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cousin mike murdered, march 1993

One night I got a call from my brother telling me that [my cousin] Mike in Montreal was dead.  Somebody slit his throat outside a bar in downtown Montreal.  I think this is when things started to go bad for me too.  I was able to get another drug connection and the money was good for a few more years but I had gotten a look at the ugly side of the business and things were never the same as when I was getting it from Mike.  We were family.  With Mike, if I was late with the money it wasn’t a problem.  With anybody else, it doesn’t work that way.  After Mike died I did a lot of thinking.  I stopped planning for the future and began to live more for the moment.  What a mistake that would turn out to be.

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