I was thinking about what M&M had said about beating up people because they were different. There was a lot of truth to that. The rich kids in town used to drive around over in our part of the city and look for people to beat up. Then a year or so ago a couple of kids got killed in that mess and the fad slowly died out. But there were still gang fights around here and social-club rumbles, and things like Shepard’s jumping M&M happened every day. I didn’t mind it much, unless I was the one getting mugged. I liked fights. “Come on,” Mark called, “maybe there’s somebody to hustle in Charlie’s.” I
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