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<blockquote data-quote="Prince Atom" data-source="post: 652772" data-attributes="member: 6046"><p>Lyakovetsky was flabbergasted.</p><p></p><p>"Does he always do that?" he asked of the man in flannel.</p><p></p><p>"What, walk out without explaining himself? Only when he's feeling his oats. He does that a lot, for an old guy." The man in flannel gave Lyakovetsky a smile, and he and the woman followed the old man out the door. Nonplussed, Lyakovetsky followed them. He was just in time to see them all get into the cab of a battered old truck with a camper on the back.</p><p></p><p>The woman was the last to climb in. Before she closed the door, she tossed something small and glittering in his direction. "Here -- catch!" He caught it one-handed, and by the time he looked up again, the truck was driving off.</p><p></p><p>He looked down at the thing in his hand. It was a key, just a bit of metal with teeth projecting from a plastic drum with a note attached on a bit of wire. The note read, simply, "5/29/17-11/22/63."</p><p></p><p>Lyakovetsky looked around, but there was no one else nearby; behind him he could hear Ned's diner locking its doors. Neither MacDonald nor Cherie were in sight. So he pocketed the key, swung his leg over his big Harley, and kicked it into life.</p><p></p><p>**************************************************</p><p></p><p>He had to wait four hours for the libraries to open, and all through that time he puzzled over the key. Aside from the note, there was a string of letters and numbers etched into the plastic of the drum. They were probably some sort of matching numbers; no doubt the thing it was meant to unlock had the same string of figures on it. He'd seen countless others in transit stations -- bus stations and airports had rentable lockers that used keys like this one. </p><p></p><p>The mystery did not leave him be. The last date in particular kept tickling his mind. He knew he'd seen it somewhere before....</p><p></p><p>The libraries finally opened, and he was the first on the computers. A brief web search for "November 22, 1963" turned up several websites about a former US president who'd been assassinated on that day; when a biographical site gave that president's birthday as May 28 1917, Lyakovetsky was convinced he'd found his man.</p><p></p><p>But what did John F. Kennedy have to do with a battered old key?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prince Atom, post: 652772, member: 6046"] Lyakovetsky was flabbergasted. "Does he always do that?" he asked of the man in flannel. "What, walk out without explaining himself? Only when he's feeling his oats. He does that a lot, for an old guy." The man in flannel gave Lyakovetsky a smile, and he and the woman followed the old man out the door. Nonplussed, Lyakovetsky followed them. He was just in time to see them all get into the cab of a battered old truck with a camper on the back. The woman was the last to climb in. Before she closed the door, she tossed something small and glittering in his direction. "Here -- catch!" He caught it one-handed, and by the time he looked up again, the truck was driving off. He looked down at the thing in his hand. It was a key, just a bit of metal with teeth projecting from a plastic drum with a note attached on a bit of wire. The note read, simply, "5/29/17-11/22/63." Lyakovetsky looked around, but there was no one else nearby; behind him he could hear Ned's diner locking its doors. Neither MacDonald nor Cherie were in sight. So he pocketed the key, swung his leg over his big Harley, and kicked it into life. ************************************************** He had to wait four hours for the libraries to open, and all through that time he puzzled over the key. Aside from the note, there was a string of letters and numbers etched into the plastic of the drum. They were probably some sort of matching numbers; no doubt the thing it was meant to unlock had the same string of figures on it. He'd seen countless others in transit stations -- bus stations and airports had rentable lockers that used keys like this one. The mystery did not leave him be. The last date in particular kept tickling his mind. He knew he'd seen it somewhere before.... The libraries finally opened, and he was the first on the computers. A brief web search for "November 22, 1963" turned up several websites about a former US president who'd been assassinated on that day; when a biographical site gave that president's birthday as May 28 1917, Lyakovetsky was convinced he'd found his man. But what did John F. Kennedy have to do with a battered old key? [/QUOTE]
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