1. A Passage for Trumpet
First Aired: 20 May 1960
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2. You're traveling
to another dimension.
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3. A dimension not only of sight
and sound, but of mind.
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4. A journey into a wondrous land
of imagination.
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5. Next stop: The Twilight Zone
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6. Joey Crown, musician
with an odd, intense face.
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7. Whose life is a quest
for impossible things.
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8. Like flowers in concrete.
Or like trying to pluck a note...
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9. of music out of the air and
put it under glass to treasure.
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10. Hi, Joey.
- Hi, Baron.
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11. I brought along my baby. I thought
you might need somebody with a horn.
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12. Not tonight. The last time you played
trumpet for me, you loused it up.
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13. I had to share you with a bottle.
- A bottle? Me?
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14. I forgot what the stuff tastes like.
For months, I'm way up on the wagon.
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15. What am I? Some kind of kook?
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16. I know what that stuff does to me,
but I ain't an old man.
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17. Me and the horn, we got many years
left. I could be a number one boy.
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18. What am I gonna do?
Chuck it away on some bum habit?
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19. It's a pretty mellow horn.
I got some nice music in here.
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20. You know yourself, when I pick it up
and I blow it, I can make 'em cry.
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21. What do you say, Baron?
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22. Don't do it.
- For old times, Joey, huh?
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23. For old times when you had it.
A magic horn.
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24. Harry James, Max Kaminsky, Billy
Butterfield, you were 'em all, baby.
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25. You traded it off for some bad
hooch and you got took.
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26. You got the crummy end of the stick.
Why, Joey, why?
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27. Because I'm sad.
Because I'm nothing.
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28. Because I'll live and die in a
crummy one-roomer with dirty walls.
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29. I'll never even have a girl.
I'll never be anybody.
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30. Half of me is this horn.
I can't even talk to people, Baron.
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31. 'cause this horn,
that's half my language.
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32. But when I'm drunk, Baron...
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33. I don't see the dirty walls
or the cracked pipes.
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34. I don't know the clock's going,
that the hours are going by.
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35. 'cause then I'm Gabriel.
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36. I'm Gabriel with a golden horn.
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37. And when I put it to my lips,
it comes out jewels.
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38. It comes out a symphony.
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39. Comes out the smell of
fresh flowers in summer.
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40. Comes out beauty.
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41. When I'm drunk, Baron.
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42. Only when I'm drunk.
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43. Just plain ordinary nothing.
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44. Man, I'm tired of hanging around.
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45. Joey Crown, musician
with an odd, intense face.
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46. Who in a moment will try to leave the
earth and discover the middle ground.
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47. The place we call the Twilight Zone.
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48. Back again, huh, Joey?
- Hi, Nate. This time I'm selling it.
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49. Eight and a half.
- Eight and a half? Alright.
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50. Eight and a half.
- Sign it.
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51. I got enough instruments now
to equip Sousa's band.
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52. I need another bugle like
I need my taxes raised.
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53. Don't worry, I ain't getting
that price so fast.
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54. I got an overhead too, you know.
You don't understand that.
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55. What kind of responsibilities
somebody like you got?
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56. Nothin' at all.
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57. Yeah. Nothin' at all.
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58. No responsibilities.
No nothing.
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59. Officer, I assure you, I'm not what
you would call drunk, you see.
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60. You can ask officer Flaherty who's
usually on this beat. He'll tell...
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61. Excuse me, buddy,
you happen to have a...?
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62. Excuse me, pal, you have a match?
I said you have a match?
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63. Movies better than ever?
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64. Look, I don't want to disturb you.
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65. But Gracie usually works here and
I wanted to tell her what happened.
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66. This big truck and I, we tangled,
and the first thing I knew I was...
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67. Look, at least you can be a
little courteous, I mean...
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68. Look at me!
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69. Now, look.
Now, listen.
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70. Somebody's trying to pull a gag.
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71. Somebody's trying to shake me up.
Now, look, miss.
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72. Please, something's going on,
somebody trying to pull...
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73. Look, fellow, you happen
to have a light?
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74. I'm dead.
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75. That's it.
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76. I'm just plain old deceased.
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77. Hey, I'm a ghost. You know,
that truck made it after all.
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78. I'm haunting you.
I'm a boojie.
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79. At last. For the first time in the
very short life of Joey Crown...
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80. he was successful at something.
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81. Charlie's off, huh?
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82. You don't hear me either, do you?
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83. Nobody hear me?
Anybody see me?
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84. I used to come in here a lot. But I
don't recognize any of you people.
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85. None of you of course
woulda noticed me.
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86. You don't hear me either, do you?
I'm not a guy you would notice.
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87. Charlie, every now and then he used
to give me a drink on the house.
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88. He was a nice guy, Charlie.
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89. You know what he did one time?
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90. You know what he did?
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91. Charlie went out and bought an old
Tommy Dorsey record from way back.
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92. When I was playing with him. On this
record there was a long solo of me.
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93. Old Charlie goes and orders it.
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94. Like a big surprise for me.
Puts it on the juke.
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95. Would you believe it?
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96. A nice thing like that
from old Charlie.
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97. When I was alive.
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98. Hey, don't stop.
It's coming out beautiful.
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99. Thanks.
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100. You said thanks.
- Thanks.
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101. You hear me?
- I hear you.
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102. You see me?
- Very clearly.
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103. You're a ghost too, huh?
- Not really.
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104. I am. I stepped in front of
a truck this morning.
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105. I ain't good for the health.
Believe me.
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106. You wanna blow this a while, Joey?
- Yeah, I'd like to.
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107. You mind?
- Whatever you like.
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108. Joey? You called me Joey.
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109. Joey Crown, that's the name,
isn't it?
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110. Yeah, that's my name but
we ain't never been introduced.
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111. Not formally but I know who you are.
You play a nice trumpet.
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112. I know, I'm an expert on trumpets.
- You ain't no slouch on it.
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113. Well, go ahead.
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114. How come you know who I am?
You're not a ghost, you're not dead.
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115. No, I'm not dead.
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116. Neither are you, Joey.
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117. I'm not?
- By no means.
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118. But what about the people in
the bar and in the streets?
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119. They are dead. They're the ghosts,
they just don't know it, that's all.
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120. Sometimes to make it easier,
we have to work it that way.
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121. We let them go on in a life
that they're familiar with.
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122. That's why they couldn't hear you.
You're the one that's alive.
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123. Like I said, I stepped off a curb...
- That you did.
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124. Right now you're in a kind of a
limbo. You're neither here nor there.
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125. You're in the middle.
Between the two.
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126. The real and the shadow.
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127. Which do you prefer?
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128. Which do I prefer?
You know something?
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129. I always felt I was getting
dealt from the bottom.
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130. Or maybe, I just forgot how
much there was for me.
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131. Maybe I forgot about the nice music
that I could make on this horn.
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132. Going into Charlie's, meeting people,
going to a movie now and then.
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133. I never won a beauty contest but
I had friends, I had good ones.
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134. Yeah, somewhere along the line I
just forgot all the good things.
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135. That's what happened.
I just forgot.
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136. You've got a choice, you know.
There's still time.
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137. If I've got a choice
I mean, if I've got a choice...
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138. then I wanna go back.
Understand?
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139. I wanna go back.
- All right. You go back.
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140. But no more stepping off curbs.
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141. Take what you get and
you live with it.
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142. Sometimes it's sweet frosting,
nice gravy.
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143. Sometimes it's sour, it goes
down hard, but you live with it.
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144. Yeah, it's a nice talent you got.
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145. To make music, to move people.
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146. Make 'em wanna laugh.
Make 'em wanna cry.
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147. They can tap their feet.
Make 'em wanna dance.
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148. That's an exceptional talent, Joey.
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149. Don't waste it.
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150. See you around, Joey.
- Hey, mister.
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151. What is it?
- I didn't get your name.
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152. Your name. I didn't get your name.
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153. My name? Call me Gabe.
- Gabe?
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154. Gabe.
Short for Gabriel.
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155. Goodbye, Joey.
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156. I didn't see you, pal.
Lucky I only grazed you.
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157. Oh, that's okay, no harm done.
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158. I ain't had an accident for 14 years.
I'd be obliged to you if you...
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159. You know, no doctors, no insurance
companies. Nothing like that, huh?
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160. Be a nice guy, huh, pal?
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161. You play it beautifully.
- Thanks.
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162. I gave it up this morning
but I'm taking her back.
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163. The bugle and me,
till death do us part.
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164. I'm new here. I've never even
been in New York before.
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165. I just moved in.
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166. My name is Nan.
- Hi. I'm Joey Crown.
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167. Will you play some more?
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168. Sure. I'll play whatever you like
for as long as you like.
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169. You know, you may like it here.
It's not a bad town.
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170. Oh, I'm sure it isn't.
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171. Maybe you could show me some of it.
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172. Me?
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173. Sure. I'd love to. I could show
you the Battery and Central Park.
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174. I could show you 52nd. Street
and listen to some good jazz...
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175. Joey Crown, who makes music.
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176. He discovered that life can be rich,
rewarding and full of beauty.
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177. Just like the music he played.
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178. If a person would only pause
to look and to listen.
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179. Joey Crown, who got his clue...
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180. in the Twilight Zone.
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