Smokescreen

When I was 17, I met a man who told me he’d give me the world if I gave him a cigarette.  I only had two left but I figured, what the hell.

His face wrinkled into a smile, his whole life written on the lines that formed.

“There you go, kid.” He spread his arms wide. “Help yourself.”

 

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