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| - Check your pockets. Rummage around in there. Do you feel change? Good. Is it spare change? Good. Is there at least fifty bucks of spare change there? There in your deep, deep, heavy pockets? Would you mind if I thrust my hands into your trousers and cupped and lifted those pockets like they were the pendulous breasts of a formerly voluptuous girl who had a litter of babies and now essentially has socks containing of tennis balls hanging down from her pectoral muscles? Because, the thing is, if you have thirty cents, I don't want it. There was a time, kid, when the homeless would come up to you and say "Hey, man, do you have thirty-seven cents?" They'd say that because they hoped you'd fork over a whole fucking dollar. A dollar was like King Midas shit to the homeless back in the eighties. Even the thirty-seven cents was pretty damn good. Nowadays it's more like "Excuse me, God Bless, but do you have $85.92, God Bless? God Bless!" And the answer is: yes. Yes, I have $85.92. But I'd rather give you thirty-seven cents. But what if they won't take the thirty-seven cents? I mean, this is some humanitarian shit, here. That thirty-seven cents could turn everything around for them. It is your duty as an upstanding and bouncy citizen of Samaria to
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