"Then you show up and drink my poison!"
Barnaby laughed with the others, but his heart wasn't in it. He was concentrating too hard. Should he have picked one that was more ribald?
"You didn't tell it right!"
He'd heard that one before, but Jim really had a good delivery, and got a big laugh. Barnaby thought he was ready, but just couldn't interject into the flow of jokes of the older guys.
"Don't worry - it'll stretch!"
Every year his brother Al would meet with his friends for their reunion. They each made a point of coming back to Gull Cove the same time each year, just for this night. Al was ten...
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