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Added December 1, 2014
I sent one boy to the gaschamber at Huntsville. One and only one.
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No Country For Old Men
Cormac McCarthy
Published
2005
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Shadow had done three years in prison. He was big enough, and looked don't-fuck-with-me enough that his biggest problem was killing time.
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They had told her what to do if the police ever came. They had run drills—first thing in the morning; in the middle of the night; halfway through a meal—until she could get to the trapdoor in the closet from anywhere in the house in under a minute.