Birdy

Al.’
    ‘So what do we do then, Birdy?’
    ‘Well, we take the suit that Weiss molted and we put it in thebox with what’re left of the moldy baseballs. We go back downstairs and check the box at the entrance. Then we walk right on out of here, out the gates.’
    ‘Just like that?’
    ‘Just like that.’
    ‘And, so what happens then?’
    ‘Nothing, Al; just the rest of our lives.’
    ‘Is that all?’
    ‘That’s all?’
    ‘And that’s the way it ends?’
    ‘Not really, Al. It’s never that easy. Nobody gets off that way.’
     
    But it’s worth trying.

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    Originally published in the United States, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1978
    This edition published by The Friday Project in 2012
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