...still hear that raspy, Scotch-ravaged voice, echoing in my brain, with that sudden shift in tone, and

"Do you know Oinie Bushmillah?!"

No. No, we didn't. But we knew who he was, and who Stan Drake and Alex Raymond were, and sometimes that's enough.

...light switched on in her head. She smiled, turned to us and rasped out:

"You're in comics? Do you know Oinie Bushmillah?!"

Turns out, in her younger days, she hung out and drank with Ernie Bushmiller, Stan Drake, Alex Raymond..."the boys."

And presto, she was our best friend!

"Bushmillah! Do you think for a moment? Yes, by the way. How very necessarily true! Give me fair play. When?"

"At the Dove and Raven #tavern , no, ah? To wit your wiz-zend?"

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