The Sweet Hereafter
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:40:13
Have you been waiting long?
:40:14
Awhile.
:40:16
Billy, do you have to smoke?
:40:18
Wendell can smell
if someone's been smoking.

:40:27
What's all this?
:40:29
Wendell put some fresh enamel
on that break in the tub.

:40:32
-l can't have a shower?
-No. Should be dry by now.

:40:40
When's he getting back?
:40:41
After the game, l guess.
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Oh, the game.
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''The Pied Piper of Hamelin.''
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''Hamelin town's in Brunswick,
by famous Hanover city.

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''The river Weser
deep and wide...

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''washes its wall
on the southern side.

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''A pleasanter spot
you never spied,

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''but when begins my ditty--''
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-What's a ditty again?
-lt's like a song.

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''Almost 500 years ago,
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''to see the townsfolk suffer so
from vermin was a pity.''

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-What's vermin again?
-Rats.

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''They fought the dogs
and killed the cats...

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''and bit the babies
in the cradles...

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''and ate the cheeses
out of the vats...

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''and licked the soup
from the cooks' own ladles.

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''Split open the kegs
of salted sprats,

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''made nests inside
men's Sunday hats,

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''and even spoiled
the women's chats...

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''by drowning their speaking
with shrieking and squeaking...

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''in 50 different
sharps and flats.''

:41:49
Can l sit beside you
on the bus tomorrow?

:41:51
You sit at the back
to wave at your dad.

:41:53
l want to sit beside you.

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