Plastic wrappings, scattered cash, and empty computer boxes covered the living room.

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When it was all over, shell casings littered his front yard and seven bullet holes were scattered across his home, including one in his living room that left his television shattered.

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Joel was living on State Disability, estranged from any living family members, and just barely surviving in the way the poor do, through a scattered and unreliable network of support, stealing from Peter to pay Paul, and, gaming any system willing to be gamed.

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