Just Cause
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Buzz when you want out.
:16:12
If you're unable to buzz,
don't worry about it.

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Sweet Jesus.
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The old girl said
you'd be coming up in here.

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I said, "No.
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"No, Grandma, he's too busy...
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"...to come all the way from Harvard
just to give me his time."

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But praise God...
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...here you is.
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If I really talked with
that verbal buck-and-shuffle...

:16:40
...I'd be free today.
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What's your game?
:16:45
It's no game.
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Funny thing about
small-town Florida people.

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Like crabs in a bucket, black or white.
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One tries to climb out, the others
hop on his back to put him back in.

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Souls of Black Folk, DuBois.
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I've read it.
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I'm impressed.
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Good.
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I've always been that climb-out crab.
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My mother OD'd on heroin
when I was 13 up in Newark.

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Grandma got me and brought me here.
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I was high school valedictorian.
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I got a full scholarship to Cornell, but...
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...they treated me like an outsider.
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How do you like Grandma?
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She's something else.
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She's very determined.
But why did you send her up to see me?

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Because you are from a small town,
like me.

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Fife, Scotland. First in your family
to attend a university.

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Magna from Cambridge. Columbia Law.
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Youngest assistant DA, 1960-69.
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Joined a law firm, 1970.
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1980 to the present...
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...Harvard professor of law...
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...author of Process and Law,
and six books since.

:17:58
I've read them all.

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