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Zoo story Passage

JERRY:

You have a TV, haven't you?

(1)

PETER:

Why yes, we have two; one for the children

(2)

JERRY:

You're married!

(3)

PETER:

Why, certainly.

(4)

JERRY:

It isn't a law, for God's sake.

(5)

PETER:

No ... no, of course not.

(6)

JERRY:

And you have a wife.

(7)

PETER:

Yes!

(8)

JERRY:

And you have children.

(9)

PETER:

Yes; two.

(10)

JERRY:

Boys?

(11)

PETER:

No, girls ... both girls.

(12)

JERRY:

But you wanted boys.

(13)

PETER:

Well ... naturally, every man wants a son, but ...

(14)

JERRY:

But that's the way the cookie crumbles?

(15)

PETER:

I wasn't going to say that.

(16)


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