And when I finished, he says to me, he says, 'My God, I ain't never heard a woman sing the blues like you sing the blues before in my life.
"He'd write me letters to tell me how he thinks, " she says.
Johan thumps down his beer and says he has something to show me.
"Tell him to send me some brochures, " he says, wrenching the wheel to avoid an impromptu roadblock.
"I'm willing to go back and suffer people's insults because the name is going to help me to get a job, " he says.
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"The problem, " he says -- after first stating to me that he intends "no offense!"
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And when you hear an athlete sort of rationalizing defeat that way, it says to me that he hasn't dealt with the loss yet.
"I'd rather be doing this to myself than have someone else do this to me, " he says.
"Owning a piece of what happened makes it comprehensible to me, " he says.
"The rhythms of the game are very similar to domestic cricket and it's not an alien game to me, " he says.
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"She would commiserate, I think, to feel close to me, " he says.
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"Camp rule number two is that all the women belong to me, " he says with a smile, though it's hard to tell if he's kidding or not.
"This is so personal to me, " he says.
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"My dad wasn't one to do homework with me, to help with school projects, " he says by phone from his home in Puerto Rico.
"Before, if you wanted to buy my apartment, you'd have had to marry me, then I could donate it to you, " he says.
"When I was younger I used to sympathize with Marx, there is still a 10% of me that does, " he says, asking his students to accept capitalism but not to believe it.
He says his name is Frank and proceeds to show me the track marks on his legs.
"A man who was like a brother to me turned out to be a thief and an outlaw, " he says.
"I swear, my god, every other night, I have a nightmare that some militia is trying to kill me, " he says.
"But when I looked at the data and saw we were affecting these babies, too bad if it was going to hurt me, " he says.
'I don't know if you remember me, but I think I gave you something that's very precious to me, ' and he says, 'Was it a ring?
"There were members of the public who saw what happened, like the man who works in the shop opposite the police station, but they were too afraid to help me, " he says.
"I wanted to make sure that he knew from the very beginning that my country meant a great deal to me and should the necessity arise for me to go back to live in Burma, he must never try to stand between my country and me, " she says.
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