Dave may have been a drinker (and he certainly wasn't going to quit), but that was the life he had chosen. Would his mother and father, his sisters and his ex-wife, have picked this kind of life for him? Would he himself have elected it? But Dave was willing to pay the price for the choices he had made. He paid it in hard work and hard times and the looks people gave him when they passed him on the street. They didn't know Dave. He was a top hand and a good guy. He would never pull the pin. He was a pro.
