texts: It's not true my father was a pirate. </s> <s> Figured you wouldn't want to hear it. </s> <s> He was a merchant marine!  He was a respectable man who obeyed the law, and followed the rules--
labels: You think your father is the only man who ever lived the Glasgow life, telling folk one thing, and then going off to do another? There's quite a few who come here, hoping to amass enough swag to ease the burdens of respectable life. And they're all 'merchant marines.'