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Death, taxes, and the one thing Benjamin Franklin forgot.

Death, taxes, and the one thing Benjamin Franklin forgot.

On wrestling with the reality that bad things happen to good people.

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Adam Griffin
Sep 10, 2020
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In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
-Benjamin Franklin

We will all eventually suffer the same unavoidable fate that lies six feet beneath us. Of this I am sure. We all must pay our dues to the government while we're here. Of this I am also sure. But Benjamin Franklin left out a key fact of life in his often repeated an…

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