I ain't never got no papers.
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Not even in jail?
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If I would've got some papers
like that,
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don't you think
I would've remembered?
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You don't like me all that much,
do you?
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I don't like what put you in
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this situation, Miss Richards.
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How do I know that when
I help you get your boy back,
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you're not going to go back
to smoking rock
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and leave him again?
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'Cause I'm telling you
I'm through with all that.
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Oh, well,
that's what you all say.
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You ain't got
to talk down to me.
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I can pay.
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There's no fee involved here.
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We take on cases
that are socially relevant.
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If we win them,
they set legal precedent.
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Your case fits that profile.
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The fee's taken care of
by donations.