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feel it better, to get the heft of the thing, and, I suppose, to prove its reality by feeling its 

satiny texture against my skin. 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址I had to look at what was underneath for a long time. My eyes saw it, but it took a while 

for my mind to catch up. It was an envelope, carefully wrapped in a plastic bag to keep 

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上海龙凤shlf最新地址I took the envelope and left the rock where Andy had left it, and Andy's friend before 

him. 

Dear Red, 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址If you're reading this, then you're out. One way or another, you're out. And If you've 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址followed along this far, you might be willing to come a little further. 1 think you 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址remember the name of the town, don't you? I could use a good man to help me get my 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址project on wheels. 

Meantime, have a drink on me - and do think it over. I will be keeping an eye out for you. 

Remember that hope is a good thing, Red, maybe the best of things, and no good thing 

ever dies. I will be hoping that this letter finds you, and finds you well. 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址Your friend, Peter Stevens 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址I didn't read that letter in the field. A kind of terror had come over me, a need to get away 

from there before I was seen. To make what may be an appropriate pun, I was in terror of 

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I went back to my room and read it there, with the smell of old men's dinners drifting up 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址the stairwell to me - Beefaroni, Ricearoni, Noodleroni. You can bet that whatever the old 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址folks of America, the ones on fixed incomes, are eating tonight, it almost certainly ends 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址in roni. 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址I opened the envelope and read the letter and then I put my head in my arms and cried. 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址With the letter there were twenty new fifty-dollar bills. 

And here I am in the Brewster Hotel, technically a fugitive from justice again - parole 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址violation is my crime. No one's going to throw up any roadblocks to catch a criminal 

上海龙凤shlf最新地址wanted on that charge, I guess - wondering what I should do now. 

I have this manuscript I have a small piece of luggage about the size of a doctor's bag that 

holds everything I own. I have nineteen fifties, four tens, a five, three ones, and assorted 

change. I broke one of the fifties to buy this tablet of paper and a deck of smokes. 

Wondering what I should do. 

But there's really no question. It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living 

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上海龙凤shlf最新地址First I'm going to put this manuscript back in my bag. Then I'm going to buckle it up, 

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上海龙凤shlf最新地址bring me two straight shots of Jack Daniels - one for me and one for Andy Dufresne. 

Other than a beer or two, they'll be the first drinks I've taken as a free man since 1938. 

Then I am going to tip the bartender a dollar and thank him kindly. I will leave the bar 

and walk up Spring Street to the Greyhound terminal there and buy a bus ticket to El 

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