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Updated: June 28, 2025

I let her come to the auctions and told her not to bid. But when I'd start my patter on some useless piece of 5-and l0-cent store bric-a-brac and give it an identity and hint at Count Rudolph's collection and so on, she was off like a two-year-old down a morning track. "I didn't know how to fix it or how to head her out of it. For a month I didn't have the heart to disillusion her. I let her buy.

Ben Hecht - A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago