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You believe in God?
That's the wrong question.
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Does God believe in us?
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I once had a friend
called Grunwalski.
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We were sent to Siberia together.
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When you go to a Siberian work camp,
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you travel in a cattle car.
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You roll across icy steppes
for days,
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without seeing a soul.
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You huddle to keep warm.
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But it's hard to relieve yourself,
to take a shit,
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you can't do it on the train,
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and the only time the train stops
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is to take on water
for the locomotive.
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But Grunwalski was shy.
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Even when we bathed together,
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he got upset.
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I used to kid him about it.
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So, the train stops and everyone
jumps out to shit
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on the tracks.
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I'd teased Grunwalski so much
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that he went off on his own.
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The train starts moving,
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so everyone jumps on,
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because it waits for nobody.
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Grunwalski had a problem:
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he'd gone behind a bush
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and was still shitting.
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So I see him come out
from behind the bush,
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holding up his pants
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with his hands.
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He tries to catch up.
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I hold out my hand,
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but each time he reaches for it
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he lets go of his pants
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and they drop to his ankles.
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He pulls them back up,
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starts running again,
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but they fall back down,
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when he reaches out for me.
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- Then what happened?
- Nothing.
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Grunwalski...