Lone Star Page #9

...right next to the one about

the employees washing their hands.

767

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This here is Carolyn.

768

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Honey...

769

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...this is my son, Delmore.

770

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Nice to meet you, ma'am.

771

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I'll be in the back waiting for that delivery.

772

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So?

773

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So.

774

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Tell me why I shouldn't make

this place off-limits.

775

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This is an official visit then.

776

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I assume most of your business

is with our people.

777

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Your boys are cooped up together.

They need a place to let the steam out.

778

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If they're black, there's not

but one spot in this county...

779

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...where they feel welcome.

780

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It's been that way...

781

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...since before you were born.

782

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We have an enlisted man's club

at the post.

783

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You the man out there now, ain't you?

784

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It's your call.

785

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That's right.

786

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I've been hearing about

this new command out there...

787

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...for a couple of weeks now.

788

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The boys say they hear he's a hard case...

789

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...a real spit-and-polish man.

790

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Full bird colonel by the name of Payne.

791

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Bet you never figured

you'd end up back here.

792

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When the Army offers you a command,

you go...

793

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...wherever it is.

794

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Right.

795

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I hear things too.

796

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They call you...

797

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...the mayor of Darktown.

798

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Over the years this is the one place

that's always been there.

799

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I loan a little money out,

I've settled a few arguments.

800

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I got a cot in the back. Folks get scared

to go home, they spend the night.

801

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There's not enough of us

to run anything in this town.

802

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It's the Holiness Church...

803

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...or Big O's.

804

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And the people make a choice.

805

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Most of them choose both.

806

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It's not like there's a borderline...

807

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...between the good people

and the bad people.

808

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You're not on either...

809

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...one side or the other.

810

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Right.

811

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Will I meet that family of yours?

812

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Why would you want to do that?

813

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Because I'm your father.

814

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You'll get official notification

when I make my decision.

815

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So, that's him.

816

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Yeah, that's him.

817

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Historic occasion, ain't it?

818

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Seems like we have another one

every week.

819

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Jorge and the boys down at the Chamber

of Commerce got to keep things humming.

820

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Building up tourism, Sam.

821

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Most people come here to catch bass and

get laid at the Boy's Town in Ciudad Len.

822

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You ought to put up a banner, ''Frontera,

Texas - Gateway to Inexpensive P*ssy.''

823

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That kind of talk doesn't help.

824

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I'd rather have that

than a 10-foot-high catfish statue.

825

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Eddie Richter at the iSentinel/i

will kill that story.

826

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The Perdido thing?

827

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He agreed it wasn't exactly news.

828

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Danny will be out for blood the next time.

829

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That's why we need to talk to you

about the new jail.

830

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Come on, we don't need a new jail.

831

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That's a matter of opinion.

832

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We're already renting cells to the Feds

for their overflow.

833

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It wouldn't be your construction company

who'd get the bid on building this thing?

834

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And, Jorge....

835

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You wouldn't be thinking

about a couple dozen new jobs...

836

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...to dangle by the voters when you run

for mayor next election?

837

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Damn it, Sam! The people

are concerned about crime.

838

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I'm not gonna campaign

against your deal here.

839

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But if anybody asks...

840

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...I've got to tell them the truth.

We don't need a new jail.

841

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We backed you--

842

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When you backed me,

you needed somebody named Deeds...

843

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...to bump the other fella out of office.

844

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-Hey, folks.

-Fenton, what's up, buddy?

845

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-How you doing?

-Let's get this thing over with.

846

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I never thought I'd see a buddy of mine

dating a woman...

847

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...with three bars on her shoulder.

848

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It's beyond what you'd call dating.

849

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You're going to get married?

850

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Maybe.

851

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You met her family?

852

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They gonna be cool

about you being a white guy?

853

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Priscilla says they think a woman over 30

who's not married must be a lesbian.

854

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She figures they'll be so relieved

I'm a man....

855

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It's always heartwarming to see

a prejudice defeated by a deeper prejudice.

856

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But marriage, man, I don't know.

857

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Let's see....

858

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I did two tours of duty in Southeast Asia...

859

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