I gave each of the women 10 golden Krugerrands. I was not sure of the current value, but I was sure that each one was worth on the order of $1,500 eac...h, at least. That was a drop in the bucket for how much gold was in the two chests.Now my problem was how to deal with that much gold. There was at least 200 pounds of gold, plus the weight of the chests, so I literally had an embarrassment of riches. There was one damned thing for sure: I had to move it to my condo right away if I was going to. We were in town for three hours and she got four marriage proposals. She politely declined them all.It didn’t take us long to decide the town was not for us. One family seemed to own everything. The prices in their store was outrageous, as well as in the butcher shop. We decided to skip trying to trade there and move on to the next town twenty miles away. Somebody had seen our herd though, and word was out.He was about fifty and looked like he thought a lot of city living. He was overweight,. I booked Rico's Flamingo Lounge at Weir's Beach and the forty five minute drive from Manchester's West Endgave me ample time to snuggle up to my man. We drove pastConcord on I-93. When Mark started to laugh."What's so funny?" I asked."Don't bother with the directions any more. I know how toget to Rico's."How did you know we were going there?" I asked innocently."Oh come on Donna, where else have we been this far north.It's not like we have spent a lot of time up here. I justput two and two. I knocked on the trailer door and was immediately greeted by an old co-worker, Jose."Hey Amigo, long time no see," Jose said in an excited tone. "Come on in, bro."I was treated like a long lost brother returning home from war. We sat and talked. The beer flowed freely and the time passed quickly. People came and went as they went to relieve the guys working the rides. Before I knew it almost four hours had passed. After a lot of hugging and good-byes I left the trailer. I knew it would probably.
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