The Makers Mark party was incredible! It was held in a back room of Chickie and Pete’s and EVERYTHING WAS FREE! Food kept coming out and any drink with Maker’s Mark was on the house. Dave Pickrell, Maker’s Mark’s Master Distiller was there and I took a picture of him and John. John recognized him from the DVD that Maker’s Mark sent him as a Maker’s Mark Ambassador. I think he really liked us because he invited us down to Kentucky and promised us that we could dip our very own Maker’s Mark bottle into red wax. Lisa and a friend from work were going to some party in Philly but it was so crowded that they decided they needed to find something else to do so she called me and asked if they could join us. “Of course!” I said.

Every hour they raffled away prizes. I was one of the first to win and I got a hip flask that I gave to Lisa and a t-shirt that I gave to John. John later won a t-shirt that he gave to Lisa’s friend and two glasses dipped in red wax. Later Lisa won a framed poster of the Maker’s Mark insignia; she gave it to John. Goodness, this is beginning to sound like a public service announcement for sexually transmitted diseases. At any rate, we all ended up happy.

John drove me back home and at the front door he said to me, “There’s things about me you don’t know, Donna. Things you wouldn’t understand. Things you couldn’t understand. Things you shouldn’t understand.”
“I don’t understand,” I replied.
“You don’t want to get mixed up with a guy like me. I’m a loner, Donna. A rebel.”
And then he disappeared into the dark night.