There’s a guy like me in every federal prison in America, I guess… I’m the guy who can get it for you. Tailor made cigarettes, a bottle of brandy to celebrate your son or daughter’s high school graduation, or anything else within reason, that is. But it wasn’t always that way. I came to Shawshank when I was just twenty, for committing murder. I hadn’t planned on getting caught, but I was. The judge called what I had done “an evil crime,” and it was; but it is also in the past now.
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