"(It comes) from a comic book that has had three lives and wasn't necessarily successful, but I love the idea that it refused to die.

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I refused a girl 20-years-old at $700.00 yesterday," one trader wrote to another in 1853.

昨天我拒绝了一个,开价七百美金的二十岁姑娘",1853年一个交易商,在给另一个的书信中写道

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