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According to the fortune-cookie logic most people live by, the best things in life are free. That's crap. I have a gold-plated robot that scratches the exact part of my back where my hands can't reach, and it certainly wasn't free.

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Josh Lieb
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: January 1
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