“'You don’t have cash?'
'I don’t think so.' I looked in my wallet, all ones.
'How much do you have?'
'Six dollars?'
'That’s fine.'
I gave her the cash, including both halves of a dollar bill that I had been meaning to tape together for a few years. 'You can keep that one,' she said."

—The First Bad Man, page 155

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