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I couldn’t help but smile as Fanny talked about scooping the money up from the just-terminated poker game and stuffing it in the pillowcase. My mind drifted back to a similar poker game Uncle Will told me about the previous spring, where he did almost exactly the same, except this game had a much more tragic ending. The gods must have decreed these two people meet somewhere during their lifetime.
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Miles, H. (1993). Runaway. In: Bad Ol’ Boy. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0295-0_6
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