CHAPTER 17

The Gamble

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Figure 17 Securing your finances

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A lot of kids in the city grew up pitching pennies or pitching quarters. Have you heard of that? As a kid we would collect any change we could. On the weekends we would meet up to pitch pennies, or quarters or nickels or dimes, whatever we could get our hands on. The point of the game was to pitch your coin from behind a designated line. The line was either a score in the sidewalk or made with a few pebbles that we found. We would try to get the coin closest to the wall without hitting the wall. The person who had the closest coin got to keep all ...

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