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James Beattie's avatar

I was probably more excited than I should have been when I saw the check from Liberty State Bank. My favorite bank, ever.

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Ami Berger's avatar

RIP Liberty State

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hw's avatar

Great story...

I remember when I was little, my parents hired a carpenter, who insisted on being called by a completely different name than his given name.

It was, oddly, my father's unusual name.

It was a chaotic few weeks.

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Ami Berger's avatar

Yikes. That sounds like the opening scene to a Hitchcock movie.

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Terry Hickman's avatar

A bad neighbor can be a nightmare, and too many people regard mere eccentricity as "bad" or crazy. You are blessed with the ability to treasure quirks and differences and adore your neighbors. You must be really great people, and I wish you were my neighbors. (I'm not eccentric. At all. Well, hardly at all.)

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