Dennis Miller didn’t know that there was a famous person with the same name as him. Why would he? Dennis Miller lived in a shack eight miles west of Glasgow, Montana, and had for forty-seven years, ever since he split up with his wife Linda and left San Francisco. In his day, he had been a bass player, and a pretty good one at that. He had his own bands, first The Kickback, then Ignore The Hype, and even sat in with Pablo Cruise right after Bud Cockrell left. Linda was sure he was going to make it big. "Why else do you think I'm with you?" she liked to say, always adding quickly that she was joking. But then he drank too much one night at a bar after a show and fell coming out onto the street, shattering his right hand. It healed, but the ten weeks took its toll, mainly in the Linda area. Her faith in him faltered. When he came back up for air, she was dating the guitarist from The Oval Proposition. He packed his things soon after that and drove up to Glasgow, where he had two great years and then rapidly went blind. Julia, his girlfriend, brought him food and read him books and only occasionally asked him if he thought they’d ever marry. When she tried to read him the news, he told her not to bother. Why would he have ever heard of Dennis Miller?
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