“'We looked high and low for a baby present and then at the last moment we discovered a really incredible hat store,' said Carl, ambling around the living room. 'I mean these hats were like something from a museum—a jester museum. They could have easily charged hundreds of dollars but most of them were twenty dollars or under.'"

—The First Bad Man, page 284

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