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“Jacob, my old friend came first. he was sad. I shouted down to him, "The stake, old friend of a lifetime, do something!" "But we all sit on one", was his reply. "I don't see you on one," I objected. "And we see nobody else's either. Each of us is alone, on his own stake. This is the stake we share.”

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