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Hello. My name's
Forrest-Forrest Gump.
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Do you want a chocolate?
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I could eat about a million
and a half of these.
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My mama always said
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life was like
a box of chocolates.
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You never know what
you're going to get.
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Those must be
comfortable shoes.
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I bet you could walk all day
in shoes like that
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and not feel a thing.
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I wish I had shoes like that.
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My feet hurt.
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Mama always said
there's an awful lot
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you can tell about
a person by their shoes.
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Where they're going,
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where they've been.
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I've worn lots of shoes.
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I bet if I think
about it real hard
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I could remember
my first pair of shoes.
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Mama said they'd
take me anywhere.
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She said they was my magic shoes.
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All right, Forrest,
open your eyes now.
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Let's take a little walk around.
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How do those feel?
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His legs are strong,
Mrs. Gump,
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as strong as I've ever seen.
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But his back's as
crooked as a politician.
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But we're going to straighten him
right up, aren't we, Forrest?
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Forrest!
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Now, when I was a baby,
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Mama named me after
the great Civil War hero
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General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
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She said we was related
to him in some way.
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What he did was,
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he started up this club
called the Ku Klux Klan.
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They'd all dress up in their robes
and their bedsheets
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and act like a bunch
of ghosts or spooks or something.
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They'd even put bedsheets
on their horses and ride around.
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And, anyway, that's how
I got my name- Forrest Gump.
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Mama said the Forrest part
was to remind me
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that sometimes we all
do things that, well,
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a little boy with braces
on his legs before?
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Don't ever let anybody
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tell you they're better
than you, Forrest.
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If God intended everybody
to be the same,
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he'd have given us all
braces on our legs.
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Mama always had a way of explaining
things so I could understand them.
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We lived about a quarter mile
off Route 17,
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about a half mile from the town
of Greenbow, Alabama.
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That's in the county
of Greenbow.
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Our house had been
in Mama's family
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since her grandpa's
grandpa's grandpa
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had come across the ocean
about a thousand years ago.
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Since it was just me and Mama
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and we had all these empty rooms,
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Mama decided to let those rooms out,
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mostly to people passing through,
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like from, oh, Mobile,
Montgomery, places like that.
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That's how me and Mama got money.
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Mama was a real smart lady.
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Remember what I told you, Forrest.
