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him what he wanted. John told him he had never talked on the telephone before and wanted to see how it felt in his ear. Pop reached way down into his vocabulary for some new blistering words and told John what he thought of him.
John hung up right in the middle of some valuable profanity and the made escapade cost pop thirty-eight cents in ready cash.
So he broke off our engagement until John paid the money back. That was twenty-two years ago and it begins to look like a bad debt.
