“A lesser man might have begrudgedhim that, but remembering the old adage, "The finder’s goods shallhe retain / Nor mind the loser’s dreadful pain," I rejoiced, rather, in his goodfortune.”
Vinnie Tesla
The Erotofluidic Age
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