Moose had agreed to let me crash on their couch.

Threatening to kill him the last time we spoke had done nothing to ruin our friendship.

He gulped,How much money?

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We were in our 20s and didn’t hold any grudges yet.

Bambi and I graduated high school in ‘74.

Moose was four years older than us and graduated high school with my sister.

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They were good friends.

I had done some pretty outrageous shit with Bambi.

They both had the knack.

In many ways, including appearance, Bambi was a lot like Moose.

He rented us the U-Haul trailer we took to South Florida.

We hid the trailer in my father’s warehouse and used it for the trip home.

Bambi was more of a team player than Moose and a lot easier to get along with.

It wasn’t great, but at least I was no longer a cellar-dweller.

At least with Moose and Bambi, there was stillhonor among thieves.

Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental…