Flowers for Algernon/Heartwarming

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  • Near the end, when Charlie's intelligence is on the decline, and he goes back to the box factory. Specifically, when one of his coworkers (who was hired after Charlie had quit) started making fun of him in a manner resembling his treatment at the start... then Joe Carp stepped in, gripped the guy's shirt, and told him that if he did it again, he'd break his scrawny neck.
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