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2024-10-29 19:42:56“Let me tell you the truth, if you were to choose between a bill and a coin, you would always choose the bill, isn’t that correct? Because most things mean better, if we do not feel how heavy they actually are.”
CHAPTER XXV: Shimmers of the Portal; The Dawn of a New Journey
THE MARKET WAS unbelievably wide and enormous. From the entrance, to its walls, to the roofs of it that had seemed to block my view above— it was majestic. It was immaculate. It did not look like the usual stinky market I used to be working in before. It looked like a Greek temple, with a lot of sharp edges and details. It had columns even! I tell you, it certainly did not look like a market. It looked more like a place where you bring offerings and worship gods and goddesses for hours, wishing for good fortune.
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