The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
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- Decompose?
- Yeah.

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Well, you can put stuff on them.
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So why don’t you take
the tray in next to the fire, all right?

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Yeah.
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How do you know
how to do that stuff?

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I looked it up in the library.
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In London we found out
my father was dying.

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My mother had run away
when I was 3.

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He didn’t want her to get her
red fingernails into me ever again.

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We left England
without a word to anyone.

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It was the end of the summer
when I came here...

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...and I knew this was the place.
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But he said I should think
it over for a week...

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...to make sure I wanted to spend
the next three years of my life here.

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The rent’s paid up
for the next three years.

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So three more years like this?
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Almost all September,
he looked fine.

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If the pain was terrible,
he never said anything.

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Then one Sunday evening...
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...we were sitting in this room...
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...and he whispered to me
in a very soft voice...

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...that I wasn’t like
anybody else in the world...

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...that people
wouldn’t understand me.

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They’d order me around,
tell me what to do...

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...and try to make me into the person
they wanted me to be.

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Since I was only a kid,
I couldn’t say anything.

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I’d have to stay alone...
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...keep out of trouble and make
myself very small in the world.

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All alone?
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We worked out every detail.
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We knew it wouldn’t be easy.
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Here’s a letter from my father.
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"Don’t give in and play their game.
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Fight them any way you have to.
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Survive."

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