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1947.
27
one
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do?
down
medical
need
Feb.
brought
medical
March,
back?
went
to
needs”
26
August.
in
Japan;
from
Atoll
the
March
Wharton
on
and
it
‘43.
July.
north
to
28
the
San
and
supplies,
Southwest
back
and
store
come
open
for
and
1947,
January,
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room.
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remained
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side
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when
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of
to 9
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straight
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and pushed Mr.
out.
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and
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it
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names.
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and Mr.
the
needed
and had
away and
clothing
killing
and door
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felt
fluid.
and
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wait
doctor
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sent Carvey
was
scraping Carvey
Tombaugh bandage
knew
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four
sir,
our
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recognize
arm
and
of
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Dad!”,
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were
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he
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aboard
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clear
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like
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me
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the
was
took
till
me
into
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was
job
tables back
ask
but
doctor
and
said
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there
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this
patient
hit
real
and
get
up
got
and
on
these
ship
he
and
inside,
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up
if
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bandages,
the
me
the
six
I
ship.
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you
took
me
for
all
he
the
sure
them
bad?
said
six
back
worked
and
get
they
by
come
below
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hollered
attention
doctor
the
guns
to
doctor’s
when
needle said,
in
and
(claws
said
X-ray
critical
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a
fluid.
months.
three
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them
in
done
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from
were
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needle
San
chief
along
wake
was,
in
way
and
he
the
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clean
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came.
and
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off
in
Diego
said
and
the
doctors
OR,
real the
did
officers
walked
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back?
office.
you
we
and
hell
master
he
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and
list.
my
6-7
have
you
saw
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a
out
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up
patient
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trip
this
shot
said
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good.”
up,
we
back
side
hospital.
is
finish
found
do
inches
know
this
the
table.
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in
in
of
and
worked
of
that
we
what
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or
now.”
three
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and
re
patients
fall
arm.”
dad a and
and
here
wounds
arms
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enlisted
garden),
on
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and
long
you?”
there.
did
came
drained
asleep
walked
teach
more 8
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corpsman
there
and
I
wanted
the
a
was
tell
hours
out
was
you
with
when
even
if
side
right
to
and
trouble
get
in
lung
times
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pushed
you
men?
felt
as
standing
dead
just
us
do?
on
see
and
a
a
on
know
the
to
he
they
arm
last
another
for
I
quart
what
lung
rubber
to
by
came
me
like
and
know
walked
cut
at
kept
a
flesh
hell
is?”
breathing,”
up
sew
the
and
every
came
country
and
my
San
a
back
collapsed
there
8
of
somebody and
away
where
side
hose
loosing
doctors patient
them
arm
off.
I
aren’t I
didn’t
cut
aboard
right
Diego
fluid
table
said,
said
down
full
and
was
the boy
arm
on
up
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it my
•
didn’t was
we
years
later
it.
or naval
good
not
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here
Sir.”
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built
time
Camden,
working?”
skipper Sept.,1921,
first 7,onverted This
six around days
turned orders you
is went
Commander good here
that pouting.
said, your
blooded
I to
I
you
eye,
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said,
The
saw
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I
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would Mrs.
put
said,”Is
get
it?”
my
months.”
salute
the
had
feeding
morning,
had
then
had
when
one
was
I
he
tongue
time,
out
to
leave,
ear,
he training
him
older
and
skipper
He
as
“You
Grandfather
skipper
was,
Brooklyn,
away
want
said.
some
around
so
or
which
“My
best
came I
N.J.,
cover
Indian
be
been
gave
doctor
a
one
on
a
the
After
said,
told
two
he
he
Rainwater.
said,
I
nose
Sir.”
he
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low
with
by
me,
pasanger-cargo
tortured
yet
acquired
then an
Grandfather
clothing.”
for
said,”Supplies,
my
liberty
to
that
and
went
I
said,
part
“Darn,I
around
fellow
years
Sir.”
me nicest
we
taken
sent
on
Todd up
us
builder
he
sir,
down,
said,
Commander.
enlisted
was
boy,
and
specialist
aboard
disgrace
the
baby?”
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said,”I’ve
all
about
he
“Please.”
when
had
orders
myself,
the
N.Y.
to your
to
said,”Carvey,
Doctor
he
Carvey’s.
me
“Mornings
said,
he
this
Of Shipbuilding
later
Capt.
third
off
put
this
worse
together.
your
I double
duty
“You
that
was
AP
on
was
I
doctor
would
did
I
The
mistakes.”
a
home
course
had
was
ship
N.Y.
I
walked
I
7
8,11,
if
our man.
came
would
is
the
week
a
said,
went
just
gold
him.”
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didn’t
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at
starving
I
USS
was Rainwater?”
day
than conversion
I
been
and
mason
Ernest
scared
your
been
have
daddy’s
cuss
could
crossing,
liner
on
Masonic
and
medical
Shipbuilding
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say?”
ship
his
aboard
‘39
back
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I
Wharton
then
afraid
heaven
and
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up
on
be
he
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on
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anybody leave.
wanted
saluted jumped
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the
in
brave
trying
to
just
registered
say I
and
Corp.
and
and
behind
I
go name
ashamed
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said,
and
the
came
to
for
got
Lakes,
L.
knew
he
brought World
him
said, I
training.
can’t
get
fifth
rings
the
along.
ship
store
swear,
I
said,
renamed
I
help
you’d
death,
said,
was
call lying,
was
chest
lost
enlisted
Vanserkloot.
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(ex
to
up
I
am
was and
to
was
in
else to
in
him,
up
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magic
him
walked
War
know
have
we
month
and
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just
just
completed
of away Corp.
us!”
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death?”
get
gone.
Robbins
Muson
and
and
me
room
also
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it
catch
all
was
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nurse.
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ward.
for
he
now
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do
son
me
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to
said,
why
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word.” like
back
stuff
find a
an
address
saw
because
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had
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as
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secrets.
up
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told
he good
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wear
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of
sent
Steamship
said,
Sir.
go
me,
Rainwater
embalmer
gold
mason.
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corpsman.
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the
said,”T
friends
Cross
you.”
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had
bitch.
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clothing
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out
me.” behind
had
get
7,
left “Good
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out
off
“Aboard
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was
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do
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that
where
filthy
didn’t
time.”
me
it
that
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back
said,
them
stripes
if
12,
Wharton,
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promised
because
up
gotten
you
said,”What
of
and
home
then
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it
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completed which
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still
night
captured
morning,
is
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want
and
and
him
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him
are
and
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of
is
there? it
as
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need?”
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mouth.
have
and
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and
Sir.”
three
first
“Yes,
never
on
wear
week
kept
this Erie
him.
tell
just
full
Mr.
not
and
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say
was
you
for
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and was
you
got
was
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it
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at
me
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we
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walk
party
Ruth.
12 bay
ship. want?” blackjack,
the
and
hope.” week made
cheating. had
disappeared.
ships went
said,”Suppose
killing
Attu.
told
was Mr.
told Bremerton,
take all
carrier.
Mr.
they ward
and drunk.
right watched
deck
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trouble,
in would
the
liberty
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We
When
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Now
After
I
there
put
green
was was
ocean.
54
like Carvey Tombaugh
he’s
captain
just
around
had
grabbed
me
me
down
then them
care
had
third
also,
We
they
regulations
as
and
over
wobble
darndest
The
He
we
Of
this
I
reassigned
me.
chip
to
us
located
you
he
stood
a
our been
to
getting
the
will
I
said,
disappeared. gotten
apples,
of
that
us
arid
went
their I
got
four
Washington.
get
to
They
like
disappeared
night
was always
penny
the
257
but
the
regained
corpsman
said,
patients.
Well, us
came
paint,
down
one
lifeboats
in
was
the
in
they you?”
up
to
I
up
on
island. day
thing in at
“As
hawks
soap
and
in
was
it
guns
thought
was
the
real
I
he
his
there
say pharmacy
Dutch
down
a
it
put
earlier
and
to
come
5
he
boswains
to
“Chief,
had
the will
had
storm
well
one
salute
He
would
o’clock
hand.
a
was
medical
tray
to
your
got
Adak,
In
were
Oakland.
that
happened,
shots
to
we
in
good
corpsman
Second
Where
been
and
didn’t
Another
to
and
lunchroom.
in
bars
again
mason
Harbor,
the
our
kill
build
make
the
charge
I
chipped
another
and
and
and
physical
not
me
corpsmen
fine,
all
And
and
how
checked
the
shouted life stuff.
Alaska.
chair
on
in
brig,
two
ship
we
only
corp,
on
all
night
me?”
pull
and
sure
come
like
to
always
There
and
we
pointing
ship
when
the
many
corpsman
this
and a
waited
of
we
rafts Alaska
second
it,
weeks
round
paint
but
another
just
was
thing
wanted
over
hospital.
now
They
we
the
morning
he
out down
health
I
apple
health
are
that,
came
wanted
back
were
First
and
on
more I
but
same
two said,
make
didn’t
got
sunk
was
had
the
bolt
stick
of for
his
on
to
ago
the
the
night
fed
we
we
the
here
at
and
I
aboard
became in
pie, we
to
I
he
seven
kicked
rounds be
thing put
records.
the
what
brig
chief
been
to
stopped it.
our
and
could
were health
and USS
us.
Well,
said,
side
us
out
and
men
myself
know kept
a
quite take
won’t
clean
We
and
be
he T d
on
cherry
side
This
rubber
ship
took
bologna
Wharton.
we
did
We
was
shots, you
found
and
seasick.
the
I
kept
greeted
ship
and
were
out
the
was
eat.
go
of
“If
anything
there
how
him
records.
did
by
were
be
had
at
found
The
cause
of
you
concerned.
us
notice
the one
to
we
to
shots
records
and
my
list
pie
clean.
you
playing sick
tube
all
so
and
floating
we
drunk.
an
and
was and
come
shipped
had
a
sandwiches
work.
chief
do?
contagious
officer
a
is
arms
First
drunk,
by
hated
boarding
and
the
The
you
kept
aircraft
would
times
to
foreign
playing
another
marched
bay
through
it to
take
do
to
always
Now
in.
three
go
Babe
jeep
sick
They
just were
that
So
much
goes
him,
They
help
you
and
and
day
him
us.
in
He
he
to
to
It
to
go
of he
a I
we
me praying
pointed
days pole half. Asked Mr. Mr.
had praying Marines Mr.
better him Mr.
know
they
life. also, a arounduntil graveyard.
there think called to
solarium said, standing the another
secret
soon its care
I I
I
did.
About
The What
We Now
Yes.
They
guess
I
little
go
put
was to
and
better
Tombaugh
Carvey Tombaugh
was Carvey
this
corpsmen
of
later
passed lived
how.”
told
fantail.
They
me of
Two
after
for
“Yes,
leave other
it
that
When
kind
heard
refueling
tell
into
them
then
the
I
up.”
doctor.
when
jeep.
it
taking
a
doctor
that!”
out what
they
kind
in
bit,
said,
me
further
of
week
with
handed
in
was,
than
So
We
had
Japs,
the
you
Sir
of
out.
you
and
patients
we
on a
the
sent
He
how
they
I
there
the
all
tents,
When
I
needed
gave
of
quonset
about
found
barracks?
worked
care
ambulance
“Your
been
two-fifths
the
that
but were
any
did
got
soon
to
I
I
later
something,
I
commanding
base
to
They
officers
some
went
how
me
to made
said, treatment.
said,
got
they
transport
on
massages,
massage
your
get
other
quietly out
of
below
those
sold
told
two
would
Sand
a
to
a
getting
that
and
to
in
were
the
carried
just
I
hut.
through
big
the
this
jeeps
brought
on
of
“I
“Well
do
was
OR
in
pray.”
days.
came
me
rest
corpsmen.”
to
Bay,
pier,
had
of
were
zero.
boy
guess
two
that
first
the
left
about
I
I
get
There
good
and
table
so
officer
big
how
patients
order
vodka,
was
the
chiropractic
said,
low
you
to
that
them
lashed
pray
bottles
period. the
Navy
I
Alaska.
I
there
you
them
he
ship.
in
Marine
and He
We
pick
hands,”
worked
to
so.”
landing
to
checking
Russians
then
were
had
and
on
the
group.
asked
away
then
had
back
for
“Get
said,
get
you
wanted
aboard
I
said
the
in
I
there
up
gas
wanted
I
from
been
had
started
caves.
and
There
to
said,
found
yourself.”
and
This
my
got
to
with gas
did
were
and
patients
door,
the
and me
and
to
“Are
mad
There
“Why
never
drive
your
treatments,
us
and
thing
I
shore
a
hands
he
to
the
chewed buy
to
the
in
they
chaplin
pointed
took
was with
I
It’s
them
me
myself
sent
Kaiser
I
at
they
massaging
you
he ask
know
worked
say
it
the
was
survival
them
drunk
a
ambulance.
I
to
back
ship
me
out
to
suppose
he
around
came
said,”I
the
not
then
in
jeep?
He
was
to
had
me
leaving
were
out
it
assigned
hell
pray
sir.”
the
was
if
out
Liberty
up
in
the
Attu
the
said,
so
me
cap
to
vodka
in
out
and
up
back cracked
shower
real
the
I
kind
and
froze again.
Wharton.
the
them didn’t
we
with
the
rate
pray
door.
a for
sir,
tent
to
was
and
off
think He
loud
to
he
me?”
health
Army.
“Don’t
I
three
in
good.
teach
first
drove
a
be
of
flag
ship
told
them
take
and and
was
and
and
and
and
got
the
LCT
the
for
for
get
my
13
He
in
so
a
a
I
I I
hour
Corona,
you’re
14 maker.”
that
all
When
week,
I
transferred
called you
sure
the
came a Adak
and
Jewish
have
month
down
into came
back
so right again
“You’re
only
on Now
quonset
I
they
Afterwards
shower wandered
then
and
feeding
but
little Russian
handed
I
I
the
The
said psycho
Now,
went
I
They
left
went
my
it
VFW
make
the
don’t
I
if
it
when
cowboy
draft
Bremerton,
to
that
He with
later
to and
saw
everybody
over
about
next
we’d
he
leg and
wouldn’t
got
body
I
my
right
“Thank
Doctor.
Senator
blew
down
it
Hollywood.”
and
it
told
me
I
California to
would
suppose
or
time
get
rough.
went
did
hut
me
discharge.
was
was
a
we
what
said,
it
dad
was
switched
wasn’t
rheumatic
know
I
talking
to
and
morning
and
you’ve
American
apologize
complaint
have
was
it
and 50
star
it
bologna
both
to
me
didn’t
smoke
to
the
us
hit
to
and
just
always
and
this
up
and
you,
drawn
take
kind
said was
below
saw
shook
why
Every
a
Johnson
be
Out
take
frozen.
“Doc,
was
Washington.
on
to
get
said,
I
same
a
came
the
and
I’ll
blowing
flunked
no
different
told
got
a
Russian
rings
drawn
to wrong,
exam
me
guess
I
Doc, names
would our
care
little
the
of
end
of
you
up
streak
I
hiding
Legion.
gone
fever out
medicine.”
or
the
top
still
zero.
and
he’ll morning
took
so
and
I’m
different
knew in
the
worried
take
and
here.”
“There
him
and
Jewish
Island
didn’t
up used
me,
not
of
I
I
all
up.
because
test
and
on
of
you
it.
not
smoke
I
told
that I
that
worst
did
appreciate
and
officer
I
the
earthquake.
on
to
they
out
was
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