“Well, I don’t like it.” I shrug. “But, to paraphrase Hemingway, as a cop ‘you should not judge, you should understand.’” “What’s there to understand, though? You don’t get to see the reasons that people do things. She fed you that line about her boyfriend dumping her. But we don’t even know if it’s true.” “It doesn’t matter,” I tell her as we cruise around another quiet neighborhood. “The law doesn’t care why she’s driving drunk. And it’s not my job to hate her for it. This might just be the wake-up call she needs, you know? To stop taking risks that endanger herself as well as others.
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