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Oh, how do those
athletes scream?

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Oh.

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Oh, yeah.

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Oh, she told me that.

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Like oh, OK.

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Now this is the one Michael--

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that I mentioned today
about going back and find--

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and being driven to the house
where I was born or was brought

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home to.

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201 Upper Terrace,
San Francisco.

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We were up and down the
sickening hills of the city,

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and then at the
top, at the tip I

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saw the sign, the street
where I had lived as a baby.

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We drove up hill and up hill,
till all the streets fell away

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like certain death
and I recognized it.

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A small building with
naked picture windows.

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The shape of those
rectangles banged

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on my three-year-old mind.

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We stopped for a moment
by the front archway,

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a hole in the building like
the gates of birth, dark

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and tiled inside,
dark spiked plants.

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I gazed on it, as
you'd gaze on a cell

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where you had been kept
with all and terror.

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And I realized I
was conceived here.

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At the top of this white hill,
with the four streets sliding

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down straight as water.

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These two blind rectangle
eyes facing the Western Bay,

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as she stood at the
window afterwards.

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And I flipped my
tail and sailed up,

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and saw the egg like a gold
door in the side of the jail.

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And I pushed through
it headfirst.

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My tail fell off.

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I began to explode in
ecstasy, released, released.

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And in nine months, they
lifted me up to the view

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and said to me, this is
the world we give you.

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And said to the view,
we give you this girl.

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