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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    7:34 pm
    @@@@@Jus' a little ole womanHe brings it up
    @@@@@Jus' a little ole womanHe brings it up again, holding it steadily, moving the front sight over until it points a few inches below the muscle of the forelegAh'm goin' to git him through the heart
    BAA-WOWWW!
    It is someone else's gun, and the deer dropsThe boy runs forward almost weepingWho shot him? That was mah deerI'll kill the one sonofabitch who shot him
    Jesse Croft is laughing at himAh tole you, boy, to set where Ah put you
    Ah tracked that deer
    You scared that deer into meAh yeard ya footing it from a mile awayYou're a goddam liarThe boy throws himself at his father, and tries to strike him
    Jesse Croft gives him a blow across the mouth, and he sits downYou ole sonofabitch, he screams, and flings himself at his father again
    Jesse holds him off, laughingLittle ole wildcat, ain't ya? Well, you got to wait ten years 'fore you can whop your pa
    That deer were mine
    One that wins is the one that gits it
    The tears freeze in the boy's eyes and witherHe is thinking that if he hadn't trembled he would have shot the deer first

    "Yes, sir," Jesse Croft said, "they wa'n' a thing my Sam could stand to have ya beat him inWhen he was 'bout twelve, they was a fool kid down at Harper who used to give Sam a lickin' (Scratching the back of his gray scraggly hair, his hat in his ha
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    7:39 pm
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    I'll write a nice fat bank draft after breakfast, she thought
    "These are the best biscuits I ever tasted," Scarlett said"Could I
    have another?" She was beginning to feel much better with a good
    sleep
    behind her, a good meal in her stomach, and the children taken care
    of
    She knew she should go back to Atlanta-she still had to do something
    about BeauAshley, too; she'd promised Melanie
    But she'd think about that laterShe'd come to Tara for country peace
    and quiet, she was vintage gucci determined to have some before she left
    After breakfast Suellen went out to the kitchenProbably to complain
    about something, Scarlett thought uncharitably
    It gave her a chance to be alone and peaceful The house is so
    quietThe children must be having their breakfast in the kitchen, and
    of course Will's long gone to the fields with Wade dogging his
    footsteps, just the way he used to when Will first came to Tara
    Wade'll be much happier here than in Atlanta, especially with used louis vuitton Rhett
    gone- No, I won't think about that now, I'll go crazy if I doI'll
    just enjoy the peace and quiet, it's what I came forShe poured
    herself another cup of coffee, not caring that it was only lukewarm
    Sunlight through the window behind her illuminated the painting on
    the
    wall opposite, above the scarred sideboardWill had done a grand job
    repairing the furniture that the Yankee soldiers had broken up, but
    even he couldn't remove the deep gouges they'd made with sale gucci handbags their
    swords
    Or the bayonet wound in Grandma Robillard's portraitWhatever
    soldier
    had stabbed her must have been drunk, Scarlett figured, because he'd
    missed both the arrogant almost-sneer on Grandma's thin-nosed face
    and
    the bosoms that rounded up over her low cut gownAll he'd done was
    jab through her left earring, and now she looked even more interesting
    wearing just oneHer mother's mother was the only ancestor who
    really
    interested Scarlett, and it frustrated her that wallet vuitton nobody would ever tell
    her enough about her grandmotherMarried three times, she had
    learned
    that much from her mother, but no detailsAnd Mammy always cut
    off
    tales of life in Savannah just when they started getting interesting
    There had been duels fought over Grandma, and the fashions of her
    day
    had been scandalous, with ladies deliberately wetting their thin muslin
    gowns so that they'd cling to their legs
    And the rest of them, too, from the look of things in the louis vuitton denim portrait
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    7:42 pm
    @@@@@ “How?” Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE
    @@@@@
    “How?”
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    165
    “By my wandering around the grounds very much in the open where he or one of his scouts will
    see me and hear me
    “Why would that force him to come out after you?”
    “Because I will not be with the nurse he had assigned to meI will be with someone else,
    unknown to him, someone who would have no reason at all to kill me
    Again Bourne looked at the old Frenchman in silence“Bait,” he said finally
    “A lure so provocative it will drive him into a frenzy until he has it in his possession—has me in
    his grip so he can question meYou see, I’m vital to him—more specifically, my death is vital—
    and everything is timing to himhis diction, how is it said?”
    “His byword, his method of operation, I suppose
    “It is how he has survived, how he has made the most of each kill, each over the years adding to
    his reputation as the assassin suprêmeUntil a man named Jason Bourne came out of the Far East
    he has never been the same sinceBut you know all that—”
    “I don’t care about all that,” interrupted Jason
    “After I’m gone he can reveal who Jean Pierre Fontaine, the hero of France, really wasAn
    impostor, his impostor, his creation, the instrument of death who was the snare for Jason Bourne
    What a triumph for him! But he cannot do that until I’m deadQuite simply, it would be too
    inconvenientI know too much, too many of my colleagues in the gutters of ParisNo, I must be
    dead before he has his triumph
    “Then he’ll kill you when he sees you
    “Not until he has his answers, monsieurWhere is his killer nurse? What has happened to her?
    Did Le Caméléon find her, turn her, do away with her? Have the British authorities got her? Is she
    on her way to London and MI-Six with all their chemicals, to be turned over at last to Interpol? So
    many questionsNo, he will not kill me until he learns what he must learnIt may take only
    minutes to satisfy him, but long before then I trust that you will be at my side insuring my survival,
    if not his
    “The nurse? Whoever it is, she’ll be shot
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    7:42 pm
    @@@@@ Jack came back from the guest room and sat
    @@@@@
    Jack came back from the guest room and sat on the
    arm of the couch - the perch, I thought, of a
    young man who wants to be gone"You've got all
    your basic staples," he said, "plus salad-in-a-bag,
    hamburger, and one of those cooked chickens in a
    plastic capsule - we call em Astronaut Chickens at
    my houseI hope that's okay with you
    "Two per cent milk-"
    "Also fine
    " - and Half-n-HalfI can get you real cream next
    time, if you want it
    "You want to clog my one remaining artery?"
    76
    He laughed"There's a little pantry with all
    kinds of canned shiThe cable's hooked
    up, the computer's Internet-ready - I got you Wi-
    Fi, costs a little extra, but it's way cool - and
    I can get satellite installed if you want itHe was a good kid, but I wanted
    to listen to the Gulf, sweet-talking me with words
    it wouldn't remember a minute laterAnd I wanted
    to listen to the house, see if it had anything to
    sayI had an idea maybe it did
    "The keys're in an envelope on the kitchen table -
    car keys, too - and a list of numbers you might
    need are on the fridgeI've got classes at FSU in
    Sarasota every day except Monday, but I'll be
    carrying my cell, and I'll be coming by Tuesdays
    and Thursdays at five unless we make a different
    arrangement I reached in my pocket and brought out my
    money-clip"I want to give you a little extraThis is a sweet gig, MrGood pay and good hoursI'd feel like
    a hound taking any extra
    77
    That made me laugh, and I put my dough back in my
    pocket
    "Maybe you ought to take a nap," he said, getting
    up It was odd to be treated like
    Grandpa Walton, but I supposed I'd better get used
    to it"What happened to the other house at the
    north end of Casey Key?"
    "Huh?"
    "You said one went into the drinkWhat happened
    to the other one?"
    "Far as I know, it's still thereAlthough if a
    big storm like Charley ever hits this part of the
    coast dead-on, it's gonna be like a going-out-ofbusiness
    sale: everything must g
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    7:34 pm
    @@@@@And it must seem… strange “Tell me
    @@@@@And it must seem… strange
    “Tell me something,” Ian said after a moment
    “If I know the answer
    “It's not a hard question
    He didn't ask it right awayInstead, he reached across the narrow space and picked up my hand
    He held it in both of his for a moment, and then he trailed the fingers of his left hand slowly up
    my arm, from my wrist to my shoulderJust as slowly, he pulled them back againHe looked at
    the skin of my arm rather than my face, watching the goose bumps that formed along the path of
    his fingers
    “Does that feel good or bad to you?” he asked
    Bad,Melanie insisted
    But it doesn't hurt,I protested
    That's not what he's askingWhen he says good… Oh, it's like talking to a child!
    I'm not even a year old, you knowOr am I now?I was sidetracked, trying to figure out the
    date
    Melanie was not distractedood, to him, means the way it feels when Jared touches usThe
    memory she provided was not one from the cavesIt was in the magic canyon, at sunsetJared
    stood behind her and let his hands follow the shape of her arms, from her shoulders to her
    wristsI shivered at the pleasure of the simple touch
    “Wanda?”
    “Melanie says bad,” I whispered
    “What doyou say?”
    “I say… I don't know
    When I could meet his eyes, they were warmer than I expected“I can't even imagine how
    confusing this all must be to you
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    7:34 pm
    @@@@@His thighs and torso had been burned in
    @@@@@His thighs and torso had been burned in escaping from the half-track, and he was stretched out on his back with his legs separated and his knees raisedThe singed cloth of his uniform had rotted away and it exposed his scorched genitalsThey had burned down to tiny stumps but the ash of his pubic hair still remained like a tight clump of steel wool
    Wilson poked about the wreckage, and then sighed"They done stripped 'em all of souvenirs," he said
    Gallagher swayed back and forth drunkenly"Who did? Who the fug did? Wilson, you're a goddam liarYou stole all the souvenirs
    Wilson ignored him"It's a damn shame's all Ah can say when a bunch of men like us is risking our ass for a whole goddam week, and they ain't even any souvenirs left His voice trailed off bitterly"Goddam shame," he repeated to himself
    Martinez prodded with his shoe the genitals of the charred corpseThe genitals collapsed with a small crispy sound as if he had stuck his finger into a coil of cigar ashHe felt a trace of pleasure, which was lost in the gloominess he now feltThis liquor had made him despondent and the walk had intensified this; he felt no horror nor any fear at the bodies; his own terror of death had no relation to the smells and the cruel shapes into which physical death could force a bodyHe could not have said why he was gloomy, but he had to fasten it upon somethingHe resented the money he had spent for the whisky, and for the past half hour he had been trying to calculate how long it would take him to replace that money with his pay
    Red leaned against the half-trackHe was feeling dizzy and he extended his arm over the metal tread guardHis hand closed on a piece of pulpy fruit and he dropped it hastilyThe fruit was red and looked like a pear, but he had never seen anything like it before"Where the hell this come from?" he asked thickly
    "That's Jap food," Wilson said
    "Where'd they get it?"
    "Ah don' know," Wilson shrugged
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    7:38 pm
    @@@@@I don't do business twice with somebody
    @@@@@I don't do business twice with somebody that
    cheats me once
    "That must have been a mistake, MrI was green myself,
    just learning the lumber businessYou remember how it was those
    days
    The Yankees were breathing down our necks every waking minuteI
    was
    scared to death all the time Her eyes swam in unshed tears, and her
    very lightly rouged lips trembledShe was a small forlorn figureKennedy, was killed when the Yankees broke up a
    Klan
    meeting Colleton's direct, knowing gaze was disconcertingHis eyes
    were on a level with hers, and they were as hard as marbleScarlett
    took her hand off his sleeveWhat was she going to do? She couldn't
    fail, not in thisHe had to take the job"I made a deathbed promise
    to my dearest friend, Mrll Her tears were unplanned nowWilkes asked me to help, and now I'm asking you The whole
    story tumbled out-how Melanie had always sheltered AshleyAshley's
    ineptness as a businessman his attempt to bury himself with his
    wife
    the stacks of unsold lumber the need for secrecy Colleton
    held up his hand to stop herWilkes, I'll take the job His hand dropped, exten
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    7:42 pm
    @@@@@So where is it?” The mafioso got slowly,
    @@@@@So where is it?”
    The mafioso got slowly, menacingly to his feet“Listen to me, avvocato, you gotta lot of fancy
    words that make for conclusions, but we ain’t got no book like that and I’ll tell you how I can prove
    it! If there was anything anywhere written down that could burn your ass, I’d be shoving it in your
    face right now, capisce?”
    “That’s not illogical,” said the well-dressed attorney, once again uncrossing and crossing his
    legs as the resentful capo sullenly returned to the couch“Flannagan,” added the Wall Street
    lawyerHe and his hairdresser bitch had to have their insurance
    policy, no doubt with minor extortion in the bargainActually, I’m relievedThey could never use
    it without exposing themselvesAccept my apologies, Louis
    “Your business finished?”
    “I believe so
    “Now, the Jew shrink
    “What about him?”
    “Like I said, he’s a gold mine
    “Without his patients’ files, less than twenty-four carat, I think
    “Then you think wrong,” countered Louis“Like I told Armbruster before he became another
    big impediment for you, we got doctors, tooSpecialists in all kinds of medical things, including
    what they call motor responses and, get this, ‘triggered mental recall under states of external
    control’—I remembered that one especiallyIt’s a whole different kind of gun at your head, only no
    blood
    “I assume there’s a point to this
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    213
    “You can bet your country club on itWe’re moving the Jew to a place in Pennsylvania, a kind
    of nursing home where only the richest people go to get dried out or straightened out, if ya know
    what I meanAdvanced medical equipment, superior staff—well-patrolled groundsA lot of your crowd passes through—”
    “Go on,” interrupted the attorney, looking at his gold Rolex watch
    “Make time for thisAccording to my specialists—and I purposely used the word ‘my,’ if you
    follow me—on a prearranged schedule, say every fourth or fifth day, the new patient is ‘shot up to
    the moon’—that’s the phrase they use, it’s not mine, Christ knowsBetween times he’s been treated
    real goodHe’s been fed the right neutermints or whatever they are, given the proper exercise, a lot
    of sleep and all the rest of that shitWe should all be so careful of our bodies, right, avvocato?”
    “Some of us play squash every other da
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    7:42 pm
    @@@@@ 128 Ah, but that sound was restful Without
    @@@@@
    128
    Ah, but that sound was restful
    Without opening my eyes, I felt for Ilse's e-mail
    and ran the tips of my fingers over it againI
    did this with my right handThen I opened my eyes,
    brushed the e-mail printout aside with the hand
    that was there, and pulled the Artisan pad onto my
    lapI flipped back the cover, shook all twelve of
    the pre-sharpened Venus pencils onto the table in
    front of me, and began to drawI had an idea I
    meant to draw Ilse - who had I been thinking of,
    after all? - and thought I'd make a spectacularly
    bad job of it, because I hadn't attempted a single
    human figure since starting to draw againBut it
    wasn't Ilse, and it wasn't badNot great, maybe,
    not Rembrandt (not even Norman Rockwell), but not
    bad
    It was a young man in jeans and a Minnesota Twins
    tee-shirtThe number on the tee was 48, which
    meant nothing to me; in my old life I used to go
    to as many T-Wolves games as I could, but I've
    never been a baseball fanThe guy had blond hair
    which I knew wasn't quite right; I didn't have the
    colors to get the exact darkening-toward-brown
    shadeHe was carrying a book in one handHe was Ilse's special
    newsThat was what the shells were saying as the
    tide lifted them and turned them and dropped them
    againShe had a ring, a diamond,
    he had bought it at -
    I had been shading the young man's jeans with
    Venus BlueNow I dropped it, picked up the black,
    and stroked the word
    ZALES
    at the bottom of the sheetIt was information; it
    was also the name of the picture
    Then, without a pause, I dropped the black, picked
    up orange, and added workbootsThe orange was too
    bright, it made the boots look new when they
    weren't, but the idea was right
    I scratched at my right arm, scratched through my
    right arm, and got my ribs insteadI muttered
    "Fuck" under my breathBeneath me, the shells
    seemed to grate a nameAnd
    something was wrong hereI didn't know where that
    sense of wrongness was coming from, but all at
    once the phantom itch in my right arm became a
    cold ache
    130
    I tossed back the top sheet on the pad and
    sketched again, this time using just the red
    pe
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    7:34 pm
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    I ran as quietly as I could down the dark tunnel
    CHAPTER 40
    Horrified
    Islowed when I heard the sound of voicesI was not close enough to the hospital for it to be
    DocOthers were on their way backI pressed gucci fashion myself against the rock wall and crept forward as
    quietly as I couldMy breathing was ragged from runningI covered my mouth with my hand to
    stifle the soundwhy we keep doing this,” someone complained
    I wasn't sure whose voice it wasSomeone I handbag dolce gabbana didn't know wellMaybe Violetta? It held that
    same depressed tone that I recognized from beforeIt erased any notion that I'd been imagining
    things
    “Doc didn't want toIt was Jared's idea this time
    I was sure that it was Geoffrey who spoke gucci horsebit hobo now, though his voice was a little changed by the
    subdued revulsion in itGeoffrey had been with Trudy on the raid, of courseThey did
    everything together
    “I thought he was the biggest opponent to this business
    That was Travis, I louis vuitton men guessed
    “He's more… motivated now,” Geoffrey answeredHis voice was quiet, but I could tell he was
    angry about something
    They passed just half a foot from where I cringed into the rocksI froze, holding my breath
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    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    7:34 pm
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    He folded the paper and crammed it into his pocketCroft was calling to them and they got out of their tents, and strolled toward the truck that was to take them to the section of road upon which they were workingThe sun had been up for only an hour and the morning still had a fine clear youthGallagher thought vaguely of early summer gucci women watch mornings when he set out for work, and the pavements were still cool and fresh from the summer nightHe had forgotten the newspaper and was humming to himself as he climbed on the truck

    In the mail room, a pyramidal tent with two field desks, the mail clerk was sorting some of the letters that had been misaddressedThere was a stack of twenty letters for Hennessey, tied together with a thin piece of twine, and they lay for vintage hermes several hours on a corner of the deskAt last the mail clerk noticed themHe prided himself on remembering the name of every man in the regiment, and he was annoyed now because he could not place Hennessey
    "Was Hennessey transferred from headquarters company?" he asked his assistant
    "I don't know, name's familiar The assistant thought a moment and then said, "Wait a minute, I temember, he was knocked off the day we came in The louis vuitton tote assistant was pleased that he had recalled it when the mail clerk had forgotten
    "That's right," the mail clerk said hastily"He got it right on the beach, I was talking to Brown about it He looked at the tied bundle of envelopes, sighed, and stamped on them, "Addressee Killed in Action He was about to put the letters in one of the bags at his feet, when he noticed the return addressHe skimmed through the envelopes and discovered it lady dior was the same on all of them"Hey, look at this," he said to the assistant
    The return address on the letters was "Mom and Dad, 12 Riverdale Avenue, Tacuchet, Indiana The assistant read it to himself, and thought for a moment of a rosy-cheeked man and woman with graying hair, the Mom and Pop of a thousand billboard ads for soft drinks and mouthwashes and toothpastes"Gee, isn't that sad," he said
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    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
    7:47 pm
    @@@@@"She's Rosemary's idol," said Rhett, "and
    @@@@@"She's Rosemary's idol," said Rhett, "and the only person
    I've ever been afraid of in my adult lifeYou would have noticed Miss
    Ashley if you'd seen her, ScarlettShe always wears black, and she
    looks like she's been drinking vinegar
    "Oh, you-!"
    Rosemary sputteredShe ran to Rhett and hit him on the chest with
    her
    fistsHe put his right arm around her and pulled
    her close to his sideScarlett felt the wind cold off the riverShe
    lifted her chin against it, turned forward and walked the remaining few
    steps to the house alonenother Sunday meant another lecture from
    Eulalie and Pauline, Scarlett was sure of it
    She was, in fact, more than a little frightened about her behavior at
    the BallPerhaps she'd been just a little bit too-lively, that was
    itBut she hadn't had fun like that in so long, and it wasn't her
    fault that she attracted so much more attention than the prissy
    Charleston ladies, was it? Besides, she was really only doing it for
    Rhett, so he would stop being so cold and distant to herNo one could
    blame a wife for trying to hold her marriage togetherShe suffered in
    silence the heavy unexpressed disapproval of her equally silent aunts
    during the walk to and from Saint Mary's
    Eulalie's mournful sniffling during Mass set her teeth on edge, but she
    managed to block it out by daydreaming about the moment when
    Rhett would
    abandon his stiff-necked pride and admit that he still loved herFor
    he did, didn't he? Whenever he held her in his arms to dance she felt
    like her knees had turned to waterSurely she couldn't feel the
    lightning in the air when they touched unless he felt it tooCould
    she? She'd find out soonHe'd have to do more than just rest
    his gloved hand on her waist for dancing when New Year's Eve came
    He'd
    have to kiss her at midnightOnly five more days to get through, and
    then their lips would meet and he'd have to believe how much she
    truly
    loved himHer kiss would tell him more than words ever could The
    ancient beauty and mystery of the Mass unfolded before her unseeing
    eyes while Scarlett imagined her wishes coming truePauline's sharp
    elbow stabbed her whenever her responses were lateThe silence
    continued unbroken when they sat down for breakfas
    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
    7:44 pm
    @@@@@“But where did she come from? How did she
    @@@@@“But where did she come from? How did she appear
    in the middle of Chicago, a city long since civilized, hundreds of miles from any trace of rebel
    activity? Did she manage it alone?”
    She listed the questions without seeming to seek an answer, as if she had already voiced them
    many times
    “That's your problem, not mine,” the man said“My job is to help this soul adapt herself to her
    new host without unnecessary pain or traumaAnd you are here to interfere with my job
    Still slowly surfacing, acclimating myself to this new world of senses, I understood only now
    that I was the subject of the conversationI was the soul they spoke ofIt was a new
    connotation to the word, a word that had meant many other things to my hostOn every planet
    we took a different nameI suppose it was an apt descriptionThe unseen force that guides
    the body
    “The answers to my questions matter as much as your responsibilities to the soul
    There was the sound of movement, and her voice was suddenly a whisper“When will she
    become responsive? The sedation must be about to wear offShe deserves to handle the situation however she finds most
    comfortableImagine the shock of her awakening–inside a rebel host injured to the point of
    death in the escape attempt! No one should have to endure such trauma in times of peace!” His
    voice rose with the increase of emotion The woman's tone was reassuring now“See how well she did with the first
    memory, the worst memoryWhatever she expected, she handled this
    “Why should she have to?” the man muttered, but he didn't seem to expect an answer
    The woman answered anyway“If we're to get the information we need –”
    “Needbeing your wordI would choose the termwant”
    “Then someone must take on the unpleasantness,” she continued as if he had not interrupted
    “And I think, from all I know of this one, she would accept the challenge if there had been any
    way to ask herWhat do you call her?”
    The man didn't speak for a long mom
    Saturday, December 18th, 2010
    7:40 pm
    @@@@@ "Everyone but my Aunt Jean and Uncle Ben,"
    @@@@@
    "Everyone but my Aunt Jean and Uncle Ben," I said
    "They're veteran freeloaders, dedicated to
    squeezing a good thing to the very last drop
    Jack smiled without much humor"Every family's
    got a few," he said
    "How are you?" I asked Wireman
    "About Elizabeth I'm okayHadlock said it was
    probably for the best this way, and I suppose he's
    rightHer leaving me what may amount to a hundred
    786
    and sixty million dollars in cash, securities, and
    propertiesMaybe someday I'll have the luxury of
    trying to get my head around it, but right now
    "Right now something's going on
    "How much have you told Jack?"
    Wireman looked a bit uncomfortable"Well, I tell
    you what, amigoOnce I started, it was damn hard
    to find a reasonable stopping place
    "He told me all of it," Jack saidIncluding what he thinks you did about
    restoring his eyesight, and what you think you did
    to Candy Brown"And the two little
    girls you saw
    "Are you okay with the Candy Brown thing?" I asked
    "If it was up to me, I'd give you a medalAnd the
    people of Sarasota would probably give you your
    own float in the Memorial Day parade Jack
    stuffed his hands in his pockets"But if you told
    me last fall that stuff like this could happen
    outside of MNight Shyamalan movies, I would have
    laughed
    "What about last week?" I asked
    787
    Jack thought about itOn the other side of Big
    Pink, the waves came steadily
    Friday, December 17th, 2010
    7:40 pm
    @@@@@When I wanted to buy a Porsche, the easy
    @@@@@When I wanted to buy a Porsche, the easy road would have been to call my banker and get a loanInstead of choosing to focus in the liability column, I chose to focus in the asset column
    As a habit, I used my desire to consume to inspire and motivate my financial genius to invest
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