#kyle dismang

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Dear Gus,

I’m taking time off this week and Mom has been generous enough to stay on full-time Gus duty, so this morning I met Conor at Mylo for a writing session, then I went to North Bar for lunch and more writing until they closed. Afterward, I followed my old high school buddy Kyle to catch up with him and his family for a bit. 

Back when I was in junior high school, we would tie a rope to the back of my bicycle and I would pull Kyle and Rory on their Rollerblades all over the streets of Beebe. When I think about what it meant to grow up with friends in Beebe, those summer days are generally what I think of first. 

Dad

North Little Rock, Arkansas. 8.23.2017 - 3.04pm.

[getoutofthisplace]

Dear child(ren),

My high school friend Kyle and another guy we went to high school with opened a bar in Park Hill called North Bar. Despite the strong grip your mother and I still have on sobriety, we stopped in for dinner tonight and ate at the bar. It’s good to see Kyle doing well, and it’s good to see booze in Park Hill. If I go missing shortly after you arrive, check this place.

Dad

North Little Rock, Arkansas. 4.7.2017.