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Mr. Lucky

as featured in Desert Exposure Magazine desertexposure.com    My uncle recently died.      Not only that, but it was the holidays, so when my buddy Maloney called, I thought it was to offer his condolences...      "I’ve got bad news," he told me.      ...but I guess he had other things on his mind.      "My mother-in-law," he said, sounding morose, "she might lose her eye."      "I’m sorry to hear that," I told him. "That IS bad news."      "Oh, that’s not the bad news," he went on. "The bad news is she’s moved back in with us."      Maloney and his mother-in-law have always had a contentious relationship, you could say. She had lived with them for a short while, and, when she moved out, Maloney promised himself never again, never again.      " As God is my witness..." he swore, but I think he was just copying Scarlett O'Hara in  Gone With The Win...