Greed. I like the word. I have a thing for words that really ought to be used negatively but aren’t — to re-use them, look inside them. Or the other way around. Charm becomes a negative attribute: to be charming is to be a liar and a scoundrel.
My mother used to call me greedy, call my siblings greedy, my father too. His whole family was greedy — my who…
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