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120. Countdown to Everything
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2024-10-29 19:42:56~ RIG ~
It was an exhausting day, and one in which I was reminded again how grateful I was to have money.
It was amazing what a person—or a wolf—could accomplish in a day with a bottomless wallet. And amazing what you couldn’t buy.
I couldn’t buy safety. I couldn’t buy certainty about what was going to happen. I couldn’t buy reassurance.
But damned if I couldn’t buy most everything else I needed. Everyone had their price.
It was also amazing how every task, every step in every task, seemed to just remind me of something else that would be needed.
By the time night was falling, I wasn’t just exhausted physically, but mentally.
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