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  • Some l met were kind to me, others exceedingly cruel.

  • Traveling by motor bus, rail, even by thumb....

  • The couch, please.

  • Hoarding every dollar, counting every nickel, pinching every penny.

  • lt's been a long road leading to the coffee shop downstairs.

  • Not that l'd trade a day, an hour, a moment of it for anything.

  • l don't know what came over me.

  • l guess it was the shock of eating after so long...

  • ...without the enzymes kicking in after so long....

  • Then you couldn't possibly know what it is to be tired and hungry.

  • Hungry, anyway.

  • l don't want to bore you with details of my life. lt's not happy.

  • Suffice to say l'm jobless, but not for want of trying.

  • l'm friendless, with no one to take care of me and had you not come along...

  • -...exactly when you did.... -l, myself--

  • l arrived in town not ten days ago...

  • ...full of dreams, anxious to make my way in the world...

  • ...a little naive perhaps, but armed with determination...

  • ...a solid work ethic, and an indomitable belief in the future...

  • -l, myself-- -...only to have that belief...

  • ...that unsullied optimism, dashed against the marble of the workplace.

  • Such is life. Seek and ye shall find. Work and ye shall prosper.

  • -Cigarette? -No, thank you.

  • Seek and ye shall find, work and ye shall prosper.

  • These were the watchwords, the ethos of my education...

  • ...the values instilled in me...

  • ...while l was growing up in a town you've probably never heard of.

  • -Mind if l join you? -Be my guest.

  • A town you've probably never heard of...

  • ...a dusty crossroads of which you've probably never heard.

  • Excuse me. Executive washroom.

  • Are you all right?

  • ls it your lunch? The chicken a la king?

  • ls the a la king repeating on you?

  • No, l'm fine. You were saying?

  • Values, watchwords, tender years.

  • A little town you've probably never heard of:

  • Muncie, lndiana.

  • You're from Muncie?

  • Why, yes.

  • Do you know it?

  • ''Fight on Fight on, dear old Muncie

  • ''Fight on Hoist the gold and blue

  • ''You'll be tattered, torn and hurting

  • ''Once the Munce is done with...

  • ''...you.

  • ''Go...

  • ''Go...

  • ''...Eagles!

  • ''...Eagles! ''

  • A Muncie girl! What do you know about that?

Some l met were kind to me, others exceedingly cruel.

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