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Mikey: A Short Story

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Most of the men in the room didn’t know Mikey, but everyone made toasts to their own fallen friends. Many of them asked about Mikey, and his friends were willing to talk about him. So, Jackson traded his empty glass for a glass of water and made an effort with every toast with everyone else in the room. Early during the evening right after the first toast, Frank whispered to Jackson, “How’s your stomach?” and got “Terrible” as a reply, so he went out to the car, retrieved a pill from his bag to settle Jackson’s upset stomach. After Jackson took the tablet with a drink of water from his glass during one of the toasts, he felt some relief as his stomach settled down, but it still bothered him and would until he ate something. Due to the processed

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