Anyway, it's not me 1 want to tell you about; I want to tell you about a guy namedAndy Dufresne. But before I can tell you about Andy, I have to explain a few otherthings about myself. It won't take long.
As I said, I've been the guy who can get it for you here at Shawshank damn nearforty years. And that doesn't just mean items like extra cigarettes or booze,although those items always top the list. But I've gotten thousands of other items formen doing time here, some of them perfectly legal yet hard to come by in a place whereyou've supposedly been brought to be punished. There was one fellow who was in forraping a little girl and exposing himself to dozens of others; I got him three pieces ofpink Vermont marble and he did three lovely sculptures out of them——a baby, a boy ofabout twelve, and a bearded young man. He called them The Three Ages of Jesus, andthose pieces of sculpture are now in the parlour of a man who used to be governor ofthis state.
Or here's a name you may remember if you grew up northOf MassachusettsRobert Alan Cote. In 1951 he tried to rob the First Mercantile Bank of Mechanic Falls,and the hold-up turned into a bloodbath—— six dead in the end, two of them members ofthe gang, three of them , one of them a young state cop who put his head upat the wrong time and got a bullet in the eye. Cote had a penny collection. Naturally theyweren't going to let him have it in here, but with a little help from his mother and amiddleman who used to drive a laundry truck, I was able to get it to him. I told him,Bobby, you must be crazy, wanting to have a coin collection in a stone hotel full ofthieves. He looked at me and smiled and said, I know where to keep them. They'll besafe enough. Don't you worry. And he was right. Bobby Cote died of a brain tumour in 1967, but that coin collection has never turned up.
I've gotten men chocolates on Valentine's Day; I got three of those green milkshakesthey serve at McDonald's around St Padd
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