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[orangetoughguy]

Is there anybody here who gave up trying to get out?

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[orangetoughguy]

Why do you think that?

[trenchknives]

Guess it depends on what you're comin' from, but the way I see it, people make a lotta friends here, 'n it's kinda a fresh start, y'know? You got the opportunity to do somethin' different, no matter what kinda shit happened at home. That's kinda nice.

[orangetoughguy]

I get what you're saying. It's true, not that I've been back and forth to know the difference.

[Right away though he thinks of Raymond Leon and that fucking countdown on his arm.]

[trenchknives]

You ever gone back 'n forth, or have you been stuck here the whole time?

[orangetoughguy]

Stuck here the whole time. Three years just about.

[trenchknives]

No shit? I've been here nearly a year, but I went home once. Seems like most people do. Guess you've just gotten lucky. Or however you wanna see it.

[orangetoughguy]

I don't know what's worse, staying here the whole time or going back then leaving again or you know I'm sure somebody out there thinks leaving here's the worst.

[trenchknives]

I'm gonna go with all of 'em bein' bad in different ways. Personally, I wouldn't mind just stayin' here.

[orangetoughguy]

Why's that? I mean, if I can ask.

[Which he does but hell if he knows Jimmy would even answer.]

[trenchknives]

Well, when you don't feel like you got much but death to go back home to, you ain't too eager to rush towards it, y'know?

[orangetoughguy]

Biding your time. Nothing wrong with that.

[trenchknives]

What about you? I mean, you're askin' the question for a reason, right? Somethin' weighin' on your mind?

[orangetoughguy]

Somebody did try to beat up the border. Naw, I'm cool.

[trenchknives]

Yeah, which is kinda ridiculous, 'cause there was no way beatin' up the border was gonna work.

[orangetoughguy]

That's why we call'em coyotes, they know what's what.

[This is a joke, one he's not sure Jimmy's going to get.]

[trenchknives]

[A pause.]

I must be real stupid, 'cause I don't get it.

[orangetoughguy]

Coyotes? You know, Mexico?

[trenchknives]

Sure, I know Mexico. What, you mean people who're crossin' the border, or what?

[orangetoughguy]

They don't just cross the border, it's fucking sophisticated. They slip in and out, no beating on border patrol. Unless you wanna get shot.

[Or shocked in the Carousel's case.]

[trenchknives]

That how it is in your time? In my time, it's kinda just... people crossin' the border. Although why they'd want to, I got no fuckin' idea. I mean, alcohol's illegal where I come from -- can't imagine why you'd wanna be in the US.

[orangetoughguy]

Shit man in my time everyone wants to be an American.

[So he thinks.]

Pussy and gold?

[trenchknives]

Well, the former I'm pretty sure you can get anywhere, 'n the latter, you ain't gonna get that in America unless you're some kinda corrupt politician.

[orangetoughguy]

You don't have gold?

[Confusing Jimmy's time with the gold rush oops.]

[trenchknives]

Well, I mean, you could get money, but not many people're sittin' around with actual bars of gold, y'know? That's kinda 1800s.

[orangetoughguy]

Right.

You know, where I'm from there's this thing called credit.