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61 Old Money I bought a Roman silver denarius at Hudson’s Department Store in Detroit, with a week’s collection from my paper route when I was twelve. Marcus Aurelius still looks surprisingly like one of us, approaching sixty, and a little tired from things that kept him always on his guard. He seems to be there just the way he was after the middle of the Second Century, and in the seventeenth year of his reign: one of the nicest tyrants in history having to glance away from everyone, who never got to know him personally, passing from palm to palm on a gray coin. ...

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