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didn’t like guns in the least. “Didn’t your
mother ever tell you that you shouldn’t point
guns at people, even toy guns?”
“Well, yes, but..”
“Then don’t you think you should do what
you are told?”
“Yes, Ma’am,” he replied.
“Then quit waving that toy around and be
a good boy and get my medicine for me.”
He slipped behind the counter and set the
gun down and started rummaging through the
previously prepared prescriptions. “What did
you say your last name was?” he asked.
“Thompson.”
He was still rummaging through the
prescriptions when a much older man appeared
from the back room. He looked at the teenager
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