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   gggg gggg to TomB...@agent.com   
   Re: The Pawnbroker   
   23 Oct 22 09:42:32   
   
   From: ggggg9271@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 4:59:51 AM UTC-7, TomB...@agent.com wrote:   
   > I am unclear as to what the pimp was using the pawbroker for. What    
   > were the forms he was supposed to fill out? Was it just some money    
   > laundering scheme?    
   >    
   >    
   > Tom Benton    
   >    
   > There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.   
      
   According to this:   
      
   - Regarding the plot, Sol lives with his married sister and her husband,   
   keeping them in modest prosperity on the income from the shop, seemingly   
   untouched by the daily procession of human misery that passes through its   
   doors. He allows his business to    
   be used as a convenient money-laundering service by a small-time local   
   racketeer, until he discovers the true source of this wealth, the exploitation   
   of poor black women in brothels, and links it to the hell that his own wife   
   suffered at the hands of the    
   Nazis. Finally, something has touched a nerve. Sol can not go on with the life   
   he is leading, but can find no way out. He starts to lend ridiculous sums of   
   money on the valueless trinkets that desperate people bring to his shop, and   
   refuses to provide    
   the financial services that the local crime-boss demands. As a result of Sol's   
   insubordination the young Puerto Rican man who works as his assistant and sees   
   himself as Sol's pupil in the art of money-making becomes disillusioned with   
   his guru and turns    
   back to crime, losing his life in a botched attempt to rob his employer.   
      
   https://w.davidgardiner.net/pawnbroker.html   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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