Chapter 55
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Andrew walked into a dive with sticky floors and dim lighting. "This place looks horrible, why would he have me come here?." He complained, finding his way to the bartender stand.

"What would you like to have?." The bartender asked.

"A wine with zero liquor," he replied, began to look around the bar and a smile appeared on his face.

"This use to be my life, I rolled with my boys in a place like this to avoid been caught. I really regretted getting lost when I was a kid, it brought pain and hars
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