The Gauntlet
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Yes, sir. Anything else?
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ls there anything like a florist
around this neighborhood?

:16:13
When l was a kid growing up,
l used to hate cops.

:16:17
Me and the other kids
in the neighborhood. . .

:16:20
. . .we'd always get in trouble, fights.
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Gang fights.
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Always getting rousted by the cops.
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l suppose if we had guns
like gangs do nowadays. . .

:16:31
. . .l'd have shot every cop on sight.
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Parents never seemed to care.
:16:39
Teachers, they forgot how to care.
:16:42
As you grow older, you begin
to realize what cops are all about.

:16:48
They're just doing a job,
enforcing the law. Raising families.

:16:53
lf you break the law you get busted.
That's about all there is to it.

:16:57
l learned to respect that.
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l even began to realize. . .
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. . .that the only people l knew
that stood for something were cops.

:17:09
So when l got old enough,
l joined up.

:17:13
l had this dream, boy.
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l had this dream
of meeting the right woman. . .

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. . .having kids.
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Most of all. . .
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. . .breaking that big case.
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l could just see them pinning
captain bars on me and. . . .

:17:32
Well, the years went by, and
never did meet that right woman.

:17:38
Seemed like other guys
were always breaking the big case.

:17:43
After a while you get to the point
where you just. . .

:17:46
. . .put in your 20
and wait for retirement.

:17:54
Now l got the big case
and l'm picked to go down with it.

:17:59
You don't have to.
Neither of us does.


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