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166 Not one bit, it wasn’t. You didn’t have nothing to do with it. And I wouldn’t be going away, neither, not for a million dollars I wouldn’t, only for what’s happened.

Amy, w’at you talkin’ bout goin’ away?

That’s what I’m trying to tell you, Tony, only you got to give me chance because it ain’t easy to tell you no more’n it’s easy to go away. And I got to go. But it ain’t because I don’t love you. I do. And it ain’t because I don’t appreciate all you done for me. I ain’t never going to forget none of it, nor you, nor this place.

Amy!

Listen to me, Tony! You’re going to kick me out when you hear what I got to say, but I don’t care if you do. I’m going to have a baby, Tony and it’s  God help me! it’s Joe’s baby.

[Raising his crutch with a great cry of anger]: Ah!