Description
to wash down bitter memories
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1882. SKOOKUM * , in life, sits alone in the saloon, nursing a stiff drink and heartache. he solemnly stares down into a photograph, taken only a year ago. the image fills him with a forlorn bitterness; when he peers into it, he sees not a treasured memory of a man and his wife, but a permanent fixture of two ghosts lost to time.
(*not name in life)