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Jack Burden keeps it all in his little black books, notebooks he stuffs in a safety deposit box when they’re full “because,” he says, “they aren’t something to leave around and because they would be worth their weight in gold to some parties to get their hands on. Not that they ever got their hands on them,” he clarifies, “I never needed money that bad.”