“Due to the nature of my profession, I’ve been around death quite a lot, and while I’m not exactly on a first-name basis with the Reaper, we’ve exchanged business cards enough times to give each other a friendly nod when we pass by on the job.”

—  Eric Garcia

Source: The Repossession Mambo (2009), Chapter 5 (p. 80)

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