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we bought ten presents.
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11 packages?
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figured it out
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hitting Dewey
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without pay.
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Thanks to the company's trouble
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they sent everybody home
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so the board members
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booger sandwich.
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at a bad time,
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I have a plan
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to get through this.
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Christmas trees.
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In college,
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every December
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illegal cable boxes.
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to a supplier.
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trees at 15 bucks apiece.
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his vacant lot for free.
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at six bucks a foot—
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of $45 a tree— Lois,
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some money saved up.
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we can get 200 trees.
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with your old man?
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into business with me
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never answered the intercom.
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with me.
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a Korean grocery store!
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your piggy bank.
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the ugliness and turmoil
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with Christmas is gone.
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They are finally here!
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from Stuttgart!
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your heavy clothes.
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I don't need a third!
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you two.
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Just enjoy.
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perfect with Gretchen.
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not an alcoholic,
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a perfectionist.
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too, Jamie.
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a crappy wooden sign, but...
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know that this is
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day of my life.
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and every one of you,
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that you don't screw this up.
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together,
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don't give in
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once we sell tree 67.
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off the bottom of the trunk.
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to lose this feeling.
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won't let me help you
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with me and my family,
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happens to you.
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the guilt anymore.
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you're talking about.
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you'd still have all your teeth;
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your car, it never
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for me.
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I was surprised.
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You're all set.
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a fresh wound in the bottom
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so it could suck up water.
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is suspended in a netherworld
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to open your presents.
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have we sold?
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Fifteen?
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close to tree 67.
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looking trees.
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Hmm?
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What?
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around the corner
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to five dollars a foot,
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I thought I'd try you guys.
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trying to undersell us?
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Mass at half price.
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on our trees?
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$4.50 a foot?
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hang on— tree 91.
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to tie the tree to the roof.
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to get rabies shots.
Shots?
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right in the belly.
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when I was bitten
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few years ago.
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four-inch needle
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like I'd been shot in the gut.
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they pulled
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I was on the floor,
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and crying like a baby.
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with pain, but...
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to catch the squirrel
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to Animal Control.
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it doesn't have rabies,
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to take the shots.
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her point.
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you this vow:
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that squirrel
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to Animal Control
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have rabies,
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to get those shots.
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ever again for having known me.
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a million times with my mom.
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"Don't take that tone with me,"
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start screaming.
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tries to make peace.
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chopped off.
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argument to settle an old score.
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version of my family.
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seven dollars change, right?
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tree 89!
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I can taste it!
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on the blessed church?
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around the corner.
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and we don't like it.
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what he wants.
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to know that you're dealing
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of godless heathens.
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somewhere else.
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to clear out,
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into our own hands.
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supposed to mean?
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What are they gonna do?
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and lock the doors!
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mister?
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Come on!
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infected to you?
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this is my tree.
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if you know what I mean.
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do you think you're doing?
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Christmas trees?
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Christmas trees.
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set up our trees.
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would be up for anything
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drive around
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of the back of the truck?
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the price of gas.
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with gas selling at two...
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the genius thing
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from being profitable.
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no matter how hard I try,
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out of our yard.
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for your father
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like a laser!
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the store.
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and possibly rabid,
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about this, Lois.
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for too long.
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reinforcements, Ethan.
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helping, guys.
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on our hands.
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Let's do this thing!
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all your lunches in the fridge!
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He's heading for the register!
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the front door!
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in his eyes!
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112 is
the profit tree.
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Merry Christmas.
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you doing here?
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permit to do this.
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off your yard.
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and I'm out of money.
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and I always have.
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an understanding here?
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an understanding.
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these trees out of here.
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and you don't have a permit.
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garbage cans.
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isn't it?
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without a permit.
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One tree.
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a high school kid
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Uh...
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trees out of your yard.
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the screaming...
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homesick.
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my dad's throat like that.
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all of you!
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feel ashamed of being German.
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then buy me out.
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the truck back.
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the front lawn.
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watching us.
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a little reality
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is by living in denial.
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get beaten by failure,
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after one kid.
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holding out for a miracle.
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going to come at Christmas,
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going to come?
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I knew it!
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Is it yours?
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Christmas tree for ten dollars?
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from the brink of despair
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was worth living.
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handing me ten dollars,
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aren't worth a damn.
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to teach them
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and you can help me.
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someone do that? I haven't.
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ten dollars. I'll even...
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business with you, sir.
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you believe, boys?
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and get Dewey's hamster cage.
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through the box.
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to find out if he has rabies?
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we'll do my family.
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454. Marriage is all about
compromise.
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455. You think
this house is a pigsty?
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456. There, now it's a pigsty!
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457. Oh, you're real brave
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458. when I don't have
my leg strapped on!
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459. They're having all the fun.
We should get in there.
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460. Let's do it.
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461. You know, I feel bad
for Gretchen and Otto.
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462. I hope I didn't
make things worse.
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463. Thank you
for taking us in.
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464. It is nice being with a family
that gets along.
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465. Boy, you guys
really gone out
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466. for this Christmas.
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467. It's even Christmas
in the bathroom!
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468. As Christmases go,
this one was pretty good—
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469. nothing on fire,
no arrests,
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470. and, hell,
we even made a profit.
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