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Fictitious

Jan 8

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My Best Friend

Ron Lewis

My Best Friend

I couldn’t bring myself to publish this on Christmas, I wanted to, but even now, so many years after the event, I have a hard time processing what happened.

In Amarillo, Texas, on Christmas Eve night 1980, a cold night with snow on the ground, my best friend, Berry Joe McGuire, was on patrol. A decorated police officer with the Amarillo P.D. Berry allowed another officer to spend Christmas Eve with…

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