Writer: THOMAS KEVIN O'ROURKE

Pierre’s Shortcut

Pierre’s Shortcut

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Pierre Freeman was an artist, raconteur and dancer, destitute and a drunk. He tatted his hair to thick dreadlocks that flattened into the shape of oak leaves. He smoked weed, but never paid for it. He spoke with a Jamaican accent even though he had never been out of Minnesota.more