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You shouldn't ever have tampered with me
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if you didn't want what you got."
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The man was trying to say something, but he was only wheezing.
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Hazel squatted down by his face to listen.
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"I give my mother a lot of trouble,"
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he said through a kind of bubbling in his throat,
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"never give her a rest, stole the car, never told the truth to my daddy
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or give Henry what, never give--"
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"You shut up," Hazel said,
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leaning his head closer to hear the confession.
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"Told where his still was and got five dollars for it,"
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the man gasped. "You shut up now," Hazel said.