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The Complete History of the Con, Part 3

By Conlan | Published: June 28, 2008
Last time (look it up), with my dreams of clown college and clowning dashed, I found myself emerging from a haze of debauchery. My face hurt. You see, that first banana split in Denison was laced with banana roofies: a secret Jamaican extract that renders the victim extremely impressionable and unable to remember anything that [...]
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The Complete History of the Con, Part 2

By Conlan | Published: June 15, 2008
You’ll recall from last time, I’d just dropped out of college, after learning my school engaged in deceptive recruiting practices. Then, with new resolve, I set about following my destiny. I shuffled down the lonely Nebraska highway—corn stalks rising on both sides, as high as an elephant’s eye. The elephant’s name, I later learned, was [...]
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