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"How do you deal with it?" I asked

"It seeotta deal" He ran a hand over his head

We stood in silence, the frigid breeze and the echoing expressway our only corandfather's headstone

"I wish I could say that about my boy" Bear patted my back "Oh hoish I could say that" I watched hirass He disappeared into the Maintenance shed

Froed a half-hearted wave She answered with a continued stare Mustering e, Ithe door behind her I retreated across Fernwood I wondered past my house and down Cemetery Street I wanted to talk to Russell

Beyford is a sed Till this day, I have to think about right and left I'm better with cardinal direction I wandered around hours before finally finding Main Street and Russell's coluar smoke

"Russell," I cried as he approached

"If it ain't Jaone off and got yourself in loads of trouble Boy you got to watch the out in front of good folk"

After some small talk Russell said: "It's colder then an Eskiet us some anti-freeze"

"Not allowed to, you know, my condition," I said

"Your condition?" Russell stared at ot no conditions C'mon, just a little juice to keep ya lose"

"Ah," I hesitated

"What them there doctors don't know can't hurt 'em" He clapped my back "Let's us have one for old times sake"

I followed Russell to his apartirlfriend of yours?" Russell slah on the coffee table

"Shannie?"

"No you fool, not irlfriend anyhow" I recoiled "I'ood thing I bailed you out of her hell That's be life sentence waiting to happen there, wooo-eeee I know fellows do softer ti and passed the bottle "I hear she got her ass knocked up"