Quotation

He’s the Howard Hughes of hillbilly heroin. Nobody’s seen him in nearly a year. === “And what exactly is Slab City?” “A retired military base down near the bottom of the Salton Sea. When they closed the base, they pulled everything out of there except the hard surfaces. That’s the landing strips and the slabs they built the Quonsets on. Squatters came in and took over, built their own places…” === big surprise—he does the right thing and it gets him killed. People can call him stupid or naive. I call him a hero and that’s why I’m all in. === He looked like he didn’t weigh more than a hundred pounds, and he had wispy white hair that surrounded his head on the pillow like a halo. He wore an old golf shirt with the Wilshire Country Club crest. His arms were skinny, the skin wrinkled and mottled with age spots. His hands looked lifeless and were folded on top of the blanket that was tucked up neatly under his arms and over his chest.