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“I root for the Indians. I saw a movie about Custer's Last Stand. Really, he was stupid for underestimating Chief Sitting Bull and he deserved to lose.”
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“My hands are blurs punching left-right-left. Even if I get hit it will do no good - I won't feel it. You have no chance with someone like me. No chance. I am invincible.”
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“Did you know that Edmund Hillary is the first man to climb to the top of Mount Everest?" I ask Dad. Dad mumbles back, "No one gives credit to the Sherpa who took him up there.”
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“I can picture it. Dad running like a deer and three men with guns being chased by an unarmed small dark Jew.”
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“There is no excuse when you lose. It doesn't matter to anyone if you had polio and were stuck in bed for six weeks.”
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“As she raises the strap even higher, I face her stiffly. I have never turned away. I can't recall ever crying and I won't cry today.”
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“I once mistook a kid for someone else, so he got one beating he shouldn't have, but that's not so bad.”
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“But you a Whitebread who not be afraid."
"No, I'm not afraid," I say, most truthfully, now wondering if I came this way hoping for a fight.”
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"No, I'm not afraid," I say, most truthfully, now wondering if I came this way hoping for a fight.”
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