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“I wanna come with you”

He’d knoas co as soon as he’dtwo beautiful blondes co home to a helpless construction worker on their front porch being worked over by an unhappy four-year-old in the throes of a tantrum

Not a pretty sight

Or so he needed his ex-caseworker to witness

“Let’s go get soed as he heard the bribe coers And was allowed only one a week He’d already had two, counting the one he’d had the previous Saturday at Uncle Bob’s

“No” Levi didn’t yell He just shook his head and stood firm

Je hi hihborhood before he caused a scene

“Look, Levi You know there are soe No o to the doctor once in a while for checkups”

“He gave me a shot” The boy’s opinion of that move was clear in both the tone of his voice and the way his nose scrunched and his chin got hard

“And going to school is another one You have to go even if we both want to stay home”

“You have to go to work,” Levi said Je the lesson Je to school Everyone, no e, had to do their jobs Either work or school No one was allowed to just stay home, because then there would be people who needed help and no one to help them And there would be no money to buy food for families

“That’s right”

“’Cause people die if they don’t eat”

Close enough “Right”

“But Kacey and Lacey have food”