SSA fundraiser

The Secular Student Alliance is looking for cash, and they're having a fundraiser: check out the book Hemant is auctioning off. Somebody has scribbled all over it! I remember when I was about 4 and my dad discovered I'd scrawled all over some of his books, and he got mad at me — I should have told him to hang on to them, I'd just increased their value.

I doubt he'd have believed me, but I'm going to remember that excuse for the next time I'm 4.

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