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Dude was born in Nottingham, England, but came to Colorado as a kid. Dad was a miner. Sign work--begging with a sign--is very boring, but to make each dollar selling aluminum cans, you have to walk a mile, on average. He has walked 30 miles in a day. Once some guy threw four bills at him, one of which was a Ben Franklin. "One of the bills landed in the gutter. I was sure glad it wasn't the hundred."

"What time of the day was it? Was he drunk?"

"No, man, he wasn't drunk or nothing. It was the afternoon. He didn't even look at me."





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