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The Return of Cabbage Alley

Chapter 1. Uncle Willy's guitar Down on the bayou, flag is on fire. Cochise coming, soldiers all running. Me and my Spyboy, sitting on the side. Watching trouble, passing us by. - June Victory and the Bayou Renegades, 'Down On the Bayou' Wilson Victorian, Jr.--June Victory--is a guitar player and songwriter from New Orleans. He is an outlaw, a Mardi Gras Indian, and a hero. He is a brother and a son, a father and a good friend. His face is bronze, spotted with tiny freckles, without too many wrinkles, considering the miles on the man. Today he is clean-shaven, but he often wears a mustache. His mid-length hair hangs in braids, under a black Oakley trucker hat. He is dressed in a white button-down shirt, left unbuttoned over a black T-shirt, and white pants over tennis shoes. He has cut a dime-sized piece out of the back of his cheek, shaving this morning, but he is no longer bleeding, and is still confident enough to wear white. Our conversation begins under the blue sky on