WANT TO GIVE YOU THE LIQUOR I FOUND IN CABINET, the text from my mother-in-law read. This is how I came to be in possession of four unopened, pristine-condition 1980s-era bottles: two blended Scotch whiskeys and two VSOP Cognacs. All four were good, mid-range bottlings when they were issued, not particularly rare or special. But considered vintage.
Though I had just turned in a story
