Jimmy's silent for a moment, and then, for a brief, paranoid second, he thinks someone might be playing a trick on him, a cruel trick, the kind that involves sending someone here to fuck with his mind, to refer to situations that are exactly like his own. Then he remembers that they're in the City, and there's nobody from home who knows him here, nobody except Al, and he wouldn't do something like that.
"That's what happened to Angela, too. They wanted to shoot me, but they... those fuckers got her instead."
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Jimmy's silent for a moment, and then, for a brief, paranoid second, he thinks someone might be playing a trick on him, a cruel trick, the kind that involves sending someone here to fuck with his mind, to refer to situations that are exactly like his own. Then he remembers that they're in the City, and there's nobody from home who knows him here, nobody except Al, and he wouldn't do something like that.
"That's what happened to Angela, too. They wanted to shoot me, but they... those fuckers got her instead."