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Father Francis Mulcahy : [speaking to Gentleman Joe] When I was 12 my father dragged me to see my first fight. It was you versus Tony Giovanetti. By the ninth round, you were punching him at will. The crowd was yelling "Put him away. Put him away." My father was one of the loudest. All of a sudden you stopped punching. You stepped back and you told the ref to stop the fight because the man had been hurt enough. And I realized for the first time, that it was possible to defend myself and still maintain my principles. If Plato had been a boxer, I suspect he would have fought like you. That was when I made up my mind to keep one foot in the ideal plane and the other foot in the real world. I thought you might like to know that, and I just wanted to thank you.
