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Selling Your Passion.

“But we do not sell our wives in the modern age.”

“Oh no, you do vurse, much vurse. You sell your passion.

The man, ‘is passion is creating things. Und ‘e is good vith the numbers, to plan these things. But, instead of making things like ‘e would, und be great und ‘appy. , ‘e takes the job making records for others money.

Vy? Zo to make some ‘imzelf, of course. For he makes tvice as much doing this. But will ‘e ever be ‘appy? No.

Und vut of the voman? Vu gives up ‘er vanderlust to settle down vith a man because ‘e offers her money. She vould like to go, but she stays, und the longer she stays, the more scared she is to leave. Afraid she can no longer survive vandering verever she vill.

Und perhaps she can’t. But she has become imprisoned in a tower made of the very useless stones that she ‘erself has earned.”

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