He was a drunk that seemed to hate all the world. He tried to be a murderer and became a fugitive who led law enforcement from almost all southern Colorado on a spirited chase. And in the end, the one soul who offered him any kind of absolution, whether he deserved it or not, came from an unexpected place.
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