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“My only remaining question is, why an honest pimp, con man, fraud, and kidnapper like yourself would get involved in something as nasty as large-scale corporate activity?”
“The money was good.”
“Oh, but if that’s your excuse, what will be next? Politics?”

— John Barnes The Lost Princess Man (2009)

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