Overheard at the Hospital

“I just got six tumors taken out. I’ve had cancer twice. And then this neurological thing…”

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“Girl, they don’t even sell liver cheese down here. I used to go to market and get my cold cuts, my goose, liver cheese, then the kids took over, they retired or something and they took all the pork out the case. Can’t get liver cheese, goose… They don’t sell none of that, girl. And you can’t find it at Kroger’s or nowhere.”

“Girl, I bout cracked up. They still smoke that shit. Even all them people died. People dead, girl. I know. And I said ‘People still on dope!?’ Shit, I said ‘Everybody dead! Everybody dead smoked that shit!’ Still smoking that shit, girl. Enough is enough: sit your ass down, I swear, girl.”