"They had no mercy on me whatsoever, and I loved every minute of it, " McBride says.

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So anyway, I served my time, and since the sentencing judge took mercy on me, I served my time at the minimum-security prison up at Holyoke.

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Perhaps some Lagosian Catholic would have had mercy on me.

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