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She looked right into my eyes. “Can’t you look past the
few faults they have and try to be their friend?”

Few faults? I wondered if we were talking about
the same two boys. I promised I would try, and I truly
did. We fought less and less and soon viewed each
other as tolerable. After a while, we got along, and
finally we became friends.

Butch was first to reach me at the rotten potato
pile. “What you doin’?” he asked.

“Oh, nothin’. Just trying to figure what I can do
with these rotten potatoes.”

“What’re they good fer?” Buster asked.
Butch and Buster always used words like fer.
Lenny liked to tease them. He’d say, “One, two, three,
fer.”
Butch would say, “I don’t say fer, so what do you
tease me fer?” and we’d all laugh, making Butch mad.
I’m sure he thought we had just as much of an accent,
but we didn’t notice it. They also used lots of words

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