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Updated: May 4, 2025

Only a few dollars, he informed me, the uncontributed remainder of the amount necessary to purchase a steerage ticket, stood in his way. These last few dollars seem to have been most difficult to get, and he had wandered about, a sort of antithetical Flying Dutchman, forever putting to sea, yet never getting away from shore.

Bret Harte - Urban Sketches