The Court of Last Resort1957

Webster:
All this happened a long time ago. It was just one afternoon with no special significance for you... how can you claim to remember it so clearly?

Carl Halsted:
Well, it wasn't just any old afternoon. It was a very special day in my life - my birthday. I was twenty-two years old and down and out. Maybe you don't know what that feels like.

Webster:
No, I don't.

Carl Halsted:
Well, I hadn't had a job in months. I was dead broke. Every time I stood up I got dizzy from weakness. I'd give my right arm for a good meal and I met this Smith in a hobo jungle. He bought a can of beans and loaf of bread and shared it with me - half and half.