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"Shut up, now, like I told you," Hazel said.
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"Jesus hep me," the man wheezed.
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Hazel gave him a hard slap on the back and he was quiet.
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How many of you when you read that felt like a character
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who mattered to you had died?
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Just a few; you guys are exceptionally, exceptionally sympathetic.
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I commend you.
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It's hard to feel too much for this prophet, and I would argue that
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his confession at the end is part of what makes it quite difficult.
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It's such a, kind of, trivial set of things that he begins to recite,
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or, at least, he recites them in such a cliched way:
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"I gave my mother trouble.