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Walks downstairs, alone or in pairs

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Bill Murphy Jr.
Sep 16, 2020
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It looked like a bad gamble—out $500, what can you do? Win some, lose some.

The gamblers — I guess we’ll call them that, at this point in the story — were named Richard and Betty James, and the time we’re talking about was just after World War II.

I was trying to figure out how big a deal losing $500 would have been was to them; it was the equivalent of m…

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