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Chapter One
• Ethan and Mary chat before he leaves for work. Mary plans to meet Margie, her best friend, for a Tarot reading.
• Ethan walks to work. He meets Joey, a bank teller, along the way. Joey dreams of robbing a bank.
• We discover that Ethan's family once owned the store he works in, but the war recession and bad investments made him lose it all.
• Ethan's forefathers were whalers. He was a captain in the Army during the war. Now he works at a grocery store his family once owned.
• Mr. Baker, the banker, comes to the store to pressure Ethan to invest his wife's money to get a huge return.
• Margie comes to the store and flirts with Ethan, who does not respond. She is angered by this.
• A salesman comes to the store and bribes Ethan to switch supply companies at the store. He refuses...
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