Sunset over Uptown Jackson. Pumpkin beer. A cover band playing country (my favorite, obviously). Old friends around every food truck, a 1978 Star Wars comic I had to hear about, and six teenage girls coming home from their first homecoming.
I drank exactly one beer. Turns out that was plenty.
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