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Tom Adler: One puzzler, though - they say the kid could have gotten away, but he didn't.
Sally Gerber: Probably scared to death.
Tom Adler: Well, one more thing: The kid stole a Halloween outfit.
Chief Red Garnett: So they're a team.
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Sally Gerber: [imagining herself as Butch] I killed a man when I was eight.
Chief Red Garnett: How'd you kill him?
Sally Gerber: Shot him with a .38 special. There was always one lyin' around the dance hall. That's what they called it, but it was a whorehouse; that's where we lived.
Tom Adler: What'd the authorities do?
Sally Gerber: Victim was wanted by the locals, so the whole thing got swept under the carpet, Cajun-style.
Marietta Marich
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