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The facts were these:
Ned the Piemaker, who was twenty-six years, eight months, four days, and twelve hours old, was in debt. Not the cute, movie kind of debt where the intrepid hero still manages to pay for leather-bound journals and fedoras while pursuing a career in his chosen field, but the soul-crushing kind, the kind that caused people in casinos to throw themselves from the balcony onto an unsuspecting blackjack table thirteen feet below. Between the mounting interest on his culinary school loans and paying rent and utilities for a historic landmark with a stucco crust roof, Ned was not exactly raking it in as a comfort food entrepreneur. The business had been flourishing, sure, but Ned’s bank account took a major hit when he began renting, and after taxes and the abysmally high cost of fruit, there wasn’t much left over for Ned to look after himself.