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Like in hell?
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No.
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Just waiting.
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A long time ago,
my father went for a walk to the river.
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At the ferry crossing, he sees this old
Mexican ferryman, all dressed in rags...
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pays him a nickel, crosses over,
doesn't think much of it.
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When he gets home,
he reaches his hand in his pocket...
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and pulls out a gold coin
that hadn't been there before.
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But my dad couldn't stop thinking
about that poor man.
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How much food that coin would buy.
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So the next day, he crosses the river again.
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He gives the man a gold coin.
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The man thanks him
and takes him across the river.
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But when he got home, he reaches in...
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and now he's got two gold coins.
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Same thing happened the next day,
and the day after:
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Five coins.
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Then 10, and 20 and 40. On and on.
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His pockets grew fat.
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Then one day, the river dried up...
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the ferryman was gone
and never came back.
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My dad said he thought that was Charon.
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And that he was paying the living...
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what he kept from the dead.
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That's why I saved them all this time.
Those coins are cursed.
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They're the debt the dead had to pay.
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If they're worth so much, why don't you
just sell them so we can get rich?
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I pawned one off last year
to buy that station wagon.
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You see what a pain in the ass that's been,
it went to prove my point.
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There are demons.
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And they got a sick sense of humor.
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Go on, now. Get washed up, you sculp.
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Dad, why was Deel in jail?