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1  We had the poor salesman guy going crazy.
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2  Boy, I scared hell out of poor old Phoebe.
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3  I like him ten times as much as the Disciples, that poor bastard.
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4  Everybody'd think I was just a poor deaf-mute bastard and they'd leave me alone.
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5  The father had on one of those pearl-gray hats that poor guys wear a lot when they want to look sharp.
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6  Old Phoebe tried on about twenty pairs, and each time the poor guy had to lace one shoe all the way up.
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7  I kept trying to picture my mother or somebody, or my aunt, or Sally Hayes's crazy mother, standing outside some department store and collecting dough for poor people in a beat-up old straw basket.
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8  She kept saying these very corny, boring things, like calling the can the "little girls' room," and she thought Buddy Singer's poor old beat-up clarinet player was really terrific when he stood up and took a couple of ice-cold hot licks.
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