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Show Acting Alone Page 123 positive? Such as, for example, Sam's former patriotic affiliation with that nice Persian restaurateur. Come to think of it, Sam himself could have at least taken this moment to reach into his pocket and produce the personal card of that nice Mustafa Agahian man, demonstrating that he, Samuel Edwine, had once had personal relations with the nephew of that sainted martyr; the Shah. But Sam did not have the presence of mind to do that; because he was mortified by the final item in the dossier. There was a sealed letter on United States Senate stationery addressed, not to Spikey's mom, but to Spikey himself. It referred the young Marine to a certain republican Senator Nimrod's son, a young writer/journalist who was interested in "talking to Mr. Wamsutter about the possibility of helping him tell his story to America and the world." "I believe it's time for you to be movin on, pilg -" "Oh, shut up." On the way down the Wamsutter driveway Sam noticed a bumper sticker on Spikey's brand-new Ramcharger truck. It said, LET'S GET GOVERNMENT OFF THE BACKS OF THE PEOPLE. All the way to the bus depot Sam had to run a veritable gauntlet of local drugstore cowboys shouting abuse and spitting on his basketball shoes. Sam just grinned and waved. "I'm going to kick every last hick ass in this town someday," he sizzled |