12,467. LIFE ISN'T WHAT YOU JUST PASSED, IT'S WHERE YOU FIND IT UP AHEAD

LIFE ISN'T WHAT YOU JUST 

PASSED, IT'S WHERE YOU 

FIND IT UP AHEAD

The lady called 'Mim' just rang

me again; I know she's not a real

person. There's a pause between

everything she says, and it sounds

like I'm talking to some girl in Mumbai.

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You can't fool me, dearest Mim.

But, anyway, I'm probably doomed

now, because I didn't send her the

2,000 bucks needed for keeping the

Government from shutting me down.

Like 50,000 idiot soldiers aren't

already on line at their posts.

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It gets pretty cruddy around here in

the off-season; things like this occur

all the time. The guy up the road is

securing the load on the back of his

Yukon  -  he goes, twice weekly, all

Winter long, with something loaded

for Endicott and returns always

empty and alone.

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Nothing wrong with that; every man has

has the power of his own purse-strings.

I would hope we haven't lost that yet. I

always like to remember what that old

guy named Jenno Hobie always told

me (he's now long dead): "Life isn't

what you just passed; it's where you

find it up ahead."