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What are you ranting about? It’s for us it is. Isn’t it? Don’t ask me nothing, young fella. I’ve no head. All I do is march. And if you want to know why you should be marching you ask the buck inside. Me? Sure everybody was marching the day… Well, for the same reason as everybody else. My reasons no different to anybody else’s. Wan man wan vote -that’s what I want. You know -wan man wan vote. Sure I know that. Sure I know we got it. Gerrymandering- that’s another thing- no more gerrymandering- that’s what I want- no more gerrymandering. And civil rights for everybody- that’s what I want- you know- civil rights- civil rights- that’s why I march. I’m a liar then? You’re calling me a liar, is that it? He’ll be telling me my name isn’t Lily Doherty next.
Did you ever hear of a mongol child, Skinner? I told you a lie about our Declan. That’s what Declan is. He’s not just shy , our Declan. He’s a mongol. And it’s for him I go on all the civil rights marches. Isn’t that stupid? You and him and everybody else else marching and protesting about sensible things like politics and stuff and me in the middle of you all, marching for Declan. Isn’t that the stupidest thing you ever heard? Sure I could march and protest from here to Dublin and sure what good would it do Declan? Stupid and all as I am I know that much. But I still march- every Sunday. Isn’t that the stupidest thing you ever heard?
That’s what the chairman said when I- you know- when I tried to tell him what I was thinking. He never talks about him; you can’t even look at him. And that day that’s what he said, “You’re a bone stupid bitch. No wonder the kid’s bone stupid too.” The chairman- that’s what he said.

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