1:17:00
I'd started a publicity office.
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Like always,
it was great at the beginning.
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A guy comes along,
wants to buy the business.
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Offered me eight thousand bucks.
I took it.
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We had a big celebration that night.
1:17:13
In a couple of hours,
I'd lost half of it back.
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To him and his friends.
1:17:18
I knew the dice were loaded,
but I couldn't prove it.
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Anyway, I came west.
Chicago for a while.
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Then Omaha.
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Las Vegas. That's where I dropped
the other half of the dough.
1:17:32
When I was kicked off of that bus
at Walton,
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I only had one dollar left.
1:17:39
And then...
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Ah, but why go on?
1:17:44
I want to know everything about you.
1:17:49
It all adds up to only one thing.
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A washout.
1:17:52
That's what you're looking at.
A complete washout at 30.
1:17:57
Yeah, I'm finished OK.
1:17:59
- You're not finished, Eric.
- Sure I am.
1:18:02
I'm tired.
1:18:04
Like I was a million years old.
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With a million jobs behind me.
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And girls.
1:18:10
Chances I never followed up.
1:18:13
Eric...
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did you care very much for... Stella?
1:18:20
I don't know.
1:18:22
I guess I did.
1:18:25
I even promised her I'd marry her.
1:18:29
I can't figure it out now.
1:18:32
Woulda lasted a couple of weeks.
1:18:34
Maybe less.
1:18:38
Anyway, that's all gone.
1:18:43
Just as if it died with her.
1:18:46
Yeah, that's over, too.
1:18:48
Up in smoke,
like everything in my life.
1:18:51
My school, the publicity game.
1:18:53
Easy come, easy go.
1:18:56
I got everything by talking fast
in a world that goes for talk.