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pounds. 1 was well muscled, too. Now I‘s gittin‘ kinds gray an‘ gittin‘ ba1d~ at de same time. Black folks lak me don‘t hardly ever git bald.

	“I‘s gittin‘ real feeble. De doctor Say I got a bad heart. Sometimes I jus‘ has to set on de curb an‘ res‘ myse‘f a spell. I gits kinda windless when I thinks ‘bout all I ‘been through.

	“My wife is been de‘-id ‘bout seventeen years an‘ my chillun is so scattered dat I don‘t know where dey Is. D~ folks I~. stays wid is powerful good to me an‘ sees after mesame as dey was my own. I reckon I don‘t need nothin else.

	“Dis generation amt got much sense. Dey‘s tryin‘ to git somewheres too faa‘. None of ‘em is sat‘fied wid plain livin‘. Dey wants too much.

	“Nobody needs more dan dey can use ‚ nowhow.“
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