if you have a hundred billion dollars all you have to do is give away 99 billion dollars and everyone will love you forever. they'll name planets after you and stuff. and you still get to have one billion dollars.
Back in June, I help my mom clean out her pool shed. There's a strand of old twinkle lights with plastic flamingos. "Throw them out," she says. "They don't work." But I see that the flamingos came off easily, so I start to pull them off. "I can do something with these."