The Tell-Tale Light

For through the surrounding darkness did one beacon beckon. Within a vase-like table lamp, under a buff linen shade, I discovered my savior from bruised shins and midnight treachery. The Hunter Lamplighter Power Outage Light was charged with saving my sanity and it did so admirably.

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The Sweet Grabs Story

“Sweet Grabs” Middleman was born many years ago in a hardscrabble town at the outskirts of Nowhere, to loving parents who provided the best life they could under the most trying circumstances.

Middleman worked hard, from a very young age, to bring home the best deals possible to help stretch the family dollar. It started with sweet deals on Cracker Jack and shoe polish. From there he looked for great direct deals on wooden toothpicks to resell to neighborhood punks at a modest mark-up. The entrepreneurial spirit continued to expand until he came across a little gem called the Internet – it turns out the punks grew up and hang out there.

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