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Ranulfo keeps visiting the casino, not only for a sense of belonging, but also as a trial run for the bakery: to practice the experience of financial loss and gain. Then one night something bad happens on the way back from the casino that scares both Ranulfo and Peter…

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Wogan, P. (2017). Car Crash. In: Corner-Store Dreams and the 2008 Financial Crisis. Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52264-7_5

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