I don't know what your story is, but I am sure that most of what you tell me is a lie. At least I think I am sure ...
Sometimes you spin a plausible yarn. Other times, like today, I know you are lying. I have evidence in front of me.
That book in great condition that I just bought from you ... that book you know I really want .... with the Magus book mark in it .... priced on the first page at 12.95 and dated 10/12 ...
You did not buy that book from Magus a year ago.
I don't know where you did get the book, and I have never thought of you as a thief before, but now I do.
And knowing this, that you are probably little more than a con man happy to be handed a few dollars for some books of dubious origin, why should I heed your advice about what I should carry in my store?
there is the outside chance that he is secretly rich and will leave you all his vast fortune when he passes.
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