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You Duffys are so far ahead of the curve you look like you're behind. Musicmaker monetizes what you leave on the table. I could market you to HCR level โ€“ Heather doesn't sell furniture! โ€“ but you don't seem to care much about $. p.s. Your readership numbers aren't inclusive. I share your writing widely. You know your writing is important. I remind you ad nauseum. You're avant-garde. Really pioneering work is never appreciated contemporaneously. Future generations will wonder why Canyon Man's visage isn't carved into Mount Rushmore. Keep speaking your truth, and pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

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Thanks. I care about money. Administration and correspondence is a challenge. I set up Venmo weeks ago then they came back to me with need for non-profit documentation. I will get to it when I can and let you know.

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May 31ยทedited May 31

By "care" I mean what you spend your time doing. By that measure it doesn't appear maximizing revenue is at the top of your list. We both know what a miracle it is you โ€“ never mind me โ€“ have ended up paterfamilias. Without ever having children. Go figger. Only us offspring of Woodbridge attorneys [I know not only us]. To whom much is given, much is required. I'm dead serious about chela-ting. What you saw me doing when you came to AAS in San Francisco. Now, like you, I'm Boy Friday to a successful professional woman and her brood. Janitorial duties. The best work in the world if you can get it. I repeat say a number you *need* [not want, but need] and I'll manifest it for you. Might just give it to you. Prove to me that you care about money [I don't believe you will]. You care about ideas, as God intends. "Administration and correspondence is a challenge." Of course it is. If it weren't, you'd be the Duffy brother who became Senator. When you were at Exeter/Yale and Tim was diagnosed so dyslexic he might be handicapped, who would have predicted which brother founded a very successful 501(c)3 and which one slept in a hayloft? Maybe you. Not me. If not for Yawn Wenner, no one might have heard of Uncle Duke. I'm proposing to be your Yawn. And PR/marketing is the last thing in the world either of us wants to do. To support my publication, I learned I'm good at shaking money out of trees. I'm shameless when it comes to supporting the arts. Even my friends with Top Secret security clearances spend most of their time rattling a donation basket. You're blessed to not have to do that.

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