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Two weeks ago, my oldest cousin visited the nursing home and said to her grandfather, “What can I bring you?” His response was “a shot and a beer?” but what with one thing and another she wasn’t able to get it for him before it was too late.

In honor of that request, and in honor of my great-uncle, whose funeral we attended this morning, the five oldest cousins and I are pretty plastered.

Especially me.

Jack Daniel O’Keefe, February 10, 1913–February 26, 2010