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“You aren’t what you own,” Teeg had scolded him one day.
“On my salary, that’s lucky.”
“Then why do you cling to all this stuff?” The sweep of her arm dismissed everything he had worked for years to buy. “Remember what Thoreau said: ‘ A person is rich in proportion to the number of things she can live without.’ ”
By that measure, Phoenix was growing richer all the time.