Just My Luck

October, 1974

The second I spotted the plastic credit-card case lying helplessly on the sidewalk in front of the Hollywood drugstore, I knew this was going to be one of my lucky days. I casually kicked it up to the building, dropped a pack of cigarettes on it and picked them up together.Not until I was safely back in my grubby little apartment did I examine my find. There was a driver's license issued to William L. Wilson, who lived on Sunset way out near the ocean. There was a Master Charge card with Wilson'...

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