Put Behind Bars Dont Me Narrative

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So you want to hear how I got put behind bars don´t you? Well sadly it was one of my old pals. We made a promise he did not keep. Well, he did but not in the way I thought he would.I told him I was going to the west to make a fortune and I told him we will meet back here in twenty years because this is the last place I saw him. So I was Sitting in a café and a cop comes speed walking toward me so I tell him I am just waiting for an old friend. He ended up believing me and we sat and talked for a little while. So I told him of how I went to the west to gain fortune. Then he had to go so I waited and then I saw something. I saw a man that looked like my old pal outside of the café. I walked up to hiim and said ¨Is that you Jimmy Wells?¨. He replied

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