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that sixteen years later he was still in Cell 14 of Cellblock 5. By tben, 1976, he was fifty- 

eight. They probably would have fatten big-hearted and let him out around 1983. They 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址give you fife, and that's what they take - all of it that counts, anyway. Maybe they set you 

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was just as dead as a turd. 

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question. 

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上海龙凤shlf最新地址"You have strong feelings about lethal weapons?' 

'I do.' 

An old friction-taped baseball flew towards us and he turned, cat-quick, and picked it out 

of the air. It was a move Frank Malzone would have been proud of. Andy flicked the bail 

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'Fair enough. Ill tell you what it is and why I want it A rock-hammer looks like a 

miniature pickaxe - about so long.' He held his hands about a foot apart, and that was 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址when I first noticed how neatly kept his nails were. 'It's got a small sharp pick on one end 

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上海龙凤shlf最新地址'Squat down here a minute,' he said. 

I humoured him. We hunkered down on our haunches like Indians. 

Andy took a handful of exercise yard dirt and began to sift it between his neat hands, so it 

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上海龙凤shlf最新地址caught it and named it. 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址'Quartz, sure,' he said, 'And look. Mica. Shale, silted granite. Here's a piece of graded