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way it is for some folks. We get started and we can't get stopped." "Are you one of those people?" "Yes ma'am. I am. But these days, I don't drink nothing stronger than coffee." "Did the whiskey and beer and wine, did they make you do the bad things that are ghosts now?" "Some of them," said Gloria Dump. "Some of them I would've done anyway, with alcohol or without it. Before I learned."

"Learned what?" "Learned what is the most

important thing."

"What's that?" I asked her. "It's different for everyone," she said. "You find out on your own. But in the meantime, you got to remember, you can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now. You judge Otis by the pretty 96