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Tag: Jenean McBearty

“The El Segundo Saga” by Jenean McBrearty

You might say my partner, Ronson, was killed by cherry Life Savers. “These babies helped me quit nicotine,” he’d always say when we had to stop at a drugstore to buy more. And we stopped every night on patrol. He was in Walgreens buying a roll at the same time a punk decided to rob […]

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