"You see, Charles, it's the lies we tell ourselves that hurt the most. When those lies are exposed…" Nance clucked his tongue, shaking his head gravely. "Dan Crook told himself he was a great man, but in reality he was just a man like any other, who happened to be in the right place at the right time, using all the right patter to sway the right people's goals toward his own. We've had quite a few charlatans swing their dicks through these parts over the years, some of them claiming to be able to make people rich, a few of them even purporting to be the Second Coming, the new Messiah. But
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