But he no come out. He wasn't home. Tuesday we go to the ball game, but he fool us.

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I know the man went away. He got somethin' to do travelin' so he wasn't home much.

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But then we watched a film made up of photos taken at his funeral and it became obvious he wasn't coming home.

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Our hero was not one of those Dominican cats everybody's always going on about he wasn't no home-run hitter or a fly bachatero, not a playboy with a million hots on his jock.

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He wasn't paid, although the home owner did purchase food for him to eat.

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