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Jake realizes he could have been one of the most blessed persons on Earth.  He could have had TWO fast friends.  TWO people who would have stuck by him through thick and thin.  He realizes this just in time to be too late.

"The bodies of a white man and a black woman from Portland, Oregon, were found in this apartment tonight.  The police say the man shot both himself and the woman in the head."
Thus comes the flash from New Orleans, on KATU 11o'clock news, this day of our Lord, November twenty-fourth, nineteen ninety-four.