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sis was the town tramp but she wasn't a bad kid when the police brought her home in the morning they always bought her an ice cream cone the city was ringed with ice cream shops and dairy whip stands too in winter there was dunkin donuts there was no escape the red and blue lights of the police cars blot out the milky way you couldn't see the andromeda galaxy even if the town had outskirts officer stone was a jets fan and wanted to move to oregon officer mcgovern preferred the philadelphia eagles and liked to take his three kids on picnics they stood on the front porch with the fog laughing silently behind them and said, mr and mrs america here is your wandering girl