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My name is Charles B.

And I'm an alcoholic.

I'm a little nervous.

Bella told me if anybody ever tell her told me if anybody ever tells you when they get before a crowd of people to talk, they tell you they

ain't nervous you watch them. They'll lie about other things too. One fellow told me I looked like a New York pimp tonight.

And I thought that was a compliment.

There's so many things that folks told me when I first came around the A that was really derogatory that I thanked them for.

See, where I came from was way down the letter. I mean, you know, folks have different links of ladders. Some folks have a real tall ladder

runs way up into the ethereal. I mean us just us common folks look up we can't tell what

they're doing. The children are all going to school got books and shoes and bicycles and when they get up a little bit they

get automobiles and we don't know what they're doing right or wrong.

And then there's other fellow middle class folks, the taxpayers.

They got a little shorter letters than those real uppity folks.

And then there's folks that they got pretty short, real short letters.

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