Jimmy Doom's Roulette Weal

Jimmy Doom's Roulette Weal

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My father’s favorite thing was toughness.

My father thought it was important for me to learn to shoot a gun, so he taught me on his Browning Gold, though I didn’t think it was very tough to kill ducks with a gun.

He also stressed education and virginity and beneath that a whole bunch of little values that were applied to life with the accuracy of a monkey throwing excrement.

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