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My name is Chip. I'm an alcoholic. I had a drink all day long either.

I'm really confused. I can't believe a country that has such beautiful women could have such ugly men.

I want to thank you guys for inviting me and welcoming the hospitality that you've shown has just been phenomenal.

Your country is beautiful but too cold. I keep wanting to set something on fire.

I figured out where all the trees went.

I can't remember you guys's names. You say your name and I go,

I think everyone means something. That's cool.

I was wondering what my name meant one time and I looked up in an old dictionary.

My name means something too. It's an old English slang from the 12th century. It means a prostitute's bed.

I was kind of going to be the lion-hearted or something like that.

That's not my story.

My father's Irish and Sue Lakota, one of the causes.

My mother's Irish in Chippewa from the Oklahoma Territories.

My father liked to drink and my mother liked to fight.

Just to tell you a little bit of what it was like on a very general way,

we'd be waiting for the old man to come home and be getting later and later my mom's getting madder and madder.

We're just sitting there waiting and pretty soon you'd hear him bouncing off the curbs coming up the hill.

If you looked out the window right then you'd see all the neighbors crying in their lawn chairs

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