Crimes Act 1 Flashcards
1
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first entrance
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I’m home anybody home
2
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Meg Meg!
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Lenny (drop suitcase, hug)
3
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well, meg why meg oh meggy! why didn’t you call? did you fly in? You didn’t take a cab did you? why didn’t you call?
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Oh, Lenny! why Lenny! dear Lenny! my god, we’re. getting so old! oh I called for heaven sake of course I called!
4
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well I never talked to you!
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Well, I know! I let the phone ring right off the hook!
5
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Well as a matter of fact I was out most of the morning seeing to babe!
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Now just what’s all this buissness about babe? How could you send me such a telegram about babe? and Zachary, You say somebodys’ shot Zachary
6
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yes they have
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well, good lord, is he dead?
7
Q
No but he’s in the hospital. he was shot in his stomach
A
In his stomach! how awful! do they know who shot him
8
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lenny nods*
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well who? who was it? who? who?
9
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Babe! they’re all saying babe shot him! They took her to jail
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Jail good lord jail (overlapping)
10
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and they’re saying she shot him they’re all saying it it’s horrible! it’s awful!
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Well who who’s saying it who! (overlapping)
11
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Everyone the policeman the sheriff Zachary even babes saying it even babe herself
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well for gods sake for gods sake
12
Q
Its horrible its horrible its just horrible
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now calm down Lenny just calm down, would you like a coke here ill get you some coke (drink coke). Why why would she shoot him why.
13
Q
I talked to her this morning and I asked her that very question I said babe why would you shoot Zachary he was your own husband! why would you shoot him and do you know what she said?
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Nod head no
14
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She said cause I didn’t like his looks I just didn’t like his looks
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… well I didn’t like his looks
15
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But you didn’t shoot him you wouldn’t shoot a person cause you didn’t like their looks you wouldn’t do that oh I hate to say this I do hate to say this but I believe babe is ill I mean in her head ill
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oh, now Lenny don’t you say that! there are plenty of good sane reasons to shoot another person and I’m sure babe had one. now what we’ve got to do is get her the best lawyer in town. do you have any ideas on who’s the best lawyer in town
16
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well Zachary is of course but he’s been shot
A
well count him out just count him and his whole firm out
17
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Any way you don’t have to worry she’s already got her lawyer
A
she does? who?
18
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Barrette Lloyd Annie Lloyd’s boy. He just opened his office here in town. and uncle Watson said wed be doing him a favor by hiring him up
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Doing Annie a favor doing Annie a favor well what about babe? have you though about babe? do we want to do her a favor of thirty or forty years in jail have you thought about that?
19
Q
Now don’t snap at me just don’t snap at me I try to do what’s right all this responsibility keeps falling on my shoulders and I try to do what’s right
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Well boo hoo hoo hoo And how in the hell could you send me such a telegram about babe
20
Q
well if you had a phone or if you didn’t live way out there in Hollywood and not even come home for Christmas maybe I wouldn’t have to spend all that money to send you a telegram
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overlapping.. Babes in terrible trouble stop! Zackery’s been shot Stop! Come home immediately stop! Stop STOP!
21
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and what was that you said about how old we’re getting! when you looked at my face you said “my god we’re getting so old” But you didn’t mean we you meant me Didn’t you! Im thirty years old today and my face is getting all pinned up and my hair is falling out in the comb.
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Why.. Lenny! Its you birthday, October 23rd how could I forget? Happy birthday!
22
Q
well its not I’m thirty years old and billy boy died last night he was struck by lightning he was struck dead!
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fail at lighting cigarette* Struck dead what a mess what a mess! are you really thirty ? then I must be 27 and babe is 24. My god were getting so old….. what’s the cot doing in the kitchen
23
Q
well, I rolled it out when old grandaddy got sick so I could. be close and hear him at night if he needed something
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is old granddaddy here?
24
Q
why no old grand daddy’s at the hospital
A
again
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MEG
What
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I wrote you all about it he's been in the hospital three months straight
he has?
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Don't you remember I wrote you about all those popping blood vessels in his brain
Popping
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And how he was so anxious to hear from you and find out about you singing career. I wrote it all to you and how they have to feed him through those tubes now didn't u get my letters
oh I don't know Lenny I guess I did. to tell you the truth sometime I Kinda don't read your letters
29
what?
Im sorry Lenny I used to read them. its just since Christmas reading them gives me these slicing pains right here in my chest
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I see I see is that why you didn't come home for Christmas because you hate us all so much. we didn't do al that much to make you hat us we didn't
Oh lenny do you think id be getting slicing pains in my chest if I didn't care about you if I hated you?honestly now do you think I would
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no
okay then lets drop it I'm sorry I didn't read your letters okay.
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okay
Anyway we've got this whole thing with babe to deal with the first thing is to get her a good lawyer and get her out of jail
33
well she's out of jail
she is
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that young laywer he's gotten her out
Oh he has?
35
Yes on bail uncle Watsons put it up chicks bringing her back right now she's driving her home
oh well that's a relief
36
yes and they're due home any minute now so we can just wait here for them
well good that's good. so babe shot Zachary botrelle the richest and most powerful man in all of hazelhurst that's a slap in the gut. its hard to believe
37
it certainly is Little babe shooting off a gun
little babe.
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she was always the prettiest and most perfect of all of the three of us Old grandaddy used to call her his dancing sugar plum. Why remember how proud and happy he was the day he married Zachery
yes I remember it was his finest hour
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he remarked how babe was gonna skyrocket right to the heights of Hazlehurst society. And how Zackery was just the right man for her whether she knew it or not
oh Lordy Lordy and what does old grandaddy say now
40
well I haven't had the courage to tell him all about this yet, I thought maybe tonight we could go visit him at the hospital and you could talk to him and.
yeah well we'll see we'll see? do we have any thing to drink around here.. around the tune of straight bourbon?
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no no liquor
hell
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then you will go with me to see old grandaddy at the hospital tonight
of course.. brother I know he's gonna go on about my singing career just like he always does.
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well how is your career going
its not
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why aren't you still singing at that club down in Malibu beach
no not since Christmas
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well are you singing some place new
no I'm not singing I'm not singing at all
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oh well what do you do then?
what I do is pay cold storage bills for a dog food company that's what I do
47
gosh don't you think it would be a good idea to stay in the show business field
oh maybe
48
like old grandaddy says...those blocks of cement they've got out there he thinks that's real imortant
yeah I think I've heard that and ill probably hear it again when I go to visit him at the hospital tonight so lets drop it okay. What's this? Pecans? Great I love pecans! come on crack you demon crack!
49
we have a nutcracker
ah where's the sport in a nutcracker where the challenge?
50
its over here in the utensil drawer
there! open! mmmmm delicious where'd you get the fresh pecans?
51
Oh, I don’t know
They sure are tasty
52
Doc Porter brought them over
Doc what’s doc doing here in town
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Well, his father died a couple months ago now he’s back home, saying to his property
Gosh, the last I heard of dock, he was up in the east, painting the walls of houses to earn a living heard he was living with some Yankee woman who made clay pots
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Joan
What ?
55
Her names Joan she came down here with him. That’s one of her pots docs married her.
Married
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Uh huh
Doc married a Yankee?
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That’s right and they’ve got two kids
Kids
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A boy and a girl
God, then his kids must be half Yankee
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I suppose
God that really gets me I don’t know why, but somehow that really gets me
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I don’t know why it should
And that’s a stupid looking pot who would buy it anyway
61
Omega look at meg meg when did you get home?
Just now
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Well, so good to see you. I’m so glad you’re home I’m so relieved.
Why chick hello
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Hello cousin, Margaret, what brings you back to Hazlehurst?
Oh, I came on home. I came on home to say about babe.
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Oh meg
How are things with you babe?
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Mega come look at my new saxophone. I went to Jackson and bought it used feel it it’s so heavy.
It’s beautiful
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And I’m putting it mildly Lenny honey that’s putting it mighty mild, so Margaret how’s your singing career going? We keep looking for your picture in the movie magazines you know you shouldn’t smoke causes cancer cancer of the lungs they say each cigarette it’s just a little stick of cancer, a little death sticks.
That’s what I like about a chick taking the drag off of death, mmmmmm gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power what exhilaration want to drag?
67
Zachary’s livers been saved. His sister cal with saved is t not good
Well, yes, fine news mighty fine news. Why I’ve been told that the livers a powerful, important, bodily organ I believe it’s used to absorb all of our access bile
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Yes, well it’s been saved
So did you hear all that good news about the liver little chicken?
69
I heard it and you don’t call me chicken
Aggressive chicken sounds
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Has she gone?
She’s gone PK and buck Junior just ate there paints
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What idiots
Yeah
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Do you know chicks hated us ever since we had moved here to Vicksburg to live with the old grandma mine old granddaddy
She’s an idiot
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Yeah, do you know what she told me this morning while I was behind bars
And couldn’t get away
What
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She told me how embarrassing it was for all those years ago you know when Mama
Yeah, down in the cellar
75
She said her mama had shamed the entire family, and we were no notoriously all through Hazlehurst. Then she went on to say how I would not be getting as much bad publicity in humiliating her and the family all over again.
Oh, forget it babe. Just forget it.
76
I told her mom I got national coverage national end of Zachary was a senator from Copiah county. I probably wouldn’t even be getting state wide
Of course you wouldn’t
77
Gosh, sometimes I wonder
What
78
Why she did it my mama hung her self
I don’t know she had a bad day a real bad day you know how it feels on a real bad day
79
And that all the old yellow cat they still be alive
Yeah
80
I bet if daddy hadn’t left us they’d still be alive
Oh, I don’t know
81
Cause it was after he left that she started spending whole day is just sitting there and smoking on the back porch steps. She’s selling her ashes down onto different bugs and ants that be passing by.
Yeah, well I’m glad he left
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That old yellow cat’d stay back there with her
God he was a bastard
83
I thought if she felt something for anyone, it would’ve been the old cat guess I must’ve been mistaken
Really with his white teeth.Daddy was such a bastard
84
Was here I don’t remember. I think I’m gonna make somelemonade you want some
Sure babe why won’t you talk? Why won’t you tell anyone about shooting Zachary
85
Ooohh
Why not you must had a good reason didn’t you?
86
I guess I did
Well What was it?
87
I can’t say
Why not babe? Why not you can tell me
88
Cause I’m sort of protecting someone
Protecting someone oh babe, then you really didn’t shoot him I knew you couldn’t have done it I knew it
89
No, I shot him. I saw him all right. I meant to kill him. I was aiming for his heart, but I guess my hands are shaking and I just got him in in the stomach
I see
90
So I’m guilty, and I’m just gonna have to take my punishment and go onto jail
Oh babe
91
Don’t worry Megan I was going to be a relief to me. I can learn to play my new saxophone. I won’t have to live with Zachary anymore and I won’t have his snoopy old sister Lucille coming over and pushing me around jail will be a relief. Here’s your lemonade.
Thanks
92
It taste OK
Perfect
93
Well, it looks like the paint is primarily on their arms and faces, but chick wants me to drive all over to the doctor wins just to make sure oh no babe try not to make a mess here and be careful with the shark knife honestly, all that sugar is get you sick well bye bye I’ll be back as soon as I can
Bye lenny
94
Boy, I don’t know what’s happening to Lenny
What do you mean?
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Don’t make a mess don’t make yourself sick. Don’t cut yourself that sharp knife she’s turning into old grandma.
You think so
96
More and more do you know she’s taken to wearing old grandmas, torn son hadn’t even her green garden gloves
Those old lime green ones
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Yeah she worked out in the garden wearing the lime green gloves of a dead woman. Imagine wearing those gloves on your hands
Poor Lenny she need some loving her life. All she does is work out at the Brickyard and take care of old granddaddy.
98
Yeah but she’s shy with men
Probably because of that shrunken ovary she has
99
Yeah that deformed ovary
Old granddady he’s the one who made her self conscious about it. It’s his fault, the old fool
100
It’s so sad
God you know what
101
What
I bet Lenny has never even slept with a man just think thirty years old and never even had it once
102
Oh I don’t know maybe she has had it once
She has?
103
Maybe I think so
When when
104
Maybe I shouldn’t say
BABE
105
……One of this lonely heart clubs
Oh my god
106
Lonely hearts of the south she’d seen their ad in the magazine
Jesus
107
…..Charlie hill from Memphis Tennessee he called her
He does
108
…So they decide to get together to meet
Yeah?!
109
I think that is where is it happened
What makes you think so?
110
Honey I have don’t it
And you think she meant that she’d done it
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I think so
Well goddamn
112
But she didn’t say anything else about it she just went on to tell about the boot factory were Charlie worked and what a nice city Memphis was
So what happened to this Charli?
113
Well, he came to Hazlehurst just one more time. Lenny took them over to meet old granddaddy at the hospital, and after that they broke it oFf
Because of old granddaddy
114
Well she said it was on account of her missing ovary that Charlie didn’t want to marry her on account of it
Ah how mean how hateful
115
Oh it was she seem like a nice man to kind a chubby with red hair and freckles always telling me it’s
That just doesn’t seem right something about that doesn’t exactly right oh god happy birthday to Lenny from the buck boyles!
116
Oh no todays Lenny’s birthday
That’s right
117
I forgot all about it
I know I did too
118
Gosh well have to order up some big cake for her she always loves to make those wishes on her birthday cake
Yeah, let’s get her a big cake a huge one oh God that chick is so cheap
119
What do you mean?
The plastic has poinsettias on it
120
Oh boy, I’m calling that bakery and ordering the very largest cake they have the jumbo deluxe
Good!
121
Why I imagine they can make it up to be this big
Oh, at least at least that big why maybe it’ll even be this big
122
You think you could be that big
Sure
123
Or or what if it was this big what if we get the cake and it is this big gulp Gulp gulp gulp tasty treat
Immmm I’ll have me some more give me some more of that birthday cake
124
Who’s that?
I don’t know
125
Oh shoot, it’s the lawyer I don’t wanna see him
Oh babe, come on you’ve got to see him sometime
126
No, I don’t just tell him I died. I’m going upstairs.
Oh babe will you come back here
127
You talk to him please Meg, please I just don’t wanna see him
Babe babe.. oh shit.. ah come on in doors open
128
how do you do I'm barrette Lloyd
pleased to meet you I'm meg magrath babes older sister
129
yes I know you're the singer
well yes
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I came to hear you five different times when you were singing in that club in Biloxi Greenys I believe was the name of it
yes greenys
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You were very good there was something sad and moving about how you sang those songs It was like you had some sort of vision some special sort of vision
well thank you you're very kind. Now about babes case
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yes?
we've just got to win it
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I intend to
of course but ah.. ah you know you're very young
134
yes I am I'm young
I'm just, I'm concerned mr Lloyd
135
Barnette please
Barrette that ah just maybe we need someone with well with more experience. someone totally familiar with all the ins and outs and the this and that's of legal dealings and such as that
136
ah you have reservations
Reservations yes I have reservations
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....I made A's in all the given courses I was fascinated
I'm sure
138
.....I have a personal vendetta to settle with one Zachary f. Botrelle
A Personal vendetta?
139
yes ma'am you are correct indeed I do
Hmmm. a personal Vendetta... I think I like that so you have some sort of personal vendetta to settle with Zachary
140
....Exposing him as a bully, a brute, and a red neck thug
well I can see you're fanatical about this
141
yes I am I'm sorry if I seem outspoken. but for some reason I feel I can talk to you. those songs you sang. excuse me I feel like a jackass
its all right relax relax, Barnette. Let me think this out a minute. Now just exactly how do you intend to get babe off? you know keep her out of jail.
142
.... but to defend herself in the only way she knew how!
I like that!
143
....mans a total criminal as well as an abusive bully and a contemptible!
That sounds good! To me that sounds very good
144
its just our basic gameplan
But. now how are you going to prove all this about babe being brutalized? we don't want anyone perjured I mean to commit perjury
145
Perjury? according to my sources they'll be no need for perjury
you mean its the truth
146
This is a small town miss Magrath word gets out
Its really the truth?
147
Just look at this its a photocopy of Mrs Botrelles medical chart over the past four years. Take a good look at it if you want your blood to boil
What! What! this is maddening! This is madness! Did he do this to her? I'll kill him! I will ill fry his blood! did he do this!
148
.....Thats why its very important that I see her!
Well look I've got to see her first Ive got to talk to her first. What ill do is ill give you a call, maybe you can come back over later on
149
well then here's my card
okay goodbye
150
Bye
Oh Wait wait there's one problem with you
151
what?
What ig you get to fanatically obsessed with this vendetta that you forget all about babe. you forget about her and you sell her down the river just to get at Zachary! what about that!
152
I wouldn't do that
you wouldn't
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no
why not
154
because I'm I'm fond her
What do you mean you're fond of her
155
well she sold me a pound cake at the bazaar once and I'm fond of her
alright, I believe you goodbye.
156
goodbye!
Babe babe come down here! Babe!
157
What what is it I called about the cake
what did Zackary do to you
158
they can't have it for today
did he hurt you? did he? did he do that?
159
oh meg please
did he? godammit babe
160
yes he did
Why why
161
......and suddenly I'd be out like a light
oh, babe, babe this is very important I want you to sit down here and tell me what all happened right before you shot Zackary. That's right, just sit down and tell me
162
I told you I can't tell you on account of I'm protecting someone
But babe you've got to talk to someone about this you just do
163
why
Because Its a human need. to talk about our lives Its an important human need
164
oh well I do feel like I want to talk to someone I do
then talk to me, please
165
all right. I don't know where to start
just start at the beginning just there at the beginning
166
well do you remember willie jay
Nod no
167
coras youngest boy?
oh yeah that little kid we used to pay a nickel to, to run down to the drugstore and bring us back cherry coke.
168
......have to tell willie jay to set him loose in the woods
uh huh
169
.......cause the senate was in session and Zachary was up in Jackson
uh huh
170
well I liked the name so I thought I'd keep it
uh huh, I'm listening I'm just gonna get me a glass of cold water. do you want one?
171
okay
so you kept the name dog
172
....visit with dog any time he wanted and his face just kinda lit right up
candy...
173
and we talk about dog and how fat he's getting and then well you know things start up
no, I don't know, what things start up
174
well things start up like sex like that
Babe wait a minute willie jays a boy a small boy about this tall! He's about this tall!
175
no oh no he's taller now he's fifteen now when you knew him he was only about seven or eight
but even so.. fifteen and he's a black boy, a colored boy, ah
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...Im so worried about his getting public exposure I don't want to ruin his reputation
I'm amazed babe I'm really completley amazed. I didn't even know you were a liberal
177
...Id never had it that good. wed always go out into the garage and.
It's okay I've got the picture! I've got the picture! Now let's just get back to the story. to yesterday when you shot Zackary
178
All right then lets see willie jay was over and it was right after we'd..
Yeah Yeah
179
....................................................................But getting him in the stomach its funny that I really did that
ITS A GOOD THING THAT YOU DID ITS A DAMN GOOD THING THAT YOU DID
180
it was
Please babe talk to Barnette Lloyd Just talk to him and see if he can help
181
but how about willie jay?
Oh he'll be alright You just talk to that lawyer like you did to me. See cause he's gonna be on your side
182
No stop meg stop don't call him up please don't call him up you can't its too awful
Babe!!
183
I just can't tell some stranger all about my personal life I just can't
Well hell babe you're the one who said you wanted to live
184
you're right I did..heres the other part of the phone.. meg
What?
185
I called the bakery they're gonna have the cake ready first thing tmrw morning that's the earliest they can get it
all right
186
I told them to write on it happy birthday Lenny a day late that sound okay
it sounds nice
187
.....Think she'll like that
yeah I'm sure she will, she'll like it
