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“Fortunate Son” – Creedence Clearwater Revival

—The first thing you notice about McGarvey’s is that it smells like every old deployment tavern you’ve ever been to…stale Budweiser, decades of cigarette smoke that no amount of legislation could scrub out, and something else. Gun oil, maybe. Or just the accumulated sweat of too many confessions in front of the hollowed-out dart board.

Marcus Chen pushed through the door on a Thursday night because he’d found the matchbook in Jake’s old belongings. McGarvey’s Bar near Fort Bragg. Thursday nights. That was it. No note, no explanation, just a piece of cardboard with an address that nobody in the family had ever heard of.

Three months after the funeral, Marcus was still trying to piece togethe

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