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Growing up in the streets of Beverly Hills, California was a young man named Tom who always aspired to be rich like the rest of his friends and family. Tom was a married man with no children because he did not want to waste money he could spend on himself on children that he did not really even care to have.. Tom and his wife Amy, who were both known for being very greedy individuals, the couple even sometimes stole each other 's personal belongings and money from each other because of their greedy personalities.
One day as Tom was walking home from his job he despised, he came across a homeless man on a side street corner and noticed the man was very happy and anxious acting. tom was not going to speak to the man first
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Amy figured the homeless man would not mind as long as she told him she was Tom Walker’s wife, as Amy turned onto the alley she heard a clicking noise, as if someone cocked the firing pin on a pistol and she heard a deep voice beginning to speak “What do you want lady?” Amy nervous but still determined said “Sir, i don 't know your name, but I’m Amy Walker, Im Tom Walker 's wife, he told me about the thing you have been giving him for free lately and i was wondering if you would give me some also just to try” the homeless man became very angry with Amy and also Tom because Tom told him he would not tell anyone where he was getting the drugs from. the homeless man all of a sudden stepped into the bright street light and yelled “i hate your husband now because he is nothing but a liar!” out of nowhere, before Amy could react, she heard a loud BANG! as the homeless man pulled the trigger, Amy was dead instantly. The homeless man threw Amy’s body into the dumpster on the side of one of the buildings and decided to wait until the next morning until Tom came back down the alley as usual to get his usual free bag of

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