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To: Solon who wrote (2016)8/31/2005 11:56:54 AM
From: ManyMoose  Respond to of 2633
 
A Thousand Hopes

The older man poured as I waded up knee deep in stinking water. Despair, after all, was only outside the bottle.

"I hope …," I said.

"Bourbon comes high," he said, "hope is free."

"Give me a thousand, then."

He counted dollars. I paid in company.