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—and apartments.
Ahh...
You know what I mean?
No I don’t know. I d— I understand garbage.
Yeah. You know dumpsters? Where—you know our garbage.
Garbage. Garbage?
Uh-huh.
Ah, yeah.
Yeah. And they’ll have a baby and they’ll leave it there. Uh-yuh? (tone displays shock)
Yeah. For someone to— to take it or for it to die. Die? Ahh . . . Like a . . . (incomprehensible) Mm-hm.
I know. (clears throat) What do you . . .
It’s mean.
What’s mean?
No— It’s mean. It’s mean.
Mean.
Yeah (laughs) It’s bad.
It’sbad.Uh-Iknow...(mumbles)...
Mm-hm.
Because baby is not thing . . . is y’know.
Baby’s what?
Not thing. Baby is animal— (laughs) don’t know . . . Humor.
Human, yeah.
So I can’t do that. I can’t do that. I can’t sell, I can’t— I can’t throw garbage.
Throw it away.
Throw away.
Yeah.
But—I can’t kill because it’s human.
(Data adapted from: Riggenbach, 1999, p. 214–5)