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1  I just can't stand the sonuvabitch.
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2  Boy, I can't stand that sonuvabitch.
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3  I walked around the can for a little while.
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4  I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.
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5  You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something.
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6  Only, he's married, the cop, so be can't marry her or anything.
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7  I probably was still looking out the window, but I swear I can't remember.
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8  One of those little English jobs that can do around two hundred miles an hour.
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9  We were the only ones in the can, because everybody was still down at the game.
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10  I can't seem to get very interested in them although your lectures are very interesting.
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11  Boy, you can't imagine how sorry I was getting that I'd stopped by to say good-by to him.
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12  He went back to the room, but I stuck around in the can for a while, thinking about old Jane.
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13  You take somebody old as hell, like old Spencer, and they can get a big bang out of buying a blanket.
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14  I can't really tap-dance or anything, but it was a stone floor in the can, and it was good for tap-dancing.
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15  I walked over to the window, but you couldn't see out of it, it was so steamy from all the heat in the can.
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16  I mean I can't remember exactly what I was doing when I heard his goddam stupid footsteps coming down the corridor.
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17  I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while, even if they're only scratching their arms or blowing their noses or even just giggling or something.
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