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.
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- What is it, kid? What's the matter?
- Nothing.
- Just crying to irrigate the freckles, huh?
- I know how you must feel, Mick.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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