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Uncultured: A Memoir
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“We used spit instead. Tom Sawyer said it would do the same thing and how could we rob a bank wif our hands all cut up. One boy cried and said he was going to tell and Tom Sawyer shut him up wif a nickel.” “Ain’t you tellin’ me yo secrets ...more
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