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Problem is the 'things' really aren't needful enough


Except for Bonnie Bedelia's arthritis solution and J.T. Walsh's horse game, I didn't really see why anyone would sell their souls so to speak for the items. I mean, a baseball card? A copy of Treasure Island? Don't you think they should've been bigger things, or maybe intangible ones?

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I think that's kind of the point, that they are very specific to the individuals. Sure it seems stupid to us, but to a kid a Koufax baseball card could mean the world. Look at it this way, to the kid, an "arthritis cure" would be completely worthless too, right?

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