At 10:14 PM 4/10/96, Bill Stewart wrote:
Of course, if you happen to become dead while you're storing it, the paper cash is far more useful to your heirs, so I assume we'll have a government-sponsored cash-escrow system announced soon to protect the government's interest in collection of inheritance taxes...
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