I say that to you sincerely; take care of yourself

I say that to you sincerely; take care of yourself. It's a tragedy for this court to see such a total waste of humanity that I've experienced in this courtroom. You're a bright young man. You'd have made a good lawyer, and I'd have loved to have you practice in front of me - but you went another way, partner. Take care of yourself. I don't have any animosity to you. I want you to know that.» «Thank you.» «Take care of yourself.» «Thank you.» I watched that scene - not from my seat in the press section - but in front of my television set at home in Seattle, and I felt the chilling incongruity of it as keenly as if I had been there. Judge Cowart had just sentenced Ted to die in the electric chair; there was no way Ted could «take care of himself.

Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me