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SAM WIEBE






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            Dean and I pretty much raised ourselves.
            After our parents’ funeral, we went to live
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            with our aunt Jessie. She owned a bar and
            restaurant with a small apartment on the
            second floor. The place is called Kidd’s.
            Dean  runs it nowadays and still  lives
            upstairs.
               My brother has always been interested

            in the restaurant business. I think that’s
            because to him Kidd’s is home. Dean loves
            to  cook.  Tonight,  for  my  first  meal  after

            getting out of prison, he promised to make
            me something called cassoulet. I told him a
            burger and fries would be all right. But like
            I said, he loves to cook.
               Me, I’m good at other things.

               For two summers Aunt Jessie had
            a boyfriend named Paul. He installed alarms


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