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Melody began to mumble incomprehensibly under her breath as she worked frantically on securing her most important papers into bankers boxes. Her father stomped into her room, eating a banana. Melody looked up at him with a sweaty and nauseated look on her face. __hat are you tramping around so heavily about?_ she asked him. Bernie finished the last of the banana, and then held the peel in his hand as though it were a washcloth he had just found on the floor of a gym locker room. Melody pointed to her trashcan with her eyes. __ make an insane amount of noise when I approach you, because you once yelled at me claiming that I was 'sneaking up on you',_ Bernie replied, using finger quotes on the last phrase. __hat kind of treatment stays with a guy._ Melody shook her head. Her father knew how much she hated finger quotes. Why he insisted on using them was beyond her. __ was five at the time_, she said. __h,_ Bernie said, with a knowing grin on his face. __he angry period.
Melody Jackson v. the Hound from Hell It happened on Lafayette Street Season One
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Melody began to mumble incomprehensibly under her breath as she worked frantically on securing her most important papers into bankers boxes. Her father stomped into her room, eating a banana. Melody looked up at him with a sweaty and nauseated look on her face. __hat are you tramping around so heavily about?_ she asked him. Bernie finished the last of the banana, and then held the peel in his hand as though it were a washcloth he had just found on the floor of a gym locker room. Melody pointed to her trashcan with her eyes. __ make an insane amount of noise when I approach you, because you once yelled at me claiming that I was 'sneaking up on you',_ Bernie replied, using finger quotes on the last phrase. __hat kind of treatment stays with a guy._ Melody shook her head. Her father knew how much she hated finger quotes. Why he insisted on using them was beyond her. __ was five at the time_, she said. __h,_ Bernie said, with a knowing grin on his face. __he angry period.
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