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“Because Albert doesn’t just give stuff away Not any more”

Quinn laughed nervously “Look, brah, don’t tellanyone”

“I never said you were hurting anyone,” Sa to sell this fish to whoever will give him whatever he wants: batteries and toilet paper, whatever else he figures out he can control”

“Saood protein here”

“Yeah And it ought to go to the people who aren’t getting enough, right? Mother Mary could serve so much better than the rest of us, and they need it more”

Quinn dug his toe in the wet sand “Look, if you don’t want me to sell or trade the fish to Albert, okay But look, I have this fish, right? What am I supposed to do with it? So I can’t just walk around town handing out pieces of fish, right?”

Once again Sa around him like a tide Now he had to decide what Quinn did with a fish?

Quinn continued “Look, I’et up to Albert and he has a refrigerator big enough to keep it in good shape Plus, you kno he is: he’ll figure out how to clean it and cook it and—”

“All right,” Sam interrupted “Fine Whatever Give it to Albert this tiure out some kind of, I don’t know, some kind of rule”

“Thanks, man,” Quinn said

Sam turned and headed back toward town

“You should have coht, brah,” Quinn yelled after him

“You know I don’t dance”

“Sam, if anyone ever needed to cut loose, it’s you”

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