THE EDITORIAL:
I know this guy. This guy is an expert in crisis resolution — that is, resolution through crisis. Like when he says he helped someone move to Queens, the borough with about 50 cemeteries, he’s not moving them into an apartment. This guy looks like you or me, but for reasons I’ll reveal at the very end of this essay, you’d swear he has arms as big around as legs, legs like torsos and a torso like a tree trunk. He once fell onto the sidewalk from a 50 foot oak tree with a live chainsaw tethered to him chopping at his body as he fell — and he walked it off. That is true.
When he’s talking people into doing things they wouldn’t normally do, like giving him money they wouldn’t normally give anyone, his entirely disarming catchphrase is Why would I lie? The reason is obvious — READ MORE
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