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Better off home

TEXAN POLICE OFFICER IS RETURNING A KID TO HIS MUM

TEXAN

Mam hears your daughter back.

MUM

So you finally realised all those accusations that we in The Church of Latter Day Saints were false. We don't beat our children, or rape them, or indoctrinate them into religious fanatics.

TEXAN

No Man we do believe you're still a bunch, of violent paedophiles.

MUM

So why are you returning our kids?

TEXAN

Well most Texans are violent paedophiles. Besides you don't shoot them, stuff them full of junk food, or try to convince them a monkey can become president. They're better off here. Actually have you got space for my daughter?

Nice idea, good pay off.

Couple of minor points. Typo in first line of dialogue (hears), and second line is slight ly jumbled. Should also probably be clearer about which precise sect we are talking about. All Mormons are crazy but some are crazier than others (as far as I know the Osmond family weren't violent paedophiles, though it would explain a lot).

I quite like the idea that a modern American child is better off in this place....maybe have the police office try and smuggle his kid IN with a group of returning children - my concern is the violent paedophile reference...it just seems a little excessive, and contary to the idea that kids are better off in this place.

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