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A noise from the kitchen. His wife, Jenny, was making coffee. She wouldn’t understand. She’d make him call the police.

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The guitar leaned against his knee—a worn, sunburst Gibson Les Paul that smelled like old wood and cigarette smoke. He’d found it that morning at a garage sale in a dusty corner of Bakersfield. The old woman selling it had said, “That was my brother’s. He came home from the war and never played the same. Ten dollars.”