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stay low and keep moving don't stop for

nothing

check your gas masks marvelous dancer

keep your damn heads down yeah so yellow

you scared me no sure

fool if you ain't right

you're already burning ready don't try

to save them all just get the ones you

can't you got me sure stop trying to be

a damn hero

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and you know I thought for you

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Vincent thank god you're here how is he

he's impossible that's how he is

hello father he locked himself in from

your father and me he won't even see you

every time he goes on one of these

demonstrations it costs your mother and

me $25 to bail him out

please Vincent do something please

hey-ya open up it's me Ben

hi kid

what's the matter huh well what why

don't you call me you're my kid brother

I love you why don't you talk to me I

don't need to talk Vince I just need a

job I think it's more than that it's

that why they call you in here to get me

back in the hospital cuz I'm not going

Vince you understand I'm not going back

there

fine I don't want you to go back to the

hospital ok I just want what's best for

you or what's best for me is to get the

hell out of here

can go where I mean your family's here

the people that love you are right here

it's Vince if I stay here I feel like

I'm gonna dream the war the rest of my

life I'm gonna go to Florida now there's

a Boone down there and and and I'm gonna

get a job it I know I'm more of a burden

here than anything else it'll be better

for you for the family for me you'll see

Vince Vince you'll see

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but he didn't get better I need more

money in one week in New York before the

world in the last six months to south

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somewhere there's a place for me

anything is possible in America I still

believe that

I still believe that

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well well look what we got here ain't

got no beef with your friend

that depends on what on how quickly you

empty your pockets look ain't got

nothing you want then you won't mind if

we have a little look-see will ya hey

okay okay

I'm not welcome here why didn't you just

say so yeah so I couldn't help you them

to dingos

let me an arm here won't do nothing but

flat hey take it easy now sport y'all

right

hey you Abed by any chance yeah me too

hungry go on get hungry thanks I just

like to make a little money Hut

how'd you like to make a little money

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yeah well me well I got no more money

and I total got feathers but I do know

where I can get me something that's just

what I'm gonna do

hey you won't go in partners with me

what well I can't say just now

but if you hook up with me about noon

from our options Wow well plan on being

halfway to Jacksonville by then well

that's the bunk isn't it that'd be too

bad cuz you'd be passing up easy

pickings

I'd like to help out a fellow veteran

put a little jingle in your pocket

anyhow we got to stick together these

days don't we

Oh

there's old geese homes is those bills

in cash that maybe $1,000 hit up in

there and this says it ain't his

call me out would you think guys taking

you to a picnic out me I'm late sport

you already seen my face hands up old

man go and get the money come on open it

$5.00 where's that money pops that's all

there is

search him come on old Natalie are you

pops you tell me what you hid the rest

that money I'll blow your brains out no

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[ __ ] a person and fin vu I would eternal

that old man's money

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sorry Fitz but I don't believe there's a

jury in the county little buyers do we

manage nothing you say good old man's

like people down here don't take kindly

to thieves especially the ones from the

north

how do you plead your honor your honor

he's not giving me any choice

do you plead guilty we plead guilty your

honor i sentence you Robert Elliott

burns to six to ten years hard labor

where's Larry okay

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13 Changmin 13 pack tok this up right

here right here yes you the warden I

gotta talk to you

step down mr. Burnes chain gives you a

short step but you'll get used to it

count on it

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is your first time in Georgia

yeah I'll get used to it cuz you're

gonna be here for a long long time

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prisoner it's for punishment the way

they Expedia sins

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the sooner you feel guilty the better

off you'll be

ooh boy for your Trump thank you

you take real good care now yeah yes sir

mr. party I'll do just that

hey take that one over there should

still be warm

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I hope you're more of a man the last

Hansel had bunk named his clothes his

temple pimp from Savannah ride himself

to sleep every night put him in the hot

box until she tried to make a break

ding to be didn't die on my name's Pappy

glue what's yours

Terrence play in for armed robbery but I

didn't do it do it

Oh half the cons and you didn't do it

but me I done it

tchau tchau

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Meech take that the fridge corn and

sorghum molasses you get it seven days a

week

supper and breakfast dinner you get red

beans and mush now learn to eat it

that's all there is

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my first night no sleep

rats crawl over you smells like a sewer

it is chained like animals next to

insane men murderers victims like me

they whisper plans for escape what

they'll do when they get out what they

did to get in nobody wants to die here

they say most of them do

yeah

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take it out a new boy take it out

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please get back to work

I said get back for you make one move

and it'll be your last one

water

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ozmo witness your dog net seals

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oh hang on dog it no more are you boy

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was grace that brought me safe thus far

and grace will eat me

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morning starts before the Sun rises you

get to work it's 15 licks a minute 900

and hour 15 hours a day

some have life I've got 10 years

keep the lip wipe it off boss wipe it

off I'm just going Yankee boy lucky

bastard

there's gold in the ground there's blue

in the sky and it shows you boy you

better die they're thrown in the ground

there's blue in the sky and I show you

boy you better die

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come by me I smell your boy sweat well

Yankee how do you like chain gang in I'm

beginning to see what you mean by

southern hospitality so that's so

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I'm thinking snowman's big mouth Yankee

said yourself deserves private corner

we're gonna try to accommodate get it

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we don't squeeze you like a grape did

you burst in this Sun

the only way you're gonna get out here

is in a pine box like sales anything

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exam you can really swing that Sam

forget ten years I'm gonna hang it on

the wind but I need your help

no white man never helped me

know what you want rain my leg against

the Crosstown you think you can bend my

shackle ring you know crazy wise man

I miss that 12 pound ham is gonna make

cornmeal out of your head to take the

chance I bust don't change to set you

free

no on your feet move

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if you grab the balls I got the heaven

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Jenny gonna like it here now mr. burns

yes mr. honey rose investment yes mr.

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you want to come with me Pepe ride the

rails again New Orleans the French

Quarter oh and that green abscess in a

nice green ain't gonna know where that

is not with any green hair son of a

bitchin Yankee hey

besides I'd only slow you down don't

forget you it's a crock forget me the

miniature out of the state of Georgia if

an you ever naked

your boss boss

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Jr working girl

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he's got away

you jackass yeah I'm gonna get you Birds

and that's a promise

Georgia flier leaving for Cartersville

Chattanooga Manchester and Nashville Oh

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there yet

we're after

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and more good news the three million

people living here in the Chicago area

with residential construction booming in

163 skyscrapers in the loop Mayer Big

Bill Thompson announced plans for even

more growth look for significant

improvement in streets parks and

boulevards new bridges expansion of

transportation and a tremendous array of

industrial and commercial build a little

tilted college football is still was

number one sport the two year old

National Football League that's

professional football to non-fans may

just survive after all however don't

look for any life in our strategies deal

water is fashionable Chicagoans will

have the courage to bear as much as this

season swimsuits dare I'll see you on

Oak Street Beach this summer for the

answer but one thing museum flappers are

not taking sitting down is the hottest

new musical sound in town of course I'm

talking about you tonight all charges

and political corruption the mayor said

quote that could never happen in Chicago

yes I'm here about the room

come eat this one second please

I'm cooking something you want to try

what is that

it's the breading a mother deport well

yeah it's Portuguese

lebretia mother

don't you see the room yeah you know for

me money isn't everything the quality of

the person is what counts

you look like a manatee I can trust you

can't I just ma'am

uh my name is Emily Paschal and you are

Robert I'm Elliot Roberts

that's it you like it yeah so you take

it

dear Vincent I'm still in Chicago pop

will be pleased to know I'm working

steady and then grateful even though

it's washing dishes have not had been

writing about what happened in Georgia I

now feel that you should tell the folks

all about it I know that you will be

able to convince them of my innocence

you're not healthy you work all day type

all night you're going out and have some

fun Emily I won't take no for an answer

it's my treat I insist

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spare change

yes cuz something what you're doing

there typing are you a put no no I just

write about please live in and where

have you bee it's chicag you know people

in Chicago and I want to get published

in a magazine I mean I'd like to start

my own magazine that's that's my dream

it makes dreams come true to your

magazine and everything

thank god you're here I'm very happy me

too

I hope this works me too

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wanted thanks I like the way you swing

that big just takes a little practice

looks beautiful

yeah I'm gonna make your place better

than you Emily you know I have some

money saved not much but some and I want

you to take this money and start your

magazine you can't do that Emily you

don't even know me why not my money well

I know it's money but I don't know you

hey if it makes you feel better you can

call it alone I just wanna help

I appreciate it but well let me think

about okay sure I mean you don't know

what you're getting into neither do you

this is it

and I know it doesn't look like much but

it's a gold mine in there honey looks

old old it works yeah oh yeah I've seen

it all working with mr. McBaine he's a

man that owns a shop and you know what

he told me about all the printing

equipment I can buy it on time I'm just

saying what that means that means I can

buy it right now for next to nothing

good

I threw myself into the magazine working

day and night first issue was almost

complete I'm very happy Emily complains

she never sees me but she doesn't

understand

Elias come home dad's dying love Vincent

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Eliott

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I'm sorry mama

he kept asking for

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why did you need me

my father died I'm sorry

I need you please promise me say you'll

never leave me again this marry me and I

want to be alone

I want some time a moment

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how many you saw

it's a very good magazine choose me sir

we're from out of town are you staying

at the hotel well how can you survive on

the streets of Chicago without the

greatest Chicago magazine this tells you

where what who and how choose me miss

miss doesn't your boy want to know where

to buy the latest fashions it's all here

in the greatest Chicago magazine 20

cents that's all it is

thank you very much there's a scripture

inside ladies just got the latest

fashion display it's the greatest

Chicago magazine there's only 20 cents

20 cents it's the greatest Chicago

Magazine dystocia what you know what the

problem is the problem in Chicago is

that there are too many things to do

that's right ladies and gentlemen there

are too many things to do in Chicago and

that's why the greatest Chicago magazine

was created that's right it's only 20

cents 20 cents for your copy

do they take it to Chicago that's right

that's right how can you survive in

Chicago without the Great Chicago

magazine

there's too much to see too much to do

okay thank you Chicago next only a few

laughs thank you thank you Emily Emily

we're here and we this is the last copy

of the Greater Chicago magazine I want

you to have it

I sold out every other one magazine is a

hip Emily the sky's the limit

Emily I am what publisher

to making dreams come true and do

everything to everything I can get

married

I appreciate you helping me get started

I really do I love you but I'm not in

love with you I I don't know if I'm

capable of loving anybody like that you

understand no I'll make things better

for you this is just a story that I made

up a long time ago

no no one makes stars like that

it's too horrible Emily this is a story

I made up no listen to me you'll get

married I'm going to take care of you

okay no one you never know you're a safe

word I promise you just let me love you

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blackmailed me into marriage he calls me

passed over me like a sentence she never

speaks of it

she never lets me forget

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boss

boss

don't do that

don't stay here again tonight go home

for a change

thanks me what time is it nine o'clock

nine o'clock you have to go to the bank

you promised all these people that you'd

see them okay but you got it boss are

you listening wait a second bro you call

it where were you last night the night

before that this number right here I

don't want to see him right away right

away

answer me what do you think I was in Lee

I've been right here working shut up oh

nice

we are married I know we are married I

know you're alone

ladies and gentlemen may I present that

dynamic and enterprising young publisher

of the Greater Chicago magazine Elliot

Roberts

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Thank You mr. chairman thank you for

allowing me to be here today I think

that we live in the greatest city in

America and I think one of the reasons

that is food is that our fathers and our

grandfathers came from everywhere in the

world they came to this bleak city to

Forge your steel dig your coal dig your

ditches and when they were finished a

thriving metropolis stood called Chicago

disaster struck by some strange small

twist of fate this glorious city was

reduced to smoldering timbers but was

Chicago

willing to blow away was it no no my

friends our fathers and grandfathers

were made with more guts and heart than

that and like a phoenix this city rose

from the ashes to fulfill a new destiny

well I arrived in Chicago like my father

did to Ellis Island in 1878 I was broke

but I was lucky I got a job in the

slaughterhouses and I worked non-stop

for 48 hours and when I was through my

boss had to be $2.50 and he said I'm

sorry I wish it could be more and I said

more friend you just handed me a walk in

the park with a new pair of shoes and I

walked out into this crazy crazy wild

piece of real estate and I was free I

said to myself I am a free man and let

me assure you there are people in this

world that are not free they are not

free like us to dream the big dreams in

the city of a big shoulders and that's

why I've dedicated my life and this

magazine to fulfill the destiny that

Chicago is sure to fulfill because if we

work together nothing can stop us

nothing can stop us from making us as

proud of our children and our children's

children as we are of our poor and

hungry ancestors and by honoring me

today you honor them

and for that I am I'm very grateful

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dumb John Graham Elliot Roberts very

glad you came

excuse me thank you very much mr.

Roberts yes I wanted to thank you for

your speech thank you it was very

inspiring well thank you

I'm I'm Elliot Roberts I know

oh yes I'm Lily and Sayla thanks Bill

thanks for coming I'm very pleased to

meet you

pleased to meet you I'm very pleased

excuse me I am

thanks for coming mrs. Beasley kellian

excuse me the woman you were sitting

next to she was very anxious to talk to

you think she's leaving okay that's kiss

Emily um there are some people I have

Emily excuse me billion something's

coming

yeah I was looking for you

well looks like you've found me didn't

it the babies they're beautiful thank

you very much

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I love music beautiful Lily I'm falling

for you

well that's good

I'm falling for you too

what's wrong

nothing what's wrong

Lillian I'm married

do you have kids it's not what you think

I can see you with kids crawling all

over its I'm not in love with you

Lillian I never have been it's something

that it happened a long time ago and I I

just got caught up in it and Lillian

believe me it's a marriage on paper only

it's not a marriage in my heart I

believe you

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yes

now in addition to everything that I've

gone over which i think is very fair you

are going to be set up for the rest of

your life please she it's it's all up to

you Emily if you want to accept the

alimony after our mutual consent in

divorce or which i think is better for

you to understand it over I gotta go

it's me it's not her it's me it's me at

last that's end

Bern's

come on you heard what the man said

Elliot Roberts prominent editor of the

Greater Chicago magazine was arrested

yesterday by Georgia officials who

claimed that a 1923 Roberts also known

as Robert Elliot Byrnes escaped a

Georgia chain gang where he was serving

a 10-year sentence for armed robbery

for the past six years Roberts has

managed to keep the closet door shut on

the skeletons of his past while he

climbed from a stockyard laborer job to

the position of respect he now holds in

the Chicago community friends many of

them prominent businessmen are rallying

to Robert's aid Thank You mr. burns

times have changed in Georgia the

sentence have changed to no there there

are great many people there as there are

here who feel that you deserve a break

now as a prison commissioner

I am empowered to tell you that if you

come back to Georgia voluntarily and you

you repay the state for all of its

expenses in this case why we can see to

it that you're back here in Chicago

among your friends and loved ones within

45 to 90 days paroled a free man

your honor mr. burns isn't going

anywhere

what's the catch

there's no catch Your Honor is this a

bona fide offer

can you guarantee 45 days sir I am an

official representative of the state of

Georgia you have my word

I see may I remind you that if the

governor does grant expedition and I am

convinced you will you won't have a

choice then you'll be liable to serve

out the remainder of your sentence plus

additional time for escape but if you

come back willingly we can probably see

to it that you're made a trustee at one

of our honor farms hmm it's up to you

Elliot

let's take a look at this

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what's happening burns we really have to

go now this is just a formality I'm

through you understand please wait okay

breathe Elliot take care of it

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I've been waiting for you mr. burns been

a long time but I just do you'd be back

as a trustee

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that's a guaranteed release sign in

Chicago 45 days you're in Georgia now

these will be done Georgia's way right

here mr. Bern

stand right here I want all of you they

take a good look at this man

look at him real careful now turn around

mr. Bern so they can check you out I

told you a very important man up north

to Chicago publishing magazines

associating with bigwigs having yourself

a fancy woman you're setting high in a

hog want you jakey all that shines over

now you'll just convict meet again the

fires gonna be all over you real quick

this time

not a

and I mean that one son of a [ __ ] or

talk to this prisoner and when you're

working that when you're eating and on

Sundays Mondays or anything of the week

if you do you'll pay for it you'll pay

hard

if he tries to hang it on them live

again don't catch him

Killa

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big sale club the card / ZN good

camping down stayed somewhere hey nobody

heard nobody dead if you went off they

beat him wiping it off boss No

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ketchup your name - you boys have been

dogging it go for your whipping right

now Ames Bascom moss and ferns that's a

lie why wouldn't I be

and miss a lick I didn't miss a lick

yesterday I have a mr. Lincoln 35 days

Oh

bossman Trump put your name down here

warden Hari bossman Trump was not my

boss mentally mr. Rayford was mr.

Raiford

did you see Mena selected a well mr.

refit I wasn't looking it burns the

whole time mr. Rayford guess he could

have missed a lick I am

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and extra and one to grow on

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all right you people keep your hands off

it

what have they done to you trying to

kill me no no we're gonna get you out of

here we sent letters to the governor

letters and petitions demanding a

clemency or a parole a pardon money guy

get money oh I love you

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I'm told big New York newspaper says we

have gotten that you go say they're

gonna send some folks down look you up

see how you're doing but I don't think

you're gonna live to see that you hear

me

Yankee what do you say

I almost forgot

roll board finally met decided your case

they turned you down your mind hold hold

on not take Lillian to the seashore hold

on

oh there did you

how's God he's fine he'll how's mother

she's on a diet so uh what's for lunch

have you heard from Lillian not for a

long time what

she told me what you wanted I haven't

either she told me about the money

there's not much left the magazine's

gone the rest has been drained by the

appeals the magazine is gone yeah it's

gone

but I've got what's left got the money

care for a cigarette

I'm sorry mr. reef I was just giving my

brother a pack of cigarettes a I gotta

check them first okay but please save

some for him didn't know you smoked

don't mind if I take a few for myself no

one is to be fit

Thank You mystery

so what do you want me to do next

I don't know anything you want me to do

I'll do Eliot anything thanks Vince

would you let me know uh I'll be there

the meantime pray for your kid

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fill it up I'm gonna get me a soda pop

and don't get any bright ideas got your

picture and all the papers now you're

sure enough Dutchess look let's try

Patsy well Yankee or no yay I'd say you

got the [ __ ] end of the stick after all

that they should let you go free yes I

had an airplane I take you off this

chain gang and land up country somewhere

and they have a plane with it yep got a

car I don't want to be standing on no

chain gang like to teach you drag my

kids are wife this another 50 you get me

across the state line make it 60 maybe

tomorrow behind those two treats it

bring a hacksaw to change your clothes

your supplies they giving you any

trouble Melbourne big city

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be out of my chains tomorrow not my

chains

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I'll be free I'll be dead

got my chains tomorrow

yeah slow down Chicago man bless

somebody think you can't freedom on your

mind

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Berndt

get your ass out of there now

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I don't believe it

hit a car waiting for him late on the up

goddamn nose we don't get it back of me

your goddamn job

you understand me the state police

that's just got a good half-hour jump on

us I'm a fugitive from a chain gang two

years ago I had everything now I have

nothing

I'm alone hunted man I've been forced to

move from town to town state to state

unable to contact my family or the woman

I love

still I escaped others were not as lucky

men like Pepe blue Big Sam George seals

all through the south there are

thousands of Forgotten men still

suffering still being tortured under the

medieval system of the chain gang this

book is dedicated to them

hey Elliot hey how you doing

come on in look handy it's not safe I

gotta take it it's my only copy there's

a number in there with an editor I want

you to call him but don't tell him who

you are

okay hey Elliot last week a movie agent

contacted man and asked if I had the

rights yet yeah asked if I'd the rights

to your story what did you say I

stretched the truth a little bit I I

said I didn't know where you were

okay that's good but good salary few

campaigns I mean you you do you do have

the rights now that's it there's a

litter in there and that's it's whew

look at these I love you too kid you

wait take some money Ellie come on they

don't buy time things don't take it easy

kid

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and outcry rages across the US over the

best-selling book I am a fugitive from a

chain gang written by Robert Elliot

burns the book exposes conditions in

Georgia's chain gang system letters and

telegrams are flooding Georgia demanding

reform in Hollywood Warner Brothers

pictures has announced plans to make the

Robert Burns story starring Paul Muni

Byrnes Hodges by Georgia prison

officials is still at large

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may I help you

oh no I'm I'm just looking

a little billion you look great I never

thought you'd get out ever

very nice place it's it's lovely Elliot

I'm married

well I just

are you happy

I'm so glad you're alive and free

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I never stopped praying for you Elliott

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Sebastian

yes you think you can hit my shekels bad

enough to bend them you thinking about

been thinking about it for months if you

can pin my shekels just a little so I

can slide about foot I don't want to get

no job not sure like to see you get away

from this misery it's got the guards

down all right I promise

hold still now

bet you like and pulled up along with

this show

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you need rain just hold on

oh the girl twas grace that brought me

safe fools for on the graves we eat

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Oh

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that never just I'm something within me

that's something within me that keeps me

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something

there's something within me my to the

sky there are something within me sweet

freedom answer something within me that

helps me survive something with