It turns out Rocky Graziano had had a pretty amazing life so far. He was a boxer who was headed back to NYC where he lived. He had an fight coming up at Madison Square Garden. He was going to be fighting Freddie Cochrane. He had been boxing for a long time and several people recognized him on the train and asked for his autograph. It was hard to imagine him as someone famous, he was so nice to everyone and just seemed like an everyday guy. He told us that his father was a boxer called "Fighting Nick Bob". He made Rocky fight his brothers as early as the age of three which led Rocky to become a street fighter. He spent years in reform school and jail. After that he joined the army. but he didn't like the discipline there so he left the army. Rocky spent a lot of time in jail for leaving the army, But after a while the army saw how good Rocky was at boxing that they let him go after he agreed to represent them when he boxed.
Before his fight Rocky emptied his pocket and put me down on a table and climbed into the ring. There was another man in there also. Everyone was yelling "Freddie Cochrane!". I guessed that was the man Rocky was going to fight. After the first 8 rounds it looked like Rocky was going to lose but then at the last moment he came up from behind Freddie and knocked him down which led to Rocky winning the match. I was so happy! Rocky scooped up his pocket belongings, including me. Later went out with some friends to celebrate his win.
When Rocky returned to his room that night he put me and some other coins in a small bottle on a shelf. I wondered when I would ever get out of this bottle and how. It seems like almost a year went by and I was suddenly awakened as someone poured the coins, including myself into their pocket and off I went. I remembered being handed around quite a bit. I was becoming impatient for a new adventure.
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