"Sir, I never wanted them in my system in the first place."
That's the God-honest truth, in his eyes, and he nods, once. It's confident and firm.
"What I did...I ain't proud of it. I ain't gonna forget it, either. But that ain't...I don't want to live like that no more. I ain't been livin' like that for quite a spell, now."
(The scars are all several months healed, after all.)
"I never wanted...never wanted 'em in my system at all." A hard swallow. "And comin' a few inches from dyin' will change a man's point of view on the world, show him what he's got t'live for."
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"Sir, I never wanted them in my system in the first place."
That's the God-honest truth, in his eyes, and he nods, once. It's confident and firm.
"What I did...I ain't proud of it. I ain't gonna forget it, either. But that ain't...I don't want to live like that no more. I ain't been livin' like that for quite a spell, now."
(The scars are all several months healed, after all.)
"I never wanted...never wanted 'em in my system at all." A hard swallow. "And comin' a few inches from dyin' will change a man's point of view on the world, show him what he's got t'live for."