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The way I see it, life is a jelly doughnut You don't really knohat it's about until you bite into it And then, just when you decide it's good, you drop a big glob of jelly on your best T-shirt

My nauratively and literally Like the time I accidentally burned down a funeral hoot my picture in the paper for that one I'd walk down the street and people would recognize me

'You're famous now,' my mother said when the paper came out

'You have to set an exaood food, and be nice to old people'

Okay, so ht, but I'rip on the good exaood example in Jersey isn't exactly the national ideal Not to eable brown hair and rude hand gestures from my fathers Italian side of the family What am

I supposed to do with that?

My et blue eyes and the ability to eat birthday cake and still button the top snap on ariandown The Hungarian genes also carry a certain aypsy intuition, both of which I need infor uys I'm not the best

BEA in the world, and I'uy with the street naer is the best And my sometimes partner, Lula, is possibly the worst

Maybe it's not fair to have Lula in the running for worst bounty hunter of all tiin with, there are some really bad bounty hunters out there And more to the point, Lula isn't actually a bounty hunter Lula is a for for the bail bonds office but spends a lot of her day trailing after me

At thelot of a deli-mart on Hamilton Avenue We were about a half ainsttonachos at the deli-ainst a sub at Giovichinni's

'Hey,' I said to Lula 'What happened to the filing job? Who does the filing now?'

'I do the filing I file the ass out of that office'