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Good morning. If you’re reading this, you survived the week. I ate at Gus’s twice and visited my bodega cat every day and rode my high of winning poker until this morning.
There are a lot of new faces here, so I decided to make all of my letters from this week free. If you read through all of them before sundown, I promise you’ll be the second-smartest p…