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MANY TIMES WHILE CROSSING THE, STREBTI| Y GAVE.
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IT WAS PRIGHTENING TO OBSERVE HOW "THEY SEEMED
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TRE END OF THE WALL. MT 'WAS LIKE 1 WAS IN A STOOD FACING IT. re
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IRTLING RIGHT AT ME, FAST AXD FURIOUS, NO
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‘THAT I HAD RECKLESSLY PUT MUSELE DIRECTIN IN THE
BRET OF THAT FLYING CHUNK OF CONCRETE BUT HOW
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BRIDGE. MY PARENTS DIDN'L SEE ANY SENSE IN
PUTTING oor THE EXPENSE FoR ANOTHER ONE,
MUCH TO MY RELIEF, :
[LL THROUGH THE REST OF MY TEEN YEARS | WENT
AROUND WITH THIS DOPEY GAP IN MY FRONT TEETH
KINDA LIKE ALFRED &; NEUMAN IN MAD MAGAZINE.
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OBLIWOUS BOOT MY PHVSICAL RPDCARANCE.
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