Doctor: Do you think you'd like to die, Ralphie?
Ralph: No.
Doctor: Then why do you want to go home?
Ralph: 'Cause I want to.
Doctor: Are you going to shoot more heroin?
Ralph: I dunno.
An ex-addict, 16: You gonna shoot dope, Ralphie. You gonna be in jail or you gonna be dead. The pushers ain't gonna disappear just 'cause you comin' home, Ralphie.
RALPH DE JESUS is twelve years old, a 60-lb. wisp of a boy barely four feet tall, with gentle eyes and pale arms so thin that it is almost...
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