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You don't get much love from a paid matron who has to divide it up among 150 lonely kids.

7 seconds sound clip from the Rocky Fortune - Pint-Sized Payroll Bandit (Ep. 4) classic radio drama series episode.

You can hear this line at 00:11:44 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- What is it, kid? What's the matter?

- Nothing.

- Just crying to irrigate the freckles, huh?

- Leave me alone.

- I know how you must feel, Mick.

- Nobody knows how I feel.

- That's not true, kid. Lots of people get a raw deal from life. You take me. I was an orphan.

- I didn't even have a father to run away from.

- Maybe you're lucky.

- You don't get much love from a paid matron who has to divide it up among 150 lonely kids.

- Sounds like a boarding school.

- Yeah.

- Sometimes I used to lay in bed wanting to cry so bad I thought I'd bust wide open.

- That's how I feel sometimes.

- So I ran away, too, just like you. Only it didn't help. I was twice as lonely and there was nobody to cry to.

- I've been running all my life. Get restless, quit a job. Get restless, take a job. It adds up to a big fat goose egg.

- I don't care. I'm gonna be tough.

- Sure, you live in the jungle, you gotta be tough. But running away, that ain't tough, kid.

[...]

Rocky Fortune Sound Clip

Rocky FortuneExplore memorable Rocky Fortune quotes & audio clips! Revisit Sinatra's captivating role in this vintage radio drama from the early 50s.

Actors: Frank Sinatra (Rocky Fortune)

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