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		<title>Against Hope</title>
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<p>When he got old enough and around to it, he decided he didn’t really care much for anyone left of his family and relatives.<br>He cared more about the last dog he’d survived.</p>



<p>So on accounta that stuff, and a lotta other stuff no one needs knowin’, when he died, Claude Mastrey, the known nonagenarian, did the twenty-first century thing and lambasted his apparent heirs in the board room atop Century Plaza II, in the offices of Jankins &amp; Rowdoww, attorneys at law.<br>By way of a post-mortem video.</p>



<p>With senior partner Harry Jankins in attendance.<br>Who nodded towards the technician at the rear of the room, to dim the lights and proceed with the presentation.</p>



<p>Thus spake Mastrey:</p>



<p>When I was a boy, I traveled all over.<br>All over the world.<br>So many times.<br>So many times on ships, across oceans and seas.<br>One time when Mom and Gran and I were sailing from Shanghai to Hawaii, back around ’36, before the Nanking massacre, I got to celebrate my birthday twice, on account of crossing the International Date Line.</p>



<p>But I’m not digressing, thank you.</p>



<p>I’m taking time and full advantage these few minutes I share with you, even though now I’ve gone from all of you.<br>Loved and not.</p>



<p>All of you assembled here know that I came from nothing.<br>Yet in my time here I’ve assembled a lot of stuff.<br>The beaners’ve told me ‘four bills,’ but I don’t believe them.<br>It puffs up their commish.</p>



<p>No matter.&nbsp;</p>



<p>I know this I gotta say is gonna disappoint all of you.&nbsp;</p>



<p>You think: Christ! All those billions?! There’s gotta be a&nbsp; slice ‘a the pie fer me!”</p>



<p>Bang.<br>Yer dead, son. Or stepson. Or grandson. Or daughter. Or Who the fuck ever. Ever.</p>



<p>It had to come to this.<br>Not giving or begetting or however the legals term it, I don’t want to share what I made with you.</p>



<p>But how does a dead man’s wealth transfer?<br>Call me crazy, and you will, but at the end of this road I’ve been travelin’ on, and wonderin’ what’s goin’ on, I’ve taken my current pot of gold: 9.3 billion US dollars, and instructed a private airplane company to disperse my entire fortune in one hundred dollar bills, all across above this glorious planet. </p>



<p>Tonight.<br>As you all sit here in splendor, hoping.</p>



<p>Howzat for a tender awakening?</p>
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