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He buys Playboy magazines and looks through them once, then gives them to me. That__ what it__ like to be rich.Here__ what it__ like to be poor. Your wife leaves you because you can__ find a job because there aren__ any jobs to find. You empty the jar of pennies on the mantel to buy cigarettes. You hate to answer the phone; it can__ possibly be good news. When your friends invite you out, you don__ go. After a while, they stop inviting. You owe them money, and sometimes they ask for it. You tell them you__l see what you can scrape up.Which is this: nothing.
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He buys Playboy magazines and looks through them once, then gives them to me. That__ what it__ like to be rich.Here__ what it__ like to be poor. Your wife leaves you because you can__ find a job because there aren__ any jobs to find. You empty the jar of pennies on the mantel to buy cigarettes. You hate to answer the phone; it can__ possibly be good news. When your friends invite you out, you don__ go. After a while, they stop inviting. You owe them money, and sometimes they ask for it. You tell them you__l see what you can scrape up.Which is this: nothing.
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