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Not So Great Gatsby: Seeking Happiness in 2015, However it Appears

Dear Nick, I cannot believe that we’ve made our way round the sun yet another time.  As the weather blusters into town turning our breath steamy white, I’ve taken to thinking about the year to come.  As our friend Alfred Tennyson once cooed, “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it […]

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Not So Great Gatsby: The Diminutive Demon of Dorrance Street 

Dear Nick, Imagine this: a pudgy, tiny, toupee-sporting man hatches a cocaine- and alcohol-fueled plot to recover his divorce settlement money (as much as $500,000) by kidnapping his ex-wife’s friend and extorting the money from him. If the man refuses to comply, the tiny, pudgy, toupee-sporting man will threaten him, then hit him and then […]

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