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Ed Mcbain And Even Hunter The Last Spin

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Ed Mcbain and Even Hunter’s short story “The Last Spin”, illustrates that people can and become friends despite their allegiances. For example when Danny and tigo first meet making small talk to one another, You got a big family? A sister and two brothers, that’s all”(1). After being chosen to play russian roulette by their gangs, Tigo tries to relieve some tension out of the situation, having no bad blood for Danny being in the same position as him. Because Danny is new in scene he wants to get it over with. The reader and even Tigo can see that Danny is nervous. Also, after the first rounds pass by, “This is a good way to lose weight, you know that? Tigo laughed nervously, and then his laugh became honest when he saw Danny was laughing with

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