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MAGISTRATE: The charge against you this morning is vagrancy.
*MAGISTRATE continues studying papers he holds. She looks up at him and shakes her head helplessly, then blurts out to him. *
RITA: I had to spend last night in jail . . . did you know?
MAGISTRATE: Yes. You were arrested.
[... … …]
RITA: What difference does it make?
MAGISTRATE: Children cannot be left like that . . . It takes money to raise children in the woods as in the cities . . . There are institutions and people with more money than you who could . . .
RITA: Nobody would get my child, mister!
Ryga, George, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, Talonbooks, 1967, pp 43-47.
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