Jimmy Doom's Roulette Weal

Jimmy Doom's Roulette Weal

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Something for the Pain

Something for the Pain

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His security blanket was a pistol on the nightstand for when the pain got to be too much more than the too much it already was. One bullet, because that was all he would need to cure the cancer permanently.

His alarm clock was a golf club hitting balls into a portable net in the park across the street.

Bob used to invite him to hit balls with him, but he …

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