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I've got this most American of desire ⋯ the one that sends me to the store for a new shirt (sage green) or a toaster oven, or a new leather jacket, without putting much thought into it ⦾ I'm a sucker for sales, and I'm a collector ⦾ Desire makes me dangerous ⦾ I want to be liked and admired ⦾ I want to be guarded but understood ⋯ invisible yet invincible

Which is why I choose to look like a leopard ⦾ I'm not the only one. Most of us do ⦾ The Americans who fought in Vietnam, we all did ⦾ Wearing the uniforms of our enemies and the skins of our prey, we came home to become doctors and lawyers and teachers ⦾ We married and had children and built homes on the bones of the dead and on the backs of the poor, just like we always wanted to ⦾ And we're still hungry for more than what we've got ⦾ Our nation's deadliest predator, our dollar bill, loves shiny things ⦾ Our dollar bill thinks that in the right hands it might find God, who has an eye for style and value