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<br><br>I stopped in at the liquor store at Rengstorff and Central Expressway <br>Friday evening. Usually on a Friday night there'd be eight of us lined <br>up at the checkout. Now there was just me and one desperate-looking<br>guy investing lotto.<br><br>It was the last Friday of the month, and the money from February's <br>government checks had run out. Must be there's no day labor money <br>for beer. That's Hard Times indeed.<br><br>Brian <br><br /><hr />Windows Live™: Life without walls. <a href='http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_allup_1a_explore_032009' target='_new'>Check it out.</a></body>
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