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So this story is from my past, and happened about 32 years ago in East Texas.

My mom and dad divorced when I was 16 years old, and my brothers and I lived with my mom.

My dad visited us once in a while, but not really on a consistent basis.

He was a gambler, and one of the reasons my parents split up in the first place, and

he tended not to come around when he was broke.

But it's on the rare occasion that he won big.

He would visit and spend money on us, and then disappear again.

My dad said that he had a job as a shuttle driver for a local hotel.

He told my brothers and me that the shuttle driving was just a cover, that he actually

worked for Organized Crime, which he claimed owned the hotel or something.

He said that his real job was to drive out to various places in the area to pick up

fugitives running from warrants, or otherwise wanted by law enforcement.

Bring them to the hotel to hide, and then later, they would move on by means my dad said

that he didn't know about.

Now my dad was always a blowhard, and always exaggerating or out and outlying, so my

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